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RadicalxChange(s)
by RadicalxChange Foundation
RadicalxChange Foundation’s Jess Scully speaks with inspiring personalities to explore critical ideas and stories about next-generation political economies.
Episodes
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What Protests Want, With Yuting Jiang
When French citizens took to the streets during the recent Bloquons Tout ("Block Everything") protests, they were united in opposition to the proposed national budget. But beyond that shared frustration, what did they actually want? This is the question plaguing modern protest movements. We know...
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Takahiro Anno: Fixing Bugs in Democracy
Executive Director Jess Scully speaks with Takahiro Anno, an AI engineer, science fiction writer and newly elected member of Japan's House of Councillors. Anno shares his remarkable journey from software engineer to politician, driven by a desire to "fix the bugs" in society and democracy. Anno's...
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Max Semenchuk: Digital Democracy, War & Resilience
Join new host and Executive Director Jess Scully for a critical conversation on digital resilience, democracy, and reconstruction with Max Semenchuk, Program Director of the Web3 Institute in Ukraine. In this episode, Max explains why, even in the midst of full-scale war, digital innovation has...
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Jonathon Keats: Experimental Philosopher
Some people might call Jonathon Keats an artist, but he calls himself an experimental philosopher. His body of work explores the way that human life intersects with political and economic systems. His first major work, in the year 2000, involved sitting in a chair thinking for hours, and then...
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J.H.H. Weiler: Academic & Professor at NYU Law
In today’s episode, renowned academic and legal scholar Professor Joseph H.H. Weiler speaks with Matt about The Trial of Jesus – connecting the historical event as a lens for understanding justice, religious pluralism, and democracy. The examination leads us through the limits of state neutrality...
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Audrey Tang: On Becoming a "Good Enough Ancestor"
In this episode, Matt Prewitt sits down with Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s Cyber Ambassador-at-large and 1st Digital Minister, as well as the star of the new short documentary Good Enough Ancestor. It is a fascinating conversation exploring the profound intersections of technology, spirituality, and...
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Gary Zhexi Zhang: Artist & Writer
Matt Prewitt and Gary Zhexi Zhang discuss Chinese cybernetics, focusing on pioneer Qian Xuesen and how the field developed differently in China versus the West. They explore how Chinese cybernetics emerged as a practical tool for nation-building, examining its scientific foundations, political...
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Joe Edelman: Co-Founder of Meaning Alignment Institute
What happens when artificial intelligence starts weighing in on our moral decisions? Matt Prewitt is joined by Meaning Alignment Institute co-founder Joe Edelman to explore this thought-provoking territory in examining how AI is already shaping our daily experiences and values through social…
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Janine Leger & Timour Kosters: Co-Founders of Edge City
Join host Matt Prewitt in an inspiring conversation with Edge City co-founders Janine Leger and Timour Kosters, as they dive into the transformative world of pop-up villages and cities. Discover the story behind Edge City's latest experiment, Edge Esmeralda, and learn how temporary communities…
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Frank McCourt: Founder of Project Liberty (Part II)
In this episode, Project Liberty Founder Frank McCourt joins Matt for a second round to discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by rapidly developing AI technologies. Building on their previous chat about digital infrastructure, they explore whether AI will exacerbate social media,...
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Frank McCourt: Founder of Project Liberty (Part I)
Today, in Part I of a two-episode conversation, Matt Prewitt is joined by civic entrepreneur and Founder of Project Liberty, Frank McCourt, who is on a mission to reclaim the internet and prioritize human rights in our digital landscape. Drawing parallels between the early public oversight of...
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Tahir Amin: Co-Founder & CEO of I-MAK
In today’s episode, Matt Prewitt engages in a thought-provoking dialogue with Tahir Amin, the Co-Founder and CEO of the Initiative for Medicines, Access, and Knowledge (I-MAK). Together, they delve into the history of the patent and trademark systems – flaws and all, especially within the...
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Indy Johar: Architect and Co-Founder of Dark Matter Labs
In this final episode of our short series, host Matt Prewitt speaks with Indy Johar, architect and co-founder of Dark Matter Labs. Together they discuss the topic of ownership through the lens of theories of governance. Indy advocates for decentralized protocols in property governance…
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Matt Prewitt: Lawyer, Writer, & President of RadicalxChange Foundation
In today’s episode, guest host Margaret Levi interviews Matt Prewitt, President of RadicalxChange Foundation. With the tables turned from our last episode, Margaret interviews Matt on rethinking property rights. Beginning with a reflection on the state of political liberalism, Matt dives into the...
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Margaret Levi: Political Scientist, Author, & Professor at Stanford University
Welcome back to RadicalxChange(s), and happy 2024! In our first episode of the year, Matt speaks with Margaret Levi, distinguished political scientist, author, and professor at Stanford University. They delve into Margaret and her team’s groundbreaking work of reimagining property rights. The...
