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.
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Industry experts analyze Jose Padilha's 2014 Robocop remake, exploring cyberpunk themes, transhumanism, AI implications, and human agency in a futuristic 2025 setting.
18 Apr 2025
A complete known unknown
Both appreciating and ultimately dismissing James Mangold's latest addition to the Bob Dylan filmography, A Complete Unknown.
23 Mar 2025
Inherent Vice
On the genius of Paul Thomas Anderson's translation (2014) of Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice (2009) in the current moment (2025).
1 Mar 2025
Child of God, or Inland Empire
Thinking about consciousness and art via the late great David Lynch's final feature film Inland Empire (2006).
4 Feb 2025
Under the rainbow
A&E consider Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (1999) as the ritual incantation it was obviously meant to be.
14 Jan 2025
Showing Europe how we do it, or, Suspiria 2018
Filmmaker Luca Guadagnino explores the dark underbelly of late capitalism in his 2018 remake of Suspiria, a haunting critique of societal decay and the collapse of human connection.
29 Dec 2024
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.
30 Nov 2024
Under the Silver Lake
Film critic and director David Robert Mitchell breaks down the complexities of his 2018 stoner noir film "Under the Silver Lake" and its enduring themes of existential mystery.
14 Nov 2024
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.
21 Sept 2024
Repo Man, or, Training Day 1984
A&E chat Alex Cox's brilliant/incendiary/prescient low budget classic Repo Man (1984) in an effort to get a better handle on 2024.
18 Aug 2024
Meeting Trump at tha crossroads
A&E on the bleak freak scene that is American politics in 2024.
4 Dec 2023
Bronze age perversions 1
The first of two episodes on the BAP book Bronze Age Mindset (2018).
10 Nov 2023
Once a clone, always a clone
A&E use Juel Taylor's 2023 film They Cloned Tyrone as a way into talking 21st century biopolitics, necropolitics, Haiti, and revolution.
30 Oct 2023
Cormac McCarthy and neoliberalism
Found this lost episode from June 2023 while scrounging the couch cushions deep for change wherein A&E discuss the political scene as it had been unfolding to that point in World History. Plus: the neoliberalism of Cormac McCarthy's fiction.
14 Sept 2023
Chain reaction
Time to chat the next of several selections in this season of the mass market communist film: Chris Nolan's Oppenheimer, wherein labor organizing gets more screen time than quantum physics.
7 Sept 2023
The deep state gets groovy, or The Source Family
A&E chat Maria Demopoulos's and Jodi Wille's 2012 doc The Source Family, discussing how state agencies were always-already part of the American counterculture.
13 Aug 2023
How to Joe Biden a Pipeline
A&E discuss Daniel Goldhaber's 2022 film How to Blow up a Pipeline, asking if it's really true at this point that it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.
26 Jun 2023
Resurrecting Laura Palmer
The second of two conversations on David Lynch's Twin Peaks franchise, A&E here discuss the conclusion of season 2 and the start of season 3.
11 Jun 2023
Fire walk with me
Here we go: the first of two episodes on David Lynch's Twin Peaks universe, which lays bare the horror and corruption at the core of the American experiment. This episode centers on the film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, the 1992 prequel to the "Twin Peaks" television series.
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