Best Cadell Last Podcasts (2025)

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Self-Actualization in the Global Brain with Cadell Last of Philosophy Portal 1:11:21

8d ago1:11:21

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This week’s guest is Cadell Last, the creator of Philosophy Portal, author of Global Brain Singularity and Real Speculations, and organizer of myriad conferences, anthologies, and collaborative volumes exploring biocultural evolution, the mind-matter relation, and speculative futures. Cadell has been the director of psychedelic research at Psirenit…

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The Architecture of The Next Creative Economy with Michael Dean 1:24:19

29d ago1:24:19

1:24:19

This week’s guest is the singular Michael Dean, who graduated from architecture school and played in a band before spending years in tech working on virtual reality, only to metamorphose into one of the best essayists I’ve ever read. With support from Humans On The Loop supporters O’Shaughnessy Ventures and Cosmos Institute, Dean is now decoding th…

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Episode 37: Brad Kelly - Method, Madness and the Tarot (Preview) 20:32

1M ago20:32

20:32

Author, podcaster and master of the ancient art of Tarot, Brad Kelly joins us for a conversation about magic, myth, storytelling, and his new show Method and Madness. This is a preview. Listen to and watch full episodes of Strange Exiles at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠strangeexiles.substack.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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The Art & Technology of Conversation with Robert Poynton 1:26:34

1M ago1:26:34

1:26:34

“When I have a rich, powerful, mind expanding, mind bending conversation like this, I'll need to go and lie down in darkened room afterwards.”– Robert Poynton This week’s guest is my friend and inspiration Robert Poynton, Founder of Yellow Learning, Associate Fellow at the Saïd Business School at Oxford, and author of three beautiful short books — …

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Scale Theory: Contemplating Everything-At-Onceness with Joshua DiCaglio 1:54:47

2M ago1:54:47

1:54:47

This week’s guest my friend Joshua DiCaglio, Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University and author of the fabulous Scale Theory: A Nondisciplinary Inquiry. It’s a book bout how contemplating scale can transform us — how it’s one thing to understand the microcosm and macrocosm through our maps and another thing entirely to really sit wit…

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Jim O'Shaughnessy on Creativity, Crisis, and Trust as The Fabric of Society 1:38:17

2M ago1:38:17

1:38:17

This week Jim O’Shaughnessy (Website | X) joins Humans On The Loop to carry our first on-record conversation on Infinite Loops into bold new terrains! Jim is one of the most renowned investors and asset managers of all the time and the author of several hugely best-selling and influential books on investing, including What Works on Wall Street, Inv…

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Episode 36: Mark McG - DIY Dreamer (Preview) 17:30

2M ago17:30

17:30

The frontman of Glasgow punk-rap agitators The Girobabies discusses their new album Dreams Are Mental, and the beginning of a new era for his podcast You Call That Radio. This is a preview. Listen to and watch full episodes of Strange Exiles at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠strangeexiles.substack.com⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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CHRISTIANITY IN TRANSITION (w/ Christian Baxter) 1:39:44

2M ago1:39:44

1:39:44

Preparing for the second month in The Portal focused on Christianity in Transition: https://philosophyportal.online/christianity-in-transition

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Aishwarya Khanduja on Living Inquiry & Fostering Imagination 1:29:17

2M ago1:29:17

1:29:17

Where do we need boundaries, and where do we need flows? And how can we ensure that we can redistribute them according to the changing needs of any given moment? These are the kinds of questions I would ask if I were trying to meta-solve a meta-crisis, and this is why I’m glad to share this conversation with you. Today’s guest Aishwarya Khanduja, i…

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Why Psychosis Is Not So Crazy (w/ Stijn Vanheule) 1:34:36

2M ago1:34:36

1:34:36

To join the next two months at The Portal focused on Christianity in Transition, see: https://philosophyportal.online/christianity-in-transitionOr get involved by joining The Portal: https://philosophyportal.online/event-space--Why Psychosis Is Not So Crazy: https://otherpress.com/product/why-psychosis-is-not-so-crazy-9781635424423/--The Portal @ W…

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Episode 35: Jason Myles - Kayfabe Revolution (Preview) 34:15

2M ago34:15

34:15

The host of cult podcast THIS IS REVOLUTION joins us to talk about his new video essay series for Means TV on 'kayfabe politics'. This is a preview. Listen to and watch full episodes of Strange Exiles at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠strangeexiles.substack.com⁠⁠⁠.

