Antoine Bousquet is Associate Professor at the Swedish Defence University, Stockholm. He is the author of The Eye of War: Military Perception from the Telescope to the Drone (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) and The Scientific Way of Warfar

Disarming Doomsday with Dr Becky Alexis-Martin

Jan 29th, 2024 48m 28s

Dr Becky Alexis-Martin is a pacifist academic at the University of Bradford. Her work explores nuclear warfare, social justice, humanitarian and environmental issues, and human rights. Her expertise is focused on nuclear geographies and decolon

Breathless War with Italo Brandimarte

Nov 22nd, 2023 53m 25s

In this episode, my guest Italo Brandimarte discussed his journal article 'Breathless war: martial bodies, aerial experiences and the atmosphere of empire.' Italo's article covers the use of poison gas by the Italian air force in the Abyssinian

Hacking the Bomb with Professor Andrew Futter

Sep 16th, 2023 54m 57s

Professor Andrew Futter specialises in contemporary nuclear weapons issues, specifically emerging technologies and their impact on nuclear strategy, stability and arms control. His work is centred on raising international awareness of nuclear

Turning Fylingdales Inside Out with Dr Michael Mulvihill

Jul 9th, 2023 1h 10m

Dr Michael Mulvihill is a Research Associate at the University of Newcastle's. His recent project, 'Turning Fylingdales Inside Out: making practice visible at the UK’s ballistic missile early warning and space monitoring station' was a multimed

Radical War with Dr Matthew Ford and Professor Andrew Hoskins

Sep 13th, 2022 57m 34s

In this first episode of Hypervelocity I was delighted to speak with Dr Matthew Ford and Professor Andrew Hoskins about their new book, Radical War: Data, Attention and Control in the Twenty-First Century. In Radical War, Matthew and Andrew rec

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Introducing Hypervelocity

May 19th, 2022 16s

Hypervelocity: a podcast about the impact of military technology on strategy.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hypervelocity/message

British Romanticism and Negative Capability with Timothy Wilcox

Oct 27th, 2020 1h 7m

Lovely to have Timothy on the show. Quite fittingly, there was a really nice narrative thread running through our chat linking British Romanticism, cognitive dissonance and negative capability, favourite books, the impact of the internet on nar

Novacene for the Soul. A review of James Lovelock’s Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence

May 11th, 2020 5m 29s

A quick little audio chapter for you all. A recording of an article I wrote some months ago. You can check the written article out on https://medium.com/@jsimpkin/novacene-for-the-soul-a-review-of-james-lovelocks-novacene-the-coming-age-of-hype

IQ and Imposter Syndrome with Nick White

May 2nd, 2020 1h 23m

Cool to have Nick White with me on today's podcast. Nick is a genetic engineer with an interest, amongst many things, in nootropics. I'm an average guy and I often question my right and ability to study at PhD level, and so with Nick's interest

Morals and Markets with David Gornoski

May 2nd, 2020 1h 53m

I was delighted to have had David Gornoski with me for this episode of Primitive Accumulation, particularly as David was my first guest whom I did not know beforehand. I just emailed David out of the blue and he said yes. David was also very ge

Death and The Subject with Johannes Niederhauser

Apr 12th, 2020 1h 5m

It’s great to have back with me Johannes Neiderhauser, PhD. In yet another engaging and eclectic discussion, Johannes and I ranged over a wide but interconnected landscape of ideas including Dasein and the tragic death of the very young, the ne

Visions of Utopia with Robin Amos

Feb 2nd, 2020 59m 47s

This time around, it was great to have with me Robin Amos to discuss the idea of Utopia. I’d met Robin through the indiethinkers.org forum and was intrigued to learn more about his conceptualisation of the future as an idea in itself.To begin,

Wittgenstein and Addiction: Sense Perception and Moral Perception

Jan 26th, 2020 2m 10s

I’ve been reading Donald D. Hoffman’s The Case Against Reality: How evolution hid the truth from our eyes. At one point Hoffman uses a Wittgenstein quote to raise a point about how our senses can deceive us, and this got me thinking about di

Heidegger and the Uncanny with Johannes Niederhauser

Dec 14th, 2019 41m 17s

For my debut podcast I’m delighted to have with me Johannes Niederhauser PhD. Johannes is a Heidegger scholar, currently teaches philosophy at Birkbeck College and will soon publish his first book on Heidegger’s phenomenology of death. Johannes