The Technosocial Institute
75 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsDigital humanity. Who are we? Where are we going? And what are the machines driving us? Daniel Fraga and Owen Cox delve into the fringes and subcultures of the internet, exploring exodus, ontological design, technoshamanism, the digital elite, memetic warfare and more.
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Being Men 2023 with Robert Glover, Alexander Bard, John Aigner and Rowan Andrews
May 17, 2023 15:01 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBThis episode was recorded ahead of the European Men's Leadership Summit and the MANN SEIN gathering in Berlin in June. We discuss the challenges of modern masculinity, fathers, mentorship, the art of seduction, men's groups, the history of men's work, and much more. We will all be attending the gathering on June 17-18 to continue and develop these conversations. If you are interested in hanging out or joining the conversation, then check out the event at https://mannsein.org/en/ Robert...
On Urbit with Jurij Jukic and Liam Fitzgerald
May 08, 2023 11:04 - 1 hour - 64.5 MBIn this conversation we talk about Urbit, its core philosophy, the technological problems it seeks to address, and its community. We also reflect on Curtis Yarvin's thought, the influence of Jorge Luis Borges on Urbit, and more besides. Find Jurij on Urbit at ~dilryd-mopreg
The Process of Hominization: The Girard Sessions #3
April 27, 2023 08:18 - 1 hour - 101 MBThis is the third installment of our series engaging in a chapter by chapter analysis of René Girard's book "Things Hidden since the Foundation of the World", along with Girardian expert and AI professor Thomas Hamelryck. In this episode we dive into Chapter 3 of the book, "The Process of Hominization". Check out Daniel Fraga's book Ontological Design: Subject is Project, available on Amazon now: https://www.amazon.com/Ontological-Design-Subject-Daniel-Fraga/dp/B09VWMV9Y8 And check out the...
Psychedelic Superpowers with Alexander Bard, Shauheen Etminan and Zachary Adama
April 27, 2023 08:11 - 1 hour - 96.1 MBIn this conversation, Owen Cox speaks to Alexander Bard, Shauheen Etminan and Zachary Adama about psychedelics, shamanism, the state of culture, and the thesis that Mexico, Iran and Peru are the three superpowers of plant medicine. Shauheen Etminan https://linktr.ee/shauheenetminan Zachary Adama https://zacharyadama.com/ Alexander Bard http://futuricamedia.com/ Check out Daniel Fraga's book Ontological Design: Subject is Project, available on Amazon now: https://www.amazon.com/Ontologi...
Wagner, Nietzsche, Metamodernism and the Dark Renaissance with Brendan Graham Dempsey
February 16, 2022 10:15 - 1 hour - 104 MBBrendan Graham Dempsey joins us to talk about the explosive creative relationship between Wagner and Nietzsche, and debate the approaches to art and mythology that appear in metamodern and dark renaissance thought. Brendan can be found here https://www.brendangrahamdempsey.com/
Raskolnikov's Choice with O.G. Rose
January 24, 2022 14:40 - 2 hours - 118 MBDaniel Garner, one half of O.G. Rose, joins us to talk about ethics, Dostoevsky, walking a path between extremes, and much more besides. Find his work here: https://www.og-rose.com/
Announcing The Art of Being a Man (Starts 16th Jan) with Cadell Last
December 28, 2021 13:32 - 1 hour - 99.9 MBCadell Last and Owen Cox are launching a new project in January in collaboration with Maniphesto, called The Art of Being a Man. https://maniphestocore.com/art-of-being-a-man/ We have both been doing men's work together for some time, as well as exploring questions of contemporary culture and masculinity on our YouTube channels and in other creative work (for instance, Cadell's book Sex, Masculinity, God, coauthored with Daniel Dick and Kevin Orosz). We wanted to create a type of men'...
The Meaning Crisis is Dead - Technosocial End of Yearer with Alexander Bard and Cadell Last
December 16, 2021 15:24 - 1 hour - 85.9 MBCadell Last and Alexander Bard join us to dissect the past two years and think about future projects, antagony buttons and activism. Check out Cadell's new platform for courses and ideas, including courses on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and The Art of Being a Man https://www.philosophyportal.online/ Alexander's latest book https://www.amazon.co.uk/Digital-Libido-violence-network-society/dp/9188869237/ref=sr_1_1?adgrpid=1294125396667647&hvadid=80882890106232&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocph...
