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Ep. 334
R.U. Sirius, Founding Editor of Mondo 2000 and author, discusses how intentional weirdness is a powerful tool for community and resistance when the fight for reality is being waged.
Ep. 332
Writer, editor, and Founder of Pleasure-Seeking.com, and host of the Pleasure Seeking podcast Camille Sojit Pejcha explore Pejcha’s recent sex trend forecast how sex has become a new subversion.
Ep. 331
Liana Gillooly, an advocate for purpose-built ecosystems and psychedelics, joins Rushkoff for a conversation about the evolving landscape of psychedelics. Gillooly discusses how to integrate activism into psychedelic use, the importance of ritual, and why sobriety and connection might be the future of psychedelics.
Ep. 330
Douglas Rushkoff reflects on the importance of joy and human connection amid vast global suffering. He offers a poignant reminder to follow our bliss.
Ep. 329
Matthew Remski, Host of Conspirituality and author of the forthcoming Antifascist Dad, helps us find a new kind of resistance to the atmosphere of violence in which we're living – the sweet spot for a new movement of mutual support.
Ep. 328
Duncan Trussell, comedian and Host of the Duncan Trussell Family Hour, joins Rushkoff to explore how we can best metabolize rising geopolitical tensions, the ways billionaires view the power of the AIs they’ve developed, the relationship between comedy and fascism, and the importance of human connection and community.
Ep. 327
Eliott Edge revisits his first book, Three Essays in Virtual Reality, while giving us a sneak preview of his thinking for his upcoming opus on Simulation theory. Edge is a critically-acclaimed author, artist, and international speaker. Edge has published and presented through The Institute of Ethics and Emerging Technologies, The University of Melbourne, Stevens Institute of Technology, Anthology Film Archives, The C.G. Jung Center, The Fenris Wolf, The Museum of Computer Arts, VRTO, Block Seoul, and Disinformation.
Ep. 326
Each supposed AI “problem” stems from a lack of imaginative capacity from us. We are refusing the opportunity to rethink more fundamental assumptions about the systems under threat.
Instead of acting like tech bros and reinforcing obsolete institutions in order to further entrench their extractive and inhumane monopolies, we can go deeper to discover what cracks are being revealed in this new media environment. Don’t shoot the messenger.
Ep. 325
De Kai, the man who built the world’s first global translators and AI systems, says we better learn to parent our AI offspring before it’s too late. The author of Raising AI argues how we behave in front of AI’s matters more than whatever we tell them.
Ep. 324
Playing for Team Human today, LatinX professor, and the author of Hospicing Modernity as well as the upcoming book Outgrowing Modernity, my favorite civilizational doula, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira.
Ep. 323
Playing for Team Human today, the author of Techgnosis, High Weirdness, and the just released history of the LSD medium Blotter, esoteric scholar Erik Davis.