In this show we take you back to the cyber-enthusiasm of the 1990's. A time when people where dreaming of an upcoming “internet age”. “Working from home" and "socializing remotely" were then imagined as a liberating vision of the future possibl

Caffeine Radio #8 – How numbers rule the world

Apr 14th, 2021 2h 4m

In this episode you'll get an introduction to the power of numbers! The pandemic politics of the last year have been increasingly legitimated through numbers and statistics. These are often used as a way to give proof for the necessity of a pol

Caffeine Radio #7 – Isolation fatigue and Q-caine

Mar 1st, 2021 1h 49m

The conspiracy theory movement Q-anon is stirring up the US and the rest of the world. With increasing isolation fatigue due to the lock-down(s), is it more likely to get sucked into a cult happening mostly online? Does the overall fatigue ask

Caffeine Radio #6 – Are you already immune?

Jan 22nd, 2021 1h 50m

In episode 6, ginger coons and Moritz do a historical analysis of the outbreak of the bubonic plague in San Francisco around 1900. And the politics of the quarantining and vaccinating process towards the population, at the time a highly discrim

Caffeine Episode #5 – Biopolitics

Nov 16th, 2020 2h 5m

Governments all over Europe are struggling to regulate numbers of new infections coming from the covid-19 pandemic. But how does a state regulate a "reproduction rate" of a virus? And what are the origins of these ways of regulating an entire

Caffeine Episode #4 – Permanent Economics II

Oct 14th, 2020 1h 53m

What would our economy look like, if everybody had work they actually enjoyed? And what kind of education would we need to prioritize work enjoyment over material gain? These and more questions are what we're talking about in the fourth episode

Caffeine Episode #3 – Permanent Economics

Sep 13th, 2020 1h 25m

For episode #4 we got inspired by the economic crackdown that happened during the beginning of the pandemic outbreak of 2020. Worldwide production chains where suddenly coming to a halt.What other economic models could we think of that can mak

Caffeine Episode #2 – Strategic Life Considerations

Aug 11th, 2020 1h 27m

In the 2nd episode of caffeine we`re looking at different circumstances in our life and question whether they are in our own control or not. Are things that happen to our body or our reputation really something that we have control over? We`re

Caffeine Episode #1 – Isolation & Proximity

Aug 10th, 2020 1h 50m

Written in 1909, the sci-fi short story "The machine stops" by E.M. Forster was for it`s time as visionary as nothing else. It imagined a future where people do live in separated and isolated spaces while exchanging idea`s through metal screens

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