RadicalxChange(s)

Matt Prewitt, President of RadicalxChange Foundation, discusses rethinking property rights with Margaret Levi. They explore Partial Common Ownership as a fairer asset management solution. Their collaboration with Stanford and Dark Matter Labs focuses on reimagining ownership institutions to create a politics of change.

Margaret Levi, distinguished political scientist, professor at Stanford University, delves into her team's groundbreaking work on reimagining property rights. They discuss principles of well-being, holistic sustainability, and equality. Explore the evolution of property and ownership, complexities of formalizing property rights, alternatives to economic growth, relational equality's connection to well-being and property ownership, and readings on moral political economy and change.

In this episode of RadicalxChange(s), host Matt Prewitt engages in a deep and thoughtful conversation with Barry Threw, Executive & Artistic Director of Gray Area. They explore Barry's diverse career integrating art, technology, and humanities for economic, social, and ecological regeneration, and examine the cultural shifts in the San Francisco Bay Area. Barry and Matt saunter through anecdotes from Burning Man to Joan Didion to the technocratic molding of the Silicon Valley phenomenon — an exciting pathway of cultural importance to walk along.References:Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus by Douglas RushkoffSlouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion - WikipediaBurning Man - WikipediaEffective altruism - WikipediaSilicon Valley's brand of philanthropyBios:Barry Threw is the Executive and Artistic Director of Gray Area, a San Francisco nonprofit cultural incubator applying art and technology toward social good. He drifts fluidly between roles, collaborating as an executive, curator, technologist, cultural producer, and strategist to cultivate forward-looking, boundary-blurring projects integrating culture and technology. His previous leadership positions have generated innovative & influential platforms, products, teams, and businesses spanning art, music, internet, built environment, and experiential & immersive media: as Software Director with Keith McMillen Instruments, developing advanced technology to bridge traditional string instruments with computers to spark a Western new classical music movement based on the technologies and aesthetics of the 21st century; as Technical Director with Recombinant Media Labs, presenting surround cinema at installations and festivals around the world; as a founding Partner at Fabricatorz, a distributed technology studio for cultural projects with nodes in Hong Kong, St. Louis, San Francisco, and Lisbon; and as Director of Software with Obscura Digital, a San Francisco-based creative technology studio specializing in the design and execution of immersive and interactive experiences worldwide, and the first company to do architectural projection mapping. He organizes the #NEWPALMYRA project, an online community platform focused on the virtual reconstruction and creative reuse of cultural heritage. He played a key role in developing and operating the Vatican Arts and Technology Council, a nondenominational external advisory body for the Vatican, which advanced goals of environmental stewardship, humanitarian compassion, and spreading experiences of spirituality worldwide through an experimental art and technology lab.Barry’s Social Links:Barry Threw | Website@barrythrew | XBarry Threw | InstagramConnect with Gray Area:Gray Area | Website@GrayAreaorg | XGray Area | InstagramGray Area | YouTubeGray Area | FacebookMatt Prewitt (he/him) is a lawyer, technologist, and writer. He is President of the RadicalxChange Foundation.Matt’s Social Links:@m_t_prewitt | XMatt’s Substack: Matt's WritingsProduction Credits:Produced by G. Angela Corpus.Co-Produced and Audio Engineered by Aaron Benavides.Executive Produced by G. Angela Corpus and Matt Prewitt.Intro/Outro music by MagnusMoone, “Wind in the Willows,” is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)This is a RadicalxChange Production. Connect with RadicalxChange Foundation:WebsiteXBlueSkyYouTubeLinkedInDiscord

