RadicalxChange(s)

Join host Matt Prewitt in an inspiring conversation with Edge City co-founders Janine Leger and Timour Kosters, as they dive into the transformative world of pop-up villages and cities. Discover the story behind Edge City's latest experiment, Edge Esmeralda, and learn how temporary communities are reshaping the way we live and work. Janine and Timour share their passion for experimentation, collaboration, co-creation, and their vision for building healthier, more dynamic environments.

From the Whole Earth Catalog to the Chautauqua movement, this episode explores the rich history of pop-up communities while introducing groundbreaking ideas like community currencies ("∈dges") and iterative social technologies. Tune in for an engaging and forward-thinking discussion that reveals fresh perspectives on the future of community building, collaboration, and social innovation. Don’t miss this illuminating discussion!

Links & References: 

References:

• About Edge City
• Edge Esmeralda Recap
• Why I Built Zuzalu by Vitalik Buterin | Palladium Magazine
  • 2023: First Zuzalu
  • Balaji Srinivasan’s on network states: The Network State
• Digital nomad - Wikipedia
• Whole Earth Catalog - Wikipedia
• Back-to-the-land movement - Wikipedia
• Burning Man - Wikipedia
  • History of the Regional Network | Burning Man Project
• Michel Bauwens - Wikipedia
  • The Seeds of The Commons: Peer-to-Peer Alternatives for Planetary Survival and Justice | Postdigital Science and Education
• Chautauqua - Wikipedia
  •   What is a Chautauqua
• “Scenius” = Scenes of genius
  • Scenius, or Communal Genius | WIRED
  • Further notes on scenius - Austin Kleon
• RadicalxChange(s) | Barry Threw: Executive & Artistic Director of Gray Area
• Secret Societies, Network States, Burning Man, Zuzalu, and More - RadicalxChange
• Edges: A Plural Money Experiment - RadicalxChange
  • Fork Edges here
• Plural Money: A New Currency Design - RadicalxChange

Bios:

Janine Leger is the co-founder of Edge City, an organization that convenes leaders and builders across tech, science, and society in pop-up villages around the globe. Previously, she co-created Zuzalu and led the Public Goods Funding team at Gitcoin.

Timour Kosters is also a co-founder of Edge City. Prior, he spent ten years building and investing in startups, including Artsy, the largest online art marketplace; Kama, a leading health-tech app; and Impact, an impact-focused social media brand. He was most recently a partner at Seed Club Ventures.

Links: 
Janine and Timour’s Social Links:

• Janine Leger (@JanineLeger) / X
• timour kosters (@timourxyz) / X
• Edge City (@JoinEdgeCity) / X
• Edge City

Matt Prewitt (he/him) is a lawyer, technologist, and writer. He is the President of the RadicalxChange Foundation.

Matt’s Social Links:

• ᴍᴀᴛᴛ ᴘʀᴇᴡɪᴛᴛ (@m_t_prewitt) / X

Connect with RadicalxChange Foundation:

• RadicalxChange Website
• @RadxChange | Twitter
• RxC | YouTube
• RxC | Instagram
• RxC | LinkedIn
• Join the conversation on Discord.

Credits:

• Produced by G. Angela Corpus.
• Co-Produced, Edited, Narrated, and Audio Engineered by Aaron Benavides.
• Executive Produced by G. Angela Corpus and Matt Prewitt.
• Intro/Outro music by MagnusMoone, “Wind in the Willows,” is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)

In this episode, Project Liberty Founder Frank McCourt joins Matt for a second round to discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by rapidly developing AI technologies. Building on their previous chat about digital infrastructure, they explore whether AI will exacerbate social media, digital advertising, and data centralization issues, or fundamentally change them. McCourt emphasizes fixing the internet’s design flaws to ensure AI benefits society, advocates for returning data ownership to individuals and stresses the need for political engagement to align AI with democratic values. Tune in for this enlightening conversation and what we can do moving forward.

Links & References: 

References:

• RadicalxChange(s) | Frank McCourt: Founder of Project Liberty (Part I) on Reclaiming the Internet
• Khmer Empire | Wikipedia
• The Decline of the Khmer Empire | National Library of Australia
• Restrictions on TikTok in the United States | Wikipedia
• TikTok sues to block prospective US app ban | CNN Business
• How Silicon Valley gamed the world's toughest privacy rules - POLITICO
• European Union fines Meta $1.3 billion for violating privacy laws : NPR
• The Dangers of the Global Spread of China’s Digital Authoritarianism | Center for a New American Security (en-US)
• China’s Techno-Authoritarianism Has Gone Global | Human Rights Watch
• China trying to develop world ‘built on censorship and surveillance’ | Privacy News | Al Jazeera
• Project Liberty
• People’s Bid For TikTok - Project Liberty

Bios:

Frank H. McCourt, Jr. is a civic entrepreneur and the executive chairman and former CEO of McCourt Global, a private family company committed to building a better future through its work across the real estate, sports, technology, media, and capital investment industries, as well as its significant philanthropic activities. Frank is proud to extend his family’s 130-year legacy of merging community and social impact with financial results, an approach that started when the original McCourt Company was launched in Boston in 1893.

