Animations

Watch videos from our award-winning RSA Animates and RSA Shorts animation series.

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RSA Animate - Choice

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30 Jun 2011

Professor Renata 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?
RSA Animate - The Internet in Society

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22 Mar 2011

Does the internet actually inhibit, not encourage democracy? Evgeny Morozov presents an alternative take on 'cyber-utopianism' - the seductive idea that the internet plays a largely emancipatory role in global politics.
RSA Animate - Language as a Window into Human Nature

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17 Feb 2011

Steven Pinker shows us how the mind turns the finite building blocks of language into infinite meanings.
RSA Animate - Changing Paradigms

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14 Oct 2010

RSA Animate taken from a speech given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education expert and recipient of the RSA Benjamin Franklin award.
RSA Animate - 21st Century Enlightenment

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08 Sep 2010

Matthew Taylor explores the meaning of 21st century enlightenment, how the idea might help us meet the challenges we face today.
RSA Animate - First as Tragedy, Then as Farce

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04 Aug 2010

In this short RSA Animate, renowned philosopher Slavoj Zizek investigates the surprising ethical implications of charitable giving.
RSA Animate - Crisis of Capitalism

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28 Jun 2010

Marxist geographer David Harvey asks if it is time to look beyond capitalism, towards a new social order that would allow us to live within a responsible, just and humane system.
RSA Animate - The Secret Powers of Time

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24 May 2010

In this ten-minute RSA Animate, Professor Philip Zimbardo reveals how our individual perspective on time affects our work, health and well-being.
RSA Animate - The Empathic Civilisation

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10 May 2010

In this lively animation, Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development and our society.
RSA Animate - Drive

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01 Apr 2010

This lively RSA Animate, adapted from Dan Pink's talk at the RSA, illustrates the hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home and in the workplace.