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Sci_BurstS3 E10: Why We Need Solarpunk NowWhy Solarpunk? Why now? Discover the compelling journey of climate change discoveries, following actions (and lack thereof), the stories that have been told about climate breakdown, and what alternatives to those stories are now surfacing. Tune in to hear about why facts aren't always enough, why media literacy is a necessary climate communication skill, and why new inspiring, connecting, and hopeful stories might just be the solution...There are hundreds of reasons for solarpunk, and right now there are more than ever before! Episode time stamps:0:00 Introduction04:40 A brief...
2026-04-031h 13
ChannelNM Talkcore | Jay Springett on “Slop Machines of Loving Grace” (2025)You’ve heard us reference the work of Jay Springett (aka @thejaymo) on nearly every pod this year — so with his new book Slop Machines of Loving Grace near completion, we invited Jay on the show to chat through some of its themes. The book takes 2008 as a breaking point, a moment where the late-20th century financial system imploded and, in its place, society was given a new operating system: one optimized for exocapitalism and shaped by “smartness,” a forceful symbiosis of finance and software. On the ep, we discuss the rise of American “code-spaces” (e.g., apps, pla...
2025-12-301h 11
New ModelsPreview | NM Talkcore: Jay Springett on "Slop Machines of Loving Grace" (2025)This is a preview — for the full episode, subscribe: https://patreon.com/newmodels https://newmodels.substack.com
You’ve heard us reference the work of Jay Springett (aka @thejaymo) on nearly every pod this year — so with his new book Slop Machines of Loving Grace near completion, we invited Jay on the show to chat through some of its themes. The book takes 2008 as a breaking point, a moment where the late-20th century financial system imploded and, in its place, society was given a new operating system: one optimized for exocapitalism and shaped by “smartness,” a forceful symbiosis of finance an...
2025-12-3019 min
New ModelsPreview | NM Talkcore: Gideon Jacobs on Media, Politics, and Ketaphysics (2025)This is a preview — for the full episode (released: Sept 24, 2025), subscribe: https://newmodels.io https://patreon.com/newmodels https://newmodels.substack.com
Writer Gideon Jacobs joins to discuss ontological literacy among other things in the wake of the assassination of American Christian Nationalist Charlie Kirk, which in our assessment was not actually a political assassination.
Names Cited: Alexander Dugan, Amanda Askell, Alain Badiou, Jean Baudrillard, Becoming Press, Byung-Chul Han, CERN, Charlie Kirk, Donald Trump, Kevin Munger, Elon Musk, Eric Davis, Grok, Felix Guattari, Jay Springet, Jesus Christ, Jezebel, Keith Johnstone, Kamala Harris, Larry Ellison, Luigi Mangione, Marshall McLuhan, Mara McKevitt, Mar...
2025-09-2917 min
ChannelNM Talkcore | Gideon Jacobs on Media, Politics, and Ketaphysics (2025)Writer Gideon Jacobs comes on the show to discuss ontological literacy among other things in the wake of the assassination of American Christian Nationalist Charlie Kirk, which in our assessment was not actually a political assassination. Names Cited: Alexander Dugan, Amanda Askell, Alain Badiou, Jean Baudrillard, Becoming Press, Byung-Chul Han, CERN, Charlie Kirk, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Eric Davis, Grok, Felix Guattari, Jay Springet, Jesus, Jezebel, Keith Johnstone, Kamala Harris, Larry Ellison, Luigi Mangione, Marshall McLuhan, Mara McKevitt, Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Carroll, Vladamir Putin, RFK Jr., René Girard, Theo Anthony, Tyler Robinson, UnitedHealthcare, Walter On...
2025-09-241h 05
Experience.ComputerKatherine DeeExperience.Computer is a slow-radio programme exploring aphantasia, creativity, and the imagination.IN THIS INTERVIEWJay Springett leads internet culture reporter and ethnographer Katherine Dee through a series of imaginative exercises.Then they discuss:* Early Internet experiences* The weight of words in software programs* The feeling of being inside/outside online communities* The need for experiencing silence and boredomBig thanks to Katherine for coming on the show! She actually came down with something right after we finished recording.QUOTES...
2025-09-151h 05
Wolf PodcastEpisode 040: The Return of Jay SpringettWelcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today I’m talking with Jay Springett, writer, thinker, worldrunner, and podcaster. You can find him at his website, his Permanently Moved podcast, or on substack at Experience.Computer.Today, we’re talking about 301 episodes of his Permanently Moved podcast! We talk about physical media, the end of an era, of an entire creative project, and what that has meant for him as a person, and then what comes next. Check out and subscribe to his zines, which will be a big part of his ongoing crea...