He is a passionate supporter of multiple academic, civic, and cultural institutions and initiatives. He is the founder and executive chairman of Project Liberty, a far-reaching, $500 million initiative to transform the internet through a new, equitable technology infrastructure and rebuild social media in a way that enables users to own and control their personal data. The project includes the development of a groundbreaking, open-source internet protocol called the Decentralized Social Networking Protocol (DSNP), which will be owned by the public to serve as a new web infrastructure. It also includes the creation of Project Liberty’s Institute (formerly The McCourt Institute,) launched with founding partners Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA, and Sciences Po in Paris, to advance research, bring together technologists and social scientists, and develop a governance model for the internet’s next era.

Frank has served on Georgetown University’s Board of Directors for many years and, in 2013, made a $100 million founding investment to create Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. He expanded on this in 2021 with a $100 million investment to catalyze an inclusive pipeline of public policy leaders and put the school on a path to becoming tuition-free.

In 2024, Frank released his first book, OUR BIGGEST FIGHT: Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age.

Frank’s Social Links:

• Project Liberty
• Project Liberty (@pro_jectliberty) / X
• Project Liberty (@pro_jectliberty) • Instagram
• McCourt Institute (@McCourtInst) / X

Matt Prewitt (he/him) is a lawyer, technologist, and writer. He is the President of the RadicalxChange Foundation.

Matt’s Social Links:

• ᴍᴀᴛᴛ ᴘʀᴇᴡɪᴛᴛ (@m_t_prewitt) / X

Connect with RadicalxChange Foundation:

• RadicalxChange Website
• @RadxChange | Twitter
• RxC | YouTube
• RxC | Instagram
• RxC | LinkedIn
• Join the conversation on Discord.

Credits:

• Produced by G. Angela Corpus.
• Co-Produced, Edited, Narrated, and Audio Engineered by Aaron Benavides.
• Executive Produced by G. Angela Corpus and Matt Prewitt.
• Intro/Outro music by MagnusMoone, “Wind in the Willows,” is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)

Today, in Part I of a two-episode conversation, Matt Prewitt is joined by civic entrepreneur and Founder of Project Liberty, Frank McCourt, who is on a mission to reclaim the internet and prioritize human rights in our digital landscape. Drawing parallels between the early public oversight of television and the current state of the internet, Frank highlights the commodification of our data and identities online. He advocates for new protocols and a movement inspired by historical fights against oppression to secure genuine data rights and agency online. As we look to the future, Project Liberty's endeavors may play a crucial role. This interview is a fantastic opportunity to hear more about Frank's thinking.

Links & References: 

References:

• Our Biggest Fight: Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age by Frank H. McCourt, Jr. with Michael J. Casey
• Tim Berners-Lee - Wikipedia
• FACT SHEET: CHIPS and Science Act Will Lower Costs, Create Jobs, Strengthen Supply Chains, and Counter China | The White House
• Mythbusting: The Facts On Reports About Our Data Collection Practices | TikTok Newsroom
• Sesame Workshop - Wikipedia
• GDPR
• The Digital Markets Act: ensuring fair and open digital markets - European Commission
• The EU’s Digital Services Act
• TCP/IP | Internet protocol suite - Wikipedia
• HTTP - Wikipedia
• Distributed Social Networking Protocol - Wikipedia
• Technology | Project Liberty
• Common Sense - Wikipedia

Bios:

Frank H. McCourt, Jr. is a civic entrepreneur and the executive chairman and former CEO of McCourt Global, a private family company committed to building a better future through its work across the real estate, sports, technology, media, and capital investment industries, as well as its significant philanthropic activities. Frank is proud to extend his family’s 130-year legacy of merging community and social impact with financial results, an approach that started when the original McCourt Company was launched in Boston in 1893.

He is a passionate supporter of multiple academic, civic, and cultural institutions and initiatives. He is the founder and executive chairman of Project Liberty, a far-reaching, $500 million initiative to transform the internet through a new, equitable technology infrastructure and rebuild social media in a way that enables users to own and control their personal data. The project includes the development of a groundbreaking, open-source internet protocol called the Decentralized Social Networking Protocol (DSNP), which will be owned by the public to serve as a new web infrastructure. It also includes the creation of Project Liberty’s Institute (formerly The McCourt Institute,) launched with founding partners Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA, and Sciences Po in Paris, to advance research, bring together technologists and social scientists, and develop a governance model for the internet’s next era.

