April 16, 2023

S02E44 - Evgeny Morozov on Discovery Beyond Competition

1 hour 45 minutes

There are many alternative discovery procedures that are superior to market competition. Let's nurture and scale them, says Evgeny Morozov.

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Shownotes

Evgeny’s Website:

https://evgenymorozov.com/

Evgeny on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/evgenymorozov

Evgeny’s upcoming Podcast – The Santiago Boys:

https://the-santiago-boys.com/

Morozov, Evgeny. 2019. Digital Socialism?. New Left Review vol. 116/117:

https://newleftreview.org/issues/II116/articles/evgeny-morozov-digital-socialism

Morozov, Evgeny. 2022. Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason. New Left Review vol. 133/134:

https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii133/articles/evgeny-morozov-critique-of-techno-feudal-reason

Durand, Cédric. 2022. Scouting Capital’s Frontiers. New Left Review vol. 136:

https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii136/articles/cedric-durand-scouting-capital-s-frontiers

Morozov, Evgeny. 2021. Beyond Competition: Alternative Discovery Procedures & The Postcapitalist Public Sphere. Lecture at University of California, Berkeley:

https://matrix.berkeley.edu/research-article/evgeny-morozov-beyond-competition-alternative-discovery-procedures-the-postcapitalist-public-sphere/

Morozov, Evgeny. 2014. The Planning Machine: Project Cybersyn and the origins of the Big Data nation. The New Yorker. October 13, 2014 Issue:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/planning-machine

Morozov, Evgeny. 2013. To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism. Public Affairs.:

https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/evgeny-morozov/to-save-everything-click-here/9781610393706/

Selected Writings (2006-2013):

https://web.archive.org/web/20210202002521/http://www.evgenymorozov.com/writings.html

The Syllabus:

https://www.the-syllabus.com/

Further Shownotes

James M. Buchanan (Wikipedia):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_M._Buchanan

Stafford Beer (Monoskop):

https://monoskop.org/Stafford_Beer

Viable System Model (VSM):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viable_system_model

"Designing Freedom" - The 1973 CBC Massey Lectures by Stafford Beer [audio]:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-1973-cbc-massey-lectures-designing-freedom-1.2946819

"Designing Freedom" - The 1973 CBC Massey Lectures by Stafford Beer [pdf via Internet Archive]:

https://archive.org/details/designingfreedom00beer/mode/2up

Medina, Eden. 2011. Cybernetic Revolutionaries. Cambridge: MIT Press:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cybernetic-revolutionaries

Raymond Williams:

https://raymondwilliams.co.uk/about-raymond-williams/

Stefano Harney:

https://egs.edu/biography/stefano-harney/

Max Weber (Monoskop):

https://monoskop.org/Max_Weber

Carl Menger (Wikipedia):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Menger

Jürgen Habermas (Monoskop):

https://monoskop.org/J%C3%BCrgen_Habermas

Santa Fe Institute:

https://www.santafe.edu/

Herbert Marcuse (Monoskop):

https://monoskop.org/Herbert_Marcuse

Anwar Shaikh:

https://www.anwarshaikhecon.org/

Cybersyn Project Chile:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn

Maslow's hierarchy of needs (Wikipedia):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs

Posner, Eric A., and E. Glen Weyl. 2018. Radical Markets - Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society. Princeton University Press.:

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691177502/radical-markets

Further Future Histories Episodes on related topics

S02E31 | Thomas Swann on Anarchist Cybernetics:

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e31-thomas-swann-on-anarchist-cybernetics/

S02E27 | Nick Dyer-Witheford on Biocommunism:

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e27-nick-dyer-witheford-on-biocommunism/

S02E11 | James Muldoon on Platform Socialism:

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e11-james-muldoon-on-platform-socialism/

S02E10 | Aaron Benanav on Associational Socialism and Democratic Planning:

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e10-aaron-benanav-on-associational-socialism-and-democratic-planning/

[German] S02E07 | Simon Schaupp zu Technopolitik von unten:

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e07-simon-schaupp-zu-technopolitik-von-unten/

S01E58 | Jasper Bernes on Planning and Anarchy:

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e58-jasper-bernes-on-planning-and-anarchy/

[German] S01E51 | Timo Daum zur unsichtbaren Hand des Plans:

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e51-timo-daum-zur-unsichtbaren-hand-des-plans/

S01E44 | Benjamin Bratton on Synthetic Catallaxies, Platforms of Platforms & Red Futurism:

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e44-benjamin-bratton-on-synthetic-catallaxies-platforms-of-platforms-red-futurism-part-1-2/

[German] S01E18 | Simon Schaupp zu Kybernetik und radikaler Demokratie:

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e18-simon-schaupp-zu-kybernetik-und-radikaler-demokratie/

S01E16 | Richard Barbrook on Imaginary Futures:

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e16-richard-barbrook-on-imaginary-futures/

[German] S01E01 | Benjamin Seibel zu Kybernetik:

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e01-benjamin-seibel-zu-kybernetik/

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Episode Keywords:

#EvgenyMorozov, #Interview, #JanGroos, #FutureHistories, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #Cybernetics, #CyberCommunism, #Communism, #Technopolitics, #Cybersyn, #TheSantiagoBoys, #Chile, #SalvadorAllende, #StaffordBeer, #DigitalSocialism, #ImaginaryFutures, #Self-Organization, #Cybernetics, #Autonomy, #CentralControlStructure, #Decentralisation, #OrganizationalCybernetics, #CyberneticPlannedEconomy, #DigitalSocialism, #Socialism, #Anarchism, #Capitalism, #Competition,

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