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The Apocalypse is Everywhere. The End of the World with Michael and Stu is a (hopefully) insightful and (hopefully) humorous exploration of the rise of apocalyptic news, apocalyptic thinking and apocalyptic culture. Each week, we’ll be looking at a work of art, a piece of media, or an historical event related to the (hopefully not) impending End of the World.
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English
United States
141 episodes
since Feb. 6, 2024
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We're covering Michelangelo Antonioni's scene-dividing 1970 film, Zabriskie Point. What does this extremely vibey, mostly plotless, beautifully shot film tell us about America, as seen from the European perspective? What are we to make of the many dangling plot threads that do not cohere?…
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This week we are talking about Jean Baudrillard's 1986 text, America. An impressionistic, vibes-based take on America at the heights of its 1980s powers, the book is at times hilarious, at other times maddening, and at still other times powerfully insightful. We go over his hatred of jogging, …
This week we are discussing Anton Jäger's new smash hit, Hyperpolitics, which looks to diagnose the ills of our contemporary political era from a leftist perspective. We go over Jäger's use of periodization, consider his analyses of contemporary fiction, and look at his suggestions for ho…
This week we are talking about the recent hype surrounding an AI that might, by 2030, "kill us all." This is somewhat familiar territory for the pod, but it is once again relevant after "whistleblower" Jacob Coxon's emergence with his dire prognostications for our earthly f…
This week we are discussing Mary Harron's adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' novel American Psycho in light of Stu's recent article on the film's resonance with a cybernetic conception of the environment. We discuss whether the crimes depicted in the film should be understood lite…
This week we are discussing José Saramago's 1995 novel Blindness. We discuss what the central theme of the novel, a world in which virtually everyone suddenly goes blind, says about the way society is set up and how quickly it might descend into chaos were such an event to occur. We also compa…
This week we're finally talking about The Matrix, which is arguably the most culturally influential film of the last 30 years. We discuss the various ways the "red pill/blue pill" moment has been ingested by the culture, and we also get into the film's undeniable influence on th…
This week we are delving into Stu's new article on Ray Kurzweil and the Singularity. What are some of the consequences of the potential merger of our brains with superintelligent AI? Are they good? Are there any downsides? What about immortality? Should we want to live forever?
We get into al…
This week we are covering the 1993 film, Alive, directed by Frank Marshall and starring Ethan Hawke and Josh Hamilton. A sort of apocalypse in miniature, the movie depicts the miraculous survival of sixteen members of a Uruguayan rugby team whose plane crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains i…
This week we are tackling The Odyssey, both the ancient Greek epic and the recent adaptation directed by Christopher Nolan. We go over the context of the poem's composition and dissemination, its significance to the Greeks, and give a broad outline of the major incidents in the poem. Fear not,…
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