Subversive Coffee
This week, it's a deep dive into a steaming mug of cawfee. Hot java. A cup of Joe. Black gold. This is an episode about "the abominable, heathen-ish liquor" they tried to ban (they really did), and th...
14 Nov 202414min
Multitudes - Live From the Crowd! Ft. Hettie O’Brien
As a Cursed Objects bonus, without an actual cursed object, we present a live recording of Dan in conversation about his brand new book Multitudes: How Crowds Made the Modern World, recorded with frie...
31 Okt 202417min
Every Breath You Take ft. Dr Alice Bell
Air isn't an object, right? Wrong. This week, climate comms expert and historian Dr Alice Bell makes Dan and Kasia think hard about ephemerality via a jam jar of polluted air, captured 'fresh' from th...
17 Okt 20241h 8min
Kill the Boss in Your Head
Is there actually any moral value to hard work? From the Dignity of Labour to CEO Mindset, Girlbossing and Instagram Hustle propaganda, our entire culture is full of messages that working hard and 'lo...
3 Okt 202414min
Crap Towns and Caffs (not Cafes) ft. Isaac Rangaswami
The early 2000s were a fever dream: why was pop culture so mean? Specifically, why was it acceptable to write off entire cities - and the people within them - as crap? This is the question posed by ou...
19 Sep 202446min
Airbnb: Prints of Thieves
They are marketed as democratised holiday rentals, where you get an ‘authentic’ experience by literally living in someone's home - so why are Airbnb’s full of crap, generic art? The answer is obvious ...
4 Sep 202418min
Racist Mugs and Legitimate Concerns with Labour
If smart, humane, pro-migration Ed Miliband really hated Labour’s infamous ‘Controls On Immigration’ coffee mug – both of his parents were Jews who escaped the Nazis and found refuge in Britain – then...
25 Juli 202422min
The Museum of Neoliberalism ft. Darren Cullen
How do you start collecting objects for a cursed museum? Kasia and Dan spend all of their money in the gift shop of the Museum of Neoliberalism (well, it wouldn’t be a Museum of Neoliberalism if you l...
10 Juli 202450min
