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Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiWhy I'm Reclaiming Prepping & You Should Too | Rapid Response #8I’ve been called a prepper more times over the past few weeks than I have in my entire life. In this Rapid Response episode, I want to explain why. And moreover, I want to explain why I believe we should appropriate, normalize, and broaden the notion of prepping.Support the show by checking out: ZBiotics (Decrease impact of hangovers. Code: JESSEDAMIANI for 10% off), MUD\WTR (43% off starter kits), 1Password (simplify your life and increase digital safety), Mission Farms CBD (healthy, effective CBD for relief, sleep, and wellbeing—25% off with email), NordVPN (the simplest way to p...2025-05-2010 min
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiMike Pepi: Are Platforms Ruining the Internet? | #48Once upon a time, the Internet was heralded as a great open space, the utopian dream of free information flow. Obviously those ideas were misguided (at best); the Internet we experience today is a far cry from what Silicon Valley promised us. What went wrong?Today’s guest argues that it's because we’ve boxed ourselves—or maybe more accurately, been boxed into—platforms.The Internet as we understand it is dominated by platforms; in large part they define the logic of digital life. So what can we do about it? Listen on...Get your...2025-05-071h 39
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiBrett Christophers: The Real Reason Renewables Aren't Replacing Fossil Fuels at Scale | #47As soon as the cost of renewable energy drops to or below fossil fuel levels, we'll easily make the transition away from fossil fuels, right?...Unfortunately, that's just not how things are playing out in practice. Even though wind and solar energy have seen remarkable innovation and rollouts around the world, fossil fuels remain dominant. What gives?Today's guest, Brett Christophers, believes it's because we've gotten it twisted: under the complex, capitalistic infrastructures that define the energy economy, it's not cost that matters—it's price. In fact, he wrote a whole book about it: The Pr...2025-04-231h 43
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiExplaining Trump Tariffs, Insider Trading, & Crypto Scams—Emerging Economic Realities with Michael Mezzatesta | Rapid Response #7Bit of a different episode this week! It’s a recording of my Substack Live with Better Future w/ Michael Mezz, where we dive into all the topics listed in the title, plus a few surprises.It was a fun little experiment that ends up packing a punch—all thanks to Michael’s ability to sensemake such volatile, complex topics. He’s also a past guest of the show, and our conversation is a fantastic introduction to degrowth and post-growth economics (which we need to be considering now more than ever).Support the show by checking...2025-04-1641 min
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher RyanLive with Daniel PinchbeckThank you Daniele Bolelli, Douglas Rushkoff, Jesse Damiani, Michael Scarmack, and many others for tuning into my live video with Daniel Pinchbeck! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chrisryan.substack.com/subscribe2025-04-0557 min
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiN. Katherine Hayles: A New Theory of Mind, from 'Bacteria to AI' | #46What if the ongoing devastation of the biosphere and the ascendancy of complex AI are rooted in the same anthropocentrism? What if there were a new theory of mind that incorporated our biological kin and AI? What if such a theory foregrounded ecological relationality and a broadening of our idea of what cognition is—and what can be a cognizer?Today's guest, N. Katherine Hayles, proposes such a theory—the integrated cognitive framework (ICF)—in her new book, Bacteria to AI. It's a wild mutant of a read, drawing ideas from evolutionary biology, feminist theory, speculative fiction, and mo...2025-04-021h 54
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiMinna Salami: Can Feminism Be African? | #45Can feminism be African? The more you sit with this question, the more its complexities reveal themselves; as you emphasize different aspects of the question, new subtexts and assumptions come into view.This question is also the title of a new book by Minna Salami, today's guest. It's a remarkable read—I encourage you to pick up your copy now!Support the show by checking out: ZBiotics (Decrease impact of hangovers. Code: JESSEDAMIANI for 10% off), MUD\WTR (43% off starter kits), 1Password (simplify your life and increase digital safety), Mission Farms CBD (healthy, effective CBD for re...2025-03-261h 16
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiNoelle Perdue: The Three Types of Eroticism, The Trevails of a Foot-Fetish Fetishist, Homoflexibility, Looners, Self-Labeling, & More | Riffs & Speculations #1What are the three types of eroticism? What is it like being someone who fetishizes foot fetishists? What is it like writing the script for an adult video in this genre? Speaking of fetishes, were you aware of the balloon ("looner") fetish?All that and more in this freewheeling conversation with today's guest, Noelle Perdue. A doubly fun episode because it marks the official launch of my "Riffs & Speculations" series on Urgent Futures.Support the show by checking out: ZBiotics (Decrease impact of hangovers. Code: JESSEDAMIANI for 10% off), MUD\WTR (43% off starter kits), 1Password (simplify...2025-03-131h 29
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiCarl Safina: How Plato Created Hell | #44Plato is among the most famous thinkers in all of Western philosophy. What if his notion of transcendence—of there being a reality "out there" that's "higher" than our earthly plane—underlies everything that's broken about modernity.If you can believe it, that's a core argument of an otherwise touching book about one ecologist's experience raising and ultimately freeing an orphaned screen owl. That book, Alfie & Me, was written by today's guest: legendary ecologist Carl Safina.Support the show by checking out: ZBiotics (Decrease impact of hangovers. Code: JESSEDAMIANI for 10% off), MUD\WTR (43% off starter kits...2025-03-061h 08
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiDavid Guignion: The History of Conspiracy Theories, Making Philosophy Accessible to the Public, Activism, & More | #43Conspiracy theories are all over the place, but...what are they, exactly? How do they work and what's their history? Who is susceptible to them? What do they tell us about the human condition?These are just a few of the questions that today's guest, David Guignion, examines in his research. He's also the founder of the popular Theory & Philosophy channel and podcast, so he knows a thing or two about making complex ideas accessible to the public.Support the show by checking out: ZBiotics (Decrease impact of hangovers. Code: JESSEDAMIANI for 10% off), MUD\WTR (43...2025-02-262h 24
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiEverything Has Changed & You're Not Thinking Big Enough | Rapid Response #6The Dark Gothic MAGA oligarchs are going for everything at breakneck speed. We are playing defense and cleanup—and badly. It's time for a switch-up.Let's talk about Canada—and the prospect of Blue States joining it.Support the show by checking out: ZBiotics (Decrease impact of hangovers. Code: JESSEDAMIANI for 10% off), MUD\WTR (43% off starter kits), 1Password (simplify your life and increase digital safety), Mission Farms CBD (healthy, effective CBD for relief, sleep, and wellbeing—25% off with email), NordVPN (the simplest way to protect yourself online, 74% off 2-year plans).What if we used t...2025-02-2405 min
