The Cluster F Theory Podcast

Jeff Rosenthal is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and community builder. He is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of CIV, a back-and-build investment firm focused on critical industries. Prior to founding CIV, Jeff co-founded Summit, a leading business and thought leadership community. Jeff also co-owns Powder Mountain, the largest ski resort in North America. He sits on the board of the Ocean Conservancy and is a member of Conservation International’s Leadership Council. Jeff is the co-author of Make No Small Plans, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and holds a BA in International Business from American University.CIV: https://www.civ.co/Summit: https://summit.co/Powder Mountain: https://powdermountain.com/Make No Small Plans: https://summit.co/make-no-small-plans----------------------The Cluster F Theory Podcast is edited by Julian Mayers at Yada Yada https://www.yada-yada.net/Our theme tune is by DC Turner https://www.dcturner.co.uk/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theclusterftheory.substack.com

Trine Syvertsen is professor of media studies at the University of Oslo, working in the fields of media history, media policy, television and digital media. She co-edited The Digital Backlash and The Paradoxes of Disconnection and authored the influential Digital Detox, The Politics of Disconnecting. Faculty page: https://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/trinesy/Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.no/citations?user=42etQgUAAAAJ&hl=enThe Digital Backlash (Open Access) https://www.nordicom.gu.se/en/publications/digital-backlash-and-paradoxes-disconnectionDigital Detox: https://bookstore.emerald.com/digital-detox-pb-9781787693425.html----------------------The Cluster F Theory Podcast is edited by Julian Mayers at Yada Yada https://www.yada-yada.net/Our theme tune is by DC Turner https://www.dcturner.co.uk/Thanks for listening toThe Cluster F Theory Podcast! Subscribe for free to receive new posts. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theclusterftheory.substack.com

Jonas Staal is a visual artist whose work deals with the relation between art, democracy and propaganda. Much of his work is collaborative, performative and critically utopian. He is the founder of the artistic and political organization New World Summit. Together with Florian Malzacher he co-directs the training camp Training for the Future and with human rights lawyer Jan Fermon he initiated the collective action lawsuit Collectivize Facebook. With writer and lawyer Radha D’Souza he founded the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes and with Laure Prouvost he is co-administrator of the Obscure Union.Current and recent exhibition projects include Museum as Parliament (with the Democratic Self-Administration of Rojava and Van Abbemuseum), We Demand a Million More Years (at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, 2022), Extinction Wars (with Radha D'Souza, at the Gwangju Museum of Art, 2023) and Propaganda Station (in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, 2024). His work has been exhibited at venues such as the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York, V&A in London, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, MUHKA in Antwerp, Centre Pompidou-Metz and the Nam June Paik Art Center in Seoul, as well as the 7th Berlin Biennale, the 31st São Paulo Biennale, the 12th Taipei Biennale and the 14th Shanghai Biennale.Staal is a writer, too, with a PhD from the PhD Arts program in Leiden. Publications related to this include Propaganda Art in the 21st Century (The MIT Press, 2019) and Climate Propagandas: Stories of Extinction and Regeneration (The MIT Press, 2024).https://www.jonasstaal.nl/----------------------The Cluster F Theory Podcast is edited by Julian Mayers at Yada Yada Our theme tune is by DC Turner This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theclusterftheory.substack.com

Rosie Nixon is a bestselling author of three novels, and one non-fiction book, 'Be Kind'. Her new novel 'Bad Influence' will be published in summer 2025. As the Editor in Chief and Editor of HELLO! magazine, she was awarded Editor of the Year by the British Society of Magazine Editors and was involved in exclusive stories about the Royal Family and A-List celebrities, attending parties and events nearly every day. Until one day she couldn't do it anymore...Rosie is now a qualified life coach and has recently founded her business 'Rosie’s Reinvention Retreats' where she helps clients through career transitions and enables them to find the tools to realise a more fulfilling way of life.Rosie hosts the HELLO! and M&S female leadership podcast 'Shake The Table' and is a proud ambassador for the women’s health charity 'Wellbeing of Women' and the anti-FGM charity, 'Educate Not Mutilate'.Rosie’s Instagram: @rosiejnixonRosie’s TikTok: @rosiejnixonRosie’s website: https://www.rosienixon.co.uk/ Rosie’s book Be Kind: https://www.rosienixon.co.uk/be-kind Rosie's Retreats: https://www.rosienixon.co.uk/reinvention-retreats----------------------The Cluster F Theory Podcast is edited by Julian Mayers at Yada Yada. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theclusterftheory.substack.com

