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Crisis in Perception
Crisis in Perception is a long-form educational podcast examining how we misunderstand the world around us. Using books as entry points, each episode explores history, psychology, economics, science, and power structures to reveal how systems actually work—and why our perceptions so often fail. Clear, evidence-based, and non-tribal. Crisis in Perception uses AI-assisted tools for narration and synthesis in service of long-form educational analysis.
Episodes
Crisis in PerceptionSunrise on the Reaping — Trauma, Spectacle, and Authoritarian Control (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne…
Crisis in PerceptionA Theory of Socialism and Capitalism — Property, Coercion, and the State (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores A Theory of Socialism and…
Crisis in PerceptionMarx’s Concept of Man — Alienation, Labor, and Human Emancipation (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Marx’s Concept of Man by Erich…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Chomsky–Foucault Debate — Human Nature, Justice, and Power (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores The Chomsky–Foucault Debate: On…
Crisis in PerceptionGhosts of My Life — Hauntology and the Cancelled Future (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Mark Fisher’s Ghosts of My Life as…
Crisis in PerceptionPrison Notebooks — Culture, Hegemony, and Power (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Sickness Unto Death — Despair and the Modern Self (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores The Sickness Unto Death by Søren…
Crisis in PerceptionProject Hail Mary — Systems, Science, and Existential Survival (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir as a…
Crisis in PerceptionThe New Me — Alienation and Precarious Labor (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores The New Me by Halle Butler as a…
Crisis in PerceptionFight Club — Identity Collapse in Consumer Society (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk as a…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Sociology Book — Systems, Identity, and Modern Life (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores The Sociology Book by DK as a…
Crisis in PerceptionBlade Runner — Culture, Memory, and the Future We Inherited (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores The Blade Runner Experience, edited…
Crisis in Perception11/22/63 — History, Causality, and Unintended Consequences (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores 11/22/63 by Stephen King as a…
Crisis in PerceptionDon’t Think of an Elephant! — Framing, Morals, and Political Perception (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Don’t Think of an Elephant! by…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Martian — Science, Coordination, and Collective Resilience (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores The Martian by Andy Weir as a…
Crisis in PerceptionKindred — Slavery, Survival, and Structural Inheritance (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Kindred by Octavia E. Butler as a…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Activists’ Handbook — Participation, Power, and Democratic Access (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores The Activists’ Handbook by Aidan…
Crisis in PerceptionDenialism — Fear, Mistrust, and the Rejection of Science (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Denialism by Michael Specter as a…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Hunger Games Trilogy — Power, Media, and Control (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode analyzes The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins…
Crisis in PerceptionRegenesis — Agriculture, Land Use, and Ecological Collapse (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Regenesis by George Monbiot as a…
Crisis in PerceptionThe World According to Physics — Laws, Scale, and Scientific Reality (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores The World According to Physics by…
Crisis in PerceptionHuman Universe — Meaning, Knowledge, and Cosmic Scale (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Human Universe by Brian Cox and…
Crisis in PerceptionTo Have and Have Not — Scarcity, Crime, and Economic Exclusion (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores To Have and Have Not by Ernest…
Crisis in PerceptionFor Whom the Bell Tolls — Ideology, War, and Moral Pressure (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest…
Crisis in PerceptionA Farewell to Arms — War, Bureaucracy, and Institutional Failure (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores A Farewell to Arms by Ernest…
Crisis in PerceptionYou, Happier — Brain Health and Emotional Resilience (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores You, Happier by Dr. Daniel G. Amen…
Crisis in PerceptionJessica Knurick — Nutrition Policy, Evidence, and Institutional Filters (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This Creators in Context episode explores the work of Dr. Jessica Knurick…
Crisis in PerceptionWhy Does E = mc²? — Mass, Energy, and the Structure of Reality (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Why Does E = mc²? by Brian Cox and…
Crisis in PerceptionSomething Deeply Hidden — Quantum Worlds and Emergent Reality (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Something Deeply Hidden by Sean…
