Vital Thought is an edtech startup providing humanities insight from PhD trained experts in real time. We specialize in contemporary theory, cultural literacy, and tech ethics. Platform beta testing is underway.

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Interviewed on Digital Void by founders Jamie Cohen--digital culture expert, Vital Thought instructor and advisor, and Professor at Queens College; and Josh Chapdelaine--Producer at Team Human, and Special Projects Manager at All Tech Is Human. Listen here.

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Instagram Live with Sophia Basaldua-Sun: Associate Director of DEI at Penguin Random House; Vital Thought Instructor and advisor; and the scholarly influencer behind @themetropolitanist. Watch here.

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Sustainable Urban Horticulture: I'm currently consulting on brand and growth strategy while apprenticing with the Master Gardener behind Green Bey Gardens NYC.

Researching: I have been tracking and synthesizing insights from a range of interdiciplinary and cross industry sources for over 15 years. I focus particularly on: science & technology studies, cognitive science, sustainability, consciousness studies, existential phenomenology, and psychoanalytic deconstruction, market trends, ecological & landscape change and management, higher education, the responsible tech industry, art & design, activism and social movements, alt economies, media, material and experiential culture and subculture on and off the internet.

Writing: My doctoral research in Cultural Analysis & Theory analyzes the history and psychology of technoindustrial power in relation to the climate crisis.

Painting: My visual work is influenced by themes in my research: materiality, vitality, and the tension of the nature/culture relation. 

Consulting: I provide guidance for special research initiatives, small organization growth, experiential analysis, and aesthetic and cultural strategy. Schedule a consultation by email at [email protected], subject heading "meet 1", or use the link below.