Palladium Podcast

Sep 19 2023 100 ep. 78 mins 571

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The Palladium Podcast explores the future of governance and society. Hosted by Jonah Bennett, Wolf Tivy, and Ash Milton.

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Bonus: Why are we hosting the AI Conclave?

Sep 19 2023 56 mins

Palladium editors Wolf Tivy and Matt Ellison join Skinner Layne of Wild Studios. We discuss why Palladium and Wild Studios are hosting the AI Conclave in Spain this November. Learn more and join us: https://aiconclave.io The AI Conclave is a month-long pop-up campus for deep study of the biggest questions—in Mediterranean nature: for healthy bodies, minds, and souls. November 1-

Palladium Podcast 83: Tea Törmänen and Marco Visscher on Ecomodernism

Nov 30 2022 93 mins

Tea Törmänen and Marco Visscher join Ash Milton to discuss their recent article on how Finland's Greens chose nuclear energy and the differences between degrowth and ecomodernism. Recently, the Finnish Green Party has been leading the way among green movements in embracing nuclear energy. Tea and Marco tell us why that came to be and how it could be the future for the rest of Eur

Palladium Podcast 82: Jesse Velay-Vitow on the Geopolitics of Climate Change

Oct 21 2022 79 mins

Jesse Velay-Vitow joins Ash Milton to discuss how recent geopolitical realignments, energy crises, and migration patterns will shape the rest of the twenty-first century. Recent energy crises in Europe have helped to put nuclear energy back on a strong footing. But does that mean that powers like Iran will be able to build them? How will industrializing nations vulnerable to climat

Palladium Podcast 81: Dylan Levi King on East Asian Ecotheology

Oct 03 2022 61 mins

Dylan Levi King joins Wolf Tivy to discuss his featured 07 article on North Korean environmentalist policies, Japanese whaling, and the ecotheology that undergirds them. When Kim Il-Sung, the founder of North Korea, was fighting against Japanese occupiers, environmentalism and folk mythology were interwoven parts of his legend—it was rumored he could turn pine tree cones into f

Palladium Podcast 80: Ash Milton on the Wages of Revolution

Sep 13 2022 76 mins

Ash Milton joins Alexander Gelland to discuss his recent article on the life of the Abbé Henri Gregoire, a priest who was one of the leaders of the French Revolution. Henri Gregoire is a mysterious figure. Both revolutionary and clerical, universalistic and patriotic, he embodies many of the contradictions of the Revolution. Walking us through his biography and elite-level polit

Palladium Podcast 79: Eron Wolf on the Evolution of Computing

Jun 06 2022 73 mins

Eron Wolf joins Wolf Tivy to discuss alternative computing and the trappings of the streamlined user experience. As computing technology has become more widespread, the possibilities it offers the user have been narrowed. DRM restrictions, software bloat, and "appification" have made tinkering more difficult. Attempts at fixing this, such as the open-source software movement, hav

Palladium Podcast 78: Mathis Bitton on the Gaulist State

May 26 2022 119 mins

Mathis Bitton joins Ash Milton to discuss his PALLADIUM 05 article on state centralization under Charles de Gaulle, the institutional history of French liberalism, and how a nation is built. France occupies a unique position among the Western powers. With public spending at two thirds of its GDP, the French bureaucratic state has historically required a powerful executive. Charles

Palladium Podcast 77: Nicolas Villarreal on Socialist Cybernetics

May 14 2022 101 mins

Nicolas Villarreal joins Ash Milton to discuss his 05 article on how capitalist giants use socialist cybernetic planning, cybernetic methods of organizing supply chains, and their impact on the worker. Socialist Chile centrally planned its economy using Project Cybersyn, which used computerized feedback loops to give production managers live updates on changes in demand and other

Palladium Podcast 76: Charles Smith on Posthuman Society

May 06 2022 56 mins

Charles Smith joins Alexander Gelland to talk about his 2020 article Confronting Modernity Means Overcoming Humanism, featured in PALLADIUM 05: Centralizing Society. The emancipating power of modernity has escaped our control and begun to resemble its opposite. But, if we have the vision to see it through, new technologies promise a radical reshaping of our society for the better.

Palladium Podcast 75: Erik Hoel on Aristocratic Tutoring

Apr 22 2022 96 mins

Erik Hoel joins Ash Milton to discuss the current state of education, how it succeeded aristocratic tutoring, and what it means for progress. Up until the creation of mass schooling in the nineteenth century, tutelage was the most common form of education. Only aristocrats were able to afford this, and with the disappearance of aristocratic society so too has tutoring fallen out of