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BlomCast

Philipp Blom

Arts

Frequency: 1 episode/19d. Total Eps: 42

The BlomCast looks at turning points in history, which have always fascinated me. My name is Philipp Blom, I am a historian and broadcaster and author of many books about the Enlightenment, the story of modernity and climate history. The climate catastrophe places us at the greatest historical turning point hin human history. What, if anything, can we learn from moments in the past in which a model of life seemed to change, or had to change, in which whole societies were transformed?

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18/02/2025
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17/02/2025
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09/01/2025
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07/01/2025
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06/01/2025
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21/11/2024
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26/10/2024
#76
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25/10/2024
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[31] Danilo Brozovic — How Societies Collapse

Season 1 · Episode 31

Sunday, February 9, 2025 • Duration 01:22:18

Societal collapse is a topic hotly debated not only among climate scientists and activists. But why do formerly prosperous and powerful societies break down? And what makes them resilient? Are the reasons the same for ancient Rome and the empire of the Incas, for the Chinese Tang dynasty and the culture of Rapanui (Easter Islands)? Danilo Brozovic has made a study of literature dealing with societal collapse throughout history. Talking to him was really, really fascinating, and we discussed past, present and future.

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[30] Raoul Schrott — Der Sternenhimmel oder, wie Homo sapiens die Welt eroberte

Season 1 · Episode 30

Sunday, January 19, 2025 • Duration 01:34:46

Alle Kulturen sehen dieselben Sterne (wenn auch auf beiden Hemisphären unterschiedlich), erzählen sich aber ganz unterschiedliche Geschichten darüber. Tatsächlich gibt es überraschende Ähnlichkeiten zwischen den Sternbildern der Australischen Ureinwohner und der Mesopotamier, der Buschleute und der Maya, die nur schwer zu erklären sind, sagt Raoul Schrott, Dichter und Universalgelehrter. Ich habe aus diesem Gespräch immens viel gelernt und habe jetzt mehr fragen als davor. Was können uns Sternbilder und Mythen über die Geschichte der ältesten Kulturen erzählen? Und was sagen sie über den ersten Wendepunkt der Menschheitsgeschichte, als die ersten Homo sapiens Afrika verließen?

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[29] Richard Cockett — Vienna, City of Ideas

Season 1 · Episode 29

Sunday, December 8, 2024 • Duration 01:07:44

Modernity is a Viennese phenomenon, says historian Richard Cockett, who is currently working as senior editor at The Economist. The cauldron of Vienna ca. 1900 with its dynamism, its migrants and its cultural new beginnings and especially the political and intellectual energies after the First World War created panoply of new approaches which revolutionised life far beyond Vienna, and indeed Europe. As creative minds and experienced city planners, film directors, engineers, philosophers, economists, artists, and designers fled from the Nazis, the world would never be quite the same again, from fitted kitchens to neo-classical economics, from Hollywood to shopping malls, from nuclear physics to right-wing populism, all had their debut what had been an imperial capital and was now an experiment in living.

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[28] Musa Al-Gharbi — Symbolic Capitalism and the Pitfalls of Moral Righteousness

Season 1 · Episode 28

Sunday, December 1, 2024 • Duration 01:23:47

"We Have Never Been Woke" is the title of Musa Al-Gharbi’s brilliantly polemic analysis of an educational and social elite that believes it has all the answers. He calls this professional class symbolic capitalists — people who make their living from manipulating the symbols of our societies, i.e. journalists, academics, creative professions, the media, NGOs, etc. The turning point here is the arrival of wokeness as the ultimate arbiter of truth, coupled with great moral rigidity and intolerance of other opinions. The reason for this, Musa suggests, may be elite overproduction, which means that too many qualified people are competing for two few jobs, and therefore have to develop not only professional, but also ideological points of distinction and advantage. Has symbolic capitalism taken over the public sphere?

