NFTs with Nathan Schneider and Cory Doctorow
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🗓️ 24 November 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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In this episode we're talking NFTs. If you don't know what this latest phenomenon in the crypto, blockchain, asset speculation world is, if you've heard of NFTs but wanna know more, or if you wanna hear why NFTs might be leading us to an (even more) dystopian future — we've got you covered. We've brought on two guests to help unpack the NFT craze: Nathan Schneider is an Assistant Professor of Media studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, journalist, founder of the Media Enterprise Design Lab, and author most recently of Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition that Is Shaping the Next Economy, published by Nation Books. Cory Doctorow is an author, activist, journalist and blogger, editor of Pluralistic dot net, former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and author of the novels Attack Surface and Walkaway, as well as nonfiction books like How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism.
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| 0:55.2 | It might sound extreme to compare, you know, people selling art on the internet to |
| 1:05.7 | like the colonization of the Americas, but in some ways the concept is the same, this concept |
| 1:10.5 | of enclosure. And this is something that is the kind of origin point of capitalism is this, what |
| 1:17.0 | Mark's called primitive accumulation, the grabbing of resources that enables the system to seem |
| 1:23.4 | like it's functioning, the constant expansion of what is available to the market. And in history, |
| 1:31.9 | this has been a process that involves incredible violence. And I don't think we know what |
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| 1:58.7 | I'm Dela Duncan and I'm Robert Raymond. In this episode, we're going to be talking about |
| 2:03.7 | NFTs. If you don't know what this latest phenomenon is in the crypto blockchain asset speculation world |
| 2:11.4 | or if you've heard of NFTs but you want to know more or if you just want to hear why NFTs |
| 2:16.9 | might be leading us to an even more dystopian future, we've got you covered. We have two guests |
| 2:23.1 | in this episode to help us unpack the NFT craze. Nathan Schneider, who you'll hear from in the |
| 2:29.4 | first half of the episode, is an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Colorado |
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