Podcasts about platform capitalism

Economia Underground, um podcast institucionalista.No episódio de hoje recebemos os queridos e qualificados Lucas Marçal e Bruno Marquetti, recém agraciados com o Prêmio Youger Scholar Competition da Assossiation for Institutional Thought. Lucas Marçal é autor do texto "Platform Capitalism and Institution: Rethinking Techology and Labor in the Digital Age", que problematiza o capitalismo de plataforma e as novas condições entre trabalho e tecnologia na era digital; e Bruno Marquetti é autor do texto "Peripheral Entropy: an interpretation of the condition for reform in capitalism's margins", que analisa a dinâmica de entropia institucional nos reformismos do capitalismo periférico.Nos siga no Instagram: @economiaunderground

Alustojen vallan erikoisjaksossa taustalla toimivaan tutkimushankkeeseen vuoden vaihteessa mukaan hypännyt valtiotieteen tohtori ja monessa EU-liemessä keitetty LauraNordström ja vanha tuttu akatemiatutkija Matti Ylönen suuntaavat katseensa Brysselin lobbauskulttuurin nykytilaan ja tulevaisuuteen. Millaista valtaa lobbaajat oikein käyttävät? Kuka lobbaa ja ketä, ja missä nämä aulat oikein sijaitsevatkaan? Näiden kysymysten lisäksi luodataan podcastin taustalla toimivan tutkimushankkeen Seeing Like a Tech Firm: Advocacy in the Era of Platform Capitalism tutkimuskohteisiin ja tavoitteisiin. Podcastin fanit saattavat kuulla lisää myös Laurasta kevään kuluessa. Pysykäähän linjoilla!Alustojen valta -podcast on osa Helsingin yliopiston valtiotieteellisessä tiedekunnassa toimivaa tutkimushanketta, jota rahoittavat Suomen akatemia ja Helsingin Sanomain säätiö.Toimittaja: Matti YlönenTuottaja: Toivo HurstiMusiikki: Pasi Savonranta ja Pietu KorhonenJakson lukemisto (viittausärjestyksessä): Nordström, L., & Teivainen, T. (2023). Inclusion of IMF in eurozone crisis management: Legitimacy through external expertise and internal depoliticisation. Global Society, 37(4), 485-505. Farrell, H., & Newman, A. L. (2019). Weaponized interdependence: How global economic networks shape state coercion. International security, 44(1), 42-79. Palkoaho, M. (26.01.2025). Some | Sebastian Tynkkysestä tuli Elon Muskin soturi: Näin hän selittää uutta aikakautta. Helsingin Sanomat. von der Leyen, U. (2024). Henna Virkkunen - Mission letter. Euroopan komissio. Gorwa, R., Lechowski, G., & Schneiß, D. (2024). Platform lobbying: Policy influence strategies and the EU's Digital Services Act. Internet Policy Review, 13(2), 1-26. EU Integrity Watch: Monitor potential conflicts of interests. (ei pvm.). Noudettu 27. helmikuuta 2025, osoitteesta https://www.integritywatch.eu Bradford, A. (2019). The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World. Oxford University Press. Ylönen, M., Mannevuo, M. & Kari, N. (2022). Viestintätoimistojen valta — Politiikan uudet pelurit. Vastapaino. Korkea-Aho, E. (2021). Legal lobbying: The evolving (but hidden) role of lawyers and law firms in the EU public affairs market. German Law Journal, 22(1), 65-84. Korkea-Aho, E. (2016). ‘Mr Smith Goes To Brussels': Third Country Lobbying and the Making of EU Law and Policy. Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies, 18, 45-68. Lobbaus Suomen kunnissa -tutkimushanke (Itä-Suomen yliopisto)Tekstivastine omalla sivullaan

Is it a bird, is it a plane? No, it's another anti tech book. In Against Platforms: Surviving Digital Utopia, digital activist Mike Pepi argues that major tech companies like Meta, Amazon, Tesla, and OpenAI are all driven by "platform logic" - a business model focused on creating intermediary layers that mediate human activities while collecting data and maintaining control. While different tech leaders may have different political views, Pepi contends they are all ultimately "prisoners of the platform" driven by growth imperatives. Pepi distinguishes his critique from other tech criticism by arguing that even proposed solutions often fall into the "digital utopian" trap - the belief that better technology can fix technology's problems. Instead, he advocates for strengthening traditional institutions rather than trying to replace them with platforms. He cites journalism as an example where platforms have weakened traditional institutions rather than improved them. While not exactly anti-technology, Pepi believes that unchecked platform capitalism is problematic. He suggests that technology should be developed within institutional frameworks rather than allowing platforms to operate with minimal constraints. Convinced? If not, it's probably because you, like everyone else, is a prisoner of platform capitalism. Mike Pepi writes about art, culture, and technology. MHiswork has appeared in frieze, e-flux, Flash Art, Art in America, DIS Magazine, The Straddler, The New Inquiry, Artforum, The Art Newspaper, this is tomorrow, 艺术界 LEAP, the Apollo Magazine Blog, Spike Art, The Brooklyn Rail, Rhizome, and The New Criterion. He organized Cloud-Based Institutional Critique (CBIC), a reading group focused on emerging digital technologies and their relationship to cultural institutions. In 2015 he guest edited the Data Issue of DIS Magazine with Marvin Jordan. In 2018, I guest-edited a special issue of Heavy Machinery at SFMoMA's Open Space. Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.Keen On is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

In episode three, researcher Dr. Rahul Kumar and political economist Dr. Tanner Mirrlees  discuss the rise of education technology and artificial intelligence across colleges and universities, how they impact and disrupt teaching and learning, and how public post secondary education has become an incredibly lucrative business for privately owned EdTech corporations. Reflecting on the impacts of EdTech companies on education, Mirrlees says: “The very same business model that these corporations have developed and advanced in all facets of social life are now being advanced throughout the context of public education. Whereby platform capitalism is becoming the classroom. Surveillance capitalism is becoming the classroom. Data is being aggregated about all of the users of these services, teachers, learners, administrators, everyone.” Describing the interminable cycle of EdTech and AI, Kumar says: “Imagine a triangle where we have pedagogy, privacy and privatization. … pedagogy, we need to teach these things. Oh my goodness, we need graduates to be well versed in it. And that becomes the entry point. Well, you buy this piece of software, which is the private part. And it is going to lead to providing solutions. Meanwhile the tool is being used for surveillance, which allows for better improvements … which leads to that idea of more technology begets more technology.” About today's guests:  Rahul Kumar is an assistant professor at the Department of Educational Studies at Brock University. His current scholarship contributes to the discourse of AI's role in higher education and K-12 system.  He is an active contributor to several prestigious journals and a recipient of several internal and external grants for his research work. Prior to his academic post, Kumar worked in the IT industry and brings his theoretical and practical knowledge to understanding, promoting, and critiquing technology within education. Tanner Mirrlees is a political economist of the communication, media and tech industries, and teaches in the Communication and Digital Media Studies program at Ontario Tech University. Mirrlees is the author or co-author of numerous publications, including Work in the Digital Media and Entertainment Industries: A Critical Introduction (Routledge, 2024), Global Entertainment Media: Between Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Globalization (Routledge, 2013), Hearts and Mines: The US Empire's Cultural Industry (UBC Press, 2016), and EdTech Inc.: Selling, Automating and Globalizing Higher Education in the Digital Age (Routledge, 2019). Mirrlees is also the co-editor of Media Imperialism: Continuity and Change (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019), Media, Technology, and the Culture of Militarism (Democratic Communiqué, 2014), and The Television Reader (Oxford University Press, 2012). Transcript of this episode can be accessed at georgebrown.ca/TommyDouglasInstitute Image: Tanner Mirrlees, Rahul Kumar  / Used with permission. Music: Ang Kahora. Lynne, Bjorn. Rights Purchased.  Intro Voices: Ashley Booth (Podcast Announcer); Bob Luker (Tommy)  Courage My Friends Podcast Organizing Committee: Chandra Budhu, Ashley Booth, Resh Budhu.  Produced by: Resh Budhu, Tommy Douglas Institute and Breanne Doyle, rabble.ca.  Host: Resh Budhu.

In episode 28 of Locust Radio, Adam Turl is joined by Anupam Roy – an artist based in Delhi and member of the Locust Collective. This episode is part of a series of interviews of current and former Locust Collective members and contributors. It is being conducted as research for a future text by Adam Turl on the conceptual and aesthetic strategies of the collective in the context of a cybernetic Anthropocene. Locust Radio hosts include Adam Turl, Laura Fair-Schulz, and Tish Turl. Producers include Alexander Billet, Omnia Sol, and Adam Turl. Related texts and topics:  B.R. Ambedkar, see also B.R. Ambedkar, The Annihilation of Caste (1936) (pdf); James Baldwin (writer/author); Geroges Bataille, Visions of Excess: Selected Writings 1927-1939 (pdf); The Bengal Famine (1943); Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1936); John Berger (artist and critic), see also Ways of Seeing (video) and Ways of Seeing (1972) (book); Chittaprosad Bhattacharya (artist); Pieter Bruegel the Elder (artist); Claire Bishop, Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today (2024); Bedatri D. Choudhury, “The Artist Who Sketched a Famine in India,” Hyperallergic (April 30, 2018); Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation; Ben Davis, Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy (2022); Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (2009); Antonio Gramsci; Institutional Critique (art); Marshall McLuhan (philosopher); Fred Morton (author); Pier Paolo Pasolini (poet and filmmaker); Platform Capitalism; Lionello Puppi, Torment in Art (1991); Kohei Saito, Capital in the Anthropocene (2020); Shulka Sawant, “Cultivating a Taste for Nature: Tagore's Landscape Paintings,” Economic and Political Weekly 52, no. 19 (2017): 57–63; Songs for Sabotage, New Museum Triennial (2018);  J.W.M. Turner (artist); Adam Turl, Dead Paintings (2010-); Adam Turl interviews Anupam Roy, “We Are Broken Cogs in the Machine,” Red Wedge (May 7, 2019); Vincent Van Gogh (artist).

I spoke to Nick Srnicek, author of 'Platform Capitalism', 'Inventing the Future' and the 'MANIFESTO FOR AN ACCELERATIONIST POLITICS'. Together we dissect the roots of accelerationist politics of which Nick is known for his work on left accelerationism, its controversial implications, and its ongoing interpretation. We discuss why he doesn't like the term accelerationist anymore, the trend of many people in crypto world identifying as accelerationists without knowing what it means, and the fight for freedom from work. We also talk about his latest book 'After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time' which he co-wrote with his partner Helen Hester.Big thank you to Dallas Taylor for helping edit this episode!If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you find content like this important consider donating to my Patreon starting at just $3 per month. It takes quite a lot of my time and resources so any amount helps. Follow me on Twitter (@TBSocialist), Mastodon (@theblockchainsocialist@social.coop), or Bluesky and join the r/CryptoLeftists subreddit and Discord to join the discussion.Support the showICYMI I've written a book about, no surprise, blockchains through a left political framework! The title is Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It and is being published through Repeater Books, the publishing house started by Mark Fisher who's work influenced me a lot in my thinking. The book is officially published and you use this linktree to find where you can purchase the book based on your region / country.

