Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchUNLOCKED: /497/ Are We Living in Fast Times? ft. James Hughes & Eli Sennesh
Episode 533
On technology, transhumanism, and progress.
James Hughes (Exec Director, Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies) and Eli Sennesh (postdoc, Va…
8 months, 1 week ago
/518/ We Have Never Been Postmodern ft. Geoff Shullenberger
Episode 532
On free speech, the tech right, and politicisation.
Geoff Shullenberger, managing editor at Compact, joins Alex and George to talk about Peter Thiel,…
8 months, 1 week ago
/517/ Wonders of the Modern World ft. Pier Paolo Tamburelli
Episode 531
On places of ritual.
Architect Pier Paolo Tamburelli talks to Alex about his project to catalogue modern wonders – structures that are very big, that…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
/516/ France's Two Peripheries: Riots and Insurrection ft. Fred Lyra
Episode 530
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 – t…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
/515/ State Capitalism Is Now ft. Ilias Alami
Episode 529
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 …
9 months ago
/514/ The Expressway World ft. Richard Williams
Episode 528
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 inf…
9 months, 1 week ago
/513/ Global Right: LATAM Division ft. Guilherme Casarões
Episode 527
On the Bolsonaros, Milei and MAGA.
Alex talks to Guilherme Casarões, Associate Professor of Brazilian Studies at Florida International University, ab…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
/512/ Reading Club: Middle-Class Dreams & Nightmares
Episode 526
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 dis…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
/511/ Britain's Tinderbox ft. Lisa McKenzie
Episode 525
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…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
/510/ Couch Potatoes to Screen Sausages ft. Ryan Zickgraf
Episode 524
On critiques of entertainment.
New contributing editor Ryan Zickgraf joins Alex and George to talk about the history of media critique and contempora…
9 months, 4 weeks ago