Interdependence 3 - Trevor McFedries (Brud / Lil Miquela)

Interdependence 6 - Professor Guy Standing: In this latest episode we talk with Professor Guy Standing, who has been at the forefront of Basic Income research for 30 years, running pilots all over the world. by Interdependence

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German Funding of the American Avant Garde with Amy C. Beal by Interdependence

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Platform co-ops and illusory democratisation with Nathan Schneider: In this episode we welcome Nathan Schneider, professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, significant player in the platform co-operativism movement and the originator of the term “exit to community” We discuss the state of platform co-operativism today, the intersections between more traditional coop communities and the emerging crypto world, the history of co-ops, and as usual we get to gleefully dunk on the mythologies of the centralised platform economy. by Interdependence

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

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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 passion of his, Solarpunk, cultural fracking, universe construction, permaculture, Russia’s real jurassic park, K pop and the factory model, reality modelling and aerospace, conspiracy theories and much more. Can’t recommend enough that you check out Jay’s various cultural contributions, and hope you are all having a wonderful week. by Interdependence

78 min listen

$This is All Happening Right Now: Solarpunk, cultural fracking and the real Jurassic Park with Jay Springett: Back with a conversation with a special person and close friend of the podcast Jay Springett Jay is a writer, theorist and podcaster who falls into a special category of people where we can say with some confidence that whatever they are thinking about will be commonplace in a few years. We discuss a passion of his, Solarpunk, cultural fracking, universe construction, permaculture, Russia’s real jurassic park, K pop and the factory model, reality modelling and aerospace, conspiracy theories and much more. Can’t recommend enough that you check out Jay’s various cultural contributions, and hope you are all having a wonderful week.$

Interdependence 12: Dr Larisa Kingston Mann (DJ Ripley): For this episode we welcome academic and DJ Larisa Kingston Mann from Temple University in Philadelphia, whose work analyzes the relationship between law, technology, sovereignty and creativity, especially focusing on the ways changing media technologies affect communities’ ability to flourish Her PhD thesis “Rude Citizenship”, soon to be turned into a book, looks at the ways in which Jamaican popular music practices challenge the colonial underpinnings of copyright law and of sovereignty itself. We discuss the economics of Jamaican sound system culture, the sticky topic of copyright as a flawed protection for creators, and proposals for a fairer DJ economy. We had a few sound issues that we tried to clean up for this episode, and Larissa is a generous and fun guest. I hope you enjoy it and are having a great week! Thanks again for the support :) On Larisa's recommendation, we donated to support The Attic Youth Center in Phil by Interdependence

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Interdependence 7 : Glen Weyl (RadicalxChange): In this episode we speak to Glen Weyl, author, economist and Principal Research at Microsoft Research. His ideas inspired the formation of the RadicalxChange Foundation, who recently held a conference in which we were speaking alongside Audrey Tang, Digital Minister of Taiwan, Vitalik Buterin of Ethereum and others. Head over to RadicalxChange.org and look out for the deep list of archived talks. by Interdependence

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Interdependence 001. Evgeny Morozov: Evgeny Morozov joins to discuss COVID solutionism, left imagination and organizing the world's information with The Syllabus by Interdependence

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Interdependence 4 - Jesse Engel (Google Magenta): In this episode we talk with Jesse Engel, musician, Senior Research Scientist at Google Brain and creative lead of the Magenta project. Magenta is an open source research project exploring the role of machine learning as a tool in the creative process, developed by numerous researchers and engineers from the Google brain team, Google’s self directed machine intelligence group. Amongst many things we discuss the role and research focus of Magenta, look at how research lab OpenAI’s recent Jukebox project raised some necessary ethical debates around the puppeteering of living artists voices and styles, get psychedelic about how making music technology precedes spoken language, and discuss his latest exciting project. Check out the tools they have developed and reach out to Magenta here: https://magenta.tensorflow.org/ If you would like to hear the full episode, consider supporting the project at https://patreon.com/interdependence by Interdependence

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Berlin and the New Weird with Elvia Wilk: For the second part of our conversation series with contemporary fiction writers we are over the moon to have a chat with Elvia Wilk, who released her debut novel “Oval” last year to great acclaim. by Interdependence

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Interdependence 8: David Turner (Penny Fractions): In this episode we welcome David Turner, writer and founder of the Penny Fractions newsletter, which holds a critical and often political lens to the latest developments in the music industry. In this episode we discuss the music industry response to Black Lives Matter, positive infrastructural proposals that could lead to long lasting and meaningful diversification, the meme music economy, lessons from ad hoc protest gatherings and sitting on a small plane with Radiohead and Silento. David is a deeply thoughtful and fun guest, we hope you enjoy this one! by Interdependence

47 min listen