This week: we interview Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow, authors of Chokepoint Capitalism, about how platforms capture value in creative markets. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures Research Group) meet once a week to put their own spin on news that is impacting the future of business in The Future, This Week. You can find transcripts, links for the curious and more episodes on our website: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/platform-capitalism-with-cory-doctorow-and-rebecca-giblin/ Listen to our other podcast, The Unlearn Project. You can follow us to keep updated with our latest insights on Flipboard, LinkedIn, Twitter and WeChat. Send us your news ideas to sbi@sydney.edu.au. We read your emails. Music by Cinephonix.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: we interview Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow, authors of Chokepoint Capitalism, about how platforms capture value in creative markets. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures Research Group) meet once a week to put their own spin on news that is impacting the future of business in The Future, This Week. You can find transcripts, links for the curious and more episodes on our website: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/platform-capitalism-with-cory-doctorow-and-rebecca-giblin/ Listen to our other podcast, The Unlearn Project. You can follow us to keep updated with our latest insights on Flipboard, LinkedIn, Twitter and WeChat. Send us your news ideas to sbi@sydney.edu.au. We read your emails. Music by Cinephonix.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode I speak with Prof. Wim Naudé. Wim is an economist active in academia, business and public policy making.  His focus is on innovation, technology and trade, and their consequences for human well-being, security, and prosperity. According to the Stanford and Elsevier rankings (version 5) Wim is among the top 2% of scientists in the world. We discussed his recent research paper on late industrialisation and global value chains (GVCs)* under platform capitalism. Keywords: Digitisation · Digital platforms · GVCs · Industrialisation · Competition policy. * A global value chain (GVC) is the series of stages in the production of a product or service for sale to consumers. Each stage adds value, and at least two stages are in different countries.” (World Bank, 2020:17) Further reading: Naudé, W. Late industrialisation and global value chains under platform capitalism. J. Ind. Bus. Econ. (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40812-022-00240-2 World Bank: World Development Report 2020: Trading for Development in the Age of Global Value Chains

In this episode with Dr. Steve Rolf, we explore the deepening connections between states and platforms in the two heartlands of the digital economy, China and the US.In a recent paper, Steve Rolf and Seth Schindler develop the notion of State Platform Capitalism (SPC) as an emergent logic of competition for both states and firms, in which platforms are increasingly mobilized by the US and Chinese states as geopolitical-economic agents. Far from simply undermining state authority in a zero-sum power struggle, they look at the ways in which Beijing and Washington instrumentalize domestic platform firms in pursuit of geopolitical–economic objectives, while platforms become increasingly interdependent with their home state institutions. Competition in the global political economy is increasingly centered on the recruitment of users and nations to these rival state-platform nexuses (national ‘stacks') as a means of establishing and exercising extraterritorial economic and political power.  Our conversation explores variations between American and Chinese modes of SPC. Dr. Rolf explains two main domestic varieties of SPC -- in China, state venture capital and tough regulation are driving platforms toward compliance with state goals. In the US, the 'hidden developmental state' based on the military-industrial complex uses contracts as carrots to enlist platforms for geopolitical-economic ends. We also discuss the paper's examination of three spheres of SPC competition in the global political economy: digital currencies,  technical standards, and cybersecurity.Dr. Steven Rolf is an ESRC Research Fellow at the Digital Futures at Work Research Centre at the University of Sussex. He is a political economist and examines the digitalisation of economies, transformations of work, the rise of platforms, and the territorial and political implications of these changes.  He recently concluded an interdisciplinary project entitled ‘China and the transformation of global capitalism.' Related Links:The US–China rivalry and the emergence of state platform capitalism in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space.Big Tech Sells War: https://bigtechsellswar.com/America's Frontier Fund: https://americasfrontier.org/State of Innovation The U.S. Government's Role in Technology Development, by Fred L. Block, Matthew R. Keller

#NatureTruthPower: Política ambiental na era da pós-verdade e das plataformas digitais Bram Büscher Professor and Chair of the Sociology of Development and Change group at Wageningen University How should we share the truth about the environmental crisis? At a moment when even the most basic facts about ecology and the climate face contestation and contempt, environmental advocates are at an impasse. Many have turned to social media and digital technologies to shift the tide. But what if their strategy is not only flawed, but dangerous? In this presentation, Bram Büscher traces how environmental action is transformed through the political economy of digital platforms and the algorithmic feeds that have been instrumental to the rise of post-truth politics. Building on a novel account of post-truth as an expression of power under platform capitalism, he shows how environmental actors mediate between structural forms of platform power and the contingency of environmental issues in particular places. Key in understanding this mediation is a reconfiguration of the relations between nature, truth and power in the 21st century. Its upshot is the need for an environmental politics that radically reignites the art of speaking truth to power. Bio Bram Büscher is Professor and Chair of the Sociology of Development and Change group at Wageningen University and is a visiting professor at the Department of Geography, Environmental Management and Energy Studies at the University of Johannesburg. His research and writing revolve around the political economy of environment and development with specific interests in biodiversity, conservation, new media, digitalization and violence. He developed the concept of Nature 2.0, which focuses on the political economy of new media and its implications for participation in nature conservation. He is the author of Transforming the Frontier: Peace Parks and the Politics of Neoliberal Conservation in Southern Africa (2013), co-author, with Robert Fletcher, of The Conservation Revolution: Radical Ideas for Saving Nature Beyond the Anthropocene (2020) and author of The Truth About Nature: Environmentalism in the Era of Post-Truth Politics and Platform Capitalism (2021). This talk was followed by a Q&A session. https://brambuscher.com https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520371453/the-truth-about-nature https://twitter.com/brambuscher

Uber has transformed how we travel around cities – what do newly leaked documents tell us about its meteoric rise? The explosive ‘Uber Files' give an insight into the tactics the taxi giant used to become a household name. Justin Quirk unpacks what these reveal with lecturer Dr. Jimena Valdez, who is working on the project Über-State: The Political Economy of Platform Capitalism.  “The three most striking things are: the utter disregard for the law, the connections to political power, and the very little value they attach to drivers - that they call them ‘supply'.” "Suddenly, we feel like we can't live without our Ubers."  "Uber has become this tag for everything that is wrong, but it's tech companies more widely."  "Politicians and consumers thought that Uber was so cool, that it should be treated differently."  “This is part of the servant economy.”  https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast Presented by Justin Quirk. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Producers: Jacob Archbold, Jelena Sofronijevic, Alex Rees. Assistant Producer: Kasia Tomasiewicz. Audio production by Jade Bailey. The Bunker is a Podmasters Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is Capitalism dead? Are we in what Yanis Varoufakis calls "Techno-Feudalism" ? Or are just moving to a new stage of neoliberal capitalism, such as "Platform Capitalism" (a term coined by Nick Srnicek in his book Platform Capitalism)? In this episode of the 1DIme Radio podcast, I am joined by Ed from the Podcast called "A New Conversation" which you can find linked below. Ed and I have done multiple podcast together related to Political Economy and in this episode, we analyze Yanis Varoufakis's bold claim we are no longer in Capitalism, but a new system called "TechnoFeudalism.' Varoufakis made this claim in his viral speech with Slavoj Žižek. You can find the link to a clip of it below: https://youtu.be/Ghx0sq_gXK4 In this podcast, we also discuss the book "Capital is Dead' by Mckenzie Wark and ponder if Marx's analysis of capitalism is still relevant in today's age of platform capitalism. Check out Ed's Podcast A New Conversation here: https://www.youtube.com/c/ANewConversation/featured Support 1Dime on Patreon and get exclusive podcast episodes at https://www.patreon.com/OneDime Be sure to give 1Dime Radio a 5 Star Rating on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts!

