#TPAV (The Price And Value) --- SynTalk
SynTalk6 Elo 2017

#TPAV (The Price And Value) --- SynTalk

Do people bet on horses when they bet on horses? What does money 'do'? Does money fundamentally deal with the future? Why don't we have a market in people anymore? Isn’t Market an elaborate barter system? How do different things commensurate with each other? Does price make value observable? Is the world created by labour? Can labour be the scale for pricing? Can Market solve ‘all’ problems? Is price always embedded in a broader system of values? Why is Copenhagen's racing different from Delhi’s? Is capitalism also gambling? Does risk, as such, 'produce' profit? Does only the capitalist speculate? Can production itself be speculative? Why is bajra inexpensive? Are mortgages human capital derivatives? Is value objective in a sociological (emergent) kind of way? However, are all of us equal price takers? Could/do price theories incorporate the notion of 'moving' time? How (relatively) large can the non-basic goods economy be? Is a world without speculation likely? Are we always going to misprice? Would everything be free in a super-abundant future? Will we stay inside the machine? SynTalk thinks about these & more questions using concepts from political economics (Dr. Anush Kapadia, IIT Bombay, Mumbai), anthropology (Dr. Stine Simonsen Puri, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark), & economic history (Prof. Ajit Sinha, Azim Premji University, Bangalore). Listen in…

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#TDAG (The Dead And Gone) --- SynTalk

#TDAG (The Dead And Gone) --- SynTalk

Do you have neanderthal DNA? Is your body your identity? What makes the knowledge of death possible when no one alive has experienced it first hand? How does dying feel? What are your schemas for unde...

26 Loka 20241h 16min

#TOOP (The Oxygen Of Publicity) --- SynTalk

#TOOP (The Oxygen Of Publicity) --- SynTalk

Are you a lobby strategist? Do you negotiate with yourself? Which taste group do you belong to? What are you allowed to see? Do you pay to publish? Do the algorithms that serve you change with you? Ho...

5 Loka 20241h 13min

#TGFF (The Grounds For Flight) --- SynTalk

#TGFF (The Grounds For Flight) --- SynTalk

What do you expect to see on windy islands? Can you soar? Are there a finite number of ways of flying? Did we glide before flying? Do birds & insects fly like planes, & vice versa? How are the lift-of...

28 Syys 20241h 3min

#TOOI (The Order Of Institutions) --- SynTalk

#TOOI (The Order Of Institutions) --- SynTalk

How do the disposable get marked out? Which institutions have cognitive control over you? How do you develop railways in Argentina? Who changes institutions? Is it always from ‘within’? Do institution...

29 Kesä 20241h 25min

#TPOP (The Production Of Places) --- SynTalk

#TPOP (The Production Of Places) --- SynTalk

How ‘deep’ would a 1,000 years be? Is all space place? How do use, identity, value, law, power, or (‘imaginative’) memory hold them together? Do we live in layers? Are all human beings historical? Are...

25 Touko 20241h 16min

#TSOFF (The Susurrus Of Former Futures) --- SynTalk

#TSOFF (The Susurrus Of Former Futures) --- SynTalk

What happened in the 6th century BCE? Can a non-human (robot? dog?) have a soul? Does God’s time move from the past to the future? Is the present, in a sense, always avant-garde? How are bureaucratic ...

18 Touko 20241h 17min

#TPHAL (The Punk Hooligan And Lumpen) --- SynTalk

#TPHAL (The Punk Hooligan And Lumpen) --- SynTalk

Who does the kidnapping and raping? Are you a parasite? Is your politics in the service of capital? Do the lumpen form one group/class, or is it a general disposition? Are the punk ‘anti-social’ disru...

8 Touko 20241h 16min

#TTTC (The Transformations To Complex) --- SynTalk

#TTTC (The Transformations To Complex) --- SynTalk

Is pencil complex? Is computationally hard complex? Is ‘i’ a weird number? Why wasn’t Hamilton able to multiply triples? Are we just a bunch of neurons and connections? Is our ability to think (& do m...

23 Maalis 20241h 2min

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