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiAvriel Epps: AI, Transformative Justice, & How to Teach Kids About Algorithmic Bias | #42AI continues to be a major subject of debate—and for good reason. It’s a technology that holds incredible potential to shape and reshape power. This is why we have to remain more vigilant than ever to how AI models are built, who builds them, what their motivations and value systems are, and what we collectively demand from builders—and how we regulate them as a society. As with any emerging technology, what we’re talking about is not just technology—we’re talking about how that technology is interwoven into society. My guest this week, Avriel Epps...2025-02-122h 14
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiRupert Read: How Bad Will it Get? On Thrutopias, Transformative Adaptation, & the Other World(s) Still Just Possible | Urgent Futures #41How bad is it going to get?This is the provocation today's guest Rupert Read makes in a recent keynote—and one that I found to be an excellent way to jump into our conversation—though it’s a bit of a decoy. It gives way to a deeper, more nuanced conversation about how we ultimately survive and even thrive in complex emerging realities. Support the show by checking out: ZBiotics (Decrease impact of hangovers. Code: JESSEDAMIANI for 10% off), MUD\WTR (43% off starter kits), 1Password (simplify your life and increase digital safety), Mission Farms CBD (health...2025-02-051h 20
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiLA Wildfire Recovery: Ecological Remediation to Heal Contaminated Sites - Danielle Stevenson | Rapid Response #5Decontaminating the air, soil, and water in Los Angeles in the wake of the wildfires is going to be a long road. But Centre for Applied Ecological Remediation Founder and President Danielle Stevenson has spent more than a decade refining her research in "ecological remediation"—integrated social and environmental practices that could be crucial in not only healing LA, but better aligning it with the the realities of the place, making it more climate resilient.The past few Rapid Response episodes have been quite upsetting. While this Rapid Response also includes some upsetting analysis from Danielle about ho...2025-02-0348 min
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiRachel Donald: Why is the World in Crisis—& What Can We Do About It? | Urgent Futures #40Why is the world in crisis? How can we get a view of the bigger picture?My guest this week is Rachel Donald—and she's something of an expert in these questions.Support the show by checking out: ZBiotics (Decrease impact of hangovers. Code: JESSEDAMIANI for 10% off), MUD\WTR (43% off starter kits), 1Password (simplify your life and increase digital safety), Mission Farms CBD (healthy, effective CBD for relief, sleep, and wellbeing—25% off with email), NordVPN (the simplest way to protect yourself online, 74% off 2-year plans).Rachel Donald investigates why the world is in cris...2025-01-301h 33
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiClimate Trauma & Fire Brain: Understanding the Mental Health Impacts of the LA Wildfires & Developing Resilience - Jyoti Mishra | Rapid Response #4Los Angeles: have you been doomscrolling and unable to concentrate? There's a reason, & it has to do with how our brains respond to trauma. I spoke with Dr. Jyoti Mishra, a leading neuroscientist to make sense of it.If you appreciate the work I'm doing, make sure to subscribe here so you never miss an episode! Urgent Futures is also a video podcast, available on YouTube.Support the show by checking out: ZBiotics (Decrease impact of hangovers. Code: JESSEDAMIANI for 10% off), MUD\WTR (43% off starter kits), 1Password (simplify your life and increase digital safety), Mission...2025-01-2745 min
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiWim Carton & Andreas Malm: Overshoot & Climate Breakdown | Urgent Futures #39Wim Carton and Andreas Malm are the co-authors of the superb, devastating new book Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown. Here’s a quote to give you a sense of its argument:"And when the third decade of the millennium dawned, the relationship remained firmly in place: the warmer the globe became, the more fossil fuels were poured on the fire. The higher the temperatures, the larger the emissions. The closer the Earth came to being engulfed in flames — literally and figuratively — the harder companies worked to get oil and gas and coal out of the gr...2025-01-221h 32
Urgent Futures with Jesse Damiani"The Disaster After the Disaster": LA Air Quality & Public Health - Jane Williams | Urgent Futures Rapid Response #3If you live in Los Angeles, I urge you to listen to this and share it with everyone you care about right now—especially if you/they live in or near ash zones. Even though the AQI is low again, the impacts of wildfire smoke are still here. Loads of nasty pollutants like asbestos, formaldehyde, lead, and other heavy metals, plastics, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are still in the air and ash—and can travel for hundreds of miles.My guest on this week’s Rapid Response, Executive Director of California Communities Against Toxics (CCAT) Jane Willia...2025-01-1955 min
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiThe Meaning Crisis: Wisdom, Purpose, and AI in 2025 and Beyond - John Vervaeke | #38Is the Western world in the midst of a crisis of meaning? If so, how did we get here, and what can we do about it? What should we be thinking about as we develop artificial intelligence? These are just a few of the many questions I dive into with my guest this week, John Vervaeke.Support the show by checking out: ZBiotics (Decrease impact of hangovers. Code: JESSEDAMIANI for 10% off), MUD\WTR (43% off starter kits), 1Password (simplify your life and increase digital safety), Mission Farms CBD (healthy, effective CBD for relief, sleep, and wellbeing—25% off with em...2025-01-143h 28
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiThe Los Angeles Fires, Polycrisis, & How to Live in Collapse | Urgent Futures Rapid Response #2The Los Angeles Fires—most notably the Palisades Fire and Eaton Fire—are the most destructive in California history. They are horrific, and they are teaching us hard lessons.Support the show by checking out: ZBiotics (Decrease impact of hangovers. Code: JESSEDAMIANI for 10% off), MUD\WTR (43% off starter kits), 1Password (simplify your life and increase digital safety), Mission Farms CBD (healthy, effective CBD for relief, sleep, and wellbeing—25% off with email), NordVPN (the simplest way to protect yourself online, 74% off 2-year plans).If you’re paying attention, you recognize that all of this—the unprecedented “hurricanes”...2025-01-1327 min
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiArt Berman: Oil, How the Economics of Energy Impacts Global Populism, & the Huge Problem We Must Address | #37Oil defines our lives, but we actually understand so little about it—and moreover, so little about its role in driving what we call “progress.” The flip side of that, of course, is that we don’t grasp how utterly dependent modern civilization is on oil. Without it, everything we take for granted about energy, the economy, technology, agriculture, and medicine would change. We are, as this week's guest would say (along with his colleague Nate Hagens of The Great Simplification), “energy blind.”And that's a big, big problem for understanding coming realities, and figuring out what to do.2024-12-192h 05
