The Lord of the Rings in Contemporary Culture: The Anti-Machine Machine

Crisis in Perception · Jun 4, 2026 · 40m

Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

This episode explores The Lord of the Rings in Contemporary Culture by Ernest Mathijs and Murray Pomerance as a systems-level analysis of digital production, global media systems, and technological culture.

The discussion examines:

• incentive structures

• institutional persistence

• feedback loops

• hidden system dynamics

• structural outcomes

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