RadicalxChange(s)
22 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsRadicalxChange Foundation’s Matt Prewitt speaks with inspiring personalities to explore critical ideas and stories about next-generation political economies.
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Frank H. McCourt Jr.: Founder of Project Liberty (Part I)
May 28, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour - 56 MBToday, in Part I of a two-episode conversation, Matt Prewitt is joined by civic entrepreneur and Founder of Project Liberty, Frank H. McCourt, Jr., 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 television and the current state of the internet, Frank highlights the commodification of our data and identities online. He advocates for new protocols and a movement inspired by historical fig...
Tahir Amin: Co-Founder & CEO of I-MAK
April 30, 2024 19:17 - 1 hour - 79.8 MBIn 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 pharmaceutical realm. Tahir, drawing from his experience as a former intellectual property lawyer turned reform advocate, sheds light on how these systems have been manipulated by large corporations to prol...
Indy Johar: Architect and Co-Founder of Dark Matter Labs
April 27, 2024 02:21 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MBIn 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, emphasizing complex contributions and contextual responsiveness – moving away from control-oriented systems towards ennobling frameworks that empower individuals and foster deeper engagement. RadicalxChange h...
Matt Prewitt: Lawyer, Writer, & President of RadicalxChange Foundation
April 15, 2024 21:07 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MBIn 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 mechanics of Partial Common Ownership (also known as “Plural Property”) and it being part of the solution to manage assets in a fairer, more efficient way and how experimentation like PCO can lead t...
Margaret Levi: Political Scientist, Author, & Professor at Stanford University
January 07, 2024 00:31 - 49 minutes - 45 MBWelcome 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 captivating discussion revolves around their approach's key principles: emphasizing well-being, holistic sustainability encompassing culture and biodiversity, and striving for equality. RadicalxChange...
Barry Threw: Executive & Artistic Director of Gray Area
October 04, 2023 02:54 - 1 hour - 90.1 MBIn 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, and examine the cultural shifts in the San Francisco Bay Area. Barry and Matt saunter through anecdotes from Burning Man to Joan Didion to the technocratic molding of the Silicon Valley phenomenon — an...
Deepti Doshi: Co-Director of New_ Public
May 02, 2023 20:32 - 1 hour - 72.1 MBIn 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. Together, they explore the need for socio-technical expertise and community stewards to work together to design a healthier and more equitable digital ecosystem. They give consideration to the role of techno...
Victoria Ivanova: R&D Strategic Lead at Serpentine Arts Technologies
April 15, 2023 01:06 - 1 hour - 89.8 MBIn 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 delve into the historical and present significance of art, its crisis of meaning in the age of accelerationism and powerful AI, and the potential for Plural Property (Partial Common Ownership) to cre...
Shrey Jain: Applied Scientist at Microsoft Research Special Projects
March 24, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 64.6 MBShrey 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 threats to privacy by expanding beyond the often discussed cryptographic sense into “privacy as contextual integrity”, and the immediate opportunity to embed ethical guardrails into this ever-changing rea...
Partial Common Ownership/Plural Property: In Conversation with Will Holley, Graven Prest, Kevin Seagraves
February 10, 2023 05:40 - 1 hour - 70.1 MBIn 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 term for Partial Common Ownership, Harberger Taxation, Self-Assessed Licenses Sold via Auction or SALSA, and Common Ownership Self-Assessed Tax or COST. NOTE: This is a regular season episode of th...
A New Era of Democracy Ep. 3 | Zizi Papacharissi
November 22, 2022 19:05 - 1 hour - 71 MBThis 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 conversation, they examine how social media affects our culture, our relationships, and consequently our democratic processes, while exploring potential ways to imagine new and better forms of democr...
Christine Lemmer-Webber: CTO of Spritely Institute, ActivityPub Co-Editor, and User Freedom Activist
July 21, 2022 04:53 - 1 hour - 91.8 MBIn 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 methods of building technology without usurping the free agency of others; a pluralistic view of examining technical design with different lenses. NOTE: This is a regular season episode of the Radicalx...
A New Era of Democracy Ep. 2 | Anasuya Sengupta
April 07, 2022 23:35 - 1 hour - 71 MBThis 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 in empowering the global South's presence on the internet. Links: State of the Internet’s Languages Report | Whose Knowledge? State of the Internet’s Languages website Anasuya Sengupta (@anasuyas...
A New Era of Democracy Ep. 1 | Audrey Tang and Jo Guldi with Rosa O’Hara
February 23, 2022 02:47 - 1 hour - 60.3 MBThis 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 civic technology, and more. Audrey Tang (@audreyt) is Taiwan’s Digital Minister in charge of Social Innovation. She is known for revitalizing the computer languages Perl and Haskell, as well as for...
James Evans: Computational Social Scientist, Knowledge Lab Director, and Professor at Uchicago
August 10, 2021 22:07 - 1 hour - 82.3 MBIn 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 Santa Fe Institute. His research focuses on the collective system of thinking and knowing, ranging from the distribution of attention and intuition, the origin of ideas and shared habits of reasonin...
James Evans: Computational Social Scientist, Knowledge Lab Director, and Professor at UChicago
August 10, 2021 22:07 - 1 hour - 82.3 MBIn 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 Santa Fe Institute. His research focuses on the collective system of thinking and knowing, ranging from the distribution of attention and intuition, the origin of ideas and shared habits of reasonin...
Jo Guldi and Brent Hecht: Maps, Computers, and Other Abstractions - Information Infrastructure and Legitimacy
June 28, 2021 09:50 - 1 hour - 69.7 MBThis 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 index of pages as a form of public infrastructure and, if so, why. This question could hardly be more relevant as public infrastructure investments dominate the conversation in the United States. But pe...
Yakov Feygin and Nick Vincent: On Data Dividends
May 03, 2021 10:25 - 1 hour - 101 MBThe 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 implementable tax that would go to the heart of the economic distortion caused by the data economy. In this conversation with Yakov Feygin and Nick Vincent, we focus on how data and other assets get their value;...
Tom Atlee: Social, Peace and Environmental Activist and Author
March 13, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 59.3 MBTom 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, been on several nonprofit boards, and consulted on social change projects internationally. Born in 1947, Atlee was raised as a Quaker peace and social justice activist. On the 1986 Great Peace March,...
Jo Guldi: Professor of Digital Humanities, Historian of Political Economy, and Author
February 09, 2021 15:20 - 1 hour - 69.8 MBJo 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 Power, which examined Britain’s interkingdom highway and its users from 1740 to 1848. They also inform her current research into rent disputes and land reform for my next monograph, The Long Land War, ...
Trailer
January 14, 2021 01:34 - 1 minute - 1.41 MBMeet 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, and the moral and ethical issues that arise from such systems. Her interests lie in exploring ways of creating social justice and equal distribution of the future. Morone is a trained sculptor with ...
Fred Turner: Stanford Professor, Author, and Media Scientist
January 05, 2021 22:38 - 1 hour - 66.1 MBFred 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 Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (University of Chicago Press, 2006); and Echoes of Combat: The Vietnam War in American Memory (Anchor/Doubleday, ...