Tag: Past Present Future

• Past Present Future: Politics on Trial: The Haymarket Eight vs the Police

  August 6, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/3XRTIHE Today’s political trial is one of the most notorious in American history: eight men charged with and convicted of murder in 1886 for a terrorist outrage that none… more ›

• Past Present Future: The History of Bad Ideas: Value-Free Tech

  July 7, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/CamAIsW For today’s episode in the history of bad ideas David talks to philosopher Shannon Vallor about the myth that technology can be value free. It’s easy to see… more ›

• Past Present Future: The History of Revolutionary Ideas Bonus: The Futurist Manifesto

  April 19, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/NkIFiEn For today’s bonus episode on PPF+ David explores Filippo Marinetti’s Futurist Manifesto (1909), a short document with a remarkable afterlife. From Vorticism to fascism, from cars to cod liver oil,… more ›

• Past Present Future: PPF Live Film Special: Network w/Helen Lewis

  April 3, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/dc9hxMl We take a brief break from revolutionary ideas for a special live episode of PPF recorded in front of an audience at the Regent Street Cinema in London.… more ›

• Past Present Future: The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Islam

  January 26, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/lbD3XcO Today’s episode in our history of revolutionary ideas explores the world-altering impact of Islam from the seventh century onwards. David talks to the leading Islamic scholar Tim Winter (Abdal… more ›

• Past Present Future: The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Socrates w/Agnes Callard

  January 19, 2025

  https://ift.tt/w4DLtmc To begin our history of revolutionary ideas in earnest, David talks to the philosopher Agnes Callard about Socrates, the philosopher who changed – and can still change – everything.… more ›

• Past Present Future: The Great Political Fictions Bonus: Submission

  January 12, 2025

  https://ift.tt/HmRbYE9 In this PPF+ bonus to accompany our summer fictions season David discusses Michel Houellebecq’s explosive political and intellectual satire Submission (2015). Published seven years before the French Presidential election of 2022 it… more ›

• Past Present Future: Thinking About Thinking Machines Bonus: Frankenstein

  January 12, 2025

  https://ift.tt/1Sg0itJ To accompany our new series on the history of thinking about thinking machines, in this bonus episode David explores the meaning and legacy of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818). What does a horror… more ›

• Past Present Future: The History of Bad Ideas Bonus: Sovereignty

  January 12, 2025

  https://ift.tt/1mC2EPO This bonus episode for PPF+ to accompany our bad ideas series is about what’s gone wrong with the idea of sovereignty. David talks to historian of ideas Lucia Rubinelli… more ›

• Past Present Future: The Great Political Films Bonus: Apocalypse Now w/ Helen Thompson

  January 12, 2025

  https://ift.tt/jx2u6LP David talks to Helen Thompson about Francis Ford Coppola’s manic masterpiece of the Vietnam War Apocalypse Now (1979), a film that almost destroyed its director and some of its cast.… more ›