How to Have Sex: Round 2 with Alexa Vartman
September 14, 2021 10:24 - 1 hour - 88.3 MBAlexa Vartman is a tantra teacher and the founder of The New Tantra. We discuss all things tantra, androgyny, orgasms, dangers on the spiritual path, and criticisms of The New Tantra. Maniphesto Media Academy: https://maniphestocore.com/maniphesto-media-academy/ TNT workshops, private sessions & online courses: https://thenewtantra.com Start practising tantra at home for free: http://21daychallenge.com Alexa's book: http://50misconceptionsofsex.com Support Technosocia...
Networked Power and Digital Conflict with John Robb
August 20, 2021 11:30 - 1 hour - 105 MBJohn Robb is an author, military analyst, entrepreneur, and writes the monthly Global Guerilla report. In this conversation we discuss new networks of power, conflict and warfare in the information age, the emergence of the tech elite, citizens' data rights, the concept of The Long Night, blockchain and networked consensus building. The Global Guerillas report: https://www.patreon.com/johnrobb Maniphesto Media Academy: https://maniphestocore.com/maniphesto-media-academy/ Support Te...
Ecology, Ecognizance and the Environment with Edwin Bywater
July 22, 2021 16:10 - 2 hours - 126 MBEdwin Bywater is an engineer and author. In this conversation, we explore ideas from Edwin's book, different types of ecological consciousness, planetary desire, capitalism and attentionalism, critiques of the environmentalist movement and global power dynamics and networks. Support Technosocial https://www.patreon.com/technosocial Music by Salvatore Schiano http://www.salvatoreschiano.com/ Also on https://anchor.fm/technosocial
The Rise and Fall of the Universe with Alexander Ebert, Alexander Elung and Alexander Bard
June 04, 2021 08:26 - 2 hours - 152 MBThe Alexandrian Trinity join us for an epic enquiry into metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics and more. Alexander Ebert is an American singer-songwriter, composer and philosopher. Alexander Elung is a storyteller and philosopher. Alexander Bard is a music producer, TV star and philosopher. In this conversation we touch on emergence vectortTheory, transcendental emergentism, theories of the prima materia of the universe - spacetime, space, hypertime, compression, implicate and explicate orders...
The Eternal and The Outside with Jean-Philippe Marceau
May 08, 2021 13:34 - 1 hour - 61.5 MBJean-Philippe Marceau is an editor of the Symbolic World blog and a YouTuber. His work explores symbolism and uniting religious ideas with scientific thinking. In this conversation, we debate and discuss ways of approaching truth and universality, Christian metaphysics and Hegelian dialectics, freedom and necessity, Christ's resurrection, and religion as pragmatic instrument. Find J.P here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZzlvx0HHYiPOJTEOU399WA/featured https://thesymbolicworld.com/...
Masculinity, Being and Technology with Ole Bjerg
April 20, 2021 18:35 - 1 hour - 79.3 MBOle Bjerg is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Economics at Copenhagen Business School and the author of The Meaning of Being A Man. In this conversation we discuss Heidegger and the existential task of becoming a man, "Das Mann" and the new movement of gender moralism, entering into relationship with nature as it expresses in subjectivity, cryptocurrencies and paradigms of money, Being and technology, fatherhood and abortion. Find Ole: https://www.themeaningofbeingaman.com/ ...
How to Follow Your Inner Daemon with Peter Limberg
April 16, 2021 08:14 - 1 hour - 94.1 MBPeter Limberg is the founder and steward of The Stoa. Peter is a friend and an earnest, balanced sensemaker in today's chaotic cultural world. As steward of the Stoa, Peter is a respected cultural commentator, having had conversations with a vast and diverse range of powerful and insightful thinkers. He also coined the term "memetic tribes" in his celebrated medium article "Memetic Tribes and Culture War 2.0", and is a practicioner of stoicism. In this free-flowing conversation Limberg...
Religion, Desire and Machine Learning with Thomas Hamelryck
March 21, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 195 MBThomas Hamelryck is a Lecturer and Researcher at the Bioinformatics Centre at the University of Copenhagen Biocenter. His academic research interests revolve around Machine learning, Bayesian statistics, Protein Structure Prediction, Probabilistic Programming, Deep Learning. In this conversation, we discuss the topics of Mimetic Desire and René Girard, Nietzche, Religion and mass culture, the Internet, the spiritual practices of Tantra, Sutra, and Tribal Dynamics in the Internet age. ...
