Edge City
by Edge City
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Norman Ohler: Blitzed, Tripped, and How Drugs Shaped History
Norman Ohler: Blitzed, Tripped, and How Drugs Shaped History
About this podcast
Welcome to the Edge City Podcast, where we explore ideas and projects pushing the boundaries of tech, science, and culture. You'll hear about experimental communities, scientific breakthroughs, and social experiments. By the end of each episode, you'll have a clear understanding of an important idea that's set to shape our future.
Edge City creates popup villages that bring together people working at the frontiers of tech, science, and society across the globe. These serve as living labs for experimentation and innovation, all dedicated to accelerating human flourishing.
Episodes
- Norman Ohler: Blitzed, Tripped, and How Drugs Shaped History · 1 h 24 min · Season 1 Episode 11In this fireside chat at Edge City Patagonia with Timour Kosters, author Norman Ohler traces how psychoactive substances shaped world history. From Nazi Germany’s use of…
- The Story & Impact of Edge City in 5 min - Timour Kosters @ the Network State Conference 2025 · 5 min · Season 1 Episode 10Edge City co-founder Timour Kosters presented at the Network State Conference 2025 to share what we’ve built so far and where we’re headed next. Two years in, here’s what we’ve…
- Meet the Residency Leads of Edge City Patagonia · 47 min · Season 1 Episode 9At Edge City Patagonia (Oct 18–Nov 15), residencies form the backbone of the village. Each brings together 5–50 people around a theme. In this roundtable conversation, we hear…
- Edge City Patagonia: A Popup Village for Human Flourishing | Bankless Interview · 11 min · Season 1 Episode 8Edge City gathers frontier minds to prototype new ways of living and building together. From October 18 to November 15, 2025 we're hosting our flagship popup village in the…
- Audrey Tang - Plurality and Digital Democracy | A Fireside Chat at Edge Esmeralda · 1 h 3 min · Season 1 Episode 7Audrey Tang (Taiwan’s first Digital Minister) sits down for a fireside chat with Edge City’s Timour Kosters to talk about digital democracy, the philosophy of plurality, civic…
- Network Societies, Civic Tech & Democracy - Glen Weyl & Timour Kosters at Edge City Austin · 1 h 21 min · Season 1 Episode 6Glen Weyl builds new social technologies for collective decision-making, plural coordination, and democratic innovation. He leads the Plurality Institute and co-founded…
- Kevin Owocki & Rena O'Brien: From Gitcoin to Allo - The Case for Onchain Capital Coordination · 1 h 2 min · Season 1 Episode 5Kevin Owocki is the founder of Gitcoin and co-founder of Allo Capital, focused on regenerative crypto economics. Rena O'Brien is a web3 strategist and DAO builder with…
- Why You Should Build the Magically Weird: The Long Journey Residency at Edge Esmeralda · 30 min · Season 1 Episode 4In this conversation, we discuss why building the absurd before it becomes consensus is crucial for a flourishing future. Our guests are Lee Jacobs, Cyan Banister, Arielle…
- Brink Lindsey: Human Flourishing, the Triple Crisis, and Societal Experiments · 1 h 9 min · Season 1 Episode 3What does it mean to lead a flourishing life, and how can we create a flourishing society? In this episode, Brink Lindsey dives deep into these fundamental questions, exploring…
- Matt Prewitt: Social Technology, Community Currencies, and RadicalxChange · 1 h 26 min · Season 1 Episode 2We chat with Matt Prewitt from RadicalxChange about rethinking communities through intentional design and social technology. The conversation explores various types of…
- Devon Zuegel & Janine Leger: Building Edge Esmeralda, popup villages, and new towns · 45 min · Season 1 Episode 1In this inaugural episode of the Edge City Podcast, host Timour Kosters sits down with Devon Zuegel and Janine Leger to explore Edge Esmeralda, a pop-up village experiment they…
