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Laleh Khalili, author of a recent piece for the London Review of Books, analyzes the long relationship between the US military and industry. Kyle Chan, author of a New York Times opinion article, explains how China is surpassing the US.
Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive online: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/radio.html
Authors Joshua Levine and Tim Hwang sit down with Lila Bailey to discuss Copyright, AI, and Great Power Competition. Together they explore how artificial intelligence is transforming copyright law—and how global powers are using IP policy as a strategic tool in the race for technological dominance.
Grab your copy of Copyright, AI, and Great Power Competition: https://www.thefai.org/posts/copyright-ai-and-great-power-competition
This conversation was recorded on 3/20/2025. Watch the full video recording at: https://archive.org/details/copyright-ai-and-great-power-competition-book-talk
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The prevailing narrative about Apple in China over the last two decades is that the Cupertino company took advantage of low wages and weak labor laws to ship out close to half a billion devices per year. Journalist Patrick McGee says that narrative isn’t wrong, but it misses “the biggest piece of the puzzle: that Beijing allowed Apple’s activities so that China could exploit Apple and become a tech powerhouse in its own right.” We talk to McGee about his new book “Apple in China” and the threats the company faces from AI and the Trump administration.
Guests:
Patrick McGee, San Francisco correspondent, Financial Times - author, "Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company"
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Jan Overwijk discusses critical systems theory, sociologies of closure and openness, and cybernetic capitalism.
Jan Overwijk at the Frankfurt University Institute for Social Research:
https://www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/personendetails/jan-overwijk.html
https://www.uvh.nl/university-of-humanistic-studies/contact/search-employees?person=jimxneoBsHowOfbPivN
https://www.fordhampress.com/9781531508937/cybernetic-capitalism/
on the website of the distributor outside of North America you can order the book with a 30% discount with the code “FFF24”:
https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781531508937/cybernetic-capitalism/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklas_Luhmann
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5674-9/unlocking-luhmann/
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0191453711421600
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/anthem-companion-to-niklas-luhmann/niklas-luhmann-and-critical-systems-theory/982BC5427E171D2BA0D14364377A40F5
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics
https://youtu.be/QBKC9mM8-so?si=64v0OgBKV3xjXvLl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humberto_Maturana
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Varela
https://uranos.ch/research/references/Maturana1988/maturana-h-1987-tree-of-knowledge-bkmrk.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_de_Saussure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-structuralism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differentiation_(sociology)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318543419_The_relevance_of_Luhmann%27s_systems_theory_and_of_Laclau_and_Mouffe%27s_discourse_analysis_to_the_elaboration_of_Marx%27s_state_theory
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318524063_The_continuing_ecological_dominance_of_neoliberalism_in_the_crisis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surplus_value
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Althusser
https://legalform.blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/althusser-on-the-reproduction-of-capitalism.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Hall_(cultural_theorist)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_strike
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalization_(sociology)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Weber
https://gpde.direito.ufmg.br/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/MAX-WEBER.pdf
https://profilebooks.com/work/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse
https://files.libcom.org/files/Marcuse,%20H%20-%20One-Dimensional%20Man,%202nd%20edn.%20(Routledge,%202002).pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Habermas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Lyotard
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816616114/differend/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement
https://giuseppecapograssi.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/bauman-liquid-modernity.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_materialism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Deleuze
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Latour
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Haraway
Malm, A. (2018). The Progress of this Storm. Nature and Society in a Warming World. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/574-the-progress-of-this-storm
https://www.social-ecology.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/The-Wellek-Library-Lectures-Wendy-Brown-In-the-Ruins-of-Neoliberalism_-The-Rise-of-Antidemocratic-Politics-in-the-West-Columbia-University-Press-2019.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016718518302057
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._Katherine_Hayles
https://cidadeinseguranca.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/deleuze_control.pdf
https://newleftreview.org/issues/i188/articles/robert-brenner-mark-glick-the-regulation-approach-theory-and-history.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_school
https://www.versobooks.com/products/1980-the-new-spirit-of-capitalism
https://monoskop.org/images/9/95/Hardt_Michael_Negri_Antonio_Empire.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tierra_(computer_simulation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Simondon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Barad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Fordism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_management
https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=platform-capitalism--9781509504862
https://ia600805.us.archive.org/35/items/TheConstitutionOfLiberty/The%20Constitution%20of%20Liberty.pdf
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0950017018755663
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Luxemburg
https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/44096/rosa-luxemburgs-heterodox-view-of-the-global-south
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2685-cannibal-capitalism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariarosa_Dalla_Costa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wages_for_Housework
https://www.versobooks.com/products/74-capitalism-in-the-web-of-life
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_Beer
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo8169881.html
Foucault, M. (2008). The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978-1979. Palgrave Macmillan.
https://1000littlehammers.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/birth_of_biopolitics.pdf
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
https://futurehistories-international.com/episodes/s03/e30-matt-huber-kohei-saito-on-growth-progress-and-left-imaginaries/
https://futurehistories-international.com/episodes/s03/e29-nancy-fraser-on-alternatives-to-capitalism/
https://futurehistories-international.com/episodes/s03/e19-wendy-brown-on-socialist-governmentality/
https://futurehistories-international.com/episodes/s03/e04-tim-platenkamp-on-republican-socialism-general-planning-and-parametric-control/
https://futurehistories-international.com/episodes/s03/e03-planning-for-entropy-on-sociometabolic-planning/
https://futurehistories-international.com/episodes/s02/e31-thomas-swann-on-anarchist-cybernetics/
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If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:
https://www.democratic-planning.com/
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
https://www.indep.network/
https://www.planningresearch.net/
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Paris Marx is joined by Sam Biddle to discuss how Silicon Valley is shamelessly courting government military contracts, using tactics to silence employee dissent and normalize the situation to the public, and what it all means for the future of military geopolitics.
Sam Biddle is a senior technology reporter at The Intercept.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.
The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Kyla Hewson.
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We interview Professor James S. Fishkin author of the recently published book – Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy? . Then we remember Ngugi wa Thiongo , scholar of language and author many books such as Decolonizing the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (1986).
First our discussion with Professor Fishkin on his book Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy?. He shares his experience in conducting deliberative polling 150+ times around the world. Hosted by Doug Becker. [ dur: 30 mins. ]
In this excerpt Professor Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o recalls his thoughts on theory of Globalectics and how it affects thoughts of decolonizing the mind. [ dur: 28 mins. ]
This program is produced by Doug Becker, Maria Armoudian, Ankine Aghassian, and Sudd Dongre.
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