This conversation moves from finance to law and lived experience. The guest explains how the word "conflict" hides the asymmetry between occupier and occupied, what the legal definition of apartheid means for Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and what her investigation into the detention of Palestinian children revealed about military courts and carceral control.

Can Marx help explain the climate crisis? In this conversation, the speaker traces his turn to Marxism through the Iraq War, the 2008 financial crisis, and Fukushima, then argues that Marx's unpublished notebooks contain an ecological critique later sidelined by productivist socialism. He links climate politics to the rejection of endless growth and calls for "degrowth communism" in the Global North, informed by the Global South and non-Western traditions.

Linking the social upheavals of the Renaissance to the "shock cities" of 19th-century England, this talk argues that radicals and reformers draw on symbols, texts, and urban imaginaries from late medieval and Renaissance Italy to criticize factory modernity and propose alternative social and political orders.

In Silicon Valley, economic, political, and state power have fused, and tech oligarchs like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg are reshaping the world in their image. This episode discusses the structural forces shaping tech and state power, and what lessons we might draw from the tech worker movement for building a different future.

What should reparations repair beyond property and income? The speaker argues that colonial rule also damaged languages, memory, and intellectual self-determination, so reparations must include epistemic justice. She links decolonizing the mind to recognition of African philosophies, redistribution of research infrastructure, and representation in setting agendas, calling for curricula, publishing, archives, and institutions that support cognitive sovereignty.

How does Foucault link power to freedom and political subjectivity? The speaker presents subjectivation as a historical process that forms subjects through sovereignty, biopower, and governmentality, while leaving room for resistance. The discussion reads experience and embodiment as sites where power is lived and contested, and connects this account to feminism, political violence, and neoliberal forms of rule.

As polarization and techno-financial elites empower a techno-feudal order, democracy is increasingly under threat. This book talk examines how data-driven governance, AI, and automated decision-making recast sovereignty, citizenship, and political authority. The lecture weighs claims of administrative efficiency against risks to democratic accountability, transparency, and individual autonomy as public functions shift from state institutions to technical systems.

German colonial rule was characterized by military violence, coercion, racial hierarchies and economic exploitation. To this day, these experiences continue to shape cultures of remembrance, family histories and public debates in societies formerly subjected to German colonial rule. Among the central actors of this violent regime were the so-called "Schutztruppen," the German colonial armed forces. Focusing on Tanzania and Cameroon, the discussion will examine different perspectives on colonial violence, local forms of remembrance, and their political interpretations in the present.

As we stand on the brink of a new era of space settlement, cosmic environments are becoming increasingly vulnerable to human activity. Focusing on the Moon, this talk argues that human societies have long interpreted, measured, and acted on the Moon in ways that reshape both knowledge and material conditions. He frames current exploration and extraction plans as the start of a "lunar Anthropocene," where politics, science, and commerce begin to alter the moon itself.

Christopher Nolan’s 2026 cinematic spectacle The Odyssey has reignited global fascination with Homer’s epic. But what does Homer's epic look like outside a Greek or Hollywood frame? The panel links the poem to Near Eastern and Phoenician maritime worlds, then compares its oral poetics with classical Chinese traditions. The discussion treats myth as a product of trade routes, seafaring, and performance, and asks how stories of wandering, fate, and return travel across cultures.