How to Have Sex with Paris Cecilia Jayer and Timo Jansen
March 10, 2021 12:24 - 1 hour - 80 MBParis Cecilia Jayer and Timo Jansen are teachers and practitioners of tantra. In this conversation we discuss The New Tantra and their workshops, anal and vaginal de-armouring, crossdressing, practicing sex without orgasms, polyamory and jealousy, physical techniques for working with sex, sex education, NoFap, sexual shame, porn and internet culture, playing with masculine and feminine polarities and having confidence when flirting. Find out more: TNT workshops, private sessions & ...
Living in the Wilderness, Facing Endings with Dylan Walker
February 15, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 76.9 MBDylan Walker is the original co-founder of Technosocial. He spent 9 months living in the Canadian wilderness during the coronavirus pandemic of 2020. We discuss Dylan's 9 months in the wilderness, technology, agriculture, ideology and civilisation, universal basic income and the Silicon Valley elite, immortality and end of history thinking, history as contraction and expansion, all-encompassing institutions like modern medicine and education, modernity's allergy to suffering, and returning...
Embodied Cognition and Psychosomatic Research with Sebastian Östlind
February 08, 2021 10:19 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBSebastian Östlind is a psychosomatic researcher. In this conversation we discuss embodied cognition, and how neurophysiology reflects the decisions we make in life; incentive structures in academic institutions; sensocratic data collection and integrating darker parts of the self. Support Technosocial https://www.patreon.com/technosocial Music by Salvatore Schiano http://www.salvatoreschiano.com/ Also on https://anchor.fm/technosocial
Desire After Capital with Cadell Last and Raven Connolly
January 11, 2021 19:22 - 1 hour - 107 MBRaven Connolly is a thinker and facilitator on the Stoa. Cadell Last is a philosopher and YouTuber. In this episode we explore: hyperstition; the notion of "Late Capitalism", and whether it is still meaningful to speak of capitalist societal structure; the new problems of desire created by sharing economies; using reason to work through the paradoxes of bodies, and reason's limits; what reproduces itself in a post-capitalist culture; dying a good death; defeat and the present historical m...
Is the Intellectual Underground Politically Naive? with Brent Cooper
January 11, 2021 11:11 - 1 hour - 63.6 MBBrent Cooper is a Political Sociologist, behind the The Abs-Tract Organization (TATO), a Metamodern Think Tank producing political theory and critique. In this podcast we explore critiques of both Ontological Design, as explored in Technosocial by ourselves, as well as of some of the broader ideas around Metamodernism. We speak of critique, of progressivism and about activism - through political action as well as design interventions. Correction: The Centre Pompidou in Paris is not a...
The Trap of Perfect Images: Sex, Death and Creation with Cadell Last
January 02, 2021 22:59 - 2 hours - 140 MBCadell Last is a philosopher and YouTuber. In this conversation we explore: why Cadell wrote a book on sex, masculinity and God; the paradox between evolutionary theory and religious civilisation; capitalism, the collapse of religion and the explosion of sexuality; the political struggle for liberty and sex; sex as a battleground; the interplay between identity and the real of the sex drive; noopolitics and competing meme complexes; how identity constellates around memes, and how these mem...
Drama and Dissociation: How Stories Possess Us with Jasun Horsley
December 15, 2020 11:47 - 2 hours - 111 MBJasun Horsley is an author of a number of books on Hollywood and secret societies, and host of The Liminalist podcast. In this conversation we discuss dissociation and movies; trauma and the nervous system; parenthood and behavioral imprinting; disassociation and fostering a docile population; child sacrifice and paedophilia and its ubiquity in society; secret societies; uninstalling social programming; memes, people, groups and superorganisms; our inheritance of the technology of drama,...
Operative Traditions and Sacred Craft with Miguel A. Fernandez
December 09, 2020 14:31 - 1 hour - 104 MBMiguel A. Fernandez is the author of the Operative Traditions book series and an industrial engineer. In this conversation we explore: how tools and creative disciplines shape human beings; how literacy has replaced the intelligence of other senses; the way a craftsman's nervous system fuses with his tools; Eastern traditions, why Westerners seek them, and how they have been coopted by capitalism; how ancient cosmologies cannot easily be applied in cybernetic or industrial cultures; the he...
