RadicalxChange Replayed
39 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★ - 7 ratingsRadicalxChange Replayed presents audio replays of talks from conferences and events hosted by RadicalxChange every other week. The talks feature innovative and thought-provoking ideas from scholars, artists, activists, and innovators from around the world who utilize RadicalxChange (RxC) concepts such as Common Partial Ownership, Quadratic Funding and Voting, and Data Dignity to tackle divisive social issues, improve democracy, and create markets, institutions, and technology that better reflect our diverse lives. Each episode promises to add a touch of radical thinking to your life.
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Rethinking Art Ownership: Partial Common Ownership as a Step Towards a More Symbiotic Ecosystem [audio article]
March 01, 2023 15:31 - 13 minutes - 12.4 MBThis is the audio version of RadicalxChange and Serpentine Arts Technologies' latest white paper titled Rethinking Art Ownership: Partial Common Ownership as a Step Towards a More Symbiotic Ecosystem. Through a collaboration between Serpentine Arts Technologies and RadicalxChange Foundation, it was written by Paula Berman (RxC), Victoria Ivanova (Serpentine), and Matt Prewitt (RxC). This episode was narrated, co-produced, and audio engineered by Aaron Benavides and produced by G. Angela Co...
Communicating Democratic Ideals Through Art | Charlotte Kent and Fred Turner
December 19, 2022 23:47 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MBIn this exciting and inspiring talk, Professors Charlotte Kent and Fred Turner discuss the great potential art holds in creating shifts in the public consciousness through examples of historical art movements, art’s impact on technology and society at large, and its effective way of communicating democratic ideals. They also cover the background and process behind Fred's latest book "Seeing Silicon Valley: Life Inside a Fraying America", a collaboration with notable photographer Mary Beth M...
How Indigenous Learnings Can Help Liberate Democratic Institutions of Today | Tyson Yunkaporta and Jim Rutt
May 30, 2022 20:26 - 1 hour - 194 MBThis entertainingly honest conversation between Tyson Yunkaporta and Jim Rutt discusses how indigenous learnings can help liberate the democratic institutions of today. They explore the notion of "humans as custodial species" (via Yunkaporta's book, "Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World"), and the role we serve tied to the earth around us on a spiritual and physical level. Jim and Tyson take you down an exciting path paved with history, tech, and new and old philosophies tha...
Value in the Data Economy | Diane Coyle, Sushant Kumar, and Matt Prewitt
May 05, 2022 21:47 - 41 minutes - 94.1 MBData and the Data Economy are increasingly important issues affecting all of society. Hear from a panel of experts on responsible technology and public policy discussing mental models of how value accrues in the Data Economy, how to form protective legislation and infrastructure, and dealing with extreme concentrations of power and wealth plaguing the data economy. This was originally aired on RxC TV as part of the 2021 RadicalxChange unConference Online. Speakers Sushant Kumar (@sushants...
A New Chapter for RadicalxChange [audio article]
April 18, 2022 20:45 - 12 minutes - 11.6 MBThe audio version of RadicalxChange's latest blog post titled A New Chapter for RadicalxChange. Written by the RadicalxChange Foundation team. Listen to and/or read the article to learn and connect more about RadicalxChange's evolving mission. Written by the RadicalxChange Foundation team. Voiced, audio engineered, and co-produced by Aaron Benavides. Produced by G. Angela Corpus.
Quadratic Voting at Work | Charlotte Cavaille, Chris Hansen, and Sachin Mittal in Conversation With Jake Interrante
June 12, 2021 17:10 - 1 hour - 79 MBQuadratic Voting offers hope to revitalize collective decision-making in a wide range of domains in society and the economy, e.g., corporations, governments, unions, games, ratings, research, et cetera. An increasing number of examples support that hope in this radical voting method. In this panel discussion, you hear from current practices by policy-makers in the Colorado government and academic researchers and their insights from working with Quadratic Voting in preference polling. Spe...
Data Agency: Individual or Shared? | Matt Prewitt, Nick Vincent, and Kaliya Young in Conversation With Jennifer Morone
May 17, 2021 07:48 - 1 hour - 62.1 MBDigital networks have centralized power over identities and information, creating problems for both markets and democracy. Does the solution require more shared agency over data? What might that look like? This panel discussion is structured around thought experiments to find solutions to this issue. SPEAKERS Matt Prewitt is RadicalxChange Foundation’s president, a writer and blockchain industry advisor, and a former plaintiff’s side antitrust and consumer class action litigator and fede...