This is episode #002 of the FuturePerfect Podcast where we talk with compelling people breaking new ground in art, media, and entertainment. This podcast is produced by FuturePerfect Studio, an extended reality studio creating immersive experiences for global audiences. Episodes are released every two weeks, visit our website futureperfect.studio for more details.The text version of this interview has been edited for length and clarity. Find the full audio version above or in your favorite podcast app.This week we interview Team Rolfes, a digital performance and image studio led by Sam and Andy Rolfes. The studio specializes in figurative animation, VR puppetry, and mixed reality collage. They create works across multiple formats, including livestream improvisational comedy, live motion capture animation on large festival stages and in underground rave bunkers, print design for fashion collections, album covers and music videos. They have collaborated with Lady Gaga, Danny Elfman, Danny L Harle, Nike, Netflix, Adult Swim and performed at music festivals across the world. On June 4th, 2022, they will premiere their live 3D musical 3-2-1 RULE at Carriageworks in Sydney, Australia. The work is being developed together with writer and net artist Jacob Bakkila and artist songwriter Lil Mariko.I first encountered your work as an online video in 2020 as a part of the Lunchmeat Festival of electronic music and art based in Prague. I think it was called Sam Rolfes 360° AV experience. I watched it on my Oculus headset and the work was so exhilarating, but also disconcerting and humorous at the same time. It was like a fever dream complete with moving walls, objects melting, spaces constantly changing sizes, and yet was extremely beautiful. For me, the work exemplified this intriguing in-betweenness that you embrace: part puppet show, theme park ride, sculpture, live performance, gaming, and installation. And this makes absolute sense because you've been making experiences across media and genres for a very long time.You were both originally trained in painting and fine art. How did you get from there to the work that you're doing now?Sam Rolfes: Yes, Andy and I both come from a painting background. Our mom was a painter. She ran a little 3D studio when we were kids. She had these big huge books on Blender and 3ds Max laying around.Andy Rolfes: It was a long path back to 3D. We played around with 2D a lot more. We read about musculature systems in the 3D books and wondered how in the world people can even set this stuff up.SR: There was also a lot about wireframes. When we were kids 3D was just kind of boring. It felt like math and I didn't want to do math I just wanted to make a cool race car. AR: Yeah a lot of math. I remember making a sword in Blender when I was 12. It's a pretty linear shape, but it was the most taxing process. So I went back to 2D. I could just play with a plane and an abstraction and it was more fun.These 3D tools, along with game engines and other design software, have become some of the most significant toolsets for conceptualizing and building your work. What happened in terms of your training where you suddenly realized you needed to leave painting and watercolor and shift into 3D?SR: I don't remember how I came across it, but I came across ZBrush, a 3D sculpting program where you can mash things around like digital clay. That was the big aha moment for me. A lot times it hides (honestly oftentimes to its detriment) the mathy elements and we found that it was actually in keeping with our painting background where it allows for semi-improvisation, but with an impressionistic sculptural object. Andy started playing more with Maya and Blender as well. And we both slowly got into it just because it was fun.AR: I went through the whole watercolor track and was doing semi-pro photography and developing an interest in photogrammetry. As I was seeing Sam play around with ZBrush, I got into it and jumped back into 3D. I actually went back to 3ds Max. I was putting photogrammetry scans in there and throwing grass around and rendering that out and realized it had gotten way better. And I started bringing in my 2D stuff and playing with ways to collage that in. I played around with that and Cinema 4D before I ended up going back to ZBrush.SR: This was in tandem with the 2012 to 2016 era of internet art and post internet art. There were a lot of people doing 3D art. They would kind of kludge something together in Maya and make it shiny and spin around. And that stuff still exists to some extent these days, but was increasingly present in Chicago where I was living at the time. I had just moved back from Austin after being there for a year after graduating art school. I was starting to do more show flyers and stuff like that and I was trying to find whatever scene existed in Chicago. You wouldn't know it because none of the people would actually hang out in person, but a lot of interesting things in the glitch scene and post internet scene were coming out of Chicago. I was trying to engage with this new community and was finding our perspective within that. I realized we could take a different approach because of our painting background. All these other people were coming more from a digital art or computer science background. They had an art game program at SAIC where I went to school, but I was so turned off by it because everybody was making these white box gallery experiences and they were all the same. That was one reason why it took me a while to get into Unreal Engine. I was still traumatized by having to virtually walk through all these terribly designed spaces. And then I started doing music videos. Our first one was for this group Amnesia Scanner. And I started using ZBrush as a live visual performance tool and did visuals for shows. I would make characters for every musician performing. There's no real rigging in ZBrush, but I managed to make the characters bounce around like marionettes. From there I got a bit of an understanding of realtime performance.And then Amnesia Scanner kind of blew up on the internet. We don't reach out to musicians like this, but I just like sent them an email. They're very mysterious and I didn't know where they were based. I sent them an email that was in four different languages that was like, please let's work together. And they responded to me. So I spent two months with an initial dev trying out both Unity and Unreal. And Unreal ended up being better.I got in contact through a friend of a friend with this guy Eric Anderson, who was running a three-story punk venue in Chicago called The Keep. We met and he had a prototype Oculus Rift. This was back in 2015 or something like that. And I went to this DIY spot and then stayed there for a week and we just banged out this crazy video. I just palmed the prototype Oculus headset to do the camera. There was no sequencer and there was nothing rendered in Unreal. This was all recorded. I exported it all and took it to my painting mentor's place and uploaded it to his 12 year old daughter's gaming computer. And it took like 24 hours for it to load on that computer and then we performed it there and just recorded it straight from the screen. It felt good enough that we kind of just kept running with it for everything after that.So in terms of music, your past works have a long dialogue with rave culture, hyperpop, and new forms of media that circulate on the internet. Tell us more about that dialogue and how it informs some of your current work.AR: I was kind of plugged into, or at least aware of, both vaporwave and glitch and everything in between that, like the acerbic visuals and everyone realizing 3D is a lot more approachable. The communities I've engaged with have definitely been varied and scattered. It's a lot of pulling things together and trying to figure out what works. Up until recently not many friends or people I've know have directly engaged with 3D. But I show them what I'm working on and try to connect different communities together and see how we can work together.SR: And more recently you've been more active in the visual artist communities than I have. I've been more interested in those rave cultures. I have a long career of DJing and producing. I've been in the turntable scene, the glitch hop scene, the witch house scene, and now it's hyperpop. It all ends up being the same. The through line is just experimentalism basically. It's just like a certain amount of interest in a new sound.Hyperpop is an interesting illustration of this to talk about because it's this weird thing where underground culture was made mainstream and at the same time, at least initially, was not diluted upon becoming mainstream. I guess this has happened all the time, but it's the most recent occurrence that I participated in. Hyperpop is this weird sound that somehow a ton of people know about and it became a meme and a joke because of course it was gonna be. But watching that dynamic was very interesting. We've had a long history with different music scenes. Both me performing as a DJ, but also us doing stage performances with musicians on big festival stages with mocap (motion capture) VR performances that are kind of accompaniments to their music. We've got an opera and a kind of a 3D musical in the works right now. But where it all started was album covers and then music videos. It was about participating in those communities and finding a way to, as visual artists, be a part if it more than just fans, but actually help shape the ideas and shape where everything is going. What are the ideas you're shaping? What's the content and the substance of what you're trying to shape right now?SR: Generally we try and get in and maybe expand the visual dynamic range. With a lot of experimental approaches, especially in the music scenes, it ends up being a lot about vibe or the nerdy tech or kind of esoteric stuff. For us, we can use all these esoteric tech tools, but use them hopefully for a compelling overarching narrative.And I'm sure we'll talk more about the performative aspects of our work with using digital tools. But in these electronic scenes it ends up losing a certain humanity. A lot of it for us has been trying to reconnect to this live, in-the-moment feeling. Our work is trying to hit the same subconscious feeling of being in the moment and having all these things happening rather than have some kind of contrived tech demo construction or something.AR: Especially nowadays where people are like—oh yeah I need to touch grass. We want to somehow bring that back to the digital and think how can we make this more physical? We're combining that with strong motivations and guiding lights in theater, performance, athletics, heavy physicality. And we're thinking what can we really do with having our bodies fling around, often literally, and have that cascade and become a deeper narrative that also has its own motivations of speaking to the community or wherever our eyes are fixated at the moment.Performance in front of a live audience is super central to you guys. Give us a sense of the infrastructure you need to build in order to create one of your dynamic realtime performances. How does it work compositionally, dramaturgically and technically? What does it take to put together and create a realtime dynamic performance in front of a live audience.SR: Right now, one of our projects is this stage adaptation for this short film, this bigger thing 3-2-1 RULE that's going to debut in Australia in a month. That one is going to be significantly more structured and quality controlled beforehand rather than being a crazy thing where it's incredibly improvisational. Often times each show is purpose built to a certain extent. Most of our projects inherit worlds and characters and assets from previous projects, but they they build on each other. We'll have a collection of scenes that are modular and existing in the same world. Each one is setup for a specific type of camera shot and a specific type of motion capture or VR mechanic.AR: Before we get into designing the motion, we also have to figure what the arc of the performance is. What's the energy, what modes want to fit where? Is this going to be a soft moment or is it going to be more excitable? We chart the long arc and mini arcs of the scene.SR: Oftentimes we're not able to meet with the musicians until we get to whatever country we're going to. Prior to meeting them we set up these modular scenes, each with their arc in terms of mechanics and scene dynamic. We have a whole collection of things and plug them together to an extent. Because the performances are so improvisational, it's kind of like acting the part of a good DJ who's watching the audience, watching the musicians, listening, and deciding what's right in the moment.We work this way when we're making music videos as well. Where we build the environment in VR and then kind of feel out where the choreography of a scene is supposed to go. This big Australian debut of 3-2-1 RULE is going to be pretty regimented. We're going to have everything planned, but there's still going to be a fair amount of improvisation since it's all realtime. I would never want to cut out the potential for those kind of magical moments to happen.It sounds like 3-2-1 RULE is a very important transitional project for you where you're in control of the narrative and you're not in service of some other musicians. Tell me where the title 3-2-1 RULE comes from and give me a sense of what you're producing.SR: The name comes from this backup strategy in tech where you're supposed to have three backups. I'm gonna get this wrong, but one is local, one is on the cloud, and one is offsite. The staged work is an adaptation of a short film and will eventually be either a feature film or a playable game. It's one of the major projects for us this year. It's kind of a parody of both the metaverse stuff and the contemporary moment. But also a way to talk about memory and people's relationships and history together on the internet and what happens when you use the cloud platforms as a prosthetic brain or a prosthetic memory where you're offloading moments together. The work follows these gig economy workers who respond to listings posted on an app that gathers memories for people in a metaverse space. If someone wants to remember the best day they ever had or the way their dad danced around when he made breakfast they would use this app and the gig economy workers dive in and play these genre parody games to unlock the memory for them. The conceit is that AI can obviously go in and scan your brain or scan the internet and grab this stuff, but it could never recreate the senses that really make up the core of what the memory is. So you have these gig economy workers who kind of chemically collage and assemble these things together for their clients.The stage adaptation served the dual function of giving us an excuse to start building out everything for this broader narrative project really fast. And to start developing this format that's closer to a musical. The debut in Australia will be with the musician Lil Mariko, but the idea is that we would put this on all over the world, and it could be any musician friend that would star in this role. It might be customized for each musician a bit. There are moments where there's narrative and there are moments were they could just perform their songs. This is kind of our pitch for a new performance format that could be replicated elsewhere and could really bring variety to the music performance world. Because I mean I love music shows. I love venues. I love playing them. I love going to them. I'm at them all the time. But I'm sick of music shows and the format has hardly changed. There exists this potential to unite all these different formats including visuals, sound, music, and narrative. And it takes a little more work. But I think we might be good people to try it out.You're working with writer and social network artist Jacob Bakkila. What is he bringing to the work?SR: We initially brought Jacob in on our now defunct Netflix project we were developing. He has a whole career of performing as bots on the internet or doing genre parody things and all these satirical things that are really brilliant. The project was going really well, but there was too much red tape and it got canceled. But we were talking afterward about working together and we had a kernel of the idea for 3-2-1 RULE. He said, okay I think I can do this and went away for a few days and came back with the base concept for 3-2-1 RULE. And it just threaded the needle between stuff that our team had already been working on for our game and other projects. I work directly with Jacob on the broader concepts and the story and where it goes, but he can churn out hilarious writing very quickly. It's a mishmash of different online references from every generation and he's so conversant in that kind of dialogue that he can make it feel genuinely realistic. He's able to sit in this incredibly online space that I feel is very essential to this story. He just generally knows how to fit everything together in a very nice way and was able to bring the emotion to the project.Do you have a sense of what you want the audience to experience? What do you want them to come away with? What kind of impact do you want to have on them?SR: Maybe it varies a bit between the live show, the eventual short, and then whatever the final big project is. I want it to be jarring, but funny. I want it to reflect upon our online relationships and what we've given up in terms of community, interpersonal dialogue, memory and moments together. How much are we sacrificing for platforms?Would it be safe to say that you obviously have a fraught relationship with these platforms? You've experimented in these spaces, you draw inspiration from these spaces, you post in these spaces, and simultaneously, you're frustrated and critical of these spaces. SR: We're participating in them because there really is no alternative. I have friends who are making their own distributed web3 based platforms like people doing Channel and people doing other projects, like more horizontal lefty things here and there. But they still have to promote it on platforms because that is just where all this stuff exists. So much of our stuff, especially if it has any narrative, does have a platform critical element to it because I can't think of anything else to comment on. It feels so absurd to be forced to fit this art that we do, that could take so many different forms, into a box that's 1080 by 1080 pixels and lasts a minute. There's always been constraints to art, but with platforms it's not a meritocracy, and the best stuff does not rise to the surface. The platforms themselves do not promote things that are in keeping with the value system of anybody within their right minds. It promotes things that will do well on the platform for its own good. I don't think that's a healthy thing for an artistic community, or for an artist, or for anything. I think most people recognize this to an extent. In a sense, critiquing it and putting it in my little skits is just coping. It's like acknowledging it, but I only have so much ability to actually do anything about it. It's also just generally frustrating with the moment we're in. The trick is speaking to that moment and then not getting too trapped in the Twitter style riffing on the discourse of the day. That stuff will do better, it is incentivized because you will get better metrics and the platforms want that kind of momentary ephemeral thing. But then if you go back a week later, it doesn't hit the same. So that's also a trap. Having things be somehow engaging with the contemporary moment, acknowledging where we are right now, and what our relation is to these platforms and to the economy and to how they have basically become the air we breath. Doing that and then also figuring out how you have it be something that lasts longer than 10 minutes is always a struggle artistically.In all of our discussion we haven't touched on the literal politics of the day. I mean, we haven't talked about Ukraine, we haven't talked about Russia. We haven't talked about the elections. We haven't talked about any of that. What's your relationship to these events and the work you're doing? Is it something you avoid, something you engage with, or something you don't wanna participate in?SR: All the political discourse, at least between the conservative and liberal sphere, I don't give a s**t about. My interest is in the working class relation to their power, and collective bargaining and what we can do about it. I have opinions about imperialism and being against it and what the US should be doing abroad. But a much more tangible thing to engage with is union and platform issues.AR: It feels more actionable. Stuff that doesn't feel like beating the same drum. We're not trying to be Beeple where we just do modern day political cartoons.SR: That's that momentary discourse thing I'm talking about where it's like oh, I'm going to make an Elon thing. Like who cares?AR: It feels far too ephemeral. And there's a time in place for that, the political art.SR: And I have done some stuff like that, I mean I've thrown Zuckerberg into some s**t, but I don't know.AR: But that's also trying to keep things contemporary and keeping with a sense of immediacy. I feel like we usually try to tie things down to more. Not really universal, well sort of universal because working class issues are fairly universal outside of maybe the top 1%. But try to speak to the broader issues, and try to speak more to the individual themselves rather than trying to talk to political issues that will come and go all the time. Even if they don't seem like they ever go away.SR: Talking about the news of the day and making art about the news of the day is both a symptom of a broader issue that is very much not the discourse in the mainstream media or however you wanna phrase it. Not to sound like too much like a post-left guy, but it's a liberal trap to make your art about an issue that is being discussed by the media that you have no control over. It's a liberal trap in that it is a culture war fabrication that art can change the world. Like if we make the most moral Disney movie, then everybody will be good. It ignores people's relation to their labor and all these other things. It's like, if we have no more bad villains who do problematic things on TV, then everybody's gonna be okay. And I think a lot of artists end up in that trap, feeling the push to have to make work about things like this. Both because it's incentivized by the platform, and because again it's the churn of the daily discourse you're supposed to plug into. And just morally they feel like oh, I have to be saying something. And I'm not saying that my stuff is not cope because there's a left version of this that is just cope too. But it's just like posting on Twitter. It's not doing anything. We've all been trained to be cultural commentators. All we are doing is quote tweeting people endlessly while the same structural system continues. And I just have no interest in participating in that. It's entertainment at the end of the day and it's entertainment for some people and my stuff is entertainment for lefty types and I'm not necessarily accomplishing anything more, but I at least think that the topics that I'm interested in maybe are more realistically accomplished.AR: I usually just look to the actual items. I just made an artwork for the Queer Museum of Digital Art, which is part of the whole web3 sphere. They're trying to fundraise.SR: Just to clarify, I was not talking about that kind of stuff. I'm not saying that fundraising's bad or anything like that.AR: I know. I know. For Ukraine or other huge issues, I'm just going to donate or help however I can. If sharing something might help connect one or two other people, I'm aware of my presence as a node within this whole network. If i'm one of a thousand other people sharing this, but there are three other people in my network who didn't see this it's cool if it's actionable. Not if it's just hot takes.SR: That community building is also way more important than making art about it. Communities can make art and have that steer people in a certain direction. Just to self roast a little bit, if I made the most perfectly leftist take down of whatever, that doesn't accomplish anything either. So making these alternative structures, not to get into dual power talk, but building community structures that exist outside of these platform capital dependent things, I think is the most important thing.What communities are you working with specifically?SR: I have yet to start helping them really in a way that I can give myself credit for, but Jaded is a new organization. It's some people from the Black Socialists in America, Zack Fox, and a bunch of comedians have started this artist co-op and community. They're building a venue, they're going to be funding scripts, they just debuted this podcast they're doing. Black Socialists in America also have all these other projects like The Dual Power App, which helps give people tools for building co-ops and horizontal things and community structures that don't rely on basic finance capital. They are a great example.And then Channel, I did some work for them. They're a web3 venture. I don't want to over explain their thing because I will probably do a bad job. They've done a lot of platform critical work, podcasts, and they're a bunch of lefty artists. But from time to time they would get shadowbanned. And they are still, regardless of how critical they are, dependent on these platforms to a certain extent. They're working to untether that. In the same way that people are tethered to their jobs because they can't get universal healthcare, they have to stay at the job for healthcare. To give themselves a life raft or a way to untether from that toxic situation, the idea is that basically their followers are on the chain so that they can move to whatever platform. You don't lose followers when you jump somewhere else. It's a first step towards an alternative platform structure or an alternative community structure that does not rely on passing through AWS and Google and relying on this huge stack from just a couple companies. Both of them, Channel and Jaded are awesome examples, and we help where we can.That's great. This really helps fill in a whole other part of your practice that I'm learning more and more about all the time. So I'm super excited to hear you talk about that.We have so many things in common and we have some really interesting overlapping happening between Team Rolfes and FuturePerfect Studio. It's very exciting and I can't wait to see more of your work and have more conversations with both of you. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit futureperfect.substack.com