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[27] Franz Essl — Über Wendepunkte reden

Season 1 · Episode 27

Sunday, November 17, 2024 • Duration 01:09:26

Die Artenvielfalt bricht weltweit so rasend schnell zusammen, dass die Naturwissenschaft schon von einem Sechsten Artensterben sprechen. In Europa sind beispielsweise die Insekten um bis zu 80% zurückgegangen, die der Singvögel um etwa 50%. Franz Essl ist Biodiversitätsforscher an der Universität Wien. Seine Wahl zum Wissenschaftler des Jahres 2023 verdankt er auch seiner Arbeit in der Wissenschaftsvermittlung und als politischer und wissenschaftlicher Berater verschiedener NGOs. Der Einsatz für die Erhaltung der Artenvielfalt in der eigenen Landschaft war ihm schon immer so wichtig, wie ihre Erforschung. Ein Gespräch über Naturwissenschaft und eine Kindheit am Land, über Wissenschaft und Macht. Ist es möglich, eine ökologische Transformation voranzutreiben ohne die Bürger:innen dabei zu verlieren? Wie kann eine wirklich breite demokratische Diskussion über eine gemeinsame Zukunft entstehen?

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[26] Samuel Moyn — Has the Liberal Dream Collapsed

Season 1 · Episode 26

Sunday, October 6, 2024 • Duration 01:00:44

In this fascinating conversation we explore the history of liberal ideas from Alexis de Tocqueville and John Stuart Mills until today. Samuel Moyn is particularly interested in liberalism during the Cold War and the changes these ideas were subjected to during the battle of the ideologies. But we also explore how important theological traditions are for liberal thinking and how the philosophical principles underlying this broad current of ideas — freedom from oppression, emancipation, and human rights — can be revived in our current world.

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[25] Philipp Blom — Zerrissene Jahre

Season 1 · Episode 25

Sunday, September 15, 2024 • Duration 26:43

Warum sind so viele Menschen der Meinung, dass ihre Gesellschaften zerrissen sind, dass die Demokratie am Ende ist, dass sie überwältigt werden durch Fremdheit, durch Migration, dass sie in einer Welt leben, die sie nicht mehr verstehen? Das hat mehrere Gründe, glaube ich, aber zwei scheinen mir besonders wichtig: Demographie und Technologie. In alternden Gesellschaften ändert sich vieles, besonders, wenn sie gleichzeitig von neuen Technologien von innen heraus völlig umgekrempelt werden. Ich versuche dieses Phänomen einmal zu umreißen und mir auch Gedanken darüber zu machen, was diese Zerrissenheit verringern und vielleicht sogar beenden könnte.

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[24] Roman Krznaric – History for Tomorrow

Season 1 · Episode 24

Sunday, September 8, 2024 • Duration 01:09:14

It is an age-old question: can we learn from history? Yes! says distinguished political scientist Roman Krznaric in his new book, which looks at the past for inspiration for building a better future. From striking low-caste women in Kerala to Suffragettes in Great Britain, from the first explosion of capitalism in 17-century Amsterdam to the rise of AI and from Ibn Khaldun to an ancient water authority in Spain, he shows that we are often stuck in a constructed version of history and that the true diversity of different pasts and experiments in living throughout the ages and the continents hold lessons we will need for our survival. A fascinating account.

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[23] Gaia Vince – Climate and a World in Motion

Season 1 · Episode 23

Sunday, August 25, 2024 • Duration 57:05

Celebrated science writer Gaia Vince takes us into a future that is strangely familiar and yet quite different. The future will be determined by managing the immense and irresistible forces of climate change and global migration, and that can only become possible by embracing radical change and making courageous choices. There is no way forward without transformation, says Gaia, but ultimately this transformation will improve the lives even of those who are too trapped in their model of success to see the possibility of hope.

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[22] Richard Whatmore – The End of Enlightenment?

Season 1 · Episode 22

Sunday, August 11, 2024 • Duration 58:49

Richard Whatmore reads the late eighteenth century very much as a warning to the present. Some of the greatest Enlightenment thinkers were despairing of the fact that their fight against prejudice and fanaticism, against the power or princes and priests, had led to a mercantile state living in a perpetual state of war, and a society whose fanaticism had turned into a blind worship of freedom, individuality, and rights. Richard is a fascinating sparring partner for ideas ranging from a critical moment in intellectual history featuring thinkers like David Hume, Adam Smith, or Mary Wollstonecraft to Friedrich Hayek and the very present and political resonances of these thoughts. Faced the cruelty of the French revolution and the reality of mercantilism, colonialism and a political sphere dominated by the interests of private entrepreneurs and shareholders, a generation of intellectuals had to construct new strategies in the face of disaster.

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