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How to Defeat Authoritarianism | Augusto Pinochet's Chile
Pop Culture Against the Machine
The Cultural Cold War: Folk Music and Communism w/ Carsie Blanton
The Dark World: Exploring Ballardian Dystopias in Climate Fiction
Part One: Autistici/Inventati and the Fight for the Autonomous Internet
Angela Last, "Tainted Tools: New Materialisms As a Decolonial Project" (Manchester University Press, 2026)
Fund Drive Special: The Long Struggle Against Equality
Is Neoliberalism Dead? with Branko Milanović
Carbon Credit Markets Have a Human Rights Problem
The Futures Rundown 91: Crude Oil Volleyball
475. Never Let a Computer Tell Me Shit
158: On the Impossibility of Being a Real Man feat. Robin Dembroff
Therapy Speak, with Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas
Shumi Bose: Words relating to theory.
Care Package with Sarah Davies
Chinese Dreamcore: Tangping, Mark Fisher, and Hauntology in the Anthropocene
Troop Movements w/ Tejasvi Nagaraja
S04E13 - Dipesh Chakrabarty on the Second Decline of the West
Alf Hornborg - The Power of the Machine
Dave Jorgenson on Politics in the Influencer Age
The 1920 Wall Street Bombing
Bandit Country - The IRA and South Armagh (472)
Ep.133: How the EU Learned to Love the Chicago School
Shockwave: Everything must go! The era of privatisation
68. Growth Without Development: The Real Achievements of Nigerian Neo-liberalism
Taking down the cultural elite | Catherine Liu
France's Nuclear Toxicity in the Algerian Sahara | Samia Henni
Elon Musk, space solar and eternal power
Back-to-school with Big Tech
The Little EVs That Could Displace Big Oil
The secret history of cool | Joel Dinerstein
Oil and Global Capitalism
How Industrial Farming and Climate Chaos Are Pushing Diseases Into Humans
Interregnum - Living in the Pyrocene
Gastronomy as Sensory Engineering
Finance Bros Are Coming for the Public Airwaves
Episode 27: A History of Marx's Charaktermaske feat. Billie Cashmore
Devin Kennedy on Computing and Capitalism
The Cowboys of Kingston's Music Culture with Jamal Khadar
Paulo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed"
Episode 591: The Urban Pulse
Immigrant Detention and the “Worst of the Worst”
606: The Philosophical Worlds of Borges
Indigenous speculative fiction takes on the apocalypse — with Canadian sci-fi Indiginerd Chelsea Vowel
Spielberg, Coppola and Lucas: The Remaking of Modern Cinema, With Paul Fischer
Radical Feminism and the Politics of Orgasm
Ep.132: The Velocity of Extremism
S04E11 - Jonathan White on the Future as a Political Idea
Celeste Saulo, WMO: Extreme weather is the new normal
Miss America ‘68, women’s lib, and the politics of beauty
The History of the Masquerade
Cigar Stories: He Who Reads
Sidewalk roulette: Who should pay for our public spaces?
Vanishing Culture #6: What We've Learned with Vida Vojić & Alice Bridgwood
The History of Bad Ideas: The Romantic Hero
Daniel Trilling & William Davies: If We Tolerate This
Supplying Extraction: DuPont and the Chemistry of Mining in Chile with Ángela Vergara
E125: Riot dogs - Negro Matapacos
Trump, Populism, and the End of the Neoliberal Order
467. Industrial Policy by Other Means (ft. Matt Haugen, Jesse Goldenstein)
260 - Pipeline Cinema (feat. Mona Damluji)
The Rapid Rise of Right-Wing Militias
Inside Silicon Valley's Race to Build a Home Robot
The cultural evolution of your face
319: Climate Conspirituality
406 / Martial Arts as Liberation / Sam, LMA
The System Cannot See Itself
Airbnb's growing impact in the Global South: Inside Airbnb's Murray Cox joins City Road
How corporations took over the federal courts
The Chinafication of Walmart
#343 "Dark Socialism": Kohei Saito on surviving (and thriving) within the ruins of disaster capitalism
Ep 34 - The Legal Nature of Money and the History of the Federal Reserve with Rohan Grey
A Short History of The Airport
Ian J. McNiven, "Sentient Seas: Archaeologies of Seascapes and Maritime Rituals" (UP Florida, 2026)
Cocaine and Communism [Political Pathologies ep. 1] w/ Evan Sedgwick-Jell
A Breath of Fresh Air With Brian Eno
The Hidden Architects Of Reggae And The Women Who Built It
The Church Against Empire: A Conversation with Historian Greg Grandin
622: The Mompos Project: A Story of Love, Hotels and Madness in Colombia
Imagining Turkey with Maureen Freely
259 - Petrostates (feat. Ryan Cecil Jobson)
Rod Phillips, "Cats: A History" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)
Heidegger in Ruins
Roger Lancaster on Nicaragua, México, sexuality, machismo, guns, punishment
82. Dollar Hegemony and International Law
Welcome to the Society of the Psyop
Jung in the World | Jung and the Post-Human Age with Glen Slater
George Brecht to Game Boy: A history of play and playfulness
A history of power: the creation of data empires
We Talk to Really Smart People: Maya Rupert
MAGA Inc.
When Companies Go to War
E256 - Rome and Ancient Iran w/ Jake Nabel
Hayagreeva Rao and Henrich R Greve, "Ctrl+Alt+Doubt: Decoding the Language of Online Conspiracy Talk" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Theorizing the World Cup
ANTIFASCIST ARCHITECTURE - Empire Files LIVE at PSU
Episode 98: Sophie Lewis's Femmephilia, Gender, Pleasure, and the Politics of Girly Things
The Platform State: Angela Zhang and Alex Yang on How China Really Governs Its Economy
Material labor and the digital economy.
Karl Marx’s Ethics of Human Flourishing with Sam Badger