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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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51. Worlds (w/ Federico Campagna)
Sorry this took so long we published a major whitepaper and went on tour ok???? But we've got a ton in the chamber we're back we're so back thanks for your patience. We’re joined by Federico Campagna: philosopher and writer and magic man in
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 Fut
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 t
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 Ethere
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,
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 F
[LIVE AT INDEX] The Datacenter Does Not Exist (Q&A w/ Dena Yago)
Disintegrator's spring tour lecture, love to watch this continue to unfold in real life. Thanks to Index, Montez Radio, Hugh, Elie, the Disintegrator team and especially Dena Yago for joining us. For the visually hxc: https://www.youtube.co
[NECROLECTURE] The Excarnated Angel: On AI and the Impossibility of Touch
Marek solo ep. To be released on Nuda Mag <3 later this year in text form. Piece starts like 17 minutes in hahaha.
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 chronica
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 gro
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
The Teachings of Salesforce Child
Salesforce Child is our favorite artist. More here (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
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 p
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
42. The Cut (w/ M. Beatrice Fazi, Alexander Galloway, Matthew Handelman, and Leif Weatherby)
We're joined by the four authors of *Digital Theory* — M. Beatrice Fazi, Alexander R. Galloway, Matthew Handelman, and Leif Weatherby — for a roundtable on their new collaborative work. Digital Theory (University of Minnesota Press, 2025) m
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 a
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 T
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 reg
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
Hito Steyerl & Simon Denny on Exocapitalism
Two of the most important artists of the 21st century help us tease through the implications of our book.
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
HOTHOUSE: The Future of Demonstration (w/ Sylvia Eckermann & Gerald Nestler)
Welcome to the first episode of Hothouse, a limited series exploring experimental forms of demonstration, resistance, and civic imagination. Produced in collaboration with Future of Demonstration: HOTHOUSE,a renegade lab for democracy again
38. Natural Language (w/ Leif Weatherby)
We’re joined by Leif Weatherby, associate professor at NYU, founding director of the Digital Theory Lab, and author of the new Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism, to think with us about AI, structure, and what
37. Center (w/ Mohammad Salemy)
We're joined by Mohammad Salemy, organizer and facilitator of the New Centre for Research and Practice, fierce critic, social media (@inhumansofberlin) hyperstitionist, artist, personality, and force. This episode provides a lot of backgrou
36. Violence (w/ Fred Moten and Stefano Harney)
We’re joined by Fred Moten and Stefano Harney — co-conspirators of The Undercommons — to think with us about AI, study, and brutality, and the long histories that place these concepts into relation. In a lot of ways neither Moten nor Harney
35. The Pre-Individual (w/ Ramon Amaro)
We’re joined by Ramon Amaro, Creative Director of Design Academy Eindhoven — an engineer, philosopher, writer, curator, and altogether critical-force-to-be-reckoned-with on the subject of computation as it intersects with concepts like cult
34. Spirit (w/ Catherine Malabou)
We couldn't be more honored to have Catherine Malabou on the pod, a serious inspiration for all of us. This episode covers so much, moving from AI to education to anarchism to feminism, but all grounded within a focus on automony -- the aut
**EXOCAPITALISM** (w. Charles Mudede & Becoming Press)
Charles Mudede & Claire from Becoming Press sit down to discuss Exocapitalism: Economies w/ Absolutely No Limits (https://shop.becoming.press/products/exocapitalism-economies-with-absolutely-no-limits-2025-by-marek-poliks-roberto-alonso-tri
33. After Us (w/ Émile P. Torres)
We're back to our regularly-scheduled Disintegrator programming! We've been hard at work on our book (buy it, wtf!) (https://becoming.press/exocapitalism-economies-with-absolutely-no-limits-(2025)-by-marek-poliks-roberto-alonso-trillo) but
VESPERS Pt. 2 (w/ Millaze)
CW: eating disorders are discussed a few times in this episode. Vespers is a limited series within Disintegrator that focuses on the creative feedback loops between music and social media. It follows from the Nobody Listens to Music Anymore