2025-08-271h 25
Neomania9. Cultural Fracking and World Running w/ @thejaymoExploring solarpunk as a memetic engine, cultural fracking, and how worlds are the medium of the 21st century.I'm joined by Jay Springett (@thejaymo), solarpunk steward, world-runner, and author of thejaymo.net. Together we dig into how cultural fracking has left our collective imagination hollowed out, what it means to treat worlds as a creative medium, and why protocols and infrastructures may be the real artforms of the future.We discuss copyright battles from Napster to Disney to AI training data, the parallels between hip-hop sampling and machine learning, and how solarpunk thrives not just...
2025-08-251h 46
Experience.ComputerJenn de la VegaExperience.Computer is a slow-radio programme exploring aphantasia, creativity, and the imagination.After an unplanned pause, Experience.Computer will back in production for Season 3! If you have ideas for guests you would like to hear from in the next season, add your suggestions in the comments; or share this episode and tag them in Substack Notes. Your recommendations will help guide the conversations that follow.IN THIS INTERVIEWJay Springett leads cookbook writer and community-oriented caterer Jenn de la Vega through a series of imaginative exercises. Then they discuss:
2025-07-011h 34
Disintegrator26. The Great Outdoors (w/ Gordon White)Gordon White is a chaos magician, shamanic practitioner, and permaculture designer based in Tasmania. He podcasts and teaches through the vehicle of Rune Soup, the world's largest magic academy, and he writes prolifically -- not only on the Rune Soup blog but in several incredible books. Gordon's breadth and depth of knowledge is unbelievably humbling, and it was an honor to spend an hour or so with him.We came to Gordon for perspective, to some bring context and breadth and dimension to our relatively narrow world. Disintegrator sits in a kind of para-academic space, where we tend...
2025-02-191h 01
New ModelsPreview | Jay Springett on 'worlds' as medium (NM85)This is a preview | Full episode released to subscribers: 27 Oct 2024 | Subscribe --> https://newmodels.io
Jay Springett is a writer, researcher, consultant, musician, podcaster, Royal Society of Arts Fellow, New Centre instructor, and decade long admin of solarpunks.net. Currently at work on a book exploring the history of Dungeons & Dragons (the so-called metaverse), Jay joins New Models to speak about the proliferation of “worlds” (perhaps in lieu of the 20th century public sphere) and strategies for existing within them.
For more: thejaymo.net
Jay’s podcasts: https://thejaymo.net/permanentlymoved/ & https://experience.computer/
2025-01-3127 min
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)Five Questions for a Time of BeginningsMy guest in this episode is Jay Cousins, an inventor, recovering entrepreneur and carrier of questions, an old friend from my Sheffield days, who has been based for the past ten years or so in Dahab, Egypt. This conversation came about because Jay wrote to me with a set of thoughts that build on the unfinished list of “Four Tasks for a Time of Endings” from the closing pages of At Work in the Ruins.The original set of tasks goes like this:* Salvage the good things we have a chance of taking with us.
2024-12-121h 19
ChannelNM85 | Writer Jay Springett on “Worlds” as MediumJay Springett is a writer, researcher, consultant, musician, podcaster, Royal Society of Arts Fellow, New Centre instructor, and decade long admin of solarpunks.net. Currently at work on a book exploring the history of Dungeons & Dragons (the so-called metaverse), Jay joins New Models to speak about the proliferation of “worlds” (perhaps in lieu of the 20th century public sphere) and strategies for existing within them.For more: thejaymo.netJay’s podcasts: 301 Permanently Moved and Experience.Computer
2024-10-271h 05
Wolf PodcastEpisode 011: Zero HistoryWelcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today I’m talking with Jay Springett, writer, thinker, worldrunner, and podcaster. You can find him at his website, his Permanently Moved podcast, or on substack at Experience.Computer. Check out his recent appearance on the Ecogradia podcast! It’s great.Today, we’re onto Zero History, the conclusion to the Blue Ant trilogy, which feels like the most Blue Anty of the books in the trilogy.Music by Bart Larsen. Everything else done by me, I guess. Get full access to Wol...
