David Harvey doesn't focus on subprime loans or lending. Instead he looks at the internal contradictions of capitalism itself.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Sheri Booker was terrified when she first started working at the Wylie Funeral Home at the age of 15. She was still grieving the death of a beloved aunt, and took the job in the hope of finding a sense of closure. After preparing her first client — a suicide victim with a gunshot wound to the head — something changed. As morbid as it may sound, she was hooked.
Artist Neil Harbisson was born greyscale colorblind. He says he liked seeing only in shades of black and white, but he still wanted to experience color. So he developed an implant that would help him hear colors well beyond the normal human spectrum, from ultraviolet to infrareds.
In this extended conversation, Neil talks about the art he makes with his new sense, and about the challenges of living cyborg.
Writer and activist Astra Taylor calls for a Jubilee to buy and abolish debt.
David Whyte tells Anne Strainchamps there’s always a way to find meaning at work.
Graphic novelist Chris Ware talks with Anne Strainchamps about the hard work of making comic books. Ware is the author of "Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth."
If the mall-as-temple turns you off, you may be ready for Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping.
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