Všimli jste si, jak často se používá sousloví “dávat práci”? Jakoby se jednalo o dar a něco, bez čeho nelze být. A taky že ne. Naše společnosti zatím nepřišly na to, jak se zbavit nutnosti pracovat v době, kdy je práce čím dál méně potřeba, a zároveň se uživit. Kanadský politolog Nick Srnicek prozkoumává absurdní světy zbytečné práce v období robotizace, automatizace a digitálních platforem, a hledá způsoby, jak ji nahradit smysluplnějšími činnostmi. V podcastu Nicka Srniceka provází publicista Petr Bittner, který do češtiny přeložil bestseller Vynalézání budoucnosti (2020), již Srnicek napsal s Alexem Williamsem.Nick Srnicek přednáší digitální ekonomiku na King's College v Londýně. Jeho nejnovější kniha Platform Capitalism nabízí klíč k pochopení inovací v oblasti velkých digitálních společností, jako jsou Google, Amazon a Alibaba. Popisuje rovněž nové trendy v současné ekonomice v důsledku rozvoje digitálních platforem. Ve svém díle se významně zabývá i dlouhou tradicí protipracovní politiky. Jeho první kniha Inventing the Future, kterou napsal společně s Alexem Williamsem, představuje pokus o zpracování protipracovní politiky v kontextu moderních technologických změn. Ve své připravované knize After Work, jejíž spoluautorkou je Helen Hester, se snaží rozšířit protipracovní politiku i do oblasti sociální reprodukce, jelikož zkoumá možnosti uznání, přerozdělení a omezení často neplacené práce jako je úklid, vaření a péče o rodinu.Sledujte nás na sociálních sítích Facebook, Instagram a Twitter.Pozn.: V epizodě je citován text: Nick Srnicek, Alex Williams, Vezmou vám roboti práci?, překlad Martin Vrba (a2larm, 10.09.16): https://a2larm.cz/2016/09/vezmou-vam-roboti-praci/.

Nick Srnicek is a lecturer in Digital Economy at King's College London. He is the author of Platform Capitalism (2016) and Inventing the Future (2015) with co-author Alex Williams. @n_srnck twitter.com/n_srnck

Byju's is likely to be the first name that pops into our heads when we think of the words online education and EdTech. While online education was once seen with doubt, Byju's has reported consistent growth in users and the pandemic has given them a turbo boost. What are the implications of EdTech companies in changing how students learn and grow? What types of partnerships are EdTech companies forging to grow? How can technology be used to bring us closer to the ideal of education as a transformative force for progress, to spark innovation and to address inequity? These are some of the questions that researcher Gurumurthy Kasinathan will help address. We will be discussing his articles "The Edtech Leviathan" and "Platform Capitalism and Edtech." Gurumurthy Kasinathan is one of the founders of IT for Change. His areas of expertise include ICT integration in school education, teacher education and pre-service teacher education. Opening excerpt courtesy: LearnIt

Paris Marx is joined by Phil Jones to discuss the hidden microworkers behind supposedly AI-powered automation from major tech companies, how it differs in the Global North and South, and what it means for how we think about the future.Phil Jones is the author of Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism and a researcher at Autonomy. Follow Phil on Twitter at @philjones7771.Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, support the show on Patreon, and sign up for the weekly newsletter.Find out more about Harbinger Media Network at harbingermedianetwork.com.Also mentioned in this episode:Phil wrote about digital piecework for The Guardian and had an excerpt about refugee labor in Rest of World.Turkopticon helps workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk gain some information on the contractors offering tasks on the platform.In 2020, Gizmodo did surveys to find out about workers' experiences on Mechanical Turk. There were a lot of horror stories.In 2014, workers on the platform sent emails to Jeff Bezos to ask for better conditions.Support the show (https://patreon.com/techwontsaveus)

Hello & welcome everyone. This is no BS gaming podcast 2.5 gamers session #3. Let's dive in. Panelists: Jakub Remiar, Felix Braberg, Matej Lančarič Roblox Steam hosts 55K Games vs Roblox 20 Mil “experiences” 47,3 Mil DAU Half of the users are aged 12 and under Current Market cap 38 Bil $ Roblox Cut 75,5% Roblox takes a 30% cut of every transaction on their platform Discoverability Robux Minimum Withdrawal to real life money 100K (1000 $) Second life comparison (10$) Withdrawal only possible with Roblox monthly 5$ subscription On every 1$ revenue of roblox only 17% make it out Historic example of “Company money Scrib” Workers spend their money at the company Workers become afraid to break company rules as company rules over their “money” This dependency increase friction on quitting the system Illegal in US 1938 Platform Capitalism - business model based on unsustainable expansion in order to monopolize a platform Experience based payouts Roblox “editor knowledge untransferable “Make serious cash” claim removed from the website after video Roblox moderation - shut down official forums in 2017 because they couldn't moderate them Roblox Collectible Market Tie ins with Brands Collectibles that are sold for limited time skyrocket in value from 10 to 15K $ dollars Roblox still takes a 30% form all of the transactions Roblox Black market Rewarded Interstitial ads - 6 months in Around 6 months ago Google and Facebook announced the roll out of Rewarded interstitial ads. An interstitial ad that pops up and users can opt out of and thus forgo the reward Admob are pushing very hard on this format which is still in Beta Facebook were pushing it but not so much anymore Don't monetize with this format! You're opening yourself up to unnecessary stress and risk Only FB and Admob support it - thus you'll get lower prices FB on iOS is pretty much non-existent so you have no competition Calling it now that in 12 months they won't exist. Please share feedback and comments - matej@lancaric.me

Paris Marx is joined by James Muldoon to discuss his vision for platform socialism and the different ways we could reorganize platforms to serve the public good over corporate profit.James Muldoon is the author of Platform Socialism: How to Reclaim our Digital Future from Big Tech. He's also a senior lecturer at the University of Exeter and the Head of Digital Research at Autonomy. Follow James on Twitter at @james_muldoon_.Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, support the show on Patreon, and sign up for the weekly newsletter.Find out more about Harbinger Media Network at harbingermedianetwork.com.Also mentioned in this episode:James wrote about why web3 won't save the internet.Paris wrote about what's wrong with discourses about decentralization and why we should nationalize Amazon.Francesca Bria was interviewed by Crypto Syllabus about web3, decentralization, and her experience with municipal tech projects.Facebook's Project Amplify ensured users saw positive stories about the company.Antonio Negri and Dalla Costa were among the Italian Autonomist Marxists thinking about the social factory. Karl Marx wrote about the concept of surplus value.G.D.H. Cole wrote about guild socialism. James also mentions the work of Otto Neurath.Support the show (https://patreon.com/techwontsaveus)

Fan of the show? https://www.patreon.com/newleftradio (Support us on Patreon)! Amazon permeates our lives in so many ways, from lightning-fast consumerism to hoarding metadata - it does it all. It makes sense that a platform originating in bookselling has had an impact on the author and of fiction itself. Literary critic Mark McGurl joins us to discuss his new book Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon, and the deep impact that platform capitalism has had on the artform that is the written word. About Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon Since it was first launched in 1994, Amazon has changed the world of literature. The “Everything Store” has not just transformed how we buy books; it has affected what we buy, and even what we read. In Everything and Less, acclaimed critic Mark McGurl explores this new world where writing is no longer categorized as high or lowbrow, literature or popular fiction. Charting a course spanning from Henry James to E. L. James, McGurl shows that contemporary writing has less to do with writing per se than with the manner of its distribution. This consumerist logic—if you like this, you might also like …—has reorganized the fiction universe so that literary prize-winners sit alongside fantasy, romance, fan fiction, and the infinite list of hybrid genres and self-published works. This is an innovation to be cautiously celebrated. Amazon's platform is not just a retail juggernaut but an aesthetic experiment driven by an unseen algorithm rivaling in the depths of its effects any major cultural shift in history. Here all fiction is genre fiction, and the niches range from the categories of crime and science fiction to the more refined interests of Adult Baby Diaper Lover erotica. Everything and Less is a hilarious and insightful map of both the commanding heights and sordid depths of fiction, past and present, that opens up an arresting conversation about why it is we read and write fiction in the first place. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/678755/everything-and-less-by-mark-mcgurl/ (Buy the book here) About Mark McGurl Mark McGurl is the Albert Guérard Professor of Literature at Stanford University, where he has been a member of the English Department since 2012. His scholarly work centers on the relation of literature to social, educational and other institutions from the late 19th century to the present. He is former Director of the Stanford Center for the Study of the Novel, and has worked with the Stanford Literary Lab. He teaches a range of classes on American literature and related topics. His book, Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon is forthcoming from Verso in 2021. McGurl is the author of The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing (Harvard), which was the recipient of the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism for 2011. Links to reviews, interviews and other articles related to this book have been gathered here. McGurl's previous book was The Novel Art: Elevations of American Fiction after Henry James (Princeton). He has also published articles in journals such as Critical Inquiry, Representations, American Literary History, and New Literary History. McGurl received his BA from Harvard, then worked at the New York Times and the New York Review of Books. He earned his PhD in comparative literature from Johns Hopkins, and until 2011 taught at UCLA. Stay connected with the latest from New Left Radio by https://newleft.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=8227a4372fe8dc22bdbf0e3db&id=e99d6c70b4 (joining our mailing list) today! _________ Support this podcast

This week, Grace speaks to Phil Jones, researcher at Autonomy and author of Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism.They discuss whether what we call ‘automation' actually relies on the proliferation of poorly paid microwork around the world, who does this work under what conditions, and how workers can start to organise to resist their exploitation at the hands of some of the most powerful companies on the planet.You can support our work on the show by becoming a Patron. Thanks to producer Sarah Hurd for filling in this week.

We're back! This week, we speak with Phil Jones, author of Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism, a new book from Verso Books. Jones is also a researcher for the think tank Autonomy.You can listen to Primer by searching for Jacobin Radio on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. If you want to support the show, subscribe at patreon.com/primerpodcast. To keep up with us elsewhere, follow @primerpod on Twitter.

