Agora Politics is dedicated to making sense out of our outdated theories of politics. The show features long-form interviews with academics, entrepreneurs, intellectuals, and luminaries of all types, who are tuning in to the zeitgeist and attempting to synthesize stories of the past, with knowledge of the present, and visions of the future. Support with BTC: bc1qnn3epv055judkqyxyknvzs0us2ayr902gm5x3n ETH: 0x36470C0012486Af1C8Ec877b707Ec7b72f0f338b
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The new show, Hacking State is now up and live. Please go check it out at hackingstate.substack.com. All future interviews and audio essays will be located on the new feed. Thank you all once again for listening. Hope to see you there.Support Hacking State: https://hackingstate.substack.com/subscribeListen on:Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@alexm…
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42: Building a Sensemaking Market with Mike Elias and James Ellis
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I speak with Mike Elias and James Ellis of IdeaMarket.io, who are building out a market for attention-worthiness. IdeaMarket is a peer-to-peer zeitgeist management system with a mission to replace corporate media as the public’s arbiter of credibility. The core idea is to apply a risk-management approach to sensemaking and public discourse.Visit ht…
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41: Great Founders, Complex Thought, and State Capacity with Samo Burja
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Samo Burja is founder of Bismarck Analysis, a consulting firm that investigates the political and institutional landscape of society. He is also a research fellow at the LongNow Foundation, where he studies how institutions can endure for centuries and millennia, and a Senior Research Fellow in political science at the Foresight Institute where he …
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40: Decentralized Statecraft With Gabriel
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Gabriel successfully cofounded and sold one of the earliest Bitcoin exchanges in Canada. We talked about his decision and experience starting a cryptocurrency exchange, the limits to automated governance, decentralized statecraft, and ta smart contract constitution.Agora Politics is dedicated to upgrading our outdated theories of politics. Doing so…
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39: René Girard - Imitation & Desire with William Johnsen
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William Johnsen is former graduate chair and coordinator of undergraduate programs in the Department of English at Michigan State University, editor of “Contagion: The Journal of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion”, and general editor of "Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture” a book series through Michigan State University Press.We talk a…
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38: Holistic Community Development with Anna Brodsky
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Anna Brodsky is cofounder of the Global Redesign Institute, a childcare activist, and advocate for Structural Satyagraha: the design and implementation of infrastructure which supports and rewards nonviolent behavior. We talk about the meaning of structural satyagraha, American inventor Buckminster Fuller’s term Dymaxion, Project Cybersyn, and thei…
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37: Nina Power - The Radical Traditionalism of Ivan Illich
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Nina Power is a cultural critic, social theorist, philosopher, author, and translator. Her upcoming book, “What Do Men Want” is forthcoming later this year.Take the Illich course from Nina herself at https://Illichcourse.com Use coupon code AGORA to get 30% off!We discuss the works of Roman Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher, and social criti…
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36: Secrets of Performance with Alex Feinberg
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Alex Feinberg's work focuses on optimizing performance to get the best in health and business. We cover:- His journey through professional athletics, finance, tech, and fitness- Understanding human nature for success in business and sports- His investigations into conspiracy and the shadow world- Hedging against inflation and rule by fiat- Breaking…
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35: The Horrors in Waiting with Zero HP Lovecraft
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I am joined by writer, horrorist, and anonymous internet denizen Zero HP Lovecraft. We discuss anonymity and pseudonymity, peer-to-peer censorship, asymmetric cyberwarfare, the origins of Zero HP Lovecraft, horrific and utopian technological visions of the future, the dark side of technology, acceleration and human agency, his latest work “Don’t Ma…
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34: An Exercise in Constructive Disagreement with Brent Cooper
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I am joined by director of the metamodern think tank, Abstract-Org's Brent Cooper, for an exercise in constructive disagreement.We come together from different perspectives to address leaky abstractions, The IDW, Critical Race Studies vs. Critical Race Theory, Intersectionality, globalization & cosmopolitanism, Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), and thi…
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33: An Eclectic Spacewalk with Nicholas McCay
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Nicholas is writer, author, and creator of the Eclectic Spacewalk project. We talk about the Overview Effect, the dangers of overarching narratives abstracting away from particulars, connection through storytelling, making the invisible visible, information flows, Open Source Everything, the 2nd psychedelic renaissance, and his hope for a moon base…
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32: Heraclitus of Ephesus – Philosopher of Fire
