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From cut-ups to cosmic horror, Chase Griffin navigates the mediated world, AI, and technosingularities with humor, insight, and a hallucinatory sense of what it means to confront the future.

From technopaganism to simulation theory, Shira Chess reveals how occult ideas quietly shaped digital culture and why the internet has always been stranger, darker, and more intentional than it appears.

From cover-band detours to literary pilgrimages, this retrospective traces Philip K. Dick’s legacy through conversations with devotees who see alienation, paranoia, and brilliance not as flaws but connective tissue.

In Part 2, Tony Parisi dissects AI music’s strange promise: liberation for artists, dependence on platforms, and a growing sea of profitable slop.

Is crypto still the rebel’s playground, or has it been tamed by the mainstream? Gordon Grant unpacks the madness of memes, state-backed coins, and the shifting crypto ethos.