About Alt-Social ~reconnecting social media with humanity~
Dear Friends,
Are you alone in your school, a circle of friends, or family?
Is social media the only place to feel chilled, yet a bit addicted? Don’t worry!
Stay tuned with our monthly talks on "Alt-social" with versatile guests.
Cordially,
Love 🦁, Case🐈⬛ and Akky🦊
p.s. Dear parents & teachers,
Alt-talk opens a new horizon for podcasts. It is not just for information sharing but also for sharing soul and vibes with younger generations. Through each programme presented by specialists, listeners can experience and absorb various approaches to social media and general digital questions.
What happens when we stop trying to silence difficult feelings and instead listen to them?
Ximena, a certified Deep Listening® tutor, and Akky continue their conversation, and it gently turns to grief.
They talk about Pauline Oliveros’s Horse Sings From Cloud, and Ximena shares her experience of performing the piece and reflects on how listening and sounding can give voice to difficult emotions, including sadness and anger.
🎧 Bonus: Ximena guides us through a brief Deep Listening practice, followed by a humming exercise based on a score by IONE.
🔗Ximena's website (https://www.ximenaalarcon.net/)
22 Aug 2026
Big Dreams, Deep Listening
Ximena is a sound artist-researcher, a Deep Listening® certified tutor, and, in her own words, a “big dreamer.”
Growing up in Bogotá, Colombia, she was already observing her surroundings through sound, sensation, and imagination. Years later, she entered the world of Deep Listening, bringing plenty of questions on her vivid dreams to Pauline Oliveros, the pioneering American composer and accordionist who developed the practice.
That listening journey eventually grew into Sonic Migrations and INTIMAL, developed further during her postdoctoral research at the University of Oslo, exploring how bodies, memories, and people separated by distance can reconnect through sound and digital technology.
In this Alt-Talk, Akky speaks with Ximena about how people living far apart can use digital communication not only to exchange words but also to sense place and presence, share memories, and even feel each other’s bodily rhythms across distance.
🔗Ximena's website (https://www.ximenaalarcon.net/)
9 May 2026
Tarkovsky Meets Shorts
Did you know the earliest films by the Lumière brothers were often under a minute long, not so far from today’s "shorts"?
In this second session, Aleksey and Akky continue their slightly obsessive art-cinema conversations: from Tarkovsky to Leni Riefenstahl, and what shorts and social media could still be.
They also reflect on professionalism and amateurism: what makes an image truly pure and innocent in the presence of amateurism.
29 Mar 2026
Cinema / Shorts as Windows 🪟
It started with a window.A train to Italy, a child watching the passing world.
Aleksey carries that image into his work: a desire to create cinema as new “windows” through which the audience can see, feel, and remember.
In this episode, Akky speaks with Aleksey, a друг from VGIK, the world’s oldest film school in Russia, where they met in 2013.
From their shared admiration for Andrei Tarkovsky to questions of social media today, they ask: Can cinema or even short-form videos, still shape how we see the world in deeper and more meaningful ways?
8 Mar 2026
Letter for a Schizoid Age
Love (a.k.a. Lavinia) returns from Basel.She reads a letter from her brother Jack, sincere words that echo uncannily with the world we live in today.
🎶 Soundtrack:
21st Century Schizoid Man by King Crimson.
23 Feb 2026
Urgent Prompt ⚡ Slow AI
Luana returns, a yoga teacher from Italy who treats walking not as a pastime, but as a method: a way to come back to yourself, and to the present.
In this session, we explore slowness as a practical skill in a world shaped by algorithms and metrics. Luana radically suggests that AI may need “slow time”, not just reactive to optimisation loops.
Bonus: a short guided breathing practice with Luana!
18 Jan 2026
Re-embody Self Before Feed
Yoga teacher Luana discusses how yoga and Ayurveda support reconnection with oneself, drawing from her experiences in the Mediterranean, in an interview on self-discovery.
13 Oct 2025
🚧 Ban social media, the right move?
Host Akky explores the potential for "co-living" between stable and alternative social media by applying calculative and meditative thinking, drawing from Heidegger's philosophy.
14 Sept 2025
Metrics Off, Just Deep-Listen👂
Host Akky explores the concept of deep listening as an alternative to algorithm-driven social media, drawing from grief care studies and Pauline Oliveros' methodology to discover genuine resonance.
3 Aug 2025
Social Media - as fleeting as 📽️ ??
Case, a motion-picture production company owner, discusses the potential ephemerality of social media and its possible evolution toward more human and authentic forms, suggesting a future shift in online interaction; this is an interview with Akky.
6 Jul 2025
🤖 Talk Nice to AI?
Emmie, Research Associate at Yale Digital Ethics Center, and Akky discuss the importance of using polite language with AI and the future of social media for digital natives in this interview.
8 Jun 2025
Body or Bytes? 🧘
Emmie Hine, AI governance specialist, explores the evolution from early online communities to AI ethics, revealing how technology and culture shape our digital future in this interview.
