De Dépendance Podcast
Episodes
Ruha Benjamin on Imagination
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, acclaimed sociologist and Princeton professor Ruha Benjamin joins De Dépendance Podcast for a compelling conversation on the occas...
Lea Ypi on Indignity and the Fragility of Truth
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, political scientist and philosopher Lea Ypi joins us to discuss the ideas behind her new book Indignity: A Life Reimagined. Named ...
Grace Blakeley on Vulture Capitalism
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, De Dépendance editor Hani Salih sits down with political commentator, economist, and author Grace Blakeley to delve into the ide...
Nikole Hannah-Jones on Democracy, Resistance and the Politics of Memory
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and creator of The 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones, joins us for a powerful conversation on t...
Meredith Whittaker on Signal, Surveillance & AI
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we welcome Meredith Whittaker, President of the Signal Foundation and one of the world’s leading tech critics, for a powerful conve...
LIVE: The Big Con w/ Rosie Collington
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we dive into The Big Con, the provocative book by economists Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington, which exposes the deep entangle...
LIVE: The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule w/ Angela Saini
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we’re joined by award-winning science journalist Angela Saini to discuss her bold and timely book: The Patriarchs: How Men Came t...
LIVE: The Suspicion Machine w/ Gabriel Geiger, Miriyam Aouragh & Sofia Ranchordas
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Across the world, experimental predictive algorithms are being deployed that promise to prevent welfare fraud. Now for the first time, an internatio...
LIVE: The 1619 Project w/ Nikole Hannah-Jones
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk to Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones on her groundbreaking 1619 Project. The 1619 Project is The New York Ti...
LIVE: How Universities are Plundering Our Cities w/ Davarian Baldwin
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we listen to a lecture by and interview with urbanist and historian Davarian L. Baldwin on the occasion of his highly acclaimed book ...
LIVE: How Food Can Save the World w/ Carolyn Steel
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast we will listen to a lecture by Carolyn Steel, architect and author of the award-winning Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives and ...
LIVE: Climate Politics w/ Heleen de Coninck
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Twelve months. That is the time the world now has for global greenhouse gas emissions to start to fall. If not, we will miss the chance to avoid the...
LIVE: Invisible Child w/ Andrea Elliott, Bowen Paulle & Cody Hochstenbach
17 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this live episode we talk to Andrea Elliott on the occasion of her Pulitzer Prize winning book 'Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope i...
LIVE: The Precariat w/ Guy Standing
13 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this live edition of De Dépendance Podcast labour economist Guy Standing gives a short lecture on his book ‘The Precariat: The New Dangerous Cla...
LIVE: Work Won't Love You Back w/ Sarah Jaffe
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this live edition of De Dépendance Podcast we listen to a short lecture by journalist Sarah Jaffe on her book Work Won’t Love You Back – How D...
LIVE: Educational Inequality w/ Bowen Paulle
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this special live edition of De Dépendance Podcast we listen to a short lecture by sociologist Bowen Paulle on one of the most pressing social iss...
Big Ship Capitalism w/ Laleh Khalili
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk to Professor of International Politics Laleh Khalili on the occasion of her latest book Sinews of War and Trade, Shipping and...
The Housing Crisis w/ Leilani Farha
23 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we will talk about one of the most pressing urban issues of our time: the housing crisis. Our guest is Leilani Farha, former UN Speci...
Automation and the Future of Work w/ Aaron Benanav
09 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk to economic historian Aaron Benanav, researcher at Humboldt University Berlin, where he studies the history of unemployment an...
Building for Hope w/ Marwa al-Sabouni
10 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk to Syrian architect and urban thinker Marwa-al-Sabouni. When war enveloped her city, Homs, she refused to leave and remained ...
Islands of Abandonment w/ Cal Flyn
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk to journalist and author Cal Flyn on the occasion of her book Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape. In the...
The Innovation Complex w/ Sharon Zukin
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk to sociologist Sharon Zukin about an intrinsically urban phenomenon we have been witnessing all around us over the past decade...
The Good Ancestor w/ Roman Krznaric
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk to philosopher Roman Krznaric on the occasion of his latest book The Good Ancestor – How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term...
The Feminist City w/ Leslie Kern
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we will be talking to Leslie Kern, associate Professor of Geography and Environment at Mount Allison University, on her latest boo...
The Future We Choose w/ Christiana Figueres & Tom Rivett-Carnac
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk to Christiana Figueres and Tom-Rivett-Carnac. Christiana Figueres is the former UN climate chief and the architect and pub...
Rentier Capitalism w/ Brett Christophers
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this first episode we talk to Brett Christophers, Professor of Social and Economic Geography at Uppsala University, on his latest book Rentier Cap...