Amazon’s Vigorous Opposition to Unions w/ Lauren Kaori Gurley
Paris Marx is joined by Lauren Kaori Gurley to discuss how Amazon surveils workers to stop them from organizing, the difficult working conditions in warehouses and for delivery drivers, and whether Je...
4 Feb 202141min
How Nostalgia Serves Corporate Power w/ Grafton Tanner
Paris Marx is joined by Grafton Tanner to discuss how social media constantly resurfaces the past, why film and television uses nostalgia to keep us engaged, and whether there’s a way to wield nostalg...
28 Jan 202151min
How YouTube Normalizes Right-Wing Extremism w/ Becca Lewis
Paris Marx is joined by Becca Lewis to discuss YouTube’s history of incentivizing extreme content, how the storming of the US Capitol shows the power of media spectacle, and why we should see social m...
21 Jan 202151min
Why We Need a Democratic Approach to Data w/ Salomé Viljoen
Paris Marx is joined by Salomé Viljoen to discuss existing proposals to expand individual data rights or treat it as a form of labor, why we instead need to see data governance as a collective democra...
14 Jan 202143min
The Frictionless World of Silicon Valley w/ Anna Wiener
Paris Marx is joined by Anna Wiener to discuss her journey into the tech industry, how Silicon Valley’s desire for a “frictionless” world is affecting culture, and why it’s important to analyze Substa...
7 Jan 202150min
Platforms for Public Good w/ Mathew Lawrence & Thomas Hanna
Paris Marx is joined by Mathew Lawrence and Thomas Hanna to discuss the problems with platforms, why antitrust alone is not enough to fix them, and how we can encourage the creation of democratic plat...
30 Dec 20201h 3min
The Complex Systems that Govern Our Lives w/ Tim Maughan
Paris Marx is joined by Tim Maughan to discuss the exploitative infrastructures that make the modern world possible, how complex technological systems rob us of our power to control our collective des...
23 Dec 202057min
How Urban Tech Increases Corporate Control w/ David Banks
Paris Marx is joined by David Banks to discuss how tech solutions to increase corporate control in cities will be sold to us as fun and convenient, and what that will actually means for access and equ...
17 Dec 202054min
