In this episode, I’m speaking with Peter Limberg. Peter is the creator of the Intellectual Explorers Club in Toronto, CA as well as co-author of ‘Memetic Tribes and Culture War 2.0’, a recent medium article that has been very popular in my odd corner of the internet. In this conversation we chat about memeplexes, grey […]
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Nora Bateson is a Filmmaker, writer, educator, lecturer and President of the International Bateson Institute. In this conversation we discuss how systems learn and evolve, the importance of moving between contexts, how our dreams of incremental change have failed, and the how system change will likely emerge from the liminal space between institutions. — Support
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“This time is different.” Historians: “Ha.” “The Net is net beneficial.” Historian Niall Ferguson: “Globalization is in crisis. Populism is on the march. Authoritarian states are ascendant. Technology meanwhile marches inexorably ahead, threatening to render most human beings redundant or immortal or both. How do we make sense of all this?” Ferguson analyzes the structure
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In this episode John Michael Greer and I discuss his ‘Kek Wars’ article series on how the Chans used magick to influence the 2016 elections. We talk about political campaigns as magical performance, 4chan as the collective unconscious of the internet, the lefts failure to recognize a politics of existential crises, the myth of progress,
Peter explores with psychologist Davood Gozli. Davood Gozli The title of this post is a slightly altered version of an essay title by Sigmund Freud, “Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through,” in which he briefly describes the development and the task of analysis. With regard to development, he writes about replacing the method of hypnosis with
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The legacy of Ursula K Le Guin: http://www.ursulakleguin.com/ lives beyond the page in generations of writers who have learned from her. She used fantastic fiction to imagine ideals for the real world. Kim Stanley Robinson, her student 40 years ago and now a celebrated science fiction writer himself, reflects on Le Guin the teacher, her
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Peter explores with writer Conor Barnes on their white paper Memetic Tribes and Culture War 2.0. Full paper: https://medium.com/intellectual-explorers-club/memetic-tribes-and-culture-war-2-0-14705c43f6bb List of Memetic Tribes: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/11Ov1Y1xM-LCeYSSBYZ7yPXJah2ldgFX4oIlDtdd7-Qw/edit
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Roope Kaaronen is a Doctoral Candidate at the Environmental Policy Research Group at the University of Helsinki. His research interests include pro-environmental behavior and cognition, the socio-cognitive aspects of environmental crisis, and the organization of science in society. His research draws on embodied cognitive science, ecological and environmental psychology, affordance theory, philosophy of science and
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On this episode of Emerge I’m speaking with Zak Stein. Zak is a writer, educator, and futurist working to bring a greater sense of sanity and justice to education (and beyond). Zak joins me on the show to speak about his recent paper in the Integral Review titled Love in a Time Between Worlds: On
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With her stunning breakthroughs in neural imaging, Mary Lou Jepsen is making the brain readable (and stimulatable) in real time. That will revolutionize brain study and brain medicine, but what about brain communication? Could a direct high-resolution interface to the brain lead to what might be called practical mental telepathy? What are the prospects for
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