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Standup comedian and midwest existentialist Brendon Lemon walks us through the existential abyss, where we find out there’s actually something funny about all this.

About Brendan Lemon

Brendon Lemon is a comedian from Detroit, where he started performing regularly at the famous Comedy Castle at age 16. Two years in he was filmed for the documentary Be Funny which featured Christopher Titus and Mike Green. He moved to Paris in the summer of 2013 to both write and perform stand-up in both French and English. He returned to the US and lived between Boulder, Colorado and Chicago performing and writing plays, as well as being featured on the TV show Sex Sent Me to The ER, and the movie Do You Believe.

Keep up with Brendan Lemon

TikTok | Website | Sunflower Glass Company

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Douglas Rushkoff discusses why he feels like we’re running away from what matters – or maybe from matter, itself.

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Vice President, Creative at Skydance Interactive Shawn Kittelsen considers our society in revolt, and how pop media from comic books to video games help us see the choices before us

📕 Kittelsen’s new comic, Heart Attack, is now available!

About Shawn Kittelsen

Shawn Kittelsen is the Vice President, Creative at Skydance Interactive.

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Transdisciplinary artist and biohacker Heather Dewey-Hagborg shares her latest work on future pigs and hybrids.

Keep up with Heather Dewey-Hagborg

Website | Instagram

About Heather Dewey-Hagborg

Dr. Heather Dewey-Hagborg is a New York-based artist and biohacker who is interested in art as research and technological critique. Her controversial biopolitical art practice includes the project Stranger Visions in which she created portrait sculptures from analyses of genetic material (hair, cigarette butts, chewed up gum) collected in public places.

Heather has shown work internationally at events and venues including the World Economic Forum, the Daejeon Biennale, the Guangzhou Triennial, and the Shenzhen Urbanism and Architecture Biennale, Transmediale, the Walker Center for Contemporary Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and PS1 MoMA. Her work is held in public collections of the Centre Pompidou, the Victoria and Albert Museum, SFMoMA, among others, and has been widely discussed in the media, from the New York Times and the BBC to Art Forum and Wired.

Heather has a PhD in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is an Artist-in-Residence at the Exploratorium, and is an affiliate of Data & Society. She is a founding board member of Digital DNA, a European Research Council funded project investigating the changing relationships between digital technologies, DNA and evidence.

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Executive Director of The Center for Artistic Activism Rebecca Bray and Program Director of The Center for Artistic Activism’s Unstoppable Voters Rachel Gita Karp show us how to make activist art with, and for, real communities.

🎨 Learn more about The Center for Artistic Activism.

About Rebecca Bray

Rebecca is an artist, educator and interaction designer who is passionate about audiences and engagement, and about creative and experimental approaches. Before joining the Center for Artistic Activism, she was the Chief of Experience Design and Evaluation at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. There she managed a team of 25 in developing and implementing innovative and creative educational programming about science and the natural world. Read more.

About Rachel Gita Karp

Rachel Gita Karp is the Program Director of C4AA’s Unstoppable Voters. Karp writes and directs activist performances for reproductive freedom and bodily autonomy, voting and voters, and increased gender representation in politics. Read more.

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Douglas Rushkoff discusses what he's learning from Covid about the Internet and other Synthetic Experiences.

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Douglas Rushkoff joined CSPAN's Book TV to discuss his career in a wide-ranging conversation with callers. Originally published by CSPAN on October 1, 2023.

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Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the monthly Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. This conversation was recorded on December 12, 2023.

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Former British diplomat, Founder of Independent Diplomat, and author of The Leaderless Revolution Carne Ross introduces us to an anarchist’s vision of economic wellbeing.

About Carne Ross

Carne Ross is a former British diplomat, and Middle East and WMD expert, who resigned in 2004 after giving then-secret evidence to a British inquiry into the Iraq war. After Ross quit, he founded the world’s first non-profit diplomatic advisory group, Independent Diplomat, which advises democratic countries and political movements around the world.

📘 Now Available: The Leaderless Revolution

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Media Studies Professor Katherine Fry and author of Dynamic Media Environments Katherine G. Fry helps us see how the media environment in which a story is told may have a lot more to do with how we understand it than we realize.

About Katherine Fry

Since earning her Ph.D., Katherine G. Fry has been teaching and publishing in the areas of media research and criticism, television news, media culture and technology, and media literacy. A Fulbright recipient, she has lectured internationally in Turkey, Spain and Germany. Currently she is engaged in research that involves talking to audiences about how they define news. She also develops media literacy curricula for all ages and trains media literacy educators at the graduate level.

📘 Now Available: Dynamic Media Environments: Expanding the Scope of Media Literacy

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