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When it comes to the wellbeing of the fediverse, Erin Kissane and Darius Kazemi are big thinkers, tireless researchers, community practitioners, and thoughtful human beings.

Jason, Sam, and Blood in the Machine's Brian Merchant discuss how AI slop has taken over the internet, how it is a brute-force attack against the algorithms that control what we see on social media, and what we can do to fight back against it. This panel was held at Speakeasy in Austin, Texas at SXSW on March 10, 2025. Thanks to our friends at Flipboard for giving us the space and to DeleteMe...

For the final installment of this year's Beyond the Web series, “Think Globally, Eat Here. Small Solutions for Big Tech Problems”, NY Times best selling author Cory Doctorow presents, "To Make Big Tech Less Harmful, Make it Less Important."

Achille Mbembe received the 2024 Holberg Prize for his groundbreaking research in African history and politics, and related fields. Mbembe is research professor of history and politics at Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Witwatersrand. Interviewer: Kari Jegerstedt, associate professor of gender studies in the humanities and Head of the Centre for Women’s and Gender Re...

Mon invitée pour cet épisode est l’auteure de plusieurs ouvrages, dont le très remarqué “Plutôt couler en beauté que flotter sans grâce”, paru aux éditions Libertalia en 2019, ainsi que l’essai ““Alors nous irons trouver la beauté ailleurs. Gymnastique des confins”. Ancienne conseillère régionale en Auvergne-Rhône-Alpe, Corinne Morel Darleux a également été à la direction nationale du parti de gau...

As the climate crisis looms ever larger, a critical question has taken the stage: is economic growth incompatible with ecological sustainability? Green growth and degrowth proponents take staunchly different stances, but they do agree on one thing: overhauling the current economic growth model is necessary to avoid catastrophic climate change and ecological degradation. How to do it, on the other...

SXSW 2025 Livestream and On Demand Keynotes & Featured Speaker Sessions + VOD Portuguese and Spanish language translations presented by Itaú (these will be available within 48 hours of VOD publishing). Think about it: everyone has something to hide these days even--maybe, especially--if you're the good guy. Join this tactical, practical, and heretical discussion between Meredith Whittaker,...

This session explores how arts and cultural institutions are thinking about their role in a societal transition that results from a more erratic and extreme climate. Are arts and culture to be swept along in a societal shifts, or are there opportunities for culture to be a primary force to help our communities think, act and adjust? From international festivals and touring musicians to cultural in...

Let’s begin with that inescapable cultural question of new computational practices and #artificialintelligence #ai . What are the actual affordances, complexities, and realities of artificial intelligence for the #arts and cultural sectors? How do we ensure that creators are able to experiment and are not exploited? What does this mean for arts and cultural workers, who need to possess the technol...

We’ve heard how artists and creators are making sense of, and testing the edges of artificial intelligence. In this session, we look at how different institutions are using the same technologies to augment access to the archives and activities. We will hear how experimentation with emerging technologies requires the ability to collaborate and be confident in the uncertainties that the experimentat...

ACMI is Australia's national museum of screen culture, located in Fed Square, Melbourne. Navigate the universe of film, TV, videogames and art with us.

ACMI is Australia's national museum of screen culture, located in Fed Square, Melbourne. Navigate the universe of film, TV, videogames and art with us.

ACMI is Australia's national museum of screen culture, located in Fed Square, Melbourne. Navigate the universe of film, TV, videogames and art with us.

The former R.E.M. frontman and veteran indie director chat about the company they've run since the '80s, C-Hundred Film Corp, their friendship, and more.

David Graeber is an anthropologist and sometime activist currently teaching at Goldsmiths, University of London. He did his original fieldwork in Madagascar, and has written on the nature of value, direct action, money, manners, debt, fetishism, consumption, revolution, and democracy. He has also been occasionally known to occupy things. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of...

We're proud to present this talk by David Graeber and David Wengrow, entitled The Myth of the Stupid Savage: Rousseau's Ghost and the Future of Political Anthropology. Originally presented at the PPA+ Conference at the University of Amsterdam in May 2019. Article: http://www.journaldumauss.net/?La-sagesse-de-Kandiaronk-la-critique-indigene-le-mythe-du-progres-et-la Support us on Patreon at...

Peter Thiel: We live in an advanced, technological society which is too sophisticated for a "radical democracy." Also, Peter Thiel: In spite of all our advanced, technologicalology, we can't handle the complexity of a "radical democracy" Peter Thiel: "Radical democracy" would require too much planning and bureaucracy, which is not ideal. Also, Peter Thiel: Your ra...

A debut of new research and analysis, focused on emotions and the affective register—love! shame! intimacy! What happens when we put lov...

David Lynch doesn't do a lot of interviews. The Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive creator usually just lets his work speak for itself. But he was excited to talk to Rachel about his new album coming out this summer, Cellophane Memories. And he also was game to dive into his love for transcendental meditation, a fateful childhood psychosomatic illness and a memorable encounter with a Buddha statu...

Megan Prelinger is a cultural historian and an outsider librarian. In 2004 she co-founded the Prelinger Library in San Francisco with her partner Rick Prelinger. A community workshop, this independent…

Samia Henni is a writer, historian, educator, and curator whose work spans the realms of architectural history and colonial studies, and addresses questions of archives. With a sharp focus on colonial…

In this episode of Terms of Service, host Mary Camacho engages with Nathan Schneider, assistant professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder and director of the Media Economies Design Lab. Together, they explore the challenges of building digital communities, the nuanced relationship between decentralisation and centralised power, and the need for democratic practices in online

On May 23, 2024, Maria Ressa, a recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, addressed the graduating Class of 2024.

One of the great writers of contemporary short stories in the Flannery O'Connor tradition, Joy Williams writes about salvation, damnation and the rot of modern culture