Second Orders

ABOUT THE EPISODE Noah Charney is a professor of Art History at the American University of Rome and the University of Ljubljana, the founder of the Association for Research into Crimes against Art (ARCA) and the prolific mind behind a wide body of books and articles whose range is exceeded only by their depth of insight and lucidity of writing. His work in the field of art crime has been praised i...

ABOUT THE EPISODE Brant Entrekin is a philosopher, currently pursuing his PHD in philosophy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he also teaches. His work spans social-political philosophy with a focus on epistemology, philosophy of social justice and religious studies. His paper, "AI-mediated mystical experiences" is a deeply interesting and provocative meditation on meditation, in wh...

ABOUT THE EPISODE Leif Weatherby is an associate professor of German at New York University, founding director of the Digital Theory Lab and Director of Digital Humanities. His research spans dialectics, semiotics, the nature of data and computing, and problems of political economy after the Industrial Revolution. He's also written several books, the latest of which is Language Machines: Cultural...

Michael Todasco led PayPal's Innovation Labs and now researches AI at San Diego State University. We explore what the one-person billion-dollar company actually means for incumbents, moats, and consumer trust, why the hollowing out of middle management might not play out the way people expect, and what happens when agents can spin up and run businesses with almost no human involvement.