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The Technosocial InstituteBeing Men 2023 with Robert Glover, Alexander Bard, John Aigner and Rowan Andrews This 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 Glover https://www.drglover.com/ Rowan Andrews https://www.rowanandrews.com/ John Aigner https://malevolution.org/en/ Alexander...2023-05-1752 min

The Technosocial InstituteOn Urbit with Jurij Jukic and Liam FitzgeraldIn 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 2023-05-081h 10

The Technosocial InstituteThe Process of Hominization: The Girard Sessions #3This 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 new Technosocial Institute website https://www.technosocialinstitute.co.uk/2023-04-271h 51

The Technosocial InstitutePsychedelic Superpowers with Alexander Bard, Shauheen Etminan and Zachary Adama In 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/Ontological-Design-Subject-Daniel-Fraga/dp/B09VWMV9Y8 And check out the new Technosocial Institute website https://www.technosocialinstitute.co.uk/ 2023-04-271h 44

The Jim Rutt ShowCurrents 073: Owen Cox and Daniel Fraga on Game CJim talks with Owen Cox and Daniel Fraga of the Technosocial podcast about their critique that the GameB movement has underestimated the importance of sex and violence... Jim talks with Owen Cox and Daniel Fraga of the Technosocial podcast about their critique that the GameB movement has underestimated the importance of sex and violence. They discuss the attempt to deal logically with illogical forces, the origins of the Game C joke, the limits of analytical systematization, coherent pluralism, whether GameB is a neo-Benthamism, sex & conflict as spiritual practice, how limits create pleasure clusters, Twitter wars as unacknowledged kink, the social...2022-11-261h 11

The Technosocial InstituteWagner, Nietzsche, Metamodernism and the Dark Renaissance with Brendan Graham DempseyBrendan 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/2022-02-161h 53

The Technosocial InstituteRaskolnikov's Choice with O.G. RoseDaniel 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/ 2022-01-242h 09

The Technosocial InstituteAnnouncing The Art of Being a Man (Starts 16th Jan) with Cadell LastCadell 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's work that expresses our shared interest in existential questions, continental philosophy, and Freudian psychoanalysis (and Heavy Meta...2021-12-281h 49

The Technosocial InstituteThe Meaning Crisis is Dead - Technosocial End of Yearer with Alexander Bard and Cadell LastCadell 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&hvlocphy=133318&hvnetw=s&hvqmt=e&hvtargid=kwd-80882977468569%3Aloc-188&keywords=digital+libido&qid=1639665249&sr=8-1 2021-12-161h 33

The Technosocial InstituteHow to Have Sex: Round 2 with Alexa VartmanAlexa 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 Technosocial https://www.patreon.com/technosocial Music by Salvatore Schiano http://www.salvatoreschiano.com/ Also on https://anchor.fm/technosocial 2021-09-141h 36

The Technosocial InstituteNetworked Power and Digital Conflict with John RobbJohn 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 Technosocial https://www.patreon.com/technosocialMusic by Salvatore Schiano http://www.salvatoreschiano.com/ Also on https://anchor.fm/technosocial 2021-08-201h 54

The Technosocial InstituteEcology, Ecognizance and the Environment with Edwin BywaterEdwin 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 2021-07-222h 17

UTOKing with GreggEp 15 | UTOKing with Daniel Fraga & Owen Cox | The TechnoSocial SingularityIn Episode 15, Gregg welcomes Daniel Fraga and Owen Cox. Founders of the TechnoSocial Podcast, Owen and Daniel are on the leading edge of thought exploring how new technologies will reshape human societies and allow humans to redesign themselves. In this episode, they explore the concept of "the singularity" as a powerful symbol of the transition to the digital age, and note how it intersects with technology, social organization, and the 5th joint point on the ToK System. Here is a clip where they explore the facets of the 21st Century singularity: https://www.y...2021-06-211h 43

The Technosocial InstituteThe Rise and Fall of the Universe with Alexander Ebert, Alexander Elung and Alexander BardThe 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, habits of nature vs. laws of nature, determinism and transdeterminism, Roger Penrose's physics, ontological design, ethics, the barred absolute, and aesthetics. Ebert's writing: https://badguru.substack.com/ Bards...2021-06-042h 45

