EP93 Brent Cooper on Critique, Consensus & Politics

Brent Cooper talks to Jim about the meta-crisis, critique, politics, GameB, monetary theory, climate policy, meta/post-modernism, and much more... Brent Cooper talks to Jim about his academic & intellectual background, the under-appreciation of sociology, the meta-crisis, useful critique, time-scales & approaches to solving the meta-crisis, Jim & Brent's political perspectives, GameB values, monetary theory, smuggling bad ideas, the cost of war, climate change & the Green New Deal, mapping & utilizing metamodernism, the diversity of postmodernism, the danger of cherry-picking from systems, the value in disagreement, and more. Episode Transcript Mentions & Recommendations Brent's Blog JRS: EP90 Joshua Epstein on Agent-Based Modeling JRS: EP73 James Lindsay on Cynical Theories Chris Kavanagh Decoding the Gurus Podcast Embrace the Void Podcast Sam Hoadley-Brill Convergence for Consensus Building Jim's presentation on Dividend Money Andrés Bernal JRS: EP84 William Perry & Tom Collina on The Nuclear Button Mapping Metamodernism for Collective Intelligence Hanzi JRS episodes JRS: EP67 Tomas Björkman on The Nordic Secret JRS: EP89 Lene Rachel Andersen on Metamodernity Brent Cooper is an independent political sociologist and metamodern philosopher who runs The Abs-Tract Organization, a nonprofit think tank and media project that specializes in abstraction, a mental, social, physical, and material process that defines the expanding complexity of society.