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Matt Segall on Culture as The Lifeblood of The Machine Economy 1:18:48

3M ago1:18:48

1:18:48

This week I dialogue with Matthew David Segall, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Chair of the Science Advisory Committee for the Cobb Institute, and author of the Footnotes To Plato blog as well as numerous books on the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and Friedrich…

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Episdoe 34: Kier Adrian Gray - Beyond Identity Politics (Preview) 17:04

3M ago17:04

17:04

Kier Adrian Gray, author of the Recovering Anarchist blog unpacks activism, protest, anti-capitalism, identitarian theory and the joys of Substack. This is a preview. Listen to and watch full episodes of Strange Exiles at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠strangeexiles.substack.com⁠⁠.

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Andrew McLuhan on Needling The Somnambulists about How We've Never Been Autonomous 1:06:56

3M ago1:06:56

1:06:56

This week on Humans On The Loop I welcome Andrew McLuhan, author, teacher, and Director of The McLuhan Institute, a generational ark for media theory in a world that desperately needs more help understanding the relationships between our tools, our minds, and our society. Subscribe, Rate, & Comment on YouTube • Apple Podcasts • Spotify Please consi…

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De/Reconstruction with Jim Palmer, Brendan Graham Dempsey 2:21:40

3M ago2:21:40

2:21:40

This video is a conversation Conversation with Jim Palmer, Brendan Graham Dempsey on "De/Reconstruction" inspired by our upcoming seminar series in The Portal on "Christianity in Transition". To learn more: https://philosophyportal.online/christianity-in-transition

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Emerging Church, Capitalist Religion, Genesis Experience, Marxism & Politics (w/ Rob Zahn, Kevin Crouse, Helen Rollins, Timothee Bres, Pamela von Salbjar, Rebecca Rose Prentice) / The Portal Feb 2025 4:40:03

3M ago4:40:03

4:40:03

https://philosophyportal.substack.com/p/emerging-church-capitalist-religion Conversation time stamps: Beyond the Emerging Church w/ Rob Zahn, Kevin Crouse (0:09) Capitalist Religion w/ Helen Rollins (1:07:33) Genesis Experience w/ Timothee Bres, Pamela von Sabljar (2:25:20) Reflecting Marxism & Politics w/ Rebecca Rose Prentice (3:26:19) Throughout…

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J.F. Martel on Machines vs. Fractals, Black Box Personhood, and Navigating The AI Fairy Tale 1:18:04

3M ago1:18:04

1:18:04

Halfway through one of my favorite sci-fi novels, Charles Stross’ Accelerando, we tune in to the members of an interstellar first contact mission as they pass the time debating whether the Technological Singularity has happened yet. Spoiler alert: all of them are uploaded minds appearing in a consensus VR environment as various post-human avatars, …

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Episode 33: Tzusan - Haunted Cyberpunk (Preview) 14:32

3M ago14:32

14:32

Esoteric hip-hop wordsmith Tzusan discusses his new album Ponzu, influenced by the ghosts of Japanese Street Pop, William Gibson and Mark Fisher. This is a preview. Listen to full episodes of Strange Exiles at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠strangeexiles.substack.com⁠.

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Adah Parris on Neurodivergent Cyborg Shamans & Elemental Tech Ethics 1:18:31

3M ago1:18:31

1:18:31

Subscribe, Rate, & Comment on YouTube • Apple Podcasts • Spotify If you value this series, please consider becoming a patron here on Substack or with tax-deductible donations at every.org/humansontheloop (you’ll get perks either way). About This Episode This week we speak with “strategic futurist and pattern navigator” Adah Parris, a London-based w…

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Howard Rheingold on Lucid Life Online & Attention As A 21st Century Literacy 1:19:03

