RSam Podcast

ActuallyAdu is a video essayist and political commentator. He has a background in economics and makes videos about Australian and global politics. In this episode, we discuss the housing crisis, how bad the Australian economy is compared to the rest of the world, neoliberalism and its discontents, decommodifying housing, energy policy, migration, identity, preferential voting and building alternate systems.

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Mahault Albarracin is a PhD student at UQAM, Montréal, Québec, researching cognitive computing and social sciences. Mahault is Director of Research Strategy and Product Integration at VERSUS, a cognitive computing company. She is also an IEEE fellow, author, lecturer and has an MA in sexology. In this episode, we discuss the fundamental difference between LLMs and agents built on cognitive computing principles, AI agency, active in...

Dr Jack Black is an Associate Professor of Culture, Media, and Sport at Sheffield Hallam University (UK), where he's affiliated with the Centre for Culture, Media, and Society and is Research Lead for the Anti-Racism Research Group. He is an interdisciplinary researcher primarily focused on Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis, media, and cultural studies, authoring numerous books, including The Psychosis of Race, Racism and Politica...

Prof Richard Boothby is a professor of philosophy at Loyola University Maryland who works in psychoanalysis, philosophical psychology, phenomenology, existentialism, and contemporary continental philosophy. He is the author of Death and Desire, Freud as Philosopher, Blown Away and numerous other books. In this episode, we discuss his religious work (as a response to Christian Nationalism and identity politics) along with the book E...

Dr Tim Elmo Feiten is a philosopher of science with a focus on the sciences of life, mind, and artificial intelligence. His work brings the history and philosophy of science into dialogue with other fields, especially continental and Classical German philosophy. He has used the philosophy of embodied cognitive science to develop new readings of Jakob von Uexküll and Max Stirner and to ask questions about the relationships between a...

Andrew Flores is an autodidact in Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis, philosophy, theology, and Marxism. In this episode, we discuss Lacan's metapsychology and theory of the subject.

You can find more of Andrew's work at https://www.youtube.com/@thevanishingmediators and https://www.youtube.com/@The_Big_Sig

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Prof Kenneth Reinhard is Research Professor of Comparative Literature and English at UCLA, where he directed the Center for Jewish Studies, and founded the graduate program in Experimental Critical Theory. He has written on psychoanalysis, philosophy, religion, and occasionally literature and opera. He is Co-Author of  The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology with Slavoj Žižek and Eric Santner, and After Oedipus: Shakesp...

Dr Peter Rollins is a philosopher and radical theologian working through the tradition of apophatic theology, Freud, Lacan, Hegel and Žižek. He has a PhD dealing with post-structural theory from Queen's University, Belfast, and is the author of numerous books, including How (Not) to Speak of God and The Idolatry of God. Dr Rollins is the creator of Pyrotheology, which is a life technology that "involves a deep critique of any relig...

Abstraction, mimesis and the evolution of deep learning: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-023-01688-z

You can find more of Prof Hamelryck's work at https://thamelry.github.io/ and his Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YoTlzjkAAAAJ&hl=en

You can find more of Dr Eklöf's work at https://researchprofiles.ku.dk/en/persons/jon-ekl%C3%B6f and https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-ekl%C3%B6f/

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Dr Stephen E. Robbins researches AI, cognitive science, psychology and the philosophy of mind. He holds a PhD in cognitive psychology, minoring in computer science with a thesis on Bergson's model of mind vs. the computer model of mind. He's also a former university professor specialising in perception and cognition, a military veteran and spent many years in the tech industry as a software architect and project manager. Dr...

Prof Stijn Vanheule is a clinical psychologist, professor at Ghent University, Belgium, and psychoanalyst in private practice (New Lacanian School for Psychoanalysis and World Association of Psychoanalysis). He is the author of numerous books such as Why Psychosis Is Not So Crazy, The Subject of Psychosis: A Lacanian Perspective, and Psychiatric Diagnosis Revisited: From DSM to Clinical Case Formulation, as well as multiple papers ...

Prof Sabina Leonelli is a philosopher of science and professor at the Technical University of Munich. She is well known for her work on scientific practices, data-centric science, and open science policies. She was awarded the 2018 Lakatos Award for her book 'Data-Centric Biology: A Philosophical Study.' Prof Leonelli is a leading figure in the philosophy of data and technology and the philosophy of Open Science.

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Helen Rollins is a writer and filmmaker from Northern Ireland, currently based between Belfast and London. She studied modern languages and literature at Cambridge and the ENS de Lyon. She lectures in philosophy, film and psychoanalysis and is the author of the book Psychocinema, which reexamines the connection between psychoanalysis and film. In this episode, we discuss the relationship between psychoanalysis and cinema, how capit...

Prof Jeffrey Yoshimi is a professor in the departments of Cognitive and Information Sciences and Philosophy at UC Merced. He studies the relationship between the dynamics of consciousness and the dynamics of neural activity in an embodied brain. As part of this, Prof Yoshimi models neural networks, creates mathematical models of embodied agents and studies Husserl.

Darius Parvizi-Wayne is a PhD student at Macquarie University, exp...

Prof Graham Harman is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. He was also a professor at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, and professor of philosophy at The European Graduate School. Prof Harman is one of a handful of contemporary philosophers who are constructing the position called speculative realism, and his specific position centres on Object-Oriented O...

Dr Francesca Bellazzi is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the ERC-funded project AssemblingLife at the University of Oslo, working on self-assembling processes in biochemistry. Her main research explores the philosophy of biochemistry and the interface between chemistry and biology. Her thesis was titled "Biochemical Kinds and the Unity of Science". She will be releasing her upcoming book 'Philosophy of Biochemistry: Biochemical Kinds ...

Dr Barry Taylor is the Chair of the Department of Theology at Global Center for Advanced Studies (GCAS) College Dublin. He is also the author of multiple books including, 'Entertainment Theology: Exploring Spirituality in a Digital Democracy' and 'Sex, God, and Rock 'n' Roll: Catastrophes, Epiphanies, and Sacred Anarchies'. In this episode, we discuss living the death of God.

You can find more of Dr Taylor's work at https://www.pa...

Dr Pietro Mazzaglia is a Senior Machine Learning Researcher at Qualcomm Research Netherlands. He did his PhD at Ghent University, Belgium, with the dissertation title "Efficient Learning Strategies for Embodied Intelligence." Dr Mazzaglia's main research areas are embodied AI, robotics, world models, and deep reinforcement learning. In this episode, we discuss embodied AI, the gap between neuroscience and AI research, multimodal fo...

Christopher Satoor is a doctoral candidate (ABD) in the Department of Humanities at York University. His research focuses on the Classical German philosophy of the 18th and 19th centuries and the German idealist philosophies of Kant and Fichte, with an extra special concentration on the work of Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling. He is also the creator of the #TheYoungIdealist series on Classical German Philosophy on YouTube. In th...