Disintegrator
Episodes
41. Tactics (w/ Bogna Konior)
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
40. Liturgy (w/ Haela Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix)
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're joined by Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, composer, philosopher, and force behind Liturgy, whose concept of transcendental black metal has redrawn the boun...
39. Dissociation (w/ McKenzie Wark)
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 inform...
Hito Steyerl & Simon Denny on Exocapitalism
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two of the most important artists of the 21st century help us tease through the implications of our book.
Πάμε Βενετία! (w/ Becoming Press)
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A transmission from Becoming Press' Πάμε Βενετία! conference in Venice this past September.Contributions in order from:Palais SinclaireLuca...
HOTHOUSE: The Future of Demonstration (w/ Sylvia Eckermann & Gerald Nestler)
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the first episode of Hothouse, a limited series exploring experimental forms of demonstration, resistance, and civic imagination. Produced ...
38. Natural Language (w/ Leif Weatherby)
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We’re joined by Leif Weatherby, associate professor at NYU, founding director of the Digital Theory Lab, and author of the new Language Machines: Cu...
37. Center (w/ Mohammad Salemy)
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're joined by Mohammad Salemy, organizer and facilitator of the New Centre for Research and Practice, fierce critic, social media (@inhumansofberlin...
36. Violence (w/ Fred Moten and Stefano Harney)
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 l...
35. The Pre-Individual (w/ Ramon Amaro)
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We’re joined by Ramon Amaro, Creative Director of Design Academy Eindhoven — an engineer, philosopher, writer, curator, and altogether critical-fo...
34. Spirit (w/ Catherine Malabou)
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
**EXOCAPITALISM** (w. Charles Mudede & Becoming Press)
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Charles Mudede & Claire from Becoming Press sit down to discuss Exocapitalism: Economies w/ Absolutely No Limits!Charles Mudede is an author, crit...
33. After Us (w/ Émile P. Torres)
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're back to our regularly-scheduled Disintegrator programming! We've been hard at work on our book (buy it, wtf!) but have a number of killer episod...
VESPERS Pt. 2 (w/ Millaze)
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
CW: eating disorders are discussed a few times in this episode.Vespers is a limited series within Disintegrator that focuses on the creative feedback ...
VESPERS Pt. 1 (w/ RayonBase)
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Vespers is a limited series within Disintegrator that focuses on the creative feedback loops between music and social media. It follows from the Nobod...
32. I Put a Post on You (w/ Dana Dawud, feat. Open Secret)
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Artist and curator Dana Dawud joins Disintegrator to talk about Open Secret, her touring platform for internet cinema, and her evolving film series Mo...
31. Incarnation (w/ Pete Wolfendale)
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We’re joined by philosopher Peter Wolfendale — a singular voice in contemporary theory, known for his work on autonomy and the metaphysics of cogn...
LONGUE DURÉE Pt. 2 (w/ Timothy Morton)
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
CW: There is some brief discussion of abusive familial relationships at several points within this episode.Two titanic figures in contemporary theory ...
LONGUE DURÉE Pt. 1 (w/ Ray Brassier)
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two titanic figures in contemporary theory join us for two separate and strongly divergent episodes on the status of revolutionary thought in politica...
28. Imperative Pythagoreanism (w/ Giuseppe Longo)
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s such an honor to welcome Giuseppe Longo to the pod! Professor Giuseppe Longo is the Research Director Emeritus at Centre National de la Recherc...
27. Critique as Commodity (w/ Morgane Billuart)
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We’re on with Morgane Billuart, a writer and artist and a researcher whose work engages critically with technologically mediated and determined worl...
26. The Great Outdoors (w/ Gordon White)
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gordon White is a chaos magician, shamanic practitioner, and permaculture designer based in Tasmania. He podcasts and teaches through the vehicle of R...
25. CRIT (w/ Avocado Ibuprofen)
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You already follow @avocado_ibuprofen. His memes IV-ed into the arm of the artworld, circulating through the DMs; they are acidic and thereaputic, the...
24. A Girl is a Gun (w/ Alex Quicho)
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Few people have done more to define the contemporary media theory landscape than Alex Quicho @amfq, an indefinable thinker and artist and intellectual...
[Superlecture]: Nobody Listens to Music Anymore (Marek)
30 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On finishing the project of music, on TikTokCore and SpotifyCore, on music as cosplay and the technicity of cultural imperialism, on the bureaucratic ...
23. The Club (w/ Li Zhenhua)
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
No notes, pure vivid realness and realism.Li Zhenhua is a major force in the art world, especially in film.A tone poem from Torino. Marek's favorite ...
22. Janky (w/ Daniel Felstead and Jenn Leung)
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two of our discourse besties from UAL's Fashion Media Practice & Criticism -- experiential designers Daniel Felstead and Jenn Leung -- join us to ...