Crisis in PerceptionTaxing the Rich — Fairness, War, and the Decline of High Taxes (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Taxing the Rich by Kenneth Scheve…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Art of Rhetoric — Persuasion as a System (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores The Art of Rhetoric by Aristotle as…
Crisis in PerceptionAdults in the Room — Democracy vs. Technocratic Power (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Adults in the Room by Yanis…
Crisis in PerceptionAbolition Democracy — Prisons, Empire, and Structural Violence (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Abolition Democracy by Angela Y…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Zero Marginal Cost Society — Technology, Abundance, and the Limits of Markets (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores The Zero Marginal Cost Society by…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Half Has Never Been Told — Slavery, Violence, and Capitalist Growth (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores The Half Has Never Been Told by…
Crisis in PerceptionFoundations of Economics — Ideology, Models, and Economic “Common Sense” (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Foundations of Economics: A…
Crisis in PerceptionPostcapitalist Desire — Capitalism, Desire, and the Limits of Imagination (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Postcapitalist Desire by Mark…
Crisis in PerceptionEurope After the Minotaur — Surplus, Austerity, and Structural Failure (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Europe After the Minotaur by Yanis…
Crisis in PerceptionSaving Capitalism — Power, Rules, and Economic Inequality (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Saving Capitalism by Robert B…
Crisis in PerceptionAI Empires, Power, and Political Economy — Grace Blakeley in Context (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode is part of the Creators in Context series…
Crisis in PerceptionPillar of Fire — Civil Rights, Institutions, and the Mechanics of Change (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Pillar of Fire by Taylor Branch as…
Crisis in PerceptionNew Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind — Language, Biology, and Mental Structure (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores New Horizons in the Study of…
Crisis in PerceptionBright-Sided — Optimism, Belief, and Institutional Blindness (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Bright-Sided by Barbara Ehrenreich…
Crisis in PerceptionHuckleberry Finn — Slavery, Conscience, and Moral Conditioning (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Courage to Be Disliked — Freedom Without Approval (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores The Courage to Be Disliked as a…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Body Keeps the Score — Trauma, Biology, and Survival (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores The Body Keeps the Score as a…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Gilded Age — Corruption, Credit, and False Progress (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores The Gilded Age by Mark Twain and…
Crisis in PerceptionRed Scare — Fear, Surveillance, and Civil Liberties (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Red Scare by Clay Risen as a…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Truths We Hold — Institutions, Identity, and Democracy (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores The Truths We Hold: An American…
Crisis in PerceptionMisbelief — Why False Ideas Feel True (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Misbelief by Dan Ariely as a…
Crisis in PerceptionChurchill & Orwell — Truth, Power, and Democratic Survival (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for…
Crisis in PerceptionStolen — Financialisation and the Critique of Political Economy (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Stolen by Grace Blakeley, a…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Science of Language — Cognition, Structure, and Human Understanding (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores The Science of Language by Noam…
Crisis in PerceptionCultish — Language, Belonging, and Psychological Control (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Cultish by Amanda Montell as a…
Crisis in PerceptionWhat Kind of Creatures Are We? — Cognition, Language, and Human Limits (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores What Kind of Creatures Are We? by…
Crisis in PerceptionThe 48 Laws of Power — Reputation, Incentives, and Hidden Influence (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores The 48 Laws of Power by Robert…
Crisis in PerceptionHow Democracies Die — Norm Erosion and Legal Authoritarianism (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores How Democracies Die by Steven…
Crisis in PerceptionHope in the Dark — Uncertainty, Activism, and Collective Power (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Autobiography of Malcolm X — Race, Power, and Political Transformation (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores The Autobiography of Malcolm X by…
Crisis in PerceptionHumankind — Rethinking Human Nature as a Systems Question (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Humankind: A Hopeful History by…