This week, Grace speaks to Phil Jones, researcher at Autonomy and author of Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism. They discuss whether what we refer to as automation actually relies on the proliferation of poorly paid microwork around the world, who does this work under what conditions, and how workers can start to organise to resist their exploitation at the hands of some of the most powerful companies in the world.You can support our work on the show by becoming a Patron. Thanks to producer Sarah Hurd for filling in this week and to the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.

This week, Grace speaks to Phil Jones, researcher at Autonomy and author of Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism. They discuss whether what we refer to as automation actually relies on the proliferation of poorly paid microwork around the world, who does this work under what conditions, and how workers can start to organise to resist their exploitation at the hands of some of the most powerful companies in the world.You can support our work on the show by becoming a Patron. Thanks to producer Sarah Hurd for filling in this week and to the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.

This is a conversation with Bram Büscher around the topics discussed in his book ‘The Truth about Nature: Environmentalism, in the Era of Post-Truth Politics and Platform Capitalism‘ Get early access + more perks at Patreon.com/firethesetimes Blog: https://thefirethisti.me You can follow on Twitter or Instagram @ firethesetimes too. Topics Discussed: Meaning of ‘post-truth' and platform capitalism Environmentalism, political action and social media Mediating knowledge and politics through new media platforms “Doom and gloom” versus “being optimistic” Temporality on social media and the urge of the ‘now' New media platforms are not neutral platforms Alienation, politics and new media Can it be good? The role of new media in the conservation and environmental movements South Africa's Kruger National Park, new media and racial politics The difference between understanding and knowledge, and how new media plays into that Recommended Books: Platform Capitalism by Nick Srnicek Darwin's Hunch by Christa Kuljian If you can't donate anything, you can still support this project by sharing with your friends and leaving a review wherever you get your podcasts!

Dr. Bram Büscher is Professor and Chair of the Sociology of Development and Change group at Wageningen University and holds visiting positions at the University of Johannesburg and Stellenbosch University. His research looks at the political economy of environment and development, including in the politics of conservation, energy and extraction, ecotourism, new media, violence and social theory. He is the author of ‘The Truth About Nature. Environmentalism in the Era of Post-Truth Politics and Platform Capitalism and co-author of ‘The Conservation Revolution: Radical Ideas for Saving Nature Beyond the Anthropocene' . He is also a senior editor of the journal Conservation & Society. In this conversation we talk about the interaction between capitalism and conservation, and how the neoliberal fascination with growth influences our relationship with the natural world. We discuss the historical context of this ideology, the supply and demand approach to natural commodities including the green energy transition, and alternative ways we might relate to nature and the economy.Check out more at www.talkingferal.com where you can support the podcast and listen to more episodes. 

Episode 3 (Spotify & Apple Podcasts)Jon and Joe discuss topics on:0:00 - Platform Capitalism16:00 - Innovation + Hyper-Specialization30:21 - Supply Chain of Companies40:01 - Fully Distributed ResourcesEvery Monday at 12:00 pm (PST)

Summer! Time to kick-back and get away. With holidays on the agenda, The Filmmaker and the Advocate take a deeper dive into Air BnB and the short-term rental world. Joined by Professor of Urban Studies and Planning at University College London, Claire Colomb, Leilani and Fredrik discuss the rapid rise of Air BnB in 16 cities across Europe – going from zero presence in 2010 to 18,000 listings in Amsterdam, 26,000 in Berlin, 28,000 in Barcelona, 48,000 in London and just over 60,000 in Paris in a six-year period. The impact of this on cities is considerable – from a decline in long-term housing stock, an increase in rents  and overall living costs, to the dominance of tourist amenities which are replacing community services for long-term residents. Now valued at $100 billion USD, the multi-national is flexing its might, increasingly sitting at political tables, wielding resources and influence. But City governments like Berlin, Barcelona, Madrid and others are pushing back – finding creative ways to protect their cities and those who live there. For more about Air BnB see:Regulating short-term rentals. Platform-based property rentals in European cities: the policy debates by Claire Colomb and Tatiana de Souzahttps://www.propertyresearchtrust.org/short_term_rentals.html The Airbnb ‘movement' for deregulation how platform-sponsored grassroots lobbying is changing politics by L. Yates https://research.ethicalconsumer.org/research-hub/ethical-consumption-review/airbnbs-growing-political-powerProduced by WG Film Recorded & Edited by Mikey JonesMusic by Florencia Di ConcilioSocial Media & Support - Maja MobergSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/pushbacktalks)

Paris Marx is joined by Kevin Driscoll to discuss the history of France’s Minitel system, the insights it provides about the modern platform economy, and whether the internet will one day be shut down too.Kevin Driscoll is the co-author of “Minitel: Welcome to the Internet” with Julian Mailland. He’s also a professor at the University of Washington and the author of the forthcoming book “The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media.” Follow Kevin on Twitter as @kevindriscoll, or find out more about his Minitel research at minitel.us or @MinitelResearch.Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.Find out more about Harbinger Media Network at harbingermedianetwork.com.Also mentioned in this episode:In November 2020, Paris wrote about the potential future of the internet if the value of digital ads collapsed.Vice published an article about the artists on Canada’s pre-internet network, Telidon.In “The Internet Revolution,” Richard Barbrook wrote that he thought Britain would eventually import Minitel after experiencing it.Other resources mentioned: “The Computerization of Society” by Simon Nora and Alain Minc, and “The Platformization of the Web” by Anne Helmond.Support the show (https://patreon.com/techwontsaveus)

Cold open: https://www.npr.org/2021/04/13/984994360/he-tried-to-organize-workers-in-chinas-gig-economy-now-he-faces-5-years-in-jail We dig deeper into our explorations of technological and financial capitalism in China by discussing an invaluable source for rigorous, ruthless analysis: Chuang, a collective and journal “analyzing the ongoing development of capitalism in China, its historical roots, and the revolts of those crushed beneath it.” We then start getting into a long, detailed, investigative report on the working conditions of platform labor in China. While some ghouls in Western countries might look at the horrors we discuss and say, “See, it could be worse.” We must instead assert, “No, it should be better.” Some stuff we reference: • Delivery Workers, Trapped in the System | Chuang: https://chuangcn.org/2020/11/delivery-renwu-translation/ • Social Contagion: Microbiological Class War in China | Chuang: https://chuangcn.org/2020/02/social-contagion/ Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! patreon.com/thismachinekills TMK shirts are now available: bonfire.com/mech-luddite/ Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl)

Polarisation is seen as a threat to democracy - and social media is seen as a cause. But what can be done? Does the blame really lie with tech alone? And what could the virtual public square look like if we dared to hit "reset" and redesigned our apps from scratch? A radical and counter-intuitive conversation between Chris Bail, head of the Polarization Lab at Duke University, and Samira Shackle, editor of New Humanist magazine, on tribalism,  extremism, and not logging off. For fans of Azeem Azhar, Jonathan Haidt, Nick Srnicek and Shoshana Zuboff.Podcast listeners can get a year's subscription to New Humanist magazine for just £13.50. Head to newhumanist.org.uk/subscribe and enter the code WITHREASONHosts: Samira Shackle and Niki Seth-SmithExecutive producer: Alice BlochSound engineer: David CracklesMusic: DanosongsFurther Reading:"Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing" (2021) Chris Bailwww.polarizationlab.com"Terrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream" (2014) Chris Bail"The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion" (2012), Jonathan Haidt"The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" (2018) Shoshana Zuboff"Platform Capitalism" (2016) Nick Srnicek"Does the Left Have a Problem with Empathy?" (2020) Nicola Cutcher, New Humanist Magazine

Part two of the episode with Benjamin Bratton one of the most interesting contemporary thinkers. In his work he bridges the gap between political theory and the techno-social realities and possibilities of our time.On the format:This Future Histories LIVE event came together as part of an invitation to hold a guest lecture at the Goldsmiths College in London. I proposed a format in which I would hold a short presentation on podcasting as a form of extended research and then record an episode live in front of the students. My warmest thanks go out to Mattia Paganelli for the invitation to hold the guest lecture, to Benjamin Bratton for taking part in the interview and discussion and to the students of the Goldsmiths' seminar on Computational Arts for their participation.ShownotesBenjamin Bratton's Homepage:http://www.bratton.info/Benjamin Bratton on Twitter:https://twitter.com/brattonWebsite of the Center for Design and Geopolitics:http://www.designgeopolitics.org/Bratton, Benjamin. 2016. The Stack. On Software and Sovereignty.Cambridge: MIT Press:https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/stackThe Terraforming (experimental postgraduate urban design research program at the Strelka Institute in Moscow) Website:https://theterraforming.strelka.com/Bratton, Benjamin. 2019. The Terraforming. Moskau: Strelka Press (epub, full book):https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/strelka.storage/2020/4/8100070b-5651-4409-bc4c-cac813e51124/the_terraforming_fin.epubIntroduction Lecture by Benjamin Bratton on "The Terraforming":https://youtu.be/nIStg6jsmQQ Titles, names and concepts mentioned in this episode:Wiki on Stafford Beer:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_BeerWiki on Project Cybersyn:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_CybersynMedina, Eden. 2011. Cybernetic Revolutionaries. Cambridge: MIT Press:https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cybernetic-revolutionariesSrnicek, Nick. 2016. Platform Capitalism. Cambridge: Polity:https://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509504862(German) „Man-Made-Katastrophen“. Schadenspiegel. Das Magazin für Schadenmanager.  vol. 1/2016:https://docplayer.org/37275834-Topics-schadenspiegel-man-made-katastrophen-das-magazin-fuer-schadenmanager-ausgabe-1-2016.htmlMorozov, Evgeny. "Digital Socialism? The Calculation Debate in the Age of Big Data". Blogeintrag in New Left Review (zuletzt aufgerufen 13.12.2021):https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii116/articles/evgeny-morozov-digital-socialismZuboff, Shoshana. 2019. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. London: Profiles Books:https://profilebooks.com/work/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/Wiki on Catallaxy and Catallactics:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catallactics;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CatallaxyWiki on Friedrich Hayek:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_HayekHayek, Friedrich. 1945. "The Use of Knowledge in Society". In The American Economic Review vol. 35(4): 519-530 (pdf, full article):https://learn.canvas.net/courses/1446/files/549519/download?download_frd=1 Further Future Histories Episodes on related topics:S01E31 | with Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 1):https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e31-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-1/S01E32 | with Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 2):https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e32-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-2/(German) S01E14 | Harald Welzer zu Kapitalismus, Planwirtschaft & liberaler Demokratie:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e14-interview-mit-harald-welzer-zu-kapitalismus-planwirtschaft-amp-liberaler-demokratie/(German) S01E19 | Jan Philipp Dapprich zu sozialistischer Planwirtschaft:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e19-jan-philipp-dapprich-zu-sozialistischer-planwirtschaft/(German) S01E30 | Paul Feigelfeld zu alternativen Zukünften, Unvollständigkeit & dem Sein in der Technik:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e30-paul-feigelfeld-zu-alternativen-zukuenften-unvollstaendigkeit-amp-dem-sein-in-der-technik/(German) S01E38 | Ulrike Hermann zu kapitalistischer Planwirtschaft:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e38-ulrike-herrmann-zu-kapitalistischer-planwirtschaft/(German) S01E39 | Jens Schröter zur Gesellschaft nach dem Geld:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e39-jens-schroeter-zur-gesellschaft-nach-dem-geld/ If you like Future Histories, you can help with your support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories?Write me at office@futurehistories.today and join the discussion on Twitter (#FutureHistories):https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcastor on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/FutureHistories/www.futurehistories.today Episode Keywords:#FutureHistories, #Podcast, #DataPolitics, #BenjaminBratton, #JanGroos, #Interview, #Society, #SyntheticCatallaxy, #Catallaxy, #PlannedEconomy, #Planwirtschaft, #DesignAndGeopolitics, #Terraforming, #Strelka, #CyberneticRevolutionaries, #PlatformCapitalism, #NickSrnicek, #EdenMedina, #Democracy, #SurveillanceCapitalism, #Überwachungskapitalismus, #ShoshanaZuboff, #ProjectCybersyn, #StaffordBeer, #BigData, #EvgenyMorozov, #DigitalSocialism, #SocialistCyberneticPlanning, #Cybernetics, #Cybersyn, #Kybernetik, #SocialistCalculation, #sozialePlanwirtschaft, #kybernetischeGovernance, #OpsRoom, #digitalePlanwirtschaft, #Hayek, #User, #TheStack, #Platform, #PlatformOfPlatforms, #RedPlenty

