Random Podcast Is Back

Random Podcast was the first time I went ahead and did a solo project. Until then, everything I had done had been in a group. With Random, on the other hand, I chose to do it alone. It was a very rewarding experience that helped me grow in many ways, but above all, it was a lot of fun to make.

Random offered a collection of reflections and ramblings on a wide variety of topics. The episodes range from book and film analyses to discussions about technology and contemporary culture. Problems born from the heat of the internet or long-standing radical ideologies. Since there was no way to find a common thread in that collection of whims, there was no choice but to name it that way.

Many of its episodes have strong doses of memes, philosophy, and rambling. Random doesn't have a thematic thread, but rather an approach: using ideas and concepts from digital culture to spark philosophical questions about our current condition. That question deepened throughout everything I went on to do far beyond Random's initial impulse: it appeared more than once in Circulo Vicioso, it can be read in various texts on 421, and of course, it was input for my books.

In Random, some of the earliest traces of interests that would later become part of the things I ended up writing about appear: postmodernity, cognitive sovereignty, right-wing radicalization, Psychopolitics, Peter Sloterdijk, the Unabomber, and more.

Each topic serves as a springboard to dig into the roots and the reasons behind the current state of things, while also raising a new set of questions that may or may not be answered by the listeners.

Although the goal I started Random with has been more than fulfilled, now that 421 exists, it might come back as a collaboration between the two. And that's actually what this brief article is about.

To announce the return of Random in 2026. With a first episode already available to listen to online on all podcast platforms, the idea is to attempt a humble but steady comeback. To release at least one episode per month throughout the entire year.

This first one is dedicated to the text "Postscript on the Societies of Control" by Gilles Deleuze, which in a way closes or culminates all the explorations from the previous cycle and allows us to start with a clean slate in search of new topics and new obsessions for this year.

Without further ado, I hope you enjoy it.