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Show Notes
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…
* Stone Soup Theory of billionaires
* 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
* Grace Blakeley on the US election
* 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
* Upcoming articles
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