In today’s episode, Deepti Doshi, Co-Director of New_ Public (and leader in the intersection of social media, community organizing, and leadership development) speaks with Matt Prewitt on how to create online spaces that foster interconnection, mutual dependency, and democratic outcomes. Together, they explore the need for socio-technical expertise and community stewards to work together to design a healthier and more equitable digital ecosystem. They give consideration to the role of technology and tools in creating democratic spaces, and the potential impact of generative AI on social spaces and democracy. They share a hopeful and exciting outlook for building a more democratic political economy online.References:Marshall Ganz (American scholar for grassroots organizing)2012 Nirbhaya Case (TW: Sexual Assault)Arab SpringLola Omolola (Nigerian journalist who founded the Female IN (FIN) group on Facebook - formerly “Female In Nigeria”)John Dewey (American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer (1859–1952)Transcript: Ezra Klein Interviews Danielle Allen - The New York TimesNew_ PublicCommunity by Design | New_ PublicBios:Deepti Doshi co-leads New_Public with Eli Pariser and Talia Stroud. New_Public is a product studio for healthy digital public spaces; spaces where people can connect with one another, build understanding across differences, and work towards shared goals, and that are built to maximize plurality, equity, and cohesion - not financial returns. Her work has focused on the intersection of social media, community organizing, and leadership development. Deepti was a Director at Meta, where she helped set up Meta's New Product Experimentation team, created the Community Partnerships team to build products (namely, Groups), programs, and partnerships that support community leaders, and led Internet.org across Asia. Prior to Meta she founded Haiyya, India’s largest community organizing platform, Escuela Nueva India, an education company that serves the urban poor, and the Fellows Program at Acumen Fund to build leaders for the social enterprise sector. Deepti is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School and the Wharton Business School, and holds a bachelors degree in Psychology. She is a TED Fellow, an Aspen Institute First Movers Fellow and Ideas Scholar, and her work has been featured in multiple publications. She lives in Berkeley with her husband, Adrien, and two boys, Aiden and Luca. When not working, you can find her playing tennis, cooking, meditating, or planning the next block party. Deepti’s Social Links:@deeptidoshi | TwitterDeepti Doshi | InstagramDeepti Doshi | LinkedInConnect with New_ Public:New_ Public - Website@WeAreNew_Public | TwitterNew_ Public | InstagramNew_ Public | LinkedInNew_ Public | Substack NewsletterMatt Prewitt (he/him) is a lawyer, technologist, and writer. He is the President of the RadicalxChange Foundation.Matt’s Social Links:@m_t_prewitt | TwitterMatt’s Substack: Matt's WritingsProduction Credits:Produced by G. Angela Corpus.Co-Produced and Audio Engineered by Aaron Benavides.Executive Produced by G. Angela Corpus and Matt Prewitt.Intro/Outro music by MagnusMoone, “Wind in the Willows,” is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)This is a RadicalxChange Production. Connect with RadicalxChange Foundation:WebsiteXBlueSkyYouTubeLinkedInDiscord

In today’s ep, Matt Prewitt speaks with Victoria Ivanova, R&D Strategic Lead of Serpentine Arts and curator-strategist-writer, about the role art and culture have in society in preserving democratic ideals while offering critical and actionable solutions for the emerging technological era.They delve into the historical and present significance of art, its crisis of meaning in the age of accelerationism and powerful AI, and the potential for Plural Property (Partial Common Ownership) to create a more fair and dynamic market for art; thereby rethinking art ownership and promoting a more equitable future. This conversation and the collaboration between RadicalxChange and Serpentine Arts offer new perspectives on the intersection of art, technology, and society.Links: Rethinking Art Ownership (blog post) by Paula Berman, Victoria Ivanova, & Matt PrewittRethinking Art Ownership (audio version)Rethinking Art Ownership (video version - audio + text)References:6:04 Gustave Courbet (French painter leading the Realism movement)7:00 Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) anti-slavery novel by American author and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe7:01 A Sportsman's Sketches (1852) collection of Russian realist short stories by Russian novelist, poet, and playwright Ivan Turgenev8:54 Italian Futurism12: 45 Salon des Refusés14:52 French painter and sculptor Marcel Duchamp’s "Fountain" (Duchamp, 1917)15:54 Conceptual art24:51 Nick Land (English philosopher and theorist)Accelerationism26:03 Nick Srnicek (Canadian writer and academic) and Dr. Alex Williams (British political theorist and lecturer)Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics27:11 Ursula K. Le Guin (American novelist)29:15 Jakob Kudsk Steensen (Danish artist)31:38 Marshall McLuhan (Canadian philosopher)49:11 Norbert Wiener (American mathematician and philosopher)55:38 Systems Esthetics (1968, Artforum) by Jack Burnham (American artist, writer, and theorist of art and technology)55:55 Santa Fe Institute for Complexity58:59 GPT-4 (ChatGPT AI created by OpenAI)01:04:12 Ezra Klein’s “My View on A.I.”1:33:55 EQUANIMITY | Cambridge English DictionaryBios:Victoria Ivanova is a strategist and writer with a background in human rights, currently working as R&D Strategist at Serpentine, a leading contemporary art organisation located in London, where she leads Future Art Ecosystems – a project for the construction of 21st-century cultural infrastructure for art and technology.Victoria’s Social Links:Twitter: @VivLaNovaWebsite: Victoria IvanovaConnect with Serpentine Arts Technologies:Sign up for the Future Art Ecosystems newsletter.Continue the conversation in FAE's Telegram.Check out Serpentine’s Twitch channel.Matt Prewitt (he/him) is a lawyer, technologist, and writer. He is President of the RadicalxChange Foundation.Matt’s Social Links:Twitter: @m_t_prewittMatt’s Substack: Matt's WritingsProduction Credits:Produced by G. Angela Corpus.Co-Produced and Audio Engineered by Aaron Benavides.Executive Produced by G. Angela Corpus and Matt Prewitt.Intro/Outro music by MagnusMoone, “Wind in the Willows,” is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)This is a RadicalxChange Production. Connect with RadicalxChange Foundation:WebsiteXBlueSkyYouTubeLinkedInDiscord