Frank has served on Georgetown University’s Board of Directors for many years and, in 2013, made a $100 million founding investment to create Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. He expanded on this in 2021 with a $100 million investment to catalyze an inclusive pipeline of public policy leaders and put the school on a path to becoming tuition-free.

In 2024, Frank released his first book, OUR BIGGEST FIGHT: Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age.

Frank’s Social Links:

• Project Liberty
• Project Liberty (@pro_jectliberty) / X
• Project Liberty (@pro_jectliberty) • Instagram
• McCourt Institute (@McCourtInst) / X

Matt Prewitt (he/him) is a lawyer, technologist, and writer. He is the President of the RadicalxChange Foundation.

Matt’s Social Links:

• ᴍᴀᴛᴛ ᴘʀᴇᴡɪᴛᴛ (@m_t_prewitt) / X

Connect with RadicalxChange Foundation:

• RadicalxChange Website
• @RadxChange | Twitter
• RxC | YouTube
• RxC | Instagram
• RxC | LinkedIn
• Join the conversation on Discord.

Credits:

• Produced by G. Angela Corpus.
• Co-Produced, Edited, Narrated, and Audio Engineered by Aaron Benavides.
• Executive Produced by G. Angela Corpus and Matt Prewitt.
• Intro/Outro music by MagnusMoone, “Wind in the Willows,” is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)

In today’s episode, Matt Prewitt engages in a thought-provoking dialogue with Tahir Amin, the Co-Founder and CEO of the Initiative for Medicines, Access, and Knowledge (I-MAK). Together, they delve into the history of the patent and trademark systems – flaws and all, especially within the pharmaceutical realm. Tahir, drawing from his experience as a former intellectual property lawyer turned reform advocate, sheds light on how these systems have been manipulated by large corporations to prolong monopolies rather than foster invention. He proposes substantial reforms to address these systemic issues, advocating for a fundamental restructuring of the patent system. This insightful conversation highlights the complexities and challenges within the patent system and the quest for a more just and equitable approach to intellectual property.

Links & References: 

References:

• I-MAK
• World Trade Organization (WTO)
• "Battle of Seattle" | 1999 Seattle WTO protests
• History of patent law - Wikipedia
• Why Intellectual Property Rights? A Lockean Justification
• Justifying Intellectual Property by Robert P. Merges 
• Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the US Constitution – ArtI.S8.C8.1 Overview of Congress's Power Over Intellectual Property
• United States Patent and Trademark Office - Wikipedia
• 33:14 Statstisc Peace and Science - when generics patent
• When Do Generics Challenge Drug Patents? | C. Scott Hemphill and Bhaven N. Sampat
• Investing in Ex Ante Regulation: Evidence from Pharmaceutical Patent Examination | NBER | Michael D. Frakes & Melissa F. Wasserman
• How a Drug Company Made $114 Billion by Gaming the U.S. Patent System - The New York Times
• The Burden of Patent Thickets – I-MAK
• 4 Economic evaluation | NICE health technology evaluations: the manual | Guidance
• Do not get sold on drug advertising - Harvard Health
• USA and New Zealand | Direct-to-consumer advertising - Wikipedia
• Biosimilars Basics for Patients | FDA. 
• Biologics, Biosimilars and Patents: A Beginner's Guide – I-MAK
• Patent Reform – I-MAK

Bios:

Tahir Amin LL.B., Dip.LP., is a founder and CEO of the Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge (I-MAK), a non-profit organisation working to address the structural power and inequities of the intellectual property (IP) system and how medicines are developed and distributed. He has over 25 years of experience in IP law, during which he has practised with two of the leading IP law firms in the United Kingdom and served as IP Counsel for multinational corporations. His work focuses on re-defining and re-shaping IP laws and the related global political economy to better serve the public interest and commons, by changing the structural power dynamics that allow economic and health inequities to persist. He is a former Harvard Medical School Fellow in the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, a TED and Echoing Green Fellow. He has served as legal advisor/consultant to many international and intergovernmental organisations, including the Medecines Sans Frontieres, the European Patent Office, World Health Organization, United Nations Environment Programme, and has testified before the U.S. Congress on IP and unsustainable drug prices. 

Tahir’s Social Links:

• Tahir Amin (@realtahiramin) / X
• Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge (@IMAKglobal) / X
• Tahir Amin - Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer - I-MAK | LinkedIn

Matt Prewitt (he/him) is a lawyer, technologist, and writer. He is the President of the RadicalxChange Foundation.