The Technosocial InstituteThe Eternal and The Outside with Jean-Philippe MarceauJean-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/ Support Technosocial https://www.patreon.com/technosocial Music by Salvatore Schiano http://www.salvatoreschiano.com/ 2021-05-081h 07

The Technosocial InstituteMasculinity, Being and Technology with Ole BjergOle 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/ Support Technosocial https://www.patreon.com/technosocial Music by Salvatore Schiano http://www.salvatoreschiano.com/ Also on https://anchor.fm/technosocial 2021-04-201h 26

The Technosocial InstituteHow to Follow Your Inner Daemon with Peter LimbergPeter 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 tells us about his perspective on the culture wars, on politics, creativity, the internal daemon whose advice he follows, the relationship between parent...2021-04-161h 42

The Technosocial InstituteReligion, Desire and Machine Learning with Thomas HamelryckThomas 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. Support Technosocial https://www.patreon.com/technosocial Music by Salvatore Schiano http://www.salvatoreschiano.com/ Also on https://anchor.fm/technosocial 2021-03-211h 46

The Technosocial InstituteHow to Have Sex with Paris Cecilia Jayer and Timo JansenParis 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 & online courses: https://thenewtantra.com Start practising tantra at home for free: http://21daychallenge.com Book by TNT founder Alexa Vartman: http://50misconcep...2021-03-101h 27

The Technosocial InstituteLiving in the Wilderness, Facing Endings with Dylan WalkerDylan 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 death to consciousness. Support Technosocial https://www.patreon.com/technosocial Music by Salvatore Schiano http://www.salvatoreschiano.com/ Also on https://anchor.fm/technosocial 2021-02-151h 23

The Technosocial InstituteEmbodied Cognition and Psychosomatic Research with Sebastian ÖstlindSebastian 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 2021-02-081h 00

SuperstructureHistoricizing The Neoliberal Blockbuster (Preview)This Money on the Left/Superstructure teaser previews our second premium release from Scott Ferguson's "Neoliberal Blockbuster" course for Patreon subscribers. For access to the full video lecture, subscribe to our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure. If you are interested in premium offerings but presently unable to afford a subscription, please send a direct message to @moneyontheleft or @Superstruc on Twitter & we will happily provide you with membership access. Course Description This course examines the neoliberal Blockbuster from the 1970s to the present. It focuses, in particular, on the social significance of the blockbuster's constitutive technologies: both those...2021-01-1313 min

Money on the LeftHistoricizing the Neoliberal Blockbuster (Preview)This Money on the Left/Superstructure teaser previews our second premium release from Scott Ferguson's "Neoliberal Blockbuster" course for Patreon subscribers. For access to the full video lecture, subscribe to our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure. If you are interested in premium offerings but presently unable to afford a subscription, please send a direct message to @moneyontheleft or @Superstruc on Twitter & we will happily provide you with membership access. Course DescriptionThis course examines the neoliberal Blockbuster from the 1970s to the present. It focuses, in particular, on the so...2021-01-1313 min

The Technosocial InstituteDesire After Capital with Cadell Last and Raven ConnollyRaven 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 moment; ego, immortality and original perception; Cadell's notion of the invisible handjob of history; commodity fetishism; creative tension between objects; t...2021-01-111h 56

The Technosocial InstituteIs the Intellectual Underground Politically Naive? with Brent CooperBrent 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 train station but an arts centre (I swear I didn't mean it on purpose). Additionally, the Dutch artist and architect behind “New Babylon” is Constant Nie...2021-01-111h 09

The Technosocial InstituteThe Trap of Perfect Images: Sex, Death and Creation with Cadell LastCadell 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 memes are disrupted; how racial and gender struggles have replaced national and religious struggle; bringing language and knowledge to sexuality; Hegel, death and disappointment; re...2021-01-022h 33

SuperstructureWhy Do We Fall?: Introduction to the Neoliberal Blockbuster (Preview)This Money on the Left/Superstructure teaser previews our first premium release from Scott Ferguson's "Neoliberal Blockbuster" course for Patreon subscribers. For access to the full video lecture, subscribe to our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure If you are interested in premium offerings but presently unable to afford a subscription, please send a direct message to @moneyontheleft or @Superstruc on Twitter & we will happily provide you with membership access. Course Description: This course examines the neoliberal Blockbuster from the 1970s to the present. It focuses, in particular, on the social significance of the blockbuster's constitutive technologies: both those...2020-12-2315 min