Julie Reshe is a Ukrainian-born philosopher and the author of a negative psychoanalytic approach. With over 300 patients, she has extensive experience as a negative practitioner.​She earned her PhD studying psychoanalysis at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts under the supervision of Alenka Zupančič. She studied existential therapy at the University of Oxford and holds certification as an APPA philosophical counselor.She is a Visiting Professor at University College Cork and University College Dublin and a Director of the Institute of Psychoanalysis, Global Center for Advanced Studies.Her recent publications appeared in AEON, Springer, Sublation Media, 3:am Magazine, Penumbr(a), The Philosophical Salon, knife.media, among others. Her latest book is Negative Psychoanalysis for the Living Dead: Philosophical Pessimism and the Death Drive (Palgrave, 2023).Website: https://www.juliereshe.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/julie.resheYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChZTaSsd90vDXT1UjccpQ8gFacebook page: https://www.facebook.com/DrReshe/Faculty page at the Institute of Psychoanalysis, Global Center for Advanced Studies: https://gcas.ie/about/faculty/julie-reshe----------------------The Cluster F Theory Podcast is edited by Julian Mayers at Yada Yada.Our theme tune is by DC Turner. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theclusterftheory.substack.com

Nicole Stott is an author, artist, engineer and veteran NASA Astronaut with two spaceflights and 104 days in space as a crewmember on both the International Space Station and the Space Shuttle. In her book “Back to Earth: What Life In Space Taught Me About Our Home Planet – And Our Mission To Protect It”, Nicole presents essential lessons in problem-solving, survival, and crisis response that all of us can learn and practice to make change.Nicole’s website: https://www.npsdiscovery.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/astro_nicole/Twitter: https://x.com/Astro_NicoleNASA page: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/stott-np.pdf?emrc=92ab0cWikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_Stott‘Back To Earth’: https://www.backtoearthbook.com'Back To Earth' (Hachette UK)'Back To Earth' (Hachette US)----------------------The Cluster F Theory Podcast is edited by Julian Mayers at Yada Yada. Thanks for listening to The Cluster F Theory Podcast! If you’re enjoying it, please feel free to share it with your friends. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theclusterftheory.substack.com

Merve Emre is the Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University and the Director of the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism. Merve is the author of a host of books including Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017) The Personality Brokers (Doubleday: New York, 2018), which was selected as one of the best books of 2018 by the New York Times, the Economist, NPR, CBC, and the Spectator, and informs the CNN/HBO Max documentary feature film Persona. She is the editor of Once and Future Feminist (Cambridge: MIT, 2018), The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway (New York: Liveright, 2021), and The Norton Modern Library Mrs. Dalloway (New York: Norton, 2021). She is finishing a book titled Post-Discipline: Two Futures for Literary Study (University of Chicago Press) and writing a book called Love and Other Useless Pursuits (Norton US / Harper Collins UK). She is a contributing writer at The New Yorker. Her essays and criticism have appeared in publications ranging from The New York Review of Books, Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and the London Review of Books to New Literary History, PMLA, American Literature, American Literary History, and Modernism/modernity. In 2019, she was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize. In 2021, she was awarded the Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism and the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing by the National Book Critics Circle. Her work has been supported by the Whiting Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Leverhulme Trust, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Quebec, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin. She has judged the International Booker Prize, the Story Prize, and other major awards and grants. She currently serves on the boards of the Hawthornden Foundation and Connecticut Humanities. Her podcast is called The Critic and Her Publics. Merve's website: https://www.merveemre.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/merve__emre/?hl=enFaculty page at Wesleyan: https://www.wesleyan.edu/academics/faculty/memre/profile.html----------------------The Cluster F Theory Podcast is edited by Julian Mayers at Yada Yada https://www.yada-yada.net/You can subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen to your favourite podcasts.Thanks for listening to The Cluster F Theory Podcast! This post is public so feel free to share it. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theclusterftheory.substack.com