Cyberdelia Fantastica with Carl Hayden Smith
December 08, 2020 13:14 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MBCarl Hayden Smith is Director of the Learning Technology Research Centre (LTRC) and Principal Research Fellow at Ravensbourne University London. His research interests include Embodied Cognition, Spatial Literacy, Perceptual Technology and Hyperhumanism. His other projects involve Context Engineering, Umwelt Hacking, Natural Media, Sensory Augmentation, Memory Palaces, Artificial Senses and Body Hacking. In this conversation we discuss context engineering, ontological design, the brave new ...
Noomachia, the Internet and the End of Modernity with Aleksandr Dugin
December 08, 2020 12:28 - 1 hour - 80.5 MBIn this episode, we interview Professor Aleksandr Gelyevich Dugin, Russian political analyst and strategist, often called the most dangerous philosopher in the world. Duginism's influence on contemporary Russian thought, geopolitics and contemporary political discourse is widely recognized. Dugin is a traditionalist, a critic of liberalism and of modernity, and a proponent of Eurasianism. He is also a prominent student of Heidegger, of the Kaballah and a Platonist; and in this interview we...
Sex, Women and Evolution with Raven Connolly
November 24, 2020 13:09 - 2 hours - 125 MBRaven Connolly is a thinker and facilitator on the Stoa. In this conversation we discuss: sexual reproduction and game theory; the Egg as a philosophical concept; technology and nature; pathos, creativity and the distinction between the complex and complicated; anarchs; design; contemporary ideology and purging the "impurities" of the past; androgyny, phallus and virtual phallus; female sexuality and pathos; Onlyfans and porn; motherhood and infanticide; the collapse of civilizations; how ...
Scouts of the Noosphere Vol 3. Glastonbury and Hyperstition
November 03, 2020 12:36 - 1 hour - 56.8 MBScouts of the Noosphere is a weekly show where Daniel Fraga and Owen Cox explore strange forms from the depths of the internet. This episode is about Glastonbury, Hippies, magic, super/hyper-stition, and reality bubbles. Support Technosocial https://www.patreon.com/technosocial Also on https://anchor.fm/technosocial Music by Salvatore Schiano http://www.salvatoreschiano.com/
Digital Geopolitics with Dan Faggella
November 02, 2020 19:38 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBDan Faggella is Founder and Head of Research at Emerj and advises the UN, Interpol and global enterprises on Artificial Intelligence. He is also a former MMA coach and fighter. In this conversation we discuss: Lotus eaters and world eaters; digital dominance and tools for today's Napoleons; advertising and future online business models; virtual reality and novel experience; political struggle in digital space and the battle for the computational substrate; the permeability of the Western...
Scouts of the Noosphere Vol 2. Work, Organisation and Cult
October 21, 2020 09:01 - 53 minutes - 48.8 MBScouts of the Noosphere is a weekly show where Daniel Fraga and Owen Cox explore strange forms from the depths of the internet. This episode is about the recent history and future of human productive organisation. Support Technosocial https://www.patreon.com/technosocial Also on https://anchor.fm/technosocial Music by Salvatore Schiano http://www.salvatoreschiano.com/
Capitalism, Anarchs and Talking to the Outside with Meta-Nomad
October 14, 2020 10:06 - 1 hour - 72.3 MBMeta-Nomad is the host of Hermitix podcast and a writer. In this episode we discuss: trends that the mainstream academy follows - and that it ignores; the popularity of Marxist materialism and the obscurity of mysticism and occultism; subjective and objective ways of knowing; precognitive dreams; technocapitalism as an intelligence; collapse theory and accelerationism; genius and how ideas have people; opening self to the outside; how fantasies are immanentized as fictions, which then inspi...
Scouts of the Noosphere Vol 1. Egregores and Superorganisms
October 10, 2020 11:47 - 1 hour - 64.6 MBScouts of the Noosphere is a weekly show where Daniel Fraga and Owen Cox explore strange forms from the depths of the internet. This episode is about egregores and memetic superorganisms. Support Technosocial https://www.patreon.com/technosocial Also on https://anchor.fm/technosocial Music by Salvatore Schiano http://www.salvatoreschiano.com/
The World as Will and Meme with MemeAnalysis (Chris Gabriel)
October 08, 2020 09:08 - 1 hour - 71.7 MBChris Gabriel is the visionary behind MemeAnalysis, a YouTube channel producing in depth analysis of popular internet memes, trends, and philosophies. In this conversation we explore: meme magic and symbols; digital culture, schizophrenia, and how the internet brings out the bizarre from the collective unconscious; archaic archetypes in contemporary memes; memetic lineages; Dionysian and Apollonian drives; Hassan-i-Sabbah and the idea that everything is permitted; the personal developme...