Part two of the episode with Benjamin Bratton one of the most interesting contemporary thinkers. In his work he bridges the gap between political theory and the techno-social realities and possibilities of our time. On the format: This Future Histories LIVE event came together as part of an invitation to hold a guest lecture at the Goldsmiths College in London. I proposed a format in which I would hold a short presentation on podcasting as a form of extended research and then record an episode live in front of the students. My warmest thanks go out to Mattia Paganelli for the invitation to hold the guest lecture, to Benjamin Bratton for taking part in the interview and discussion and to the students of the Goldsmiths' seminar on Computational Arts for their participation. Shownotes Benjamin Bratton's Homepage: http://www.bratton.info/ Benjamin Bratton on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bratton Website of the Center for Design and Geopolitics: http://www.designgeopolitics.org/ "The Stack. On Software and Sovereignty" (2016) by Benjamin Bratton: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/stack The Terraforming (experimental postgraduate urban design research program at the Strelka Institute in Moscow) Website: https://theterraforming.strelka.com/ "The Terraforming" (2019) by Benjamin Bratton: https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/strelka.storage/2020/4/8100070b-5651-4409-bc4c-cac813e51124/the_terraforming_fin.epub (epub, full book) Introduction Lecture by Benjamin Bratton on "The Terraforming": https://youtu.be/nIStg6jsmQQ  Titles, names and concepts mentioned in this episode: Wiki on Stafford Beer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_Beer Wiki on Project Cybersyn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn "Cybernetic Revolutionaries" (2011) by Eden Medina: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cybernetic-revolutionaries "Platform Capitalism" (2016) by Nick Srnicek: https://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509504862 (German) Schadenspiegel: Das Magazin für Schadenmanager, Ausgabe 1/2016, "Man-Made-Katastrophen": https://docplayer.org/37275834-Topics-schadenspiegel-man-made-katastrophen-das-magazin-fuer-schadenmanager-ausgabe-1-2016.html "Digital Socialism? The Calculation Debate in the Age of Big Data" by Evgeny Morozov: https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii116/articles/evgeny-morozov-digital-socialism (full article online) "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" (2019) by Shoshana Zuboff: https://profilebooks.com/work/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/ Wiki on Catallaxy and Catallactics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catallactics; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catallaxy Wiki on Friedrich Hayek: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek "The Use of Knowledge in Society" (1945) by Friedrich Hayek: https://learn.canvas.net/courses/1446/files/549519/download?download_frd=1 (pdf, full article)  Further Future Histories Episodes on related topics: Episode 31 with Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 1): https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e31-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-1/ Episode 32 with Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 2): https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e32-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-2/ (German) Episode 14 mit Harald Welzer zu Kapitalismus, Planwirtschaft & liberaler Demokratie: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e14-interview-mit-harald-welzer-zu-kapitalismus-planwirtschaft-amp-liberaler-demokratie/ (German) Episode 19 mit Jan Philipp Dapprich zu sozialistischer Planwirtschaft: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e19-jan-philipp-dapprich-zu-sozialistischer-planwirtschaft/ (German) Episode 30 mit Paul Feigelfeld zu alternativen Zukünften, Unvollständigkeit & dem Sein in der Technik: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e30-paul-feigelfeld-zu-alternativen-zukuenften-unvollstaendigkeit-amp-dem-sein-in-der-technik/ (German) Episode 38 mit Ulrike Hermann zu kapitalistischer Planwirtschaft: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e38-ulrike-herrmann-zu-kapitalistischer-planwirtschaft/ (German) Episode 39 mit Jens Schröter zur Gesellschaft nach dem Geld: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e39-jens-schroeter-zur-gesellschaft-nach-dem-geld/   If you like Future Histories, you can help with your support on Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories? Write me at office@futurehistories.today and join the discussion on Twitter (#FutureHistories): https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcast or on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/FutureHistories/ www.futurehistories.today   Episode Keywords: #FutureHistories, #Podcast, #DataPolitics, #BenjaminBratton, #Interview, #Society, #SyntheticCatallaxy, #Catallaxy, #PlannedEconomy, #Planwirtschaft, #DesignAndGeopolitics, #Terraforming, #Strelka, #CyberneticRevolutionaries, #PlatformCapitalism, #NickSrnicek, #EdenMedina, #Democracy, #SurveillanceCapitalism, #Überwachungskapitalismus, #ShoshanaZuboff, #ProjectCybersyn, #StaffordBeer, #BigData, #EvgenyMorozov, #DigitalSocialism, #SocialistCyberneticPlanning, #Cybernetics, #Cybersyn, #Kybernetik, #SocialistCalculation, #sozialePlanwirtschaft, #kybernetischeGovernance, #OpsRoom, #digitalePlanwirtschaft, #Hayek, #User, #TheStack, #Platform, #PlatformOfPlatforms, #RedPlenty

Part two of the episode with Benjamin Bratton one of the most interesting contemporary thinkers. In his work he bridges the gap between political theory and the techno-social realities and possibilities of our time.On the format:This Future Histories LIVE event came together as part of an invitation to hold a guest lecture at the Goldsmiths College in London. I proposed a format in which I would hold a short presentation on podcasting as a form of extended research and then record an episode live in front of the students. My warmest thanks go out to Mattia Paganelli for the invitation to hold the guest lecture, to Benjamin Bratton for taking part in the interview and discussion and to the students of the Goldsmiths' seminar on Computational Arts for their participation.ShownotesBenjamin Bratton's Homepage:http://www.bratton.info/Benjamin Bratton on Twitter:https://twitter.com/brattonWebsite of the Center for Design and Geopolitics:http://www.designgeopolitics.org/Bratton, Benjamin. 2016. The Stack. On Software and Sovereignty.Cambridge: MIT Press:https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/stackThe Terraforming (experimental postgraduate urban design research program at the Strelka Institute in Moscow) Website:https://theterraforming.strelka.com/Bratton, Benjamin. 2019. The Terraforming. Moskau: Strelka Press (epub, full book):https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/strelka.storage/2020/4/8100070b-5651-4409-bc4c-cac813e51124/the_terraforming_fin.epubIntroduction Lecture by Benjamin Bratton on "The Terraforming":https://youtu.be/nIStg6jsmQQ Titles, names and concepts mentioned in this episode:Wiki on Stafford Beer:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_BeerWiki on Project Cybersyn:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_CybersynMedina, Eden. 2011. Cybernetic Revolutionaries. Cambridge: MIT Press:https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cybernetic-revolutionariesSrnicek, Nick. 2016. Platform Capitalism. Cambridge: Polity:https://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509504862(German) „Man-Made-Katastrophen“. Schadenspiegel. Das Magazin für Schadenmanager.  vol. 1/2016:https://docplayer.org/37275834-Topics-schadenspiegel-man-made-katastrophen-das-magazin-fuer-schadenmanager-ausgabe-1-2016.htmlMorozov, Evgeny. "Digital Socialism? The Calculation Debate in the Age of Big Data". Blogeintrag in New Left Review (zuletzt aufgerufen 13.12.2021):https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii116/articles/evgeny-morozov-digital-socialismZuboff, Shoshana. 2019. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. London: Profiles Books:https://profilebooks.com/work/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/Wiki on Catallaxy and Catallactics:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catallactics;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CatallaxyWiki on Friedrich Hayek:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_HayekHayek, Friedrich. 1945. "The Use of Knowledge in Society". In The American Economic Review vol. 35(4): 519-530 (pdf, full article):https://learn.canvas.net/courses/1446/files/549519/download?download_frd=1 Further Future Histories Episodes on related topics:S01E31 | with Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 1):https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e31-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-1/S01E32 | with Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 2):https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e32-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-2/(German) S01E14 | Harald Welzer zu Kapitalismus, Planwirtschaft & liberaler Demokratie:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e14-interview-mit-harald-welzer-zu-kapitalismus-planwirtschaft-amp-liberaler-demokratie/(German) S01E19 | Jan Philipp Dapprich zu sozialistischer Planwirtschaft:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e19-jan-philipp-dapprich-zu-sozialistischer-planwirtschaft/(German) S01E30 | Paul Feigelfeld zu alternativen Zukünften, Unvollständigkeit & dem Sein in der Technik:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e30-paul-feigelfeld-zu-alternativen-zukuenften-unvollstaendigkeit-amp-dem-sein-in-der-technik/(German) S01E38 | Ulrike Hermann zu kapitalistischer Planwirtschaft:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e38-ulrike-herrmann-zu-kapitalistischer-planwirtschaft/(German) S01E39 | Jens Schröter zur Gesellschaft nach dem Geld:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e39-jens-schroeter-zur-gesellschaft-nach-dem-geld/ If you like Future Histories, you can help with your support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories?Write me at office@futurehistories.today and join the discussion on Twitter (#FutureHistories):https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcastor on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/FutureHistories/www.futurehistories.today Episode Keywords:#FutureHistories, #Podcast, #DataPolitics, #BenjaminBratton, #JanGroos, #Interview, #Society, #SyntheticCatallaxy, #Catallaxy, #PlannedEconomy, #Planwirtschaft, #DesignAndGeopolitics, #Terraforming, #Strelka, #CyberneticRevolutionaries, #PlatformCapitalism, #NickSrnicek, #EdenMedina, #Democracy, #SurveillanceCapitalism, #Überwachungskapitalismus, #ShoshanaZuboff, #ProjectCybersyn, #StaffordBeer, #BigData, #EvgenyMorozov, #DigitalSocialism, #SocialistCyberneticPlanning, #Cybernetics, #Cybersyn, #Kybernetik, #SocialistCalculation, #sozialePlanwirtschaft, #kybernetischeGovernance, #OpsRoom, #digitalePlanwirtschaft, #Hayek, #User, #TheStack, #Platform, #PlatformOfPlatforms, #RedPlenty

Paris Marx is joined by Mathew Lawrence and Thomas Hanna to discuss the problems with platforms, why antitrust alone is not enough to fix them, and how we can encourage the creation of democratic platforms that serve the public good.Mathew Lawrence is the founder and director of Common Wealth. He’s also the co-author of “Planet on Fire: A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown.” Preorder it now from Verso Books and follow him on Twitter as @DantonsHead.Thomas Hanna is the research director at The Next System Project. He’s the author of “Our Common Wealth: The Return of Public Ownership in the United States.” Follow him on Twitter as @ThomasMHanna.Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.Find out more about Harbinger Media Network at harbingermedianetwork.com.Also mentioned in this episode:Mathew and Thomas wrote a new report with Nils Peters called “A Common Platform: Reimagining Data and Platforms.”Eric Levitz wrote about how venture capitalists are like US central planners.Dan Hind wrote a previous report called “The British Digital Cooperative.”Support the show (https://patreon.com/techwontsaveus)

