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Disintegrator

Roberto Alonso Trillo, Marek Poliks, and Helena McFadzean

What does it mean to be human in an age where experience and behavior are mediated and regulated by algorithms? The Disintegrator Podcast is a limited series exploring how Artificial Intelligence affects who we are and how we express ourselves.

Join Roberto Alonso Trillo, Marek Poliks, and Helena McFadzean as they speak to the artists, philosophers, scientists, and social theorists at the forefront of human-AI relations. 

Disintegrator is produced by Rubén Bañuelos.
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  • S5 · E13
    Thursday · 43 min

    50. The Infinite Company (w/ Dave Wright and Brian Solis)

    We're incredibly honored to be joined by Dave Wright, Chief Innovation Officer at ServiceNow, and Brian Solis, ServiceNow's Head of Global Innovation, digital anthropologist, and nine-time author. Together, Dave and Brian run ServiceNow Futures and...

  • S5 · E12
    August 12 · 52 min

    49. Garden (w/ Anna Greenspan)

    We're joined by Anna Greenspan: philosopher, Associate Professor at NYU Shanghai, where she co-directs the Center for AI and Culture, and author of Shanghai Future and China and the Wireless Undertow. Longtime listeners will recognize her twice over —...

  • S5 · E11
    July 22 · 56 min

    48. Indifference Engine (w/ Wassim Alsindi & Paul Dylan-Ennis)

    We're joined by Paul Dylan-Ennis and Wassim Alsindi, two of crypto's sharpest in-house critics, who arrived at the same place from opposite directions. Paul is a lecturer at University College Dublin, author of Absolute Essentials of Ethereum, an...

  • S5 · E10
    July 8 · 1 hr

    47. Invocation (w/ E. Elias Merhige and Gavin Gamboa)

    E. Elias Merhige is the experimental filmmaker behind Begotten (1989) and its sequels Din of Celestial Birds (2006) and Polia & Blastema: A Cosmic Opera (2022), as well as Shadow of the Vampire and Suspect Zero. Gavin Gamboa is a composer,...

  • S5 · E9
    June 29 · 1 hr 2 min

    46. Building Doors (w/ Yancey Strickler)

    We're joined by Yancey Strickler: writer, cofounder and former CEO of Kickstarter, and the person behind a string of projects that try to give creative life a workable economic form: Bentoism, The Creative Independent, Metalabel, the Dark Forest...

  • S5 · E7
    April 23 · 1 hr 13 min

    45. El Apocalipsis Ya Está Aquí (w/ no.investigues)

    This episode is entirely in Spanish. English translation is here: https://marekpoliks.com/noinvestigues_transcript.  We are delighted to be joined by the algorithmically contagious memetic research project no.investigues. If you are chronically...

  • S5 · E6
    April 8 · 59 min

    44. The Grid (w/ Molly Taft)

    Molly Taft, Senior Writer at Wired, joins us to talk datacenters, AI, US power infrastructure, and big energy. You've almost definitely read her work, especially if you live in the US. This episode absolutely ROCKS and is maybe the most grounded and...

  • S5 · E5
    March 11 · 55 min

    43. The Soft (w/ Laura Tripaldi)

    We're joined by Laura Tripaldi: material scientist, writer, and researcher at the Center for AI and Culture at NYU Shanghai. You probably know her from Parallel Minds: Discovering the Intelligence of Materials (Urbanomic, 2022), an essay in book form...

  • March 2 · 44 min

    The Teachings of Salesforce Child

    Salesforce Child is our favorite artist. More https://www.salesforcechild.org/ and on her instagram @salesforcechild. We're on TOUR see us: NY Sat 3/7: https://luma.com/k3ffx3ze YALE Sun 3/8: https://exocapitalismthedatacentr.rsvpify.com MIT Mon 3/9:...

  • S5 · E4
    February 18 · 1 hr 9 min

    LONGUE DURÉE II Pt. 2 (w/ Rosi Braidotti)

    We're joined by Rosi Braidotti, Distinguished University Professor Emerita at Utrecht University and founding director of the Centre for the Humanities, for a wide-ranging conversation on posthumanism as both a philosophical project and a political...

  • S5 · E3
    February 18 · 58 min

    LONGUE DURÉE II Pt. 1 (w/ N. Katherine Hayles)

    We're joined by N. Katherine Hayles, Distinguished Research Professor in English at UCLA, to think through cognition in the broadest and most scaled sense.  Hayles is among the foundational thinkers of posthumanism in its Anglophone register, and...

  • S4 · E4
    January 21 · 53 min

    HOTHOUSE 2: Evidence (w/ Forensic Architecture's Júlia Nueno Guitart)

    This episode continues our collaboration with Hothouse: The Future of Demonstration, a renegade lab for democracy convened in Vienna, and extends our ongoing inquiry into artificial intelligence, power, and what it means to be human under algorithmic...

  • S5 · E1
    Dec 22, 2025 · 51 min

    41. Tactics (w/ Bogna Konior)

    We're joined by Bogna Konior, one of the most incisive thinkers of AI on the planet. Konior is a media theorist, scholar of emerging technologies, and author of The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet. Bogna is Assistant Professor of Media Theory at...

  • S5 · E2
    Dec 9, 2025 · 54 min

    40. Liturgy (w/ Haela Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix)

    We're joined by Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, composer, philosopher, and force behind Liturgy, whose concept of transcendental black metal has redrawn the boundaries between underground music and systematic thought. Her work operates in parallel registers: an...

  • S5 · E1
    Dec 2, 2025 · 52 min

    39. Dissociation (w/ McKenzie Wark)

    We're so so so honored to be joined by McKenzie Wark, the writer, theorist, and unmissable figure in the development of critical thought around information, class, and embodiment. Her work barely needs an introduction, but it has shaped how we think...

  • S4 · E2
    Nov 3, 2025 · 49 min

    Πάμε Βενετία! (w/ Becoming Press)

    A transmission from Becoming Press' Πάμε Βενετία! conference in Venice this past September. Contributions in order from: Palais Sinclaire Lucas Ferraço Nassif Alessandro Sbordoni Ezili-i Sabbah Maks Valenčič Rhea Documented by Polymnia

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