Into the Zone – Details, episodes & analysis

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Into the Zone

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture

Frequency: 1 episode/6d. Total Eps: 9

Into the Zone is a podcast about opposites, and how borders are never as clear as we think. With a novelist’s eye for the unexpected, host Hari Kunzru takes the listener around the world, meeting philosophers and punk musicians, New Age gurus and space explorers, to investigate the gray zone between life and death, public and private, black and white, and more.iHeartMedia is the exclusive podcast partner of Pushkin Industries.

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🇬🇧 Great Britain - philosophy
02/08/2026
#51
🇩🇪 Germany - philosophy
01/08/2026
#83
🇩🇪 Germany - philosophy
31/07/2026
#58
🇩🇪 Germany - philosophy
29/07/2026
#89
🇩🇪 Germany - philosophy
04/06/2026
#67
🇩🇪 Germany - philosophy
26/04/2026
#93
🇩🇪 Germany - philosophy
25/04/2026
#48
🇩🇪 Germany - philosophy
18/04/2026
#92
🇨🇦 Canada - philosophy
17/04/2026
#72
🇩🇪 Germany - philosophy
17/04/2026
#67

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Dead or Alive

Season 1 · Episode 8

Thursday, October 15, 2020 • Duration 46:06

Life’s final border might not be so final after all. From tardigrades to viruses, some things are both dead and alive. Or neither. How do we draw the line between the living and the dead? And how does that line blur in places like in a time capsule buried in ice, or a library on the moon?

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When We Were Cyber

Season 1 · Episode 7

Thursday, October 8, 2020 • Duration 43:00

Cyborgs, cyberspace, mind-melting techno. In the mid-’90s, the future had arrived. To find out what happened to it, Hari pays a visit to philosopher Manuel DeLanda, and to the legendary artist ORLAN, who he first encountered at an academic conference like no other.

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The Ghost in the Codec

Season 1 · Episode 6

Thursday, October 1, 2020 • Duration 39:17

At the dawn of the digital era, a group of engineers tasked with audio compression had to decide what information to keep, and what to leave behind. What was signal, and what was noise? Fast forward two decades, to our much noisier world. Hari finds a writer and a musician who’ve discovered their own ways to find a voice within the static.

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Never Mind the Stasi

Season 1 · Episode 5

Thursday, September 24, 2020 • Duration 49:39

East Berlin, 1983. A teenage punk rocker finds himself in a Stasi interrogation cell. The choice is simple: inform on his friends, or go to prison. Hari travels to Berlin to meet the punks and spies whose cat and mouse game in the last years of the GDR predicted the privacy wars of today.

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It’s Always Sunny in the Dialectic

Season 1 · Episode 4

Thursday, September 17, 2020 • Duration 47:03

Look on the bright side! In a country obsessed with positivity, Hari traces the path of exiled German intellectual Theodor Adorno to sunny California, where he gets stuck in traffic with the British writer Geoff Dyer. How this positivity relates to church and state? Turns out there’s a lot to complain about.

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The Guru of Ojai

Season 1 · Episode 3

Thursday, September 10, 2020 • Duration 46:53

In the 1920s, a messianic visitor to Hari's family home unveils the connection between Indian Independence movement and the astral plane. Nearly a century later, Hari travels to the orange groves of Southern California, where the guru made his home, to examine the globetrotting legacy of New Age spirituality.

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That Ain't Country

Season 1 · Episode 2

Thursday, September 3, 2020 • Duration 42:29

Country? Rap? Lil Nas X’s chart-topping “Old Town Road” revived a long debate about borders and boundaries in American popular music. To sort out this strange history, Hari heads down to the foothills of Virginia, where a legendary collection of blues records holds the key to understanding the insidious separation of “Black” and “white” culture.

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Druid Like Me

Season 1 · Episode 1

Thursday, September 3, 2020 • Duration 50:02

Hari’s visit to Stonehenge on the solstice prompts an investigation into the gray zone between being a native and a migrant, and his memories of growing up in Essex during the Thatcher years. He also tracks down an old friend, whose work with Harvard geneticist David Reich overturns centuries of nationalist thinking.

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Introducing Into the Zone

Season 1

Monday, August 24, 2020 • Duration 02:46

Hosted by novelist Hari Kunzru, Into the Zone is a new podcast about opposites, and how borders are never as clear as we think.

Coming September 3, 2020 from Pushkin Industries.

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Into the Zone – Details, episodes & analysis

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Into the Zone – Details, episodes & analysis

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