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Aug 2, 2019 1 hr 7 min

The Crystal, the System

from Centered Subject Hosted by Yelena Zhelezov

Artist Nicolas Grenier joins Jenny and Yelena for a conversation on systems that propel the growth-oriented economy. Broached: Jack Burnham’s “System Esthetics”, Individualism vs Collectivity, Marianne Williamson’s appeal, Boris Johnson’s calculated clown act, contemporary medievalism, propaganda, mushroom sculptures and more. Refs: Margaret Levi: Creating a New Moral Political Economy https://casbs.stanford.edu/projects/projects/creating-new-moral-political-economy Future of Humanity Institute: https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/ And the Vulnerable World Hypothesis by Nick Bostrom (from the Future of Humanity Institute) https://nickbostrom.com/papers/vulnerable.pdf Caliban and the Witch, Silvia Federici https://libcom.org/files/Caliban%20and%20the%20Witch.pdf Nonviolent Communication, Marshall Rosenberg Deleuze and Guattari The Concept of the Rhizome, http://ensemble.va.com.au/enslogic/text/smn_lct08.htm Red Hangover, Legacies of Twentieth-Century Communism, Kristen Ghodsee https://www.dukeupress.edu/red-hangover

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