Latest Contrapoints Podcast Episodes
8. Idealism vs. Materlialism – How History is Made: Haudenosaunee Women / the Suffragettes / the Double V Campaign / The English Peasant’s Revolt of 1381 / The Anarchist Revolution in Spain 1936-39
WHAT IS POLITICS? - March 19, 2021 10:15 ★★★★★ - 106 ratingsHuman beings have free will, but our actions are constrained by material realities. Understanding how material and practical conditions shape human behaviour can make all the difference between success and catastrophic failure when it comes to the whole spectrum of... Continue Reading →
How To Transcend Post-Truth? A New Enlightenment
Infinite Lunchbox - March 04, 2021 14:02 - 16 minutesWhat if the way to transcend our post-truth crisis is not to double-down on our Enlightenment-era relationship with truth and knowledge? What if transcending post-truth requires...a NEW Enlightenment? For years, I've been scared to share these thoughts. But I just shared them in a VPRO documen...
Trump concedes. Fake news?
Infinite Lunchbox - December 18, 2020 19:28 - 4 minutesIf Trump conceded, what would he say? This episode is part of Deep Reckonings — a series of explicitly-marked deepfake videos that imagine Mark Zuckerberg, Brett Kavanaugh, and other public figures having a reckoning. Here, an imaginary Donald Trump concedes the 2020 election. Want to see Tr...
7.1. Pink Pilled: Why You Can’t Eliminate Sexism Just by Eliminating Sexism
WHAT IS POLITICS? - November 27, 2020 11:06 ★★★★★ - 106 ratingsWhat would happen if you could end sexism overnight by giving everyone a magic pink pill? Why we need to target material and practical conditions if we want to eliminate cultural hierarchies. A thought experiment about political strategy which lays... Continue Reading →
7.1. Material Conditions: Why You Can’t Eliminate Sexism Just by Eliminating Sexism
WHAT IS POLITICS? - November 27, 2020 11:06 ★★★★★ - 106 ratingsWhat would happen if you could end sexism overnight by giving everyone a magic pink pill? Why we need to target material and practical conditions if we want to eliminate cultural hierarchies. A thought experiment about political strategy which lays... Continue Reading →
7. The Origin of Hierarchy and Male Dominance: why David Graeber and Jordan Peterson are wrong
WHAT IS POLITICS? - November 26, 2020 10:30 ★★★★★ - 106 ratingsWhy are hierarchy and male dominance so prevalent in human societies? According to anthropologists David Graeber & David Wengrow, it’s because people were “self-consciously experimenting with different social possibilities,” and then we somehow got stuck this way. Meanwhile according to... Cont...
7. The Origin of Social Hierarchy and Male Dominance: why David Graeber and Jordan Peterson are Wrong
WHAT IS POLITICS? - November 26, 2020 10:30 ★★★★★ - 106 ratingsWhy are hierarchy and male dominance so prevalent in human societies? According to anthropologists David Graeber & David Wengrow, it’s because people were “self-consciously experimenting with different social possibilities,” and then we somehow got stuck this way. Meanwhile according to... Cont...
DEEP RECKONINGS: Interview with Forbes
Infinite Lunchbox - November 12, 2020 14:28 - 37 minutes'There's actually a wild way in which deepfakes can help us navigate this post-truth moment — because they allow us to see that truth is not just an end in itself, but also a means to an end.' BOLD STATEMENT. Which I elaborate on in this conversation with Dani Di Placido. He interviewed me abo...
DEEP RECKONINGS
Infinite Lunchbox - September 16, 2020 18:19 - 5 minutesIf Brett Kavanaugh, Alex Jones, and Mark Zuckerberg had a crisis of conscience, what would they say? Infinite Lunchbox presents Deep Reckonings — a series of explicitly-marked synthetic videos that imagine public figures having a reckoning. Watch the full series and learn more about the project:...
6. Political Anthropology: When Communism Works
WHAT IS POLITICS? - September 10, 2020 09:30 ★★★★★ - 106 ratingsEverywhere we look, past and present we see hierarchical societies where some people have more wealth, more power, and more rights than others. Was this always the state of the human world? Is hierarchy in our nature? Are egalitarian societies... Continue Reading →
6. Political Anthropology: Hierarchy, Equality and Human Nature
WHAT IS POLITICS? - September 10, 2020 09:30 ★★★★★ - 106 ratingsEverywhere we look, past and present we see hierarchical societies where some people have more wealth, more power, and more rights than others. Was this always the state of the human world? Is hierarchy in our nature? Are egalitarian societies... Continue Reading →
6. Political Anthropology: Why Communism Worked
WHAT IS POLITICS? - September 10, 2020 09:30 ★★★★★ - 106 ratingsEverywhere we look, past and present we see hierarchical societies where some people have more wealth, more power, and more rights than others. Was this always the state of the human world? Is hierarchy in our nature? Are egalitarian societies... Continue Reading →
5. Who’s Who on the Left and Right: 1789-1917
WHAT IS POLITICS? - September 10, 2020 00:00 ★★★★★ - 106 ratingsThis episode is for everyone who keeps writing to me to insist that one or the other wrong, incoherent, popular definitions of Left and Right is actually the correct one. How do we know the left and right refer... Continue Reading →
5. How Do We Know What Left and Right Mean? Who’s who on the left and right: 1789-1917
WHAT IS POLITICS? - September 10, 2020 00:00 ★★★★★ - 106 ratingsThis episode is for everyone who keeps writing to me to insist that one or the other wrong, incoherent, popular definitions of Left and Right is actually the correct one. How do we know the left and right refer... Continue Reading →
Truth, Race, & Other Light Talk
Infinite Lunchbox - September 08, 2020 19:40 - 1 hourHow might our post-truth crisis actually be an *opportunity* for evolving our relationship with truth? What might be an integral conception of race, that better enables us to address racism? In this episode of the Infinite Lunchbox, fellow futon philosopher Ryan Nakade and I discuss these and ot...