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Heraclitus stands alone among the pre-socratic philosophers. Contradictory, riddlesome, and enigmatic, he remains one of the most influential, yet least well-understood figures in Western philosophy. Born to a noble family in Ephesus, a city in Ionia, Greek Asia Minor, present day Turkey. Supposedly, he passed on a kingship, awarding it instead to …
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26: The Death Speech of Socrates - Excerpt from The Apology + Analysis (RELEASED)
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In Western philosophy, we have yet to move beyond the life and death of Socrates. Though his time has long since passed, we would be remiss to think there’s nothing to be gained, or to be remembered, by returning to accounts of this legendary figure. Socrates, the gadfly of Athens. A man, held in such high esteem that he is revered even to this day…
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31: The Tyranny of Materialism with Cody Moser
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Cody Moser is an anthropologist and PhD candidate studying cultural evolution in the department of cognitive and information sciences at University of California Merced. We talk about science and scientism, famed molecular biologist Rupert Sheldrake, his theory of Morphic Resonance, and what he calls the 10 tenets that make up the ideology of scien…
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30: Exploring the Search Space of Game~B with Jim Rutt
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Jim Rutt is the former CEO of Network Solutions, and former chairman of the Santa Fe Institute for the study of complex systems sciences, as well as host of the Jim Rutt Show, an interview podcast series examining cutting-edge thinking in science and technology and the future of our economic, political and social systems and institutions.Jim Rutt j…
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29: Notes on the Future of Decentralized Organization with Richard Bartlett
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Richard Bartlett is an expert on decentralized organizations as well as cofounder of The Hum Team, Enspiral, & Loomio. We talk about practical anarchism, the Occupy movement’s experiments in radical democracy, escaping domination and coercion, Patterns of Decentralization, debt, and the future of work. You can follow Richard on Twitter: @richdecibe…
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28: Civilization & Hypermodernity with John David Ebert
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John David Ebert is a cultural critic, poet, and author of over 20 books, including: Art After Metaphysics, The New Media Invasion, The Age of Catastrophe, and Dead Celebrities, Living Icons. We talk about mentorship, constructing a bespoke education, the Monomyth, the Night Sea Journey, ideology vs. myth, Spengler, civilizational life cycles, late…
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27: Informational Mutually Assured Destruction with Matthew Pirkowski
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Matthew Pirkowski joins me to discuss crypto, money and the state, sovereignty and global arbitrage, multipolar traps, corporation and defection, information warfare, complexity catastrophe, time preferences, and fitness vs. truth.You can follow Matt on Twitter: @MattPirkowskiIf you enjoy this episode, please consider funding more conversations lik…
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-- SUBSCRIBE ON PATREON FOR FULL EPISODE --In Western philosophy, we have yet to move beyond the life and death of Socrates. Though his time has long since passed, we would be remiss to think there’s nothing to be gained, or to be remembered, by returning to accounts of this legendary figure. Socrates, the gadfly of Athens. A man, held in such high…
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25: Uncovering Leo Strauss with Michael Millerman
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Political scientist Michael Millerman joins me to discuss the philosophy of Leo Strauss, esoteric writing, and Alexandr Dugin's 4th Political Theory.We talk about Leo Strauss, the tension between the philosopher and the city, why some of the best intellectual work is happening outside academia, the crisis of rationalism, the value of returning to t…
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24: Theory on the Outside with Geoff Shullenberger
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Geoff Shullenberger is creator of the Outsider Theory blog and newly launched Outsider Theory podcast, as well as Senior Lecturer at New York University’s Expository Writing Program. We talk about his Outsider Theory project, conspiracy & elite paranoia, our schizophrenizing media complex, Boudrillard and Hyperreality, scapegoating, Marcuse’s conce…
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23: Love in the Age of Information with Raven Connolly
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Raven Connolly hosts Socratic Speed-dating and sensemaking sessions at The Stoa. You can find out more about Raven’s work at TheStoa.ca and follow Raven on Twitter @spiral_virus.We talk about the acceleration of trends in online dating and romance due to the pandemic, the institution of marriage and non-monogomy, influencer culture, mimesis, and se…
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22: Cultivating a World We Can Live In with Jason Snyder
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Jason Snyder is faculty in the department of sustainable development at Appalachian State University.We talk homesteading, localism, permaculture, population decentralization, and possibilities for alternative, sustainable, human-centered communities.You can find Jason @cognazor on Twitter.Agora Politics is a podcast about the future of politics.Su…
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21: Color Revolutions and How To Fight Them (RELEASED)
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A Color Revolution is a term coined by Russian military strategists for the preferred way the United States enacts regime change.The goal of staging a color revolution is to create conditions suitable to have a pretext for military intervention on behalf of the people, either internally or externally, to get rid of the current regime.So named becau…
