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Laura Basu

Laura Basu

Academic and writer, Visiting Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London, and former openDemocracy economics editor; author of Media Amnesia and host of the Loveconomics Substack.

May 14, 2026

21:43
So how to make that transition so that love kind of broadens.
21:48
Yeah.
21:49
Well, I think firstly about solidarity.
21:51
I think solidarity is a really big part of love, you know, love in this sense of, you know, a tool of collective liberation.
22:00
I think, yeah, terms like solidarity, interdependence as well, like a lot of people who kind of look at love from the spiritual angle see love as, uh, you know, f- a way of expressing being conne- everybody being interconnected, every being, being interconnected and, uh, and interdependent.
22:20
So I think solidarity, interdependence are sort of really, and sort of you being, being part of one, being part of a whole, one whole, I think are all kind of important terms, uh, within this sort of sense of love.
22:34
And yeah, and, uh, i- and I think what you say, David, about, you know, s- thinking about it in terms of our own personal networks, I think that's important and I think, you know, if you think about love as a practice, you can practice love within your own personal networks.
27:48
Yeah.

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