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The Santiago Boys

Evgeny Morozov - Chora Media

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The Santiago Boys is a nine-part podcast about a group of radical utopians around Salvador Allende, Chile's socialist president. Undeterred by the Cold War and machinations of their enemies and aided by an eccentric British consultant, they try to wrestle control over technology from multinationals and intelligence agencies and use it to create a more egalitarian economy. As their dream gets crushed by Pinochet's bloody coup, the Santiago Boys find an unexpected afterlife - and in Silicon Va ...
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Singapore Leo PodCast

Manan “Leo” Q

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Welcome to the SingaporeLeo Podcast - we talk about everything under the sun with great guest hosts and a lot of content. Stay tuned! Follow my Twitter - @SingaporeLeo Follow my Instagram - @Singapore_Leo
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As Fernando conquers Silicon Valley, Stafford seeks refuge in the tranquil Welsh wilderness. Ironically, Pinochet's journey to the origins of Cybersyn culminates in his arrest. With the dawn of democracy in Chile, vestiges of the past persist. But what has happened to Cybersyn's Ops Room? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoic…
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The day of reckoning arrives with a rain of missiles on La Moneda, spelling a tragic end for Allende's revolution. With Fernando arrested and others in exile, Cybersyn's future hangs in balance. A world away, a distraught Stafford Beer races against time to aid his imperiled Chilean comrades. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adc…
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Allende's troubles escalate: miners down tools and disgruntled soldiers mount an unsuccessful coup attempt. A wave of unrelenting terrorist attacks keeps Santiago on edge. Stafford, fed up with bureaucracy, retreats to the seaside, while Fernando learns of a cunning plot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Stafford Beer suddenly faces stinging accusations from radical British leftists. Is he engineering a cybernetic Big Brother? Meanwhile, Allende battles a political whirlwind, abandoned by the Kremlin and unable to fully overcome Washington's invisible blockade. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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A surprising Allende ally emerges from the shadows of Washington, throwing Nixon into a fury. As the nefarious ties between ITT and the CIA are revealed, the Santiago Boys master tech geopolitics. With Allende on borrowed time, the military's allegiance hangs in the balance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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With wealthy tycoons and far-right militants lurking in the shadows, poised to strike, Allende charges at a towering tech giant. The Santiago Boys welcome Stafford Beer to Chile, inaugurating a daring cybernetic revolution. Could their audacious plan toss Allende a lifeline? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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The Santiago Boys is a nine-part podcast about a group of radical utopians around Salvador Allende, Chile's socialist president. Undeterred by the Cold War and machinations of their enemies and aided by an eccentric British consultant, they try to wrestle control over technology from multinationals and intelligence agencies and use it to create a m…
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In this premiere episode I talk about Digital Currencies, what are they - their future - fiat implications - some predictions and very interesting conversation with my guest S. Musheer Ahmed of FinStep Asia. | PodCast website - Singapore Leo PodCast • A podcast on Anchor SingaporeLeo's Twitter - Manan "Leo" Q (@singaporeleo) / Twitter Guest - S. Mu…
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Hey everyone! In case you missed it, this podcast has migrated off of Soundcloud and is now called "THE NUMBERS STATION with Alexander Price." Here are links to iTunes and Stitcher or the direct RSS:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-numbers-station-with-alexander-price/id1458247638https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/practical-neoplatonism/the-…
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Greg, Isabel, and Alex talk about Greg's paper "The Chora of the Timaeus and Iamblichean Theology." What did it mean for the Neoplatonists for a human to embody the Divine? Similarities between Plato's Chora and Buddhist concepts of "shunyata" or emptiness as the matrix or mother of being. A memorable moment in Jean Paul Sartre's Nausea. Socrates a…
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Greg Shaw from Stonehill College continues the conversation with Isabel and myself about spiritual ascent in Plato's Timaeus and what that would look like to someone wishing to undertake it today. Isabel also told us about a poem by a 17th century Latin American poet named Sor Juana, who in her "First Dream" described a sort of shamanic Night Journ…
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Gregory Shaw from Stonehill College and my friend and fellow Classicist Isabel Farias join me this week to discuss the concept of the chora in Plato's Timaeus. Isabel wrote her thesis at Barnard about the Timaeus. Greg authored a paper about the concept titled "The Chora in the Timaeus and Iamblichean Theurgy." In the abstract to this paper, he off…
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