Money on the LeftWhy Do We Fall?: Introduction to the Neoliberal Blockbuster (Preview)This Money on the Left/Superstructure teaser previews our first premium release from Scott Ferguson's "Neoliberal Blockbuster" course for Patreon subscribers. For access to the full video lecture, subscribe to our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure. If you are interested in premium offerings but presently unable to afford a subscription, please send a direct message to @moneyontheleft or @Superstruc on Twitter & we will happily provide you with membership access. Course DescriptionThis course examines the neoliberal Blockbuster from the 1970s to the present. It focuses, in particular, on the so...2020-12-2315 min

The Technosocial InstituteDrama and Dissociation: How Stories Possess Us with Jasun HorsleyJasun 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, and its (often unappreciated) power; archetypal possession; psychological operations; embracing uncertainty with regard to conspiracy; knowledge that cannot be integrated; practices for embodiment, and their commodification. F...2020-12-152h 01

The Technosocial InstituteOperative Traditions and Sacred Craft with Miguel A. FernandezMiguel 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 heroic path; knights templars and freemasons and their legacy in crafts; technique and technology; the constraint of bourgeois values; art as more than entertainment; ap...2020-12-091h 54

The Technosocial InstituteCyberdelia Fantastica with Carl Hayden SmithCarl 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 world of immersive and embodied technologies, our own perception of time and how psychedelics play into this. Support Technosocial https://www.patreon.com/technosocial Music by Salvatore Schiano http://www.salvatoreschiano.com/ A...2020-12-0851 min

The Technosocial InstituteNoomachia, the Internet and the End of Modernity with Aleksandr DuginIn 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 explore how his metaphysics fit into in the Internet age. We also ask him about the role of creativity in geopolitics, on his relationship with Chaos Magic and...2020-12-081h 27

The Technosocial InstituteSex, Women and Evolution with Raven ConnollyRaven 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 modern women repress and detach from their fertility; pregnancy and childbirth as female initiation ritual; adolescent development, aggression and self sabotage; modern education systems and ostracism; commodification and how it...2020-11-242h 16

The Technosocial InstituteScouts of the Noosphere Vol 3. Glastonbury and HyperstitionScouts 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/2020-11-031h 01

The Technosocial InstituteDigital Geopolitics with Dan FaggellaDan 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 online ecosystem compared with China's; how physical power interacts with digital power; noomachia, Russia and disinformation; industry and solidarity as foundations for po...2020-11-0252 min

The Technosocial InstituteScouts of the Noosphere Vol 2. Work, Organisation and CultScouts 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/2020-10-2153 min

The Technosocial InstituteCapitalism, Anarchs and Talking to the Outside with Meta-NomadMeta-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 inspire reality; how democracy shortens human time horizons, and the implications for civilisation; virtue signalling; tokenism in contemporary culture; Junger's idea of the anarch; how capitalism r...2020-10-141h 18

The Technosocial InstituteScouts of the Noosphere Vol 1. Egregores and SuperorganismsScouts 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/2020-10-101h 09

The Technosocial InstituteThe World as Will and Meme with MemeAnalysis (Chris Gabriel)Chris 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 development scene; tantra and crazy wisdom; old and new gods; the Donald; sex, masculinity and society; music subculture; the castration of art in current society; will, egoists and egotists; digital sexuality; and...2020-10-081h 17

ParallaxParallax vs Technosocial - Alchemy and ExodusOwen Cox and Daniel Fraga are the visionaries behind Techosocial, where they interview leading thinkers from the fringes of the internet, exploring how new technologies will reshape human societies and allow humans to redesign themselves. Me and Tom Amarque are working to make Parallax a new platform for great young thinkers such as these guys. We had a wonderful introductory conversation about the new paradigm, the current psycho-spiritual landscape, and how to escape the dying structures of a fallen world. Support this channel on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/andrewsweeny Links: Technosocial Parallax DON...2020-09-271h 29

