Baffler Symposium

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Brain Rot Without Borders

Baffler Symposium

(

Nicolás Medina Mora, Zhang Yueran, Jeremy Tiang, Kim Hyesoon, Alain Mabanckou, Yassin Adnan, Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin, Valeria Villalobos Guízar, Annette Hug

)

October 27, 2025

Issue no. 81

A forum on brain rot across the globe.

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Must Something Be Done?

Baffler Symposium

(

Joshua Craze, Michael Barnett, Alex de Waal, Musab Younis, Miriam Ticktin, Hong (Stella) Zhang

)

November 6, 2023

Issue no. 71

Can humanitarianism be reformed?