Shrey Jain, an applied scientist at Microsoft Research Special Projects, speaks with Matt Prewitt on a very timely and topical subject: AI and – more specifically – the dangers it poses to the nature of natural human communication (“context collapse”). They take a deep dive into the current threats to privacy by expanding beyond the often discussed cryptographic sense into “privacy as contextual integrity”, and the immediate opportunity to embed ethical guardrails into this ever-changing realm of generative AI through possible solutions of designated verified signatures in “plural publics”.Shrey’s recently published paper co-authored with Divya Siddarth and E. Glen Weyl “Plural Publics” is linked in the episode notes.Links & References: Georg Simmel and The Sociology of Secrecy and of Secret SocietiesJohn Dewey on The Public and Its Problems: An Essay in Political Inquiry on JSTORScamming in AI via The Washington Post - They thought loved ones were calling for help. It was an AI scam."Privacy as Contextual Integrity" by Helen NissenbaumAlso see: Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of... (book)Jaron Lanier on How to Fix Twitter—And All of Social Media - The AtlanticAI Education - Will ChatGPT Kill the Student Essay? - The AtlanticShrey Jain, Divya Siddarth, and E. Glen Weyl. “Plural Publics.” Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University, March 20, 2023.Bios:Shrey Jain (he/him) is an Applied Scientist at Microsoft Research Special Projects. His research area is AI Security and Cryptography with a specific focus on information integrity in an era of generative AI. Shrey's work has been featured in CBC News, The Globe and Mail, Financial Times, National Post, CTV News, and the Toronto Star.Shrey’s Social Links:Twitter: @shreyjainethConnect with Shrey on LinkedInShrey’s Substack: GlasswingMatt Prewitt (he/him) is a lawyer, technologist, and writer. He is President of the RadicalxChange Foundation.Matt’s Social LInks:Twitter: @m_t_prewittMatt’s Substack: Matt's WritingsProduction Credits:Produced by G. Angela Corpus.Co-Produced and Audio Engineered by Aaron Benavides.Executive Produced by G. Angela Corpus and Matt Prewitt.Intro/Outro music by MagnusMoone, “Wind in the Willows,” is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)This is a RadicalxChange Production. Connect with RadicalxChange Foundation:WebsiteXBlueSkyYouTubeLinkedInDiscord

