10 episodes
Into the Zone Pushkin Industries
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4.8 • 468 Ratings
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Into the Zone is a podcast about opposites, and how borders are never as clear as we think. With a novelist’s eye for the unexpected, host Hari Kunzru takes the listener around the world, meeting philosophers and punk musicians, New Age gurus and space explorers, to investigate the gray zone between life and death, public and private, black and white, and more.
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Into the Zone Presents: Hi-Phi Nation
Hosted by Barry Lam of Vassar College, Hi-Phi Nation is philosophy in story-form, integrating narrative journalism with big ideas. The show look at stories from everyday life, law, science, popular culture, and strange corners of human experiences that raise thought-provoking questions about things like justice, knowledge, the self, morality, and existence. Here’s a fascinating episode from the very first season of Hi-Phi Nation, about a dead chocolate mogul and the richest orphanage in the world.
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Dead or Alive
Life’s final border might not be so final after all. From tardigrades to viruses, some things are both dead and alive. Or neither. How do we draw the line between the living and the dead? And how does that line blur in places like in a time capsule buried in ice, or a library on the moon?
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When We Were Cyber
Cyborgs, cyberspace, mind-melting techno. In the mid-’90s, the future had arrived. To find out what happened to it, Hari pays a visit to philosopher Manuel DeLanda, and to the legendary artist ORLAN, who he first encountered at an academic conference like no other.
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The Ghost in the Codec
At the dawn of the digital era, a group of engineers tasked with audio compression had to decide what information to keep, and what to leave behind. What was signal, and what was noise? Fast forward two decades, to our much noisier world. Hari finds a writer and a musician who’ve discovered their own ways to find a voice within the static.
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Never Mind the Stasi
East Berlin, 1983. A teenage punk rocker finds himself in a Stasi interrogation cell. The choice is simple: inform on his friends, or go to prison. Hari travels to Berlin to meet the punks and spies whose cat and mouse game in the last years of the GDR predicted the privacy wars of today.
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It’s Always Sunny in the Dialectic
Look on the bright side! In a country obsessed with positivity, Hari traces the path of exiled German intellectual Theodor Adorno to sunny California, where he gets stuck in traffic with the British writer Geoff Dyer. How this positivity relates to church and state? Turns out there’s a lot to complain about.
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Customer Reviews
Great research & insight
Thanks, Hari. Very well written, presented & produced. Entertaining, yet enlightening.
Into the Zone podcast
Can’t wait for more podcasts in 2021. Stay well.
Stimulating, Surprising Fun
Hari asks difficult questions and avoids easy answers. He interrogates what we think we know, the matters we take for granted. And he does all of this with entertaining sound design, a great soundtrack, and a surprisingly brisk pace. The best episodes are those where Hari digs into who he is and where he comes from along with his larger themes and questions.
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