Matt’s Social Links:

• ᴍᴀᴛᴛ ᴘʀᴇᴡɪᴛᴛ (@m_t_prewitt) / X

Additional Credits:

• This episode was recorded and produced by Matt Prewitt.

This is a RadicalxChange Production.

Connect with RadicalxChange Foundation:

• RadicalxChange Website
• @RadxChange | Twitter
• RxC | YouTube
• RxC | Instagram
• RxC | LinkedIn
• Join the conversation on Discord.

Credits:

• Produced by G. Angela Corpus.
• Co-Produced, Edited, Narrated, and Audio Engineered by Aaron Benavides.
• Executive Produced by G. Angela Corpus and Matt Prewitt.
• Intro/Outro music by MagnusMoone, “Wind in the Willows,” is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)

In this final episode of our short series, host Matt Prewitt speaks with Indy Johar, architect and co-founder of Dark Matter Labs. Together they discuss the topic of ownership through the lens of theories of governance. Indy advocates for decentralized protocols in property governance, emphasizing complex contributions and contextual responsiveness – moving away from control-oriented systems towards ennobling frameworks that empower individuals and foster deeper engagement.

RadicalxChange has been working with Indy Johar and Dark Matter Labs, together with Margaret Levi and her team at Stanford, on exploring and reimagining the institutions of ownership.

This episode is part of a short series exploring the theme of What and How We Own: Building a Politics of Change.

Read more in our newsletter What & How We Own: The Politics of Change | Part III.

Links & References: 

References:

• The Code of Capital | Princeton University Press by Katharina Pistor
• Daniel Schmachtenberger: Steering Civilization Away from Self-Destruction | Lex Fridman Podcast #191
• Partial Common Ownership | RxC Wiki
• [The Bellagio Model: an evidence-informed, international framework for population-oriented primary care. First experiences]
• Hayekian economic policy - ScienceDirect
• James Lovelock - Wikipedia
• The Economics of Care | Elizabeth Hill 

Bios:

Indy Johar (he/him) is an architect, co-founder of 00 (project00.cc), and most recently Dark Matter Labs.

Indy, on behalf of 00, has co-founded multiple social ventures from Impact Hub Westminster to Impact Hub Birmingham. He has also co-led research projects such as The Compendium for the Civic Economy, whilst supporting several 00 explorations/experiments including the wikihouse.cc, opendesk.cc. Indy is a non-executive director of WikiHouse Foundation & Bloxhub. Indy was a Good Growth Commissioner for the RSA, RIBA Trustee, and Advisor to Mayor of London on Good Growth, The Liverpool City Region Land Commissioner, The State of New Jersey - The Future of Work Task Force - among others.

Most recently he has founded Dark Matter - a field laboratory focused on building the institutional infrastructures for radicle civic societies, cities, regions, and towns.

Dark Matter works with institutions around the world, from UNDP (Global), Climate Kic, McConnell (Canada), to the Scottish Gove to Bloxhub (Copenhagen)

He has taught and lectured at various institutions including the University of Bath, TU-Berlin; Architectural Association, University College London, Princeton, Harvard, MIT, and New School.

He writes often on the https://provocations.darkmatterlabs.org

Indy’s Social Links:

• Indy Johar (@indy_johar) / X
• Indy Johar - London, United Kingdom, Project00.cc | about.me
• Indy Johar – Medium

Matt Prewitt (he/him) is a lawyer, technologist, and writer. He is the President of the RadicalxChange Foundation.

Matt’s Social Links:

• ᴍᴀᴛᴛ ᴘʀᴇᴡɪᴛᴛ (@m_t_prewitt) / X

Additional Credits:

• This episode was recorded and produced by Matt Prewitt.

This is a RadicalxChange Production.

Connect with RadicalxChange Foundation:

• RadicalxChange Website
• @RadxChange | Twitter
• RxC | YouTube
• RxC | Instagram
• RxC | LinkedIn
• Join the conversation on Discord.

Credits:

• Produced by G. Angela Corpus.
• Co-Produced, Edited, Narrated, and Audio Engineered by Aaron Benavides.
• Executive Produced by G. Angela Corpus and Matt Prewitt.
• Intro/Outro music by MagnusMoone, “Wind in the Willows,” is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)

In today’s episode, guest host Margaret Levi interviews Matt Prewitt, President of RadicalxChange Foundation. With the tables turned from our last episode, Margaret interviews Matt on rethinking property rights. Beginning with a reflection on the state of political liberalism, Matt dives into the mechanics of Partial Common Ownership (also known as “Plural Property”) and it being part of the solution to manage assets in a fairer, more efficient way and how experimentation like PCO can lead toward a politics of change.

