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EP66: Technocracy Now!, pt. 3 (ft. Sam Adler-Bell & Alessandro Delfanti)
The first two episodes of this series told stories of technocrats who tied themselves to a muscular state. They believed the state could remake society, if it had the right expertise. However, the state under neoliberalism doesn’t have the technocratic ambitions or capacities it used to. Does that mean technocracy is dead? No, technocracy is just moving into the private sphere.Listen now -
EP65: Technocracy Now!, pt. 2 (ft. Joy Rohde & Eden Medina)
Last episode, we looked at the technocrats of the industrial age: Thorstein Veblen, Howard Scott, and the "industrial tinkerers," as Daniel Bell put it. But Daniel Bell went on to say we were entered a new age -- a "post-industrial age" -- where a new kind of technocrat would vie for power. We look at mid-century cybernetics.Listen now -
EP64: Technocracy Now!, part 1 (ft. Noam Chomsky)
Technocracy is the idea that experts should govern. For the common good, presumably. It makes a certain amount of sense, given how irrational our politics seem to be right now. So, technocracy is seductive. In fact, it’s an idea as old as politics itself. We begin the first of three-part series telling stories of technocracies past, present, and future.Listen now -
Coming Soon: Technocracy Now!
Technocracy is the idea that experts should govern. For the common good, presumably. In fact, it's an idea as old as politics itself, and it emerges just about everywhere across the ideological spectrum. next episode, we begin a three-part series telling stories of technocracies past, present, and future.Listen now -
EP63: Who Researches the Researchers?
Researchers with the best of intentions still get things wrong. So what does it look like when the old paternalistic ways are dispensed of? We talk to Garth Mullins, who is both researcher and subject in Vancouver's downtown east side and also to Michelle Fine, a leading proponent of critical participatory action research.Listen now