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20: Violence and Sacred Rites with Will Buckner
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Will Buckner is a research assistant at the Human Systems and Behavior Lab based in the Department of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. Evolutionary anthropologists trace the origins and development of human nature and culture in societies around the world. Join Will Buckner (@evolving_moloch) and I as we delve deep on secret societies…
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19: Bracing for Whiteshift with Eric Kaufmann
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Eric Kaufmann is professor of Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London, and author of "Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities".Eric’s research interests focus on demography, ethnicity, nationalism, and the study of white ethnic majorities in Western countries, We talk about what Eric lays out as the 2 whites…
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18: On Anarcho-Tyranny (RELEASED)
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On Samuel Francis' Anarcho-tyranny, the managerial state, the McCloskey affair, and the right-left convergence on corrupt governance.Agora Politics is a podcast dedicated to making sense out of our outdated theories of politics.Subscribe on:Twitter: https://twitter.com/agora_politicsFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/agorapoliticsYoutube: https://w…
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17: Hacking Genes and Memes with Razib Khan
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Razib Khan is a geneticist, writer, and public intellectual. He hosts a show on genetics and evolution “The Insight”, and “Browncast”. He has written for The New York Times, National Review, India Today, Slate, City Journal, and a number of other publications. We talk consumer genomics, heritability of political preferences, demographic shifts, Ash…
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16: Prediction For Our Brave New World with Cody Moser
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Cody Moser is an evolutionary anthropologist and Cognitive and Information Sciences grad student at University of California Merced.We cover:How much has the world has changed since Coronavirus?Peter Turchin’s 2020 prediction, Intra-Elite competition, Cliodynamics, Ideological herd immunity, Are we in a civil war?, Reorganizing society after the Gr…
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15: The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas (RELEASED)
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A reading of "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" by Ursula La Guin.Last night,I was on twitter seeing updates on the Democratic National Convention, and I was thinking about the choices in front of us and how we, as individuals, might avoid becoming deranged by our complicity in a system that leaves us but few actionable choices from which to deci…
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14: Cancelled Culture: Bo Winegard
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Bo Winegard is an independent scholar and former assistant professor at Marietta College, with research in areas of evolutionary and social psychology.We covered:- Cancel Culture: is it real? - human variation- academic freedom - being cancelled- cultural displays and male status hierarchies- all male coalitions- masculinity - what can be doneFollo…
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From Episode 3: What is Agora Politics?Full episode: https://soundcloud.com/agora_politics/3-what-is-agora-politics/s-LYzreIjJQVEJoin the Agora Politics community and support the show: https://agorapolitics.locals.comAgora Politics is a podcast dedicated to making sense out of our outdated theories of politics.Subscribe on:Patreon: https://patreon.…
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From Episode 1: Digging at the Universal Substrate with Cody MoserFull episode: https://soundcloud.com/agora_politics/cody-moser-master-track-2120-1202-pmJoin the Agora Politics community and support the show: https://agorapolitics.locals.comAgora Politics is a podcast dedicated to making sense out of our outdated theories of politics.Subscribe on:…
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From Episode 2: Towards a New Science of Progress with Jason CrawfordFull episode: https://soundcloud.com/agora_politics/ep2-towards-a-new-science-of-progress-with-jason-crawfordJoin the Agora Politics community and support the show: https://agorapolitics.locals.comAgora Politics is a podcast dedicated to making sense out of our outdated theories o…
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From Episode 3: What is Agora Politics?Full episode: https://soundcloud.com/agora_politics/3-what-is-agora-politics/s-LYzreIjJQVEJoin the Agora Politics community and support the show: https://agorapolitics.locals.comAgora Politics is a podcast dedicated to making sense out of our outdated theories of politics.Subscribe on:Patreon: https://patreon.…
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13: Mapping the Intellectual Dark Web with Oliver Traldi
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I sit down with Oliver Traldi, philosophy PhD candidate at Notre Dame, essayist, and columnist for Arch Digital, to discuss the absolute state of the Intellectual Dark Web.We talked about the origins of the IDW, who’s in it, whether it’s still a thing, points of failure in having an open discussion, the paradox of anti tribalism, the regressive lef…
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From Episode 2: Towards a New Science of Progress with Jason CrawfordFull episode: https://soundcloud.com/agora_politics/ep2-towards-a-new-science-of-progress-with-jason-crawfordJoin the Agora Politics community and support the show: https://agorapolitics.locals.comAgora Politics is a podcast dedicated to making sense out of our outdated theories o…
