Cosmopolitan Currents
Hirbod Human
Cosmopolitan Currents is a curated audio archive of lectures, conversations, and critical reflections on culture in its broad global sense. Crossing disciplinary and geographic boundaries, the podcast brings together voices from philosophy, the arts, humanities, and social thought to explore how culture shapes—and is shaped by—our aesthetic, political, ethical, and embodied lives.
Produced and directed by Hirbod Human, Cosmopolitan Currents is a project of The Center for Cosmopolitan Culture, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting intercultural understanding, resisting nationalist chauvinism, and contributing to global harmony through critical and creative cultural engagement. The Center was founded by the renowned philosopher Dr. Richard Shusterman, whose pioneering work in somaesthetics has influenced cross-disciplinary conversations on art, identity, and lived experience around the