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiPeter Brannen: What You Need to Know About the Five Mass Extinctions (to Understand the Sixth Extinction) | #36What are the most extreme extinction events in Earth's history? And what should we learn from them to avoid a similar fate? Today's guest, Peter Brannen, is an expert in these extinctions, having written one of the key books on the topic, The Ends of the World.It’s an invigorating read, in part because you really confront the raw power and volatility of this planet—and because you can then more thoroughly appreciate the blissful window of relative stability that humanity has evolved within. You then must confront the fact that techno-industrial civilization is undertaking many of t...2024-12-111h 52
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiPhoebe Barnard: The Human Behavioral Crisis is the Coordination Problem Underlying Overshoot and Climate Crisis | #35Humanity is in a state of ecological overshoot—put simply: we use more than the Earth can support. In many ways, this is the primary problem of modern human civilization. But driving this problem is a fundamental 'human behavioral crisis.' Understanding this is critical—and Phoebe Barnard, today's guest, can explain why.Support the show by checking out these Black Friday Deals: ZBiotics (Decrease impact of hangovers. Code: JESSEDAMIANI for 10% off), MUD\WTR (50% off starter kits), 1Password (simplify your life and increase digital safety), Mission Farms CBD (healthy, effective CBD for relief, sleep, and wellbeing—40% by using...2024-12-041h 16
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiRodolfo Dirzo: Understanding Mass Extinctions, The Gift of Biodiversity, Plant-Animal Relationships, and 'Defaunation' | #34We all know extinctions are bad—but extinctions aren't a yes or no question, they're a spectrum. That's why we need to understand the idea of 'defaunation,' a term coined by today's guest, legendary conservation scientist Rodolfo Dirzo.Support the show by checking out these Black Friday Deals: ZBiotics (Decrease impact of hangovers. Code: JESSEDAMIANI for 10% off), MUD\WTR (50% off starter kits), 1Password (simplify your life and increase digital safety), Mission Farms CBD (healthy, effective CBD for relief, sleep, and wellbeing—40% by using the code found at that link), NordVPN (the simplest way to protect yourself onli...2024-11-271h 39
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiHarry Yeff (Reeps100): The Future of the Voice—Human, Machine, & Otherwise | #33What is the future of voice? Where does AI fit in? Listen on!Support the show by checking out: ZBiotics (Decrease impact of hangovers. Code: JESSEDAMIANI for 10% off), MUD\WTR (43% off starter kits), 1Password (simplify your life and increase digital safety), Mission Farms CBD (healthy, effective CBD for relief, sleep, and wellbeing—25% off with email), NordVPN (the simplest way to protect yourself online, 72% off 2-year plans).My guest this week is Harry Yeff, aka Reeps100.Harry Yeff, aka Reeps100, is a London-born neurodivergent artist and technologist specializing in voice, AI, and tech-based performance ar...2024-11-202h 03
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiSimon Michaux: Is the Green Transition Doomed? Why We Need the 'Purple Transition' Instead | #32Transitioning off of fossil fuels is critical for our survival, but what if the solutions we're racing to develop (solar, wind, etc.) aren't actually sustainable? What happens if we don't have enough minerals to service the energy demand our current projections say we'll need to?My guest today is Simon Michaux, and his proposal is that we ditch the 'Green Transition' in favor of the 'Purple Transition.'Support the show by checking out: ZBiotics (Decrease impact of hangovers. Code: JESSEDAMIANI for 10% off), MUD\WTR (43% off starter kits), 1Password (simplify your life and increase digital...2024-11-142h 24
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiTrump's Election, the End of the World Order as We Know It, & Where We Go From Here | Urgent Futures Rapid Response #1What does the election of Donald Trump mean for America and the world? And what can we do about it?This is not the post-election episode I’d hoped to do. I imagined I’d be doing an episode where I talked through the progressive ideals that didn’t make their way into the Harris campaign, and strategies + tactics we could use to hold the Harris administration accountable to them. Alas.There are so many takes and so much finger-pointing; I’m not here to add to any of that. I’m here to reflect on what th...2024-11-1215 min
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiBradley Rydholm: Why Nature is Metal—and Why it's Not | #31How can humans deepen our relationship(s) with nature without anthropomorphizing or flattening it? Seeing the natural world in all its messiness, contradictions, & wonder.Welcome to the Urgent Futures podcast, the show that finds {signals} in the noise. Each week, I sit down with leading thinkers whose research, concepts, and questions clarify the chaos, from culture to the cosmos.My guest this week is Bradley Rydholm.Support the show by checking out: ZBiotics (Decrease impact of hangovers. Code: JESSEDAMIANI for 10% off), MUD\WTR (43% off starter kits), 1Password (simplify your life and increase digital...2024-10-312h 12
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiRenée DiResta: The Evolution of Propaganda & its 'Invisible Rulers': Influencers, Algorithms, & Crowds | #30Propaganda and the game of influence have evolved with the rise of social media. Who's winning that game—and who is losing?Welcome to the Urgent Futures podcast, the show that finds {signals} in the noise. Each week, I sit down with leading thinkers whose research, concepts, and questions clarify the chaos, from culture to the cosmos.My guest this week is Renée DiResta.Support the show by checking out: ZBiotics (Decrease impact of hangovers. Code: JESSEDAMIANI for 10% off), MUD\WTR (43% off starter kits), 1Password (simplify your life and increase digital safety), Mis...2024-10-231h 39
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiPhilip V. McHarris: A World Beyond Police—Utopia? | #29Imagine a world without police. Would we be safe?Welcome to the Urgent Futures podcast, the show that finds {signals} in the noise. Each week, I sit down with leading thinkers whose research, concepts, and questions clarify the chaos, from culture to the cosmos.My guest this week is Professor Philip V. McHarris.Support the show by checking out: ZBiotics (Decrease impact of hangovers. Code: JESSEDAMIANI for 10% off), MUD\WTR (43% off starter kits), 1Password (simplify your life and increase digital safety), Mission Farms CBD (healthy, effective CBD for relief, sleep, and wellbeing—25% off wi...2024-10-161h 12
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiTaryn Southern: The Peril & Promise of Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI), Generative AI, and Spatial Computing | #28How close are brain-computer interfaces? And how big of a deal is AI, really?Welcome to the Urgent Futures podcast, the show that finds {signals} in the noise. Each week, I sit down with leading thinkers whose research, concepts, and questions clarify the chaos, from culture to the cosmos.My guest this week is Taryn Southern.Support the show by checking out: ZBiotics (Decrease impact of hangovers. Code: JESSEDAMIANI for 10% off), MUD\WTR (43% off starter kits), 1Password (simplify your life and increase digital safety), Mission Farms CBD (healthy, effective CBD for relief, sleep...2024-10-091h 58
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiNora Bateson: Warm Data, 'Combining,' and "Who Can You Be When You Are With Me?" | Urgent Futures #27What if our interpersonal relationships and the polycrisis have a lot more to do with each other than we might initially think?Welcome to the Urgent Futures podcast, the show that finds {signals} in the noise. Each week, I sit down with leading thinkers whose research, concepts, and questions clarify the chaos, from culture to the cosmos.My guest this week is Nora Bateson.Pick up your copy of Nora's latest book, Combining, here.Support the show by checking out: ZBiotics (Decrease impact of hangovers. Code: JESSEDAMIANI for 10% off), MUD\WTR (43...2024-10-021h 43
