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Trash Magic podcast

Trash Magic podcast

Written by: TRASH ROBOT
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Trash magic is a philosophy and way of being centered on building a world of plenty from the waste streams of consumer society. I am TRASH ROBOT and I will be having conversations with people about trash and how to make things from trash with experts from all walks of life. I will also be reading from my own work, creating an audio alternative to my written books. We aim to abolish all mining by 2050 and to build a world where everyone gets everything they need for a good life, for free, from things we build from trash and things we grow, using only local renewable energy.TRASH ROBOT Philosophy Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Reading from chapter 4 of Geometron Magic: Magic Books
    Jan 26 2023

    This is a self-replicating book about self-replicating media including books.  Join the swarm! Sell books you get for free using the People's Printer! Write the Book of The Street to create a system to destroy Silicon Valley.  

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    22 mins
  • Reading from chapter 10 of Geometron Magic: Icon Magic
    Jan 19 2023

    Money is a language, and a form of magic.  In Icon Magic we present an alternative language to money in which we can express the interactions of a replication economy instead of a consumption economy.  

    We aim to create a philosophical language for describing the things we wish to replicate from trash.  If we represent any "thing" in the most abstract sense with a self-replicating(both in physical and digital media) icon using the language of Geometron, we can then represent any collection of "things" as a collection of these icons.  To make a replication economy which replaces the monetary economy we then carefully construct these sets in whatever way eases this replication process the most.  

    At the end I also discuss how the system has evolved over the last year and why I believe we're much closer to being able to make this work and scaling it up now to a year ago.  I'll be posting links to the updated versions of the software mentioned here soon, under "iconmagic".

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    24 mins
  • Reading from Chapter 13(last chapter!) of Geometron Magic: THE PATH OF GEOMETRON!
    Jan 11 2023

    This is about the PATH OF GEOMETRON, by which people who share this philosophy, who have the desire to build a world of freely replicating things entirely from trash and the living Earth can dedicate our lives to this task and scale up to all of humanity. This is the last chapter of the book.  


    I'm skipping around in my readings at random, focusing on calls to action, to try to use the book as a catalyst for replicating the other elements of the set and getting more people to join and build and share.  

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    16 mins
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