{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthe-unruly-muse.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fthe-machine-pTXcu6LP","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"The Machine","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/a9c2ad3e-7ed1-47e0-ab2c-5ab1a4519c65/b67f9dc9-ed0b-4011-b340-c31f9cb964ae/air-fish.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/3caa54fc-4a8a-41a6-9ada-cfecd9be6f89\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"The Machine\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"The Unrulies ponder the role of machines in our lives, from the simple lever to the wheel and beyond. Through poems, fiction, songs and patter we explore humanity’s reliance on machines to keep us alive, for convenience, for new knowledge and also the risks that they pose. We leapfrog from cars and droids to climate disaster, nuclear accidents and A.I. Who is driving who, the humans or the machines? Hopefully the world will stay in its orbit in any case. To paraphrase Marshall McLuhan, yesterday’s machines and technologies become today’s art. Look around you to see the wonder of the machines you live with and exclaim “That’s a Rembrandt!”"}