A podcast about the entanglement of thinking and making with machines.
Each episode is a conversation with an artist, philosopher,
or researcher who works with, through, or against machines
broadly understood.
What does the machine do to the way we think and act?
Giorgi Vachnadze is a researcher working at the intersection of Christian theology, eschatology, and contemporary philosophy of technology. His work examines how theological frameworks — particularly around questions of end times, salvation, and divine intelligence — resonate with and are transformed by the emergence of artificial intelligence.
Drawing on patristic sources as well as contemporary continental philosophy, Vachnadze asks what it means for a tradition built around divine logos to encounter a machine that increasingly mimics its operations.
Andreas Tegnander is a composer and multimedia artist pursuing sensorial extensions and cross-sensory translations through sound art. His practice investigates the flexibility of cognitive biases and perception, re-imagining technology to create sonic spatial interventions that highlight the invisible forces shaping our hallucinations and behaviours.
Working across a multitude of media, he is developing a series of public sensory organs — installations that make the imperceptible audible and spatial. Based in Zaandam.
Gabriele de Seta is, technically, a sociologist. He is a researcher at the University of Bergen, where he leads the ALGOFOLK project — Algorithmic folklore: The mutual shaping of vernacular creativity and automation — funded by a Trond Mohn Foundation Starting Grant (2024–2028).
His work spans digital folklore, synthetic ethnography, machine vision, and the social life of algorithms, with a particular focus on Chinese internet culture and the infrastructural topology of digital platforms. He holds a PhD from Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
MeltdownYourBooks is the pseudonym of a writer whose Substack, symbiosis, operates at the intersection of cultural theory, biology, and pop criticism. The tagline reads: I will never read a book I am not reading a book I have never read a book.
Their essays move between the ontology of the gene and the aesthetics of alternative pop, between Marxist political economy and the strange afterlives of internet culture — refusing to separate what most criticism keeps apart.
Lukáš Likavčan is a philosopher working on emerging technologies, ecology, and astronomy. His research traces the entangled histories of scientific infrastructures, ideas, and cultures mobilised in the production of knowledge that informs human efforts to sustain planetary habitability.
He is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences, co-founder of the outer space consultancy ⠿ Substrate, and author of Introduction to Comparative Planetology (2019). His work has been presented at CERN Arts, the Venice Biennale, Transmediale, and Sonic Acts, among others.