RadicalxChange has been working with Margaret Levi and her team at Stanford, together with Dark Matter Labs, on exploring and reimagining the institutions of ownership.

This episode is part of a short series exploring the theme of What and How We Own: Building a Politics of Change.

Read more in our newsletter What & How We Own: The Politics of Change | Part II.

Links & References:

References:

• Adam Smith | Wikipedia
• Liberalism | Wikipedia
• Liberalism - Ronald Dworkin
• Partial Common Ownership AKA Plural Property | RxC Wiki
• PCO Art | RxC Wiki
• Radical Markets by Glen Weyl and Eric Posner
• Elinor Ostrom | Wikipedia

Bios:

Matt Prewitt (he/him) is a lawyer, technologist, and writer. He is the President of the RadicalxChange Foundation.

Matt’s Social Links:

• @m_t_prewitt | X

Margaret Levi is Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Center for Democracy, Development and Rule of Law (CDDRL) at the Freeman Spogli Institute (FSI) at Stanford University.

Margaret’s Social Links:

• Margaret Levi | Website
• @margaretlevi | X (Twitter)

Additional Credits:

• This episode was recorded and produced by Matt Prewitt.

This is a RadicalxChange Production.

Connect with RadicalxChange Foundation:

• RadicalxChange Website
• @RadxChange | Twitter
• RxC | YouTube
• RxC | Instagram
• RxC | LinkedIn
• Join the conversation on Discord.

Credits:

• Produced by G. Angela Corpus.
• Co-Produced, Edited, Narrated, and Audio Engineered by Aaron Benavides.
• Executive Produced by G. Angela Corpus and Matt Prewitt.
• Intro/Outro music by MagnusMoone, “Wind in the Willows,” is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)

Welcome back to RadicalxChange(s), and happy 2024!

In our first episode of the year, Matt speaks with Margaret Levi, distinguished political scientist, author, and professor at Stanford University. They delve into Margaret and her team’s groundbreaking work of reimagining property rights. The captivating discussion revolves around their approach's key principles: emphasizing well-being, holistic sustainability encompassing culture and biodiversity, and striving for equality.

RadicalxChange has been working with Margaret Levi and her team at Stanford, together with Dark Matter Labs, on exploring and reimagining the institutions of ownership.

This episode is part of a short series exploring the theme of What and How We Own: Building a Politics of Change.

Tune in as they explore these transformative ideas shaping our societal structures.

Read more in our newsletter What & How We Own: The Politics of Change | Part I.

Links & References: 

References:

• Desiderata: things desired as essential.
• Distributive justice
• Elizabeth Anderson - Relational equality
• Debra Satz - Sustainability
  • What is wrong with inequality?
• Elinor "Lin" Ostrom - Common ownership
  • Ostrom’s Law: Property rights in the commons
• Indigenous models of stewardship
  • Indigenous Peoples: Defending an Environment for All
• Colorado River situation
  • A Breakthrough Deal to Keep the Colorado River From Going Dry, for Now
• How did Aboriginal peoples manage their water resources

Further Reading Recommendations from Margaret:

• A Moral Political Economy: Present, Past and Future (2021) by Federica Carugati and Margaret Levi
• Dædalus (Winter 2023): Creating a New Moral Political Economy | American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Edited by Margaret Levi and Henry Farrell)
• The works of Elizabeth Anderson, including Private Government (2017) and What Is the Point of Equality? (excerpt from Ethics (1999))
• Justice by Means of Democracy (2023) by Danielle Allen
• Katharina Pistor

Bios:

Margaret Levi is Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Center for Democracy, Development and Rule of Law (CDDRL) at the Freeman Spogli Institute (FSI) at Stanford University. She is the former Sara Miller McCune Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) Levi is currently a faculty fellow at CASBS and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, co-director of the Stanford Ethics, Society and Technology Hub, and the Jere L. Bacharach Professor Emerita of International Studies at the University of Washington. She is the winner of the 2019 Johan Skytte Prize and the 2020 Falling Walls Breakthrough. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the British Academy, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Association of Political and Social Sciences. She served as president of the American Political Science Association from 2004 to 2005. In 2014, she received the William H. Riker Prize in Political Science, in 2017 gave the Elinor Ostrom Memorial Lecture, and in 2018 received an honorary doctorate from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

She earned her BA from Bryn Mawr College in 1968 and her PhD from Harvard University in 1974, the year she joined the faculty of the University of Washington. She has been a Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University. She held the Chair in Politics, United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, 2009-13. At the University of Washington she was director of the CHAOS (Comparative Historical Analysis of Organizations and States) Center and formerly the Harry Bridges Chair and Director of the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies.

