I was interviewed by Katie Way (formerly of Babe.net) after one of my nuclear tweets went viral. Given the role this tweet played in my eventual departure from academia, I'm posting this interview (with permission from Ms. Way) for anyone interested in the larger story. It's pretty interesting as an artifact of media culture in the year 2018. https://patreon.com/jmrphy Related links: https://twitter.com/jmrphy/status/996003715344715777?lang=en https://babe.net/2018/05/17/justin-murphy-hot-take-a...
Aug 28, 2019•24 min•Ep. 56
I speak with Chad A. Haag of the Chadafrican Philosophy channel. Chad wrote a short book called A Critique of Transcendental Memology , which seeks to join "the insights of John Michael Greer, Dmitry Orlov, and Richard Heinberg with the philosophical rigor of Aristotle, Kant, Zizek, and Heidegger." Big thanks to all the patrons who help me keep the lights on. If you'd like to discuss this podcast with me and others, suggest future guests, or read/watch/listen to more content on these themes, req...
Aug 26, 2019•1 hr 46 min•Ep. 55
To learn more about @MimeticValue , see http://mimeticarbitrage.com/. If you'd like to discuss this podcast with me and others, suggest future guests, or read/watch/listen to more content on these themes, request an invitation here. Big thanks to all the patrons who help me keep the lights on. This conversation was first recorded on February 13, 2019 as a livestream on Youtube . To receive notifications when future livestreams begin, subscribe to my channel with one click , then click the little...
Aug 20, 2019•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 54
Zero HP Lovecraft ( @0x49fa98 ) is a horrorist. His blog is https://zerohplovecraft.wordpress.com. Big thanks to all the patrons who help me keep the lights on. If you'd like to discuss this podcast with me and others, suggest future guests, or read/watch/listen to more content on these themes, request an invitation here. This conversation was first recorded on July 5, 2019 as a livestream on Youtube . To receive notifications when future livestreams begin, subscribe to my channel with one click...
Aug 15, 2019•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 53
Eli Schiff ( @eli_schiff ) is a design critic and UI designer. His latest book is called Uber's Undoing , which you can learn more about on Eli's website: http://www.elischiff.com/ . Big thanks to all the patrons who help me keep the lights on. If you'd like to discuss this podcast with me and others, suggest future guests, or read/watch/listen to more content on these themes, request an invitation here. This conversation was first recorded on October 16, 2018 as a livestream on Youtube . To rec...
Aug 12, 2019•2 hr 17 min•Ep. 52
Jordan Hall writes the blog Deep Code and has his own Youtube channel . Big thanks to all the patrons who help me keep the lights on. If you'd like to discuss this podcast with me and others, suggest future guests, or read/watch/listen to more content on these themes, request an invitation here. This conversation was first recorded on September 26, 2018 as a livestream on Youtube . To receive notifications when future livestreams begin, subscribe to my channel with one click , then click the lit...
Aug 08, 2019•2 hr•Ep. 51
We discuss the imminent social and political consequences of "deepfake" technology (fake multimedia indistinguishable from the real thing). Geoffrey Miller is an evolutionary psychologist. Pre-order his ebook, "Virtue Signaling: Essays on Darwinian Politics, Language Games, & Free Speech" — Geoffrey also has a new Youtube channel, which you can subscribe to here. Big thanks to all the patrons who help me keep the lights on. If you'd like to discuss this podcast with me and others, suggest fu...
Aug 05, 2019•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 50
Aimee Terese ( @aimeeterese ) is co-host of the podcast What's Left? In this long talk, we discussed: why Aussies are good for American politics, the internet vs. Brooklyn, sugar-free Red Bull, is there even a Left?, John McAfee, the Harvard Prof who got played, the family, TradCath leftism, and quite a few other things. Other stuff mentioned: True Anon Pod , The Good Ole Boys Huge thanks to all my patrons who help me keep the lights on. If you'd like to discuss this podcast with me and others, ...
Jul 29, 2019•2 hr 42 min•Ep. 49
Rachel Haywire is a futurist and industrial musician. She tells me she is running for President of the United States as a candidate for the Transhumanist Party. She recently wrote a book called The New Art Right . If you'd like to discuss this podcast with me and others, suggest future guests, or read/watch/listen to more content on these themes, request an invitation here. This conversation was first recorded on May 2, 2019 as a livestream on Youtube . To receive notifications when future lives...
