Is Black Friday a Spell?
The term 'abracadabra' means 'I create as I speak', but what can this teach us about Black Friday?
By Brett Scott
The term 'abracadabra' means 'I create as I speak', but what can this teach us about Black Friday?
David Graeber was a brilliant economic anthropologist who fought against the dogmas of mainstream economics, especially through books like Debt: The First 5000 Years. In this video I explain his perspective on the three moral logics of economic life - everyday communism, reciprocity and hierarchy
It's an exciting time to be building AI in 2025, but if you're an AI engineer, investor or worker, don't be naive about how the artificial intelligence tools you build will be weaponized by states, corporations and bosses.
It's an exciting time to be building AI in 2025, but don't be naive about how the artificial intelligence tools will be weaponized by states, corporations and bosses
In this video I explain how corporations work using Lego, and then use that to explain the broader system of corporate capitalism that we all live under