Oliver Ashford
Unmarked Exits
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...
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S01 E04: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists: Workers Who Defend Their Own Exploitation 19.01.2026 30:23
Why do people vote against their own interests? Why do workers defend the system that keeps them poor? In this episode, we explore Robert Tressell's 1914 novel: a story about house painters in Edwardian England who ridicule the one colleague among them who suggests they're being exploited. They call themselves philanthropists because they give the fruits of their labour to their employers...
S01 E03: Propaganda: The Invisible Government of Public Opinion 18.01.2026 25:57
Welcome back to season one, Manufacturing Reality. What if the playbook for manufacturing public opinion wasn't hidden? What if someone just wrote it down, openly, and called it a public service? In this episode, we explore Edward Bernays' Propaganda: not as critique, but as manual. Bernays, Freud's nephew, essentially invented public relations. He didn't think manipulating mass op...
S01 E02: Manufacturing Consent: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda 17.01.2026 36:14
Welcome back to season one, Manufacturing Reality. You live in a society with a free press. No government censor reviews the news before it airs. Journalists aren't thrown in prison for criticism. So how could the media possibly be controlled? In this episode, we explore Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman's propaganda model — an argument that free market media can produce conformity more effec...
S01 E01: Ideological State Apparatuses: The Machinery Behind What You Already Believe 16.01.2026 28:38
Welcome to season one of Unmarked Exits: Manufacturing Reality. We're exploring how belief and consent are produced — often without us noticing. Why do most people, most of the time, accept the way things are? Not because they're forced to. Not because they've been convinced by arguments. But because the world just seems to make sense the way it is. In this episode, we explore Louis Al...
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