Benjamin Bratton is one of the most interesting thinkers of our time. In his work he bridges the gap between political theory and the techno-social realities and possibilities of our time.On the format:This Future Histories LIVE event came together as part of an invitation to hold a guest lecture at the Goldsmiths College in London. I proposed a format in which I would hold a short presentation on podcasting as a form of extended research and then record an episode live in front of the students. My warmest thanks go out to Mattia Paganelli for the invitation to hold the guest lecture, to Benjamin Bratton for taking part in the interview and discussion and to the students of the Goldsmiths' seminar on Computational Arts for their participation.ShownotesBenjamin Bratton's Homepage:http://www.bratton.info/Benjamin Bratton on Twitter:https://twitter.com/brattonWebsite of the Center for Design and Geopolitics:http://www.designgeopolitics.org/Bratton, Benjamin. 2016. The Stack. On Software and Sovereignty.Cambridge: MIT Press:https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/stackThe Terraforming (experimental postgraduate urban design research program at the Strelka Institute in Moscow) Website:https://theterraforming.strelka.com/Bratton, Benjamin. 2019. The Terraforming. Moskau: Strelka Press (epub, full book):https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/strelka.storage/2020/4/8100070b-5651-4409-bc4c-cac813e51124/the_terraforming_fin.epubIntroduction Lecture by Benjamin Bratton on "The Terraforming":https://youtu.be/nIStg6jsmQQ Titles, names and concepts mentioned in this episode:Wiki on Stafford Beer:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_BeerWiki on Project Cybersyn:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_CybersynMedina, Eden. 2011. Cybernetic Revolutionaries. Cambridge: MIT Press:https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cybernetic-revolutionariesSrnicek, Nick. 2016. Platform Capitalism. Cambridge: Polity:https://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509504862(German) „Man-Made-Katastrophen“. Schadenspiegel. Das Magazin für Schadenmanager.  vol. 1/2016:https://docplayer.org/37275834-Topics-schadenspiegel-man-made-katastrophen-das-magazin-fuer-schadenmanager-ausgabe-1-2016.htmlMorozov, Evgeny. "Digital Socialism? The Calculation Debate in the Age of Big Data". Blogeintrag in New Left Review (zuletzt aufgerufen 13.12.2021):https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii116/articles/evgeny-morozov-digital-socialismZuboff, Shoshana. 2019. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. London: Profiles Books:https://profilebooks.com/work/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/Wiki on Catallaxy and Catallactics:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catallactics;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CatallaxyWiki on Friedrich Hayek:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_HayekHayek, Friedrich. 1945. "The Use of Knowledge in Society". In The American Economic Review vol. 35(4): 519-530 (pdf, full article):https://learn.canvas.net/courses/1446/files/549519/download?download_frd=1 Further Future Histories Episodes on related topics:S01E31 | with Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 1):https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e31-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-1/S01E32 | with Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 2):https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e32-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-2/(German) S01E14 | Harald Welzer zu Kapitalismus, Planwirtschaft & liberaler Demokratie:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e14-interview-mit-harald-welzer-zu-kapitalismus-planwirtschaft-amp-liberaler-demokratie/(German) S01E19 | Jan Philipp Dapprich zu sozialistischer Planwirtschaft:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e19-jan-philipp-dapprich-zu-sozialistischer-planwirtschaft/(German) S01E30 | Paul Feigelfeld zu alternativen Zukünften, Unvollständigkeit & dem Sein in der Technik:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e30-paul-feigelfeld-zu-alternativen-zukuenften-unvollstaendigkeit-amp-dem-sein-in-der-technik/(German) S01E38 | Ulrike Hermann zu kapitalistischer Planwirtschaft:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e38-ulrike-herrmann-zu-kapitalistischer-planwirtschaft/(German) S01E39 | Jens Schröter zur Gesellschaft nach dem Geld:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e39-jens-schroeter-zur-gesellschaft-nach-dem-geld/ If you like Future Histories, you can help with your support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories?Write me at office@futurehistories.today and join the discussion on Twitter (#FutureHistories):https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcastor on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/FutureHistories/www.futurehistories.today Episode Keywords:#FutureHistories, #Podcast, #DataPolitics, #BenjaminBratton, #JanGroos, #Interview, #Society, #SyntheticCatallaxy, #Catallaxy, #PlannedEconomy, #Planwirtschaft, #DesignAndGeopolitics, #Terraforming, #Strelka, #CyberneticRevolutionaries, #PlatformCapitalism, #NickSrnicek, #EdenMedina, #Democracy, #SurveillanceCapitalism, #Überwachungskapitalismus, #ShoshanaZuboff, #ProjectCybersyn, #StaffordBeer, #BigData, #EvgenyMorozov, #DigitalSocialism, #SocialistCyberneticPlanning, #Cybernetics, #Cybersyn, #Kybernetik, #SocialistCalculation, #sozialePlanwirtschaft, #kybernetischeGovernance, #OpsRoom, #digitalePlanwirtschaft, #Hayek, #User, #TheStack, #Platform, #PlatformOfPlatforms, #RedPlenty 

Benjamin Bratton is one of the most interesting thinkers of our time. In his work he bridges the gap between political theory and the techno-social realities and possibilities of our time.On the format:This Future Histories LIVE event came together as part of an invitation to hold a guest lecture at the Goldsmiths College in London. I proposed a format in which I would hold a short presentation on podcasting as a form of extended research and then record an episode live in front of the students. My warmest thanks go out to Mattia Paganelli for the invitation to hold the guest lecture, to Benjamin Bratton for taking part in the interview and discussion and to the students of the Goldsmiths' seminar on Computational Arts for their participation.ShownotesBenjamin Bratton's Homepage:http://www.bratton.info/Benjamin Bratton on Twitter:https://twitter.com/brattonWebsite of the Center for Design and Geopolitics:http://www.designgeopolitics.org/Bratton, Benjamin. 2016. The Stack. On Software and Sovereignty.Cambridge: MIT Press:https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/stackThe Terraforming (experimental postgraduate urban design research program at the Strelka Institute in Moscow) Website:https://theterraforming.strelka.com/Bratton, Benjamin. 2019. The Terraforming. Moskau: Strelka Press (epub, full book):https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/strelka.storage/2020/4/8100070b-5651-4409-bc4c-cac813e51124/the_terraforming_fin.epubIntroduction Lecture by Benjamin Bratton on "The Terraforming":https://youtu.be/nIStg6jsmQQ Titles, names and concepts mentioned in this episode:Wiki on Stafford Beer:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_BeerWiki on Project Cybersyn:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_CybersynMedina, Eden. 2011. Cybernetic Revolutionaries. Cambridge: MIT Press:https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cybernetic-revolutionariesSrnicek, Nick. 2016. Platform Capitalism. Cambridge: Polity:https://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509504862(German) „Man-Made-Katastrophen“. Schadenspiegel. Das Magazin für Schadenmanager.  vol. 1/2016:https://docplayer.org/37275834-Topics-schadenspiegel-man-made-katastrophen-das-magazin-fuer-schadenmanager-ausgabe-1-2016.htmlMorozov, Evgeny. "Digital Socialism? The Calculation Debate in the Age of Big Data". Blogeintrag in New Left Review (zuletzt aufgerufen 13.12.2021):https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii116/articles/evgeny-morozov-digital-socialismZuboff, Shoshana. 2019. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. London: Profiles Books:https://profilebooks.com/work/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/Wiki on Catallaxy and Catallactics:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catallactics;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CatallaxyWiki on Friedrich Hayek:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_HayekHayek, Friedrich. 1945. "The Use of Knowledge in Society". In The American Economic Review vol. 35(4): 519-530 (pdf, full article):https://learn.canvas.net/courses/1446/files/549519/download?download_frd=1 Further Future Histories Episodes on related topics:S01E31 | with Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 1):https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e31-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-1/S01E32 | with Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 2):https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e32-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-2/(German) S01E14 | Harald Welzer zu Kapitalismus, Planwirtschaft & liberaler Demokratie:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e14-interview-mit-harald-welzer-zu-kapitalismus-planwirtschaft-amp-liberaler-demokratie/(German) S01E19 | Jan Philipp Dapprich zu sozialistischer Planwirtschaft:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e19-jan-philipp-dapprich-zu-sozialistischer-planwirtschaft/(German) S01E30 | Paul Feigelfeld zu alternativen Zukünften, Unvollständigkeit & dem Sein in der Technik:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e30-paul-feigelfeld-zu-alternativen-zukuenften-unvollstaendigkeit-amp-dem-sein-in-der-technik/(German) S01E38 | Ulrike Hermann zu kapitalistischer Planwirtschaft:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e38-ulrike-herrmann-zu-kapitalistischer-planwirtschaft/(German) S01E39 | Jens Schröter zur Gesellschaft nach dem Geld:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e39-jens-schroeter-zur-gesellschaft-nach-dem-geld/ If you like Future Histories, you can help with your support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories?Write me at office@futurehistories.today and join the discussion on Twitter (#FutureHistories):https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcastor on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/FutureHistories/www.futurehistories.today Episode Keywords:#FutureHistories, #Podcast, #DataPolitics, #BenjaminBratton, #JanGroos, #Interview, #Society, #SyntheticCatallaxy, #Catallaxy, #PlannedEconomy, #Planwirtschaft, #DesignAndGeopolitics, #Terraforming, #Strelka, #CyberneticRevolutionaries, #PlatformCapitalism, #NickSrnicek, #EdenMedina, #Democracy, #SurveillanceCapitalism, #Überwachungskapitalismus, #ShoshanaZuboff, #ProjectCybersyn, #StaffordBeer, #BigData, #EvgenyMorozov, #DigitalSocialism, #SocialistCyberneticPlanning, #Cybernetics, #Cybersyn, #Kybernetik, #SocialistCalculation, #sozialePlanwirtschaft, #kybernetischeGovernance, #OpsRoom, #digitalePlanwirtschaft, #Hayek, #User, #TheStack, #Platform, #PlatformOfPlatforms, #RedPlenty 

Benjamin Bratton is one of the most interesting thinkers of our time. In his work he bridges the gap between political theory and the techno-social realities and possibilities of our time. On the format: This Future Histories LIVE event came together as part of an invitation to hold a guest lecture at the Goldsmiths College in London. I proposed a format in which I would hold a short presentation on podcasting as a form of extended research and then record an episode live in front of the students. My warmest thanks go out to Mattia Paganelli for the invitation to hold the guest lecture, to Benjamin Bratton for taking part in the interview and discussion and to the students of the Goldsmiths' seminar on Computational Arts for their participation. Shownotes Benjamin Bratton's Homepage: http://www.bratton.info/ Benjamin Bratton on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bratton Website of the Center for Design and Geopolitics: http://www.designgeopolitics.org/ "The Stack. On Software and Sovereignty" (2016) by Benjamin Bratton: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/stack The Terraforming (experimental postgraduate urban design research program at the Strelka Institute in Moscow) Website: https://theterraforming.strelka.com/ "The Terraforming" (2019) by Benjamin Bratton: https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/strelka.storage/2020/4/8100070b-5651-4409-bc4c-cac813e51124/the_terraforming_fin.epub (epub, full book) Introduction Lecture by Benjamin Bratton on "The Terraforming": https://youtu.be/nIStg6jsmQQ  Titles, names and concepts mentioned in this episode: Wiki on Stafford Beer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_Beer Wiki on Project Cybersyn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn "Cybernetic Revolutionaries" (2011) by Eden Medina: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cybernetic-revolutionaries "Platform Capitalism" (2016) by Nick Srnicek: https://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509504862 (German) Schadenspiegel: Das Magazin für Schadenmanager, Ausgabe 1/2016, "Man-Made-Katastrophen": https://docplayer.org/37275834-Topics-schadenspiegel-man-made-katastrophen-das-magazin-fuer-schadenmanager-ausgabe-1-2016.html "Digital Socialism? The Calculation Debate in the Age of Big Data" by Evgeny Morozov: https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii116/articles/evgeny-morozov-digital-socialism (full article online) "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" (2019) by Shoshana Zuboff: https://profilebooks.com/work/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/ Wiki on Catallaxy and Catallactics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catallactics; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catallaxy Wiki on Friedrich Hayek: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek "The Use of Knowledge in Society" (1945) by Friedrich Hayek: https://learn.canvas.net/courses/1446/files/549519/download?download_frd=1 (pdf, full article)  Further Future Histories Episodes on related topics: Episode 31 with Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 1): https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e31-daniel-saros Episode 32 with Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 2): https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/daniel-saros-part-2 (German) Episode 14 mit Harald Welzer zu Kapitalismus, Planwirtschaft & liberaler Demokratie: https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e14-harald-welzer (German) Episode 19 mit Jan Philipp Dapprich zu sozialistischer Planwirtschaft: https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e19-jan-philipp-dapprich (German) Episode 30 mit Paul Feigelfeld zu alternativen Zukünften, Unvollständigkeit & dem Sein in der Technik: https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e30-paul-feigelfeld (German) Episode 38 mit Ulrike Hermann zu kapitalistischer Planwirtschaft: https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e38-ulrike-hermann (German) Episode 39 mit Jens Schröter zur Gesellschaft nach dem Geld: https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e39-jens-schroeter   If you like Future Histories, you can help with your support on Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories? Write me at office@futurehistories.today and join the discussion on Twitter (#FutureHistories): https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcast or on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/FutureHistories/ www.futurehistories.today   Episode Keywords: #FutureHistories, #Podcast, #DataPolitics, #BenjaminBratton, #Interview, #Society, #SyntheticCatallaxy, #Catallaxy, #PlannedEconomy, #Planwirtschaft, #DesignAndGeopolitics, #Terraforming, #Strelka, #CyberneticRevolutionaries, #PlatformCapitalism, #NickSrnicek, #EdenMedina, #Democracy, #SurveillanceCapitalism, #Überwachungskapitalismus, #ShoshanaZuboff, #ProjectCybersyn, #StaffordBeer, #BigData, #EvgenyMorozov, #DigitalSocialism, #SocialistCyberneticPlanning, #Cybernetics, #Cybersyn, #Kybernetik, #SocialistCalculation, #sozialePlanwirtschaft, #kybernetischeGovernance, #OpsRoom, #digitalePlanwirtschaft, #Hayek, #User, #TheStack, #Platform, #PlatformOfPlatforms, #RedPlenty

