Capitalism's greatest trick and the birth of cybernetics

"I think this is the beauty of using Marx, and what Marx has taught us today: everything has a history. And capitalism, specifically, its greatest trick, as a global system, is to sell itself as something that has been always here. And once established, there is no other way of organising society, other than on its terms."

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Nathalie Nahai

Nathalie Nahai is an author, keynote speaker and host of The Hive Podcast, a series that enquires into our relationship with one another, with technology and with the living world. With a diverse background in human behaviour, persuasive tech and the arts, Nathalie brings a unique vantage point from which to examine the complex challenges we face today.

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Camila Moreno

Camila’s is a researcher in Rio de Janeiro and her main study subject has been the interfaces between reasoning on climate change and the greening of capitalism. She is a working group member of Political Ecology of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO – Conselho Latinoamericano de Ciências Sociais) and the International Council of Red for a Latin America Transgenic Free (RALLT).

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