2024-10-161h 33
Experience.ComputerMike RugnettaJay Springett leads writer, producer, and sound designer Mike Rugnetta through a series of imaginative exercises.Then they discuss:* The nature of imagined versus physical experiences* Carmen San Diego’s role In sparking a love for portable technology* Nostalgia and memory* Smart phones and ‘machine touch’* where the audience is when making work for the internet?* Mike’s relationship with the Yamaha FB-O1 four operator FM synthesiser.QUOTES"You just have to get used to what done enough feels like."“It's...
2024-09-261h 32
Never PostWhere I'm At Right NowGeorgia talks to Cliff Lampe, Professor of Information at the UMich School of Information about how Find My has become indispensable technology of friendship in a hypergamified social-media landscape. Then, Hans talks with Dr. Brooke Erin Duffy, associate professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University, about the need to be vulnerable as an influencer. And also: [REDACTED]–
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2024-09-2553 min
Wolf PodcastEpisode 010: Spook CountryWelcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today I’m talking with Jay Springett, writer, thinker, worldrunner, and podcaster. You can find him at his website, his Permanently Moved podcast, or on substack at Experience.Computer. Check out his recent appearance on the Ecogradia podcast! It’s great.Today, we’re onto Spook Country, which reminded me more of Gibson’s previous novels. And so your mileage may vary with that, but I think it’s a bit of a reversion.Music by Bart Larsen. Everything else done by me, I guess....
2024-09-181h 33
EcogradiaHow solarpunk envisions a world we will want to live inThe solarpunk movement in fiction, art, fashion, and activism imagines a sustainable civilisation and considers how we get there. After gaining traction for a decade, how does it align with the latest thinking in regenerative design?
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2024-09-1042 minEcogradiaHow solarpunk envisions a world we will want to live inThe solarpunk movement in fiction, art, fashion, and activism imagines a sustainable civilisation and considers how we get there. After gaining traction for a decade, how does it align with the latest thinking in regenerative design?
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2024-09-1042 min
Experience.ComputerMeghna JayanthJay Springett leads award-winning narrative designer, and writer Meghna Jayanth through a series of imaginative exercises.Then they discuss:* Imagination in narrative design* Agency and identity in video games* Digital spaces and online communities* Online harassment and its effects* Balancing plot and player freedomQUOTES“Games are a medium of agency.”"I stop playing at essentially the moment I’m about to be nuked by the other civilisation.""I think the screen does have a constant pull towards it, you ha...
2024-08-271h 29
Wolf PodcastEpisode 009: Pattern RecognitionsWelcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today I’m talking with Jay Springett, writer, thinker, worldrunner, and podcaster. You can find him at his website, his Permanently Moved podcast, or on substack at Experience.Computer.Today, we’re onto Pattern Recognition, the first novel in the Blue Ant Trilogy. We talk about the internet, Gibson’s career more broadly, and a host of other things. Here’s the interview with Gibson that Jay mentions as well.Music by Bart Larsen. Everything else done by me, I guess. Get full...
2024-08-141h 35
Experience.ComputerKris SaknussemmJay Springett leads multimedia artist, musician, and author Kris Saknussemm through a series of imaginative exercises. Then they discuss:* Memory and cognition* Discernment and intuition* Being around mainframe computers in the late 70’s* The transition from typewriters to computers* OscillationQUOTES“Everything wants to be remembered. Everything wants to be found.”“It's feeling for an edge, it's making radically rapid calculations of values and geometries”“If you think about rhetoric, the science of the open hand, and dialectic, the science of th...
2024-07-301h 25
Experience.ComputerExperience.Computer Season 2 | TrailerWelcome back to Experience.Computer! I’m your host, Jay Springett, and I’m thrilled to announce the imminent launch of Season 2. Experience.Computer is a slow radio journey into high tech, where we explore perception, experience, and expression.In 2022 writer and host Jay Springett discovered he had aphantasia - the inability to voluntarily create mental images in one's mind. For 36 years he thought 'picture this' was a metaphor.Experience.Computer is slow radio about high tech. Exploring perception, experience and expression. This is a public episode. If you would like to disc...
2024-07-2300 min
Agitator[PREVIEW] Izumi Suzuki's Hit Parade of Tears (ft. Jay Springett) [EP. 150 // Ghost in the Tome #8]Writer, podcaster, and strategist (and musician, and inventor of solarpunk) Jay Springett joins Kelby for this AGITATOR Z FINALE. Everything changes beyond this point, and what a way to end an era. We're talking Izumi Suzuki's incredible bizarro short story collection Hit Parade of Tears. Keep up with Jay: https://www.thejaymo.net/Buy Hit Parade of Tears: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/721251/hit-parade-of-tears-by-izumi-suzuki/Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World by Matt Alt: https://www.amazon.com/Pure-Invention-Japan-Modern-World/dp/1984826719/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Hardware (1990): htt...
