Wake Island explores the darkening undercurrents of contemporary culture, from technology and AI to mythology and media, including Landfall, a series on my own journey from media to becoming an EMT.
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Landfall No. 2: Promenade
Landfall is a real-time record of leaving twenty years in media to work in EMS.
For the last twenty years, I worked with images. I was a photo editor at TIME and the Daily Mail. I worked in global editorial photo licensing, managing the di...
Falling Out of the Frame with Gideon Jacobs
Our guest today is Gideon Jacobs, a writer, performer and artist. I actually met Gideon over ten years ago when he was the creative director at Magnum and I was a photo editor at TIME. We were both working inside institutions built around p...
Evil: A Study of Lost Techniques with Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh
Wake Island is back. It’s been a long hiatus, a lot of life changes and transitions… the usual upheavals that seem to have hit everyone over the last year or so.
We’re kicking things off with past guest of the show, Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh,...
Landfall No. 1: Dirty Rain
For the last twenty years, I worked with images. I was a photo editor at TIME and the Daily Mail. I worked in global editorial photo licensing, managing the distribution of breaking news and event photography to media outlets around the wor...
Teodor Mitew: Complexity, Collapse & the Myth of the Future
Today’s guest is Dr. Teodor Mitew. He’s a systems thinker, historian, and digital media scholar at the University of Sydney, and the author of a new book called The Red Queen Trap: Complexity, Collapse, and the Myth of the Future, along w...
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Wake Island is a friendly ghost in the haunted house of the internet. Hosts David Leo Rice and Paul K explore the darkening undercurrents of contemporary culture, where technology, mythology, media, photography, AI, and fiction overlap.
I'm a writer of dark and surreal fiction from Northampton, MA. My novels include The Berlin Wall, A Room in Dodge City, A Room in Dodge City Vol. 2, ANGEL HOUSE, The New House, Drifter: Stories, and The Squimbop Condition.
student of history｜systems noticer｜latent archeofuturism
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