The Technosocial InstituteA New Art Aristocracy with Rachel HaywireRachel 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 artists; exodus and outsideness; rhizomes; how the supposedly decentralised internet has centralised around Twitter, Joe Rogan and other core nodes; o...2020-09-271h 06

The Technosocial InstituteOperative Frameworks: Designing, Self, Society and the Machine with Moritz BierlingMoritz 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 social formations; the priestly function and the barred absolute; digital monasteries as the next power concentrations in society; the prospect of AIs ruling societies, and how to adapt; the c...2020-09-212h 06

The Technosocial InstituteArtificial Intelligence and PowerDan 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 public understanding of AI; the rapid increase in capability of AI image manipulation, and the end of the correspondence...2020-09-0354 min

The Technosocial InstituteArtificial Intelligence and Power with Dan FaggellaDan 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 public understanding of AI; the rapid increase in capability of AI image manipulation, and the end of the correspondence between i...2020-09-0355 min $The Dead Robots\' Society$ The Dead Robots' SocietyTechnosocial HazardsTechnosocial Hazards DRS Episode 577 Terry says science fiction authors have to become futurists to a certain extent. Then we push the envelope. Enjoy the show? Consider becoming a Patreon supporter and for as little as $1 a month, you can help keep the podcast free and receive exclusive content. More information at "http://patreon.com/drspodcast".2020-09-0154 min $Dead Robots\' Society$ Dead Robots' SocietyTechnosocial HazardsTechnosocial Hazards DRS Episode 577 Terry says science fiction authors have to become futurists to a certain extent. Then we push the envelope. Enjoy the show? Consider becoming a Patreon supporter and for as little as $1 a month, you can help keep the podcast free and receive exclusive content. More information at "http://patreon.com/drspodcast".2020-09-0154 min

The Technosocial InstituteHeavy Metal and Postmodern Shamanism with David BurkeDavid 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 theoretical project within it; heavy metal fashion and its roots in 60s, working class and gay culture; the self-mythologisation of metal as a re...2020-08-051h 06

The Technosocial InstituteHeavy Metal and Postmodern Shamanism with David BurkeDavid 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 theoretical project within it; heavy metal fashion and its roots in 60s, working class and gay culture; the self-mythologisation of metal as...2020-08-051h 05

The Technosocial InstituteCapitalism and the Antichrist with Justin MurphyJustin 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 Christian eschatology, and the overlap between capitalism, instrumental rationality and the antichrist; alternatives to instrumental rationality (using rationality to optimise certain outcomes; efficiency); J...2020-07-311h 05

The Technosocial InstituteLiminal Crisis and Psychological Wellbeing with Gregg HenriquesGregg 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 mindfulness, an internalised "wise elder"; Jordan Peterson, male pathos, and creating interpersonal spaces to explore and regulate it; curating a healthy, positively aligned superego; creative, pathic...2020-07-251h 02

The Technosocial InstituteJustification, Religion and the Origins of Culture with Gregg HenriquesGregg 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 building; technologies and how they inspire the theological ideas of an age; the history of premodern, modern and postmodern...2020-07-1558 min

The Technosocial InstituteAutocults, Algorithms and Alchemy with Alexander Bard and Patrick RyanAlexander 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 infantilization of post-1945 society; the flaws with current "revolutionary" political movements and Black Lives Matter; alchemy and its...2020-07-062h 01

The Technosocial InstituteCyberdelics and the Posthuman Frontier with Carl H SmithCarl 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 technology; distinctions between posthumanism and transhumanism; the concepts of tulpas and egregores as units of thought exchange and exploration; stories of Carl’s explor...2020-06-151h 05

The Technosocial InstituteWar for Eternity: The Philosophy of the New Far Right with Benjamin TeitelbaumBenjamin 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 time; a belief in a hierarchical caste society; an opposition to progress and mass society; the belief that we are at a time of disintegration at the...2020-06-031h 00

The Technosocial InstituteUnifying Psychology and the Fifth Emergence Point with Gregg HenriquesIn this conversation I spoke to Gregg 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 fifth emergence point; the fragmenting effects that the digital landscape has on society and...2020-05-261h 12