2024-06-2405 min
Human Entities PodcastHuman Entities 2024: Jay Springett (Solarpunk)Human Entities 2024: culture in the age of artificial intelligenceEighth edition, 5 June 2024
Solarpunk means dreaming greenJay SpringettStrategist and writer
Solarpunk is a movement in speculative fiction, art, fashion, and activism that seeks to answer and embody the question “what does a sustainable civilization look like, and how can we get there?”
In our current age of popular dystopia, climate grief, and biosphere collapse, Solarpunk has become a ‘creative container‘ for more fertile futures. Not one future singular, but many. Solarpunk encourages everyone to re-imagine what life might be like e...
2024-06-181h 26
No Tags18: The expanding universe of Brazilian funk, part 1We’re witnessing a breakthrough moment (again) for Brazil's funk scene, an ever-expanding universe of bone-shaking low-end, CDJ theatrics, synesthetic drug cocktails, barking MCs, extreme production choices and a fuckton of wraparound sunglasses.It's incredible music, but it's not always easy to keep up with what's going on, so in this episode – the first of a two-part interview – we speak to GG Albuquerque, a journalist and researcher from Recife, who last year accompanied São Paulo’s DJ K on tour in Europe.We begin with a dive into the trajectory of funk over the past decad...
2024-06-1253 min
Experience.ComputerKirsten LeporeJay Springett leads director and animator Kirsten Lepore through a series of imaginative exercises. Then they discuss:* The process of creating animation * The physicality of stop motion animation* The role of the director* The concepts of time and energy in film editing and more.Experience.Computer is a slow radio show about high tech. Exploring aphantasia, creativity, and the imagination.QUOTES“Once it's done, I'm like, I can't look at it. Like, I need time. You know? Like, I need to be detached from...
2024-03-111h 25
Experience.ComputerDougald HineJay Springett leads writer and social thinker Dougald Hine through a series of imaginative exercises.Then they discuss:* How the internet came in like a tide* The importance of attention and presence* The significance of writing by hand and its impact on self-expression and communication* The power of conversation and its ability to shape and influence ideas and moreExperience.Computer is a slow radio show about high tech. Exploring aphantasia, creativity, and the imagination.QUOTES“And then you said symbolism and suddenly my...
2024-02-121h 23
Experience.ComputerReza NegarestaniJay Springett leads philosopher and writer Reza Negarestani through a series of imaginative exercises. Then they discuss:* The experience of handling ancient relics* The nature of thinking* His favourite video game* The very concepts of consciousness and intelligence* Philosophy, Intelligence and AI and moreExperience.Computer is a slow radio show about high tech. Exploring perception, experience and expression.QUOTES“You know, I think that the art of forgetting is fundamental to rescuing good ideas.”“When I reflect on it...
2024-01-151h 26
Experience.ComputerJulia PottJay Springett leads award-winning British animator and illustrator Julia Pott through a series of imaginative exercises.Then they discuss:* The role of memories and emotions in creating art* The Influence of dreams on creative work* The process of making animation and voice acting* The experience of directing a TV show* Imaginative exercises and their impact on ones art and moreExperience.Computer is a slow radio show about high tech. Exploring aphantasia, creativity, and the imagination.QUOTES“I feel like you're tr...
2023-12-181h 20
Experience.ComputerJ David OsborneJay Springett leads author and podcaster J David Osborne through a series of imaginative exercises. Then they discuss:* The concept of sensory and perceptual experiences* The sensation of visualising numbers and mathematical operations* The feeling of the sacred* Chat app UX, and social media* The shape of stories * Using different software for writing and moreExperience.Computer is a slow radio show about high tech. Exploring perception, experience and expression.QUOTES“A hyper real crunch. The crunch. The ultimate crun...
2023-12-181h 18
Experience.ComputerExperience.Computer Season 1 | TrailerIn 2022 writer and host Jay Springett discovered he had aphantasia - the inability to voluntarily create mental images in one's mind. For 36 years he thought 'picture this' was a metaphor. Experience.Computer is slow radio about high tech. Exploring perception, experience and expression. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit experience.computer
2023-12-0901 min
Agitator[PREVIEW] Ghost in the Tome #5: Only Forward (w/ Jay Springett)On this episode, JDO talks to Jay Springett about Michael Marshall Smith's PKD-award-winning 1995 surreal cyberpunk novel Only Forward. This controversial book is notorious for making a hard left turn from hyperviolent mid-90s sci-fi into full-on dreamworld magical realism, and then making yet another hard turn into stark realism.It's an amazing book, a hilarious stream-of-consciousness packed with chaos magick irreverence, and Jay and I use the book as a springboard to talk about the reality of the spirit world, interactive novels, and ultraviolence.
