Best David Bollier Podcasts (2025)

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Gustavo Salas of Cecosesola: Prioritizing Commoning in a World of Capitalist Markets 32:59

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Gustavo Salas describes the remarkable culture of commoning at Cecosesola, a federation of 30 rural and urban cooperatives in Venezuela that serves hundreds of thousands of people with fresh produce, healthcare, funerary services, and many other goods and services. Cecosesola's priority is to create spaces of trust, togetherness, and self-improveme…

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Eliott Edge: Magic and Mocktails 1:14:32

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Eliott Edge revisits his first book, Three Essays in Virtual Reality, while giving us a sneak preview of his thinking for his upcoming opus on Simulation theory. Edge is a critically-acclaimed author, artist, and international speaker. Edge has published and presented through The Institute of Ethics and Emerging Technologies, The University of Melb…

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Don’t Shoot the Messenger: AI is not the problem 23:40

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Each supposed AI “problem” stems from a lack of imaginative capacity from us. We are refusing the opportunity to rethink more fundamental assumptions about the systems under threat. Instead of acting like tech bros and reinforcing obsolete institutions in order to further entrench their extractive and inhumane monopolies, we can go deeper to discov…

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De Kai: Humans Get ONE Shot to Parent AI 1:12:09

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De Kai, the man who built the world’s first global translators and AI systems, says we better learn to parent our AI offspring before it’s too late. The author of Raising AI argues how we behave in front of AI’s matters more than whatever we tell them. Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth. Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://e…

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Vanessa Machado de Oliveira: Outgrowing Modernity 1:40:35

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Playing for Team Human today, LatinX professor, and the author of Hospicing Modernity as well as the upcoming book Outgrowing Modernity, my favorite civilizational doula, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira. Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth. Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/ Change Diapers: https://changediap…

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Erik Davis: AI, Weirdness, and Windows to Other Worlds 1:11:26

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Playing for Team Human today, the author of TechGnosis, High Weirdness, and the just released history of the LSD medium Blotter, esoteric scholar Erik Davis. https://techgnosis.com/ Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth. Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/ Change Diapers: https://changediapers.com/ Cobi Drye…

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Life is Not a Simulation: It's Magic 17:56

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Rushkoff explains the two ways we can understand magic in order to experience more of our embodied lives. Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth. Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/ Change Diapers: https://changediapers.com/ Cobi Dryer Sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/ Use the code “rush10” for 10% off Cob…

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Jack Kloppenburg on Sharing Seeds in a World of Proprietary Agriculture 45:07

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Jack Kloppenburg has been a leading figure in the fight to protect seed-sharing commons over the past forty years. It's a struggle that began in the 1980s as large ag-biotech companies have sought to make seeds privately owned and proprietary using all sorts of legal, technological, and market restrictions. Kloppenburg has been a professor at the U…

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Alex Kazemi: Live from The Strand 39:50

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Playing for Team Human today, Canadian pop artist, author, journalist, magician, and CEO of VOID Collective, Alex Kazemi. New Millennium Boyz: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/New-Millennium-Boyz/Alex-Kazemi/9798888459539 Alex’s website: https://alexkazemi.com/ Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth. Learn more about Everyone's E…

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David Bollier: The Commons Are Not a Tragedy 1:07:09

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Playing for Team Human today, activist, Blogger, and Director of the Reinventing the Commons Program at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics, David Bollier. Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth. Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/ Change Diapers: https://changediapers.com/ Cobi Dryer Sheets: https://co…

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Conner Habib: Live Up To Your Fool Potential 1:17:07

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Playing for Team Human today, novelist, spiritualist and host of the podcast Against Everyone, my friend Conner Habib. This conversation continues tomorrow on Conner's podcast, Against Everyone. Conner's Patreon: patreon.com/connerhabib Conner's Website: connerhabib.com Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth. Learn more about Everyone'…

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The Fascist Atmosphere 27:02

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Has digital technology turned us all into fascists? Rushkoff explores fascism as an environment in which we live, rather than the specific ideology of one "side." He shows how technology, psychedelics, and business are all "non-specific amplifiers," yielding different results depending on what we bring to them. He asks us to consider what would hap…