Pluralism Through Personal Ais | Steve Omohundro Interviewed by Puja Ohlhaver
April 24, 2021 08:59 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MBArtificial Intelligence is transforming every aspect of business and society. The usual narrative focuses on monolithic AIs owned by large corporations and governments that promote the interests of the powerful. But imagine a world in which each person has their own "personal AI," which deeply models their beliefs, desires, and values and promotes those interests. Such agents enable much richer and more frequent "semantic voting," improving feedback for governance. They dramatically change t...
Pluralism Through Personal AIs | Steve Omohundro Interviewed by Puja Ohlhaver
April 24, 2021 08:59 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MBArtificial Intelligence is transforming every aspect of business and society. The usual narrative focuses on monolithic AIs owned by large corporations and governments that promote the interests of the powerful. But imagine a world in which each person has their own "personal AI," which deeply models their beliefs, desires, and values and promotes those interests. Such agents enable much richer and more frequent "semantic voting," improving feedback for governance. They dramatically change t...
Blockchain and RadicalxChange Communities: Better Together | Vitalik Buterin
April 05, 2021 14:43 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MBVitalik Buterin is a Russian-Canadian programmer and writer best known as the Ethereum blockchain's inventor and co-founder. Buterin became involved with blockchain technologies early in its inception, co-founding Bitcoin Magazine in 2011. In 2014, Buterin launched Ethereum and is now leading research at the Ethereum Foundation. He is also one of the co-creators of Quadratic Funding and is a board member of RadicalxChange Foundation. This keynote was taped at the RadicalxChange conferenc...
Political Solidarity in the U.S. | Jonathan Herzog, Badrun Khan, and Blair Walsingham in Conversation With Darren Sand
March 17, 2021 13:14 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBCandidates for office and elected officials around the world are bringing RadicalxChange’s ideas to life. On this panel, a group of diverse, young candidates for office will discuss the values that motivate their campaigns and some particular policy proposals they hope to achieve. This wide-ranging conversation will cover the problems posed by concentrations of power (economic and political), technology, and the degradation of democracy. Speakers Jonathan Herzog is a civil rights organ...
Race and Our Political Moment | Briana Agyemang, Ahmed H. Ahmed, and Jessica Lynch in Conversation With Jermaine Johnson
February 19, 2021 17:32 - 46 minutes - 42.7 MBGeorge Floyd's death has shocked the world and sparked an uprising across the US. This is a discussion around response and reactions to the moment and probing for a way forward. Speakers Brianna Agyemang is the renowned co-founder of #TheShowMustBePaused & The Brownie Agency. Agyemang is also Sr. Artist Campaign Manager at Apple’s artist-services division, Platoon. Ahmed H. Ahmed is the Director, Partnership & Professional Learning at Overcoming Racism. He facilitates race and equity ...
Land Value: Past, Present, and Future | Jo Guldi and Alisha Holland in Conversation With Matt Prewitt
February 06, 2021 20:34 - 1 hour - 74.6 MBLand has been central to economic inequality for centuries. Today, we sometimes see homeownership as a path to the middle class, but it is important to see how this particular asset still drives inequality. This panel discusses the past and present of ideas like Henry George's land value tax, hoping to draw lessons for the real economy. Speakers Jo Guldi is a scholar of the history of Britain and its empire who is especially involved in questions of state expansion, the contestation of pr...
Democracy in the Age of Cryptography | Santiago Siri Interviewed by Steven McKie
February 02, 2021 10:22 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBLook at any review of the past decade, and you will find Bitcoin standing strong as the one experiment that defined information technology for the past ten years. Such is its global relevance that 2019 marked the first time both the President of the United States of America and the President of the People's Republic of China referred to blockchains directly in their words. While Mr. Trump praised the US Dollar might serve as the leading global reserve currency, President Xi arguably contribu...
Does Civic/Gov-Tech Improve Democratic Government in Cities? | Amanda Brink, Michelle Kobayashi, and Micah Sifry in Conversation With Joel Rogers
January 24, 2021 22:25 - 48 minutes - 44.3 MBOne promise of civ-gov tech is that it helps optimize democratic government, particularly in the cities where most people live. This panel explores how well that promise is being kept and how to improve things if it's not. SPEAKERS Amanda Brink is a Wisconsin-based political operative with over 12 years of experience in the field. A utility infielder, happy to assist with campaign management, overall strategy, fundraising, organizing, operations, compliance, digital, press, training, re...
