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52. Cognitive Futures (w/ Metahaven)

We’re joined by Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden of Metahaven, the Amsterdam design and film studio. In some part we're here to talk about their new book, The Hard Qu

51. Worlds (w/ Federico Campagna)

Sorry this took so long we published a major whitepaper and went on tour ok???? But we've got a ton in the chamber we're back we're so back thanks for your patience. We’

50. The Infinite Company (w/ Dave Wright and Brian Solis)

We're incredibly honored to be joined by Dave Wright, Chief Innovation Officer at ServiceNow, and Brian Solis, ServiceNow's Head of Global Innovation, digital anthropolog

49. Garden (w/ Anna Greenspan)

We're joined by Anna Greenspan: philosopher, Associate Professor at NYU Shanghai, where she co-directs the Center for AI and Culture, and author of Shanghai Future and Ch

48. Indifference Engine (w/ Wassim Alsindi & Paul Dylan-Ennis)

We're joined by Paul Dylan-Ennis and Wassim Alsindi, two of crypto's sharpest in-house critics, who arrived at the same place from opposite directions. Paul is a lecture

47. Invocation (w/ E. Elias Merhige and Gavin Gamboa)

E. Elias Merhige is the experimental filmmaker behind Begotten (1989) and its sequels Din of Celestial Birds (2006) and Polia & Blastema: A Cosmic Opera (2022), as well a

46. Building Doors (w/ Yancey Strickler)

We're joined by Yancey Strickler: writer, cofounder and former CEO of Kickstarter, and the person behind a string of projects that try to give creative life a workable ec

[LIVE AT INDEX] The Datacenter Does Not Exist (Q&A w/ Dena Yago)

Disintegrator's spring tour lecture, love to watch this continue to unfold in real life. Thanks to Index, Montez Radio, Hugh, Elie, the Disintegrator team and especially

[NECROLECTURE] The Excarnated Angel: On AI and the Impossibility of Touch

Marek solo ep. To be released on Nuda Mag

45. El Apocalipsis Ya Está Aquí (w/ no.investigues)

This episode is entirely in Spanish. English translation is here: https://marekpoliks.com/noinvestigues_transcript.  We are delighted to be joined by the algorithmically

44. The Grid (w/ Molly Taft)

Molly Taft, Senior Writer at Wired, joins us to talk datacenters, AI, US power infrastructure, and big energy. You've almost definitely read her work, especially if you l

43. The Soft (w/ Laura Tripaldi)

We're joined by Laura Tripaldi: material scientist, writer, and researcher at the Center for AI and Culture at NYU Shanghai. You probably know her from Parallel Minds: Di

The Teachings of Salesforce Child

Salesforce Child is our favorite artist. More here and on her instagram @salesforcechild. We're on TOUR see us: NY Sat 3/7: https://luma.com/k3ffx3ze YALE Sun 3/8: https

LONGUE DURÉE II Pt. 2 (w/ Rosi Braidotti)

We're joined by Rosi Braidotti, Distinguished University Professor Emerita at Utrecht University and founding director of the Centre for the Humanities, for a wide-rangin

LONGUE DURÉE II Pt. 1 (w/ N. Katherine Hayles)

We're joined by N. Katherine Hayles, Distinguished Research Professor in English at UCLA, to think through cognition in the broadest and most scaled sense.  Hayles is am

42. The Cut (w/ M. Beatrice Fazi, Alexander Galloway, Matthew Handelman, and Leif Weatherby)

We're joined by the four authors of *Digital Theory* — M. Beatrice Fazi, Alexander R. Galloway, Matthew Handelman, and Leif Weatherby — for a roundtable on their new coll

HOTHOUSE 2: Evidence (w/ Forensic Architecture's Júlia Nueno Guitart)

This episode continues our collaboration with Hothouse: The Future of Demonstration, a renegade lab for democracy convened in Vienna, and extends our ongoing inquiry into

41. Tactics (w/ Bogna Konior)

We're joined by Bogna Konior, one of the most incisive thinkers of AI on the planet. Konior is a media theorist, scholar of emerging technologies, and author of The Dark

40. Liturgy (w/ Haela Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix)

We're joined by Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, composer, philosopher, and force behind Liturgy, whose concept of transcendental black metal has redrawn the boundaries between under

39. Dissociation (w/ McKenzie Wark)

We're so so so honored to be joined by McKenzie Wark, the writer, theorist, and unmissable figure in the development of critical thought around information, class, and em