2023-10-2305 min
AgitatorDavid Simmons "Whole Time" VOIDCON ReadingDavid Simmons reading his story "Whole Time" at VOIDCON 2023. Shouts out to Jay Springett for the audio production.
2023-10-2018 min
Lost Xplorers158 - The Mind of the PhotographAre aesthetics a kind of philosophy? What is the most important photo of all time?
Kris’s birthday celebration, shoutout to Jay Springett, starting the day off right, The Miracle Morning, Gus encounters a passed-out junkie, Pat Murphy’s Points of Departure, (JDO incorrectly states that Tea with the Black Dragon won the 1984 PKD award; it was actually The Anubis Gates; TWTBD was the runner-up), Thomas Merton, Gary Snyder’s The Real Work, calamities that lead to epiphany, (the book JDO is trying to remember is Honest to God by John Robinson), Ralph Eugene Meatyard, every photograph is a s...
2023-07-061h 41
Solarpunk Presents50 Shades of SolarpunkAriel and Christina open Season 3 with a chat about what solarpunk, or, at least this solarpunk podcast, is setting out to achieve… according to how Ariel sees it. With her occasionally curmudgeonly devil’s advocacy, Christina provides the nuance we need as we push through topics, including the definition of solarpunk in a time of slippery postmodern language (that, in true solarpunk fashion, changes according to cultural context and locale), the Anthropocene and its multiple issues, mix-tape metaphors, Ursula K LeGuin’s Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, aesthetics (of course), infrastructure as resistance, and a liiiiittle bit of academic theory...
2023-06-1928 min
Agitator[PREVIEW] 88 - Terminal Boredom: Proto-Cyberpunk, Mindless Violence, and Predicting the FutureOn this episode we have the host of 301, Jay Springett, on to talk about Izumi Suzuki’s proto-cyberpunk, character-based short story collection Terminal Boredom. This is a unique episode of Agitator, in that we actually talk about the book. As Jay puts it, it’s “punk as f**k.”We talk about:Foghorn Leghorn, guests who listen to the show, Hit Parade of Tears, Suzuki's hand in inventing cyberpunk, her husband’s jazz, SF Magazine, mothers becoming chairs, Black Mirror style, not believing what you see on TV, natural vs. artificial insemination, the GETOZ, cyberpunk vs. slice...
2023-04-1305 min
Agitator[PREVIEW] The Bearable Costs of Being a WriterJay Springett sent me this Esquire article about a woman who feels like she let her parents down in their time of need by pursuing the low-income life of a writer. It's a great article, well worth the read, that gave me about 18 minutes' worth of thoughts.I can certainly relate to what Chung is saying. So what do we do about it?
2023-04-0405 min
Agitator[PREVIEW] 76 - Worldrunning and the Vertical of One (ft. Jay Springett)Jay texted me today wondering why the free episodes weren't on Patreon too. That is a damn good question. I'll work on getting the backlog on here, but for now I'll start crossposting. In his words, "I only want one Agitator feed in my podcatcher." Makes sense to me! Agitator Z for the week will be along in the next few days. Hope everyone is doing well!Kelby's out this week welcoming a new kid into the world, so I had one of my smartest friends, writer, solar punk innovator, host of 301 and the upcoming experience.computer...
2023-01-1905 min
Unsee The FutureUnsee The Future: The Hopeychattybits – meeting Jay SpringettTimo Peach meets artists, solarpunks and changemakers re-imagining the stories we think we're in.
In the first of this ten-part series, Momo meets writer, theorist and strategist currently specialising in the distributed web and world running. Co-founder of solarpunks.net he’s been a central figure in the solarpunk movement for most of it’s existence. He’s also the maker of 301 Permanently Moved podcast and host of Come Internet With Me.
“We have access to an abundance of independently created art from all over the world. And yet the kinds of movies being made, and the types of stories that are...
2022-02-2546 min
utopian drivelAmbitionsNew Years’ resolutions, like lottery scratch cards, are best as a meditation on the direction of your life rather than a concrete plan for your future. I had an ex who made new years’ resolutions, and he still does. I never do. It suits his optimistic personality, but for me, it’s just giving myself another way to fail. Years ago, however, I read that Benjamin Franklin tried to make himself a better man by carrying a card on which were listed 13 virtues, and each day he’d choose just one to focus on. Let’s ignore what his virtues we...
