Stu
@stuwatson.bsky.social
Writer, artist, teacher, etc co-host of The End of the World with Michael and Stu https://linktr.ee/endoftheworldwithmichaelandstu
We did a podcast about the sudden proliferation of AI Apocalypse talk and what it could all be about: pod.link/1729431156/e...
138: I Reached Out for the One I Tried to Destroy
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New essay on the latest round of AI Apocalypticism and its origins in science fiction: cyberobservations.substack.com/p/on-the-ai-...
On the AI Apocalypse
Science Fiction and Misplaced Darwinism
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We did an American Psycho podcast on the verge of tears over whether or not we’d have a good table at Espace: pod.link/aHR0cHM6Ly9y...
137: I Can't Seem to Face Up to the Facts
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In my latest piece I offer a reading of American Psycho and Safe through the lens of cybernetics with a focus on Gregory Bateson’s conception of the mind’s enmeshment with its environment: cyberobservations.substack.com/p/the-indivi...
The Individual in the Environment
The Flattening of Personality in American Psycho and Safe
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New pod up on The Matrix and its cultural afterlife: open.spotify.com/episode/5CZv...
135: Over the Hill or Underland
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I'm thrilled to be launching Some Marvelous Experience today with this conversation with Josh Schneiderman and David Hobbs about their trip to see Nacny Holt's Sun Tunnels. I think it's an episode about having friends at the end of the world. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Sun Tunnels
Podcast Episode · Some Marvelous Experience · August 10 · 55m
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I have a new article up on the conceptual limitations of the tech singularity featuring Ray Kurzweil, Frankenstein, Wordsworth, Twin Peaks, and more: cyberobservations.substack.com/p/ray-kurzwe...
Ray Kurzweil's Intimations of Immortality
Thoughts on the Singularity and Romanticism
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As a longtime ancient literature teacher, Zeus’s Law demands I do a podcast on The Odyssey, and who am I to disobey Zeus? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
132: Sleep with One Eye Open
Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · August 4 · 56m
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New pod on the ills of social media and on a recent piece in Cosmonaut by Mathias Fuelling on technocracy, AI, and their advocates: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
131: The End of Laughter and Soft Lies
Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · July 28 · 1h 1m
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We did a pod on Spielberg and contrasted his “Close Encounters” with more contemporary visions of alien apocalypse: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...
130: When You Wish Upon a Star
Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · July 21 · 59m
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We did an episode on the failed utopian promise of the internet, discussing such figures as Al Gore, Astra Taylor, and Lawrence Lessig, among others, as we try to figure out what went wrong: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...
126: We're on the Highway to Hell
Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · June 23 · 1h
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New podcast on the great national catastrophe of our childhoods, the January 28, 1986 Challenger disaster and its aftermath: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
125: The Sky was the Limit
Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · June 16 · 1h 5m
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Finally, a 90 minute exploration of the last season of The Leftovers, concluding with a discussion of how the depiction of the "sudden departure" (and its consequences) in the show served as an eerie prophecy of the aftermath of the covid-19 pandemic: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...
121: Let the Mystery Be
Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · May 19 · 1h 29m
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Walked by Ron Carter entering the Blue Note earlier to play a set on his 89th birthday. The waiting patrons applauded and I had to stop and join in; incredible to run into a legend still walking among us.
New podcast on information glut in the Epstein Files, Moltbook fraud, and the commodification of the future: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
107: Some Things Take Forever
Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · 02/10/2026 · 53m
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New podcast on Bugonia and the recent horrors in Minneapolis: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
105: It could be an Illusion but I Might as well Try
Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · 01/27/2026 · 50m
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New pod on Eyes Wide Shut; we get into Freud, Schnitzler, Epstein, all the topics germane to Kubrick’s final picture: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
103: You are the Eyes of the World
Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · 01/13/2026 · 1h
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New podcast on the seizure of Maduro and the future of American foreign policy: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
102: God in His Wisdom Took you by the Hand
Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · 01/06/2026 · 46m
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We did our last episode of the year on Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, focusing particularly on Frederic Jameson’s brilliant analysis, “Historicism in ‘The Shining’ as well as the sharp psychoanalytic approach offered by Cale Brooks: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
101: You Crazy Diamond
Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · 12/30/2025 · 59m
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New podcast ep on dreadful non-classic I Am Legend. Lazy world building and incompetent protagonist behavior mar this showy disaster: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
99: Concrete Jungle
Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · 12/16/2025 · 52m
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New pod ep on the origins of Sam Altman and OpenAI. Harrowing, soul-destroying stuff here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
98: With Arms Wide Open
Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · 12/09/2025 · 57m
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been enjoying Middlemarch as a novel about why you shouldn’t marry H.P. Lovecraft
New pod up on the reaction to Zohran Mamdani’s election as New York City Mayor: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
94: New York is Now
Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · 11/11/2025 · 57m
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We watched and discussed Abel Ferrara’s 4:44 Last Day on Earth and found much that was enjoyable: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
93: Time I had Some Time Alone
Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · 11/04/2025 · 52m
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New pod up on Gattaca plus I do a startling Macron ventriloquism while we discuss the Louvre robbery: open.spotify.com/episode/1X41...
91: I'm Looking Through You
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My cohost and I BRUTALLY disagree about the wonderful film Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
89: Life is a Highway
Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · 10/07/2025 · 52m
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New podcast up on the possibility of AIRBORNE RABIES: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
88: What's in Your Head?
Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · 09/30/2025 · 45m
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On Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the film that anticipated and created many of the current anxieties about AI: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
85: On that Day the Dead Shall Wake Thee
Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · 09/09/2025 · 54m
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New pod ep on Ancient Egyptian ideas about the afterlife. Plus anecdotes about Reebok Pumps and brain-tormenting hypotheticals about life after death: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
83: A Brief History of the Afterlife Four Ancient Egypt
Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · 08/26/2025 · 50m
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