Doomscroll: Trevor Paglen

Episode #05 of the Doomscroll show features artist and geographer Trevor Paglen, whose work the host says links new technologies to largely hidden political issues. The discussion covers the CIA's history with magic and mind hacking, the emerging idea of "psyops capitalism" as an extractive media environment that generates individualized content from user inputs, and early UFO reports and disinformation as an analogy for social media today. The show is listener supported, and the episode is titled "Mind Hacking, AI and Psyops Capitalism."