4M ago1:19:03

1:19:03

Subscribe, Rate, & Comment on YouTube • Apple Podcasts • Spotify If you value this series, please consider becoming a patron here on Substack or with tax-deductible donations at every.org/humansontheloop (you’ll get perks either way). Our next members hangout will be Saturday Feb 15th at 3 pm Mountain Time and I would love to see you in the mix! Ex…

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Jessica Clark on Making New Realities with New Media 1:19:28

4M ago1:19:28

1:19:28

Subscribe, Rate, & Review on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts This week I speak with author, futurist, and strategist Jessica Clark of Dot Connector Studio. Jessica has honed her skills for decades on a path that’s carried her from AAAS to The Library of Congress to The Encyclopedia Britannica to the Center for Media and Social Impact to The New …

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New Selves of Neural Media & AI as 'The Poison Path' with K Allado-McDowell 1:22:27

4M ago1:22:27

1:22:27

Subscribe, Rate, & Review on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts This week we speak with K Allado-McDowell, artist, musician, and co-founder of the Artists & Machine Intelligence program at Google. K pioneered human-computer co-authorship with the book Pharmako-AI, as well as Air Age Blueprint, Amor Cringe, and the graphic novel Outside, plus works …

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Futures Indistinguishable from Magic with Robin Sloan 1:24:33

4M ago1:24:33

1:24:33

Subscribe, Rate, & Review on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts This week I speak with New York Times best-selling author and creative technologist Robin Sloan about the themes of his inimitable novel Moonbound, one of those reads that wrapped me in a vortex of wonder and synchronicity, and raises questions like: Where is the line between technolog…

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Transcending (and Including) Partisan Debate with Stephanie Lepp 1:10:04

5M ago1:10:04

1:10:04

Subscribe, Rate, & Review on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts This week I speak with my friend Stephanie Lepp (Website | LinkedIn), two-time Webby Award-winning producer and storyteller devoted to leaving “no insight left behind” with playful and provocative media experiments that challenge our limitations of perspective. Stephanie is the former …

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Episode 32: Steve Toase - Unearthing the Invisible (Preview) 24:08

5M ago24:08

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Horror author, field archaeologist and anti-homelessness advocate Steve Toase on folk horror, falling through the cracks, and digging up the past. This is a preview. Listen to full episodes of Strange Exiles at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠strangeexiles.substack.com.

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Mycopunk Community Coordination with Christina Bowen of Socialroots 1:14:07

5M ago1:14:07

1:14:07

Subscribe, Rate, & Review on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts This week’s guest is my friend and inspiration, knowledge ecologist Christina Bowen. If I were to try and start a movement, I would call her first. Christina is CEO and co-founder of socialroots.io, an NSF- and Omidyar Network-funded software platform for cross-group collaboration that…

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Episode 31: Darren McGarvey - Killing Loki (Preview) 21:53

5M ago21:53

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Orwell Prize winning author, broadcaster and activist Darren McGarvey returns to discuss identity politics, working class culture, and his final rap album as Loki. This is a preview. To listen to full episodes of Strange Exiles, sign up at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠strangeexiles.substack.com

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The Inner Life of a Responsible Tech Practitioner with Benjamin Olsen 1:01:45

5M ago1:01:45

1:01:45

Subscribe, Rate, & Review on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts When technology gets byzantine, when the heady early years of cybernetic mysticism give way and our software engineers become the new priests of the Catholic institutions of Big Tech, maybe we can learn a thing or two from a Byzantine Catholic who’s made Responsible Technology their li…

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Reclaiming Attention from 'The Ravenous Maw of The Screen' with Richard Doyle 1:40:05

5M ago1:40:05

1:40:05

Subscribe, Rate, & Review on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts When, suddenly, the barrier between “imagination” and “reality” evaporates as our familiar notions of here/there, now/then, in/out, and other/self twist up into a ball of non-Euclidean spaghetti, whom better to help steer the course through these “turbulent philosophical waters” than R…

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📚🧙🏼‍♂️🦾 232 - Myth & Magic in Technological Metamodernism 1:06:00