21. LIFE (w/ Blaise Agüera y Arcas)
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Blaise Agüera y Arcas is one of most important people in AI, and apart from his leadership position as CTO of Technology & Society at Google, he ...
20. Low-Power Mode (w/ Tega Brain)
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A very warm welcome to Helena McFadzean, who is joining the Disintegrator wrecking crew. This week’s episode features one of our favorite artists, ...
19. Anamnesis & Prosthetic Imagination (w/ Jonathan Impett)
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s a gem from our archive, a recording with Jonathan Impett — Director of Research at the Orpheus Instituut. Impett has had a MAJOR impact on...
18. What is a World? (w/ Patricia Reed)
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Majorly excited to have Patricia Reed on the pod. This is a beefy episode! If I was looking for a major reset in my relationship to the world around m...
17. Computation is Computation (w/ M. Beatrice Fazi)
19 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features one of our most anticipated guests: M. Beatrice Fazi.M. Beatrice Fazi is a philosopher working in philosophy of computation, phi...
𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑛 (𝑤/ 𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑚01)
10 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑚01 𝑗𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑠 𝑢𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑒...
16. Sh*tshow Theory (w/ Mattin & Inigo Wilkins)
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
BACK with some of the world's foremost experts on NOISE: Mattin & Inigo Wilkins.Relevant links include:The Noise Research Union (NRU) which invol...
15. Systems (w/ Georgina Voss)
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Georgina Voss helps Roberto and Marek kick off on a journey to think about the relationship between human agency and political scale,...
[Hyperlecture] Marek & Roberto: Non-Player Dynamics: Agency Fetish in Game-World
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Youtube for the full experience + Q&A. In the pod, I say to just listen to the audio, but honestly the video is really really fire.Lecture given t...
14. Deathcare for the End of the World (w/ Patricia MacCormack)
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This one is deep so see tons of explanatory resources below. The philosophy talk turns to political talk (easier to grok) after about 15 minutes, but ...
13. Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Creative Production (Marek Solo Ep.)
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Creativity = sus.
12. Piles (w/ Alex Reisner)
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Reisner's writing in the Atlantic is some of the best investigative coverage of Large Language Models out there. In this episode, we talk through...
11. Reinventing the Surface (w/ Refik Anadol)
10 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Refik Anadol, and by extension Refik Anadol Studio, is one of the most visible, if not the most visible, artists working with large models today. His ...
10. Voice (w/ Jennifer Walshe)
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jennifer Walshe is one of the coolest people we know. Her artistic work and thought has broken our brains for years, leaving us shipwrecked in its tor...
[Bonus] Non-Player Dynamics (Teaser)
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Go here for more information about the upcoming talk that Roberto and Marek are doing Sunday, March 10, at 10AM Pacific. It's virtual, so come join us...
9. Alignment (w/ Benjamin Bratton)
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Benjamin Bratton writes about world-spanning intelligences, grinding geopolitical tectonics, “accidental megastructures” of geotechnical cruft, th...
8. World Models (w/ Anil Bawa-Cavia)
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Anil Bawa-Cavia (AA Cavia) is one of our favorite writers and practitioners on the philosophy of computation. We discovered his work through Logiciel,...
7. Protocols of Encounter (w/ Sofian Audry)
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sofian Audry wrote Art in the Age of Machine Learning, an absolute canon read that contextualizes the contemporary flurry of creative AI application a...
6. Autolinguistics & Autopoetics (w/ Sasha Stiles)
02 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sasha Stiles writes poetry with and as machines. We first encountered her work as a direct, powerful rejoinder to the allegation that AI-generated wor...
[Bonus] Choreomata Launch Panel (w/ Foreign Objekt)
26 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Here's the audio version of the Choreomata book launch with Foreign Objekt, featuring Anil Bawa-Cavia, Jonathan Impett, Mattin, Reza Negarestani, Keit...
5. The Unknown X (w/ Luciana Parisi)
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Luciana Parisi has produced some of the 21st century’s most daring and bold work in the theories of cybernetics, information, and computation. Her w...
4. Capital Sticks to Itself (Marek Solo Ep.)
03 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
First - come to our book launch, hosted by our friends at Foreign Objekt and organized by Sepideh Majidi. Dec 9 at 9AM Pacific: https://www.foreignobj...
3. Deep Learning as Parasite (w/ Jon McCormack)
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jon McCormack has been investigating the relationships between machine intelligences and creativity for decades. In Episode 3, Jon joins Marek and Rob...
2. Free Labor, Hidden Labor (w/ Tiziana Terranova)
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tiziana Terranova has provided all of us with one of the sharpest critical accounts of the modern internet. In this episode, Tiziana, Roberto, and Mar...
1. Human is Not a Thing (w/ Reza Negarestani)
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Reza Negarestani has put together one of the strongest philosophical conceptions of Artificial General Intelligence. In this episode, Reza, Marek, and...