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The Pop Culture Professors — 58 episodes

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Olivia Rodrigo Blends Past and Present in Her New Album

2

Cape Fear Retells an Archetypal Revenge Story for a New Generation

3

For All Mankind Concludes Its Search For New Life

4

Mapping a New Politics in For All Mankind

5

For All Mankind’s Story of Martian Revolution

6

Is "For All Mankind" the Most Ambitious Show on Television?

7

Michael Mann Reconsidered: Heat and Collateral

8

Michael Mann Reconsidered: Ali and The Last of the Mohicans

9

Michael Mann Reconsidered: Ferrari and Manhunter

10

Michael Mann Reconsidered: Thief and The Insider

11

What Went Wrong with The Night Manager?

12

Is 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple the Most Important Movie of the Year?

13

The Night Manager Episodes 1—3 Analysis: It Never Ends!

14

Pluribus Episodes 8 & 9 Analysis: It’s Over!

15

Pluribus Episodes 6 & 7 Analysis: I Feel Fine!

16

Pluribus Episodes 4&5 Analysis: We Need a Little Space

17

Pluribus Episode 3 Analysis: The Amazonification of Everything

18

In “Pluribus” An America Without Division, But At What Price?

19

Springsteen’s "Nebraska" as a Political, Sonic, and Personal Document

20

In The Life of a Showgirl, Taylor Swift Addresses Love, Glamour, and Grit

21

Alien: Earth Episode Analysis: Emergence and The Real Monsters

22

Alien: Earth Episode Analysis: In Space, No One… and The Fly

23

Alien: Earth Episode Analysis: Metamorphosis and Observation

24

Transhuman Horror in Alien: Earth

25

Horror and Humanism in "28 Years Later"

26

Is Sinners a New Classic of Political Utopianism?

27

The Politics of Andor (Season 2, Episodes 10-12): Freedom and Order

28

The Politics of Andor (Season 2 Episodes 7-9): Truth and Discipline

29

The Politics of Andor (Season 2 Episodes 4-6): Too Much Information

30

The Politics of Andor (Season 2 Episodes 1-3): The Personal is Political

31

Will AI Transform What it Means to be Human in the Next Ten Years?

32

The Great Gatsby is an American Dystopia

33

James Boyle Draws the Line Between Humans and AI

34

Sex and Love with Robots and Chatbots

35

Lessons on Living with AI from the Home Computer Revolution: Revisiting Sherry Turkle’s “The Second Self”

36

In “The Beast,” AI Puts Limits on Human Emotion

37

Our History with AI is (much) Longer than You Think (with Kevin LaGrandeur)

38

A.I. is Spielberg & Kubrick’s Dark Twisted Fantasy

39

What Ex Machina Tell Us About Human-AI Psychology

40

AI: How We Got Here in Three Powerful Tales

41

Thinking Machines: Will Robots Have Rights?

42

Thinking Machines: The First AI Takeover Story

43

Thinking Machines: The Turing Test at 75

44

P. Djèlí Clark on Why He Writes

45

Slavery and Film, Creativity and Academia, and Is Slavery a Good Metaphor for AI?

46

The Political Evolution of Taylor Swift

47

Can "Alien: Romulus" Revive the Alien Franchise?

48

40 Years of Purple Rain: What to Make of the Movie/Album in 2024

49

AI and Music: The Future is Here (featuring "There I Ruined It")

50

On Richard Linklater and “Hit Man”

51

Robert Farley on how "Andor" recreates "The Battle of Algiers" (and it works)

52

Adapting Liu Cixin’s "Three-Body Problem" for Television

53

Reading Taylor Swift as a Cultural and Political Text

54

Prophet Song: A Novel about a Totalitarian Takeover in Ireland

55

This is the Best Statement of the Simulation Hypothesis We've Seen

56

'For All Mankind,’ An Alternate History About the Possibility of Utopia

57

Can You Fall in Love with ChatGPT?

58

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