The Life Cycle
We have reached the third season of The Life Cycle, and this time around we want to bring the podcast right down to earth and get in deep with the things that matter to us all and our collective future. And what better way to do that than to have long, engaged conversations with some brilliant people? We talk food, we talk fertility, we talk about life online and we also visit the site of one of humanity’s most exciting endeavors: the mission to create nuclear fusion here on Earth, and harness the power of the Sun itself! Beginning with a chat with Klang CEO Mundi Vondi, this season promises to deepen our understanding of the life cycle, and just what it is we’re all doing here….
John Holten is a novelist and Klang Game’s Narrative Director. His novels include The Trains of Europe (2024), Oslo, Norway (2015) and The Readymades (2011). His writing has recently appeared in Welt am Sonntag, frieze, and The Stinging Fly.
Eva Kelley is a journalist and writer. Her writing focuses on contemporary culture and has appeared in publications such as 032c, ZEITMagazin, Interview Magazine, Hearts, and on SSENSE.com among others.
The Life Cycle
S3E3: ‘Ultra Processed Internet’ with Professor Lawrence Lessig
We all know that the Internet is ruled by forces vying for our attention, and that often they gain our attention through highly emotive means, in ways that can seem imperceptible until they add up to massive political upheavals or indeed the very questioning of a shared sense of the Truth. What’s more, these very forces are often massive corporations that act beyond the will of any one individual, they are attuned to shareholder value and maximizing growth and profit.
In this episode, we talk with friend of the podcast and advisor to Klang Games, Professor Lawrence Lessig, fresh from his TedX Talk in Berlin about how the Internet is on the cusp of reinventing our politics. But will it be for good or for bad, and what can online communities such as we’re building with SEED teach us?
Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. Before that, he was a professor at Stanford Law School, where he founded the school’s Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of Chicago.
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