6M ago1:06:00

1:06:00

Subscribe, Rate, & Review on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts ✨ About This Episode “The best academic lecture/slam poetry/sermon/magical invocation/attunement and invitation to engage I’ve experienced in a long while.”– Daniel Lindenbarger Next week, after nearly nine years of development, this show grows up to become Humans On The Loop, a transd…

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⏳🎨🔮 231 - Eric Wargo & J.F. Martel on Art as Precognition, Biblically-Accurate A.I., and How to Navigate Ruptures in Space-Time 1:33:17

6M ago1:33:17

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Subscribe, Rate, & Review on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts ✨ Support & Participate • Become a patron on Substack (my preference) or Patreon (15% off annual memberships until 12/21 with the code 15OFF12)• Make a tax-deductible donation to Humans On The Loop• Original paintings available as thank-you gifts for large donors• Hire me as an hourly …

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🐦‍⬛🐙🖤 230 - Jamie Curcio on Living in Mythpunk, Eldritch Complexity, and Finding The Bright Side of Dark Ages 1:00:53

7M ago1:00:53

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Subscribe, Rate, & Review on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts This week I talk with Jamie Curcio to ask, whom do we serve? Who gives us power, and to whom do we give ours? Where does that power come from? To whom do we sell our stories? We explore the world behind the world, linking Jamie’s writing and game world-building in the domain he calls m…

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Episode 30: Julie Reshe - Negative Psychoanalysis (Preview) 21:12

7M ago21:12

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A conversation with philosopher Julie Reshe, whose new book and online course offer a radically inverted take on the toxic positivity of therapy culture. This is a preview. To listen to full episodes of Strange Exiles, sign up at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠strangeexiles.substack.com

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👾🖼️🏯 229 - Sara Phinn Huntley on Making A Field Guide to DMT Entities 1:22:25

7M ago1:22:25

1:22:25

Subscribe, Rate, & Review Future Fossils on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts This week on Future Fossils I welcome back Sara Phinn Huntley (help her fight cancer!), a multimedia artist, writer, and researcher who has spent the last two decades exploring the intersection of psychedelics, technology, and philosophy. An intrepid psychonaut and carto…

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Episode 29: Valerie Solanas - Scum Like Us (Preview) 16:24

7M ago16:24

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Bram E. Gieben takes a deep dive into the revolutionary feminist writing of Valerie Solanas and Sarah Kane, and what it means for men. This is a preview. To listen to full episodes of Strange Exiles, sign up at ⁠⁠⁠⁠strangeexiles.substack.com

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Episode 28: Cadell Last - Christian Atheism (Preview) 20:52

8M ago20:52

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Cadell Last, founder of Philosophy Portal, joins us to talk about his unique online academy, and a new course on atheism. This is a preview. To listen to full episodes of Strange Exiles, sign up at ⁠⁠⁠strangeexiles.substack.com

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🧬🕰️⚗️ 228 - William Sarill on Intuition in Science & The Physics of Philip K. Dick 1:52:07

8M ago1:52:07

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This week we speak to multidisciplinary independent researcher William Sarill, whose life has traced a high-dimensional curve through biochemistry, art restoration, physics, and esotericism (and I’m stopping the list here but it goes on). Bill is one of the only people I know who has the scientific chops to understand and explain how to possibly un…

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🎙️🖇️🕸️ 227 - MG + Tim Adalin of Voicecraft: Network Philosophy, Caring Organizations, & Wiser Innovation 1:30:26

8M ago1:30:26

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This week on Future Fossils, I meet with the wonderful Tim Adalin of Voicecraft. Watch us get to know each other a little bit better on a swapcast (his edit here) that throws a long loop around the world. Tim is precisely the kind of thoughtful investigator I love to encounter in conversation. Enjoy! ✨ Support This Work • Buy my brain for hourly co…

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📚🧐🦾 226 - Stephen Reid on Technological Metamodernism 1:13:43

9M ago1:13:43

1:13:43

Subscribe, Rate, & Review on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts ✨ About This Episode How can we design virtuous technologies while acknowledging the complexity and unintended consequences of technological innovation? How can we foster curiosity, playfulness, and wonder in a world increasingly dominated by anxiety and technological determinism? This…