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiAl Hassan Elwan: Edgelording a New Avant-garde (POSTPOSTPOST™ Admin Reveal!) | #26Welcome to the Urgent Futures podcast, the show that finds signals in the noise. Each week, I sit down with leading thinkers whose research, concepts, and questions clarify the chaos, from culture to the cosmos.My guest this week is Al Hassan Elwan.Support the show by checking out: ZBiotics (Decrease impact of hangovers. Code: JESSEDAMIANI for 10% off), MUD\WTR (43% off starter kits), 1Password (simplify your life and increase digital safety), Mission Farms CBD (healthy, effective CBD for relief, sleep, and wellbeing—25% off with email), NordVPN (the simplest way to protect yourself online, 72% off 2-year pl...2024-09-252h 39
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiGerardo Ceballos & Paul R. Ehrlich: 'Before They Vanish'—All The Life We Can Still Save from the Sixth Extinction | #25Welcome to the Urgent Futures podcast, the show that finds signals in the noise. Each week, I sit down with leading thinkers whose research, concepts, and questions clarify the chaos, from culture to the cosmos.My guests this week are Gerardo Ceballos & Paul R. EhrlichGerardo Ceballos, one of the world’s leading ecologists, is a professor at the Institute of Ecology at National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He has established more than twenty protected areas in Mexico and is the author or coauthor of more than 55 books. Ehrlich and Ceballos are coauthors of Th...2024-09-171h 38
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiNina Jankowicz: Why Disinformation Is Still a Critical Issue for Democracy | Urgent Futures #24Welcome to the Urgent Futures podcast, the show that finds signal in the noise. Each week, I sit down with leading thinkers whose research, concepts, and questions clarify the chaos, from culture to the cosmos.Support the show by checking out: ZBiotics (Decrease impact of hangovers. Code: JESSEDAMIANI for 10% off), MUD\WTR (43% off starter kits), 1Password (simplify your life and increase digital safety), Mission Farms CBD (healthy, effective CBD for relief, sleep, and wellbeing—25% off with email), NordVPN (the simplest way to protect yourself online, 72% off 2-year plans).My guest this week is Nina Jankowicz....2024-09-111h 28
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiMichael Mezzatesta: Why Isn't the Economy Working? An Economist's Case for Post-Growth | #23Welcome to the Urgent Futures podcast, the show that finds signal in the noise. Each week, I sit down with leading thinkers whose research, concepts, and questions clarify the chaos, from culture to the cosmos.Support the show by checking out: ZBiotics (Decrease impact of hangovers. Code: JESSEDAMIANI for 10% off), MUD\WTR (43% off starter kits), 1Password (simplify your life and increase digital safety), Mission Farms CBD (healthy, effective CBD for relief, sleep, and wellbeing—25% off with email), NordVPN (the simplest way to protect yourself online, 72% off 2-year plans).My guest this week is Michael Mezzatesta....2024-09-032h 06
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiNoelle Perdue: What Everyone Gets Wrong About Pornography—According to a Porn Historian | Urgent Futures #22Welcome to the Urgent Futures podcast, the show that finds signal in the noise. Each week, I sit down with leading thinkers whose research, concepts, and questions clarify the chaos, from culture to the cosmos.Support the show by checking out: ZBiotics (Decrease impact of hangovers. Code: JESSEDAMIANI for 10% off), MUD\WTR (43% off starter kits), 1Password (simplify your life and increase digital safety), Mission Farms CBD (healthy, effective CBD for relief, sleep, and wellbeing—25% off with email), NordVPN (the simplest way to protect yourself online, 72% off 2-year plans).My guest this week is porn historian No...2024-08-281h 49
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiWilliam E. Rees: The Disconnect Between Ecology & The Economy is Driving us Toward Collapse—What Should we do About it? | Urgent Futures #21My guest this week is William E. Rees.There’s this quote attributed to Charles Kettering that goes “A problem well-stated is a problem half-solved.” When surveying the immensity of the interdependent crises we face: climate change, soil desertification, biodiversity loss, pollution, microplastics, war, and so on, simply stating the problem can feel impossible. But, as I’ve learned from Bill, at the highest level, it’s extremely straightforward (though I don’t mean to confuse that with it being easy to solve!). It’s something called ecological overshoot.Overshoot occurs when the demands on an ecosystem e...2024-08-212h 11
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiGünseli Yalcinkaya: Internet Folklorist Explains Reality Shifting, Dolls, Incels/Femcels, Cryptids, Memes, & AI | Urgent Futures #20My guest this week is Günseli Yalcinkaya. An expert in youth and internet culture, London-based writer, researcher and critic Günseli Yalcinkaya is the features editor at Dazed Magazine and the host of Logged On, a podcast series that puts online trends under the microscope. She's written extensively about AI, VR and psychedelia, and as an artist, studies the relationship between ecology, magic and machine learning.What’s an AI cryptid? What is reality shifting? How are dolls and the idea of cuteness evolving online, and what does this mean for the future of intimacy? What’s the...2024-08-141h 22
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiMeredith Broussard: How 'Technochauvinism' Leads to Bad AI | Urgent Futures #19My guest this week is data journalist & professor Meredith Broussard.The public discourse around AI is noisy. Depending on where you turn, it’s either about to save the world or destroy the world, grant you magical powers or take your job and leave you penniless. But AI is a very real thing happening in and to society. Rarely is the hype-doom binary helpful for understanding how it is and will be woven into our lives from a practical perspective—as well as the social, cultural, political, and economic issues it surfaces or amplifies.So I wa...2024-08-071h 04
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiMargaret Wertheim: How do Coral Reefs Teach us About Curved Space? How are the Multiverse and AI Connected? | Urgent Futures #18My guest this week is artist & science communicator Margaret Wertheim.(If you're loving Reality Studies, please leave us ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ or a review right now—it does wonders helping us reach new listeners!)Margaret Wertheim is a science writer and artist whose work focuses on relations between science and the wider cultural landscape. With degrees in math and physics, she is animated by a view that science is a field of conceptual enchantment and a socially embedded activity. Wertheim is the author of seven books, including Pythagoras’s Trousers, a History of Physics and Religion; The Pearly Gates of Cyber...2024-07-312h 45