A New Art Aristocracy with Rachel Haywire
September 27, 2020 16:27 - 1 hour - 61.4 MBRachel Haywire is a Cultural Futurist who recently founded Elixir Salon. She is the author of The New Art Right, and an entrepreneur with a love for VR and transgressive art. She posts frequently to her Substack, where she now holds her own private events. We discuss: Elixir Salons, Rachel's digital art parties, and her history of throwing events; subcultural creativity; embracing chaos while avoiding nihilism; the idea of transcending the center; aristocratic values and gravitas in artist...
Operative Frameworks: Designing, Self, Society and the Machine with Moritz Bierling
September 21, 2020 15:00 - 2 hours - 117 MBMoritz Bierling is an independent researcher, writer, programmer, and open source operative. In this conversation we discuss: communities and practices for developing virtue and non-exploitative relationships with self and world; faith and choice; Peter Thiel's idea of Zero to One; becoming a Zero to One person; capitalism and alienation; operative frameworks for engineering and interfacing with reality; currencies as the grammars of cultural exchange; designing new currencies to enable new...
Artificial Intelligence and Power with Dan Faggella
September 03, 2020 15:00 - 55 minutes - 51.4 MBDan Faggella is Founder and Head of Research at Emerj and advises the UN, Interpol and global enterprises on Artificial Intelligence. He is also a former MMA coach and fighter. In this conversation we discuss: AI, social media and filter bubble creation; monopolies and power concentration in Big Tech; weaponisation of social media and AI, and the difficulties in defining what can be classed as weaponisation; whether digital media culture is fragmenting nations; autocults; blind spots in pu...
Heavy Metal and Postmodern Shamanism with David Burke
August 05, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 61.5 MBDavid Burke is a writer and critic. In this conversation, we explore: heavy metal as a critical response to late capitalism and industrial society; the idea of the original metalheads as dark hippies, and what metalheads have evolved into; shamanism, esotericism and occultism; lyrical explorations of death, mortality and hedonism; black metal, terrorism, fascism and the aesthetics of death and occult iconography that often inform these movements; whether metal has a coherent political or t...
Capitalism and the Antichrist with Justin Murphy
July 31, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 60.6 MBJustin Murphy is a political scientist and online intellectual and entrepreneur. In this conversation we explore: Balancing compassion and analytical coldness, and how an excessive focus on compassion hinders the contemporary radical left; how "woke capital" manipulates this aversion to analytical coldness; accelerationism and how the global market order functions as an AI; the impossibility of computing the end goals of this "AI", and how it maps onto the religious notion of God; the Chri...
Liminal Crisis and Psychological Wellbeing with Gregg Henriques
July 25, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 58.2 MBGregg Henriques is a clinical psychologist and professor at The University of Madison, Virginia. This is part 2 of a 2 part discussion, in which we explore: the notion that we are living through a liminal crisis and existential responses to them - depression, anxiety, following cult leaders, and transcendent pathways; the fragmentation and polarisation of American society; the value and limits of scientific thinking; regulating sex and conflict; Gregg's CALM MO approach to psychological mind...
Justification, Religion and the Origins of Culture with Gregg Henriques
July 15, 2020 15:00 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MBGregg Henriques is a clinical psychologist and professor at The University of Madison, Virginia. This is part 1 of a 2 part discussion, in which we explore: Gregg's idea of justification systems theory and the formation of culture; the development of the human abilities to ask "why?", to share and conceal our inner states and motivations, and to explain our position in the universe; the four emergence points of Gregg's theory, matter, life, mind and culture; the origin of religion and temple...
Autocults, Algorithms and Alchemy with Alexander Bard and Patrick Ryan
July 01, 2020 15:00 - 2 hours - 113 MBAlexander Bard is a philosopher and former pop star and music producer. Patrick Ryan is an AI warfare specialist. In this conversation, we explore: a diagnosis of the state and near future of technosociety, talking about AIs, pathos and the rise of a new elite; the faulty logic of the brain/body split and the idea of uploading consciousness to machines; digital religion and religion-as-technology; mimesis and crazy wisdom; the end of the human race; tribes and the shamanic caste; the infanti...
