As authoritarianism continues to rise around the world, the stories we tell ourselves about our collective history become a battleground for competing visions of the future. Drawing extensively from Russian history in the 20th century, Rumsey offers a framework to discuss our current social and political tensions and how our increasing polarization could shape our […]
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Our bodies, our houses, our land, our space — we humans don’t always like to share. Author Bette Adriaanse talks with Chelsea T. Hicks, and virtual guests Brian Eno, Margaret Levi, and Aqui Thami, about property, sharing, and how to make a lasting positive change in the way we share the world with each other.
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Writer & co-founder Bette Adriaanse and writer & artist Chelsea T. Hicks explore ways in which we might reconnect with the earth, our selves, and each other. From the Seminar About Long-Term Thinking, “Radical Sharing” by Bette Adriaanse and Chelsea T. Hicks. Watch the full talk here: https://youtu.be/sUphzOorPEk Our bodies, our houses, our land, our
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As authoritarianism rises globally, the stories we tell about our collective history become battlegrounds for competing visions of the future. Join Historian Abby Smith Rumsey for our next Long Now Talk: on the Hijacked Histories & Polarized Futures of our present moment. Drawing on the research behind her new book Memory, Edited: Taking Liberties with
As authoritarianism continues to rise around the world, the stories we tell ourselves about our collective history become a battleground for competing visions of the future. Drawing extensively from Russian history in the 20th century, Rumsey offers a framework to discuss our current social and political tensions and how our increasing polarization could shape our
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Globalization has remade our world, but failed our societies. What comes next? Watch Henry Farrell’s talk on the Complex Aftermath of Globalization, featuring a Q&A with Nils Gilman of the Berggruen Institute. Henry Farrell | The Complex Aftermath of Globalization youtube.com Over the last two years, the US government has started thinking about the future
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Good evening everyone! Welcome to tonight’s Long Now Talk featuring Henry Farrell on The Complex Aftermath of Globalization. Globalization has reshaped the world into a more tightly interconnected one – for better, and for worse. Challenges like climate change, supply chain vulnerabilities, and mass migration emerge from the interdependent choices of people and governments in
Over the last two years, the US government has started thinking about the future of the world in a very different way. Across speeches and policy papers, a vision of world politics has emerged which breaks sharply both with the old logic of the Cold War and the newer politics of globalization. The globalization bet
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Over the last two years, the US government has started thinking about the future of the world in a very different way. Across speeches and policy papers, a vision of world politics has emerged which breaks sharply both with the old logic of the Cold War and the newer politics of globalization. The globalization bet
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Good evening everyone! Welcome to tonight’s Long Now Talk featuring Coco Krumme on The False Promise of Optimization. Optimized models underlie more and more of the world around us. They are deeply embedded in the technological assumptions that have come to comprise our material reality and what we make of it. But how did a
