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Neural Capitalism and how technology shapes your brain

Algorithms shape attention, buildings respond to users, and data, emotions, and behavior flow through invisible networks. Internationally renowned artist Warren Neidich creates works that critique this neural capitalist landscape. After the artist talk, sign up to collaborate on a new work.

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Critical Mass | Social Zombies

How do you escape the deep influence of digital media? We don’t fully control what we see online, or what we reveal about ourselves. But tonight we’ll examine approaches to maintaining our online autonomy in the face of social media algorithms.

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POSTPONED – All creatures breathe the same air – are we so different?

Every being on Earth – human and non-human – breathes the same air. Yet air is shared unevenly: we pollute it with our factories and lights at night, claim it with our airplanes, and even capitalize it through our wind turbines. In a world of climate disaster and rapidly vanishing habitats, an urgent question arises: who gets to claim air, who suffocates?

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VOX Discussion Night: How Free Can Love Be?

Does love need to be liberated? If so, from what? The phrase ‘free love’ may be associated with mid to late 20th century hippies, but has its origins as a philosophy in religious movements which are thousands of years old. Since then, thinkers have come and gone asking how love can be made more free, and what we need to do to make it so.

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