Robocops and incels
Jun 1, 20252h 9m0
Jacking in to director Jose Padilha’s 2014 remake of Robocop to talk cyberpunk, trans, AI and agency in 2025.
Hosted by Amos & Ex · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 10 episodes
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Whether the subject in question is democracy, climate change, biomedical engineering, or the American university, it is clear that the society we have known will soon no longer be. As humankind stares into an abyss the bottom of which we cannot yet see, the producers of Living in The End Times thought it prudent to discuss the tumult around us and our species’ prospects for the future. We hope you will join in the conversation.
Amos & Ex hosts Living in the End Times, a news show with 10 episodes published.
Jacking in to director Jose Padilha’s 2014 remake of Robocop to talk cyberpunk, trans, AI and agency in 2025.
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A&E consider Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut (1999) as the ritual incantation it was obviously meant to be.
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A&E on the American election and its overlay with David Cronenberg’s 2012 adaptation of Don DeLillo’s 2003 novel Cosmopolis.
Today’s moving picture, in all senses of the term, is David Robert Mitchell’s 2018 stoner noir film “Under the Silver Lake,” which A&E agree, is like a fine wine: better with each passing year.
A&E discuss Jane Schoenbrun’s 2024 film “I Saw the TV Glow” exploring, among other topics, media’s shaping of our adolescence and adulthood.
A&E chat Alex Cox’s brilliant/incendiary/prescient low budget classic Repo Man, from 1984, in an effort to get a better handle on 2024.
A&E on the bleak freak scene that is American politics in 2024.
The first of two episodes on the BAP book Bronze Age Mindset (2018).
A&E use Juel Taylor’s 2023 film They Cloned Tyrone as a way into talking 21st century biopolitics, necropolitics, Haiti, and revolution.
Found this lost episode from June 2023 while scrounging the couch cushions deep for change wherein A&E discuss the political scene as it had been unfolding to that point in World History. Plus: the neoliberalism of Corma
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A&E chat Maria Demopoulos’s and Jodi Wille’s 2012 doc The Source Family, discussing how state agencies were always-already part of the American counterculture.
A&E discuss Daniel Goldhaber’s 2022 film How to Blow up a Pipeline, asking if it’s really true at this point that it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.
The second of two conversations on David Lynch’s Twin Peaks franchise, A&E here discuss the conclusion of season 2 and the start of season 3.
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A&E resurrect the discussion of Alex Garland’s film Annihilation as a way into a chat about Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, and paperclip maximizers, which, you know, will soon be running the show.
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