A Stormy Weather Introduction to Our Next Read: Heather Marsh's Binding Chaos
We recorded this episode with a storm radar glowing beside us, true summertime style! Join us as we joke our way through Michigan good-weather guilt and then pivot into a serious as in seriously thought-provoking new book that questions the political truths we’re taught to accept. Heather Marsh’s Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale, pushes us to ask why representative democracy so often turns into oligarchy and what technology changes about power, voice, and responsibili...
We recorded this episode with a storm radar glowing beside us, true summertime style!
Join us as we joke our way through Michigan good-weather guilt and then pivot into a serious as in seriously thought-provoking new book that questions the political truths we’re taught to accept.
Heather Marsh’s Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale, pushes us to ask why representative democracy so often turns into oligarchy and what technology changes about power, voice, and responsibility.
Here's the auto-generated highlights for those of you that dig a table of contents:
• Michigan daylight guilt and how screens keep kids inside
• Why weather is not small talk when it shapes daily life
• Moving from care-centered society toward political truisms
• Introducing Heather Marsh’s Binding Chaos and its core claims
• The argument that representative democracy trends toward oligarchy
• How majority rule can erase the most vulnerable
• Real-world examples of who gets to debate trans health care and women’s bodies
• Fear, algorithms, and distraction versus climate and disaster realities
• Heather Marsh’s background in programming, human rights, and open information work
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The Book(s): https://georgiebc.wordpress.com/binding-chaos/
See what others have said about "Binding Chaos":
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/07e8305b-c1f8-4dd6-8d70-364d108d9f0c
https://www.loomio.com/blog/2014/04/15/heather-marsh-government-as-mass-collaboration/
Binding Chaos on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/bindingchaos/
Envision This interview with Heather Marsh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAt6sWE18Bk
Credits
Season Two Recorded at Bob's Basement Studios, Michigan
Produced and edited by Sara Kaye Larson
Intro/Outro Music: ‘Shifting pt. 2 (instrumental)’ by Rie Daisies
Executive Producer Kate ML Rogers
Season One Recorded at Troubadour Studios in Lansing, MI (now in Traverse City, MI!)
Audio Engineer Corey DeRushia
Edited by Rie Daisies at Nighttime Girlfriend Studio
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