In this appropriately seasonal episode, John Anderson joins me for a follow up conversation to explore the differences between the weird and the eerie, drawing from the late Mark Fisher's same-titled book , an animistic take on hauntology, before wrapping up our conversation with a few spooky stories. Show notes: John's Patreon , Instagram The Weird and the Eerie, Mark Fisher...
Following Hurricane Ian, John Anderson joined me in St. Petersburg, Florida for an extended visit. We sat down one evening to (finally) record one the many longform conversations we've had the benefit of enjoying recently. Together, John and I explore the intersection of Chinese Medicine, Daoist philosophy, temporal arts, and animist attitudes towards not only weathering Anthropocene storms, but living and realizing the innate and creative wholeness that is our human spirit. ABOUT JOHN: John is ...
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A midnight recording I've dubbed "three theses on liminality." What definition of "liminal" would be satisfactorily descriptive as to the conditions of the present? Isn't our epoch, by definition, a kind of civilizational liminality? Three theses came together for me in this playful exercise. Liminality: a threshold, the interregnum (Gramsci), and the Janus-Faced World (Gebser)/Coyolxuahqui (Anzaldua) Imperative. Show notes: Joe Lightfoot's article, " The Liminal Web: Mapping An Emergent Subcult...
For this episode of Mutations, Henry Andrews joins me for a conversation on the emergence of "Hellametamodernism," the tensions between 'systems poets' and 'meta theory' in metamodern and Game B community discourse, and how Nora Bateson's "aphanipoiesis" offers a different approach to "going meta." BIO: Henry Andrews is self-taught Gravesian theorist whose interests include examining the theory with a critical eye, and searching for applications beyond those popularized through Spiral Dynamics. ...
Zachary Stein joins Mutations for a discussion on how The Dawn of Everything (Graeber & Wengrow) challenges and invites a re-envisioning of our developmental models, Stein's meta-psychology and how it approaches that challenge, and how renewing our political imagination is more important than ever for our time between worlds. BIO: Dr. Zachary Stein is a writer, speaker, and transformative educator working to bring a greater sense of justice and sanity to education. Zak was educated at Hampsh...
Please enjoy the audio from this year's Origins: A Cosmo-Local Gathering conference panel between Rudolf Hammerli (Swiss Gebser Society president, Novalis publisher), Aaron Cheak (former US Gebser Society president, Rubedo Press publisher), and myself. During the panel, Rudolf Hammerli shares his memories of Jean Gebser and additionally distills "four pillars" of Gebser's integral philosophy, with commentary by Aaron Cheak and myself. The segment concludes with a poetry reading by Michael Love, ...
Nora Bateson joins us for a panel discussion on " The Great Stage Theory Debate ." Panelists include Maimunah Mosli, a Muslim family psychotherapist from Singapore who brings a much needed non-Western voice to this discussion, and Jon Freeman, an author and Spiral Dynamics expert who is advocating for the usage of stage theory, and myself, attempting to hold the facilitator role as much as I realistically can. A follow-up Mutations monologue will be published soon with some more thoughts on how ...
Presented at the 50th annual Jean Gebser Society Conference, "Origins: A Cosmo-Local Gathering." St. Petersburg, FL chapter. "Mutations, Imagination, Futurability" is my introductory essay featured in the forthcoming Mutations - Issue Zero (Feb. 2022). Published by Integral Imprint. Gebser Conference: https://gebser.org/events/origins-conference/ Support Mutations podcast and join the community (Discord, Zoom calls, early publishing, Q&A) : https://www.patreon.com/jeremyjohnson Read more abo...
In episode 23 of Mutations, I talk with Jeremy Lent about his new book: The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe . Lent's newest work proposes an integrated worldview very much in the philosophical spirit of the scholars and teachers we explore on Mutations (integral philosophy, theory, etc.). At the time of recording this, I was just coming down from the whirl of regenerative possibilities explored in the Integrales Forum panel, " Becoming...
Mutations speaks with Adam Ray Adkins of The Acid Left project on Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism, the felt sense of time and consciousness in our cultural phenomenology, and the role of creativity, art, and even spirituality on the Left for imagining a better world. The Acid Left on FB: https://www.facebook.com/theacidleft | On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbLjoC_tct5byCV6JBoQPtA/featured | Support The Acid Left on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidleft ___ Mutations on Twitter...