Radical Agreement in Politics | Paula Berman, Jennifer Morone, and Mark Reiff in Conversation With Leon Erichsen
January 09, 2021 21:59 - 1 hour - 68.9 MBIn 2020, ideological conflicts reached a fever pitch, and the media landscape has become extraordinarily disorienting. Are we simply heading into a more fragmented era? This panel aims to find the light at the end of the tunnel, discussing all kinds of approaches to discover common ground for a more nuanced and vital politics. SPEAKERS Paula Berman is a researcher and builder at the intersection of technology and democracy. She is a founding member of Democracy Earth Foundation, a non-pr...
Quadratic Funding: Past, Present & Future | Kevin Owocki
December 27, 2020 13:59 - 46 minutes - 42.2 MBQuadratic Funding powers Gitcoin Grants, an application that has become a "Significant Pillar of the Ethereum Ecosystem," according to Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin. Learn about the why, the how, and the what behind Gitcoin Grants and Gitcoin's plans to take Quadratic Funding mainstream, with a QF application that will help local downtowns recover from COVID-related economic distress. Kevin Owocki is the founder of Gitcoin.co -- a blockchain-based network for growing open-source softw...
Revenge Capitalism: Max Haiven Interviewed by Marc Garrett
December 18, 2020 23:01 - 1 hour - 62.1 MBRevenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, & the Settling of Unpayable Debts, 2020, is Max Haiven's most recent publication to date. Capitalism is in a profound state of crisis. Beyond the mere dispassionate cruelty of 'ordinary' structural violence, it appears today as a global system bent on reckless economic revenge. Its expression is found in mass incarceration, climate chaos, unpayable debt, pharmaceutical violence, and the relentless degradation of common life. In...
Revenge Capitalism | Max Haiven Interviewed by Marc Garrett
December 18, 2020 23:01 - 1 hour - 62.1 MBRevenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, & the Settling of Unpayable Debts, 2020, is Max Haiven's most recent publication to date. Capitalism is in a profound state of crisis. Beyond the mere dispassionate cruelty of 'ordinary' structural violence, it appears today as a global system bent on reckless economic revenge. Its expression is found in mass incarceration, climate chaos, unpayable debt, pharmaceutical violence, and the relentless degradation of common life. In...
Innovation in Community Focused Ownership | Mathew Dryhurst and Joeri Torfs in Conversation With John Surico
December 12, 2020 17:01 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBRadically rethinking property rights has always been a core part of RadicalxChange’s mission. Outdated models of owning versus renting land or holding stock in a company have created many societal problems. In this panel, we will hear from several entrepreneurs and innovative thinkers building new kinds of communities. Common to all panelists is a desire to unlock new types of human prosperity by moving past outdated models of ownership. SPEAKERS Mathew Dryhurst is an artist and resea...
Innovation in Community Focused Ownership - Mathew Dryhurst and Joeri Torfs in Conversation With John Surico
December 12, 2020 17:01 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBRadically rethinking property rights has always been a core part of RadicalxChange’s mission. Outdated models of owning versus renting land or holding stock in a company have created many societal problems. In this panel, we will hear from several entrepreneurs and innovative thinkers building new kinds of communities. Common to all panelists is a desire to unlock new types of human prosperity by moving past outdated models of ownership. SPEAKERS Mathew Dryhurst is an artist and resea...
Post-Religiosity: An Inter-Faith Discussion | Shoukei Matsumoto in Conversation With Amichai Lau Lavie
December 04, 2020 14:44 - 39 minutes - 35.8 MBShoukei Matsumoto will take us into his essential teachings on Buddhism and how he uses "cleaning" to address dissatisfaction. He will engage with Rabbi Amichai on these ideas and the concept of post-religiosity. SPEAKERS Shoukei Matsumoto is a Buddhist Monk in Komyoji Temple. Born in 1979 in Japan, he graduated with a B.A. degree in Literature from the University of Tokyo. After graduation, he joined the Komyoji temple and initiated new projects such as the Temple Café Project. In 2008...
