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  • 475. Never Let a Computer Tell Me Shit
    Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
    Episode: 475. Never Let a Computer Tell Me Shit
    Pub date: 2026-09-17

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    We jump off from the OpenAI - Hugging Face hacking incident as a way to talk about the misleading, cynical, and hysterical ways we talk about AI and the stranglehold that existential risk has on our framings and discourses. The OAI-HF event shows that rather than treating machine learning as certain kind of technology that does things in ways that can be explained and contextualized, even when our understanding is somewhat murky or incomplete, AI is proffered as an emergent god with mystified intentions, a great becoming that is equally horrifying and awe-inspiring.
    ••• LLMs are real, AI is fake https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/god-in-the-box/
    ••• We Must Pace the Frontier https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier
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    1 hr 24 min
  • 158: On the Impossibility of Being a Real Man feat. Robin Dembroff
    Podcast: Ordinary Unhappiness (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
    Episode: 158: On the Impossibility of Being a Real Man feat. Robin Dembroff
    Pub date: 2026-09-12

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    What does it mean to talk about “patriarchy” in the present? What are the origins of the term, its uses, and its limits? How has it impacted popular discourse, and why does it seem to have gone out of fashion in the academy? And in what ways might the term – and the concept – still hold untapped power? To tackle all these questions and more, Abby and Patrick welcome philosopher Robin Dembroff, author of the brilliant new book, Real Men on Top: How Patriarchy Shapes our Reality. Weaving together intellectual history and social commentary, Robin clarifies the origins of patriarchy as a keystone concept in twentieth century feminism, and traces its trajectories, for better and for worse, across the academy and beyond. Offering a new model for thinking about patriarchy in dynamic and structural terms, Robin suggests that we can think of patriarchy as a kind of grammar, a system for ordering social life, for processing individual experiences, and for reproducing logics of exploitation, dominance, and lack. The conversation that ensues not only subverts tired debates (about the crisis of masculinity, male loneliness, and the like) but clarifies their stakes, and suggests new ways of thinking about institutions, solidarity, and struggles going forward.

    Robin Dembroff, Real Men on Top: How Patriarchy Shapes our Reality
    More about Robin here: https://robindembroff.com/
    A recent piece by Robin: "The 'Real Man' Trap"

    Selected texts cited:
    Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for a Feminist Revolution
    David Gilmore, Manhood in the Making: Cultural Concepts of Masculinity
    JL Austin, How to Do Things with Words
    Hanna Rosin, The End of Men
    Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

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    A podcast about psychoanalysis, politics, pop culture, and the ways we suffer now. New episodes on Saturdays. Find us online:

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    Formal Chicken - Gnossienne No. 1
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    1 hr 30 min
  • Therapy Speak, with Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas
    Podcast: Uncommon Sense (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
    Episode: Therapy Speak, with Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas
    Pub date: 2026-07-24

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    In Buenos Aires, psychoanalysis has “left the clinic”. Far from being for the elite alone, its core concepts and ideas abound in TV shows, the analyses offered by taxi drivers schooled in Lacan, and in intimate conversations among peers. Here Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas tells us about her brilliant study of what she calls “psychoanalytic listening” in the Argentine capital, where friends confidently say things to each other that often imply “when you say X, I hear Y”. Reflecting how such words act as an affront to elsewhere-dominant notions of selfhood and self-knowledge, Xochitl shows the importance of attending to listening - and describes how, rather like that of the analyst, the social scientist’s role is to “go beyond what’s evident”.

    Plus: what IS linguistic anthropology? What does it mean to be “Lacanian”? And what’s the relationship between psychoanalysis and social science?

