A Recommendation: Future Histories Podcast

The Future Histories podcast is a podcast about current and future socioeconomic problems and ways to solve them. Because it‘s made by and with people from social sciences and academia in general, it is by nature politically left-leaning. But it also means, it‘s not just a bunch of people with strong opinions trying to create ad revenue.

One quarter of the episodes are in English, the rest is in German. And for people, who read faster than other people talk, even at 1.5x playback speed, there are transcriptions on GitHub.

Episode Transcriptions

The website is rather shitty, because it uses a thin and narrow font with all-caps. 😭

I recommend to use either the RSS feed or the podcast app of your choice, where you can search for it.

Future Histories RSS Feed

The Current Subset of English Episodes

Season 2

S02E47 – Matt Huber on Building Socialism, Climate Change & Class War

S02E44 – Evgeny Morozov on Discovery Beyond Competition

S02E41 – Antoinette Rouvroy on Algorithmic Governmentality

S02E33 – Pat Devine on Negotiated Coordination

S02E31 – Thomas Swann on Anarchist Cybernetics

S02E27 – Nick Dyer-Witheford on Biocommunism

S02E22 – Robin Hahnel on Parecon (Part 2)

S02E21 – Robin Hahnel on Parecon (Part1)

S02E20 – Trebor Scholz on Platform Cooperativism

S02E19 – David Laibman on Multilevel Democratic Iterative Coordination

S02E18 – Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese on Half Earth Socialism

S02E16 – Lea Ypi on Freedom

S02E11 – James Muldoon on Platform Socialism

S02E10 – Aaron Benanav on Associational Socialism and Democratic Planning

Season 1

S01E58 – Jasper Bernes on Planning and Anarchy

S01E45 – Benjamin Bratton on Synthetic Catallaxies, Platforms of Platforms & Red Futurism (part 2/2)

S01E44 – Benjamin Bratton on Synthetic Catallaxies, Platforms of Platforms & Red Futurism (part 1/2)

S01E42 – Moira Weigel on Palantir, Tech-Nationalism & Aggression in the Life-World

S01E35 – Jeffrey Sachs on Economics Beyond GDP

S01E32 – Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 2)

S01E31 – Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 1)

S01E27 – Dime & Punishment Panel

S01E16 – Richard Barbrook on Imaginary Futures

S01E06 – Jaya Klara Brekke on the Political in Blockchain