Welcome to ASOMOCO Unplugged, a new experimental podcast format in which I discuss some big things happening in the world of political economics alongside bits of juicy gossip from friends, all interspersed by musical compositions. On today’s episode I play a kalimba through an Ibanez TubeScreamer and talk about…
The influencer economy and algorithmic holidays
Propaganda on X, and the rise of Bluesky and Substack
A recent discussion on the potentially contradictory meanings of ‘anti-woke’
Ethnomusicology, and the anthropology of music
Marxism, David Graeber and SPECTRE
My friend Julio’s upcoming book on Abolishing the US dollar
Julio reporting in live from Thailand about quantum money and crypto kings
Why I’m planning to write about crypto again
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