Sociologist Bram Büscher on his new book "The Truth about Nature: Environmentalism in the Era of Post-truth Politics and Platform Capitalism" from University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520371453/the-truth-about-nature

In a two part series we explore the impacts platform capitalism (corporate social media) is having on art collectives and communities in Indonesia. Platforms such as Facebook, Whatsapp and Twitter, while being used by many collectives, activists and others around the world to organise, have serious implications for security, surveillance and control or ownership of content. More broadly the very way in which we socialise and organise has changed considerably. Our very concepts of space, community and relationships are being changed by these platforms. The first part of this series features Wimo, Akiq, and Dito, members of Mes56, an artist community and collective house in Jogjakarta, Indonesia. The members discuss their use of platforms, the effect this is having a well as the connections between the Covid-19 pandemic and platform capitalism. Interviews were conducted as a part of workshops held at Mes56 in June, 2020 by Rangga Purbaya, coordinated by Indymedia's Raymond Grenfell, for Curtin University and RTRFM.

In the last episode of this arbitrary season, Smax tries to suppress his gag reflex and Patil lets loose his gore fetishes as they try and squeeze meaning out of a slasher movie disguised as 'psychological horror'. ** DISCLAIMER ** : Spoiler Alert. This movie will spoil any and all desire to eat. Skip the popcorn, else you'll be skipping it forever. Follow Check Your Privilege: https://www.instagram.com/checkyourprivilegepodcast/ https://twitter.com/otokorashii1 Music used in the podcast: Study And Relax by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5764-study-and-relax License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

So websites want your "data" (whatever that means). So...what? This week on Commune College, Hyperlink takes the squad in depth on what data collection & sale really means for individuals and why it's so fucked up, then shares some ideas on what you can do to protect your privacy, even if you're not a #certified #foss #app. Music credits for this episode are two tracks from Kye: Kye Fox - Praxis Kye Fox - Redshift Reboot Show Notes: Turow, J. (2017). The aisles have eyes: How retailers track your shopping, strip your privacy, and define your power. New Haven: Yale University Press. Dunkin Brands, Inc. (n.d.). Privacy and Cookie Policy. Retrieved from https:// www.dunkindonuts.com/en/privacy-policy Greenfield, Adam. 2017. Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life. New York: Verso. John, A. S. (2018, April 11). How Facebook Tracks You, Even When You're Not on Facebook. Retrieved from https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/how-facebook-tracks-you- even-when-youre-not-on-facebook/ Schneier, B. (2016). Data and Goliath: The hidden battles to collect your data and control your world. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. Lee, M. (2014, October 28). Ed Snowden Taught Me To Smuggle Secrets Past Incredible Danger. Now I Teach You. Retrieved from https://theintercept.com/2014/10/28/ smuggling-snowden-secrets/ Srnicek, N. (2017). Platform Capitalism. Cambridge, UK: Polity. Turow, J. (2017). The aisles have eyes: How retailers track your shopping, strip your privacy, and define your power. New Haven: Yale University Press. Turow, J., Mcguigan, L., & Maris, E. R. (2015). Making data mining a natural part of life: Physical retailing, customer surveillance and the 21st century social imaginary. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 18(4-5), 464-478. doi:10.1177/1367549415577390 Zuboff, S. (2015). Big other: Surveillance capitalism and the prospects of an information civilization. Journal of Information Technology, 30(1), 75-89. doi:10.1057/jit.2015.5 https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/28/21344751/facial-recognition-face-masks-accuracy-nist-study https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/surveillance-technologies/amazons-face-recognition-falsely-matched-28 https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-google-out-of-my-life-it-screwed-up-everything-1830565500 https://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/28/congress-clears-way-for-isps-to-sell-browsing-history.html https://www.vyprvpn.com/blog/myths-about-vpn-logging-and-anonymity https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/how-facebook-tracks-you-even-when-youre-not-on-facebook/ https://www.groundtruth.com/solutions/self-serve/ The Tor Project. (n.d.). Tor: Overview. Retrieved October 29, 2018, from https:// www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en

We are joined by Twinkrev.com contributor River Page (@leftyotter) to discuss his piece on the book Rich Dad, Poor Dad, and how it relates to working-class struggle, as well as his piece on polyamory as an identity and its relation to the gig economy. We also discuss the presence of children at pride, and the odd age gap discourse about Glenn Greenwald and his hot Brazilian husband.  River’s articles: Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Platform Capitalism and the False Promise of Self-Liberation Getting DP’d in the Age of Loneliness: The End of History and the Rise of Polyamory

In this episode we speak with the writer Liz Pelly, who over the past 5 years has written a series of revelatory critical pieces about the streaming economy for The Baffler.We discuss whether the distinction of Independence is all that useful in music at this point in history, take a look at the ways in which the streaming platforms flatter some kinds of music and have flattered to deceive for others, and question what the recent Spotify exclusivity deal with Joe Rogan might mean for musicians.This is a nice and long conversation, and we had one or two connection issues, so forgive us if you notice one or two jarring edits!Check out Liz's work online here:https://lizpelly.com/https://thebaffler.com/authors/liz-pelly

IT For Change deputy director Nandini Chami on her article "Data governance and the new frontiers of resistance" written with Anita Gurumurthy for ROAR / Transnational Institute, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen defends the obvious. https://roarmag.org/essays/intelligent-corporation-platform-capitalism/

Welcome to Episode 1.... What the Zuck!Join us as we clitically analyse the surveillance state, Daddy Zuck himself and whether or not we can be *woke* and enjoy Sex and the City.Things mentioned:Surveillance:Open to Close - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/07/australias-civil-rights-rating-downgraded-as-report-finds-world-becoming-less-free?fbclid=IwAR1NtEoW8eWvr49YqE9c7Wj0GRp7KSCw0lhHPv3Vd0cHrTAEla723gm7_a8Shoshana Zuboff - The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (2018)Platform Capitalism (2016)Cal Newport - Digital Minimalism (2019)online Uber gameZadie Smith - Grand Union (2019), Feel Free (2018)John Berger - Ways of Seeing (1972)Zuck:The Social Network (2010)Zuckerberg’s Apology:https://theconversation.com/mark-zuckerbergs-facebook-apology-is-the-linguistic-equivalent-of-shit-happens-94736https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/mark-zuckerbergs-theory-of-privacy/2014/02/03/2c1d780a-8cea-11e3-95dd-36ff657a4dae_story.htmlClits of the Week!Sex and The City (1998-2004)Girls (2012-2017)Ben Lerner- The Topeka School (2019)Sally Rooney - Even if You Beat Me (2015): https://thedublinreview.com/article/even-if-you-beat-meMin Jin Lee - Pachinko (2017)Lisa Taddeo - Three Women (2019)Knives Out (2019)

What is platform capitalism? And why is it that Amazon seems to be transitioning from online bookstore to perpetually-expanding defense contractor? This week’s episode features Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum) in discussion with author and academic Nick Srnicek (@n_srnck). Nick’s previous books include “Platform Capitalism” and “Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World without Work.” He joins us to discuss a particularly non-HIPAA compliant app and his own work into the (monopolistic, bad) platforms that dominate our economy today. We have a Patreon and signing up at the $5 tier will give you an extra episode each week. You’ll also gain access to our incredibly powerful Discord server. Sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture If you want to buy one of our recent special-edition phone-cops shirt, shoot us an email at trashfuturepodcast[at]gmail[dot]com and we can post it to you. (£20 for non-patrons, £15 for patrons) Do you want a mug to hold your soup? Perhaps you want one with the Trashfuture logo, which is available here: https://teespring.com/what-if-phone-cops#pid=659&cid=102968&sid=front

James Butler is joined by Callum Cant to discuss his new book Riding for Deliveroo, which draws from his experience as a worker militant in the gig economy, and discusses the implications of new forms of work for worker resistance. http://novaramedia.com/?p=15232

A gente não sabe, mas nossa rotina é cheia de exemplos de softwares livres. Eles estão nas catracas do transporte público, na Wikipedia de pesquisa, no software de criptografia e nas bibliotecas de arquivos que podem ser utilizados livremente… O movimento surgiu em 1983, quando Richard Stallman desenvolveu um software chamado GNU e fundou a Free Software Foundation. O objetivo principal é difundir conhecimento e existem requisitos para que uma aplicação possa ser classificada como “livre”. E vale destacar: não é a mesma coisa que Open Source! Conversamos com Ricardo Brazileiro, Sérgio Amadeu da Silveira e Rodrigo Troian para entender muito desse universo e dessas comunidades. Então pluga o seu pen-drive Tails, dá o play e confira o #infocast 61! Links do episódio Free Software Foundation: https://www.fsf.org/pt-br Creative Commons: https://br.creativecommons.org/ GNU/ GPL: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.pt-br.html Free Cad: https://www.freecadweb.org/ Algoritmo RSA: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(sistema_criptogr%C3%A1fico) Livro "Platform Capitalism", de Nick Srnicek http://bit.ly/livro_platformcapitalism Linux: https://www.linux.org/ Calibri: https://calibre-ebook.com/ Arch Linux: https://www.archlinux.org/art/ Open WRT: https://openwrt.org/ Mozilla Firefox: https://www.mozilla.org/pt-BR/ Chromium: https://www.chromium.org/ Thunderbird: https://www.thunderbird.net/pt-BR/ Paranoid Android: http://paranoidandroid.co/ Linage OS: https://lineageos.org/ Enigmail: https://www.enigmail.net/index.php/en/ Tails: https://tails.boum.org/index.pt.html Tor: https://www.torproject.org/ Opera: https://www.opera.com/pt-br Equipe Técnica Produção: Clarissa Viana Responsável técnico: Mario Filho Edição: Maremo.to Sonoplastia: Murillo Prestes

In which we are joined by Bob Neubauer to discuss Nick Srnicek's 2016 book "Platform Capitalism"  If you like the show, consider supporting us on Patreon. Links: Platform Capitalism on politybooks.com General Intellect Unit on iTunes http://generalintellectunit.net Support the show on Patreon https://twitter.com/giunitpod General Intellect Unit on Facebook General Intellect Unit on archive.org

Will Partin has written for The Atlantic, Variety, Kotaku, and, most recently a great piece in Vice's Waypoint about Artifact. Probably less of a “formal game design” conversation than I usually have, but we touched on a broad number of topics that affect game developers and players alike. We also discussed the recent patch, the … Will Partin on Artifact and Platform Capitalism Read More »

The steady stream of revelations since the 2016 Presidential election reveal that Facebook is simply not interested in democratic participation, but the degree to which it can convert citizens into that most valuable to modern commodities: data.

Platform Capitalism: How the most powerful tech companies of our time are revolutionising the global economy. Laurie Taylor talks to Nick Srnicek Lecturer in International Political Economy at City, University of London, and author of a new study which critically examines how companies ranging from Google, Amazon and Microsoft to Facebook, GE and Airbnb, are turning into platforms: businesses that provide the hardware and software foundation for others to operate on. This transformation in how companies operate offers new possibilities for consumers, but also represents an arguably troubling monopoly control over both distribution and production. How did Platform Capitalism originate, what are its merits - as well as its dangers - and does it have an infinite future? Ursula Huws, Professor of Labour and Globalisation at Hertfordshire School of Business and Andrew Leyshon, Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Nottingham, also join the discussion. Producer: Jayne Egerton.