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiLandon Ross: Examining Consciousness, Evolution, AI, and Physics Through Art, Storytelling, and Philosophy | Urgent Futures #17My guest this week is Landon Ross.Landon Ross is a Los Angeles artist working primarily in painting, sculpture, video, and installation. Ross’s work explores the ontology of mathematics, consciousness, the self, and seeks to explore origin-stories of a distinct epistemological stance: those derived from nature. The artist’s once-central role in channeling the human inclination for the transcendent or the sublime is one that Ross seeks to continue from within the framework of naturalism.As you can tell from his bio, Landon isn’t your “typical” artist! I met him through my work as a curato...2024-07-241h 59
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiAutumn Breon: Reimagining Broken Systems through Art, Activism, Radical Self-Care, & Speculative Worlding | Urgent Futures #16My guest this week is Autumn Breon.Autumn Breon is a multidisciplinary artist who investigates the visual vocabulary of liberation through a queer Black feminist lens. Using performance, sculpture, and public installation, Breon invites audiences to examine intersectional identities and Diasporic memory. Breon imagines her work as immersive invitations for the public to join in the reimagining and creation of systems that make current oppressive systems obsolete. Breon has created commissions for Target, Art Production Fund, Frieze Art Fair, and the ACLU of Southern California. Breon’s performance history includes Hauser & Wirth, the Walt Disney Concert Hall, an...2024-07-171h 24
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiNita Farahany: Neurotech, the Latest Skirmishes in the 'Battle for Your Brain,' and Your Right to Cognitive Liberty | Urgent Futures #15My guest this week is Nita Farahany.Nita Farahany is a pioneering changemaker and leading authority at the intersection of law, ethics, and technology. As the Robinson O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law & Philosophy at Duke Law School, and Founding Director of Duke Science & Society, she drives transformative discussions on technology's ethical implications. Her seminal book, The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology (2023), charts a pathway to cognitive freedom in an increasingly interconnected world. A highly sought after speaker, her insights resonate from TED stages to the World...2024-07-101h 08
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiLaura Forlano & Danya Glabau: Living Well with Machines, Real-World Cyborg Futures, and Critical Cyborg Literacy | Urgent Futures #14Welcome to the Urgent Futures podcast, the show that finds signal in the noise. Each week, I sit down with leading thinkers whose research, concepts, and questions clarify the chaos, from culture to the cosmos.Cyborg. When you hear the word, you probably think of something like Blade Runner, Westworld, or the Terminator. Shiny tech with a dash of dystopia. But what if I told you there’s a totally different way of thinking about and understanding cyborgs? This other way of understanding cyborgs, cyborg theory, also seeks to understand the relationship between humans and machines—but it’s...2024-07-031h 42
LIVE! From City LightsKit Schluter with Garrett CaplesKit Schluter celebrates the publication of "Cartoons," (City Lights) & Garrett Caples celebrates the publication of "Proses: Incomparable Parables! Fabulous Fables! Cruel Tales!" (Wave Books).
Purchase "Cartoons:" https://citylights.com/city-lights-published/cartoons/
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About "Cartoons:"
Set in the uncanny valley between Bugs Bunny & Franz Kafka, "Cartoons" is an explosive series of outrageous, absurdist tales. "Cartoons" proposes itself as a genre of imaginary writing in opposition to the realism of most contemporary U.S. fiction, aligning itself with the French symbolism & Latin American fabulism its author is known to translate. A giant cricket with a tiny...2024-06-261h 26
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiEryk Salvaggio & Caroline Sinders: Glitching AI, Algorithmic Resistance, Labor Activism, Art as Research, & Feminist Technology | Urgent Futures #13My guests today are Eryk Salvaggio & Caroline Sinders.What role do artists actually play in society? What about in the development of AI? It’s easy to speak in vague, grandiose terms about the power of art, but when do the actual actions, techniques, and interventions of artists amount to real-world impact? I’m not saying that art needs to lead to impact, but it’s important that we’re clear about the moments it does so that we can learn from the ways it did and to what extent it was successful. More broadly, it helps us see t...2024-06-262h 13
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiDanielle Stevenson: Using Mushrooms to Heal Polluted Places | Urgent Futures Ep. 12Pollution is a massive problem—yet it rarely gets the kind of play other climate issues receive. But did you know that some scientists and mycologists are using mycelium to detoxify contaminated sites? It's pretty incredible stuff—and my guest this week, Danielle Stevenson, is a leading expert in this field of 'mycoremediation.'Welcome to the Urgent Futures podcast, the show that finds signal in the noise. Each week, I sit down with leading thinkers whose research, concepts, and questions clarify the chaos, from culture to the cosmos.My guest this week is Danielle Stev...2024-06-201h 40
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiEmily Segal: Trend Forecasting, 'Normcore' Ten Years Later, & Not Being Scared of AI (Yet) | Urgent Futures Ep. 11Welcome to the Urgent Futures podcast, the show that finds signal in the noise. Each week, I sit down with leading thinkers whose research, concepts, and questions clarify the chaos, from culture to the cosmos.The best way to support the show, you ask? Pop over to YouTube and hit that Subscribe button. You hear it all the time for a reason—nothing will help the channel grow more than that simple click.My guest this week is Emily Segal.Emily Segal is a writer, strategist, and trend forecaster based in Los Angeles. Sh...2024-06-131h 49
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiBrittan Heller: Can Human Rights Law Adapt to the Era of AI & Spatial Computing? | Urgent Futures Ep. 10My guest this week is Brittan Heller.Brittan Heller works at the intersection of technology, human rights and the law. She is currently a lecturer at Stanford University and a visiting scholar at Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, examining XR's connection to society, human rights, privacy, and security. Heller is on the steering committee for the World Economic Forum's Metaverse Governance initiative and studied content moderation in XR as an inaugural AI and Tech Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Carr Center for Human Rights. She is a visiting fellow at the Yale Information Society Project, a Se...2024-06-061h 24
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiLegacy Russell: The Black Meme in Visual & Viral Culture | Urgent Futures Ep. 9Welcome to the Urgent Futures podcast, the show that finds signal in the noise. Each week, I sit down with leading thinkers whose research, concepts, and questions clarify the chaos, from culture to the cosmos.The best way to support the show, you ask? Pop over to YouTube and hit that Subscribe button. You hear it all the time for a reason—nothing will help the channel grow more than that simple click.Legacy Russell is a curator and writer. Born and raised in New York City, she is the Executive Director & Chief Curator of Th...2024-05-301h 00
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiLisa Messeri: Unreal Realities in Los Angeles and VR | Urgent Futures Ep. 8Welcome to the Urgent Futures podcast, the show that finds signal in the noise. Each week, I sit down with leading thinkers whose research, concepts, and questions clarify the chaos, from culture to the cosmos.The best way to support the show, you ask? Pop over to YouTube and hit that Subscribe button. You hear it all the time for a reason—nothing will help the channel grow more than that simple click.Lisa Messeri is an associate professor in sociocultural anthropology at Yale University. Her research focuses on the norms, aspirations, and consequences of wo...2024-05-222h 01
