Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control with Jacob Siegel
Episode 247
Jacob Siegel is author of The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control. We discuss his thesis that the U.S. has shifted into a new for…
8 hours ago
On Fatherhood (Reply to Matt Walsh, TMZ, etc.)
Episode 244
I had a tweet go viral about fatherhood and the responses were fascinating. Matt Walsh did a segment on it, TMZ did a segment, thousands of parents s…
3 months ago
"Neo-China Arrives From the Future:" On Nick Land's Sino-Futurism (The Meltdown Lectures)
Episode 243
In this episode, we analyze the sentence "Neo-China arrives from the future" from Nick Land's 1994 essay "Meltdown." For Land, Capital is an autonomo…
6 months ago
Montaigne, IVF & Embryo Selection, Q&A
Episode 242
I jumped on the livestream for the first time in a while. I discuss the Montaigne chapter in The Independent Scholar, the current debate around IVF &…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
I Fell Off (It's So Over)
Episode 241
I can't deny it, so let's explore what it means, how it happens, what it feels like, and why it might be... great?
In this episode, I share my struggl…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Urbit, Nockchain, and the Current State of Sovereignty Technology
Episode 240
In this episode, I review the state of Urbit and my history with this ambitious project to rebuild the internet. I explain why I stepped back, detail…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Soft-Engineering, Transversality, Human Security System (Nick Land, Meltdown, Sentences 7-8)
Episode 239
This episode unpacks the seventh and eighth sentences of Nick Land's "Meltdown," where "soft engineering slithers out of its box into yours" and "hum…
11 months ago
Markets Learn to Manufacture Intelligence and Politics Modernizes (Nick Land, Meltdown, Sentence 3)
Episode 238
This episode unpacks the third sentence from Nick Land's "Meltdown."
"As markets learn to manufacture intelligence, politics modernizes, upgrades para…
11 months, 1 week ago
Intoxicated by Truth: Plato's Symposium with Alex Priou
Episode 237
Socrates shows up late, looks like hell, and still somehow rules the room. What's really going in the Symposium? Plato uses a dinner party to show ho…
1 year ago
From Tech to Public Philosophy: Johnathan Bi on Production Quality and Patronage Networks
Episode 236
Johnathan Bi shares his journey from successful tech founder to independent philosophy lecturer, explaining why he walked away from founder equity to…
1 year, 1 month ago