Economic Space Agency

New @greenpillnet special season out now! 🌐 The first episode kicks off a new Greenpill mini-series on Economic Media. We’re exploring how protocols, ledgers, AI agents and computational systems are becoming the media through which economic coordination is recorded, interpreted and governed. This guest season is by @econaut6 , Jorge López, and Jonathan Beller of the @ecospaceagency. They are exploring what changes if the economy is itself a medium: how screens and platforms turned meaning-making into value extraction, why accounting has a grammar of its own, and why blockchain distributed computation without distributing economic agency. Who gets to define an asset, recognize a contribution or change a network's rules, and what would it take for care, community priorities and long-excluded people to count? Along the way they discuss whether the economy is a medium at all, or an ecology of media, and close on why the series is a laboratory: an experimental, interdisciplinary space for building economic literacy and new practices. Episode Timestamps 00:00 – Introducing the Economic Media Laboratory and its hosts 01:02 – Post-AGI economics 02:47 – What if the economy is a medium? 03:58 – Jonathan Beller: from industrial labor to attention and screen-based extraction 05:20 – Jorge López: technology ownership, authority, and economic power 07:05 – Technology, social struggle, and the extraction of everyday life 10:30 – Computational networks, expressive fluency, and the distribution of power 12:03 – LLMs make programmability accessible to more people 14:03 – AI, digital colonialism, and contested technological futures 15:49 – AI capabilities versus economic intelligence: what economic media make possible 18:23 – Meaning-making and the hidden economic protocol layer 20:02 – Accounting and media: how grammars organize meaning 23:00 – Economic literacy and the asymmetry between users and corporations 24:47 – Accounting as a network of records and mutually recognized changes 26:01 – Accounting's syntax, semantics, and unexplored expressivity 27:59 – From shared economic memory to capitalism's growth rule 31:51 – Mapping capital's source code: intervention, extraction, and economic rule-making 34:46 – Paper-era constraints and the compression of value into money 37:56 – Accounting's efficiency, historical violence, and excluded realities 40:15 – From bookkeeping to blockchain: what changed and what persisted 43:08 – Bitcoin's limited expressivity, capital markets, and social goals 47:52 – Distributed computation versus distributed economic protocols 48:50 – Currencies as bets on futures: funding alternative possibilities 50:28 – What does economic agency mean? 52:26 – Redefining assets and recognizing care and plural values 54:05 – Social media rewards and control over what a network recognizes 58:35 – A disagreement: economy as a medium or a media ecology? 01:00:12 – Changing economic agents, events, resources, and their relations 01:02:22 – Recognition, sovereignty, and communities defining their own value 01:04:18 – Why a laboratory: experimentation, practices, and economic literacy 01:07:14 – Xerox PARC as a model for exploring a new medium 01:08:59 – Interdisciplinary inquiry and listening beyond disciplinary biases 01:10:16 – Disagreement, partial knowledge, and the fields needed for future inquiry 01:14:16 – Translation into code, economic literacy, and agency from the edges 01:15:16 – Closing and continuing in episode two

NEW @greenpillnet ep just dropped 🔥 @econaut6 (co-founder @ecospaceagency) + co-authors Dick Bryan & Jorge Lopez unpack their mind-bending book *Protocols for Post-Capitalist Expression* Key takeaways: 💸 Capital *is* a protocol 🆕 Post-capitalism is possible via new economic grammars 🌐 Programmable money gives us tools for a better economy If econ + coordination + code = your jam, this one's for you 👇 🌐 Timestamps 00:00 – Intro: Welcome to the new Greenpill season — exploring tech, coordination & Protopia 00:40 – Introducing guest Akseli Virtanen and co-authors Dick Bryan & Jorge Lopez 02:00 – What is Protocols for Post-Capitalist Expression about? 03:20 – Computational networks as new economic media 04:00 – The problem: today’s systems run on outdated economic logic 05:10 – Why we need new economic languages to express ecological and social value 06:20 – Viewing the economy as a networking protocol 07:00 – Capital as a coordination protocol, not a natural law 08:40 – How protocol politics define power and participation 09:40 – Why political change must happen at the level of infrastructure 11:20 – Understanding capital as an accounting protocol 12:10 – The interdisciplinary process of co-authoring the book 13:30 – Why protocols are the new unit of economic intervention 14:50 – How distributed protocols can re-engineer value systems 16:00 – Multiple logics of measurement: beyond price and profit 17:40 – How new metrics of “use value” redefine what counts as surplus 19:20 – Defining post-capitalism: new grammars for value creation 20:00 – Living “in the spread” between capitalism and post-capitalism 21:30 – The shift from exchange value to use value 23:00 – Distributed economic agency: moving power to the network edge 25:30 – Defining the Economic Space Agency — what it means to co-author economies 27:30 – Surplus logic: from profit to utility 29:00 – Designing programmable economic spaces for collective value 30:50 – How post-capitalism can interoperate with existing markets 33:10 – Why public goods need new accounting categories 35:00 – Coordination beyond the state: self-sustaining networks of value 37:00 – The liquidity problem: bootstrapping new economic systems 38:30 – Designing a bridge between capital and post-capital 40:20 – Respecting both systems’ internal logics for sustainable coexistence 42:30 – Innovation: the bridge as a design breakthrough 44:00 – Formalizing economics in programmable code 45:40 – How distributed systems expand what’s economically possible 47:30 – How to get involved: joining EXA’s newsletter & Economic Media Lab 48:30 – Final reflections: multiple metrics of value and economic imagination 49:10 – Closing remarks: keep building, experimenting, and coordinating