This pilot episode of the Infinite Conversations podcast—featuring writer, actor, mystic, and activist Mark Binet—explores the difficult relationship between art, commerce, and activism—and asks to what degree contemporary artists are implicated in unjust systems and self-serving motives. Must an artist necessarily oppose power, or can she work with power—especially economic power—to serve noble ends? What might be these ends be? In other words:&nbsp;What are the ethics of aesthetics?



Topics Discussed:



The New Jim Crow

Integral Theory



Authors Mentioned:



Don DeLillo
Douglas Rushkoff
Jonathan Franzen
Michelle Alexander

Can You Be Naked Without a Map and Still Be Integral?

How far can we go in our thinking, our imagination, our love? This show is about transgressing the limits of our minds and dissolving the boundaries of our hearts. While exploring diverse topics in literature, philosophy, culture, social theory, politics, and spirituality, Infinite Conversations is ultimately a show about art as life, and life as art.