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Eric Zemmour and the mainstreaming of the French far-right w/ Sebastian Budgen
Sebastian Budgen joins PTO to talk about the rise of Eric Zemmour - the new star of the French far right and a candidate in April's presidential elec…
4 years, 5 months ago
Excerpt - The Omicron wave w/ Richard Seymour
Richard Seymour returns to PTO to talk about the omicron variant and why he believes Covid19 will be a crisis of a decade, rather than years. We also…
4 years, 6 months ago
Jason Hickel on how degrowth will save the world (part two)
Jason Hickel returns to PTO for the second part of a two part interview on his book, Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World. We talked about …
4 years, 6 months ago
Excerpt - Will Davies on whether Boris Johnson's days as PM are numbered
Boris Johnson's grip on power seems more precarious than at any other point during his time in office. PTO spoke to Will Davies about whether we're a…
4 years, 6 months ago
Coming of age at the end of history w/ Lea Ypi
Lea Ypi joins PTO to talk about her new book Free: Coming of Age at the End of History. It tells Lea's story of growing up in Stalinist Albania, the …
4 years, 6 months ago
Excerpt - Richard Seymour responds to listener's questions (part two)
Part two of Richard Seymour responding to listener's questions, including on Amia Srinivasan's work, and also on critiques of psychoanalysis - a prac…
4 years, 7 months ago
Jason Hickel on how degrowth will save the world (part one)
Jason Hickel joins PTO to talk about his book, Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World. In part one of the interview we discussed the comprehe…
4 years, 7 months ago
Excerpt - Richard Seymour responds to listener's questions
Richard Seymour, who was recently on the show to discuss supply chains and the ecological crisis, returns to respond to the excellent questions sent…
4 years, 7 months ago
Neither artificial nor intelligent - Kate Crawford on AI
Kate Crawford joins PTO to talk about her book, Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. We talked about why…
4 years, 7 months ago
Excerpt - Richard Seymour on the UK's new Covid wave
Richard Seymour joins PTO to talk about the uptick in the UK's Covid-19 cases and death toll, and why the government scaled back public health regula…
4 years, 8 months ago