November 24, Barbara Karlsen and Brandt Stickley return to Mutations for a community call on embodying integral consciousness and exploring what they mean by the "aperspectival body." | Barbara Karlsen : http://www.barbarakarlsen.com , | Brandt Stickley : https://www.brandtstickley.com | Stay up to date on the next Mutations salon: https://jeremydjohnson.substack.com | Support Mutations: https://www.patreon.com/jeremyjohnson...
Solo stream on Wednesday, Nov. 18 with Q&A. Talking about how we can make our way from globalization to planetization, my question for Noam Chomsky on the recent Stoa talk, reflections on P2P Theory, Gebser and decolonization, and generally exploring the "integral futurism" in next year's book ( Fragments of an Integral Futurism ). Event: The Aperspectival Body , ft. Barbara Karlsen and Brandt Stickley. November 24 @ 1 pm ET / 10 am PT. Register here (on Zoom) . Mutations Podcast: https://an...
In this episode of Mutations, I speak with Michel Bauwens about the role of the commons for cultural evolution, the resurgence of P2P (Peer-to-Peer) networks during the global pandemic, and glimpses of integral, post-capitalist futures. Michel Bauwens is the founder and Vision Coordinator of the P2P Foundation and works in collaboration with a global group of researchers in the exploration of peer production, governance, and property. Michel is also the director of research of CommonsTransition....
In this episode (cross-published with Growing Down) I talked with Ben Burgis. Ben is a philosophy instructor at Georgia State University Perimeter College, a Jacobin columnist, and the host of the “Give Them An Argument” podcast and YouTube show. He is also the author of Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left and the forthcoming Canceling Comedians While the World Burns: A Critique of the Contemporary Left. During the session, we touched on the cosmopolitan socialism of our mutual friend, the...
A riff on the meaning of "planetary" culture, thinking, and ontology. This week I riffed on the nomenclature starting first with Eugene Thacker's via negativa and cosmological approach in In the Dust of this Planet and Lynn Margulis's biological approach in Symbiotic Planet . Next week we'll explore the socio-political dimensions of this inquiry by revisiting Against the Web (Michael Brooks), Gaia, a Way of Knowing: Political Implications of the New Biology (William Irwin Thompson), and A Sociab...
For the fifth episode of MUTATIONS, I am pleased to bring you Michael Brooks . Michael is a political journalist, integral thinker, and host of The Michael Brooks show . Together we explore the Intellectual Dark Web (the subject of his upcoming book from Zero Books) and Jordan Peterson. We also consider the alternative depth psychologist, James Hillman (who arguably speaks more from the left), the applicability of Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory to politics, a need in the consciousness culture for ...
This talk, “Transcending Cancel Culture Critique: An Integral Left with Jeremy Johnson,” was presented at The Stoa on 8.25.20. Watch the video here . Thanks again to Peter Limberg for inviting me to present this talk and for permission to cross-publish on Mutations podcast. Please check out my accompanying article for this talk ( read that here ) where I break down the “ three literacies ” I think we need before we can have a substantive conversation about “transcending” cancel culture. Note: We...
Livestreamed episode of Mutations Salon podcast on August 4, 2020. Riffing notes on my book writing process ( Fragments of an Integral Futurism ), review of literature (Byung-Chul Han’s The Scent of Time , Andreas Malm’s The Progress of this Storm , and James C. Scott’s Against the Grain particularly), integral temporics, climate and “temps” (as Walter Benjamin commented on), and regenerative futures. Thanks to all who participated in Q&A! Homepage // EPO (Ever-Present Origin) on Kindle // S...
[Crossposted from Growing Down podcast] Jeremy Johnson is joined by Ryan Nakade, Brent Cooper, Matthew T. Segall, Brad Kershner and Layman Pascal to honor the memory Michael Brooks (1983-2020) and discuss his contributions to integrative thinking in politics, "cosmopolitan socialism," and where we go from here in solidarity. Recorded on 7/25/20. Watch the YouTube livestream of this talk . The struggle continues. #LeftisBest. #RestinPower. Show notes: Follow and support TMBS / TMBS Patreon / Agai...
