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