Protopia Futures (ft. Monika Bielskyte)
Does fiction inform what we think the future should look like? Sci-fi and futurism has typically told us the inevitability of technology and dystopian cyberpunk imaginaries. Monika Bielskyte joins us ...
19 Jun 1h 2min
Pope Leo's Anti-AI Encyclical
This week, we go over the merits and demerits of the Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas and its co-presentation with Christopher Olah of Anthropic, the company branding itself as mos...
11 Jun 39min
An Independent for Nebraska (ft. Austin Ahlman)
Could a populist, independent candidate win an election in the most Republican part of Nebraska's 1st Congressional District? In a time when the Republican and Democratic Party are both notoriously co...
4 Jun 48min
Florida Man Runs for Congress as a Democratic Socialist (ft. Oliver Larkin)
Subscribe to our Patreon at patreon.com/c/DystopiaNow! Oliver Larkin, activist, union organizer, and Democratic Socialist, joins us this week to discuss his run for election to the U.S. House as a Flo...
28 Mai 48min
Of Dawkins and Data Centers
In this week's episode we begin to go into the philosophy around consciousness and AI as New Atheist relic Richard Dawkins recently claimed "Claudia" was conscious. What are the merits and issues of t...
14 Mai 1h 5min
Altman Attack: What is Violence?
In this week's episode, we explore a question no one has ever thought of before: "What is violence?" We unpack the recent Molotov cocktail attack on Sam Altman's home and how his own rhetoric about (c...
7 Mai 40min
From Fordism to Muskism with Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff
Subscribe to our Patreon for the FULL episode and more bonus content at patreon.com/c/DystopiaNow! Quinn Slobodian, historian of neoliberalism, and Ben Tarnoff, internet and technology writer, join us...
30 Apr 53min
