269. The Mythology of Cybersyn (ft. Evgeny Morozov)
This Machine Kills
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The Importance of Analytical History in a Podcast
ITT at the time is almost the capitalist equivalent of Corfor this agency of the Chilean government which was tasked with running 300 companies under the same umbrella that do everything from you know mining to making I don't know car mails right so in a sense Corfor was the socialist conglomerate and Stafford Beerus brought in to help optimize it. Jeanine and Macone abetted by a very big investment bank lazzards we're trying to figure it out how to run it in the US but ITT ultimately crashes it into the ground. It's also a matter of balancing of the kind of intellectual stories I want to tell because I feel as an intellectual I would have wasted an opportunity to
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