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Podcast: The Technosocial Institute
Episode: On Debt, Sacrifice and the Plague with Daniel Fraga
Description: This is the second episode of an ongoing series with Daniel Fraga, and is an experimental episode that begins with Owen and Daniel playing a glass bead game. The glass bead game is a psychotechnology designed to explore a specified topic in a way that creates space for profound insight. We play on the topic of debt, which then leads into a discussion of: debt, sacred and material; sacrifice and what it enables; the tensions of interplaying potentiality and actuality that characterise life; mythic interpretations of the coronavirus - the plague gods, the lord of the flies, the existential...