No Normal | Keller Easterling in Conversation with Shumi Bose
November 28, 2020 07:55 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBCOVID-19 is an x-ray of racial injustice, inequality, and ineffectual government as well as a rehearsal for climate catastrophe. It exposes a modern mind that maintains the myth of solutions, newness, freedom, and universals. That mind gives authority to new digital technologies, econometrics, and law, to segregate and eliminate problems. COVID graphically models the productive entanglement between problems as well as forms for re-tuning and redesigning those entanglements. Interplay itself ...
No Normal - Keller Easterling in Conversation with Shumi Bose
November 28, 2020 07:55 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBCOVID-19 is an x-ray of racial injustice, inequality, and ineffectual government as well as a rehearsal for climate catastrophe. It exposes a modern mind that maintains the myth of solutions, newness, freedom, and universals. That mind gives authority to new digital technologies, econometrics, and law, to segregate and eliminate problems. COVID graphically models the productive entanglement between problems as well as forms for re-tuning and redesigning those entanglements. Interplay itself ...
RadicalxChange 2.0 | E. Glen Weyl
November 20, 2020 13:02 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MBRadical Markets was only a first step in radically improving social technology. But it propagated the central mistakes of assuming an atomized individual identity. By formalizing human identity's fundamentally social nature, truer to the richness of our diversely shared lives, Glen Weyl sketches how we can build better institutions to create systems for facilitating cooperation across difference. SPEAKER E. Glen Weyl is a political economist and social technologist whose work focuses on...
Valuing Domestic Work in (Post) COVID-19 Times | Carlotta Gradin, Maïmonatou Mar and Shani Orgad
November 13, 2020 16:45 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MBThe Covid-19 has thrown into sharp relief, just how vital the work of ‘key workers’ or ‘essential workers’ is for our lives and survival. Among those workers are domestic workers, who are disproportionately female migrants and women of color. These workers, who have long been underpaid, overworked, and under-resourced, have suddenly become visible and seen as essential. What narratives about domestic workers have circulated during the Covid-19 pandemic? What can we learn from them to maintai...
Democracy and Media | Fred Turner in Conversation With Matt Prewitt
November 10, 2020 18:02 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBIn the 1930s, many worried that the new medium of radio--with its ability to deliver the voices of autocrats to millions of listeners--had fueled the rise of fascism in Europe. Responding to this worry, US intellectuals during World War II sought to invent new media experiences that would inoculate audiences against fascism by encouraging the development of democratic and participatory values. These efforts were shockingly influential. They shaped everything from mid-century U.S. propaganda,...
The Future of the Corporation | Colin Mayer, Michelle Meagher and Nathan Schneider in Conversation With Jennifer Morone
October 31, 2020 16:06 - 42 minutes - 38.4 MBThis history of the corporation is a meandering and expanding one but one thing that is common among them, more often than not, is that the profit motive overshadows the potential negative impacts they have on society and the place we all call home. While today’s landscape of corporate structure has broadened to include more mission driven, or worker owned structures, there remain mechanisms in place and questions left unasked that keep the corporation fundamentally flawed. In this session w...
What Is the Proper Place of Technocracy in Democracy? | Margaret Levi Interviewed by Avital Balwit
October 19, 2020 21:06 - 43 minutes - 39.7 MBGlen Weyl wrote, "While technical knowledge, appropriately communicated and distilled, has potentially great benefits in opening social imagination, it can only achieve this potential if it understands itself as part of a broader democratic conversation." My talk will lay out what kinds of technical knowledge have these benefits and under what conditions. It will provide some historical context going back to the Technocracy Movement, which arose at the beginning of the twentieth century. Mos...
Identity Politics as Elite Capture | Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò Interviewed by Emmanuel Midy
October 12, 2020 10:00 - 30 minutes - 28 MBThe culture wars are reascendant. Prof. Taiwo argues that the wealthy and powerful will take every opportunity to co-opt activist energies for their own ends. How does one build collectives in the midst of this. SPEAKERS Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. He completed his PhD at University of California, Los Angeles. Before that, he completed BAs in Philosophy and Political Science at Indiana University. Emmanuel Midy is the Communit...
Data Dignity | Jaron Lanier Interviewed by Avital Balwit
October 03, 2020 19:42 - 42 minutes - 39 MBData Dignity is a realignment of the economics of the internet that will improve the outlook for people as algorithms and robots get better, while at the same time making those technologies work better. The basic idea is paying people more often for the value they create in the online world. Right now consumers typically barter their efforts and data online in exchange for services, but the advertising model which finances this arrangement has motivated poor quality results and has not been ...