    Guest: Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas Hosts: Rosie Hancock, Alexis Hieu Truong; Executive Producer: Alice Bloch; Sound Engineer: David Crackles; Music: Joe Gardiner; Artwork: Erin Aniker

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    Episode Resources

    By Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas 

    • Genres of Listening: An Ethnography of Psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires

    From the Sociological Review Foundation

    • Listen to Nicky Falkof on Anxiety, Les Back on Listening, Hannah Proctor on Burnout and Billy Holzberg on Emotion

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    • About Argentina: the therapy capital of the world
    • About Roman Jacobson, who wrote on Functions of Language
    • About Mikhail Bakhtin
    • About Ferdinand de Saussure
    • About Franz Boas
    • The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics
    • About Jacques Lacan
    • Ethical Loneliness: The Injustice of Not Being Heard
    • About The Frankfurt School and Critical Theory
    • Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School

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    47 min
  • Shumi Bose: Words relating to theory.
    Podcast: A is for Architecture Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
    Episode: Shumi Bose: Words relating to theory.
    Pub date: 2026-09-12

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    In this episode of the A is for Architecture Podcast, I spoke to Shumi Bose, about her work as a curator, chief editor of KoozArch, senior lecturer in architecture at Central Saint Martins in London and, I’d suggest, something like an activist-not-activist. Speaking here, Shumi makes a clear case for the role of critical distance as she has found it – and I’d suggest – used it in her various roles and projects. We speak about Shumi’s journey to architectural teaching and thought, her various initiatives in support of diversified knowledges and justice, and the spaces we can make to model integrity in our work.  

    Shumi can be found at work here and on LinkedIn and Instagram. 

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    Music credits: Bruno Gillick 

    Image credit: Image 1: Matthew Blunderfield: Shumi Bose/ Space Popular - Fables for Our Time; Image 2: Special Thanks Studios - Shumi Bose & Space Popular Collaboration; Image 3: Special Thanks Studios: Shumi Bose 

    #ArchitecturePodcast # #ShumiBose #ArchitecturalCriticism #ArchitectureAndActivism #CriticalArchitecture 



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    1 hr 7 min
  • Care Package with Sarah Davies
    Podcast: Burning Platforms
    Episode: Care Package with Sarah Davies
    Pub date: 2026-09-14

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    The CEO of the Alannah and Madeline Foundation gives her verdict on  the government’s new Digital Duty of care laws.

    Regular panellists Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis also discuss:

    • the AI hyperscaler’ cry for help
    • Apple’s creepy new release
    • and the surveillance legacy of 9/11.

      • For show notes go to https://burningplatforms.substack.com/



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      47 min
    • Chinese Dreamcore: Tangping, Mark Fisher, and Hauntology in the Anthropocene
      Podcast: Acid Horizon (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
      Episode: Chinese Dreamcore: Tangping, Mark Fisher, and Hauntology in the Anthropocene
      Pub date: 2026-09-13

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      Can you feel homesick for something that hasn't even disappeared yet? This week Craig and Adam sit down with Dr. Ennan Wu, Wenhan Hu, and Tiger Liu to talk about Chinese Dreamcore, an internet aesthetic built from sound images of old classroom bells and the half-remembered echoes of early milennium schoolyards. We get into anticipatory homesickness, tangping 躺平 (lying flat), and runxue 润学 (the "study" of leaving the country), and what Mark Fisher's hauntology looks like filtered through the dreamcore genre. 

      Read the paper/listen to the tracks: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/397762735_Listening_to_hauntological_time_Chinese_Dreamcore_millennial_memories_and_the_temporal_crisis_in_the_Anthropocene

      A note on the music: The track in this episode is a remix of Nop by ChenYueLong, a foundational Chinese dreamcore track, used for research purposes alongside the paper "Listening to Hauntological Time: Chinese Dreamcore, Millennial Memories, and the Temporal Crisis in the Anthropocene" by Ennan Wu, Zhe Tang, and Jianhao Xia, with Wenhan Hu assisting on the research team.

