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
ArtiFact #26: Hermann Hesse’s ”Steppenwolf” | Joel Parrish, Alex Sheremet
In Herman Hesse’s “Steppenwolf”, we get a dense text which draws on various philosophical traditions in service of richly characterizing its protagonist, Harry Haller. What does Haller think and why? ...
15 Maj 20223h 6min
ArtiFact #25: Photography From Josef Sudek To Laura Makabresku | Joel Parrish, Alex Sheremet
In ArtiFact #20, Joel Parrish and Alex Sheremet went through the history of photography from Louis Daguerre (the creator of the daguerreotype) to contemporary photographers. In ArtiFact #25, there are...
15 Maj 20225h 1min
ArtiFact #24: Kurt Vonnegut’s “Bluebeard” | Ethan Pinch, Alex Sheremet
Although considered one of Kurt Vonnegut’s minor works, 1987’s BLUEBEARD is an interesting novel that covers some fresh territory for the author. It follows the life and work of Rabo Karabekian, the s...
24 Feb 20223h 34min
ArtiFact #23: Sciolism & Sciolists – Jordan B. Peterson, Christopher Langan, Athena Walker & Quora Experts | Alex Sheremet, Dan Schneider
Just as television eventually gave way to mass adoption and lowest common denominator programming, the Internet, once niche, has given a means for narcissists, sciolists, and other bad actors to carve...
1 Feb 20225h 49min