Hello!We're going to take a break for a little while. In this episode, we discuss what the past 7 months have been like for us and what kinds of topics we'd like to cover in our next season.If you have only recently found us, we'd love it if you'd go back to the beginning and listen to earlier episodes. Also, feel free to share the podcast and subscribe to our Substack in order to be emailed with new episodes. Also, rate it and review it or whatever it is you're supposed to do with podcasts. I don’t know…The discussions we've mentioned in this episode are: 6.⁠ ⁠Ritual- Andy Nyman https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/6-ritual-andy-nyman2. Foreplay|Endgame - Joseph Koerner https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/2-foreplayendgame-joseph-koerner13. Parafiction - Carrie Lambert-Beatty https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/13-parafiction-carrie-lambert-beatty23. FGM - Nimco Ali https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/23-fgm-nimco-ali17. Buffering - Tom McCarthy https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/17-buffering-tom-mccarthy14. Scenes - Adam Thirlwell https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/14-scenes-adam-thirlwell3.⁠ ⁠War Games - Annabel Daou https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/3-war-games-annabel-daou25. The Emotional Aftermath of War Reporting - David Chater https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/25-the-emotional-aftermath-of-war7.⁠ ⁠Negotiating the Long Term - Catherine Ashton https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/7-negotiating-the-long-term-catherine12. Invisible Women - Caroline Criado Perez https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/12-invisible-women-caroline-criado31. AI - Nick Rhodes https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/31-ai-nick-rhodes11. Contingency- Hanneke van Laarhoven https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/11-contingency-hanneke-van-laarhoven36. Hypochondria - Caroline Crampton https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/36-hypochondria-caroline-cramptonThank you so much to Julian Mayers from Yada Yada for editing everything. And a big thank you to DC Turner for the theme tune and the logo.See you all soon!Gia and Tim This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theclusterftheory.substack.com

Pete Etchells is a professor of psychology and science communication at Bath Spa University. He researches the behavioural and wellbeing effects of playing video games, as well as metascientific issues regarding best practice in digital technology effects research. He’s written articles for various publications including New Scientist, the Guardian, the Observer, the New York Times, WIRED and the Telegraph. His most recent book, UNLOCKED, investigates the science behind our relationship with digital technology.Pete Etchells' personal website: https://www.peteetchells.com/Faculty page: https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/our-people/peter-etchells/Twitter/X page: https://x.com/peteetchellsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/peteetchells/Articles at The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/profile/pete-etchells This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theclusterftheory.substack.com

Baroness Beeban Kidron OBE sits as a crossbench peer in the UK’s House of Lords.She is an advisor to the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford, a Commissioner on the UN Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development, an expert advisor for the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence, and Founder and Chair of 5Rights Foundation. Before taking up her seat in the House of Lords in 2012, Baroness Kidron spent 30 years as a film maker. Her credits include, the BAFTA award-winning 'Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit', 'Bridget Jones: the Edge of Reason' and 'To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar'.She also co-founded the education charity Into Film, which currently engages with over two thirds of schools in the UK offering a wide programme of film clubs, cinema screenings, and resources and training to support classroom teaching. Baroness Beeban Kidron OBE's personal site: https://beeban.com/Baroness Kidron's Parliamentary page: https://members.parliament.uk/member/4258/career5 Rights Foundation: https://5rightsfoundation.com/Into Film: https://www.intofilm.org/Beeban Kidron's IMDB page: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0452319/Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeban_KidronThe Cluster F Theory Podcast is edited by Julian Mayers at Yada Yada https://www.yada-yada.net/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theclusterftheory.substack.com

Nick Rhodes is a composer, producer and founding member and keyboardist in Duran Duran. Apart from his work with Duran Duran, he's had several side projects with Arcadia, The Devils and TV Mania and has collaborated with various artists, including Blondie, Mark Ronson and the Dandy Warhols. He's a keen photographer and art collector. Nick's wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_RhodesDuran Duran's 'Invisible' video made by AI:Duran Duran's official site: https://duranduran.com/Duran Duran's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/duranduran/Duran Duran's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3Pb3fztIUVLCisYZgygcjgThe Cluster F Theory Podcast is edited by Julian Mayers at Yada Yada https://www.yada-yada.net/. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theclusterftheory.substack.com

Note: This interview was recorded before the most recent General Election in the UK.Professor Tamsin Edwards is a climate scientist specialising in quantifying the uncertainties of climate model predictions, particularly for the ice sheet and glacier contributions to sea level rise. She was a Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report published in 2021.Tamsin regularly provides expert advice on climate science to the public, policymakers, media and businesses, and is currently the first Parliamentary Thematic Research Lead for Climate & Environment, advising the UK Parliament on research evidence to better inform scrutiny, legislation and debate. She is an award-winning communicator and co-presents the BBC Radio 4 series “39 Ways to Save the Planet”.Tamsin's faculty page: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/tamsin-edwardsTamsin's wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamsin_EdwardsAll Models Are Wrong: https://allmodels.plos.org/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theclusterftheory.substack.com