Downstream: The West is Over. Here’s Why w/ Pankaj Mishra
In the years since October 7th, the world has been bitterly polarised over how to make sense of the violence. While polling shows that a maj...
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Do Your Own Research: Is This Podcast the Problem? w/ Joshua Citarella
Joshua Citarella built his reputation by mapping synthetic e-deologies of terminally online politics, expressed in memes, micro-disputes and...
Burnham Vows To Tackle Youth Unemployment
Andy Burnham has said he is “on a mission” to reduce the number of young people not in education, employment or training (NEETs), but has st...
Downstream: Who Profits From Genocide? w/ Andrew Feinstein
A new consensus has emerged in Westminster, seemingly overnight: we need more defence spending, and we need it now. But the Ministry of Defe...
Do Your Own Research: What JD Vance and Tucker Carlson Actually Believe w/ James Pogue
The American empire is in crisis – and there is a new generation of more vocal critics coming from the right. So what do JD Vance and Tucker...
Downstream: You Will Rent Forever. Here’s Why. w/ Peter Apps
We live in times of crisis. But perhaps none of the crises affect so many people in the here and now, as the housing crisis. Solving it coul...
Downstream: The Middle Class Will Collapse Unless We Tax the Rich w/ Gary Stevenson
The idea of a wealth tax has never been more popular in Britain, and while many have campaigned for it, none have done more to boost the dem...
ACFM Microdose: Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations
The Meditations of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius are perhaps the best-selling self-help book of all time. Rooted in the rational philosophy...
Do Your Own Research: The True Cost of AI Girlfriends w/ James Muldoon
AI boyfriends and girlfriends are all the rage – for some. For others, they just inspire rage. So what’s the truth about these seducti...
Downstream: Who Really Won the War on Drugs? w/ Kojo Koram
Last year, Zack Polanski’s Green Party suggested changes could be made to Britain’s prohibitionist approach to drugs – and felt the full for...
119: I know I should forgive my enemies… but what if I don’t want to?
* Last call for our show at Crossed Wires in Sheffield this Saturday, 4th July! Final tickets: https://crossedwires.live * A brush with an o...
Do Your Own Research: How China Wins the Resource War w/ Thea Riofrancos
We need critical minerals for the green transition, the military and the AI boom. In barely a year, lithium and the rare earths have become...
Downstream: Governments Do Capitalism Wrong. Here’s How We Fix It. w/ Mariana Mazzucato
Mariana Mazzucato is a towering figure in contemporary economics, best known for her work on the entrepreneurial state and mission-oriented...
ACFM Trip 61: Resilience
A weird-left look at the magical properties of resilience, from the colonial legacy of the stiff upper lip to contemporary narratives of tra...
Downstream: What the US-Iran Peace Negotiations are Really About w/ Daniel Levy
Daniel Levy is a British-Israeli analyst, commentator, and former Israeli government negotiator whose biography reads like a map of the peac...
Do Your Own Research: How Private Equity Bought the World w/ Hettie O’Brien
Secret backrooms where deals are done in private: the realm of conspiracy theories? Or an increasingly large part of capitalism? Since the f...
Downstream: ‘They Want Racial Holy War’ – The Truth About the US Military w/ Matt Kennard
The War on Terror ended in 2021, with the US and British militaries’ catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan. But the consequences of that...
Do Your Own Research: Israel Is Literally Burying Evidence of Its Genocide w/ Eyal Weizman
The so-called ceasefire in Gaza has not ended the genocide. The bombing runs may be quieter, but the bulldozers roar on. Israel is tearing u...
Downstream: AI Billionaires Want to Control Every Aspect of Your Life w/ Karen Hao
It has been a year since Aaron Bastani first met with AI investigative journalist Karen Hao, to discuss her book Empire of AI. A year is a l...
ACFM Microdose: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
The ACFM crew gather for a close reading of Walter Benjamin’s foundational contribution to 20th century cultural and media theory. Dow...