Episodes

  • Novara FM: What’s Next for AI Now It’s Ingested the Entire Internet? w/ Marek Poliks

    Novara FM: What’s Next for AI Now It’s Ingested the Entire Internet? w/ Marek Poliks
    Nov 7 2024
    The rise of artificial intelligence will bring about a planetary-scale shift in human life and politics – and, it seems, a lot of weird social media spam. But for all the grand pronouncements from techno-utopians and pessimists alike, the reality is that there’s still much to be decided about the future that AI portends. At the […]
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    1 hr and 25 mins
  • Downstream: Could Israel Become A Failed State? w/ Ilan Pappé

    Downstream: Could Israel Become A Failed State? w/ Ilan Pappé
    Nov 5 2024
    War is spreading throughout West Asia, a situation understood by many observers as an outgrowth of Israeli expansionism. In a return visit to Downstream, historian Ilan Pappé provides a century’s worth of context to the unfolding crisis. He talks to Aaron to talk about the lack of a viable left in Israel, why nation-states haven’t […]
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    1 hr and 21 mins
  • Novara FM: How Do We Liberate People From Bad Ideas? w/ adrienne maree brown

    Novara FM: How Do We Liberate People From Bad Ideas? w/ adrienne maree brown
    Oct 31 2024
    In their new book Loving Corrections, adrienne maree brown poses a crucial conundrum for all progressive thinkers: how do we liberate people from bad ideas? One of America’s most energetic thinkers talks to Rivkah Brown about putting the pol back in idpol, understanding the IDF, navigating the US election, and why we might need to […]
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    59 mins
  • Downstream: How War, Trade and Farming Changed the Planet Forever w/ Sunil Amrith

    Downstream: How War, Trade and Farming Changed the Planet Forever w/ Sunil Amrith
    Oct 28 2024
    What if instead of talking about history from the perspective of humanity, we told it from the perspective of the resources that made human expansion possible? Sunil Amrith is a historian and author of The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of The Last 500 Years. He sat down with Ash to explain how a bumper […]
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Novara FM: The Age of Disaster Nationalism w/ Richard Seymour

    Novara FM: The Age of Disaster Nationalism w/ Richard Seymour
    Oct 24 2024
    Around the world, far-right movements are mobilising support by placing the blame for real catastrophes – Covid-19, the war in Ukraine, their own riots and insurrections – on entirely made-up enemies, among them Muslims, immigrants and feminists. This is what Richard Seymour, a writer, theorist and founding editor of Salvage magazine, calls disaster nationalism. He joins Richard Hames […]
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    1 hr and 34 mins
  • Downstream: Insects Are Disappearing and We Should Be Very Worried w/ Dave Goulson

    Downstream: Insects Are Disappearing and We Should Be Very Worried w/ Dave Goulson
    Oct 22 2024
    From pollinating crops to managing organic waste on a continental scale, insects are vital to life on Earth. They are also disappearing. Dave Goulson is an entomologist and ecologist whose books communicate the majesty of insects and arthropods – along with a grave warning about their demise. He talks to Aaron to Bastani talk about the […]
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    1 hr and 50 mins
  • Novara FM: Understanding Hezbollah, Israel’s ‘Best Enemy’ w/ Elia Ayoub

    Novara FM: Understanding Hezbollah, Israel’s ‘Best Enemy’ w/ Elia Ayoub
    Oct 17 2024
    What does Israel hope to achieve this time, nearly 20 years after its last failed ground offensive in Lebanon? And how should we understand its adversary, a political party that also functions as a fighting force, a historical movement, and a regional power? Richard Hames is joined by Elia Ayoub, a Lebanese-Palestinian researcher and writer […]
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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • Downstream: Do We Really Need to Tax the Rich? w/ Stephanie Kelton

    Downstream: Do We Really Need to Tax the Rich? w/ Stephanie Kelton
    Oct 14 2024
    Stephanie Kelton is an author and economist, and subject of the new film ‘Finding The Money’. Her work as a proponent of Modern Monetary Theory and as an advisor to Bernie Sanders has put her front and center of the debate around government debt, taxation and the potential green industrial revolution. She sat down for […]
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    1 hr