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...

Markets Learn to Manufacture Intelligence and Politics Modernizes (Nick Land, Meltdown, Sentence 3)

This episode unpacks the third sentence from Nick Land's "Meltdown.""As markets learn to manufacture intelligence, politics modernizes, upgrades paranoia, and tries to...

Intoxicated by Truth: Plato's Symposium with Alex Priou

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 how authentic love i...

From Tech to Public Philosophy: Johnathan Bi on Production Quality and Patronage Networks

Johnathan Bi shares his journey from successful tech founder to independent philosophy lecturer, explaining why he walked away from founder equity to pursue his passio...

Plato's Republic with Nina Power and DC Miller: Philosophy, Repression, Madness, and Courage

I'm joined by Nina Power and DC Miller to discuss Plato's Republic. Topics include physical training and physical pleasure, philosophy under political repression, the ...