Discussing the concept of genocide with international human rights lawyer and social theorist, Vasuki Nesiah (NYU Gallatin). Is genocide event or process? How do we move from idea of genocide as apex crime in international criminal law to appreciating its role in the structural process of world-making? We discuss the implications of her analysis for thinking through the war in Gaza.

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Discussing Richard A. Lee's The Thought of Matter: Materialism, Conceptuality and the Transcendence of Immanence (2016). Thought and matter are distinct, separate. The explosion of new materialisms emphasise the agency of things without a critical philosophy that can sustain ethical and normative commitments. How does philosophical materialism allow the otherness of thought to emerge?

Discussing William E. Connolly's recent books on climate catastrophes; examining geological volatilities; considering pagan thinkers

Discussing human & planetary time with Prof Dipesh Chakrabarty (Uni of Chicago)

Discussion with Joel Bakan of book and film, The New Corporation (2020), which reveals a world now fully remade in the corporation's image, perilously close to losing democracy.

Discussing norms derived from nature with Margaret Davies, author of EcoLaw: Legality, Life, and the Normativity of Nature (2022).  Nomos and nature are usually viewed in opposition. Here we ask, what are the norms to be derived from nature? How do they emerge and coexist?

Discussing Daniel Matthews's book Earthbound: The Aesthetics of Sovereignty in the Anthropocene (2021). How does obligation signal a new ethics and politics for our time?

Discussing the Australian High Court's landmark ruling in Mabo v Queensland (No 2) (1992), the failure of decolonisation; and how the case enabled the growth of extractive industries and mining.

Behrouz Boochani discusses his book No Friend but the Mountains and Australia's border mentality.

Discussing Marc Nichanian's 'Historiographic Perversion' on the denial of the extermination of Armenians in 1915. How are historians and archives complicit? What are the limits of representing genocide through memory, testimony, or art?