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Poetic Sadness

Asia Bazdyrieva 1 Episodes Aug 20, 2026

Poetic Sadness is a series of exchanges, conversations, and confabulations with people who hold ambivalence. It seeks to name what is unnamed while rupturing increasingly automated language. The podcast starts from the premise that we are technologically mediated, exploring this through various areas of expertise and experience. It treats speech as a production of existential territories, entering undefined spaces to see what they become through encounters.

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On Terror w/ Anna Engelhardt Aug 20, 2026 4885 In this episode, Asia Bazdyrieva meets artist and writer Anna Engelhardt. Their conversation begins with the two of them looking back at their search for articulation, and their increasing inability to speak. They then focus on Anna's recent film, Terror Element, whose semi-fictional protagonist—a young woman who works as a forensic investigator—explores the production of an atmosphere of weaponis

Digital Butterflies w/ M. Beatrice Fazi Mar 16, 2026 4219 In this episode, Asia Bazdyrieva meets philosopher of computation M. Beatrice Fazi to discuss the role and function of abstraction as a kind of activity that produces worlds. Referencing Fazi’s articles and books, including Contingent Computation: Abstraction, Experience, and Indeterminacy in Computational Aesthetics and Digital Theory, they talk about the politics and poetics of theorizing, the d

[teaser] On Terror w/ Anna Engelhardt Jul 30, 2026 655 In the forthcoming episode, Asia Bazdyrieva speaks with research-based video artist and writer Anna Engelhardt. While their conversation focuses primarily on Anna's recent film, Terror Element, they also explore broader historical and geopolitical contexts spanning three decades. This teaser highlights several of the key threads that unfold throughout the episode: questions of sense-making in an a

Poetic Sadness

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