π€π³π 220 - Austin Wade Smith on Convivial Ecological Institutions and Open Source Commons for Sensemaking FUTURE FOSSILS
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This week I riff with Austin Wade Smith (they/them) β an animist, designer, ecologist, and creative technologist based in Brooklyn, New York and the Executive Director of Regen Foundation, a US-based non-profit working with distributed ledgers and AI to design sovereign regenerative economics. Austinβs work explores opportunities for social, legal, economic, and information technologies to foster greater interdependence between individuals and our living world. They teach design and engineering courses related to their research at universities in New York.
In this conversation we explore what Austin calls βa simple framework designed to expand the legibility of the βmore than human worldβ (such as βNatureβ, Non-Humans, βMore-than-Human Ecologiesβ, etc.) to various anthropogenic infrastructures and technologies, with the aim of increasing the βsurface areaβ through which non-humans directly exert influence on human-made systems.β
How can we make ecosystems more legible to the economic and political contexts in which they now exist?
Get ready for a conversation that up-ends conventional categories to hack open a new possibility space for human-machine symbiosis and technologically-assisted biospheric stewardship!
PS βΒ Iβm trying to launch a NEW podcast, Humans On The Loop, about how to use our new AI superpowers wisely. Hereβs more info in case youβd like to help support this project or know someone who might!
β¨Β Relevant Links:
AustinWadeSmith.comTwitterLinkedInEssaysRegen FoundationβLegibility for Our Living World with Austin Wade Smithβ on Ma EarthβCorporate Metabolismβ by Xander Paco NathanβThe Singularity in Our Past Light-Coneβ by Cosma Shalizi
β¨Β Support This Show & The Family It Feeds:
β’Β Subscribe onΒ SubstackΒ orΒ PatreonΒ for COPIOUS extras, including private Discord server channels and MANY secret episodes.β’Β Make one-off donations atΒ @futurefossils on Venmo,Β $manfredmacx on CashApp, orΒ @michaelgarfield on PayPal.β’Β Buy the music onΒ Bandcamp! This episode features βOlympus Monsβ off the Martian Arts EP.β’Β Buy the books we discuss atΒ the Future Fossils Bookshop.org pageΒ and I get a small cut from your support of indie booksellers.β’Β Browse and buyΒ original paintings and printsΒ or email me to commission new work.
β¨Β Select Related Episodes:
β’Β 217 - Gregory Landua & Speaker John Ash on Regenerative Accelerationism & How To Heal A Broken Internetβ’Β 215 - Social Science & Collective Intelligence with Brigham Adams of Goodly Labsβ’Β 213 - Amber Case & Michael Zargham on Entangled Technologies & Design As Governanceβ’Β 212 - Manfred Laubichler & Geoffrey West on Life In The Anthropocene & Living Inside The Technosphereβ’Β 180 - Web3 & Complex Systems with Park Bach, Sid Shrivastava, Shirley Bekins, & Avel GuΓ©nin-Carlut at Complexity Weekendβ’Β 178 - Chris Ryan on Exhuming The Human from Our Eldritch Institutionsβ’ 176 - Exploring Ecodelia with Richard Doyle, Sophie Strand, and Sam Gandy at the Psilocybin Summitβ’Β 76 - "Technology as Psychedelic Parenting at Palenque Norte, Burning Man 2017
This is a public episode. If youβd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit michaelgarfield.substack.com/subscribe
This week I riff with Austin Wade Smith (they/them) β an animist, designer, ecologist, and creative technologist based in Brooklyn, New York and the Executive Director of Regen Foundation, a US-based non-profit working with distributed ledgers and AI to design sovereign regenerative economics. Austinβs work explores opportunities for social, legal, economic, and information technologies to foster greater interdependence between individuals and our living world. They teach design and engineering courses related to their research at universities in New York.
In this conversation we explore what Austin calls βa simple framework designed to expand the legibility of the βmore than human worldβ (such as βNatureβ, Non-Humans, βMore-than-Human Ecologiesβ, etc.) to various anthropogenic infrastructures and technologies, with the aim of increasing the βsurface areaβ through which non-humans directly exert influence on human-made systems.β
How can we make ecosystems more legible to the economic and political contexts in which they now exist?
Get ready for a conversation that up-ends conventional categories to hack open a new possibility space for human-machine symbiosis and technologically-assisted biospheric stewardship!
PS βΒ Iβm trying to launch a NEW podcast, Humans On The Loop, about how to use our new AI superpowers wisely. Hereβs more info in case youβd like to help support this project or know someone who might!
β¨Β Relevant Links:
AustinWadeSmith.comTwitterLinkedInEssaysRegen FoundationβLegibility for Our Living World with Austin Wade Smithβ on Ma EarthβCorporate Metabolismβ by Xander Paco NathanβThe Singularity in Our Past Light-Coneβ by Cosma Shalizi
β¨Β Support This Show & The Family It Feeds:
β’Β Subscribe onΒ SubstackΒ orΒ PatreonΒ for COPIOUS extras, including private Discord server channels and MANY secret episodes.β’Β Make one-off donations atΒ @futurefossils on Venmo,Β $manfredmacx on CashApp, orΒ @michaelgarfield on PayPal.β’Β Buy the music onΒ Bandcamp! This episode features βOlympus Monsβ off the Martian Arts EP.β’Β Buy the books we discuss atΒ the Future Fossils Bookshop.org pageΒ and I get a small cut from your support of indie booksellers.β’Β Browse and buyΒ original paintings and printsΒ or email me to commission new work.
β¨Β Select Related Episodes:
β’Β 217 - Gregory Landua & Speaker John Ash on Regenerative Accelerationism & How To Heal A Broken Internetβ’Β 215 - Social Science & Collective Intelligence with Brigham Adams of Goodly Labsβ’Β 213 - Amber Case & Michael Zargham on Entangled Technologies & Design As Governanceβ’Β 212 - Manfred Laubichler & Geoffrey West on Life In The Anthropocene & Living Inside The Technosphereβ’Β 180 - Web3 & Complex Systems with Park Bach, Sid Shrivastava, Shirley Bekins, & Avel GuΓ©nin-Carlut at Complexity Weekendβ’Β 178 - Chris Ryan on Exhuming The Human from Our Eldritch Institutionsβ’ 176 - Exploring Ecodelia with Richard Doyle, Sophie Strand, and Sam Gandy at the Psilocybin Summitβ’Β 76 - "Technology as Psychedelic Parenting at Palenque Norte, Burning Man 2017
This is a public episode. If youβd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit michaelgarfield.substack.com/subscribe
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