Do Your Own Research: How Private Equity Bought the World w/ Hettie O’Brien
Secret backrooms where deals are done in private: the realm of conspiracy theories? Or an increasingly large part of capitalism? Since the financial crisis, some of the big winners have been private e...
20 Jun 1h 9min
Downstream: ‘They Want Racial Holy War’ – The Truth About the US Military w/ Matt Kennard
The War on Terror ended in 2021, with the US and British militaries’ catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan. But the consequences of that decade of conflict in the Middle East continue to play out b...
15 Jun 1h 51min
Do Your Own Research: Israel Is Literally Burying Evidence of Its Genocide w/ Eyal Weizman
The so-called ceasefire in Gaza has not ended the genocide. The bombing runs may be quieter, but the bulldozers roar on. Israel is tearing up homes, orchards, schools and hospitals, then flattening th...
13 Jun 1h 21min
Downstream: AI Billionaires Want to Control Every Aspect of Your Life w/ Karen Hao
It has been a year since Aaron Bastani first met with AI investigative journalist Karen Hao, to discuss her book Empire of AI. A year is a long time, in the fastest growing sector on the planet. To b...
8 Jun 1h 16min
ACFM Microdose: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
The ACFM crew gather for a close reading of Walter Benjamin’s foundational contribution to 20th century cultural and media theory. Download the short text and follow along as Nadia, Keir and Jem cons...
7 Jun 2h 6min
Do Your Own Research: From the Bible to ChatBots: A History of Psyops w/ Trevor Paglen
We are all subject to manipulation campaigns all the time: advertising, political campaigning, social media. You don’t know what’s true and you can’t stop watching slop. And the technology is getting ...
6 Jun 1h 25min
Downstream: The Woman Who Invented Intersectionality w/ Kimberlé Crenshaw
The far right holds power in the US, inflaming tension along racial lines. ICE agents terrorise the streets, while Black history is erased from school curricula. In the UK too, Nigel Farage’s far righ...
1 Jun 1h 55min
Do Your Own Research: AI Is Not A Bubble. The Reality Is Far Worse w/ Garrison Lovely
AI progress isn’t slowing down. The bubble doesn’t seem to be popping. And who in power actually cares about the environmental impacts anyway? All that is to say: AI is here to stay. And what will be ...
30 Mai 1h 40min
