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Who, me, Jewish? No way, man.
Bill, my driver, picked me up from the motel in downtown Bakersfield at 9am and we headed straight out to the ARK’s research division — to the address…
Mar 25
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Yasha Levine
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The Politics of Ape and Machine w/Joe Costello
Watch now | VAMP VALLEY STREAM #5: Talking about life in a world disorganized by computer technology.
Mar 21
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Yasha Levine
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Evgenia
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1:25:43
INFORMATION IS PACIFICATION W/DANIEL BESSNER
VAMP VALLEY STREAM #4: Politics from within the Spectacle.
Mar 14
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Yasha Levine
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Daniel Bessner
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In search of deep time
As soon as I got news that the lockdown was being lifted, I started making preparations.
Mar 11
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Yasha Levine
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WE'RE ALL TRAPPED IN THE VAMPIRE CASTLE
Watch now | VAMP VALLEY STREAM #3: MARK FISHER, VAMPIRES, AND THE POLITICS OF THE INTERNET
Mar 6
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Yasha Levine
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Varn Vlog
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2:02:56
Pistachio Wars and Doom and Gloom
Watch now (64 mins) | Rowan and I were at UC Santa Barbara last month presenting Pistachio Wars. We had a wonderful Q&A after the screening, which you…
Mar 3
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Yasha Levine
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J.G. Ballard on writing, sci-fi, and the modern world
"In many ways, I believe that science fiction is the authentic literature of the 20th century."
Mar 2
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Yasha Levine
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February 2026
PLATFORMS WANT TO INGEST AND DESTROY
We talk about the failed utopian promises of the internet and how the tech platforms that now dominate our world are concentrators of power and…
Feb 28
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Yasha Levine
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Mike Pepi
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Requiem for Nikolai Komyagin
Evgenia pays tribute to Nikolai Komyagin, the frontman of the Russian cult band Shortparis.
Feb 27
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Yasha Levine
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Evgenia
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1:42:49
AI is Average Intelligence...and it will always be
Computers are disembodied. All they can give us is a representation of a representation, a remix of things that we had already processed for them…
Feb 24
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Yasha Levine
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WE ARE ALL LUDDITES NOW
Is it time to smash the data centers?
Feb 19
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Yasha Levine
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Brian Merchant
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1:38:11
The internet is MK-ULTRA, improved
I was doing some background reading for VAMPIRE VALLEY and picked up Acid Dreams, a wonderful book about LSD and how this weird chemical wormed its way…
Feb 18
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Yasha Levine
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