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RadicalxChange 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 ref ...
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Rethinking Art Ownership: Partial Common Ownership as a Step Towards a More Symbiotic Ecosystem [audio article]
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This 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 (S…
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Communicating Democratic Ideals Through Art | Charlotte Kent and Fred Turner
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In 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 an…
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How Indigenous Learnings Can Help Liberate Democratic Institutions of Today | Tyson Yunkaporta and Jim Rutt
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This 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 ar…
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Value in the Data Economy | Diane Coyle, Sushant Kumar, and Matt Prewitt
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Data 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 …
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A New Chapter for RadicalxChange [audio article]
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The 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 Benavide…
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Quadratic Voting at Work | Charlotte Cavaille, Chris Hansen, and Sachin Mittal in Conversation With Jake Interrante
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Quadratic 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 poli…
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Data Agency: Individual or Shared? | Matt Prewitt, Nick Vincent, and Kaliya Young in Conversation With Jennifer Morone
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Digital 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 Foundati…
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Pluralism Through Personal AIs | Steve Omohundro Interviewed by Puja Ohlhaver
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Artificial 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 …
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Blockchain and RadicalxChange Communities: Better Together | Vitalik Buterin
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Vitalik 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 t…
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Political Solidarity in the U.S. | Jonathan Herzog, Badrun Khan, and Blair Walsingham in Conversation With Darren Sand
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Candidates 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 conc…
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Race and Our Political Moment | Briana Agyemang, Ahmed H. Ahmed, and Jessica Lynch in Conversation With Jermaine Johnson
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George 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 …
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Land Value: Past, Present, and Future | Jo Guldi and Alisha Holland in Conversation With Matt Prewitt
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Land 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…
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Democracy in the Age of Cryptography | Santiago Siri Interviewed by Steven McKie
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Look 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…
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Does Civic/Gov-Tech Improve Democratic Government in Cities? | Amanda Brink, Michelle Kobayashi, and Micah Sifry in Conversation With Joel Rogers
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One 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 infield…
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Radical Agreement in Politics | Paula Berman, Jennifer Morone, and Mark Reiff in Conversation With Leon Erichsen
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In 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…
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Quadratic Funding: Past, Present & Future | Kevin Owocki
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Quadratic 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 recov…
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Revenge Capitalism | Max Haiven Interviewed by Marc Garrett
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Revenge 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 ex…
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Innovation in Community Focused Ownership | Mathew Dryhurst and Joeri Torfs in Conversation With John Surico
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Radically 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 …
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Post-Religiosity: An Inter-Faith Discussion | Shoukei Matsumoto in Conversation With Amichai Lau Lavie
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Shoukei 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 fro…
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No Normal | Keller Easterling in Conversation with Shumi Bose
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COVID-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 gra…
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Radical 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 system…
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Valuing Domestic Work in (Post) COVID-19 Times | Carlotta Gradin, Maïmonatou Mar and Shani Orgad
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The 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 …
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Democracy and Media | Fred Turner in Conversation With Matt Prewitt
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In 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 devel…
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The Future of the Corporation | Colin Mayer, Michelle Meagher and Nathan Schneider in Conversation With Jennifer Morone
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This 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 work…
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What Is the Proper Place of Technocracy in Democracy? | Margaret Levi Interviewed by Avital Balwit
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Glen 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 cond…
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Identity Politics as Elite Capture | Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò Interviewed by Emmanuel Midy
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The 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 Califor…
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Data Dignity | Jaron Lanier Interviewed by Avital Balwit
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Data 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 da…
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Renewing the Civil Rights Movements Now | Imam Omar Suleiman in Conversation With Maïmonatou Mar
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As 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 deple…
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The COVID-19 Crisis of Legitimacy | E. Glen Weyl Interviewed by Emmanuel Midy
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COVID-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 t…
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Quadratic Funding in Ethereum | Vitalik Buterin Interviewed by Pia Mancini
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The 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 a…
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Why Can't We Just Do What's Right? | Diana Rodríguez Franco, Elena Landau, and Michelle Rempel Garner
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Political 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 solut…
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Juneteenth and the Future of Democracy | Danielle Allen Interviewed by E. Glen Weyl
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When 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 alo…
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To Be or Not to Be Hacked | Audrey Tang and Yuval Noah Harari in Conversation With Puja Ohlhaver
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SPEAKERS 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 in…
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Today's episode we discuss: 1. ABC's of blockchain technology 2. Cryptocurrency news update - Why the bear market this week? 3. Alt-coin of the week - Digital PriceBy BlockChain Morons
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