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      1 hr 3 min
    • Troop Movements w/ Tejasvi Nagaraja
      Podcast: Politics Theory Other (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
      Episode: Troop Movements w/ Tejasvi Nagaraja
      Pub date: 2026-09-17

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      In the popular imagination WWII is still often seen in both the United States and Britain as a moment of great national consensus, where political differences and class struggle were set aside in the cause of defeating European Fascism and Japanese imperialism.
      But in his new book, 'Troop Movements', Tejasvi Nagaraja shows how the reality is much more complex, with military mobilisation and the wartime transformation of the US economy producing both new opportunities, and new dangers for Black Americans and all those engaged in anti-fascist and anti-racist struggle.
      In the interview we talked about war-time wildcat strikes that aimed at creating better conditions for workers and that contested racism in the workplace.
      We went on to discuss the consequences of the export of Jim Crow - with the deployment of racially segregated American units overseas and how that process affected local people and the management of subject populations in the British Empire. And finally, we talked about the post-war upsurge of strikes and protest within the US military - as soldiers deployed overseas demanded to return home, and as they sought to oppose nascent US imperialism and the reimposition of European colonialism in territories that had fallen under the control of Imperial Japan.

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      1 hr 33 min
    • S04E13 - Dipesh Chakrabarty on the Second Decline of the West
      Podcast: Future Histories (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
      Episode: S04E13 - Dipesh Chakrabarty on the Second Decline of the West
      Pub date: 2026-09-13

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      Dipesh Chakrabarty on the Second Decline of the West.


      Shownotes Dipesh Chakrabarty


      Dipesh Chakrabarty at the University of Chicago:

      https://history.uchicago.edu/directory/dipesh-chakrabarty 


      Chakrabarty, D. (2008). Provincializing Europe: postcolonial thought and historical difference-New edition. Princeton university press.

      https://www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/doi/10.1515/9781400828654/html


      Chakrabarty, D. (2009). The climate of history: Four theses. Critical inquiry, 35(2), 197-222.

      https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/596640 


      Dipesh Chakrabarty at the Benjamin Lectures ‘A Second Decline of the West?’ at the Centre for Social Critique in Berlin:

      https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/benjamin_lectures/a-second-decline-of-the-west/ 


      on the Centre for Social Critique in Berlin:

      https://www.philosophie.hu-berlin.de/de/arbeitsbereiche/jaeggi/hscberlin/hscberlin

      https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/ 


      Chakrabarty, D. (2021). The climate of history in a planetary age. University of Chicago Press.

      https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo8642262.html


      on Frantz Fanon:

      https://www.uni-wuppertal.de/de/third-mission/wissenschaftskommunikation/jahr100wissen/2025/freiheitskaempfer-frantz-fanon/ 


      on Francis Fukuyama:

      https://zeithistorische-forschungen.de/1-2009/4543 

      https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francis-Fukuyama 


      on the metabolic rift:

      https://www.nature.com/nature-index/topics/l4/metabolic-rift-and-political-economy-of-environmental-crises 

      Clark, B., & Bellamy Foster, J. (2026). The Metabolic Rift and the Dialectics of Ecology.

      https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197852729.003.0024


      Moore, J. W. (2015). Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital.

      https://www.versobooks.com/products/74-capitalism-in-the-web-of-life?srsltid=AfmBOorZp80RtsBGkBSF7TG7CLMRaihO5UTnsFE9V2XALwQ4tIE6mD6r 


      Moore, J. W. (2016). The rise of cheap nature. 

      https://orb.binghamton.edu/sociology_fac/2/


      Hegel’s Philosophy of History Lectures:

      https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/hi/hiconten.htm 


      on Walter Benjamin’s ‘Jetztzeit’:

      https://jetztzeit.blog/2019/05/23/weshalb-jetzt-zeit/ 

      https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100020224 


      Fanon, F. (1963). The wretched of the earth. New York: Grove press.

      https://groveatlantic.com/book/the-wretched-of-the-earth/ 


      on Subaltern studies:

      Guha, R., & Spivak, G. C. (Eds.). (1988). Selected subaltern studies. Oxford University Press.

      https://global.oup.com/academic/product/selected-subaltern-studies-9780195052893?cc=at&lang=en& 

      Chakrabarty, D. (2000). A small history of subaltern studies. A companion to postcolonial studies, 467-485.

      https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228020062_A_Small_History_of_Subaltern_Studies 


      on Gramsci's concept of the historic bloc:

      https://polsci.institute/political-theory/gramsci-historic-bloc-base-superstructure/


      Blumenberg, H. (1985). The legitimacy of the modern age. MIT press.

