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Gift Economies with Robin McKenna
What do an indigenous ceremony in Canada, Burning Man, and an occupied salami factory in Rome have in common? They are all expressions of the gift ec…
6 years, 8 months ago
Is Localization a Solution to the Crisis of Capitalism? with Helena Norberg Hodge
It's often said that the economic system is rigged. The truth, however, is that the system is working exactly as it was designed to. Those in power, …
6 years, 10 months ago
A People's History of Silicon Valley with Keith A. Spencer
The dark shadow of Silicon Valley is growing longer everyday, covering more and more of the globe and spreading not just technology, but a particular…
7 years, 10 months ago
Documentary #8: Worker Cooperatives Pt. 2 – Islands within a Sea of Capitalism (Documentary)
In the second episode of the series on worker cooperatives, we build on the conversation that we began in Episode one, which explored how cooperative…
8 years, 2 months ago
Documentary #8: Worker Cooperatives Pt. 1 – Widening Spheres of Democracy
The 21st century has seen an explosion in Worker Cooperatives—particularly since capitalism's 2008 crisis. In Part 1 of this 2-part series, we'll exp…
8 years, 4 months ago
How Agriculture Turned Humanity into a Superorganism with Lisi Krall
For the last 150,000 or so years of human evolution, not a whole lot changed. That is, until about 10,000 years ago, when in the blink of an eye we b…
8 years, 6 months ago
The End of Policing with Alex Vitale
In this conversation we spoke with author Alex S. Vitale about his new book, "The End of Policing," which was published by Verso Books on October 10t…
8 years, 10 months ago
Documentary #7: Universal Basic Income Pt. 2 – A Bridge Towards Post-Capitalism?
It has been said that it's easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism. That might have been true a decade ago, but …
8 years, 11 months ago
Documentary #7: Universal Basic Income Pt. 1 – An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
What if you were paid just for being alive? Just imagine, you are given a check every month for the rest of your life, enough to cover all of your ba…
9 years ago
The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets with Jason Hickel
In this Conversation we spoke with Jason Hickel, an anthropologist formerly at the London School of Economics and now at Goldsmiths University of Lon…
9 years, 3 months ago