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From Episode 3: What is Agora Politics?Full episode: https://soundcloud.com/agora_politics/3-what-is-agora-politics/s-LYzreIjJQVEJoin the Agora Politics community and support the show: https://agorapolitics.locals.comAgora Politics is a podcast dedicated to making sense out of our outdated theories of politics.Subscribe on:Patreon: https://patreon.…
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From Episode 1: Digging at the Universal Substrate with Cody MoserFull episode: https://soundcloud.com/agora_politics/cody-moser-master-track-2120-1202-pmJoin the Agora Politics community and support the show: https://agorapolitics.locals.comAgora Politics is a podcast dedicated to making sense out of our outdated theories of politics.Subscribe on:…
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From Episode 2: Towards a New Science of Progress with Jason CrawfordFull episode: https://soundcloud.com/agora_politics/ep2-towards-a-new-science-of-progress-with-jason-crawfordJoin the Agora Politics community and support the show: https://agorapolitics.locals.comAgora Politics is a podcast dedicated to making sense out of our outdated theories o…
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12: Problematics of Postmodernism with Stephen Hicks
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Stephen Hicks is Professor of Philosophy and Executive Director of The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship at Rockford University. We talked about his work outlining the history of Postmodernism in his book "Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault", Postmodern epistemology, power, multiculturalism, the Parado…
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11: First Principles Economics with Per Bylund
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Per Bylund is Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Records-Johnston Professor of Free Enterprise in the School of Entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University. He is also a fellow at the Mises Institute and associate fellow of the Ratio Institute in Stockholm. His research focuses on issues in entrepreneurship, strategic management, and org…
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10: A Testosterone Hypothesis with Roy Barzilai
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Roy Barzilai is an independent scholar and author of The Testosterone Hypothesis: How Hormones Regulate the Life Cycles of Civilization and Sex Wars: How Hormones Drive Gender, Race, & Culture Conflicts.We talked about his hypothesis of how hormones regulate the life cycles of civilization, how the sun effects growth cycles, chronobiology, and indi…
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9: Broadcasting in Public with Alex Parsell
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Alex Parsell is a Development professional in major gifts and donor relations at Michigan Radio. We talk about the role of public media coming into the start of the 21st century, the funding of public radio, public media bias, the niche of public radio in the age of internet journalism, what's changed now that everyone can talk, and the difficult p…
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8: Polarization on Lockdown with Victor Rivera
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I am joined by Pepperdine University clinical psychology graduate student Victor Rivera (@cognitivicta) to discuss maintaining mental health in quarantine, how to engage with people you disagree with, how to deal with strong political disagreement with those closest to you, the importance of maintaining mental flexibility in conversation, getting t…
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7: A Virology of Discourse with James Lindsay
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James is the president and founder of New Discourses.com, an author, and one the most essential voices for making sense of the absurdity that has become our state of political discourse. Some of you may know him for his pioneering work in the Sokal Squared Hoax. We talk about critical social justice, the intellectual evolution of marxist, postmoder…
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6: Escaping the Culture War with Benjamin A. Boyce
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I speak with Benjamin A. Boyce, who witnessed firsthand and is documenting the fallout from the Evergreen State College controversy. Boyce is a Youtuber and host of the Boyce of Reason podcast. We talk of how he has evolved through documenting the controversy, Intersectionality, and the wicked problem of moving past tribalism.…
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5: Based on Deleuze with Justin Murphy
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Justin Murphy is a political scientist, political theorist, and author of the new book, "Based Deleuze". We talk about the life of Gilles Deleuze, what it means that he is based, the Deleuzian concept of Lines of Flight, Disciplinary vs. Control societies, Libertarian Communism, and Diogenes defacing the currency.You can find Justin's writings at: …
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4: Sharing Liminal Space With Jared Janes & Jason Snyder
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I speak with cohosts of the Both/And podcast Jared Janes and Jason Snyder on memetic mediation, the importance of psychological safety in changing minds, metamodernism, the limits of rational systems, Robert Kegan’s 5 stages framework of human development, the extreme reactions to the rise of woke culture, the lonely valley of losing a belief syste…
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3: What Is Agora Politics?
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For our third episode I interrupt our regular scheduled programming to briefly address why I started the show, where our mission stands with regard to upgrading our collective sensemaking, why I believe one-on-one dialogue is the only way through the bottleneck humanity about to face, and what we can borrow from religion, contemplative practices, p…
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