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| Date | Combined Rank | Apple Podcasts |
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| Oct 7 | #177 | #173 |
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Latest episodes
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Downstream: Trauma Farming and the Politics of Public Suffering w/ Catherine Liu
October 5, 2026 · 59 minAre we in the era of trauma Top Trumps? ‘Lived Experience’ has become a byword for standpoint authority and progressive politics. It has allowed people from marginalised groups to speak and be heard, and forced us to confront how power…
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Do Your Own Research: Secrets of the Chinese Internet w/ Tianyu Fang
October 3, 2026 · 1 hr 49 minWelcome to Series 2 of Do Your Own Research. Until the end of the year, I will be focusing on the most important and interesting country in the world: China. We’re starting with Tianyu Fang, an editor of Chaoyang Trap, a newsletter all…
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Downstream: Porn Addiction Defines Our Political Age. Here’s How w/ Ash Sarkar
September 28, 2026 · 1 hr 43 minThe effect of pornography on the people who consume it is often moralised about, generally due to its influence over the nascent sexuality of young men. But the business model, technological innovations and broader, parasexual, cultural…
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ACFM Microdose: Reading The Society of the Spectacle
September 27, 2026 · 1 hr 55 minFollowing their recent Trip episode on Situationism, the gang offer a close reading of The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord, first published in France in 1967. Nadia, Jem and Keir explore the layered references and subversions…
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Downstream: AI Will Destroy Liberal Democracy w/ Daron Acemoglu
September 21, 2026 · 1 hr 16 minWhen and why did liberal democracy stop working for the many? On Downstream this week is Daron Acemoglu, joint recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, whose 2012 book Why Nations Fail has sold over a million copies. He…
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Downstream: The Next Big Shock Is Coming. Green Energy Is the Only Way Out w/ Tessa Khan
September 14, 2026 · 1 hr 15 minThis summer’s extreme heat, wildfires and thousands of excess deaths have shown that the climate is destabilising faster than predicted. In the face of this undeniable crisis, what should be done? Tessa Khan is the founder of Uplift, an…
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ACFM Trip 63: Situationism
September 13, 2026 · 2 hr 2 minWhat did the Situationists actually achieve? Nadia, Jem and Keir look back on the antics and manifestos of the socialist revolutionaries who gathered under the banner of the Situationist International. With ideas from Debord and Khayati…
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Downstream: The Big AI Lie w/ Cory Doctorow
September 7, 2026 · 2 hr 9 minAI is set to take all of our jobs. It will irrevocably transform our relationships – and it might even kill us all. These are some of the big claims made about artificial intelligence today. And they are claims that on Novara, we take…