Jul 24, 2019•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 48
On my new short book project, Based Deleuze . Pre-order here! This conversation was first recorded on June 26, 2019 as a livestream on Youtube . To receive notifications when future livestreams begin, subscribe to my channel with one click , then click the little bell. If you'd like to discuss this podcast with me and others, suggest future guests, or read/watch/listen to more content on these themes, request an invitation here. Big thanks to all the patrons who help me keep the lights on....
Jul 22, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 47
Robert Mariani is co-editor of Jacobite Magazine . You can subscribe to Jacobite here . Big thanks to all the patrons who help me keep the lights on. If you'd like to discuss this podcast with me and others, suggest future guests, or read/watch/listen to more content on these themes, request an invitation here. This conversation was first recorded on October 14, 2018 as a livestream on Youtube . To receive notifications when future livestreams begin, subscribe to my channel with one click , then...
Jul 13, 2019•2 hr 16 min•Ep. 46
This is a conversation I had with Geoffrey Miller on the psychology of Antifa and antifascism. It was first recorded yesterday (July 2, 2019) as a livestream on Geoffrey new Youtube channel. Watch the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHdKxRAVrHA and subscribe to Geoffrey's channel at http://bit.ly/2FMRtMO. The only reason I'm able to expand my projects like this, e.g. moving to Albuquerque for this big experiment with Geoffrey and Diana, is because I have financial support from fans of m...
Jul 02, 2019•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 45
Eliot Rosenstock is a practicing psychotherapist and author of Žižek in the Clinic. Big thanks to all the patrons who help me keep the lights on. If you'd like to discuss this podcast with me and others, suggest future guests, or read/watch/listen to more content on these themes, request an invitation here. This conversation was first recorded on Dec 15, 2018 as a livestream on Youtube . To receive notifications when future livestreams begin, subscribe to my channel with one click , then click t...
Jun 29, 2019•2 hr 45 min•Ep. 44
Johannes Niederhauser recently completed his PhD at Warwick University for a dissertation entitled, "Heidegger on Death and Being." Check out his Youtube channel here . Johannes says his dissertation is on Heidegger's entire philosophy but death is the key to his thought. I hung out with Johannes in London recently and his takes on Heidegger are very germane to my own interests, so it was a no-brainer to invite him on the show. We will discuss what Heidegger's philosophy & problematic life h...
Jun 15, 2019•2 hr 38 min•Ep. 43
Audio of my talk given at the first Diffractions/Sdbs workshop on Patchwork. My thesis is that rigorous (voluntary) enforcement of honesty using blockchain + IoT (Internet of Things) presents an opportunity for leftists to solve the game-theoretic problems of communism in a potentially scalable way. I got flak for this being "fascist," which led me to write a short extension and clarification entitled, Fascism Over Yourself Is Called Autonomy . You can read the transcript of this podcast here. D...
May 30, 2019•36 min•Ep. 42
After getting some heat for our livestream together, Nina Power sat down with me in London to set the record straight on her political views. I spoke little and mostly let her riff. I've probably never spoken with anyone whose political ethic comes closer to my own. We pretty much summarize this podcast's concept: A radical left politics of the other life . A radical left politics based on the search for truth, frank speech, and immanent relationships. Part 1 is about Nina's upcoming book, What ...
May 24, 2019•43 min•Ep. 41
Sonya Ellen Mann runs communications for the Zcash Foundation. Sonya's a thinker and writer interested in economics, tribalism, and cypherpunk. We talk about the Pink Pill, cypherpunk, crypto, and anarcho-capitalism among other things. This was a fun, high-energy romp through a lot of topics... Sonya's website is sonyaellenmann.com and you can find her on Twitter @sonyaellenmann . If you'd like to discuss this podcast with me and others, suggest future guests, or read/watch/listen to more conten...
Mar 26, 2019•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 40
Logo Daedalus is a writer, best known on Twitter ( @Logo_Daedalus ). He has a new book out, called Selfie, Suicide: or Cairey Turnbull's Blue Skiddoo . We talk about Logo's politics, his experience self-publishing his book, Wyndham Lewis, and the rise of Andrew Yang among the so-called Alt-Right, among other things. If you'd like to discuss this podcast with me and others, suggest future guests, or read/watch/listen to more content on these themes request an invitation here. This conversation wa...