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Barry Threw: Executive & Artistic Director of Gray Area
In this episode of RadicalxChange(s), host Matt Prewitt engages in a deep and thoughtful conversation with Barry Threw, Executive & Artistic Director of Gray Area. They explore Barry's diverse career integrating art, technology, and humanities for economic, social, and ecological regeneration…
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Deepti Doshi: Co-Director of New_ Public
In today’s episode, Deepti Doshi, Co-Director of New_ Public (and leader in the intersection of social media, community organizing, and leadership development) speaks with Matt Prewitt on how to create online spaces that foster interconnection, mutual dependency, and democratic outcomes.…
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Victoria Ivanova: R&D Strategic Lead at Serpentine Arts Technologies
In today’s ep, Matt Prewitt speaks with Victoria Ivanova, R&D Strategic Lead of Serpentine Arts and curator-strategist-writer, about the role art and culture have in society in preserving democratic ideals while offering critical and actionable solutions for the emerging technological era. They...
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Shrey Jain: Applied Scientist at Microsoft Research Special Projects
Shrey Jain, an applied scientist at Microsoft Research Special Projects, speaks with Matt Prewitt on a very timely and topical subject: AI and – more specifically – the dangers it poses to the nature of natural human communication (“context collapse”). They take a deep dive into the current…
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Partial Common Ownership/Plural Property: In Conversation with Will Holley, Graven Prest, Kevin Seagraves
In today's episode, Will Holley (Founder of 721 Labs), Graven Prest (Co-Founder of the Geo Web project), and Kevin Seagraves (CEO of NiftyApes) are three mission-focused entrepreneurs who join host Matt Prewitt in a roundtable discussion on the topic of Plural Property — RadicalxChange's umbrella...
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A New Era of Democracy Ep. 3 | Zizi Papacharissi
This episode is a continuation of a mini season of RadicalxChange(s) titled A New Era of Democracy. In today’s episode, we welcome Professor of Communications and Political Science Zizi Papacharissi who discusses her latest book, After Democracy with host Matt Prewitt. In this thought-provoking...
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Christine Lemmer-Webber: CTO of Spritely Institute, ActivityPub Co-Editor, and User Freedom Activist
In this exciting episode, Matt Prewitt speaks with the inquisitive and captivating Christine Lemmer-Webber, who is CTO of the Spritely Institute and whose lifelong work focuses on advocating user freedom. This philosophical and technical discussion focuses on the many ways to look at ethical...
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A New Era of Democracy Ep. 2 | Anasuya Sengupta
This episode is part of a mini season of RadicalxChange(s) titled A New Era of Democracy. Lauded poet, author, and activist Anasuya Sengupta joins Matt Prewitt on this episode to discuss the culture of Wikipedia, the embedded power dynamics of digital technologies, and how plurality plays a role…
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A New Era of Democracy Ep. 1 | Audrey Tang and Jo Guldi with Rosa O’Hara
This episode is part of a mini season of RadicalxChange(s) titled A New Era of Democracy. Rosa O’Hara moderates a discussion between Audrey Tang and Jo Guldi on Taiwan’s expeditious response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the history of the g0v movement, the democratic power of embracing new forms of...
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James Evans: Computational Social Scientist, Knowledge Lab Director, and Professor at UChicago
In this conversation with James A. Evans, we examine the relationship between artificial intelligence and democracy, the tradeoffs between hybridization and speciation, and much more. James is a professor at the University of Chicago, director of its Knowledge Lab, and external professor at the...
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Jo Guldi and Brent Hecht: Maps, Computers, and Other Abstractions - Information Infrastructure and Legitimacy
This episode ended up being a wide-ranging discussion that surfaced essential ideas about getting more thoughtful about the boundary between public and private power by understanding what’s infrastructure and what isn’t. The seed for this conversation was whether we should understand Google’s…
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Yakov Feygin and Nick Vincent: On Data Dividends
The backstory to this episode is a lengthy research collaboration focused on how the value of data gets captured. With that in mind, how to design a tax that would fairly redistribute it. You can see the collaboration results at Datadividends.org -- a proposal for a simple, eminently…
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Tom Atlee: Social, Peace and Environmental Activist and Author
Tom Atlee is the founder of the nonprofit Co-Intelligence Institute, author of The Tao of Democracy and Reflections on Evolutionary Activism, and creator of the Wise Democracy Pattern Language. He has published many articles in alternative journals, collaborated on numerous projects and books…
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Jo Guldi: Professor of Digital Humanities, Historian of Political Economy, and Author
Jo Guldi is a scholar of Britain's history and empire who is especially involved in questions of state expansion, the contestation of property under capitalism, and how state and property concepts are recorded in the built environment's landscape. These themes informed her first book, Roads to...
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Meet the RadicalxChange(s) podcast and its hosts Jennifer Morone and Matt Prewitt. Jennifer Lyn Morone is RadicalxChange Foundation’s CEO and a multidisciplinary visual artist, activist, and filmmaker. Her work focuses on the human experience with technology, economics, politics, and identity…
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Fred Turner: Stanford Professor, Author, and Media Scientist
Fred Turner is the Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University. He is the author of three books: The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties (University of Chicago Press, 2013); From Counterculture to...
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RadicalxChange Foundation’s Jess Scully speaks with inspiring personalities to explore critical ideas and stories about next-generation political economies.
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