The Technosocial InstituteOn Debt, Sacrifice and the Plague with Daniel FragaThis 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; mythic interpretations of the coronavirus - the plague gods, the lord of the flies, the existential...2020-05-221h 09

The Technosocial InstituteEvolving Masculinity with David LionDavid 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 surviving in uncertain times. Find David here:http://evolving-men.com/about/https://www.facebook.com...2020-05-0755 min

The Technosocial InstituteUnifying Psychology and the Fifth Emergence Point with Gregg HenriquesGregg 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 fifth emergence point; the fragmenting effects that the digital landscape has on society and psyche, and the prospect of a 21...2020-05-011h 13

CrazyTalk PodcastCrazyTalk Ep14 - Amber Case and Andy Beach - The Value of Work <a href="https://archive.org/download/14crazytalkformay22010/14CrazyTalkforMay22010.mp3">5/2/2010: Crazy Talk “Shop Class as Soulcraft” the Value of Work</a> What is the value of work- of the trades and crafts, and those with an intimate knowledge of their machines? Has higher education been relagated to churning out indebted, middle-class “knowledge workers” performing to ambiguous standards of excellence in their cubicles? And what does this mean for the Facebook generation? Is our future cast in a virtual world of self-indulgence, lacking any self-reliance? ...2020-04-1439 min

The Technosocial InstituteCultural Decentralisation and Spiritual Class Structure with Daniel ThorsonThis is part 2 of our conversation with Daniel Thorson. We explore: the end of liberal humanism as a political and personal philosophy; confronting pain and escaping entrapment in one’s feelings; how times of collapse open a space for new leaders to step forwards; the spiritual class structure (for instance, an elite with money, education, time and exposure to top teachers and traditions, a middle class practicing yoga and reading Eckhart Tolle and other spiritual bestsellers, and a lower class dabbling in astrology and crystals); how cultural decentralization and the ability to access information online creates the illusion that we...2020-04-1344 min

The Technosocial InstituteOn Ontological Design with Daniel FragaThis 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 technological lineages; and the insight that we create technologies and then they create us, underlining the importance of becoming skillful artists and designers of our...2020-04-0347 min

The Technosocial InstituteAwakened Leaders and Systems Change with Daniel ThorsonThis conversation was recorded a couple of months ago, but its message feels very current. Our guest this time is Daniel Thorson, a resident at the Monastic Academy and host of the excellent Emerge podcast. In this, part one of our conversation, we discuss: the interconnectedness of systems change and personal growth, and how the minds we use to solve today’s problems are products of systems that are destroying themselves; the work of the Monastic Academy in creating awakened leaders; the importance of being able to hold multiple, sometimes contradictory perspectives within one’s worldview; Slavoj Zizek’s critiq...2020-04-0335 min

The Technosocial InstituteOn Debt, Sacrifice and the PlagueOwen 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-inwards as expansionary modernity is challenged; the sense that in 2020, shit is getting real; critiques of metamodernism and the...2020-03-181h 09

The Technosocial InstituteEvolving Masculinity with David LionDavid 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 surviving in uncertain times.Support Technosocial at:https://www.patreon.com/technosocialFind David here:2020-03-1055 min

The Technosocial InstituteOn Ontological DesignIn 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 technologies and then they create us, underlining the importance of becoming skillful artists and designers of our media and technological environments. Support Technosocial ath...2020-03-0147 min

The Technosocial InstituteCultural Decentralisation and Spiritual Class Structure with Daniel ThorsonDaniel Thorson is a resident at the Monastic Academy and host of the Emerge podcast.We explore: the end of liberal humanism as a political and personal philosophy; confronting pain and escaping entrapment in one’s feelings; how times of collapse open a space for new leaders to step forwards; the spiritual class structure (for instance, an elite with money, education, time and exposure to top teachers and traditions, a middle class practicing yoga and reading Eckhart Tolle and other spiritual bestsellers, and a lower class dabbling in astrology and crystals); how cultural decentralization and the ability to...2020-02-2645 min

