ASOMOCO Unplugged

Brett Scott
  • 0.0 (0)
  • SOCIETY & CULTURE

A relaxed journey through the chaos of our economic system, accompanied by soothing musical compositions and short interviews with some excellent guests www.asomo.co

Episodes

  1. 12/19/2024

    ASOMOCO Unplugged Episode 2

    Dear ASOMOCO community, I’m really happy to present Episode 2 of my new podcast ASOMOCO Unplugged, a relaxed and informal walk through the chaos of our economic system, accompanied by musical compositions and guest contributions. In the first half we cover: * Karmic reciprocity, David Graeber and Intro to Econ Life * The Inner Civil War, my follow-up to the Stone Soup Theory of Billionaires * Shaun Chamberlin on why we should use Mastodon * Animism vs. monotheism, and a beautiful song from The Mononoke Wolf Choir * Cory Doctorow’s concept of Big Tech Enshittification and whether Jay Graber of Bluesky can avoid it In the second half, we have a crypto special: * Jemima Kelly and Eli Gothill on the Grim Ghost of Crypto Future * Numerical nouns vs. numerical adjectives and why this matters for the Hole in Bitcoin’s Heart * Professional wrestling and how it inspired my recent essay, the Art of Crypto Kayfabe * The crucial concept of countertrade, and how it secretly governs the Bitcoin world * Josh Davila on TrumpMusk’s Bitcoin gambit, patronage networks and the risk of political manipulation of the crypto markets * Cryptography vs. cryptocurrency Links and community shout-outs * Mark Kohr’s great ‘Ecodemmurage Currency’ video * Sarah Jaffe’s Work Won’t Love You Back * Surviving the Future by the late David Fleming, edited by Shaun Chamberlin (see also Lean Logic) * Shaun on Mastodon, and his excellent course on Surviving the Future * Josh Davila’s Blockchain Socialist podcast, and Blockchain Radicals book * David Graeber, Cory Doctorow and others in the SPECTRE video about basic income Bonus for paying subscribers All my sweet paying subscribers who keep ASOMOCO going get a bonus 14 minute meditative track here. Enjoy! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.asomo.co/subscribe

    1h 17m

  2. 11/21/2024

    Introducing ASOMOCO Unplugged, EP.1

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.asomo.co Welcome to ASOMOCO Unplugged, a new experimental podcast format in which I discuss some big things happening in the world of political economics alongside bits of juicy gossip from friends, all interspersed by musical compositions. On today’s episode I play a kalimba through an Ibanez TubeScreamer and talk about… * Stone Soup Theory of billionaires * The influencer economy and algorithmic holidays * Propaganda on X, and the rise of Bluesky and Substack * A recent discussion on the potentially contradictory meanings of ‘anti-woke’ * Ethnomusicology, and the anthropology of music * Grace Blakeley on the US election * Marxism, David Graeber and SPECTRE * My friend Julio’s upcoming book on Abolishing the US dollar * Julio reporting in live from Thailand about quantum money and crypto kings * Why I’m planning to write about crypto again * Upcoming articles Free subscribers get the first half, but if you want the full 45 minutes, sign up for a paid subscription here…

    32 min
  • 2 Episodes

About

A relaxed journey through the chaos of our economic system, accompanied by soothing musical compositions and short interviews with some excellent guests www.asomo.co

Information

  • Creator
    Brett Scott
  • Episodes
    2
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Brett Scott
  • Show Website
    ASOMOCO Unplugged