      https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262521055/the-legitimacy-of-the-modern-age/ 


      Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum on the Capability Approach:

      https://iep.utm.edu/sen-cap/ 


      Sen, A. (1999). Development as freedom. Oxford: Oxford university press.

      https://global.oup.com/academic/product/development-as-freedom-9780192893307?lang=en&cc=nl 


      Serres, M. (1995). The natural contract. University of Michigan press.

      https://press.umich.edu/Books/T/The-Natural-Contract


      Latour, B. (2004). Politics of Nature. Harvard University Press.

      https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674013476 


      Dipesh Chakrabarty at the Benjamin Lectures on ‘provincializing europe’ and ‘provincializing humans’:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjXCIZyxgWo 

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9sI3NRbOYA 


      Arendt, H. (1958). The human condition. 

      https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo29137972.html



      on Habermas on the colonization of the lifeworld by instrumental rationality:

      Silva, F. G. (2019). Colonization of the Lifeworld. In A. Allen & E. Mendieta (Eds.), The Cambridge Habermas Lexicon (pp. 36–39). chapter, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

      https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-habermas-lexicon/colonization-of-the-lifeworld/36E8421628B4E1914F7E675B31977ADC 


      Latour, B. & Chakrabarty, D. (2020). Conflicts of Planetary Proportion – A Conversation. Journal of the Philosophy of History 14 (3):419-454.

      https://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/170-PLANETARY-PROPORTIONS.pdf


      Saito, K. (2024). Slow Down: How Degrowth Communism can save the Earth. W&N.

      https://www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/kohei-saito/slow-down/9781399612999/ 


      Haff, Peter K. (2023). Technosphere. In Nathanaël Wallenhorst & Christoph Wulf, Handbook of the Anthropocene. Cham: Springer Verlag. pp. 537-541.

      https://philarchive.org/rec/HAFTXX


      Heron, K., Milburn, K. and Russell, B. (2025). Radical Abundance. How to Win a Green Democratic Future. Pluto Books.

      https://www.plutobooks.com/product/radical-abundance/ 


      Jaeggi, R. (2016). Alienation. Columbia University Press. 

      https://cup.columbia.edu/book/alienation/9780231151986/ 


      Jaeggi, R. (2025). Progress and regression. Harvard University Press.

      https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674298019


      Staab, P. (2025). Systemic Crisis. Legitimation Crisis in Green Capitalism. Suhrkamp.

      https://www.suhrkamp.de/rights/book/philipp-staab-systemic-crisis-fr-9783518128237


      Connolly, W. E. (2017). Facing the Planetary. Entangled Humanism and the Politics of Swarming. Duke University Press.

      https://www.dukeupress.edu/facing-the-planetary


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      https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s04/e11-jonathan-white-on-the-future-as-a-political-idea/


      S04E07 | Kohei Saito, Christoph Sorg and Jan Groos on Creative Construction and the Struggle over Progress

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      S03E23 | Andreas Malm on Overshooting into Climate Breakdown 

      https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e23-andreas-malm-on-overshooting-into-climate-breakdown/ 


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      1 hr 59 min
    • Alf Hornborg - The Power of the Machine
      Podcast: Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)
      Episode: Alf Hornborg - The Power of the Machine
      Pub date: 2026-09-13

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      This week we examine Alf Hornborg's The Power of the Machine: Global Inequalities of Economy, Technology, and Environment.
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      1 hr 28 min
    • Dave Jorgenson on Politics in the Influencer Age
      Podcast: On the Media (LS 72 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
      Episode: Dave Jorgenson on Politics in the Influencer Age
      Pub date: 2026-09-09

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      On last week's show we devoted a segment to the plague of online influencers making endorsement videos for politicians in exchange for money, but we wanted to hear from a creator's perspective. Host Micah Loewinger sat down with Dave Jorgenson, who, until last year, made videos at the Washington Post where he grew the paper’s TikTok account to nearly 2 million followers. Now he has his own media outlet, called Local News International and his videos cover pretty much anything and everything that makes headlines. This is the extented cut of their conversation.
       

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      30 min

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