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Start Worrying, Details to Follow is a podcast by Aftonbladet Kultur. Hosted by Karin Pettersson, culture editor for Aftonbladet and Georg Diez editor in chief of The New Institute: Conversations with leading scholars and thinkers about radical new ideas and the future of democracy in an age of technological disruption and exploding inequalities.

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    • 4.7 • 10 Ratings

Start Worrying, Details to Follow is a podcast by Aftonbladet Kultur. Hosted by Karin Pettersson, culture editor for Aftonbladet and Georg Diez editor in chief of The New Institute: Conversations with leading scholars and thinkers about radical new ideas and the future of democracy in an age of technological disruption and exploding inequalities.

    "Capitalism is another form of oppression" - Lea Ypi

    "Capitalism is another form of oppression" - Lea Ypi

    What does it mean to me free? Lea Ypi is the author of the award-winning biography “Free: Coming of Age at the end of History”. It’s a book about growing up in communist Albania in the 80s, and then experiencing the broken promise of freedom under capitalism. We discuss if and where freedom can be found in systems of oppression, and its limitations in liberal democracy

    • 57 min
    “We need to think hard on why it is so difficult to achieve real democracy.”

    “We need to think hard on why it is so difficult to achieve real democracy.”

    Katrina Forrester on the questions of liberty, equality and how capitalism structures politics, life and how we think about ourselves and the others

    • 59 min
    “We need to think hard why it is so difficult to achieve real democracy.”

    “We need to think hard why it is so difficult to achieve real democracy.”

    Katrina Forrester on the questions of liberty, equality and how capitalism structures politics, life and how we think about ourselves and the others

    • 59 min
    How Can We Build a Better Democracy?

    How Can We Build a Better Democracy?

    What is democracy, how has it changed over time? And is today‘s form compatible with tomorrow’s challenges? What would it mean to expand the “demos” that makes up the polis? And how to think about democracy in the time of climate emergency? Listen to activist, thinker and writer Astra Taylor in conversation with Karin Pettersson and Georg Diez.

    • 1 hr 8 min
    Post-corona capitalism – with Adam Tooze

    Post-corona capitalism – with Adam Tooze

    Is the world’s reaction to the pandemic a massive failure or something more hopeful? What will happen with the world economy when it starts to open up? How important is China’s new climate policy and how disappointed will the left be with Joe Biden? A conversation with Adam Tooze, history professor at Columbia university.

    • 59 min
    "Freedom is impossible under capitalism"

    "Freedom is impossible under capitalism"

    Philosopher Martin Hägglund, author of This Life, in conversation with Aftonbladet's Karin Pettersson and Georg Diez from the New Institute

    • 1 hr 13 min

Customer Reviews

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