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiDennis Yi Tenen: The Hidden History of Modern AI & Machine Learning | Urgent Futures Ep. 7Welcome to the Urgent Futures podcast, the show that finds signal in the noise. Each week, I sit down with leading thinkers whose research, concepts, and questions clarify the chaos, from culture to the cosmos.The best way to support the show, you ask? Pop over to YouTube and hit that Subscribe button. You hear it all the time for a reason—nothing will help the channel grow more than that simple click.🎧 For audio-only, subscribe to Apple Podcasts & Spotify so you never miss an episode!My guest today is Dennis Yi Tenen....2024-05-071h 38
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiIdris Brewster: Why AR MattersWelcome to the Urgent Futures podcast, the show that finds signal in the noise. Each week, I sit down with leading thinkers whose research, concepts, and questions clarify the chaos, from culture to the cosmos.The best way to support the show, you ask? Pop over to YouTube and hit that Subscribe button. You hear it all the time for a reason—nothing will help the channel grow more than that simple click.🎧 For audio-only, subscribe to Apple Podcasts & Spotify so you never miss an episode!My guest today is Idris Brewster.Idr...2024-04-301h 45
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiEric Czuleger: What's...a Country?Welcome to the Urgent Futures podcast, the show that finds signal in the noise. Each week, I sit down with leading thinkers whose research, concepts, and questions clarify the chaos, from culture to the cosmos.Want to see the video version of the show? Pop over to YouTube and hit that Subscribe button so you never miss an episode.My guest today is Eric Czuleger. His fascination with travel, history, and politics began as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Albania. After service, he completed his first circle of the globe. Returning to the U.S...2024-04-181h 56
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiCherie Hu: What's Next for the Music Industry? AI, Blockchain, and MoreWelcome to the Urgent Futures podcast, the show that finds signal in the noise. Each week, I sit down with leading thinkers whose research, concepts, and questions clarify the chaos, from culture to the cosmos.The best way to support the show, you ask? Pop over to YouTube and hit that Subscribe button. You hear it all the time for a reason—nothing will help the channel grow more than that simple click.My guest today is Cherie Hu.Cherie is an award-winning researcher, founder, and educator forging new paths in music, technology, an...2024-03-261h 40
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiLia Halloran & Kip Thorne: A Trip Through the Warped Side of Our UniverseWelcome to the Reality Studies podcast! This podcast tries to clarify the chaos, from culture to the cosmos. Each episode, I sit down with leading thinkers for big idea dialogues about the research, concepts, and questions that animate their approaches to reality.My guests today are Lia Halloran and Kip Thorne.Lia Halloran is an award-winning artist who has exhibited widely in galleries and museums. She’s also Chair of the department of Art and Associate Professor at Chapman University. She lives with her wife and two children in Los Angeles, CA.Kip Th...2023-10-261h 23
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiAsad J. Malik: Fighting for the Future of Augmented RealityWelcome to the Reality Studies podcast! This podcast tries to clarify the chaos, from culture to the cosmos. Each episode, I sit down with leading thinkers for big idea dialogues about the research, concepts, and questions that animate their approaches to reality.Subscribe: 🎥 YouTube | 🎧 Apple Podcasts & SpotifyToday I am chatting with Asad J. Malk, CEO of Jadu AR. Asad is an augmented reality trailblazer whose critically-acclaimed narrative storytelling projects Terminal 3 and A Jester’s Tale premiered at Tribeca and Sundance Film Festivals, positioning Asad as a visionary in the space before completing his undergraduate degree...2023-10-191h 35
Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiTaylor Lorenz: A Brief History of Being 'Extremely Online'Welcome to the Reality Studies podcast! This podcast tries to clarify the chaos, from culture to the cosmos. Each episode, I sit down with leading thinkers for big idea dialogues about the research, concepts, and questions that animate their approaches to reality.In this episode, I chat with Taylor Lorenz, Technology Columnist for The Washington Post and author of the forthcoming book, Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet.Taylor's work hits one of the main goals I have in doing a podcast in the first place. I started...2023-09-2858 min
TezTalks Radio - Tezos Ecosystem Podcast66: Curating with Jesse DamianiEnjoyed our podcast? Shoot us a text and let us know—because great conversations never end at the last word!In this week's episode, we sit down with American writer, producer, and entrepreneur, Jesse Damiani to discuss the future of NFTs2023-09-2659 min
Humans On The Loop201 - KMO & Kevin Wohlmut on our Blue Collar Black Mirror: Star Trek, Star Wars, Blade Runner, Jurassic Park, Adventure Time, ChatGPT, & MoreThis week we talk about the intersections of large language models, the golden age of television and its storytelling mishaps, making one’s way through the weirding of the labor economy, and much more with two of my favorite Gen X science fiction aficionados, OG podcaster KMO and our mutual friend Kevin Arthur Wohlmut. In this episode — a standalone continuation to my recent appearance on The KMO Show, we skip like a stone across mentions of every Star Trek series, the collapse of narratives and the social fabric, Westworld HBO, Star Wars Mandalorian vs. Andor vs. Rebels, chatGPT, Blade Runne...2023-04-131h 46
But is I.T. Art?The Web 3 CanvasThis episode explores one of the main motors of change in creating the bridge between digital and physical in the art world: WEB 3, NFTs and the blockchain.Featuring Merel van Helsdingen, Founder & Managing Director of Nxt MuseumOseanworld, Visual artist, musician and the creator of OseanWorldAmber Jae Slooten Digital Artist, Designer and Founder of The FabricantJesse Damiani Web 3 expert & Director of Simulation Literacies at Nxt MuseumLinks for further reading: https://www.jumpstartmag.com/decentralization-and-the-lack-of-regulation-in-nft-marketplaces/https://ostachowski.com/about...2022-12-2829 minTezTalks Radio - Tezos Ecosystem Podcast46: Art Basel Conversations 2022 | Exploring Tezos: The Art BlockchainEnjoyed our podcast? Shoot us a text and let us know—because great conversations never end at the last word!Hear from artists and creatives within the Tezos community as they speak to their unique experiences on the blockchain.PanelMatthew Plummer-Fernández - Director of Fine Art: Computational Arts, University of the Arts London Mumu the Stan ArtistDiane Drubay Arts & Culture, TZ ConnectModerator: Jesse Damiani Writer, Head of Postreality Labs2022-09-1647 min