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🤰🏽🧐🕸️ 225 - Alyssa Allegretti on Sacred Domesticity and Hard Times in The Liminal Web 1:45:19

9M ago1:45:19

1:45:19

Subscribe, Rate, & Review on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts ✨ About This Episode If you’re wondering why this episode came later than I promised, well…look no further than the text and subtext of this very rich discussion: it ain’t easy being a scholar when your kids keep banging down the door. This week I speak with professional organizer, sin…

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Episode 27: Mike Watson - Ghost Machines (Preview) 15:22

9M ago15:22

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Author, critic and Revol Press founder Mike Watson discusses his new book Hungry Ghosts in the Machine: Digital Capitalism and the Search for Self. This is a preview. To listen to full episodes of Strange Exiles, sign up at ⁠⁠strangeexiles.substack.com

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🔍👁️🔮 224 - Helané Wahbeh of IONS on Arguments against Materialism and for New Theories of Consciousness 58:57

10M ago58:57

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Subscribe, Rate, & Review Future Fossils on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts ✨ About This Episode This week on Future Fossils we speak with Helané Wahbeh (LinkedIn), Director of Research at The Institute of Noetic Sciences, adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at Oregon Health & Science University, and author of over ninety …

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Episode 26: Roy Christopher - Freestyle Media (Preview) 15:20

10M ago15:20

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Author, journalist, media theorist and zine kid Roy Christopher joins us to discuss publishing, hip-hop, Afrofuturism and more. This is a preview. To listen to full episodes of Strange Exiles, sign up at ⁠strangeexiles.substack.com

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🔥🌎💒 223 - Timothy Morton on A New Christian Ecology & Systems Thinking Blasphemy 2:15:42

11M ago2:15:42

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Subscribe, Rate, & Review Future Fossils on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts ✨ About This Episode The world is getting hotter, faster, stranger, and scarier every year. Species disappear each day, life-critical diversity replaced with media, consumer goods, capital, and trash. And yet…what do any of us feel inspired to do about it? Why has humank…

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Episode 25: Book Launch Special - Liminal Cities (Preview) 36:24

11M ago36:24

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An interview with Revol Press founder Mike Watson, and an extract from the new book The Darkest Timeline by Bram E. Gieben. This is a 30 minute preview. To listen to full episodes of Strange Exiles, sign up at strangeexiles.substack.com

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👾🍄🧮 222 - Andrés Goméz Emilsson on Psychedelic Computer Science & The Mathematics of Consciousness 1:39:51

12M ago1:39:51

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Now also on YouTube! In this episode we’re joined by Andrés Goméz Emilsson, President and Director of Research at the Qualia Research Institute (QRI), with whom we go deep on their computational approach to probe the mysteries of consciousness and the psychedelic experience — and thereby, perhaps, make the world a substantially happier place. Join …

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Episode 24: Kieran Hurley - Beat Connection 1:15:34

12M ago1:15:34

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Kieran Hurley discusses his breakthrough Scottish rave culture classic Beats, how to kick off a career in the arts, and his life as an acclaimed writer for stage and screen.

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📯💗🌌 221 - Tom Morgan on Answering The Call of Destiny & Love As An Attractor 1:26:19

1y ago1:26:19

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“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is wh…

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🤖🌳📈 220 - Austin Wade Smith on Convivial Ecological Institutions and Open Source Commons for Sensemaking 1:20:09

1y ago1:20:09

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This week I riff with Austin Wade Smith (they/them) — an animist, designer, ecologist, and creative technologist based in Brooklyn, New York and the Executive Director of Regen Foundation, a US-based non-profit working with distributed ledgers and AI to design sovereign regenerative economics. Austin’s work explores opportunities for social, legal,…

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🙏🏽⛩🤖 219 - Joshua Schrei on Embodied Ethics in The Age of A.I. 1:29:37

1y ago1:29:37

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This week marks the beginning of Embodied Ethics in The Age of A.I., a six-week online course led by writer and teacher Joshua Schrei, host of The Emerald Podcast. This course is, in large part, inspired by an episode he wrote last year called “So You Want To Be A Sorcerer in The Age of Mythic Powers” — exploring the mythic dimensions of tech innov…

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