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Motives and Institutions with Robin Hanson
Robin Hanson is an economist, futurist, and blogger at overcomingbias.com. His recently published book, co-authored with Kevin Simler, is called The Elephant in the Br...
Ideology, Intelligence, and Capital with Nick Land
Nick Land is a British philosopher and one of the main figures in the school of thought known as accelerationism. He is currently writing a book about the philosophica...
On French Philosophy with Taylor Adkins
Taylor Adkins is a translator of French philosophy. He has translated influential books by Félix Guattari, such as Machinic Unconscious (Semiotext(e) 2010), and lesser...
The Political Science of Genetic Explanations with Elizabeth Suhay (#19)
Given that debates about genetics and inequality are back in the spotlight today, instead of joining that debate I am more interested in exploring social-scientific an...
#18 - Sean Trainor
Sean Trainor (@ess_trainor) is an historian, educator, writer, and podcaster. Sean has written for The Atlantic, TIME, Salon, and many other venues popular and academi...
#17 - Roman Montero
Roman Montero is the author of "All Things in Common: The Economic Practices of the Early Christians." We had a long conversation about religion and communism (duh), C...
#16 - Uriel Fiori
Uriel Fiori is a theorist and translator based in São Paulo, Brazil. He's an expert on the work of Nick Land, having translated and archived many of the various fragme...
#15 - Philipp Streicher
Philipp Streicher is a doctoral researcher in Informatics at the University of Sussex. Philipp studies photic brain stimulation, i.e. the use of light to boost brain a...
#14 - Greg Osei
I've always been drawn to performers because I'm interested in the aesthetics of existence; I'm not a performer but I do want to exist more truly, which is to say, mor...
#13 - Geoffrey Miller (Part 2 of 2)
Geoffrey Miller is an evolutionary psychology professor at the University of New Mexico in the USA, and is best known for his books The Mating Mind (2001), Mating Inte...
#12 - Geoffrey Miller (Part 1 of 2)
Feminist implications of Darwin and the politics of sexual selection. How the advent of bodyguards affected sexual politics. How to critique capitalism with evolutiona...
#11 - Will Sharkey
Will Sharkey is an ultraleft Catholic schoolteacher and Philosophy PhD. He is a member of the UK-based anti-capitalist organization Plan C. You can find more about Wil...
#10 - Ilan Zvi Baron
Ilan is a "reluctant Zionist" and I don't know many Zionists so I wanted to ask him about that. Unlike many of my podcasts, this one is actually pretty focused on this...
A Talk on "Immediate Collective Liberation"
This is the audio from a talk I gave to Plan C London on January 19, 2016. The slides associated with this talk are available on my website.
#9 - Sam Berkson
Sam Berkson is a poet and blogger. Sam is a really passionate and active writer, performer, and organizer (of culture and politics) in London. We recorded this podcast...
#8 - Russell Bentley
Russell Bentley is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Southampton, where he researches and teaches across the history of political thought, from ancien...
#7 - Mindy Isser
There's a tiny bit of static at the beginning but it goes away! Mindy Isser writes a low-key advice column newsletter in all lowercase. She is a labor organizer but al...
Other Life #6 - Diana S. Fleischman
Diana S. Fleischman is an evolutionary psychologist, currently Senior Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth. Her interests include sex, disgust, veganism, utilitari...