Fully Automated

Fully Automated


Latest Episodes

Episode 24: Foucault & Neoliberalism, with Magnus Paulsen Hansen
April 27, 2020

Hello, Fully Automated friends! For your coronavirus lockdown listening pleasure, we are today releasing a really special episode. Our guest is Dr. Magnus Paulsen Hansen, who is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Sciences and Business,

Episode 23: Coronavirus, Catastrophe & Agamben, with Garnet Kindervater
March 19, 2020

This episode is about the biggest story of the decade so far, COVID-19, or the coronavirus. But its also an episode with someone I’ve been wanting to have on the show for a long time, Garnet Kindervater. - Before we get started,

Episode 22: Sinn Féin and the 2020 Irish election, with Colin Coulter
February 20, 2020

Today we are joined once again by Colin Coulter, of National University of Ireland, Maynooth. You might remember Colin from way back in Episode 8. That was like. 3 years ago! I didn’t even know I’d been doing this for three years! -

Episode 21: Morbid Symptoms on Brexit Day, with Owen Worth
February 06, 2020

This episode comes to you on February 6, 2020, just six days after so-called “Brexit Day.” That is, the day Britain legally departed from the European Union. In honor of this occasion, in this episode we talk to another returned guest, Owen Worth,

Episode 20: UK General Election with Lee Jones
January 04, 2020

Hello friends, and welcome to Episode 20 of Fully Automated, an Occupy IR Theory podcast. - Its January 4, 2020, and kicking off our fourth season of the show 2020 with two episodes on the recent elections in the UK. In this episode,

Episode 19: Generation Left, with Keir Milburn & Chairman Moe’s Magic Contradiction
September 23, 2019

Welcome to another episode of Fully Automated! Our guest for this episode is Keir Milburn, Lecturer in Political Economy and Organization at the University of Leicester. Keir has a new book out, called Generation Left.

Episode 18: Science, Technology & Art in International Relations, with Anna Leander
August 01, 2019

Hey everyone, and welcome to a very special episode of Fully Automated. Why so special? Well, because this is our first ever joint episode! We’ve teamed up with the Science Technology and Art in International Relations (or STAIR) section of ISA,

Episode 17: The Žižek-Peterson Debate, with Chairman Moe’s Magic Contradiction
May 03, 2019

Welcome back, friends! For this episode, we’re hooking up with our old friends in Columbus, OH, Chairman Moe’s Magic Contradiction, to discuss last week’s “mega debate” in Toronto, between Jordan Peterson and Slavoj Žižek,

Episode 16: What the Brexit? — LIVE at #ISA2019, Toronto (March 29)
April 05, 2019

Two episodes ago, our guest was Lee Jones — an advocate of ’The Full Brexit.’ During the show, Jones advanced the idea that the ideals of the Left cannot be satisfied within the EU, whereas the most meaningful historic victories of the left have been a...

Episode 15: Brexit Revisited, with Lucian Ashworth
February 28, 2019

This episode is the second in our Brexit series, and we are joined by Lucian Ashworth, Professor of International Relations at Memorial University of Newfoundland, and author of the influential text ‘A History of International Thought’ (Routledge,