45. El Apocalipsis Ya Está Aquí (w/ no.investigues)

45. El Apocalipsis Ya Está Aquí (w/ no.investigues)

From Disintegrator by Roberto Alonso Trillo, Marek Poliks, and Helena McFadzean

April 23, 2026 · 1h 14m · Season 5 · Episode 7

About this episode

The episode discusses the concept of the apocalypse as an asymmetrical phenomenon with guest no.investigues, exploring themes of virality and repurposed technology.

This episode is entirely in Spanish. English translation is here: https://marekpoliks.com/noinvestigues_transcript . We are delighted to be joined by the algorithmically contagious memetic research project no.investigues. If you are chronically online, especially if you are familiar with the Spanish-speaking corners of the internet, you must have already interacted with one of the echoes of no.investigues —probably through their wonderful Substack, or in conversation at their Discord book club, or through the 28.research cluster, or most likely through monumental Instagram meme carousels. Their voice flows through online algorithmic inertia, yet the substance of their discourse exists in the shadow of virality. In this conversation, we talk about what it means to understand the apocalypse as an asymmetrical phenomenon: no one experiences it at the same time, and clearly not with the same intensity. This polyphonic nature of the apocalypse is amplified by the increasingly atomized and homogeneous global distribution of violence. Even so, the apocalypse is already here, and we might be better off learning how to inhabit it. Through an extrapolated reading of Ernesto Oroza’s visual…

People in this episode

Hosts: Roberto Alonso Trillo, Marek Poliks, Helena McFadzean

Guest: no.investigues

Topics covered

  • apocalypse
  • memetic research
  • algorithmic culture
  • Spanish-speaking internet
  • repurposed technology
  • global violence
  • discourse

Keywords

  • apocalypse
  • memes
  • Spanish internet
  • algorithmic culture
  • repurposing
  • violence
  • discourse

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