Growing Down roundtable with Stephanie Lepp
Infinite Lunchbox - July 02, 2020 16:28 - 1 hourMy new favorite podcast is *Growing Down* — which brings together integral philosophy with progressive politics. (If you're a progressive who's dissatisfied with the Left, this show's for you!) In the last episode of Infinite Lunchbox, I had the pleasure of being interviewed on Growing Down. I...
Growing Down roundtable with Stephanie Lepp
Infinite Lunchbox - July 02, 2020 16:28 - 1 hourMy new favorite podcast is Growing Down — which brings together integral philosophy with progressive politics. (If you're a progressive who's dissatisfied with the Left, this show's for you!) In the last episode of Infinite Lunchbox, I had the pleasure of being interviewed on Growing Down. In ...
Growing Down ft. Stephanie Lepp (public safety, gender equality, & more)
Infinite Lunchbox - July 02, 2020 16:28 - 1 hourMy new favorite podcast is *Growing Down* — which brings together integral philosophy with progressive politics. (If you're a progressive who's dissatisfied with the Left, this show's for you!) In the last episode of Infinite Lunchbox, I had the pleasure of being interviewed on Growing Down. I...
Growing Down ft. Stephanie Lepp (my work & philosophy)
Infinite Lunchbox - June 25, 2020 17:24 - 1 hourI recently discovered a new favorite podcast — *Growing Down*. It brings together integral philosophy with progressive politics (if you're a progressive who's dissatisfied with the Left, it's for you). And I was recently interviewed on the show! And thus, Infinite Lunchbox presents Growing Dow...
Growing Down ft. Stephanie Lepp
Infinite Lunchbox - June 25, 2020 17:24 - 1 hourGrowing Down is my new favorite podcast. It brings together integral philosophy with progressive politics. (If you're a progressive who's dissatisfied with the Left, this show's for you!) And not only do I get to love listening to Growing Down — I recently got to love being interviewed on the ...
Growing Down interview with Stephanie Lepp
Infinite Lunchbox - June 25, 2020 17:24 - 1 hourI recently discovered a new favorite podcast — *Growing Down*. It brings together integral philosophy with progressive politics (if you're a progressive who's dissatisfied with the Left, it's for you). And I was recently interviewed on the show! And thus, Infinite Lunchbox presents Growing Dow...
Understanding the News: How Tax Cuts Fuel Police Brutality
WHAT IS POLITICS? - June 09, 2020 10:55 ★★★★★ - 106 ratingsPoliticians’ dependence on police as a revenue stream, prosecutors’ dependence on police for convictions, and falling tax cuts on the wealthy combine to give police incredible power. This is a key reason why they’re rarely punished, even for the most... Continue Reading →
Bleep Bloop: police, protestors and power
WHAT IS POLITICS? - June 09, 2020 10:55 ★★★★★ - 106 ratingsWhy police get away with murder, why their budgets keep inflating while other services keep getting cut, why we suddenly have the power to do something about it, and how we can use that power. tweeter: @worbsintowords YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WHATISPOLITICS69 Patreon:... Continue Reading →
4. The Market is the State: how political definitions limit political reality
WHAT IS POLITICS? - May 31, 2020 22:48 ★★★★★ - 106 ratingsDefinitions of political terms affect what we see and don’t see in the world around us, and turn us into effective or ineffective communicators and political actors. The definition of government that journalists and academics use makes us blind to... Continue Reading →
4. Consensus, Clarity, and Consequences: Criteria for Defining Political Terms
WHAT IS POLITICS? - May 31, 2020 22:48 ★★★★★ - 106 ratingsDefinitions of political terms affect what we see and don’t see in the world around us, and turn us into effective or ineffective communicators and political actors. The definition of government that journalists and academics use makes us blind to... Continue Reading →
4. Defining Political Terms: Consensus, Clarity, and Consequences
WHAT IS POLITICS? - May 31, 2020 22:48 ★★★★★ - 106 ratingsDefinitions of political terms affect what we see and don’t see in the world around us, and turn us into effective or ineffective communicators and political actors. The definition of government that journalists and academics use makes us blind to... Continue Reading →
4. Definition and Perception: how bad definitions make us blind and stupid
WHAT IS POLITICS? - May 31, 2020 22:48 ★★★★★ - 106 ratingsDefinitions of political terms affect what we see and don’t see in the world around us, and turn us into effective or ineffective communicators and political actors. The definition of government that journalists and academics use makes us blind to... Continue Reading →
4. Definitions and Perception: right-wing vs. left-wing definitions of political terms
WHAT IS POLITICS? - May 31, 2020 22:48 ★★★★★ - 106 ratingsDefinitions of political terms affect what we see and don’t see in the world around us, and turn us into effective or ineffective communicators and political actors. The definition of government that journalists and academics use makes us blind to... Continue Reading →
4. How Political Definitions Shape Reality
WHAT IS POLITICS? - May 31, 2020 22:48 ★★★★★ - 106 ratingsDefinitions of political terms affect what we see and don’t see in the world around us, and turn us into effective or ineffective communicators and political actors. The definition of government that journalists and academics use makes us blind to... Continue Reading →
4. Private Government: how bad definitions of political terms make us blind and stupid
WHAT IS POLITICS? - May 31, 2020 22:48 ★★★★★ - 106 ratingsDefinitions of political terms affect what we see and don’t see in the world around us, and turn us into effective or ineffective communicators and political actors. The definition of government that journalists and academics use makes us blind to... Continue Reading →
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