| Broadcasts & Events |

‘I’m not an interviewer; I have conversations.’

[Werner Herzog]

Philosophy began in Ancient Greece as public conversations that took place outside in the agora – the civic centre and market place – so that the discussion was open to all and accountable to all. For me a contemporary way of doing this is through TV, radio, podcasts, festivals and public lectures. Here’s a selection of my broadcasts and events: if you’d like to know when new public discussions like these are live, you can register for updates.

[decorative image] Photo of the editing desk in a radio studio, with a lit "On Air" sign in the background, and a microphone in the foreground.
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[decorative image] Photo of the editing desk in a radio studio, with a lit "On Air" sign in the background, and a microphone in the foreground.
Photo by Fringer Cat on Unsplash

  • ‘Minister for the future: how to open up tech monopolies,’ 13 July 2023. Panel discussion hosted by Alan Rusbridger, Editor of Prospect magazine and former Editor-in-Chief of The Guardian, to explore bold ideas for reconfiguring big tech monopolies by James Plunkett, tech author and Chief Practices Officer at Nesta. [live in-person event]

  • ‘Experimentalism and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: rewiring society,’ fireside chat with Audrey Tang, Digital Minister of Taiwan, for the Open Data Institute, 30 November 2022. On wisdom in policy-making, decolonising digital technologies, and collective intelligence and distributed decision-making in civic life. The transcript is available as an online document that readers can comment on with each other or download and annotate. [pre-record studio video]

  • ‘Knowns and unknowns: data and metaphor,’ lecture and audience Q&A for the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) and Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, 11 October 2021. Draws on Heracleitus, Nietzsche and Toni Morrison to explore what it means to do data science and technology policy in times of uncertainty. [live video broadcast]

  • ‘Milly and the brain,’ at the Edinburgh Festival, 13 August 2016. A set of reflections on consciousness and philosophy of mind to introduce The Well-Tempered Brain, an art installation / science experiment using live ECG readings of audience members’ brainwaves to create new music, led by Dr Alexander ‘Sasha’ Kagansky for the Global Young Academy. [pre-record event video]

  • ‘Secrets and lies,’ special edition of Late Night Woman’s Hour hosted by Lauren Laverne, BBC Radio 4, 14 August 2015. On truth in relationships. [live radio broadcast]

[decorative image] Photo of the editing desk in a radio studio, with a lit "On Air" sign in the background, and a microphone in the foreground.
Photo by Fringer Cat on Unsplash

‘But excitement about ideas was not sufficient to create an exciting learning process.
As a classroom community, our capacity to generate excitement is deeply affected by our interest in one another,
in hearing one another’s voices, in recognizing one another’s presence.’


[bell hooks, Teaching To Transgress]