Patreon Preview – 284. The Techno-Jingoism Will Continue Until Morale Improves
We discuss an interview with the latest tech billionaire, Alexandr Wang of Scale AI, to push the jingoistic position that Silicon Valley has a duty to ensure American supremacy in every domain—militar...
19 Sep 20235min
283. Nerds of the Lowest Order (ft. Quinn Slobodian)
We are joined by Quinn Slobodian — author of Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy — to discuss the libertarian extremism that forms the intellectual foundati...
14 Sep 20231h 22min
Patreon – 282. TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Ch. 2
We discuss chapter two – Power and Marxism – which offers a survey of how Marxist theories of power have largely been caught between the two poles of violence and ideology. With power-as-violence, the...
12 Sep 202310min
281. The Smoking Gun of Techno-Capitalism (ft. Meredith Whittaker)
We are joined by one of our favorite friends — Meredith Whittaker — for a giant discussion that bridges her two latest articles. First a historical analysis of Charles Babbage and the smoking gun that...
7 Sep 20231h 40min
Preview – 280. Step into the Saudi Zone
We start with news about the latest attempt to build a smart city from scratch as a collection of venture capitalists have been secretly buying huge amounts of land near San Francisco to finally reali...
4 Sep 20237min
279. The Power of Wellness Capitalism (ft. Tamara Nopper, Eve Zelickson)
We are joined by Tamara Nopper and Eve Zelickson —— from the Data & Society Research Institute —— to discuss their excellent primer on Wellness Capitalism. This is the pure ideal of TMK crossovers as ...
31 Aug 20231h 40min
Preview – 278. TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Ch. 1
We discuss chapter one – Conceptualising Power and Capital – which lays the groundwork for analyzing these two fundamental concepts and their relation. Mau goes through mainstream social and political...
29 Aug 20237min
*Unlocked* – 275. TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Introduction
[We are unlocking the intro episode for the new book club. The first taste is free, find the rest on the premium feed.] We kick off the TMK book club with the excellent new book – Mute Compulsion by ...
24 Aug 20231h 15min
