Tag: media critique

• The most radical act in an age of outrage is to play

  April 12, 2026

  We are not divided by accident; we are distracted on purpose. The antidote to that manipulation is to reconnect with what makes us human, often through something as simple as… more ›

• How to Navigate the Weirdness with Erik Davis March 26

  April 6, 2025

  The world is weird, and only getting weirder. In this set of two talks (Wed March 19 and Wed March 26), Alembic co-founder Erik Davis will wrestle with the strangeness… more ›

• A Brief Guide to Trump and the Spectacle

  February 22, 2025

  ‘Television Was a Baby Crawling towards That Deathchamber.’ These words are by Allen Ginsberg, writing in 1961, the title of a poem anathematising America. ‘It is here, the long Awaited… more ›