Fantasy Hockey LifeEP 202 | Dallas Stars with Matthew DeFranksThe Dallas Stars stayed on the edge of the playoff mix but feature some great forwards developing and a breakout goalie. Matthew DeFranks of the Dallas Morning News breaks it down. (7:30) Matt talks Jason Robertson, Roope Hintz, Joe Pavelski, Tyler Seguin, Jamie Benn, Jacob Peterson, Denis Gurianov, Ty Delleandrea, Riley Damiani, Miro Heiskanen, John Klingberg, Esa Lindell, Ryan Suter, Jani Hakanpaa, Thomas Harley, Jake Oettinger, and Scott Wedgewood. Dan Tiffany of Dobbert Prospects brings "Tiff's Takes" on the goalies (57:00) In the Dynasty Dig (approx 1:05:30) Victor breaks down Mavrik Bourque, Wyatt Johnston, and Logan Stankoven with the help of reports from...2022-07-041h 52
Artist Decoded by YoshinoSundance Film Festival & New Frontier 2022 with Shari Frilot | AD 225Shari Frilot is a filmmaker who has produced television for the CBS affiliate in Boston and for WNYC and WNET in New York before creating her own independent award-winning films, including Strange & Charmed, A Cosmic Demonstration of Sexuality, What Is A Line?, and the feature documentary, Black Nations / Queer Nations? She is the recipient of multiple grants, including the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Media Arts Foundation. She is presently working on a feature film project about the crisis in water supply with producer Effie Brown's production company, Duly Noted Inc. In tandem with filmmaking, Shari also maintains a...2022-01-171h 09
The No Proscenium PodcastVenice VR Expanded, Immersive Art at Superblue, and What's Up with NFTs?This week we've got some BIG NEWS about our upcoming events as we evolve into our next form (I'm hoping for Charizard) as a non-profit organization.We've also got a regular episode for you with a fantastic lineup from Venice VR Expanded, Superblue, and more.Venice VR Expanded w/ curators Liz Rosenthal and Michel Reilhac [5:33] Immersive 101 [26:13]Superblue's Kathleen Forde and Margot Mottaz interviewed by Ricky Brigante (Pseudonym Productions) [31:00]Pick of the Week [43:35]Jesse Damiani (Forbes) breaks down NFTs [47:58]A look at The Next S...2021-08-271h 16
Enter the Rabbit HoleD is for DeepfakeHave you ever seen something truly uncanny? Your brain tells you what you're seeing is true, but something at the back of your mind niggles. Someone is trying to trick you... This week, Will and Alisha enter the warped reality of deepfakes. Is it just art, or is it a fundamental threat to the very fabric of our reality!? Lol. Let's find out!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepfake
What are deepfakes – and how can you spot them? (Ian Sample, The Guardian, 13 Jan 2020)
https://www...2021-04-281h 25
Artist Decoded by YoshinoA Crash Course In NFTs + Simulation Theory with Jesse Damiani | AD 196 www.patreon.com/artistdecoded Jesse Damiani is a writer, curator, and cultural producer living in Los Angeles, CA. He covers art, media, and technology on Forbes, and serves as . Other writing appears in Billboard, Entrepreneur, Quartz, The Verge, and WIRED. He has consulted with Google, Oculus, and the Sundance Institute, and served as a mentor in the YouTube VR Creator Lab. He is also Founder and Series Editor of Best American Experimental Writing. He was the Curator/Producer for the XR art exhibition, Spatial Reality, at sp[a]ce gallery; Co-Curator of Virtual Futures with LACMA...2021-03-281h 04
Midcoast Morning on CHLY 101.7FMMid Coast Morning for Saturday March 6th 2021The inaugural launch of Mid Coast Morning, CHLY 101.7 FM’s new weekly current affairs show airing every Saturday morning at 9 A.M. In our first episode host Mick Sweetman speaks with Shannon McDonald, Acting Chief Medical Officer for the First Nations Health Authority, on why COVID-19 is disproportionately impacting First Nations. He also spoke with Nanaimo City Councillor Don Bonner on the upcoming Front Street bike lane project, as well as Hub City Cycle’s Nico Damiani on what this and other bike lanes will mean for cyclists in Nanaimo.Also in this epis...2021-03-0653 min
Mid Coast Morning on CHLY 101.7FMMid Coast Morning for Saturday March 6th 2021The inaugural launch of Mid Coast Morning, CHLY 101.7 FM’s new weekly current affairs show airing every Saturday morning at 9 A.M. In our first episode host Mick Sweetman speaks with Shannon McDonald, Acting Chief Medical Officer for the First Nations Health Authority, on why COVID-19 is disproportionately impacting First Nations. He also spoke with Nanaimo City Councillor Don Bonner on the upcoming Front Street bike lane project, as well as Hub City Cycle’s Nico Damiani on what this and other bike lanes will mean for cyclists in Nanaimo.Also in this epis...2021-03-066h 00
La Bande SonLA BANDE SON - Cadeau de NoëlLa Bande Son vous offre son cadeau de Noël en soutien aux salles de cinéma actuellement fermées.La Bande Son s'invite dans l'émission "Radio Réveil" diffusée entre 8h et 9h sur Jet FM 91.2 à Nantes et vous offre une heure de musiques de films plutôt calmes pour bien démarrer la journée et terminer l'année...La Playlist :Franz Schubert, « Trio pour piano et cordes N°2 » (BARRY LYNDON, Stanley Kubrick – 1975)Georges Delerue, « Camille » (LE MEPRIS, Jean-Luc Godard – 1963)Riz Ortolani, « Serena E Lumunno » (CONFESSION D’UN COMMISSAIRE DE POLICE AU PROCUREUR DE L...2020-12-2159 minLa Bande SonLA BANDE SON - Cadeau de NoëlLa Bande Son vous offre son cadeau de Noël en soutien aux salles de cinéma actuellement fermées.La Bande Son s'invite dans l'émission "Radio Réveil" diffusée entre 8h et 9h sur Jet FM 91.2 à Nantes et vous offre une heure de musiques de films plutôt calmes pour bien démarrer la journée et terminer l'année...La Playlist :Franz Schubert, « Trio pour piano et cordes N°2 » (BARRY LYNDON, Stanley Kubrick – 1975)Georges Delerue, « Camille » (LE MEPRIS, Jean-Luc Godard – 1963)Riz Ortolani, « Serena E Lumunno » (CONFESSION D’UN COMMISSAIRE DE POLICE AU PROCUREUR DE L...2020-12-2159 min
Singularity WatchSingularity Watch S01 E03 | An Immersive Storyteller: Jesse DamianiOur guest today is Jesse Damiani, journalist, writer, VR Storyteller, Forbes Contributor on emerging technologies.
When we talk about "new" or "emerging" technologies, it can be rather hard to tell the difference between what is in fact "pure hype" and what's here to stay. What are the biggest "victims" of the hype cycle?
Jesse is one of the few journalists who can talk about the emerging worlds avoiding the "gadgets" approach, and focusing instead on building trust and awareness. But he also says that poetry and emerging tech have more in common than many realize. Do you...2020-10-2456 min
Everything VR & ARSusanna Pollack and Jessie Damiani of Games for ChangeHosts Tyler Gates and Sophia Moshasha talk with Susanna Pollack & Jesse Damiani about the history of Games for Change and how XR is taking a larger role in driving empathy and change across industries. Susanna Pollack is the President of Games for Change and one of Jesse Damiani’s positions is the Curator of XR for Games for Change. To connect with Susanna Pollack: Twitter - @SusannaPollack To connect wtih Jesse Damiani: Twitter - @JesseDamiani Visit the VR/AR Association at www.TheVRARA.com for more in...2019-06-1339 min
The No Proscenium PodcastEpisode 175 - Jesse Damiani talks Spatial RealityJesse Damiani, longtime friend of the show, drops by to talk about his continuing adventures in the world of XR. (That's virtual, augmented, and mixed reality for those playing the home game.) Recently he curated the art show Spatial Reality, which brought together multiple artists from across the reality spectrum for what was one of the biggest -- if not the biggest -- gatherings of XR art to date. We sit down with Jesse, drink my favorite beer, talk about that show and wax philosophical as we are won't to do. Come, join us. ...2018-11-301h 24
Frame TrapFrame Trap - Episode 62 "Dragon Quest Is Almost Here!"Ben, Huber, and Damiani have a ton of exciting games to talk about on a spicy episode of Frame Trap including Dragon Quest XI, World of Warcraft, Valkyria Chronicles 4, We Happy Few, Dead Cells, and more.
