"Neo-China Arrives From the Future:" On Nick Land's Sino-Futurism (The Meltdown Lectures)

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 autonomous intelligence fr...

Montaigne, IVF & Embryo Selection, Q&A

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 & Embryo Selection,...

I Fell Off (It's So Over)

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 struggle over the past fe...

Urbit, Nockchain, and the Current State of Sovereignty Technology

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, detailing what's happene...

Soft-Engineering, Transversality, Human Security System (Nick Land, Meltdown, Sentences 7-8)

This episode unpacks the seventh and eighth sentences of Nick Land's "Meltdown," where "soft engineering slithers out of its box into yours" and "human security is lur...