• A conversation on technology and writing between Nayyirah Waheed and. The writer and singer-songwriter-producer discuss impending technology and the future of writing.

    A conversation on debut filmmaking and bearing your soul between Celine Song and Eva Victor, the powerhouse filmmakers behind two of this summer's best movies, Materialists and Sorry, Baby.

    Topics covered include: Martini celebrations, hydration regimens, learning the true meaning of the word 'release,' feeling visible but not seen, bringing your whole humanity to the words on a page, sharing an editor with Terrence Malick, the Mother/Sister/Daughter theory, the subtle differences between directing Pedro Pascal. Chris Evans and and Dakota Johnson, alleviating grief by thinking about The Next Thing, desperately needing sleep, Celine going straight from the Oscars to the first Materialists scout, Eva's intricate process directing a movie they also acted in, sparring of ideas, committing to subjectivity, and having bangs.

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    Eva Victor: And I'm Eva Victor, and this is the A24 podcast. Wait, why did I nail it? Are we doing it right now?

    Celine Song: I think we're doing it right now.

    Eva Victor: That's so awesome because it was such a seamless transition. You wouldn't even know we were doing a podcast.

    Loving Technologies/ Loving Technology‘s‘s‘s

    2026

    The Year Is One Night.

    It’s the night before the A.I. Revolution. (On the eve of the A.I. Revolution). We are literally on the line/in the breath before the quantum/ in the second before a new being appears in the universe. We are simultaneously being born and dying — Excited and silent— as technology breaks us in 2/ then 4/ then 8/ then trillions.

    What can we say? with breath that is crystallizing faster than a thought.

    What can we do? with one action? one action that is now just ‘one action‘ in trillions and trillions and trilllions of actions happening everywhere. Eyes all over our bodies — we see images > images > images at the speed of light. our brains are breaking open into somewhere else.

    It‘s the night before the going. because we are going. We are going Into this thing.

    Technologies Love Us. (On the night before this impending technological revolution — this thought may not be our first thought.) As we light speed into THE UNKNOWN NIGHT what if our thoughts included — thoughts of love and technology. What if we began thinking about loving technologies. About technologies that love us. Let‘s begin tonight — our last night as the self we know/as the world we know — to explore new ways of seeing of what is hurtling towards us. What if we explored:

    LOVING TECHNOLOGY

    (TECHNOLOGY THAT IS LOVING)

    OUR LOVING TECHNOLOGY

    OUR TECHNOLOGIES THAT LOVE US

    TECHNOLOGY

    WHICH IS HERE

    WITH THE INTENTION OF LOVE

    TECHNOLOGY THAT WE LOVE (IN RETURN)

    Loving Technology‘s | Loving Technologies

    Technology‘s that Love Us. There are technologies that love Us. There Must be technologies that love us. More Technolgies that love Us. There are Trillions of Technologies that Love Us

    As technology opens wonders and horrors — for us Here (on this specific planet), we are overcome with

    beauty and pain. We are becoming ( new and undone) As Beings On A Planet.

    (Technology is new and not new. It has been here before and is arriving for the first time. It leaves. It arrives. It returns. It is not linear. it disappears and reappears.)…

    THROW SOME LINES FROM — ‘NOTES’ POEMS — CLEAN IT UP / PUT IN QUICK SNAPPY FRESH ORDER + SEND IT OUT

    LET‘S STAY FOCUSED ON THE ESSAY — ON THE TOPIC — ASKING EACH OTHER QUESTIONS BACK AND FORTH — IN REGARDS TO THE TOPIC — WE CAN GO ANYWHERE — JUSY HAVE TO STAY FOCUSED/ KEEP RETURNING TO TOPIC /ON TOPIC

    DO SOME BEAT / QUESTIONS — KEEPING CONVO ON TRACK

    NAYYIRAH WAHEED:

    WHEN YOU HEAR LOVING TECHNOLOGIES OR TECHNOLOGIES THAT LOVE US — WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE TO YOU?

    The Loving Technologies

    Technologies are arriving. Technologies are leaving. Technologies are Returning.

    Loving Technology‘s | Loving Technologies

    We must have technology‘s that love us.

    We will be discussing impending technology and the future of writing as a writer and singer-songwriter.