The Technosocial InstituteAwakened Leaders and Systems Change with Daniel ThorsonDaniel Thorson is a resident at the Monastic Academy and host of the excellent Emerge podcast. In this, part one of our conversation, we discuss: the interconnectedness of systems change and personal growth, and how the minds we use to solve today’s problems are products of systems that are destroying themselves; the work of the Monastic Academy in creating awakened leaders; the importance of being able to hold multiple, sometimes contradictory perspectives within one’s worldview; Slavoj Zizek’s critique of Western Buddhism as the hegemonic ideology of late capitalism; how the pathologies of Western Buddhism show up in the...2020-02-1836 min

The Technosocial InstitutePlant Diets and Ecotopian Solutions 2020-02-1135 min

The Technosocial InstituteRethinking Global Food Systems with Jorge Arturo Zubieta Calvert and Sylvie RockelJorge Arturo Zubieta Calvert and Sylvie Rockel are food activists. In this, part 1 of our conversation, we talk about the absurdities of our current food systems, touching on wastage, unnecessary shipping, sterilising seeds and more. We dig into what it...2020-02-1146 min

The Technosocial InstituteFilm Your Sex Life! with Paulita PappelOur guest this time is Paulita Pappel, a Berlin based porn performer and producer and cofounder of Lustery.com, a website where couples upload their homemade sextapes. In this conversation we think about the absense of serious conversations around...2020-02-1144 min

The Technosocial InstituteStorytelling and Manhood with Andrew SweenyAndrew Sweeny is a blogger, musician and independent thinker. In part 2 of their conversation Owen and Andrew Sweeny continue their discussion of Joker, exploring the importance of storytelling in culture, the idea of fatherhood, the crisis in modern...2020-02-1146 min

New Books in TechnologyShannon Vallor, "Technology and the Virtues" (Oxford UP, 2016)The 21st century offers a dizzying array of new technological developments: robots smart enough to take white collar jobs, social media tools that manage our most important relationships, ordinary objects that track, record, analyze and share every detail of our daily lives, and biomedical techniques with the potential to transform and enhance human minds and bodies to an unprecedented degree.Emerging technologies are reshaping our habits, practices, institutions, cultures and environments in increasingly rapid, complex and unpredictable ways that create profound risks and opportunities for human flourishing on a global scale. How can our future be protected...2020-02-061h 12

New Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyShannon Vallor, "Technology and the Virtues" (Oxford UP, 2016)The 21st century offers a dizzying array of new technological developments: robots smart enough to take white collar jobs, social media tools that manage our most important relationships, ordinary objects that track, record, analyze and share every detail of our daily lives, and biomedical techniques with the potential to transform and enhance human minds and bodies to an unprecedented degree. Emerging technologies are reshaping our habits, practices, institutions, cultures and environments in increasingly rapid, complex and unpredictable ways that create profound risks and opportunities for human flourishing on a global scale. How can our future be protected in such challenging...2020-02-061h 14

When Science SpeaksEnhancing Education and Opportunities in STEM for Girls and Women of Color with Dr. Kimberly ScottDr. Kimberly Scott is a professor of women and gender studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University (ASU) and the founding executive director of Arizona State University’s Center for Gender Equity in Science and Technology (CGEST). She's a visionary leader and a business-savvy education administrator who is recognized as an international subject matter expert in STEM-related topics and advocacy that aims to enhance education opportunities for women and girls of color. Kimberly has published pieces in outlets such as the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, International Journal of Gender, Science, and Technology, Fe...2020-01-3131 min

The Technosocial InstituteJoker, Empty Fathers and the Darkness Within with Andrew SweenyIn this episode Andrew Sweeny and Owen dissect Joker, relating it to themes increasingly being discussed in the alternative media. We note how Joker represents the "death of the superhero movie", existing at the fringe of the comic book universe in a...2019-12-2651 min

The Technosocial InstituteEducation, Ego and World Transition with Zak SteinOur conversation with philosopher, futurist and author Zak Stein 2019-11-2455 min

The Technosocial InstituteTribe, Community, Survival, Ritual with Sebastian JungerOur conversation with journalist, author and film director Sebastian Junger 2019-11-0331 min

The Technosocial InstituteDigital Class Struggle and the 21st Century with Alexander BardPart 2 of our conversation with philosopher and futurist Alexander Bard 2019-10-2247 min

