ArtiFact #34: A Climate Activist Dissects Ted Kaczynski’s Manifesto | Arnold Schroder, Alex Sheremet
After embarking on a two-decade terrorist campaign of mail bombs, Ted Kaczynski forced the Washington Post to publish “Industrial Society And Its Future”, or, the Unabomber Manifesto, in 1995. This wa...
23 Dec 20221h 59min
ArtiFact #33: Norman Finkelstein Speaks With Palestinian Refugees On Nakba, Gaza, The First & Second Intifada, Oslo, & Their Memories Of War
Although Israelis view the events of 1948 as liberation, to Palestinians, this was “Nakba”, or “disaster”. According to Israeli historian Benny Morris, the events of those first few years were tantamo...
6 Dec 20222h 34min
ArtiFact #32: Terminator vs. Terminator 2 - Judgment Day | Ethan Pinch, J. Schneider, A. Sheremet
James Cameron's "Terminator" film series combines the best of Hollywood while remaining unburdened by its convention and cliche. In “Terminator” (1984), Cameron casts an apparently reluctant Arnold Sc...
28 Sep 20221h 34min
ArtiFact #31 – Ryusuke Hamaguchi & Orientalism | Ezekiel Yu, Alex Sheremet
Although Ryusuke Hamaguchi has been a well-known Japanese film director for some time, it was only with 2021’s Drive My Car that his name entered the West. In ArtiFact #31, Alex Sheremet and Ezekiel Y...
29 Aug 20221h 46min
ArtiFact #30: The Dumbest Things Elon Musk Has Ever Said | Alex Sheremet, Dan Schneider
Elon Musk is a South African entrepreneur who has recently entered America’s cultural (and political) wars. Celebrated by Joe Rogan and Sam Harris, Elon Musk has carved out a level of celebrity most C...
28 Aug 20221h 48min
ArtiFact #29: Abortion, Roe v. Wade, & The Constitution | Alex Sheremet, Dan Schneider
Roe v. Wade was overturned June 2022 by way of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a decision that was decades in the making, yet little prepared-for. At Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s confirmation h...
22 Aug 20221h 53min
ArtiFact #28: Richard Linklater’s BEFORE Trilogy | Jessica Schneider, Alex Sheremet
American filmmaker Richard Linklater occupies the space between Hollywood and the indie film scene, combining some of Hollywood’s refinements with unexpected inversions and sleights of hand. Perhaps b...
14 Aug 20221h 22min
ArtiFact #27: Thomas Pynchon vs. Kurt Vonnegut | Joel Parrish, Alex Sheremet
Published just a few years after Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five”, Thomas Pynchon’s “Gravity’s Rainbow” uses many of Vonnegut’s postmodern literary techniques: serpentine plots, anchoring phrases...
15 Maj 20223h 22min