2022-01-2607 min
Near Future Laboratory PodcastN°22 — JaymoJaymo a/k/a Jay Springett is a writer, podcaster, strategist, currently specializing in the distributed web, metaverse, and world running. He works with individuals and organisations to create cohesive worlds. Hybrid environments made up of people, places, technologies and the cultures they create together. You can find him and his work at thejaymo.net.
Here are some links to some of the material, references, and topics we covered:
Interdependence Ep. 22: This is All Happening Right Now: Solarpunk, cultural fracking and the real Jurassic Park with Jay Springett
Permanently Moved Podcast
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2021-12-261h 18
Interdependence GuestsThis is All Happening Right Now: Solarpunk, cultural fracking and the real Jurassic Park with Jay SpringettBack with a conversation with a special person and close friend of the podcast Jay Springett
Jay is a writer, theorist and podcaster who falls into a special category of people where we can say with some confidence that whatever they are thinking about will be commonplace in a few years. We discuss a passion of his, Solarpunk, cultural fracking, universe construction, permaculture, Russia’s real jurassic park, K pop and the factory model, reality modelling and aerospace, conspiracy theories and much more.
Can’t recommend enough that you check out Jay’s various cultural contributions, and hope you are all ha...
2020-12-241h 45
InterdependenceThis is All Happening Right Now: Solarpunk, cultural fracking and the real Jurassic Park with Jay SpringettBack with a conversation with a special person and close friend of the podcast Jay SpringettJay is a writer, theorist and podcaster who falls into a special category of people where we can say with some confidence that whatever they are thinking about will be commonplace in a few years. We discuss a passion of his, Solarpunk, cultural fracking, universe construction, permaculture, Russia’s real jurassic park, K pop and the factory model, reality modelling and aerospace, conspiracy theories and much more.Can’t recommend enough that you check out Jay’s various cultural contri...
2020-11-171h 17
ChannelThis is All Happening Right Now: Solarpunk, cultural fracking and the real Jurassic Park with Jay Springett Back with a conversation with a special person and close friend of the podcast Jay SpringettJay is a writer, theorist and podcaster who falls into a special category of people where we can say with some confidence that whatever they are thinking about will be commonplace in a few years. We discuss a passion of his, Solarpunk, cultural fracking, universe construction, permaculture, Russia’s real jurassic park, K pop and the factory model, reality modelling and aerospace, conspiracy theories and much more.Can’t recommend enough that you check out Jay’s various...
2020-09-301h 45
utopian drivelMeghanomania and the Big BongEverything seems to be of a piece at the moment. News stories that, on the face, have no connection, somehow seem to make sense, to rhyme. Clicking between a few news articles in my browser, I closed one lamenting Meghan Markle’s influence on Harry Windsor and another popped up with the headline 'Bung a bob for a Big Ben bong'. I pinched the top of my nose and closed my eyes. What the fuck is happening to me? I thought. I opened them again: a former TV show host and journalist who made a career with outrageous polemics ag...
2020-01-1715 min
Liber OhioOCCULTURE 123: Dr. Kasper Opstrup // Cultural Alchemy, Avant-Garde Social Movements & The Invisible InsurrectionHopefully by now you've heard the last episode with Gordon White and Jay Springett, because it is a great companion piece to the conversation you're about to hear with our guest, Dr. Kasper Opstrup. Kasper is a writer and researcher of what he calls radical culture, specializing in concatenations of art and literature, radical politics, and occultism as counterculture and underground phenomenon. Kasper published his PhD in book form back in November 2017. It's called The Way Out: Invisible Insurrections and Radical Imaginaries in the UK Underground 1961-1991. His book charts a hidden history of experiments with cultural...
2019-02-261h 02
Liber OhioOCCULTURE 122: Gordon White & Jay Springett // Solarpunk, Hopepunk & The Magic of Envisioning a Better FutureWe've got a really cool episode here with Gordon White and Jay Springett. Most of you know Gordon. He's been here before, back in episode 66, and he's the man behind the magic at the Rune Soup blog and podcast. He's also the author of three books, StarShips, The Chaos Protocols and Pieces of Eight. And some of you in the Twitterverse surely know Jay. He's @thejaymo out in those parts. Jay will tell us a bit about himself up front in the chat here, so I won't repeat any of that, but this chat is focused on one of...
2019-02-121h 04