Hello again! Hope you’ve had a…week? (Hope time has passed for you in a relatively normal fashion?)
Sketches of Post-Capitalism
First off, I wanted to share some sketches from my friend Audra Jacobi. These are for an upcoming essay of mine—a relationship therapy session between humanity, capitalism, and post-capitalism. Here are her (amazing) sketches. Really excited to share the full piece with you in May.
(This is for David Perell’s writing fellowship. Here was my first piece for it: Seeing Like a Networked Human Organism.)
Online Workshop: Thursday, April 16th at 3:30pm PST
I’m giving a 60-minute workshop at The Stoa titled COVID to Post-Capitalism: Embodying a New World. If you’re curious—I’d love to see you there! It’ll involve some fun breakout rooms where we explore Networkism, Coherent Pluralism, Bentoism, and Generosity.
It’s this Thursday, April 16th at 3:30pm PST. RSVP here! (Like, now-ish. RSVP’s close Wednesday night.)
Video: Our Post-Capitalist Response to COVID-19
I recorded a video detailing our Post-Capitalist Response to COVID-19. It looks into how our response embodies the four key pieces of post-capitalism: Networkism, Coherent Pluralism, Bentoism, and Generosity. Check out the video, Roam Research page, and transcript here. This is the start of an experiment, so I’d love your feedback. (Should I be a Youtuber? 😜)
Links
Top links below. There’s a longer list of ~100ish great links here on topics like Ambitious Frontier People and Networked Systems.
FastGrants: $10M available with a 48-hour turnaround for COVID science.
#Masks4All directly influenced the CDC’s mask policy. Like with #MeToo, we’re seeing the increasing power of hashtags.
COVID could double the number of hungry people from 800M to 1.6B. Decreased production, distribution, allocation, and income. Incredibly sad.
Concise cultural impact of COVID-19 from Venkatesh Rao. On globalization: The PPE contest looks more like deviant pirate-versus-pirate condition among nation states.
18 Lessons of Quarantine Urbanism from Ben Bratton (of The Stack). Quick overviews of our epidemiological view of society, comparative governance, the importance of delivery platforms, and “fully automated luxury quarantine vs. solitary confinement”.
Great post-mortem from Recode’s Peter Kafka on what the media got wrong about COVID. 1) Only sourcing from credentialed experts/institutions. 2) Inherent difficultly in communicating risk—how scary is too scary?)
Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics is being implemented in Amsterdam. Like NZ moving from GDP to well-being, this is a protoexample of governing by post-capitalist metrics. “The doughnut does not bring us the answers but rather is a way of looking, so that we don’t keep doing the same structures we’re used to.”
Romeo Stevens on empathizing with people in historical disasters. When they get a little distance from the event (assuming they survive) people are often bewildered by their own behavior (this contributes to traumatic response, not being able to integrate the actions you took).
This week in the Bento Society newsletter: active awareness vs. passive awareness in a crisis.
Events
Open 2020: Networked Commons (June 11-12)
Interintellect Salons (recurring)
The Stoa (recurring)
Foresight Institute (recurring)
Music
This week, I want to share three songs from U.S. Girls recent album, Heavy Light. In addition to the normal songs on the album, there are three beautiful tracks (without music) that overlay responses to therapy-ish questions: The Color of Your Childhood Bedroom, The Most Hurtful Thing, Advice to Your Teenage Self. Spotify link here.
As always, wishing the best for you. Hope you’re finding the time to enjoy small things like deep breaths and the sun. 🌞
Warmth, Rhys