{"podcast":{"title":"Hacking State","slug":"hacking-state-6414128","podcast_index_feed_id":6414128,"rss_url":"https://hackingstate.podbean.com/feed.xml","website_url":"https://hackingstate.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/16289709/Profile_Picture_Stacked_Dark_under_25mb78oll.jpg","author":"Alex Murshak","episode_count":58,"summary":"Exploring how technology changes our relationship to power, each other, and ourselves.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-16T02:23:02.509613+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hacking-state-6414128"},"episode":{"title":"46 - ARX-Han: The Shape of Meaning | Shame, Masculinity, Nihilism, and Agency","slug":"46-arx-han-the-shape-of-meaning-shame-masculinity-nihilism-and-agency","published_at":"2025-03-06T12:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hacking-state-6414128/46-arx-han-the-shape-of-meaning-shame-masculinity-nihilism-and-agency","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hacking-state-6414128","url":"https://hackingstate.podbean.com/e/arx-han/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/7hsr3m6achs6a9x6/ARX-han_audioaqkfl.mp3","summary":"ARX-Han is a novelist and publisher of the Decentralized Fiction Substack. He joins me to discuss cultural accelerationism, shame and masculinity, nihilism and the crisis of agency, and AI & fears of human obsolescence. ARX-Han On X: https://x.com/ARX_Han On Substack: https://www.decentralizedfiction.com/ His novel, INCEL: https://www.amazon.com/INCEL-Novel-ARX-Han/dp/B0CJLCZVCG/ If you enjoyed this interview, please leave a review on Spotify/iTunes. Support Hacking State: https://hackingstate.substack.com/subscribe Listen on: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@alexmurshak Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hacking-state/id1689677076 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1XB9XYULrAY4dp0qIJVvCg RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/hackingstate/feed.xml","meta_description":"ARX-Han is a novelist and publisher of the Decentralized Fiction Substack. He joins me to discuss cultural accelerationism, shame and masculinity, nihilis…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3960,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/hacking-state-6414128/episodes/46-arx-han-the-shape-of-meaning-shame-masculinity-nihilism-and-agency/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hacking-state-6414128/46-arx-han-the-shape-of-meaning-shame-masculinity-nihilism-and-agency.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}