Jan Groos

Future Histories International

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The podcast to expand our idea of the future. English episodes only feed of the Future Histories podcast.

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Jan Groos

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Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 2) 11.07.2020 1:14:56

Part 2 of the in depth interview with Daniel E Saros. While many are unsatisfied with capitalism and critique it in highly sophisticated ways, there are few concrete proposals for a socialist mode of production that could replace the capitalist one. Daniel E. Saros has developed such a proposal in his book " Information Technology and Socialist Construction – The End of Capital and the Transition...

Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 1) 27.06.2020 1:20:11

Part 1 of the in depth interview with Daniel E Saros. While many are unsatisfied with capitalism and critique it in highly sophisticated ways, there are few concrete proposals for a socialist mode of production that could replace the capitalist one. Daniel E. Saros has developed such a proposal in his book " Information Technology and Socialist Construction – The End of Capital and the Transitio...

Dime & Punishment Panel 02.05.2020

This is a the recording of a panel I organized and moderated in Febuary 2020 as part of my research fellowship at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society. The panel critically discusses the expansion of cryptoeconomics into an 'art of government'. The panelists are: - Jaya Klara Brekke (Post-Doc Researcher at the Department of Geography, Durham University) - Benjamin Seibel (Director of...

Richard Barbrook on Imaginary Futures 30.11.2019 58:54

What could desirable imaginary futures look like? Richard Barbrook brings up some very interesting ideas on this question and explores past and present futures in order to work towards different worlds to come. Shownotes Richard on Monoskop: https://monoskop.org/Richard_Barbrook Richard on Twitter: https://twitter.com/richardbarbrook?lang=de Homepage "Imaginary Futures": http://www.imaginaryfuture...

Jaya Klara Brekke on the Political in Blockchain 13.07.2019

Which conceptions of the political are inscribed in blockchain technologies? What is cryptoeconomics? And what does it look like if we disassemble the blockchain truth machine? Shownotes: Jaya’s research homepage: http://distributingchains.info/ Download Jaya’s Dissertation here: Brekke, Jaya Klara. 2019. Disassembling the Trust Machine. Geography Department, Durham University: http://distributing...