Levi is the author or coauthor of numerous articles and seven books, including Of Rule and Revenu_e (University of California Press, 1988); _Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (Cambridge University Press, 1997); Analytic Narratives (Princeton University Press, 1998); and Cooperation Without Trust? (Russell Sage, 2005). In the Interest of Others (Princeton, 2013), co-authored with John Ahlquist, explores how organizations provoke member willingness to act beyond material interest. In other work, she investigates the conditions under which people come to believe their governments are legitimate and the consequences of those beliefs for compliance, consent, and the rule of law. Her research continues to focus on how to improve the quality of government. She is also committed to understanding and improving supply chains so that the goods we consume are produced in a manner that sustains both the workers and the environment. In 2015 she published the co-authored Labor Standards in International Supply Chains (Edward Elgar).

She was general editor of Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics and is co-general editor of the Annual Review of Political Science. Levi serves on the boards of the: Carlos III-Juan March Institute in Madrid; Scholar and Research Group of the World Justice Project, the Berggruen Institute, and CORE Economics. Her fellowships include the Woodrow Wilson in 1968, German Marshall in 1988-9, and the Center for Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences in 1993-1994. She has lectured and been a visiting fellow at the Australian National University, the European University Institute, the Max Planck Institute in Cologne, the Juan March Institute, the Budapest Collegium, Cardiff University, Oxford University, Bergen University, and Peking University.

Levi and her husband, Robert Kaplan, are avid collectors of Australian Aboriginal art and have gifted pieces to the Seattle Art Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Women’s Museum of Art, and the Nevada Museum of Art.

Margaret’s Social Links:

• Margaret Levi | Website
• @margaretlevi | X (Twitter)

Matt Prewitt (he/him) is a lawyer, technologist, and writer. He is President of the RadicalxChange Foundation.

Matt’s Social Links:

• @m_t_prewitt | X

Additional Credits:

This episode was recorded by Matt Prewitt.

Connect with RadicalxChange Foundation:

• RadicalxChange Website
• @RadxChange | Twitter
• RxC | YouTube
• RxC | Instagram
• RxC | LinkedIn
• Join the conversation on Discord.

Credits:

• Produced by G. Angela Corpus.
• Co-Produced, Edited, Narrated, and Audio Engineered by Aaron Benavides.
• Executive Produced by G. Angela Corpus and Matt Prewitt.
• Intro/Outro music by MagnusMoone, “Wind in the Willows,” is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)

In this episode of RadicalxChange(s), host Matt Prewitt engages in a deep and thoughtful conversation with Barry Threw, Executive & Artistic Director of Gray Area. They explore Barry's diverse career integrating art, technology, and humanities for economic, social, and ecological regeneration, and examine the cultural shifts in the San Francisco Bay Area. Barry and Matt saunter through anecdotes from Burning Man to Joan Didion to the technocratic molding of the Silicon Valley phenomenon — an exciting pathway of cultural importance to walk along.

References:

• Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus by Douglas Rushkoff
• Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion - Wikipedia
• Burning Man - Wikipedia
• Effective altruism - Wikipedia
• Silicon Valley's brand of philanthropy

Bios:

Barry Threw is the Executive and Artistic Director of Gray Area, a San Francisco nonprofit cultural incubator applying art and technology toward social good. He drifts fluidly between roles, collaborating as an executive, curator, technologist, cultural producer, and strategist to cultivate forward-looking, boundary-blurring projects integrating culture and technology. His previous leadership positions have generated innovative & influential platforms, products, teams, and businesses spanning art, music, internet, built environment, and experiential & immersive media: as Software Director with Keith McMillen Instruments, developing advanced technology to bridge traditional string instruments with computers to spark a Western new classical music movement based on the technologies and aesthetics of the 21st century; as Technical Director with Recombinant Media Labs, presenting surround cinema at installations and festivals around the world; as a founding Partner at Fabricatorz, a distributed technology studio for cultural projects with nodes in Hong Kong, St. Louis, San Francisco, and Lisbon; and as Director of Software with Obscura Digital, a San Francisco-based creative technology studio specializing in the design and execution of immersive and interactive experiences worldwide, and the first company to do architectural projection mapping. He organizes the #NEWPALMYRA project, an online community platform focused on the virtual reconstruction and creative reuse of cultural heritage. He played a key role in developing and operating the Vatican Arts and Technology Council, a nondenominational external advisory body for the Vatican, which advanced goals of environmental stewardship, humanitarian compassion, and spreading experiences of spirituality worldwide through an experimental art and technology lab.

