“Are we really as altruistic as we might like to think? In the RSA’s new animation series, we put into pictures Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner’s case for reevaluating the evidence.”
RSA Animate – Drive
“Daniel Pink provides concrete examples of how intrinsic motivation functions both at home and in the workplace.”
RSA Animate – Empathic Civilisation
“Bestselling author, political adviser and social and ethical prophet Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development and our society.”
RSA Animate – 21st century enlightenment
“Matthew Taylor explores the meaning of 21st century enlightenment, how the idea might help us meet the challenges we face today, and the role that can be played by organisations such as the RSA.”
RSA Animate – The Divided Brain
“Renowned psychiatrist and writer Iain McGilchrist explains how our ‘divided brain’ has profoundly altered human behaviour, culture and society.”
RSA Animate – Language as a Window into Human Nature
“Steven Pinker shows us how the mind turns the finite building blocks of language into infinite meanings.”
RSA Animate – Crisis of Capitalism
“Radical sociologist David Harvey asks if it is time to look beyond capitalism, towards a new social order that would allow us to live within a system that could be responsible, just and humane”.
RSA Animate – Choice
“Fusing sociology, psychoanalysis and philosophy, Professor Renata Salecl shows that individual choice is rarely based on a simple rational decision with a predictable outcome. Salecl explores the paralysing anxiety and dissatisfaction surrounding limitless choice. Does the freedom to be the architects of our own lives actually hinder rather than help us? Does our preoccupation with choosing and consuming actually obstruct social change?
RSA Animate – The Internet in Society: Empowering and Censoring Citizen?
“Does the internet actually inhibit, not encourage democracy? Author and journalist Evgeny Morozov presents an alternative take on ‘cyber-utopianism’ – the seductive idea that the internet plays a largely emancipatory role in global politics.”