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07:25 - World of Warcraft
37:15 - Dead Cells
49:27 - Dragon Quest XI
01:09:32 - Valkyria Chronicles 4
01:22:09 - Caught in a Frame Trap: Dates!
01:31:16 - We Happy Few
01:45:48 - Mega Man X Legacy Collection
01:54:42 - Monster Hunter Event in Final Fantasy XIV
02:07:31 - Death's Gambit & Chasm
02:13:38 - HOTTAKE - Are we flooded with too many metroidvania games?
02:32:58 - Emails
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Jesse "...2018-08-213h 00The No Proscenium PodcastEpisode 155: International RelationsLast week your host, Noah Nelson, was in Qingdao, China for the Sandbox Immersive Festival. This week he's back, solo, to talk about some of what he observed there and about the emerging thinking around XR -- the term being given to all of immersive technology -- and how that relates to live immersive. This being Noah talking into a microphone, you know that we get into a few tangents, including thoughts about what it means to become a bit jaded as a reviewer, and what incoming designers need to be thinking about when they approach immersive...2018-07-0741 minThe No Proscenium PodcastEpisode 087: Into The Virtual with Jesse DamianiLive from the ThinkTank Studio... well, virtually live anyway: we talk with VR Scout editor-at-large and immersonaut extraordinaire Jesse Damiani about his exploration of Sundance's New Frontier, his development of scripting tools for digital and live immersive experiences, and a whole lot more. PLUS: so many notes you will run out of sticks to shake at them. Including details on our first unofficial Fringe Town Hall: putting two great tastes--the Hollywood Fringe and immersive--together in a formal way at last. Better than chocolate and peanut butter! (That's a damn lie and I know it. Nothing is better t...2017-02-241h 32
A.R.T. Artists Real Talk#9 Scott Hove (Cakeland): The Oakland Ghost Ship Fire Burning Through our Community and How to Survive It as an ArtistScott Hove is an artist whose primary medium is perspective. He has manipulated his art viewers psychologically and literally for decades, and his work is more poignant than ever. He asked our hosts to sit down and talk as Bay Area natives about what the recent Oakland fire means for DIY, artist-run, and under the radar spaces for creation, and make some plans for the future. This is a heavy episode and one with a lot of potential action on the other end, but also one of our most broad discussions. We hope you enjoy it and contact us...2016-12-212h 06
Nerdfunk (MP3)1Wird 2016 das Jahr der virtuellen Realität, haben wir uns vor gut einem Jahr gefragt [http://podcast.stadtfilter.ch/DigitalPodcast/Digital20150901]. Die Antwort ist ein ziemlich deutliches Nein: Wir ziehen uns des Morgens keine Datenhandschuhe Über und laufen auch nicht mit Cyberhelmen durch die computergenerierte Welt.
Todsagen wollen wir den Trend trotzdem nicht. Denn auch wenn er unseren Alltag nicht umgekrempelt hat, so haben wir doch die eine oder andere Einsatzmöglichkeit entdeckt. Und darüber sprechen wir:
Über Gadgets und Apps, mit denen man mit VR-Szenarien spielt. Über 360°-Videos und Games, in denen man mit Haut und Haar versinkt. Über die...2016-10-1930 minNerdfunk (m4a)1Wird 2016 das Jahr der virtuellen Realität, haben wir uns vor gut einem Jahr gefragt [http://podcast.stadtfilter.ch/DigitalPodcast/Digital20150901]. Die Antwort ist ein ziemlich deutliches Nein: Wir ziehen uns des Morgens keine Datenhandschuhe Über und laufen auch nicht mit Cyberhelmen durch die computergenerierte Welt.
Todsagen wollen wir den Trend trotzdem nicht. Denn auch wenn er unseren Alltag nicht umgekrempelt hat, so haben wir doch die eine oder andere Einsatzmöglichkeit entdeckt. Und darüber sprechen wir:
Über Gadgets und Apps, mit denen man mit VR-Szenarien spielt. Über 360°-Videos und Games, in denen man mit Haut und Haar versinkt. Über die...2016-10-1930 minNerdfunk von Radio Stadtfilter1Wird 2016 das Jahr der virtuellen Realität, haben wir uns vor gut einem Jahr gefragt [http://podcast.stadtfilter.ch/DigitalPodcast/Digital20150901]. Die Antwort ist ein ziemlich deutliches Nein: Wir ziehen uns des Morgens keine Datenhandschuhe Über und laufen auch nicht mit Cyberhelmen durch die computergenerierte Welt.
Todsagen wollen wir den Trend trotzdem nicht. Denn auch wenn er unseren Alltag nicht umgekrempelt hat, so haben wir doch die eine oder andere Einsatzmöglichkeit entdeckt. Und darüber sprechen wir:
Über Gadgets und Apps, mit denen man mit VR-Szenarien spielt. Über 360°-Videos und Games, in denen man mit Haut und Haar versinkt. Über die...2016-10-1930 minNerdfunk (m4a)1Wird 2016 das Jahr der virtuellen Realität, haben wir uns vor gut einem Jahr gefragt [http://podcast.stadtfilter.ch/DigitalPodcast/Digital20150901]. Die Antwort ist ein ziemlich deutliches Nein: Wir ziehen uns des Morgens keine Datenhandschuhe Über und laufen auch nicht mit Cyberhelmen durch die computergenerierte Welt.
Todsagen wollen wir den Trend trotzdem nicht. Denn auch wenn er unseren Alltag nicht umgekrempelt hat, so haben wir doch die eine oder andere Einsatzmöglichkeit entdeckt. Und darüber sprechen wir:
Über Gadgets und Apps, mit denen man mit VR-Szenarien spielt. Über 360°-Videos und Games, in denen man mit Haut und Haar versinkt. Über die...2016-10-1930 min
Super Hungry the PodcastEpisode 14 (S2 E1) with Jesse DamianiIn the Season 2 premier, writer, poet, and old college friend Jesse Damiani stops by and we talk about the cost of living in Los Angeles (and we don’t mean money), what it’s like to get a Master’s Degree in Poetry, and, among other things, "Why Walter White Is the Most Important Character in the History of Television."2016-07-131h 14