4 May 2025
Too Elitist? 😅 Coding as liberal arts
This is the second half of a discussion with 'Mad Professor'🧑🔬
Shintaro and Akky speculate 🤔
“reading, writing, arithmetic, video-editing and computermodelling could be the contemporary liberal arts”,
which could be the life-saver in the digital age to counter-dance against digitality.
Are these views too elitist and optimistic? Or should we still dream on?
Here is the must-read👉 (https://www.instagram.com/teatime_vinyl/p/DFnDuBSqEwP/)Counter-Dancing Digitality (https://meson.press/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/978-3-95796-049-8_Miyazaki.pdf)
Mastodon (https://tldr.nettime.org/@kontratanz)
Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lgag5d4vbupuqr7keunmm6lf)
COUNTER-N (https://counter-n.net/)
6 Apr 2025
Counter-Dance Dance Dance💃
Meet the digital world's 'Mad Professor'🧑🔬
Teaching Media Studies and Computation at Humboldt University in Berlin, Shintaro Miyazaki is pioneering 'counter-dancing digitality': a radical approach to transformingour digital lives. 💃
Shintaro urges us to dive into literature, music, film, software, games, and particularly computer modelling to participate in counter-dancing raves 👯♂️ Tune in to hear about his journey with techno music and computation and how these experiences shaped his groundbreaking concept of counter-dancing digitality.
Here is the must-read👉 (https://www.instagram.com/teatime_vinyl/p/DFnDuBSqEwP/)Counter-Dancing Digitality (https://meson.press/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/978-3-95796-049-8_Miyazaki.pdf)
Mastodon (https://tldr.nettime.org/@kontratanz)
Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lgag5d4vbupuqr7keunmm6lf)
COUNTER-N (https://counter-n.net/)
9 Mar 2025
Life or Death?
This is the second half of a discussion with Lavinia (a.k.a. Love), a social entrepreneur based in Basel, Switzerland.She is launching her new social music project, Rainbow Cafe 👉 Teatime Vinyl (https://www.instagram.com/teatime_vinyl/p/DFnDuBSqEwP/).
Love discusses euthanasia in relation to her father's ongoing situation. (Additional info: Active euthanasia is illegal in Switzerland; however, providing the means for dying is legal as assisted suicide.)
This is the list of films that Akky mentioned during the talk:
Irene (https://vimeo.com/731125170?turnstile=0.60ey1eHkzSO3bwHpAmqRhhvR-ORncRoV6CKb9wO9Wm6Pj5KQhU_ms_4TfOfDyzPJQrqFttEAhqV5h7ljIqsn2hBXpn204--dRIxKPEXO70iqqTdZh_u3SxhL8BsWjhXCgZfMw7qfg9cjKD6ghlkGx3r8moUOSKaYm-JRaldG7SDT30HV4Zq200amBBM6xBuXTZ4o0SdX2yCRQCzGsJI987EFzA9silMjfVXAuScn_2AlksEN7oG_aMXR47SWK-bjfooqomiICpuawIJQx9ZoC3zFFa2C0UXqd7UF4UBXrc2YIUMGTAiXCmmk4I7Mott1X0hp2TYCNx-DCW87jk8B3VRpGptDSUz9b5s9SnKqZU6YURdLkbbbJn94CWq0AYKKSY6Eit99iJYNh-d5RQhWg5GPRPcaUYyPoGLGfEEDfJeFVwdkYKK_veH9Blk9MoqR0FKC-9AXOqVNkRKkvvqzs6HAxhtbpPr6QiDGKKMb9F_DaNNnlUuNerxt1rzQm52GFFsu2BEHVwmhIhnPz3QgF_z2sdXHpvZ1ddLZP8wxsNiaTwVNhxe5lG0-CAUGTuVjwIyUAEHeUq_q9KgB7D2MKCjDzzriOuwNpC7i9IOLBvoZQVCJ9MwYjBD0KfVCpO_fVMGLaYaV5UaKgscNFiIsmCA6Yq3PPWnPPH74w6eBXaTk3_l75NXKludnqOY5Q-Mi3Ao03c0TwTpVOto26LqXk0tIjDhO-AoRFbt3W5yPGDivW4LmIW2ABc9KAazQYRrTC-7wtbPuybJvterZR2CfNSQmjmWVLCuqW00RKPU_7lQu9XD_N88RTgLb-3wO7pdn4LF1dRHbG2IHMkLSwFFGlA.NExHoTxHAXaxOOnUxcPwlw.c57274733df9ebf6835c716e60947e5e390b83b83df0f77c2eb6662b530b7f39), 2023, 13 min (Sweden, Germany, Switzerland)
Avec (https://player.eyefilm.nl/en/films/avec-homecoming), 2014, 16 min (Estonia, Japan)
9 Feb 2025
Love for Music?
What is the relationship between analogue music and social media?
Today’s guest, Lavinia (a.k.a Love), is a social entrepreneur based in Basel, Switzerland. She initiates her new social-music project, Rainbow-cafe 👉Teatime Vinyl (https://www.instagram.com/teatime_vinyl/p/DFnDuBSqEwP/)
Lavinia talks about her passion for analogue music and how we could potentially address the instant music/food/relationship we face.
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