Pan-Optic

Podcast: Relating theories of communication, power, and technology to practical institutional issues, and everyday life. Views expressed are our own.

[Clif @goodintheorypod]

Socrates comes up with wholesome lies to teach the kids. Lies with less fighting and sex and crying. Do boring stories make for better people?

Part 4 of Plato’s Republic out now! Listen, review, share, subscribe:
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Cited article is here: https://t.co/svI4REBuOq

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#18 - Reinventing Capitalism—Really? Hayek’s Theory of Prices, Technology, and the Yelp Mafia. New episode out now. We discuss theorist Evgeny Morozov’s article, “Digital Socialism? The Calculation Debate in the Age of Big Data” (2019, https://t.co/LTdSXF17Gm…igital-socialism).

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[Clif @goodintheorypod]

Is the Socratic method a way to get to the truth or to get what you want? @panopticpod looks at Socrates and Thrasymachus' approach to communication, and asks which one of them we should take with us into business negotiations.

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Today’s episode is Pan-Optic’s first ever "personal case study" response, where we react to listener Sep’s account of working in big tech and grappling with feeling intellectually and morally limited by his work… https://t.co/KgtxwXIdOu

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A reminder to check out our recently released episode, part 2 of 3, on #radicalization and #ideology, where we use #socialtheory to discuss the problem of grounding value and notions of the good in a complex society.

https://t.co/1z6YZ9Ay4b

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We are saddened to learn that philosopher of technology Bernard Stiegler passed away yesterday. From bank robber to philosopher, he is a model all kids can aspire to. We discussed some of his ideas in episode 3 of Pan-Optic. #BernardStiegler

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Two beards, hard pontification, and perhaps some topical insights... We apply the works of sociologist Emile Durkheim and communication theorist George Herbert Mead to tease out a general framework for ideology,… https://t.co/kj1G8kZDNw

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Interesting article on China's growth-model in Africa, perhaps a topic of discussion for a future episode building upon our discussion of automation and system-over-capacity as these relate to worldwide economic stagnation. #Africa #China #economics #development

[Ilias Alami @IliasAlami]

China’s Infrastructure-Heavy Model for African Growth Is Failing @Diplomat_APAC https://t.co/gjlQa1KBCJ

[Rukmini Callimachi @rcallimachi]

For 7 years, I covered dictators and strongmen in West and Central Africa. The No. 1 move of an incumbent who thinks he’s going to lose an upcoming election, is to delay the ballot citing security concerns or else technical issues - “oops, ballots couldn’t be printed in time!”

[Consulting Comedy @consultingcmdy]

Consultants waiting for someone to ask how many hours they worked last week

[Pan-Optic @Panopticpod]

We're running late on Part 2 of our Radicalization & Ideology series (https://t.co/bs8TvQHf3g). User error... Plus side: plenty of other podcasts to hold you over a few extra days!

Which other interdisciplinary pods do you recommend??

We like: @goodintheorypod @verybadwizards

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We just covered Evgeny Morozov's article on social coordination, new #markets, non-markets, and technical #knowledge systems / tools. Episode coming in a few weeks. We debate whether knowledge alone can beget motivation to solve urgent social problems.

https://t.co/svI4REBuOq

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When you’re unprepared to record a podcast... #philosophy #consulting #podcasting #podcastlife

[Jason Karl Margaritis @JKarlMargaritis]

"Promise of bonuses" may have increased personal risk tolerance of workers. Misaligned incentives: sell more meat with less resources / costs at expense of most direct stakeholders -- your employees.

[Very Bad Wizards @verybadwizards]

Coming next week @peez and @tamler dive deep into the Harper's letter and Bari Weiss' resignation from the Times

just kidding

we actually talk about why yelling 'FUCK' increases pain tolerance and the classic paper "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person."

[Pan-Optic @Panopticpod]

In this clip, Jason discusses the mechanics of framing related to Aristotle’s principles of persuasion. Effective influence requires strategic, targeted story telling. Quintan Wiktorowicz’s radicalization framework… https://t.co/r5UtADTPCj

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Pan-Optic is pleased to present our three-part series on radicalization and ideology. In the knowledge age and especially in the COVID world, institutions are pressured to change the way they operate and do business… https://t.co/YvGl4UOLsm

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Should firms hire philosophers? Does it make good business sense? How does the business case compare to the moral case? Do they conflict?

Casual relevant philoso-talk to distract from dark times. Listen at your leisure.

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