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Stu

@stuwatson.bsky.social

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Writer, artist, teacher, etc co-host of The End of the World with Michael and Stu linktr.ee/endoftheworldwithmichaela…

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Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I wrote an essay in Anton Jäger’s Hyperpolitics looking at his periodization of the recent past, his angle on the Trump Fascism question, and analyzing his resonances with Mark Fisher’s melancholy: cyberobservations.substack.com/p/on-hyperpo...

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On Hyperpolitics

Anton Jäger’s Diagnosis of our Political Moment

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David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

celebrate another morning in Hell by listening to @stuwatson.bsky.social + Michael discuss Baudrillard’s “America”: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

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140: I Dream of Rain

Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · September 29 · 1h 4m

Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Finally, 40 years later, a podcast about Baudrillard’s America: pod.link/1729431156/e...

140: I Dream of Rain

Listen to 140: I Dream of Rain from The End of the World with Michael and Stu wherever you get your podcasts!

Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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

Listen to 138: I Reached Out for the One I Tried to Destroy from The End of the World with Michael and Stu wherever you get your podcasts!

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Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

New essay on the latest round of AI Apocalypticism and its origins in science fiction: cyberobservations.substack.com/p/on-the-ai-...

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On the AI Apocalypse

Science Fiction and Misplaced Darwinism

Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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

Listen to 137: I Can't Seem to Face Up to the Facts from The End of the World with Michael and Stu wherever you get your podcasts!

Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

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...

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The Individual in the Environment

The Flattening of Personality in American Psycho and Safe

Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

New pod up on The Matrix and its cultural afterlife: open.spotify.com/episode/5CZv...

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135: Over the Hill or Underland

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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

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...

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Podcast Episode · Some Marvelous Experience · August 10 · 55m

Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

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...

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Ray Kurzweil's Intimations of Immortality

Thoughts on the Singularity and Romanticism

Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

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...

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132: Sleep with One Eye Open

Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · August 4 · 56m

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Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

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...

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131: The End of Laughter and Soft Lies

Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · July 28 · 1h 1m

Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

We did a pod on Spielberg and contrasted his “Close Encounters” with more contemporary visions of alien apocalypse: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...

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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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Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

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...

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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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Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

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...

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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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Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

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...

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121: Let the Mystery Be

Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · May 19 · 1h 29m

Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

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.

Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

New podcast on information glut in the Epstein Files, Moltbook fraud, and the commodification of the future: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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107: Some Things Take Forever

Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · 02/10/2026 · 53m

Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

New podcast on Bugonia and the recent horrors in Minneapolis: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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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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Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

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...

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103: You are the Eyes of the World

Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · 01/13/2026 · 1h

Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

New podcast on the seizure of Maduro and the future of American foreign policy: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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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

Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

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...

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101: You Crazy Diamond

Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · 12/30/2025 · 59m

Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

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...

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99: Concrete Jungle

Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · 12/16/2025 · 52m

Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

New pod ep on the origins of Sam Altman and OpenAI. Harrowing, soul-destroying stuff here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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98: With Arms Wide Open

Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · 12/09/2025 · 57m

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David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

been enjoying Middlemarch as a novel about why you shouldn’t marry H.P. Lovecraft

an excerpt from Chapter 49 of Middlemarch by George Eliot:

“Well, you know, Casaubon was a little twisted about Ladislaw. Ladislaw has told me the reason—dislike of the bent he took, you know—Ladislaw didn’t think much of Casaubon’s notions, Thoth and Dagon—that sort of thing: and I fancy that Casaubon didn’t like the independent position Ladislaw had taken up. I saw the letters between them, you know. Poor Casaubon was a little buried in books—he didn’t know the world.”

Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

New pod up on the reaction to Zohran Mamdani’s election as New York City Mayor: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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94: New York is Now

Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · 11/11/2025 · 57m

Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

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...

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93: Time I had Some Time Alone

Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · 11/04/2025 · 52m

Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

New pod up on Gattaca plus I do a startling Macron ventriloquism while we discuss the Louvre robbery: open.spotify.com/episode/1X41...

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91: I'm Looking Through You

Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

My cohost and I BRUTALLY disagree about the wonderful film Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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89: Life is a Highway

Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · 10/07/2025 · 52m

Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

New podcast up on the possibility of AIRBORNE RABIES: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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88: What's in Your Head?

Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · 09/30/2025 · 45m

Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

New pod ep on Triangle of Sadness: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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86: How Can I Bring You to the Sea of Madness

Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · 09/16/2025 · 50m

Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

On Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the film that anticipated and created many of the current anxieties about AI: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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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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Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

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...

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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

Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Grab the bull by the…antlers?! www.buzzsprout.com/2309859/epis...

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Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

A Brief History of the Afterlife Part Three: the Epic of Gilgamesh, Mesopotamian afterlife, and the quest for immortality: open.spotify.com/episode/7w4f...

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82: A Brief History of the Afterlife Three

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Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

New podcast on prehistoric ideas of the afterlife, featuring discussions of Neanderthal and Denisovans, cave art, grave goods, Göbekli Tepe, and so much more: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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81: A Brief History of the Afterlife Two

Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · 08/12/2025 · 52m

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Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

New pod on Albert Brooks’s Defending Your Life: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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80: A Brief History of the Afterlife One

Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · 08/05/2025 · 53m

Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

New pod ep on how belief in chemtrails allows people to avoid accepting the reality of human-influenced climate change, with forays into Wilhelm Reich and Naomi Wolf: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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79: I Still Dream of Orgonon

Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · 07/29/2025 · 48m

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Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

There should be a name for that feeling you get when drinking a liquid and you suddenly realize there is something solid (and unexpected) floating in said liquid as it enters your mouth. Something more specific than "total horror."

Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

New pod on 28 Days Later focusing on its roots in British Romanticism and its overlap with out collective experience of Covid lockdowns: open.spotify.com/episode/0ExT...

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75: The Days Are Long And the Nights Will Throw You Away

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Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

New pod on billionaires’ brains and ludicrous tech utopianism. Plus I make a coveted reference to William Shatner’s Tek War: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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74: Mickey Mouse Has Grown Up A Cow

Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · 06/24/2025 · 54m

Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Made a letterboxd list of all the movies we've covered on the pod so far: letterboxd.com/tiresias2099...

The End of the World with Michael and Stu

A list of all the movies covered by the podcast The End of the World with Michael and Stu. This covers the first seventy five episodes, to be updated periodically.

Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

“Self-Portrait 6-20-25”

Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

New pod up on the introductory Battlestar Galactica miniseries: open.spotify.com/episode/68dt...

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73: They're Programmed To Destroy Us

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Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

“The Grimace”

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Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

New podcast on R.U.R., the 1920 Czech play that coined the word “robot”: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · 06/10/2025 · 57m

Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

“Unfolding”

Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

New pod on ETA Hoffman’s brilliant short story, “Der Sandmann”: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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70: Bring Me A Dream

Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · 05/27/2025 · 1h 1m

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Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

“The Clouds of Knowledge”

Stu @stuwatson.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

“Pantomime”