The Technosocial InstituteThe Absent Phallus and Netocracy with Alexander BardPart 1 of our conversation with philosopher and futurist Alexander Bard 2019-10-1542 min

The Technosocial InstituteMeaning in the Digital Age with John VervaekeThe first half of our conversation with John Vervaeke, professor of cognitive science and psychology at the university of Toronto and creator of the popular you tube series 'awakening from the meaning crisis.' In this portion we discuss what the meaning...2019-08-2454 min

The Technosocial InstituteMonetizing EducationOur latest conversation was with a guest who chose to remain anonymous. He recently left a teaching post at a higher education institution in Ireland after being charged with misconduct for taking work outside of the institution and for being critical...2019-07-1457 min

The Technosocial InstituteRight Brain Solutions with Iain McGilchristThis is the second part of our conversation with Iain McGilchrist. In this episode we continue our conversation about the right and left hemispheres of the brain, focusing on antidotes to the dominance of the left hemisphere.2019-07-0442 min

The Technosocial InstituteLeft Brain Society with Iain McGilchristThis is the first part of our conversation with Iain McGilchrist. In this episode we talk about the stifling of political and academic discourse, the right and left hemispheres of the brain, and Iain's theory that the left hemisphere has come to dominate in our times.2019-07-0446 min

The Technosocial InstituteRebel Wisdom with Alexander BeinerAlexander Beiner is the co-founder of Rebel Wisdom, we talk about political polarisation and inner growth as the antidote to it, covering shadow integration, confronting mortality and more.2019-06-241h 12

The Technosocial InstitutePorn and Censorship with Jerry BarnettJerry Barnett is an activist and founder of the Sex and Censorship campaign, we talked about the history of the porn industry and its regulation by the UK government, the Digital Economy act, free speech and our increasingly digital sexual lives.2019-06-241h 02

The Technosocial InstituteDiversity in Technology and Cybersecurity with Stephanie ItimiStephanie Itimi is a cybersecurity analyst, social entrepreneur, author and founder of Seidea, a social enterprise that equips women from ethnic minority groups with skills for the digital economy, we spoke about the barriers faced by women in the technology sector, the importance of diversity in cybersecurity, online threats faced by women and individuals from minority ethic backgrounds and protecting ourselves on the internet.2019-06-1946 min

The Technosocial InstituteWorking Smarter with Will StrongeIn this episode we discuss the proposal of a 4 day working work as well as general current and future attitudes toward work and labor.2019-06-1046 min

The Technosocial InstituteSocial Media in the Disinformation age with Elliot JonesElliot Jones is a researcher in the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos. We discuss fake news, disinformation, Russia and the future of politics in the digital age.2019-06-0157 min

The Technosocial InstituteUnderstanding Modern Life using Archetypes with PadPad is a business coach who works with and researches archetypes. We talked about mythology, personal growth, and how archetypes can help us understand the people and the changing world around us.2019-06-012h 08

The Technosocial InstituteThe Future of Mobile Gaming with Gary DeanGary Dean is an entrepreneur and founder of Quizl, a multimedia quiz app in development. We discuss mobile gaming, advertising in the digital age and being an entrepreneur.2019-06-012h 03

The Technosocial InstituteKnowledge CrisisAs an introduction to Technosocial, we discuss our thoughts on the current information climate, our inspiration behind starting a podcast and ask if is it possible to know anything at all.2019-06-012h 06

One Vision fintech fuseBlockchain and Financial Inclusion: We are all agenticIn the third episode of Rhetoriq podcast focused on Blockchain and Financial Inclusion, Arun and Efi speak to Rik Willard of the Agentic Group. Rik is a digital pioneer and thought leader focused on the emerging "Internet of Value", where the convergence of payments, security, financial inclusion, and the Internet of Things will greatly influence critical aspects of global business and personal value in the near- and long-term. Just as money drives business today, new forms of value will begin to take shape based on emerging digital economies, significantly altering our definitions of value to better suit our int...2018-10-2530 min

Radical PhilosophyDr Nicola Henry - Digital Abuse and HarassmentDigital Abuse and Harassment - Dr Nicola Henry explains about conceptualising technosocial sexual harms, what rape culture is and if the law has been able to keep pace with technology 2017-10-0500 min