This is AspyFound.

Hello and welcome to ACFM, the home of the weird left.

My name's Keir Milbin, and I'm joined as usual by my very good friend Nadia Idle.

Hello.

And my other very good friend, Jeremy Gilbert.

Hello.

And today we're discussing disruption.

Why are we discussing disruption this month? Nadia?

Context-wise, obviously it's bonfire night and the US elections, both disruptive in different ways in November.

But I think I'm mostly interested in disruption in the sense of how it interplays with people's expectations

or needs or wants or desires in everyday life. I guess what I mean by that is the perception

that the worst thing that can possibly happen to somebody's day or to somebody's experience of transport as they go about commuting to work

or in terms of what is expected as part of their day or their life.

This idea that the worst thing and the most agitating thing, the most frustrating thing,

the thing that causes the most anger in people is that it can be disrupted,

I think is a really

interesting idea and one to be contextualized. Yeah, the irritation around disruption, I guess,

is a way to think about it. And what about you, Jeremy? Well, I really wanted to explore

this relationship or non-relationship between the idea of disruption and

a disruptive entrepreneurial innovation is this extremely positive term in the discourse of Silicon

Valley and Silicon Valley so of economics are on the one hand and on the other hand the

idea that somehow causing disruption in the context of disruptive protest is like the worst thing you can possibly do, hence extremely stiff jail sentences being handed out for people protesting against carbon capitalism in Britain in the past few weeks and months.

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