Ideas at the House
by Sydney Opera House
Talks and conversations from the Sydney Opera House featuring the world’s greatest minds and culture creators.
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Episodes
Richard Heinberg - The End of Growth (Festival of Dangerous Ideas)
1h 4m · PublishedOur economy is based on a model of constant growth - growth in production, growth in consumption, and growth in population. Economic growth has provided rising standards of living in the West, and has seen millions in China and India lifted out of poverty. But this model was disrupted in many countries by the global financial crisis. Will things settle down with growth resuming, or will our economies bump up against a wall of finite resources? And if they do, what will this mean the global balance of power?
Richard Heinberg is an American journalist, educator, and author of 10 books, including 'The End of Growth.'
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Mona Eltahawy - Hypocrisy Rhymes With Democracy
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Michael Pollan - On How To Eat
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Sam Harris - The Delusion of Free Will (Festival of Dangerous Ideas)
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Alan Ball - Vampires, Death and the Mundane
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Peter Singer - Ethical Issues in an Online World
1h 4m · Published“It doesn't take remarkable insight to suggest that the defining idea of the coming decade will be the Internet,” says Peter Singer. The compression of time and space enabled by digital technologies is overhauling our traditional understanding of everything from community, identity, sexuality, and information accessibility. While the technology has brought huge advantages, there are still ethical questions that need to be addressed around piracy, censorship, and the place of outlets such as Wikileaks.
Once labelled the most dangerous man in the world, Singer is one of the world's leading philosophers and author of books such as 'Animal Liberation' and 'Wired for War.'
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Jonathan Safran Foer - What We Are and What We Eat (Festival of Dangerous Ideas)
1h 6m · PublishedOur lust for cheap animal protein and the intensification of factory farming make the torture and degradation of living creatures an integral part of our diet. To keep on enjoying those hamburgers and chicken wings, we lie to ourselves about what is happening in our names. Even as we claim the superiority of the human to the animal, we enjoy the prerogatives of the supreme predator and remain willfully blind to their consequences. What does being human mean under these circumstances?
Jonathan Safran Foer is an author best known for his novels 'Everything Is Illuminated' and 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close' and his latest nonfiction work, 'Eating Animals.'
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Slavoj Žižek - Let Us Be Realists and Demand the Impossible (Festival of Dangerous Ideas)
57m · PublishedIn the late 90's, political theorists, economists and politicians were talking confidently about the end of history and the undisputed triumph of liberal "democratic" capitalism. Communism was written off as dead and buried. But after 9/11, the GFC, the Arab Spring, and the protests spreading over Europe, the ideological gloss of capitalism may be beginning to fade. If the alternative is Putin's muscular Tsarism or China's authoritarian capitalism, then renovating the idea of communism may matter profoundly.
For philosophical rock star and brilliant iconoclast Slavoj Žižek, it is something that we should demand, no matter how impossible it seems. The only true utopia today is that things can go on indefinitely the way they are.
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Jason Silva - We Are the Gods Now (Festival of Dangerous Ideas)
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Tim Harford - Make More Mistakes (Festival of Dangerous Ideas)
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Ideas at the House has 460 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 448:27:09. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on November 27th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 25th, 2024 06:40.