In today's episode, Will Holley (Founder of 721 Labs), Graven Prest (Co-Founder of the Geo Web project), and Kevin Seagraves (CEO of NiftyApes) are three mission-focused entrepreneurs who join host Matt Prewitt in a roundtable discussion on the topic of Plural Property — RadicalxChange's umbrella term for Partial Common Ownership, Harberger Taxation, Self-Assessed Licenses Sold via Auction or SALSA, and Common Ownership Self-Assessed Tax or COST.NOTE: This is a regular season episode of the RadicalxChange(s) podcast. Our mini season of "A New Era of Democracy" will continue following this episode.Links for Today’s Episode:RxC Plural Property Concept Page721 LabsCityDAOGeo WebNiftyApesHarberger Style Lending AuctionsWill Holley (he/him) is the founder of 721 Labs, a research and development company focused on Ethereum token standards and mechanism design. He is also the founder of CityDAO’s Network City initiative, the first IRL experiment using Partial Common Ownership, Harberger Taxes and Quadratic Funding to coordinate efficient private market funding of public goods.  Will first engaged with Radical ideas and Web3 in 2020, after selling his last startup, a collectibles marketplace.  A software engineer by training, Will previously worked in the fine art world, building machine learning models to predict auction results for Sotheby’s and Christie’s.Graven Prest (he/him) is an entrepreneur and mechanism designer in the Web3 space. He's the co-founder of the Geo Web project (@TheGeoWeb)—an open protocol that creates consensus for browsing digital media anchored to physical locations (i.e. geospatial augmented reality). The network protocol uses partial common ownership to administer its digital land market and fund public goods.Kevin Seagraves (he/him) has been building in the Ethereum ecosystem since 2017. He was the lead engineer of Gitcoin Grants v0, co-author of EIP-1337, and a co-founder of the ETHSecurity community. Later, he went on to lead product at Charge before returning to the Gitcoin family and contributing to the Moonshot Collective and Scaffold-eth. He is now the CEO at NiftyApes, building tools for NFT traders, and is the creator of Harberger Style Lending Auctions. Matt Prewitt (he/him) is a lawyer, technologist, and writer. He is President of the RadicalxChange Foundation. Production CreditsProduced by G. Angela Corpus.Co-Produced and Audio Engineered by Aaron Benavides.Executive Produced by G. Angela Corpus and Matt Prewitt.Intro/Outro music by MagnusMoone, “Wind in the Willows,” is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)This is a RadicalxChange Production. Connect with RadicalxChange Foundation:WebsiteXBlueSkyYouTubeLinkedInDiscord

This episode is a continuation of a mini season of RadicalxChange(s) titled A New Era of Democracy.In today’s episode, we welcome Professor of Communications and Political Science Zizi Papacharissi who discusses her latest book, After Democracy with host Matt Prewitt. In this thought-provoking conversation, they examine how social media affects our culture, our relationships, and consequently our democratic processes, while exploring potential ways to imagine new and better forms of democracy by “living with technology, not through technology.”Zizi Papacharissi, PhD, is Professor and Head of the Communication Department, Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois-Chicago, and a University Scholar at the University of Illinois System. Her work focuses on the social and political consequences of online media. She has published nine books, over 70 journal articles and book chapters, and serves on the editorial board of fifteen journals. Zizi is the founding and current Editor of the open access journal Social Media & Society. She has collaborated with Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and Oculus, and has participated in closed consultations with the Obama 2012 election campaign. She sits on the Committee on the Health and Well-Being of Young Adults, funded by the National Academies of Science, the National Research Council, and the Institute of Medicine in the US, and has been invited to lecture about her work on social media in several Universities and Research Institutes in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Her work has been translated in Greek, German, Korean, Chinese, Hungarian, Italian, Turkish, and Persian. Her 10th book, titled After Democracy: Imagining our Political Future, is out now, from Yale University Press.Zizi Papacharissi’s Professional WebsiteMatt Prewitt is a lawyer, technologist, and writer. He is President of the RadicalxChange Foundation. Production CreditsOriginally produced by G. Angela Corpus and Aaron Benavides for 2021 RxC Annual Conference RxC TV program.Produced by G. Angela Corpus.Co-Produced and Audio Engineered by Aaron Benavides.Executive Produced by G. Angela Corpus, Jennifer Morone, and Matt Prewitt.Intro/Outro music by MagnusMoone, “Wind in the Willows,” is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)This is a RadicalxChange Production. Connect with RadicalxChange Foundation:WebsiteXBlueSkyYouTubeLinkedInDiscord

