interdependence

Post Capitalist Desire, Melancholy, Psychedelia and Mark Fisher with Matt Colquhoun

We welcome author Matt Colquhoun to discuss his release of TWO new books exploring the work of the late, great Mark Fisher.

We discuss Mark's life and legacy, Post Capitalist desire, accelerationism, the various misinterpretations of Capitalist Realism, and the need for psychedelic new fantasies.

Postcapitalist De...

The CIA, CCF and Cultural Cold War with Frances Stonor Saunders

It was difficult to coordinate release schedules with the CIA but we got there in the end

This week we discuss the CIA and the art world with Frances Stonor Saunders, author of the canonical book in this field "Who Paid The Piper?".

Big thanks to the HKW for facilitating this discussion, and be sure to check out t...

Protocols, Permissions and non-human communication with the Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence Working Group

Hello everyone! Over the moon this week to welcome Professor Jason Edward Lewis and Suzanne Kite of the Indigenous Protocol and AI Working group!

We discuss the origins and goals of the project, disputes over communicating with an AI elder, lessons about communicating with non human intelligences from various Indigenous...

Hope Running, Economic Fiction and MetaModernism with Simon de la Rouviere

In celebration of his new book "Hope Runners of Gridlock", we chat to polymath Simon de la Rouviere about designing new economies, never ending stories, Metamodernism and maintaining hope!

Buy the book!  https://blog.simond...

Justice at Spotify with The Union of Musicians and Allied Workers

Hi everyone,

happy to share with you a conversation this week with The Union of Musicians and Allied Workers, whose petition making demands of Spotify to improve terms for artists has gathered over 20,000 signatures and counting.

We discuss those demands in detail, other initiatives they have undertaken and take t...

Loops, Archetypes and being the Ian MacKaye of the art world with Martine Syms

Back this week with a conversation with Artist Martine Syms on her extensive body of work, loops, Vine and Tik Tok, the burden of Archetypes, "Mundane Afro-Futurism" and Building Publics through publishing.

Hope you are having a safe week <3

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Artist Led Pricing, Scene ownership and defecting from Spotify with Audius

In this episode we welcome the full Audius squad, Roneil Rumberg, Forrest Browning and Clayton Blaha to discuss their new music protocol, how it establishes the rails for artist led, rather than centrally mandated, pricing and design of economic and interactive relationships, Soundcloud and the dangers of platform risk, and t...

Pharmako-AI: co-writing with an AI and navigating the dark hallways of the mind with K Allado-McDowell (and GPT-3)

In the advent of their new book “Pharmako-AI”, co-written with OpenAI’s GPT-3 system, we speak to K Allado-McDowell (and GPT-3) about creating with an inhuman (and a human), the nature and history of intelligence, and focussing art and technology towards healing.

K Allado-McDowell is a writer, spe...

Good Elitism and The New Philistinism with Eliane Glaser

Crazy week eh ;P

Let's talk about elitism.

Also, buy Eliane's incredible book Elitism: A Progressive Defense

https://www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/elitism-a-pro...

Platform co-ops and illusory democratisation with Nathan Schneider

Hi everyone

Well what a week! Sorry this is a little late, it felt a little weird to release an episode during the election - but we didn’t expect for it to drag on this much!

In this episode we welcome Nathan Schneider, professor of media studies at the 2020-11-06 10:05:36 +0000 UTC View Post

Anarchist UBI and weird fatigue with Sarah Friend (Circles UBI)

We join Sarah Friend, core developer from talk-of-the-town project Circles UBI to discuss the crazy few weeks they have been having trying to give away a UBI through social trust networks. We pull apart how the project works and discuss the history of local currencies, potential dystopian scenarios, "weird fatigue" and the tu...

Artist tokens, Community Owned Institutions and the Reliance Alliance with ZORA

Hi everyone!

This week we welcome Dee and Jacob from Zora, a new organisation that is building tools for artists to issue tokens around their creative practices.

We discuss their idea of dynamic pricing of art releases and at the advent of the musician RAC releasing his $RAC token through ZORA, the new space of ar...

Collaborating with the dead, Hildegard of Bingen, genius and villainy with Huw Lemmey (Bad Gays)

This week we are thrilled to welcome the author and critic Huw Lemmey in celebration of his new novel Unknown Language, written in collaboration with Hildegard of Bingen and out now on Ignota books

We discuss what it is like to channel...

This is All Happening Right Now: Solarpunk, cultural fracking and the real Jurassic Park with Jay Springett

Back with a conversation with a special person and close friend of the podcast Jay Springett

Jay is a writer, theorist and podcaster who falls into a special category of people where we can say with some confidence that whatever they are thinking about will be commonplace in a few years. We discuss a passio...

What would a new club economy look like? Part 2 with Richie Hawtin

The second part of our discussion facilitated in collaboration with Sonar +D and Ars Electronica.

Particularly excited to share this one, where we reflect upon what foundations of the club economy appear to be most exposed by the current crisis, discuss Richie's work with AFEM to help get producers paid, and speculate o...

AI for Humans with Richie Hawtin (Part 1 of 2)

Hey everyone,

happy to post the first of a two part discussion with legendary electronic music figure Richie Hawtin.

This conversation was facilitated in collaboration with Sonar +D and Ars Electronica, and video of the second part of our discussion covering proposals for an interdependent club music economy can b...

Squad Wealth with Other Internet

Really happy to welcome Other Internet to the podcast, an independent strategy and research squad based between New York and Berlin.

Their recent essay “Squad Wealth” looks at the phenomenon of interdependent squads emerging on the internet as a necessary progression from the atomized independence economy.

We ...

Cyberpunk, Difference Engines and Mad Madge with Bruce Sterling

Hello everyone

If my voice is more reverberant than usual its because this is beaming from our new studio, which currently has no furniture, no electricity and no internet! We are hoping eventually to establish one or two of those things, and maybe even host some of these conversations live once we are all ...

Weird (but good) week

Hey all,

we decided to not post an ep this week. Basically last week we recorded an episode with someone (who I think is a pretty exciting addition to the discussion) in partnership with a festival, and miscalculated when we might be able to release it to you all. On top of that another discussion we had planned to reco...