Gwyneth Paltrow and Kara Swisher on Silicon Valley
By Wim Langedijk for HURS
Gwyneth Paltrow and Kara Swisher on Silicon Valley
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A Conversation with Eileen Myles
In Marfa, Texas, poet Eileen Myles reflects on solitude, desire, politics, love, and mortality with characteristic wit and candor. Speaking from their self-designed “fortress of solitude,” Myles discusses building a life beyond relationships, the pull between New York and the desert, artistic minimalism, queer identity, activism, and writing as a form of expansive attention. The conversation moves fluidly between childhood, creative process, community, grief, and the strange intimacy of aging.
APARTAMENTO
Gwyneth Paltrow speaks with veteran tech journalist Kara Swisher about Silicon Valley’s outsized influence on modern life, from AI’s rapid integration into everyday culture to the increasingly blurred lines between technology and politics. The conversation also explores Swisher’s new series, Kara Swisher Wants to Live Forever, which examines the promises, contradictions, and commercialization driving today’s booming longevity industry.
THE GOOP PODCAST
Ahead of representing Britain at the 2026 Venice Biennale, artist Lubaina Himid reflects on the contradictions of British identity and the lasting effects of colonialism. Her exhibition, Predicting History: Testing Translation, creates an immersive, unsettled atmosphere where viewers navigate questions of migration, belonging, and memory. Speaking from decades of artistic and political engagement, Himid considers collaboration, cultural change, and the growing momentum of younger generations reshaping institutions on their own terms.
FRIEZE
Andréa Becker examines the internet’s growing obsession with ovulation and “natural” menstrual cycles, tracing how wellness influencers frame hormones as both empowering and essential to femininity. While acknowledging the real physical and emotional effects of hormonal shifts, Becker argues that online rhetoric often exaggerates them while demonizing hormonal birth control. The piece explores how this trend intersects with conservative gender politics, medical distrust, and long-standing ideas about women as biologically unstable or “closer to nature.”
THE ATLANTIC
Comedian and writer Robby Hoffman reflects on style, class, religion, and ambition through the objects that shape her life, from her “world’s worst Rolex” to vintage cars, Burberry scarves, and a prized Porsche inherited emotionally from her absent father. Moving between humour and vulnerability, Hoffman discusses growing up poor in a Hasidic family, her relationship with wife Gabby Windey, collecting meaningful objects, and why she still approaches luxury with both calculation and delight.