Barry’s Social Links:

• Barry Threw | Website
• @barrythrew | X
• Barry Threw | Instagram

Connect with Gray Area:

• Gray Area | Website
• @GrayAreaorg | X
• Gray Area | Instagram
• Gray Area | YouTube
• Gray Area | Facebook

Matt Prewitt (he/him) is a lawyer, technologist, and writer. He is President of the RadicalxChange Foundation.

Matt’s Social Links:

• @m_t_prewitt | X
• Matt’s Substack: Matt's Writings

Connect with RadicalxChange Foundation:

• @RadxChange | Twitter
• RadicalxChange Website
• RxC | YouTube
• RxC | Instagram
• RxC | LinkedIn
• Join the conversation on Discord.

Credits:

• Produced by G. Angela Corpus.
• Co-Produced, Edited, and Audio Engineered by Aaron Benavides.
• Executive Produced by G. Angela Corpus and Matt Prewitt.
• Intro/Outro music by MagnusMoone, “Wind in the Willows,” is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)

This is a RadicalxChange Production.

Connect with RadicalxChange Foundation:

• RadicalxChange Website
• @RadxChange | Twitter
• RxC | YouTube
• RxC | Instagram
• RxC | LinkedIn
• Join the conversation on Discord.

Credits:

• Produced by G. Angela Corpus.
• Co-Produced, Edited, Narrated, and Audio Engineered by Aaron Benavides.
• Executive Produced by G. Angela Corpus and Matt Prewitt.
• Intro/Outro music by MagnusMoone, “Wind in the Willows,” is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)

In today’s episode, Deepti Doshi, Co-Director of New_ Public (and leader in the intersection of social media, community organizing, and leadership development) speaks with Matt Prewitt on how to create online spaces that foster interconnection, mutual dependency, and democratic outcomes. Together, they explore the need for socio-technical expertise and community stewards to work together to design a healthier and more equitable digital ecosystem. They give consideration to the role of technology and tools in creating democratic spaces, and the potential impact of generative AI on social spaces and democracy. They share a hopeful and exciting outlook for building a more democratic political economy online.

References:

• Marshall Ganz (American scholar for grassroots organizing)
• 2012 Nirbhaya Case (TW: Sexual Assault) 
• Arab Spring
• Lola Omolola (Nigerian journalist who founded the Female IN (FIN) group on Facebook - formerly “Female In Nigeria”)
• John Dewey (American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer (1859–1952)
• Transcript: Ezra Klein Interviews Danielle Allen - The New York Times
• New_ Public
• Community by Design | New_ Public

Bios:

Deepti Doshi co-leads New_Public with Eli Pariser and Talia Stroud. New_Public is a product studio for healthy digital public spaces; spaces where people can connect with one another, build understanding across differences, and work towards shared goals, and that are built to maximize plurality, equity, and cohesion - not financial returns. 

Her work has focused on the intersection of social media, community organizing, and leadership development. Deepti was a Director at Meta, where she helped set up Meta's New Product Experimentation team, created the Community Partnerships team to build products (namely, Groups), programs, and partnerships that support community leaders, and led Internet.org across Asia. 

Prior to Meta she founded Haiyya, India’s largest community organizing platform, Escuela Nueva India, an education company that serves the urban poor, and the Fellows Program at Acumen Fund to build leaders for the social enterprise sector. 

Deepti is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School and the Wharton Business School, and holds a bachelors degree in Psychology. She is a TED Fellow, an Aspen Institute First Movers Fellow and Ideas Scholar, and her work has been featured in multiple publications. She lives in Berkeley with her husband, Adrien, and two boys, Aiden and Luca. When not working, you can find her playing tennis, cooking, meditating, or planning the next block party. 

Deepti’s Social Links:

•  @deeptidoshi | Twitter
• Deepti Doshi | Instagram
• Deepti Doshi | LinkedIn

Connect with New_ Public:

• New_ Public - Website
• @WeAreNew_Public | Twitter
• New_ Public | Instagram
• New_ Public | LinkedIn
• New_ Public | Substack Newsletter  

Matt Prewitt (he/him) is a lawyer, technologist, and writer. He is the President of the RadicalxChange Foundation.

Matt’s Social Links:

• @m_t_prewitt | Twitter
• Matt’s Substack: Matt's Writings

Connect with RadicalxChange Foundation:

• @RadxChange | Twitter
• RadicalxChange Website
• RxC | YouTube
• RxC | Instagram
• RxC | LinkedIn
• Join the conversation on Discord.

