The Cluster F Theory Podcast

Timotheus Vermeulen and Gia Milinovich

To many of us the world, our very planet, appears to be coming apart. How can we put it back together again (and should we)? What do we salvage and what do we throw away? What goes where and why? Each episode we speak to a philosopher, critical theorist, scientist, artist, writer or thinker about their take on the absolute 'cluster f' that’s happening around us. We don't promise to make you happier, more mindful or fitter, but you will spend some time thinking about something other than yourself. theclusterftheory.substack.com

  1. JUN 19

    52. End of Season 2

    We are taking a break. Here are the episodes we mention in this chat as well as the list of podcast recommendations we talked about. Rosie Nixon - Burnout https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/45-burnout-rosie-nixon Merve Emre - Public/Publics https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/39-publicpublics-merve-emre Jonas Staal - Propaganda https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/47-propaganda-jonas-staal Jeff Rosenthal - Industrial Evolution https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/51-industrial-evolution-jeff-rosenthal Nicole Stott - Crewlife https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/41-crewlife-nicole-stott Julie Reshe - Negative Psychoanalysis https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/43-negative-psychoanalysis-julie Jason Mittell - The Operational Aesthetic https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/50-the-operational-aesthetic-jason Bertha Chin - Fandom https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/40-fandom-bertha-chin Victoria Smith - (Un)Kindness https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/48-unkindness-victoria-smith Dame Arlene Phillips - Dance https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/38-dance-dame-arlene-phillips Andrew Macdonald - Festivals https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/46-festivals-andrew-macdonald Podcast Recommendations: Peter Thiel Story The Weekly Show With Jon Stewart The New York Times' The Interview podcast NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me Merve Emre's The Critic and Her Public Moving Histories Eaves dropping at the movies Off Menu Gastropod Parenting Hell Valley Heat Everything Is Alive Blocked and Reported Panic World The Rest Is Politics US This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theclusterftheory.substack.com

    19 min
  2. MAY 15

    47. Propaganda - Jonas Staal

    Jonas Staal is a visual artist whose work deals with the relation between art, democracy and propaganda. Much of his work is collaborative, performative and critically utopian. He is the founder of the artistic and political organization New World Summit. Together with Florian Malzacher he co-directs the training camp Training for the Future and with human rights lawyer Jan Fermon he initiated the collective action lawsuit Collectivize Facebook. With writer and lawyer Radha D’Souza he founded the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes and with Laure Prouvost he is co-administrator of the Obscure Union. Current and recent exhibition projects include Museum as Parliament (with the Democratic Self-Administration of Rojava and Van Abbemuseum), We Demand a Million More Years (at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, 2022), Extinction Wars (with Radha D'Souza, at the Gwangju Museum of Art, 2023) and Propaganda Station (in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, 2024). His work has been exhibited at venues such as the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York, V&A in London, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, MUHKA in Antwerp, Centre Pompidou-Metz and the Nam June Paik Art Center in Seoul, as well as the 7th Berlin Biennale, the 31st São Paulo Biennale, the 12th Taipei Biennale and the 14th Shanghai Biennale. Staal is a writer, too, with a PhD from the PhD Arts program in Leiden. Publications related to this include Propaganda Art in the 21st Century (The MIT Press, 2019) and Climate Propagandas: Stories of Extinction and Regeneration (The MIT Press, 2024). https://www.jonasstaal.nl/ ---------------------- The Cluster F Theory Podcast is edited by Julian Mayers at Yada Yada Our theme tune is by DC Turner This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theclusterftheory.substack.com

    48 min

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To many of us the world, our very planet, appears to be coming apart. How can we put it back together again (and should we)? What do we salvage and what do we throw away? What goes where and why? Each episode we speak to a philosopher, critical theorist, scientist, artist, writer or thinker about their take on the absolute 'cluster f' that’s happening around us. We don't promise to make you happier, more mindful or fitter, but you will spend some time thinking about something other than yourself. theclusterftheory.substack.com

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