Crisis in Perception
Crisis in Perception
Crisis in Perception is a long-form educational podcast examining how we misunderstand the world around us. Using books as entry points, each episode explores history, psychology, economics, science, and power structures to reveal how systems actually work—and why our perceptions so often fail. Clear, evidence-based, and non-tribal. Crisis in Perception uses AI-assisted tools for narration and synthesis in service of long-form educational analysis.
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Oct 24, 2026
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Episodes
Land of Idols: Political Myth and Institutional Power — Systems of Passivity 25.05.2026 55:19
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Land of Idols by Michael Parenti as a systems-level analysis of ideological systems, institutional legitimacy, and political perception. The discussion examines: · incentive structures · institutional persistence · feedback loops · hidden system dynamics · structural outcomes 📺 Watch on YouTube:...
History as Mystery: Who Controls Historical Memory? — Systems of Information Power 25.05.2026 45:59
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores History as Mystery by Michael Parenti as a systems-level analysis of historical narrative construction, institutional legitimacy, and information control. The discussion examines: · incentive structures · institutional persistence · archival filtering · ideological orthodoxy · media and education...
Nine Lives of Neoliberalism: The System That Survives Crisis 25.05.2026 53:19
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Using Nine Lives of Neoliberalism , edited by Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian, and Philip Mirowski, as an entry point, this episode examines neoliberalism as an adaptive institutional system rather than a dead ideology or simple belief in small government. The discussion examines: · incentive structures · institutional...
Imperial Nostalgia: Empire, Memory, and the Politics of Decline 25.05.2026 39:43
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Imperial Nostalgia by Peter Mitchell as a systems-level analysis of how unresolved imperial memory continues shaping media systems, political identity, and institutional behavior in modern Britain. The discussion examines: · incentive structures · institutional persistence · feedback loops · hidd...
The Hours Have Lost Their Clock: How Nostalgia Became a System of Control 25.05.2026 32:31
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Hours Have Lost Their Clock by Grafton Tanner as a systems-level analysis of algorithmic nostalgia and the political economy of memory. The discussion examines: · incentive structures · institutional persistence · feedback loops · hidden system dynamics · structural outcomes 📺 Watch on YouTu...
Left-Wing Melancholia: How Systems Erase Political Futures 25.05.2026 22:02
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Left-Wing Melancholia by Enzo Traverso as a systems-level analysis of historical memory, neoliberal temporal systems, and ideological persistence. The discussion examines: incentive structures institutional persistence feedback loops hidden system dynamics structural outcomes 📺 Watch on YouTube:...
Captive State: When Corporations Rewire Democracy — Systems of Privatized Power 25.05.2026 42:05
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Captive State by George Monbiot as a systems-level analysis of privatized governance and corporate-state integration. The analysis shifts from isolated political corruption toward the deeper institutional architecture that embeds private-sector incentives into public administration itself. Viewed...
Out of the Wreckage: The Narrative System Behind Social Fragmentation 25.05.2026 35:07
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Out of the Wreckage by George Monbiot as a systems-level analysis of neoliberal narrative systems and social fragmentation. The discussion examines: incentive structures institutional persistence feedback loops hidden system dynamics structural outcomes 📺 Watch on YouTube: 👉 https://youtu.be/Or...
The Invisible Doctrine: Neoliberalism as Hidden Operating System 25.05.2026 47:43
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Invisible Doctrine by George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison as a systems-level analysis of neoliberalism, rent extraction, dark-money politics, democratic erosion, and ecological instability. The discussion examines: · incentive structures · institutional persistence · feedback loops · hidden sy...
The Great Refusal: How Modern Systems Absorb Dissent 25.05.2026 53:17
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Great Refusal: Herbert Marcuse and Contemporary Social Movements as a systems-level analysis of how modern institutions stabilize themselves by integrating dissent, shaping desire, and narrowing political imagination. The discussion examines: incentive structures institutional persistence fee...
The Rare Metals War: The Hidden Infrastructure of Green Technology 24.05.2026 35:57
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Rare Metals War by Guillaume Pitron as a systems-level analysis of critical mineral dependency and the hidden extraction systems beneath the green economy. The discussion examines: · incentive structures · institutional persistence · feedback loops · hidden system dynamics · structural outcom...