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Mitch Horowitz 1:12:35

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Playing for Team Human today, occult historian, author, and esotericist Mitch Horowitz, sharing the formulas that give us all access to Practical Magic. Mitch Horowitz: https://www.mitchhorowitz.com/ Practical Magic: https://www.mitchhorowitz.com/books Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth. Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://e…

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Tom Llewellyn on the Many, Innovative Spheres of Organized Sharing 37:38

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Tom Llewellyn, Executive Director of Shareable, describes the countless varieties of organized sharing that it supports through its journalism, organizing, and partnerships. In recent years, Shareable has helped amplify the work of mutual aid networks, expand the Libraries of Things concept, championed new forms of urban commoning, and develop new …

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Edward Ongweso Jr 1:17:57

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Edward Ongweso Jr., Senior Researcher at Security in Context and co-host of This Machine Kills, journeys with us into the political economy of technology and the deep crazy that is informing the collapse of the still viable, if problematic, civilization. Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth. Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https:/…

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Radha Agrawal 1:14:10

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Radha Agrawal, Co-Founder of Daybreaker and author of Belong, helps us break from our online-induced community confusion and learn to find true connectedness again. About Radha Agrawal Radha Agrawal is a dynamic entrepreneur, Co-founder, CEO, and Chief Community Architect of Daybreaker, a global wellness movement with nearly half a million members …

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Universal Weirdness 27:20

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Douglas Rushkoff recognizes the high weirdness of our circumstances, and the universal strange characterizing this moment in our shared history. He also offers four recommendations for us to take agency over our situation. Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth. Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/ Change Diap…

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Commoning within Arts Collectives, Episode #61 53:23

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What are some of the distinctive ways that precarious arts collectives share resources, support each other, and make art? This episode hears from artists' collectives in three countries to learn how they organize their commoning practices. The three collectives are the "-" (dash) collective in Iran (with an artist who goes by the pseudonym "M" for …

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Jonathan Larsen 57:54

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Jonathan Larsen, Founder of The Fucking News, proves there's still a path forward for the fourth estate. You can view the full video conversation: https://youtu.be/b8M4zkhtTZg Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth. Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/ Change Diapers: https://changediapers.com/ Cobi Dryer Shee…

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Molly Crabapple 1:07:58

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Artist and writer Molly Crabapple helps us retrieve the purpose of the artist - particularly in hard times. About Molly Crabapple: Molly Crabapple is an artist and writer whose inspirations include Toulouse Lautrec, Diego Rivera and Goya’s ‘The Disasters of War.’ She is the co-author of Brothers of the Gun, an illustrated collaboration with Syrian …

David Bollier Podcasts

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Frontiers of Commoning, with David Bollier

The Schumacher Center for a New Economics, David Bollier

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Team Human

Douglas Rushkoff

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This Is What Democracy Looks Like

Democracy Policy Network

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Asymptote Podcast

Asymptote Podcast

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Gustavo Salas of Cecosesola: Prioritizing Commoning in a World of Capitalist Markets 32:59

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Eliott Edge: Magic and Mocktails 1:14:32

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Don’t Shoot the Messenger: AI is not the problem 23:40

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De Kai: Humans Get ONE Shot to Parent AI 1:12:09

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Vanessa Machado de Oliveira: Outgrowing Modernity 1:40:35

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Erik Davis: AI, Weirdness, and Windows to Other Worlds 1:11:26

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Life is Not a Simulation: It's Magic 17:56

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Jack Kloppenburg on Sharing Seeds in a World of Proprietary Agriculture 45:07

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Alex Kazemi: Live from The Strand 39:50

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David Bollier: The Commons Are Not a Tragedy 1:07:09

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Conner Habib: Live Up To Your Fool Potential 1:17:07

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The Fascist Atmosphere 27:02

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Mitch Horowitz 1:12:35

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Tom Llewellyn on the Many, Innovative Spheres of Organized Sharing 37:38

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Edward Ongweso Jr 1:17:57

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Radha Agrawal 1:14:10

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Universal Weirdness 27:20

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Commoning within Arts Collectives, Episode #61 53:23

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Jonathan Larsen 57:54

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Molly Crabapple 1:07:58