UNLOCKED: /306/ AI Capitalism: Inhuman Power

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-g28bk-13d81ab On Inhuman Power. [Unlocked episode from Bungacast 'Reading Club', originally released 6 December 2022]  Contemporary capitalism is possessed by the Artificial Intelligence (AI) question – one of the few areas today in which capitalist still seem to have ambition.…

Excerpt: /310/ Do You Want to De-Grow?

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-vbce6-13526bf On 'degrowth communism'. [Patreon Exclusive] Why the rage for degrowth now? With deindustrialisation, energy rationing and severe pressure on standards of living, it looks increasingly like degrowth is official policy. Yet its advocates, drawing from the work of radicals…

/279/ Society of the Speculative ft. Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-cjspg-128b425 On our financialised world.  We talk to Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou about his new book, Speculative Communities. How has speculation become the very practice around which modern societies coalesce? And how does speculation actually give voice to the  waning legitimacy of…