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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 forefron... more

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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 Futures and h... more

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 twice over ... more

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 Ethereum, an ea... more

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, pianist, ... more

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Recent Guests

Anna Greenspan
Philosopher and director of the Center for AI and Culture at NYU Shanghai
New York University Shanghai
Episode: 49. Garden (w/ Anna Greenspan)
Wassim Alsindi
Bitcoin researcher and writer; author of discussions on SapphirePunk
Independent researcher/author
Episode: 48. Indifference Engine (w/ Wassim Alsindi & Paul Dylan-Ennis)
Paul Dylan-Ennis
Ethnographer of Ethereum; co-founder of Speculations
Speculations
Episode: 48. Indifference Engine (w/ Wassim Alsindi & Paul Dylan-Ennis)
Elias Merhige
Filmmaker, known for Begotten and experimental cinema
Independent filmmaker
Episode: 47. Invocation (w/ E. Elias Merhige and Gavin Gamboa)
Gavin Gamboa
Mexican-American composer, pianist, creative technologist
Independent artist
Episode: 47. Invocation (w/ E. Elias Merhige and Gavin Gamboa)
Yancey Strickler
Co-founder of Kickstarter; innovator behind Artist Corporations (ACORB) and related initiatives
Kickstarter; ACORB
Episode: 46. Building Doors (w/ Yancey Strickler)
Dena Yago
Author and researcher focused on the financialization of AI and techno-capital
Author of Exo-Capitalism
Episode: [LIVE AT INDEX] The Datacenter Does Not Exist (Q&A w/ Dena Yago)
Noin Vestigues
Un clúster de investigación online memética, conocido como No Investigues
Episode: 45. El Apocalipsis Ya Está Aquí (w/ no.investigues)
Molly Taft
climate, energy and environment journalist at Wired
Wired
Episode: 44. The Grid (w/ Molly Taft)

Hosts

Roberto Alonso Trillo
Host of the Disintegrator, with recurring involvement across episodes.
Marek Poliks
Co-host and core creator, frequently guiding discussions with guests.
Helena McFadzean
Host focusing on philosophical and cultural angles of AI.

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4.9 out of 5 stars from 109 ratings
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Edges into controversial territory with sharp insights.
Feels like a front-row seat to the future of AI culture.
Thought-provoking and challenging, never easy answers.
Dense but rewarding for curious minds and policy thinkers.

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49. Garden (w/ Anna Greenspan)
Q: How do garden traditions inform your approach to thinking about AI and its ethics?
Garden traditions provide a framework to understand AI as a cultivated, emergent process where nature and artificiality co-create; they help reframe AI ethics away from a purely technical problem toward a cosmotechnical and cultural problem where boundary, mimesis, and time become central.
[LIVE AT INDEX] The Datacenter Does Not Exist (Q&A w/ Dena Yago)
Q: What do you mean by lift and how does it relate to data centers and AI?
Lift is the process by which capital distances itself from its physical base, moving toward abstractions like software, finance, and contracts; data centers become liabilities in the physical sense but assets in a web of interlocking contracts and surface area that extend capital's reach.
44. The Grid (w/ Molly Taft)
Q: If you could get one thing from the AI industry, one disclosure or leak, what would be most useful to shift the conversation as a reporter?
They would want sustainability reports presented in non-bullshit terms, i.e., clear, verifiable disclosures about emissions and water use without marketing spin.
LONGUE DURÉE II Pt. 2 (w/ Rosi Braidotti)
Q: How do you apply affirmative ethics as a practical standpoint?
Affirmative ethics involves engaging in relational networks, promoting empowerment, and recognizing the interdependence of bodies within various systems.
LONGUE DURÉE II Pt. 2 (w/ Rosi Braidotti)
Q: What is the nomadic subject and what gives it a material ground?
The nomadic subject represents a relational process rather than a fixed identity, framed by multiple ecologies of belonging and influenced by material conditions.

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What is Disintegrator about and what kind of topics does it cover?

Disintegrator explores what it means to be human when experiences and communications are mediated by AI. Across episodes, listeners encounter deep dives with artists, philosophers, scientists, and technologists who question AI ethics, cognition, governance, and the political economy surrounding data, platforms, and infrastructure. Highlights include discussions of cosmotechnics in AI, post-humanist ethics, substrate-aware cognition, data-center finance, and the societal implications of AI in culture, warfare, and environment. Noteworthy is the show's tendency to pair rigorous theoretical talk with vivid cultural critique and imaginative storytelling, often challenging mainstream tech narratives and proposing alternative futures for human-AI... more

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