{"podcast":{"title":"Disintegrator","slug":"disintegrator-6686019","podcast_index_feed_id":6686019,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6006543/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/disintegrator--6006543","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/62598ec5a8bf1634ec48af25e11d8620.jpg","author":"Marek Poliks, Roberto Alonso","episode_count":62,"summary":"What does it mean to be human in an age where experience and behavior are mediated and regulated by algorithms? The Disintegrator Podcast is a limited series exploring how Artificial Intelligence affects who we are and how we express ourselves. Join Roberto Alonso Trillo, Marek Poliks, and Helena McFadzean as they speak to the artists, philosophers, scientists, and social theorists at the forefront of human-AI relations. Disintegrator is produced by Rubén Bañuelos.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-10T04:19:01.217983+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/disintegrator-6686019"},"episode":{"title":"33. After Us (w/ Émile P. Torres)","slug":"33-after-us-w-mile-p-torres","published_at":"2025-06-30T14:30:08+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/disintegrator-6686019/33-after-us-w-mile-p-torres","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/disintegrator-6686019","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/33-after-us-w-emile-p-torres--66805689","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/66805689/torres.mp3","summary":"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 episodes queued up for release. Émile P. Torres is a philosopher of the end times. You'll most likely associate their name (and that of collaborator Timnit Gebru) with developing the acronym TESCREAL, a grab-bag of ideologies that undergird the romance between venture capital and Silicon Valley. We strongly recommend their podcast Dystopia Now! (w/ Kate Willett) and their newest book Human Extinction: A History of the Science and Ethics of Annihilation. The T in TESCREAL is 'transhumanism,' a frequent topic of the pod, which tends to mean an application of technology to human bodies and in such a way that allows humans to transcend human limitations (e.g. speed, efficiency, senses, mortality). From there, the rest of the ideologies follow from a relationship between the human and its 'rationalized' extensibility through technology: E (extropianism), S (singularitarianism), C (cosmism), R (rationalism), EA (effective altriusim), and L (longtermism). Here's a gentle and clean explainer of all of the above. In this episode, we talk extensively about some elements that aren't actively represented in TESCREAL but sit beneath it: accelerationism, extinction-neutrality, and left-adjacent positions with respect to both (e.g. l/acc, xenofeminism, ahumanism -- this episode might pair really nicely with our interview with Patricia MacCormack for this very reason).","meta_description":"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 episodes…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3022,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/disintegrator-6686019/episodes/33-after-us-w-mile-p-torres/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/disintegrator-6686019/33-after-us-w-mile-p-torres.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}