The Left Page - Episode 68 - Homo Deus: Selling Terrible History & Speculation as Prophecy. W/ Justin from LibraryPunk
Episode description
Hello everyone!!
It is time for rage and anger.
This episode Frank and Leon, joined by Justin from LibraryPunk, dive into the extremely popular Yuval Noah Harari, to talk about his second very popular book: "Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow" from 2015.
We dig into this self-absorbed narrative and argument that, while trying to retell most or all human history, can never escape capitalism. Even worse, one that can only see history via lenses of technological progress and development. We bring out the true technofascist nature of Harari's views and book, while sharing the pain of having read terrible historical work and even worse speculation, peddled as absolute certain prophecy.
(We should note, all the prophecies have already been proved as unreal or untrue)
As thanks and appreciation, check out Justin over on Library Punk!
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Intro Music: Gymnopédie Nº1, Erik Satie, 1888
Outro Music: Downtime, Vistas, Miracle of Sound, 2014 -> Check out his Bandcamp! https://miracleofsound.bandcamp.com/
And here are our several recommendations for this episode!
Colin Garvey's Review of Homo Deus for ICON
Janelle Shane's "You Look Like a Thing and I love You" book about AI
Video Games Are The Worst Thing On Earth on MovieBob
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