Abolishing Silicon Valley, Building the Commons--A Different Way to Spend Your Life: A Conversation with Wendy Liu

Podcast: Speaking Out of Place (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Abolishing Silicon Valley, Building the Commons--A Different Way to Spend Your Life: A Conversation with Wendy LiuPub date: 2025-07-23Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationEver since its publication, Abolish Silicon Valley—How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism has proven to be more urgent and insightful. Today I talk with author Wendy Liu about how developments like AI and LLM, further erosions of intellectual property, and increased invasions of privacy make the case for abolishing Silicon Valley even more important. We talk about how abolition is critical at a time when more and more the private sector has come to eviscerate the public good. Turning to the genocide in Gaza, we discuss the ways Capital has enlisted technology in deadly and horrific manners. We end with a meditation on the commons and how one can live with fewer commodities and find value in common projects to make life more valuable and worthwhile outside of the logic of the market.Wendy Liu is the author of Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology From Capitalism, a memoir/manifesto about the tech industry from the perspective of a former believer. She lives in San Francisco and is working on a novel.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from David Palumbo-Liu , which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.