https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-qsttn-19b0fcd On technology, transhumanism, and progress. James Hughes (Exec Director, Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies) and Eli Sennesh (postdoc, Vanderbilt) present a futurist approach to Alex and contributing editor Leigh Phillips. What is wrong with the acronym TESCREAL? Why…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-2yciw-19add32 On free speech, the tech right, and politicisation. Geoff Shullenberger, managing editor at Compact, joins Alex and George to talk about Peter Thiel, René Girard, victimhood and the antichrist. Does it make sense to talk of "right-wing cancel culture"?…
Read More /518/ We Have Never Been Postmodern ft. Geoff Shullenberger
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-dmktd-19a6bc6 On places of ritual. Architect Pier Paolo Tamburelli talks to Alex about his project to catalogue modern wonders – structures that are very big, that pretend to be ancient, and are mostly ugly. For the full episode subscribe at…
Read More /517/ Wonders of the Modern World ft. Pier Paolo Tamburelli
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-tnags-199c0d1 On 20 years since the 2005 riots. Fred Lyra, philosopher and musicologist based in Paris, joins Alex to talk about France through 4 moments: 1995 – the last moment of classic class struggle; 2005 – riots in the banlieues;…
Read More /416/ France’s Two Peripheries: Riots and Insurrection ft. Fred Lyra
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-9cnte-1991c20 On the weakness of state and capital – and their fusion. Ilias Alami joins Alex and Lee to talk about his essential co-authored book, The Spectre of State Capitalism. Why is state capitalism not just a China story, but…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-x5y6m-1986e1f On living with modernity. Richard J Williams talks to Alex and George about his new book, The Expressway World and how cities have adapted to the infrastructural legacies of the mid-20th century. We talk about New York, London, São…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-zvegy-197c17f On the Bolsonaros, Milei and MAGA. Alex talks to Guilherme Casarões, Associate Professor of Brazilian Studies at Florida International University, about Bolsonaro's sentencing, Trump's tariffs on Brazil, and the bailout of Milei. Is the motivation behind the tariffs on…
Read More /513/ Global Right: LATAM Division ft. Guilherme Casarões
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-24ps9-19774f8 On Göran Therborn's article, "Dreams and Nightmares of the World's Middle Classes". The penultimate episode of this block on the middle class, we discuss the differing fortunes and politics of the global North and South middle-classes – as well…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-gfy98-1971999 On the UK's working-class unrest. Sociologist Lisa McKenzie talks to Alex and contributing editor Lee Jones about why the country feels like a powder-keg. What's behind protests like Unite the Kingdom? How responsible are far-right agitators? Why are threats…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6ys53-1967605 On critiques of entertainment. New contributing editor Ryan Zickgraf joins Alex and George to talk about the history of media critique and contemporary cases. How does consensus-age comedy like King of the Hill deal with hyperpolitics today? Is the…
Read More /510/ Couch Potatoes to Screen Sausages ft. Ryan Zickgraf
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