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296 episodis

  1. Elna Tulus - Instant Noodles, Ultra-Processed Food, and Gastro-Capitalism 33:53
  2. How Speed, LSD, and MK Ultra Gave Birth to the Chemical Imbalance Theory 1:59:11
  3. E268 - A Modern History of Assassination w/ Simon Ball 1:09:17
  4. New Thinking: The Assetocracy w/ Huw Macartney 50:16
  5. Anny Gaul on Nile Nightshade: An Egyptian Culinary History of the Tomato 1:04:47
  6. Mules, Arsenic, and Sesame: Untold Black History in the Americas 46:09
  7. Cultural Resistance to Data World and Managed Despair / Curtis White 1:58:03
  8. Immigration Control as Counterinsurgency 31:47
  9. 116 - Between FinTech and Far-Right I: Placing Debt in a New Conjuncture 1:00:11
  10. Pentagon Capitalism: How the Cold War US Military Modeled Itself on Private Business with AJ Murphy 39:31
  11. The Collapse of Modernity | William Rees 1:40:07
  12. Michel Foucault and Power 51:06
  13. THE AGE OF THE OLIGARCHS 53:00
  14. Too Much Computer: Ingrid Burrington discusses Hyperscale with Paris Marx 1:00:11
  15. How Fredric Jameson became Fredric Jameson 53:25
  16. Yongjin Zhang on Chinese World Ordering 54:54
  17. Ghosts of Bandung: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Derek Ide 1:34:45
  18. Global South Redux w/ Ravinder Kaur 36:38
  19. Stateless Nations – Wales, Catalonia, and the Mezzogiorno 24:38
  20. Authors Meet Critics: "Demos: How the People Ruled Athens" by Daniela Cammack 1:10:36
  21. Amitav Ghosh and Luke Kemp on learning from collapsed empires 54:35
  22. The Paradox of Mining Lithium to Save the Planet | The Spill 1:03:04
  23. The Inner Life of Paris with Chloe Summers Edmondson 50:54
  24. S04E15 - Holly Jean Buck on Emerging Technologies and Managing Decline 1:11:32
  25. Athanasios Gkoutzioulis on Hegel and International Relations 42:00
  26. Housing Is a Market Power Problem (with Sandeep Vaheesan & Brian Callaci) 42:17
  27. Silicon Empires: How Big Tech Is Re-Mapping Geopolitics and Labor with Nick Srnicek 1:31:44
  28. The History of Transhumanism: Silicon Valley 56:35
  29. 02 | Unsteady State | Who owns Antarctica? 34:49
  30. The battery revolution 26:28
  31. The Psychology of Empire and Resistance with Lara Sheehi 1:27:24
  32. Ep. 37: What China’s Writing with Na Zhong 35:03
  33. Working Class Weird: The Fall & post-Punk with David Wilkinson 1:34:03
  34. "Empire of Orgasm" with Ellen Huet 44:21
  35. Sophie Lewis & Keiran Goddard: Femmephilia 1:11:34
  36. A Rhetorical History of Modern Money Theory with John T. Harvey 1:21:13
  37. Palantir and the art of Tax Avoidance 31:07
  38. Fabulous, Beautiful Debt 59:18
  39. From Barefoot Doctors to Biologics: Dr. Ruby Wang on China's Healthcare Revolution 1:25:07
  40. 477. Amerikkka Intelligence 1:17:03
  41. An Alternative History of the Microphone 47:19
  42. Naomi Klein: Let the End Times Roll 1:29:53
  43. The Obama Center as a Tomb of Neoliberalism w/ Kate Wagner 20:37
  44. Part Two: Autistici/Inventati and the Fight for the Autonomous Internet 38:54
  45. Strong State, Weak Links: Eugenics and the Southern Politics of Welfare with Anna Krome-Lukens (UNC Press, 2026) 52:42
  46. An Ageing World: Simone de Beauvoir on Old Age 54:08
  47. How to Defeat Authoritarianism | Augusto Pinochet's Chile 54:09
  48. Pop Culture Against the Machine 26:10
  49. The Cultural Cold War: Folk Music and Communism w/ Carsie Blanton 1:25:11
  50. The Dark World: Exploring Ballardian Dystopias in Climate Fiction 58:29