Human Entities Podcast

Human Entities 2025: Daniel Felstead opens with the January 20 Trump inauguration image of Western tech leaders beside an authoritarian figure and uses it to frame a new techno-industrial order.

Paco Calvo tells a Lisbon audience that plant intelligence is not a metaphor, and he frames the talk around whether a potted plant can be treated like a dog or a cat.

Caroline Busta’s Human Entities talk at the 9th edition of Human Entities, introduced by Sofia Oliveira and Gerard Hockey of CADA, centers on her essay “The Hallucinating Sense in an Era of Infinity Content.” She contrasts linear media with network media through Marshall McLuhan, Jodi Dean’s 2009 framework, and examples from Twitter, TikTok, and art-world circulation.

Human Entities 2023: Mark Leckie is a Lisbon Architecture Triennale artist talk where Jared Hawking and Sofia Oliveira introduce Leckie and frame the 7th edition of Human Entities.

Human Entities's 2024 talk centers on Giorgio Agostino's argument that psychedelic research often treats mystical experience as a universal outcome.

A series of public talks exploring the interplay between technology and culture, featuring practical announcements and an introduction to the event.

Opening remarks for a public talk series on technology and culture, with practical announcements and introduction of the event.

A public talk series exploring how technology shapes and influences culture and society, with an introduction to the organizers and their mission.

A talk introducing artists who explore the accountability of semi-autonomous software and bots in public spaces.