Credits:

• Produced by G. Angela Corpus.
• Co-Produced, Edited, Narrated and Audio Engineered by Aaron Benavides.
• Executive Produced by G. Angela Corpus and Matt Prewitt.
• Intro/Outro music by MagnusMoone, “Wind in the Willows,” is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)

Connect with RadicalxChange Foundation:

• RadicalxChange Website
• @RadxChange | Twitter
• RxC | YouTube
• RxC | Instagram
• RxC | LinkedIn
• Join the conversation on Discord.

Credits:

• Produced by G. Angela Corpus.
• Co-Produced, Edited, Narrated, and Audio Engineered by Aaron Benavides.
• Executive Produced by G. Angela Corpus and Matt Prewitt.
• Intro/Outro music by MagnusMoone, “Wind in the Willows,” is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)

In today’s ep, Matt Prewitt speaks with Victoria Ivanova, R&D Strategic Lead of Serpentine Arts and curator-strategist-writer, about the role art and culture have in society in preserving democratic ideals while offering critical and actionable solutions for the emerging technological era.

They delve into the historical and present significance of art, its crisis of meaning in the age of accelerationism and powerful AI, and the potential for Plural Property (Partial Common Ownership) to create a more fair and dynamic market for art; thereby rethinking art ownership and promoting a more equitable future. 

This conversation and the collaboration between RadicalxChange and Serpentine Arts offer new perspectives on the intersection of art, technology, and society.

Links: 

• Rethinking Art Ownership (blog post) by Paula Berman, Victoria Ivanova, & Matt Prewitt
• Rethinking Art Ownership (audio version)
• Rethinking Art Ownership (video version - audio + text)

References:

• 6:04 Gustave Courbet (French painter leading the Realism movement)
• 7:00 Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) anti-slavery novel by American author and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe
• 7:01 A Sportsman's Sketches (1852) collection of Russian realist short stories by Russian novelist, poet, and playwright Ivan Turgenev
• 8:54 Italian Futurism
• 12: 45 Salon des Refusés
• 14:52 French painter and sculptor Marcel Duchamp’s "Fountain" (Duchamp, 1917)
• 15:54 Conceptual art
• 24:51 Nick Land (English philosopher and theorist)
  • Accelerationism
• 26:03 Nick Srnicek (Canadian writer and academic) and Dr. Alex Williams (British political theorist and lecturer)
  • Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics
• 27:11 Ursula K. Le Guin (American novelist)
• 29:15 Jakob Kudsk Steensen (Danish artist)
• 31:38 Marshall McLuhan (Canadian philosopher)
• 49:11 Norbert Wiener (American mathematician and philosopher)
• 55:38 Systems Esthetics (1968, Artforum) by Jack Burnham (American artist, writer, and theorist of art and technology)
• 55:55 Santa Fe Institute for Complexity
• 58:59 GPT-4 (ChatGPT AI created by OpenAI)
• 01:04:12 Ezra Klein’s “My View on A.I.”
• 1:33:55 EQUANIMITY | Cambridge English Dictionary

Bios:

Victoria Ivanova is a strategist and writer with a background in human rights, currently working as R&D Strategist at Serpentine, a leading contemporary art organisation located in London, where she leads Future Art Ecosystems – a project for the construction of 21st-century cultural infrastructure for art and technology.

Victoria’s Social Links:

• Twitter: @VivLaNova
• Website: Victoria Ivanova

Connect with Serpentine Arts Technologies:

• Sign up for the Future Art Ecosystems newsletter.
• Continue the conversation in FAE's Telegram.
• Check out Serpentine’s Twitch channel.

Matt Prewitt (he/him) is a lawyer, technologist, and writer. He is President of the RadicalxChange Foundation.

Matt’s Social Links:

• Twitter: @m_t_prewitt
• Matt’s Substack: Matt's Writings

Connect with RxC:

• Follow @radxchange on Twitter.
• Visit RxC's website.
• Join the conversation on Discord.

Credits:

• Produced by G. Angela Corpus.
• Edited and Audio Engineered by Aaron Benavides.
• Executive Produced by G. Angela Corpus and Matt Prewitt.
• Intro/Outro music by MagnusMoone, “Wind in the Willows,” is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)

This is a RadicalxChange Production.

Connect with RadicalxChange Foundation:

• RadicalxChange Website
• @RadxChange | Twitter
• RxC | YouTube
• RxC | Instagram
• RxC | LinkedIn
• Join the conversation on Discord.

Credits:

• Produced by G. Angela Corpus.
• Co-Produced, Edited, Narrated, and Audio Engineered by Aaron Benavides.
• Executive Produced by G. Angela Corpus and Matt Prewitt.
• Intro/Outro music by MagnusMoone, “Wind in the Willows,” is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)