This week, we are featuring one of our favorite past episodes — a tender, intimate, and deeply grounding conversation with the psychotherapist and soul-activist Francis Weller. We recorded this conversation almost a year ago, however, it’s feeling very alive and timely to us now. Francis’ transmissive presence and his “soul obligation to register the rips […]
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danah boyd is a Partner Researcher a Microsoft Research, the founder and president of Data & Society, and a visiting professor at New York University. In this conversation from 2009, Rushkoff and boyd discuss how Myspace was turning into a “digital ghetto” as Facebook was becoming the dominant social media platform. Further, boyd explores the
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One of Long Now’s founding premises is that humanity’s most significant challenges require long-term solutions, including institutions that caretake and guide the knowledge and commitment needed to work over long time scales. However, there are a limited number of organizations that have managed to stay stable over many centuries, and in some cases, over a
Ryan Duns is a Jesuit priest and theologian. He is also an assistant professor of theology at Marquette University. In the first half of the episode, we talk about his book Spiritual Exercises for a Secular Age and some of the main figures who feature in it, including William Desmond, Charles Taylor, and Pierre Hadot.
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Author and lifelong community and climate activist Frank Brodhead helps us transform our rage and despair into hope and action. Why is environmentally-friendly policy never the focal point of political leadership? “I think so much of local politics has to do with maintaining the resale value of people’s main asset, that’s their home. The last
Dr. Sadler has been teaching at colleges and universities for over 21 years, and he is the author of one book and dozens of articles, chapters, encyclopedia entries, and online essays. He is also the President of ReasonIO, through which he gives public lectures, online classes, tutorials, and philosophical counseling sessions. He has created over
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David Pescovitz is a former research director at Institute for the Future and a former editor at Boing Boing and Wired Magazine. Rushkoff and Pescovitz explore the characteristics of innovative people, simulation theory, and the importance of wonder in a conversation originally aired on WFMU’s The Media Squat. You can access the full conversation now
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Reporter and writer Nathaniel Rich delves deep into conversation with Revive & Restore’s Ryan Phelan and Ben Novak to discuss his newest book “Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade”, which attempts to come to terms with the massive changes that are underway on our planet, and how humans can better understand our role to
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I’m back! Thanks for being here! In this episode we go for a long wander down some concepts in relationship and worldview that have been pivotal for me. They are concepts that encourage me, guide me and inspire me, and my hope with this episode is that they can do those same things for you.
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Chess Grandmaster, philosopher, author, and social entrepreneur Jonathan Rowson joins Terry to explore our global, civilizational predicament from new angles — inspired by his recent brilliant essay “Tasting the Pickle: Ten Flavors of Meta-Crisis and the Appetite for a New Civilization.” They go beyond its more recognized features such as COVID, the climate emergency, and
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