Tarnished: The Hidden Cost of Gold — Systems of Risk Transfer 24.05.2026 41:53
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Tarnished by the Pulitzer Center as a systems-level analysis of global extractive commodity systems. The discussion examines: incentive structures institutional persistence ecological feedback loops hidden system dynamics structural outcomes surrounding gold extraction and global finance 📺 Watch...
The Master Switch: Information Empires and the Cycle of Control 24.05.2026 44:21
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Master Switch by Tim Wu as a systems-level analysis of information infrastructure and the recurring movement from open communication systems to closed industrial control. The discussion examines: · incentive structures · institutional persistence · feedback loops · hidden system dynamics · st...
Big-Box Swindle: The Hidden System Behind Cheap Prices — Retail Extraction 24.05.2026 25:23
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Big-Box Swindle by Stacy Mitchell as a systems-level analysis of corporate retail consolidation and policy-engineered market dominance. The discussion examines: · incentive structures · institutional persistence · feedback loops · hidden system dynamics · structural outcomes 📺 Watch on YouTube:...
The Art of Loving: Love, Loneliness, and the Personality Marketplace 24.05.2026 36:09
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm as a systems-level analysis of love, alienation, market society, and the commodification of personality. The discussion examines how modern culture encourages people to treat love as a transaction while weakening the deeper capacities required for genuine connecti...
The Populist Moment: Democracy After Mass Politics — The Hollowing of Representation 24.05.2026 45:24
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Populist Moment by Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger as a systems-level analysis of political disintermediation and democratic hollowing. The discussion examines: · incentive structures · institutional persistence · feedback loops · hidden system dynamics · structural outcomes 📺 Watch on YouT...
A Room of One’s Own & Three Guineas: The Architecture of Power — Domestic Systems and War 24.05.2026 31:09
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf as a systems-level analysis of economic dependence, institutional hierarchy, and symbolic power. The discussion examines: incentive structures institutional persistence feedback loops hidden system dynamics structural outcomes 📺 Watch on Yo...
Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off: Domestic Labor and Invisible Systems 24.05.2026 40:37
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off by Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor as a systems-level analysis of racialized domestic labor systems. The discussion examines: · incentive structures · institutional persistence · feedback loops · hidden system dynamics · structural outcomes At a systems level, the so...
Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism — When Vulnerability Becomes an Industry 24.05.2026 42:00
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This analysis examines Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Premilla Nadasen as a systems-level study of the modern care economy and the financialization of social reproduction. The discussion examines: · incentive structures · institutional persistence · privatized welfare systems · labor precarity · hidden depen...
Perfection: Algorithmic Authenticity and the Global Template of Modern Life 24.05.2026 32:50
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico as a systems-level analysis of platform capitalism, aesthetic globalization, and the commodification of everyday life. The discussion examines: · incentive structures · algorithmic aesthetics · domestic staging · gentrification · expatriate culture · feedback loop...
Aspects of the New Right-Wing Extremism: Democracy’s Unhealed Scar 23.05.2026 41:00
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Aspects of the New Right-Wing Extremism by Theodor W. Adorno as a systems-level analysis of political extremism, propaganda, and the social conditions that make anti-democratic movements reusable. The discussion examines: · incentive structures · institutional persistence · feedback loops · hidde...
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom — Systems, Slavery, and Power 23.05.2026 40:13
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight as a systems-level analysis of slavery, institutional power, literacy, and historical memory. The discussion examines: incentive structures institutional persistence feedback loops hidden system dynamics political leverage Reconstruction a...
Someone Is Out to Get Us: The Security State and the Logic of Paranoia 23.05.2026 58:00
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Someone Is Out to Get Us by Brian T. Brown as a systems-level analysis of Cold War paranoia, institutional secrecy, and the architecture of the national security state. The discussion examines: · incentive structures · institutional persistence · feedback loops · hidden system dynamics · structur...
Bloody Nasty People: Britain’s Far Right and the Failure of Representation 23.05.2026 26:17
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Bloody Nasty People by Daniel Trilling as a systems-level analysis of democratic representation, media incentives, and economic scarcity. The discussion examines: • incentive structures • institutional persistence • feedback loops • hidden system dynamics • structural outcomes 📺 Watch on YouTube...
Treasure Islands: The Hidden Offshore System Behind Global Finance 22.05.2026 48:31
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Treasure Islands by Nicholas Shaxson as a systems-level analysis of offshore finance and global regulatory arbitrage. The discussion examines: incentive structures institutional persistence shadow banking financial opacity hidden governance systems structural outcomes 📺 Watch on YouTube: 👉 http...
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