War for Eternity: The Philosophy of the New Far Right with Benjamin Teitelbaum
June 03, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 41.7 MBBenjamin Teitelbaum is an ethnographer of contemporary radical nationalism in Europe, a performer of Scandinavian folk music, and Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology and International Affairs at the University of Colorado, Boulder. In this conversation we discuss: the philosophy of traditionalism underpinning the contemporary far-right and its leading figures, from Julius Evola and Rene Guenon to Alexandr Dugin and Steve Bannon; the key principles of this philosophy: a view of cyclical t...
Cyberdelics and the Posthuman Frontier with Carl H Smith
June 01, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBCarl H Smith is a Cyberdelics Researcher, Director of the Learning Technology Research Centre (LTRC) and Principal Research Fellow at Ravensbourne University. In this conversation we explore: Technologies for achieving altered states; Carl’s work on cyberdelics, using technology to design and access these states; the overlap of Carl’s work on context engineering and Daniel’s on ontological design; the loss of common ground in informational society, and the dangers of ontological design tec...
On Debt, Sacrifice and the Plague with Daniel Fraga
May 22, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 47.5 MBThis is the second episode of an ongoing series with Daniel Fraga, and is an experimental episode that begins with Owen and Daniel playing a glass bead game. The glass bead game is a psychotechnology designed to explore a specified topic in a way that creates space for profound insight. We play on the topic of debt, which then leads into a discussion of: debt, sacred and material; sacrifice and what it enables; the tensions of interplaying potentiality and actuality that characterise life; m...
War for Eternity: The Philosophy of the New Far Right with Benjamin Teitelbaum
May 13, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBBenjamin Teitelbaum is an ethnographer of contemporary radical nationalism in Europe, a performer of Scandinavian folk music, and Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology and International Affairs at the University of Colorado, Boulder. In this conversation we discuss: the philosophy of traditionalism underpinning the contemporary far-right and its leading figures, from Julius Evola and Rene Guenon to Alexandr Dugin and Steve Bannon; the key principles of this philosophy: a view of cyclical t...
Unifying Psychology and the Fifth Emergence Point with Gregg Henriques
May 01, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 67.8 MBGregg Henriques, professor of psychology at University of Madison, Virginia. We discussed: the flaws with the discipline of psychology and lack of consensus on what it is that it studies; Gregg's unified theory, which attempts to pull together the disparate strands of the discipline; the four points of emergent complexity - matter, life, mind and culture - and how each corresponds to a new means of information processing; how artificial intelligence and network technology bring us close to a...
On Ontological Design with Daniel Fraga
April 03, 2020 21:00 - 47 minutes - 32.5 MBThis is the first episode of an ongoing Technosocial series with Daniel Fraga. In this conversation we explore the theory and practice of Ontological Design, exploring: what Ontological Design means and why it is relevant as an discipline in the informational age; the noomachia, 4th generational warfare, the battle of ideas and informational fluxes; the transformations in subjectivity brought about by digital network technology; the death of Man and posthumanism; magic, machinic phylums and ...
On Debt, Sacrifice and the Plague
March 18, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 64.5 MBOwen and Daniel begin playing a glass bead game. The glass bead game is a psychotechnology designed to explore a specified topic in a way that creates space for profound insight. We play on the topic of debt, which then leads into a discussion of: debt, sacred and material; sacrifice and what it enables; the tensions of interplaying potentiality and actuality that characterise life; mythic interpretations of the coronavirus - the plague gods, the lord of the flies, the existential turning-in...
Evolving Masculinity with David Lion
March 10, 2020 16:00 - 55 minutes - 51.6 MBDavid Lion is founder of Evolving Men and an embodiment and relationship coach. In this episode, David and I discuss: our experiences running men's circles; the new culture of masculinity and men's work; the idea of masculinity, what it means and whether it is an idea worth clinging to; common issues that men suffer from in the current world, like shame, loneliness, lack of purpose; embodiment and being present with uncomfortable feelings; leadership; and thoughts on coronavirus and survivin...
On Ontological Design
March 01, 2020 16:00 - 47 minutes - 44.2 MBIn this conversation Daniel and Owen discuss the theory and practice of Ontological Design, exploring: what Ontological Design means and why it is relevant as an discipline in the informational age; the noomachia, 4th generational warfare, the battle of ideas and informational fluxes; the transformations in subjectivity brought about by digital network technology; the death of Man and posthumanism; magic, machinic phylums and technological lineages; and the insight that we create technologie...