In this exciting episode, Matt Prewitt speaks with the inquisitive and captivating Christine Lemmer-Webber, who is CTO of the Spritely Institute and whose lifelong work focuses on advocating user freedom. This philosophical and technical discussion focuses on the many ways to look at ethical methods of building technology without usurping the free agency of others; a pluralistic view of examining technical design with different lenses. NOTE: This is a regular season episode of the RadicalxChange(s) podcast. Our mini season of "A New Era of Democracy" will continue following this episode.Things Mentioned: Spritely InstituteScheme Primer from Spritely InstituteRandy Farmer!FOSS and Crafts podcast (hosted by Christine Lemmer-Webber and Dr. Morgan Lemmer-Webber)The terms "context collapse" and "collapsed contexts" (the latter coined by technology and social media scholar danah boyd in the early 2000s).Neohabitat gameChristine gives a shout-out to Leilani Gilpin's paper on  accountability layers (re: machine learning systems)Donate to the Spritely Institute! Funders email contact@spritely.institute.Christine Lemmer-Webber (she/they) has devoted her life to advancing user freedom. She founded the MediaGoblin project because she believes that in order to allow people to express their agency, putting networking technology in the hands of users in a way that empowers them is fundamental. Realizing that the federated social web was fractured by a variety of incompatible protocols, she co-authored and shepherded ActivityPub's standardization, which as of 2020, is the most popular and widely deployed web-based decentralized social network protocol to date. Christine established the open-source Spritely Project to solve known problems in existing centralized and decentralized social media platforms and to re-imagine the way we build networked applications - work that now continues here at the Spritely Institute under her guidance as CTO.Matt Prewitt (he/him) is a lawyer, technologist, and writer. He is President of the RadicalxChange Foundation.Production CreditsProduced by G. Angela Corpus.Co-Produced and Audio Engineered by Aaron Benavides.Executive produced by G. Angela Corpus, Jennifer Morone, and Matt Prewitt.Intro/Outro music by MagnusMoone, “Wind in the Willows,” is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)This is a RadicalxChange Production. Connect with RadicalxChange Foundation:WebsiteXBlueSkyYouTubeLinkedInDiscord

This episode is part of a mini season of RadicalxChange(s) titled A New Era of Democracy.Lauded poet, author, and activist Anasuya Sengupta joins Matt Prewitt on this episode to discuss the culture of Wikipedia, the embedded power dynamics of digital technologies, and how plurality plays a role in empowering the global South's presence on the internet.Links:State of the Internet’s Languages Report | Whose Knowledge?State of the Internet’s Languages websiteAnasuya Sengupta (@anasuyashh) is Co-Founder and Co-Director of Whose Knowledge?, a global multilingual campaign to center the knowledge of marginalized communities (the minoritized majority of the world) online. She’s led initiatives across the global South, and internationally for over 20 years, to collectively create feminist presents and futures of love, justice, and liberation. She is committed to unpacking issues of power, privilege, and access, including her own as an anti-caste savarna woman. Anasuya is the former Chief Grantmaking Officer at the Wikimedia Foundation and former Regional Program Director at the Global Fund for Women. She was a 2017 Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow and received a 2018 Internet and Society award from the Oxford Internet Institute. She is on the Scholars’ Council for UCLA’s Center for Critical Internet Inquiry, and the advisory committee for MIT’s Center for Research on Equitable and Open Scholarship (CREOS).Matt Prewitt (@m_t_prewitt) is a lawyer, technologist, and writer. He is President of the RadicalxChange Foundation.CreditsOriginally produced by Aaron Benavides for 2021 RxC Annual Conference RxC TV program.Produced by G. Angela Corpus.Co-Produced and Audio Engineered by Aaron Benavides.Executive produced by G. Angela Corpus, Jennifer Morone, and Matt Prewitt.Intro/Outro music by MagnusMoone, “Wind in the Willows,” is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)This is a RadicalxChange Production. Connect with RadicalxChange Foundation:WebsiteXBlueSkyYouTubeLinkedInDiscord