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  • EP 14- Papayas on the Moon- My Chat with Alejandro Glatt

    EP 14- Papayas on the Moon- My Chat with Alejandro Glatt
    2026/04/17
    In this episode of The Jewish futurism Lab, I sit down with Mexican artist and papaya visionary Alejandro Glatt, the first Mexican artist to send a papaya to the Moon as part of the Lunaprise art museum project connected to NASA’s Artemis missions. Recorded on the day of the Artemis II launch, our conversation weaves together Jewish […]
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    35 分
  • Episode 13: How a Jewish Immigrant Named Hugo Created Sci-Fi

    Episode 13: How a Jewish Immigrant Named Hugo Created Sci-Fi
    2026/04/10
    Before science fiction was a genre, Hugo Gernsback was already building the infrastructure for it: radio magazines, hobbyist communities, wild speculative stories, and the first publication devoted entirely to imagining tomorrow. A Jewish immigrant from Luxembourg, he launched Amazing Stories in 1926 and quietly trained a generation of readers and writers to think in futures, […]
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    27 分
  • Episode 12: Professors, Dads, and the Jewish future with Shai Davidai

    Episode 12: Professors, Dads, and the Jewish future with Shai Davidai
    2026/04/03
    In this episode of The Jewish Futurism Lab, Mike Wirth sits down with Shai Davidai, the Israeli‑born social psychologist and former Columbia Business School professor who became a prominent voice for Jewish students after October 7. Together they trace Shai’s journey from secular Israeli kid to public Jewish advocate, unpack what really happened for him […]
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    43 分
  • Episode 11: Jews, AI, and the Real Meaning of “Creative”

    Episode 11: Jews, AI, and the Real Meaning of “Creative”
    2026/03/27
    In this episode of The Jewish futurism Lab, Mike Wirth uses the 4C model of creativity to map out what we really mean by “creative” in an age of AI art and endless images. He traces his own journey from parametric code experiments to Jewish futurist murals, then layers in Jewish history, exile, and the […]
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    29 分
  • Episode 10 – From Utopia to Conspiracy: The Secret Battle Over Jewish Futures

    Episode 10 – From Utopia to Conspiracy: The Secret Battle Over Jewish Futures
    2026/03/20
    In this episode of The Jewish futurism Lab, Jewish futurist and we’ll explore early Jewish futurism, Zionist art, and media history through Theodor Herzl’s Altneuland, Ephraim Moses Lilien’s Zionist Art Nouveau, and Boris Schatz’s Bezalel School in Jerusalem. He contrasts these utopian blueprints and design prototypes with the antisemitic hoax The Protocols of the Elders […]
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    30 分
  • Episode 9: From Cult to Code: Tracing the History of the Aura in Art

    Episode 9: From Cult to Code: Tracing the History of the Aura in Art
    2026/03/13
    Walter Benjamin, AI, & the Aura of Art: In this episode of The Jewish futurism Lab, host Mike Wirth unpacks Walter Benjamin’s “aura” of art and asks what presence means when every image can be copied, remixed, and generated on demand. Moving from Byzantine icons and ritual objects to photography, social media, NFTs, and AI […]
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    26 分
  • Episode 8: Speed Kills : Why Every futurist must confront the past

    Episode 8: Speed Kills : Why Every futurist must confront the past
    2026/03/06
    In this episode, we confront the rise and collapse of Italian Futurism, the avant garde movement that worshiped speed, technology, youth, and rupture at any cost. What began as radical artistic rebellion under Filippo Tommaso Marinetti quickly blurred into nationalism and ultimately aligned itself with fascism. So what went wrong? We examine how aesthetic obsession […]
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    37 分
  • Episode 7: ADHD, Design, and Jewish futures with Alex Duchene

    Episode 7: ADHD, Design, and Jewish futures with Alex Duchene
    2026/02/27
    In this episode of The Jewish futurism Lab, Jewish futurist and community artist Mike Wirth sits down with graphic designer Alex Duchene to explore what it means to be a neurodivergent, Jewish creative. They talk about ADHD “neuro spicey super powers,” how neurodivergence shapes their design practice, and why stories are the throughline that connects their […]
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    51 分