Unmarked Exits
By Oliver Ashford
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Episodes: 41
Description
The ideas that shape how you think, work, and consume weren't accidents.
They were designed.
Each episode unpacks one essential text from critical theory, philosophy, fiction, and media studies that reveals how power really operates. No jargon. No academic gatekeeping. Just genuine inquiry into the forces shaping modern life.
We're exploring thinkers like Guy Debord, Michel Foucault, Naomi Klein, and Mark Fisher alongside fiction from Ursula K. Le Guin, Kurt Vonnegut, and Octavia Butler. Some of these works are decades old. All of them feel uncomfortably relevant.
This isn't about telling you what to think. It's about examining the machinery behind what you already believe, and finding the exits nobody marked for you.
New episodes weekly.
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S03 E41: The Sane Society: When Pathology Becomes the Norm
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Oct 12, 2026 |
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S03 E40: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: The Institution as Instrument of Normalization
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Oct 05, 2026 |
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S03 E39: Eichmann in Jerusalem: Bureaucracy and the Banality of Evil
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Sep 28, 2026 |
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S03 E38: Obedience to Authority: The Experiment That Revealed Our Capacity for Harm
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Sep 21, 2026 |
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S03 E37: The Power of the Powerless: Living in Truth Under Post-Totalitarianism
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Sep 14, 2026 |
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S03 E36: Player Piano: Automation, Dignity, and the Horror of Uselessness
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Sep 07, 2026 |
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S03 E35: Escape from Freedom: The Psychological Appeal of Authoritarianism
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Aug 31, 2026 |
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S03 E34: The Technological Society: Technique as Autonomous Force
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Aug 24, 2026 |
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S03 E33: Discipline and Punish: The Panopticon and the Production of Docile Bodies
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Aug 17, 2026 |
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S03 E32: Technological Rationality and the Mechanics of Social Conformity
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Aug 10, 2026 |
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S02 E31: Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television: The Case Against the Medium Itself
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Jul 27, 2026 |
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S02 E30: How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
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Jul 20, 2026 |
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S02 E29: The Circle: Transparency, Connection, and the New Totalitarianism
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Jul 14, 2026 |
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S02 E28: White Noise: Death, Consumerism, and the Background Hum of Modern Life
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Jul 06, 2026 |
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S02 E27: Eight O'Clock in the Morning: Obey, Consume, Sleep
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Jun 29, 2026 |
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S02 E26: Network: The Prophecy of News as Entertainment
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Jun 22, 2026 |
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S02 E25: The Image: Pseudo-Events and the Menace of Unreality
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Jun 15, 2026 |
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S02 E24: Mythologies: Decoding the Hidden Meanings of Everyday Life
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Jun 08, 2026 |
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S02 E23: No Logo: Brands, Sweatshops, and the Colonization of Public Space
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Jun 01, 2026 |
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S02 E22: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Aura and Its Dissolution
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May 25, 2026 |
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S02 E21: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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May 18, 2026 |
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S02 E20: Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man and the Reshaping of Thought
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May 11, 2026 |
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S02 E19: Ways of Seeing: The Politics of the Visual and the Male Gaze
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May 04, 2026 |
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S02 E18: The Era of Simulacra and the Hyperreal Order
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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S02 E17: The Society of the Spectacle: Life Reduced to Representation
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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S02 E16: The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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S01 E15: The Power of Nightmares: Politics in the Age of Fear
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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S01 E14: It Can't Happen Here: American Fascism and the Comfort of Denial
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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S01 E13: Flat Earth News: Churnalism and the Collapse of Verification
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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S01 E12: Media Control: The Necessary Illusions of Democratic Society
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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S01 E11: The True Believer: Mass Movements and the Escape from the Self
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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S01 E10: Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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S01 E09: Brave New World: Oppression Perfected Through Pleasure
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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S01 E08: Newspeak, Doublethink, and the Politics of Language
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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S01 E07: Capitalist Realism: The Colonization of the Horizon
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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S01 E06: Public Opinion: The Pictures in Our Heads and Who Draws Them
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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S01 E05: Intellectuals, Hegemony, and the Italian State
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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S01 E04: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists: Workers Who Defend Their Own Exploitation
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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S01 E03: Propaganda: The Invisible Government of Public Opinion
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Jan 18, 2026 |
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S01 E02: Manufacturing Consent: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
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Jan 17, 2026 |
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S01 E01: Ideological State Apparatuses: The Machinery Behind What You Already Believe
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Jan 16, 2026 |