Pan-Optic Podcast

Pan-Optic

Pan-Optic is a podcast featuring conversations between a critical theorist and a management consultant, cohosts (and longtime friends) Juan Pablo Melo and Jason Margaritis respectively. They met during a monotonous work assignment at a Washington-based government contractor in 2013. Jason and Juan Pablo sought refuge in daily extended work breaks musing about the limits of knowledge, the organizations of power, the regrets of Thrasymachus, and so on. Later, Jason received his MA in Government and MBA from Johns Hopkins University. Today, he works as a management consultant specializing in strategic communications and org change. Jason is particularly interested in affecting stakeholder...

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Pan-Optic Podcast

Episodes (22)

Oct 25, 2020 Reinventing Capitalism—Really? Hayek’s Theory of Prices, Technology, and the Yelp Mafia
Sep 2, 2020 #17 - Radicalization + Ideology (P3) - Notions of the Good & Strategic Communications
Aug 11, 2020 The Protestant Ethic, Instrumentalizing Everything, and Devotion to Work

Pan-Optic Podcast

Oct 25, 2020
1 hour
65 MB

Today, Jason and Juan Pablo discuss political theorist Evgeny Morozov’s article, “Digital Socialism? The Calculation Debate in the Age of Big Data” (NLR, 2019, https://newleftreview.org/issues/II116/articles/evgeny-morozov-digital-socialism). In this article, Morozov critiques the idea that technology will somehow reinvent capitalism. He argues that technology-enabled capitalism (technology within the logic of markets) is STILL capitalism and thus it does not escape challenges produced or compounded by capitalism. However, what if technology enablers could be applied beyond the realm of capitalism? Morozov posits that the public sphere could apply modern technologies (e.g. social media, knowledge management platforms, advanc...

Pan-Optic Podcast

Reinventing Capitalism—Really? Hayek’s Theory of Prices, Technology, and the Yelp Mafia

Pan-Optic

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