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EPISODE · Oct 4, 2019 · 56 MIN

Rent-a-Life

from Centered Subject · host Yelena Zhelezov

Jenny, Yelena and special guest Emily Curtin discuss insidious advertising techniques, troubling couch subscription, Freud and advertising, algorithms pretending to be human, humans pretending to be algorithms, 19th century robots, Jenny and the unpredictable scale of the buffalo, subscriptions to bathwater and tears, how to un-ring the bell. Production note: we are live and there is a mysterious hum but the ep is worth it! Adam Curtis, Century of Self https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLBhL0IlHno

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