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Sarah indulges Max's controversial take that...
- Students are workers
- Use of ChatGPT and generative AI is the refusal of work
- Workers can and should reclaim the means of study as part of a class war
THOUGHTSNACK is an occasional podcast from Sense & Solidarity where Sarah Stein Lubrano and Max Haiven explore the big ideas that make and break our world.
Sense & Solidarity is a platform where people who want to radically change the world can learn together and build individual and collective capacity.
http://senseandsolidarity.org/
Sarah Stein Lubrano is a writer and researcher who specializes in the social psychology of politics. She is the author of Don't Talk About Politics: How to Change 21st-Century Minds (2025).
http://www.sarahsteinlubrano.com
Max Haiven is an researcher and educator who uses writing, teaching, games, podcasts and other techniques for the radical imagination. His latest book is Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire (2022).
http://maxhaiven.com/
Music by Dan Gouly.
- Students are workers
- Use of ChatGPT and generative AI is the refusal of work
- Workers can and should reclaim the means of study as part of a class war
THOUGHTSNACK is an occasional podcast from Sense & Solidarity where Sarah Stein Lubrano and Max Haiven explore the big ideas that make and break our world.
Sense & Solidarity is a platform where people who want to radically change the world can learn together and build individual and collective capacity.
http://senseandsolidarity.org/
Sarah Stein Lubrano is a writer and researcher who specializes in the social psychology of politics. She is the author of Don't Talk About Politics: How to Change 21st-Century Minds (2025).
http://www.sarahsteinlubrano.com
Max Haiven is an researcher and educator who uses writing, teaching, games, podcasts and other techniques for the radical imagination. His latest book is Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire (2022).
http://maxhaiven.com/
Music by Dan Gouly.
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