In this episode, I am joined by Gordon White, host of Rune Soup podcast , a show about magic, culture and the paranormal. Gordon is the author of The Chaos Protocols , Star.Ships , and Pieces of Eight: Chaos Magic Essays and Enchantment . Note that I recorded this before the new year, in December 2019 , but if you listen until the end you might notice some oddly prescient comments about health and wellbeing in 2020. I begin my discussion with Gordon exploring the rise of communities of magical p...
Mutations truly go on! As we wade further into the murky complexities of the meta-crisis, I bring you an update from COVID-19 quarantine. This is a recording from 4/2/20. Part riff, part Q&A discussion with viewers as we explore how to navigate the “meta-crisis,” including helpful ways of looking the current world state and navigating to (latent), more beautiful futures. Themes of liminality, metaxis (“betweenness”), and integral ontology come into the picture right now , as we collectively ...
An episode for the Epiphany . I spoke with author, philosopher, and psychotherapist Mark Vernon about his 2019 book: A Secret History of Christianity : Jesus, the Last Inkling, and the Evolution of Consciousness . You may have already listened on Mark's YouTube channel . Great, but also be sure to tune in below for a new introduction. Mark has a PhD in ancient philosophy, with two other degrees in physics and theology. What brought us together was a mutual interest in the evolution of consciousn...
Greetings, mutants! During the Texts and Traditions colloquium in Seattle, WA, I stole away with John Anderson (author) and Brandt Stickley (foreword) to talk about The Way of the Living Ghost. About the book: "This enigmatic work by Dr Anderson combs through the Daodejing , line by line, in new translation giving robust commentary to the dark side of the Dao." It’s something like a book written by a hungry ghost, about how we , the living, are already hungry ghosts too. Forgive the sound qualit...
In this solo episode, Jeremy briefly reflects on his research for the upcoming publication, Fragments of an Integral Futurism (2019), and what that might mean for creating an integral culture. SHOW NOTES: David Graeber, " How to Change the Course of Human History " Thomas Moore, Utopia , Verso Books Edition with essays by China Mieville and Ursula K Le Guin PATREON : https://www.patreon.com/jeremyjohnson...
In episode 7 of Mutations podcast, I am joined by paleontologist-futurist Michael Garfield . Michael is an artist, podcast host (Future Fossils), musician, painter, philosopher--am I missing anything? Like me, Michael wears many hats. We recorded a back-to-back episode. This is part one. You can find part two on Future Fossils . Michael and I offer philosophical and existential reflections on the “ Deep Adaptation ” movement, popularized by Jem Bendell’s recent climate report paper , and Daniel ...
A reading from the chapter, "Dead Man Sings," from William Gibson's essay anthology, Distrust that Particular Flavor. EPISODE CREDITS Featured artwork by Archan Nair Featured music by Lightbath Intro, “Guardian Suite” Outro, "The Magic Light of Tomorrow" Lightbath offers bonuses like patch notes, album downloads, livestreams, and one-on-one lessons at patreon.com/lightbath. Subscribe to Lightbath on YouTube for brilliant live performances and check out his Bandcamp page for more tracks. CONNECT ...
The inaugural solo show is finally live! I recorded this not long after my talk with Dr Becca Tarnas ( episode 4 ). Glad it’s finally out there. CONSTELLATING “FIGURATIONS” OF MEANING Illustration by J.R.R. Tolkien In this episode, I’m linking Gebser’s insights on the phenomenology of awakening consciousness ( Bewusstwerdung phänomenologie ) to some of the existential problems of the hyper-mediated self, and how this all ties to the important mythopoeic image in J.R.R.’Tolkien’s Middle-Earth: Sa...
Becca is a scholar, artist, counseling astrologer, and editor of Archai: The Journal of Archetypal Cosmology. Her dissertation, which is the subject of our podcast this episode, is titled “The Back of Beyond: The Red Books of C.G. Jung and J.R.R. Tolkien.”
Mutations interviews J.F. Martel, author, filmmaker, philosopher and Weird Studies podcast co-host. Together we discuss technology, mediation, Deleuze and the virtual (and virtual reality), puppets, and much more.
