Living in the End Times

Living in the End Times

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Living in the End Times episodes

  • Robocops and incels

    Jacking in to director Jose Padilha’s 2014 remake of Robocop to talk cyberpunk, trans, AI and agency in 2025.

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    2 hr 10 min
  • A complete known unknown

    Both appreciating and ultimately dismissing James Mangold’s latest addition to the Bob Dylan filmography, A Complete Unknown.

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    1 hr 35 min
  • Inherent Vice

    On the genius of Paul Thomas Anderson’s translation (2014) of Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice (2009) in the current moment (2025).

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    1 hr 53 min
  • Child of God, or Inland Empire

    Thinking about consciousness and art via the late great David Lynch’s final feature film Inland Empire (2006).

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    1 hr 44 min
  • Under the rainbow

    A&E consider Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut (1999) as the ritual incantation it was obviously meant to be.

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    2 hr 8 min
  • Showing Europe how we do it, or, Suspiria 2018

    Exploring the failures of psychoanalysis, Marxism, and especially late capitalism via Luca Guadagnino’s 2018 remake of Dario Argento’s 1977 film Suspiria.

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    1 hr 58 min
  • Caesar in Cosmopolis

    A&E on the American election and its overlay with David Cronenberg’s 2012 adaptation of Don DeLillo’s 2003 novel Cosmopolis.

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    1 hr 56 min
  • Under the Silver Lake

    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.

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    1 hr 54 min
  • I saw the TV gloat

    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.

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    1 hr 56 min
  • Repo Man, or, Training Day 1984

    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.

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    1 hr 53 min

About Living in the End Times

From the publisher's feed

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.