Crisis in Perception

Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

Author: Carissa Véliz

This episode explores Privacy Is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data by Carissa Véliz as a systems-level analysis of how surveillance capitalism influences autonomy, behavior, and institutional power.

By focusing on incentive architecture rather than individual technology choices, the episode shows why large-scale data extraction systems persist — and how they connect to broader economic, political, and media structures built around behavioral prediction and influence.

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Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

Author: Scientific American Editors

This episode explores the Scientific American sleep collection as a systems-level analysis of how sleep architecture influences memory, emotional regulation, perception, and institutional behavior.

By focusing on biological incentive architecture rather than productivity culture or lifestyle advice, the episode shows why sleep systems persist as an evolutionary necessity — and how they connect to larger neurological, metabolic, and social structures.

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Author: Nicholas Baer et al.

This episode explores Unwatchable by Nicholas Baer and others as a systems-level analysis of how media infrastructures influence behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes.

By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why these systems persist — and how they connect to larger economic, political, and cultural structures.

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Author: Michael Kimmel

This episode explores Angry White Men by Michael Kimmel as a systems-level analysis of how economic insecurity, masculine identity systems, and outrage media influence behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes.

By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why these systems persist — and how they connect to larger economic, political, and cultural structures.

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Author: Anna Kornbluh

This episode explores Realizing Capital: Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form by Anna Kornbluh as a systems-level analysis of how financial abstraction influences behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes.

By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or isolated events, the episode examines how speculative finance reshaped modern psychology itself — transforming structural economic instability into narratives about human irrationality, panic, and emotional scarcity.

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Author: Mancur Olson

This episode explores The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities by Mancur Olson as a systems-level analysis of how political stability, organized interests, and collective-action asymmetries influence behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes.

By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why these systems persist — and how they connect to larger economic, political, and cultural structures.

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Author: Kenneth D. Rose

This episode explores One Nation Underground by Kenneth D. Rose as a systems-level analysis of how nuclear deterrence, civil defense, and existential fear reshaped American culture during the Cold War.

By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or nostalgia, the episode reveals how fallout shelter systems normalized permanent emergency thinking while exposing contradictions inside deterrence itself.

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Author: JD Chandler and Theresa Griffin Kennedy

This episode explores Murder & Scandal in Prohibition Portland by JD Chandler and Theresa Griffin Kennedy as a systems-level analysis of how Prohibition, police power, municipal corruption, and organized vice influenced behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes.

By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or isolated scandals, the episode shows why these systems persist — and how they connect to larger political, economic, racial, and labor structures.

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Author: Rachel Elise Barkow

This episode explores Prisoners of Politics by Rachel Elise Barkow as a systems-level analysis of how electoral incentives and prosecutorial power influence criminal justice outcomes.

By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why these systems persist — and how they connect to larger economic, political, and cultural structures.

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Author: Scientific American Editors

This episode explores Black Holes: Going to Extremes by Scientific American Editors as a systems-level analysis of how black holes influence scientific belief, theoretical physics, and the structure of reality itself.

By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why these systems persist — and how they connect to larger scientific, technological, cosmological, and institutional structures.

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