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

It’s The Pop Culture Professors, and today we analyze the new movie 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. A parable of humanism and dehumanization centered on two charismatic leaders, the movie hits its marks intellectually and aesthetically. We consider its themes and ideas, and ask ...  Show more

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The Friends of Attention, "Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement" (Crown, 2026)

“You are correct: something is seriously wrong.” So begins Attensity: A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement (Crown, 2026) written by members of the friends of attention collective. That something is that our attention, and it is being captured and commodified by corpo ...  Show more

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