The Unaccountability Pot Hole ft. Dan Davies

Ten Thousand Posts

Economist Dan Davies makes his debut on the pod this week, to talk about his latest book, "The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind". The book examines the social and political conditions of the last years of neoliberal politics, and how technology is used not to improve people's lives meaningfully, but to obscure power.
Dan explains his theories on 'accountability sinks' , and how it can be applied to both macroeconomics and internet culture. He then explains how an old theory of cybernetics and information distribution, first posed by the British theorist Stafford Beer, may hold a solution to the accountability crisis – and might be one of the only methods to combat the emerging far right.
----more----Purchase or order a copy of Dan's book, here: https://profilebooks.com/work/the-unaccountability-machine/
Read Dan's substack, here: https://backofmind.substack.com/

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