Is Joker 2 "anti-content", or is it just a challenging watch?  Join us for a quick ICEBreaker to discuss our first impressions of the film, and some thoughts that have crossed my mind in the day since.  Consider this a spoiler warning...

Looking back in the year since the publication of our AI Reflections episode, we take a look at the state of the AI discourse at large, where recent controversies including those surrounding NaNoWriMo and whether AI counts as art, or can assist...

What is Soylent Culture?  Whether it is in the mass media, the new media, or the media consumed by the current crop of generative AI tools, it is culture that has been fed on itself.  But of course, there's more. Have a listen to find...

Whoops!  Somehow the details of an Excession - an Unknown Unknown - got cut from Episode 36.  Fans of Irony will b...

Further detail looking at The Nostalgia Curve from Episode 35, and comparing it with the Fredric Jameson's "Nostalgia for the Present" (1989) to see what the established literature says about the topic.  We go into Jameson's writing on sci...