{"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":"45. El Apocalipsis Ya Está Aquí (w/ no.investigues)","slug":"45-el-apocalipsis-ya-est-aqu-w-no-investigues","published_at":"2026-04-23T14:46:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/disintegrator-6686019/45-el-apocalipsis-ya-est-aqu-w-no-investigues","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/disintegrator-6686019","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/45-el-apocalipsis-ya-esta-aqui-w-no-investigues--71590837","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71590837/noinv.mp3","summary":"This episode is entirely in Spanish. English translation is here: https://marekpoliks.com/noinvestigues_transcript . We are delighted to be joined by the algorithmically contagious memetic research project no.investigues. If you are chronically online, especially if you are familiar with the Spanish-speaking corners of the internet, you must have already interacted with one of the echoes of no.investigues —probably through their wonderful Substack, or in conversation at their Discord book club, or through the 28.research cluster, or most likely through monumental Instagram meme carousels. Their voice flows through online algorithmic inertia, yet the substance of their discourse exists in the shadow of virality. In this conversation, we talk about what it means to understand the apocalypse as an asymmetrical phenomenon: no one experiences it at the same time, and clearly not with the same intensity. This polyphonic nature of the apocalypse is amplified by the increasingly atomized and homogeneous global distribution of violence. Even so, the apocalypse is already here, and we might be better off learning how to inhabit it. Through an extrapolated reading of Ernesto Oroza’s visual archive Desobediencia Tecnológica (Technological Disobedience), documenting repurposed technology in Cuba, we talk about repurposing salvaged discourses into newly assembled modes of thinking that would allow us to confront the roughness of our apocalyptic situation. This invitation resonates with a thread that runs through our conversations ever since Exocapitalism came out: the premise that perhaps the apocalypse and capital are forces not to be treated as enemies, but as inertias of History. Both demand a nuanced engagement with their diverse local articulations of violence. Under this frame…","meta_description":"This episode is entirely in Spanish. English translation is here: https://marekpoliks.com/noinvestigues_transcript . We are delighted to be joined by the…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4418,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/disintegrator-6686019/episodes/45-el-apocalipsis-ya-est-aqu-w-no-investigues/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/disintegrator-6686019/45-el-apocalipsis-ya-est-aqu-w-no-investigues.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}