Renewing the Civil Rights Movements Now | Imam Omar Suleiman in Conversation With Maïmonatou Mar
September 29, 2020 22:35 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBAs the political polarization divides the US population, the once ideas of social progress turned again into securitarian attempts to protect the borders, the job market, the national identity, therefore reviving the White Supremacy mindset. The acceptance of violence, racism and social injustice nurtured the institutionalization of the fears depleting the State engagement to dignity. George Floyd's death crystallized the wrath of the minorities seeking for a systemic change with the unprece...
The COVID-19 Crisis of Legitimacy | E. Glen Weyl Interviewed by Emmanuel Midy
September 20, 2020 21:51 - 41 minutes - 38 MBCOVID-19 has dramatically shown the failure of political institutions in the West to facilitate rapid and responsive consensus in the face of crisis, leading to millions of avoidable deaths and unprecedented economic calamity. As these political systems increasingly lose legitimacy and dissent moves to the streets, we must resist the natural turn the towards technocratic authoritarianism of the largest country that responded successfully. Despite the limited success of some authoritarian reg...
Quadratic Funding in Ethereum | Vitalik Buterin Interviewed by Pia Mancini
September 13, 2020 18:46 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBThe Ethereum ecosystem has been an excellent initial testbed for quadratic funding, through the Gitcoin Grants project, which has directed over a million dollars of funding to Ethereum projects over five rounds in 2019 and 2020. It has effectively demonstrated the basic effectiveness of the quadratic funding mechanism; it has funded projects that are genuine public goods, and often projects that previous funding mechanisms missed. At the same time, the tests have shown some of the more subtl...
Quadratic Funding in Ethereum | Vitalik Buterin interviewed by Pia Mancini
September 13, 2020 18:46 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBThe Ethereum ecosystem has been an excellent initial testbed for quadratic funding, through the Gitcoin Grants project, which has directed over a million dollars of funding to Ethereum projects over five rounds in 2019 and 2020. It has effectively demonstrated the basic effectiveness of the quadratic funding mechanism; it has funded projects that are genuine public goods, and often projects that previous funding mechanisms missed. At the same time, the tests have shown some of the m...
Why Can't We Just Do What's Right? | Diana Rodríguez Franco, Elena Landau, and Michelle Rempel Garner
September 04, 2020 21:22 - 51 minutes - 47 MBPolitical polarization isn't a new phenomenon. Our institutions have a propensity to define political movements and actors on a spectrum, rather than evaluating them for whether their policy positions are the best for the people they represent. Join a dialogue on lived experiences fighting against the inclination to defer to polarizing policy solutions. Panelists will discuss the following, along with providing their experiences and insights on forming a new political centre inside and outsi...
Juneteenth and the Future of Democracy | Danielle Allen Interviewed by E. Glen Weyl
August 29, 2020 12:58 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MBWhen news of the Emancipation Proclamation reached Texas, months after its declaration, the U.S. activated re-constitution simultaneously along political, economic, and social dimensions. But achievement of social organization resting simultaneously on principles of freedom and equality would be long in coming, and the tempo of progress various along each of those three dimensions. Ultimately the social constitution of racial supremacy has been the hardest to displace and has woven its knott...
To Be or Not to Be Hacked | Audrey Tang and Yuval Noah Harari in Conversation With Puja Ohlhaver
August 22, 2020 09:30 - 1 hour - 72 MBSPEAKERS Audrey Tang is Taiwan's digital minister in charge of social innovation and board member of RadicalxChange Foundation. Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher, and the bestselling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. MODERATOR Puja Ohlhaver is inventor and founder of ClearPath Surgical. She holds a law degree from Stanford Law School and previously worked as an investment manage...
To Be or Not to Be Hacked | Audrey Tang and Yuval Noah Harari
August 22, 2020 09:30 - 1 hour - 72 MBSPEAKERS Audrey Tang is Taiwan's digital minister in charge of social innovation and board member of RadicalxChange Foundation. Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher, and the bestselling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. MODERATOR Puja Ohlhaver is inventor and founder of ClearPath Surgical. She holds a law degree from Stanford Law School and previously worked as an investme...