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• Downstream: Trauma Farming and the Politics of Public Suffering w/ Catherine Liu

  October 5, 2026 · 59 min

  Are 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…

• Do Your Own Research: Secrets of the Chinese Internet w/ Tianyu Fang

  October 3, 2026 · 1 hr 49 min

  Welcome 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…

• Downstream: Porn Addiction Defines Our Political Age. Here’s How w/ Ash Sarkar

  September 28, 2026 · 1 hr 43 min

  The 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…

• ACFM Microdose: Reading The Society of the Spectacle

  September 27, 2026 · 1 hr 55 min

  Following 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…

• Downstream: AI Will Destroy Liberal Democracy w/ Daron Acemoglu

  September 21, 2026 · 1 hr 16 min

  When 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…

• Downstream: The Next Big Shock Is Coming. Green Energy Is the Only Way Out w/ Tessa Khan

  September 14, 2026 · 1 hr 15 min

  This 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…

• ACFM Trip 63: Situationism

  September 13, 2026 · 2 hr 2 min

  What 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…

• Downstream: The Big AI Lie w/ Cory Doctorow

  September 7, 2026 · 2 hr 9 min

  AI 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…