Episodes

  • Artist Rafaël Rozendaal on NFTs and how the art world is like a video game
    May 21 2021
    In the final episode of the Ideaspace's first season, digital artist Rafaël Rozendaal talks about being an early star of the NFT world, producing code-based work, and how to cultivate artist time.
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Author Eric Wargo on dreams, premonitions, and the long self
    May 14 2021
    Eric Wargo, author of "Time Loops" and "Precognitive Dreamwork and the Long Self," shares a mind-blowing hypothesis about dreams, consciousness, and the fundamental structure of our lives.
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    1 hr and 52 mins
  • Roundtable: What gets measured and what doesn't get measured
    May 7 2021

    PANEL:

    Ashley Amaya (Senior survey methodologist at Pew Research Center)

    Shannon Arvizu, Ph.D. (Sociologist and Founder at Epic Teams)

    Esther Dyson (Tech journalist, investor, and Founder of Wellville) 

    Morgan X’agatkeen Howard (Tlingit nation, Board of Directors for Sealaska) 

    Lianne Kerlin (Senior Researcher at the BBC)

    Irwin Kula (Rabbi, Director of the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership)

    Pauline Pigott (Senior consultant, Deloitte Sustainability France)

    Übeyd Ruff (Technology Transfer Officer at Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University, Editor at the Center for Islam and Global Affairs)

    Salome Viljoen (Soon-to-be Columbia University School of Law Academic Fellow and Lecturer)

    Alex Varley-Winter (UK-based investigative journalist)

    Marlon Wayne (Cofounder of Impulse)

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    1 hr and 43 mins
  • Extinction Rebellion cofounder Clare Farrell on moving from hope to action
    Apr 21 2021
    Clare Farrell is cofounder of Extinction Rebellion. In a fascinating conversation, Clare discusses the group’s strategy, getting arrested, and why it’s time to move from hope to action.
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    1 hr and 25 mins
  • Scientist Jeff Hammerbacher on what gets measured
    Apr 14 2021
    Jeff Hammerbacher is a scientist, software developer, cofounder of Cloudera and Related Sciences, and the founding manager of the Facebook Data team. In this conversation, his first public interview in years, Jeff discusses Facebook, data science, philosophy, epistemology, and whether corporations should live forever.
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    1 hr and 38 mins
  • Artist Hank Willis Thomas on playing infinite games
    Apr 6 2021
    A reflective, sensitive, and strikingly honest conversation with artist Hank Willis Thomas about his work, the impossibility of defining Black male identity, and how to operate as an infinite player inside a finite game
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    56 mins
  • The blessing and the curse
    Mar 31 2021
    Why we find it hard to be our real selves online, and why we've gone into Dark Forests of the internet to escape.
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    23 mins
  • Professor Mariana Mazzucato on how to create value
    Mar 23 2021
    Mariana Mazzucato is Professor of Economics and Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, and the author of Mission Economy, The Entrepreneurial State, and The Value of Everything. She joins the Ideaspace to discuss her work, theories of value, and how it feels to push so hard against the grain.
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    1 hr and 10 mins