All Episodes
Semantic Apocalypse & Life After Humanism with R. Scott Bakker
I talked to fantasy author, philosopher, and blogger R. Scott Bakker about his views on the nature of cognition, meaning, intentionality, academia, and fiction/fantasy...
Pathologies of Secular Cosmopolitanism with Ben Sixsmith
Ben Sixsmith (@BDSixsmith) is a British writer based in Poland. He has a new book out, called Kings & Comedians: A Brief History of British-Polish Relations. His work ...
Ethereum Smart Contracts & Political Engineering with Dave Hoover
Dave Hoover is a software engineer and expert developer of Ethereum smart contracts. He wrote the book Apprenticeship Patterns: Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craf...
Crypto-Current Religious Becoming with CryptoChamomile
CryptoChamomile works in the Silicon Valley crypto space. He was raised a Jehovah's Witness, went secular, then went Christian. We talk about Silicon Valley, the prob...
The Cultural Decay Rate, Traditional vs. Self-Publishing, and Talking to the Alt-Right with John David Ebert
John David Ebert is a cultural critic and the author of 26 books (with traditional publishers and self-published), including Art After Metaphysics, The New Media Invas...
Bronze Age Perversity with Mike Crumplar
Mike Crumplar (@mcrumps) wrote an essay in Jacobite about Bronze Age Pervert. That will be the initial pretext for our conversation. Where it goes from there, only tim...
Gender Accelerationism and Lesbian Neoreaction with Nyx Land
Nyx Land is a blogger and internet persona in the accelerationist sphere. She explains to me her ideas about gender accelerationism and lesbian neoreaction. I believe ...
A conversation with Joshua Strawn
We talked about Joshua's music career, theory and psychoanalysis, Josh's time at the New School, Christopher Hitchens, neoreaction and patchwork, internet culture, ins...
Motives and Institutions with Robin Hanson
Robin Hanson is an economist, futurist, and blogger at overcomingbias.com. His recently published book, co-authored with Kevin Simler, is called The Elephant in the Br...
Ideology, Intelligence, and Capital with Nick Land
Nick Land is a British philosopher and one of the main figures in the school of thought known as accelerationism. He is currently writing a book about the philosophica...
On French Philosophy with Taylor Adkins
Taylor Adkins is a translator of French philosophy. He has translated influential books by Félix Guattari, such as Machinic Unconscious (Semiotext(e) 2010), and lesser...
The Political Science of Genetic Explanations with Elizabeth Suhay (#19)
Given that debates about genetics and inequality are back in the spotlight today, instead of joining that debate I am more interested in exploring social-scientific an...
#18 - Sean Trainor
Sean Trainor (@ess_trainor) is an historian, educator, writer, and podcaster. Sean has written for The Atlantic, TIME, Salon, and many other venues popular and academi...
#17 - Roman Montero
Roman Montero is the author of "All Things in Common: The Economic Practices of the Early Christians." We had a long conversation about religion and communism (duh), C...
#16 - Uriel Fiori
Uriel Fiori is a theorist and translator based in São Paulo, Brazil. He's an expert on the work of Nick Land, having translated and archived many of the various fragme...
#15 - Philipp Streicher
Philipp Streicher is a doctoral researcher in Informatics at the University of Sussex. Philipp studies photic brain stimulation, i.e. the use of light to boost brain a...
#14 - Greg Osei
I've always been drawn to performers because I'm interested in the aesthetics of existence; I'm not a performer but I do want to exist more truly, which is to say, mor...
#13 - Geoffrey Miller (Part 2 of 2)
Geoffrey Miller is an evolutionary psychology professor at the University of New Mexico in the USA, and is best known for his books The Mating Mind (2001), Mating Inte...
#12 - Geoffrey Miller (Part 1 of 2)
Feminist implications of Darwin and the politics of sexual selection. How the advent of bodyguards affected sexual politics. How to critique capitalism with evolutiona...
#11 - Will Sharkey
Will Sharkey is an ultraleft Catholic schoolteacher and Philosophy PhD. He is a member of the UK-based anti-capitalist organization Plan C. You can find more about Wil...
#10 - Ilan Zvi Baron
Ilan is a "reluctant Zionist" and I don't know many Zionists so I wanted to ask him about that. Unlike many of my podcasts, this one is actually pretty focused on this...
A Talk on "Immediate Collective Liberation"
This is the audio from a talk I gave to Plan C London on January 19, 2016. The slides associated with this talk are available on my website.
#9 - Sam Berkson
Sam Berkson is a poet and blogger. Sam is a really passionate and active writer, performer, and organizer (of culture and politics) in London. We recorded this podcast...
#8 - Russell Bentley
Russell Bentley is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Southampton, where he researches and teaches across the history of political thought, from ancien...
#7 - Mindy Isser
There's a tiny bit of static at the beginning but it goes away! Mindy Isser writes a low-key advice column newsletter in all lowercase. She is a labor organizer but al...
Other Life #6 - Diana S. Fleischman
Diana S. Fleischman is an evolutionary psychologist, currently Senior Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth. Her interests include sex, disgust, veganism, utilitari...
Other Life #5 - Dan Goss and Rosie Hiscock
Dan Goss is a happy revolutionary. Unlike me Dan actually works hard on many active political campaigns. We first met through Plan C. Although Dan is a very committed ...
You communists!
Most people think "communism" is crazy but actually it's really easy and hilarious. We're already doing it and it's great. Here, we teach you exactly how to start now.