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On Postactivism, Justice & Decolonization with BAYO AKOMOLAFE - Highlights
Season 14 Episode 1114
“So, post-activism is not ‘post-activism’ in the sense of being after activism. It is not supposed to be a through line to results or resolutions or …
11 months ago
The Future of Activism: When Solutions Become Problems w/ BAYO AKOMOLAFE
Season 14 Episode 1113
“I learn more than anything else from my children. My son, he's seven, he's autistic, and I call him my prophet for a reason. He teaches me to meet m…
11 months ago
KATIE KITAMURA on Language, Identity & the Search for Agency - Highlights
Season 14 Episode 1112
“This novel is the third in what I see as a little set of books that all feature unnamed female protagonists who have experienced varying degrees of …
11 months ago
Art, Performance & the Illusion of Agency - KATIE KITAMURA on her new novel AUDITION
Season 14 Episode 1111
“I'm really interested in the formal aspect of characters who are channeling language, who are speaking the words of other people, and in characters …
11 months ago
JARON LANIER on Tech, Music, Creativity & Who Owns the Future - Highlights
Season 14 Episode 1110
“What I meant when I said there is no AI is that I don't think we serve ourselves well when we put our own technology up as if it were a new God that…
11 months, 1 week ago
AI, Virtual Reality & Dawn of the New Everything w/ JARON LANIER, VR Pioneer, Musician, Author
Season 14 Episode 1109
“AI is obviously the dominant topic in tech lately, and I think occasionally there's AI that's nonsense, and occasionally there's AI that's great. I …
11 months, 1 week ago
Why is there so much conflict over people, land and resources? AUDREA LIM - Highlights
Season 14 Episode 1108
“When I first started writing this book, it really foregrounded the problems within our land ownership system, which treats land as a commodity. The …
11 months, 1 week ago
Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy? JAMES FISHKIN - Highlights
Season 14 Episode 1107
“The three ills of democracy that I propose to address with this method, which we've perfected over the last several decades. Democracy is supposed t…
11 months, 1 week ago
Free the Land: How We Can Fight Poverty & Climate Chaos with AUDREA LIM
Season 14 Episode 1106
Why is there so much conflict over people, land, and resources? How can we rethink capitalism and land ownership to create a fairer, more equitable s…
11 months, 1 week ago
What is Deliberative Democracy & How Can it Serve Society? w/ JAMES S. FISHKIN
Season 14 Episode 1105
“Deliberative democracy is itself, when properly done, a kind of democracy that can speak to the interests of a community. And we need that all over …
11 months, 2 weeks ago