Mar 18, 2019•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 39
Nina Power is a philosopher and writer, and DC Miller is a writer best known for his opposition to the Shutdown LD50 campaign. This talk has become quite a scandal. In response to this talk, someone wrote a ridiculous Open Letter Concerning Nina Power , and Nina just today published a response. You can watch the original conversation here, on my Youtube channel . Other Life is a pretty punk-rock-DIY affair, run by one person — and I'm not an audio engineer. As this podcast becomes more popular, ...
Mar 14, 2019•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 38
DC Miller is a controversial but misunderstood person. He is a writer in London outcast from polite society after his opposition to the Shutdown LD50 campaign two years ago. I've talked with him enough to know he is not the evil caricature his enemies make him out to be, but I still don't understand his views fully. In this livestream we will try to get to the bottom of what DC really thinks. In doing so we make a series of distinctions about conservatives, fascists, neoreactionaries, and free-s...
Mar 08, 2019•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 37
Reposted with permission from the Parallax Views podcast by JG Michael. For many other talks like this one, find Parallax Views at @ViewsParallax and patreon.com/parallaxviews. Big thanks to JG for his interest in my ideas, and for extracting these atypically coherent thoughts from me. JG's excellent questions helped me make connections I've never made in public before, which reminds me how these new media are still so poorly understood. For intellectuals, podcasts are first and foremost product...
Feb 24, 2019•1 hr 57 min•Ep. 36
I'm joined by @systemkei, who works in the field of Automated Reasoning and wrote the article "Pacific Dialectical Materialism:" http://debayou.net/pacific.html If you'd like to discuss this podcast with me and others, suggest future guests, or read/watch/listen to more content on these themes, request an invitation here. Big thanks to all the patrons who help me keep the lights on. This conversation was first recorded on Feb 20, 2019 as a livestream on Youtube . To receive notifications when fu...
Feb 20, 2019•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 35
On the naked anti-Brexit academic lady, my fondness for youthful romantic insurrectionary anarchism, and my take on the Resurrection of Jesus Christ — are we really supposed to believe a guy died and rose from the dead? This was first recorded on February 17, 2019 as a livestream on Youtube . To receive notifications when future livestreams begin, subscribe to my channel with one click , then click the little bell. If you'd like to discuss these topics with me and others, suggest future guests, ...
Feb 17, 2019•56 min•Ep. 34
This livestream took place the day after my hearing for "gross misconduct" was scheduled. On being fired vs. resigning — on ruling the void and the work of social scientists such as Peter Mair and Wolfgang Streeck — is Lacan a charlatan? — and how to pick a major. More below... The blog post corresponding to this podcast is: Evaluating Exit Modes: Resign or Be Fired? (How Academia Got Pwned 11) This was first recorded on February 14, 2019 as a livestream on Youtube . To receive notifications whe...
Feb 14, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 33
Christlover2000 is one half of the podcast Girls Chat. You can find them at patreon.com/girlschat . This conversation was first recorded as a livestream on Youtube . Big thanks to all the financial contributors who help to keep this running.
Feb 13, 2019•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 32
Ted Blackman is a senior engineer at Urbit. Urbit is a mysterious tech startup founded by Curtis Yarvin, aka Mencius Moldbug. Ted kindly answered all my questions, and he dealt very graciously with my efforts to politicize everything. This conversation was first recorded as a livestream on Youtube . Big thanks to all the members who help to keep this running.
Feb 05, 2019•2 hr 18 min•Ep. 31
Razib Khan is a geneticist, blogger, and man about the internet. Razib is the kind of extremely online intellectual we like here at Other Life . Razib has written for publications including The New York Times , India Today , National Review Online , Slate , and The Guardian. Razib and I talked about the present and near-future of personal genomics; why Razib thinks Elizabeth Warren's genetic claims are reasonable (though Razib is a conservative); is 23andme worth it?; how sperm banks work; why s...
Dec 31, 2018•1 hr 37 min•Ep. 30
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 writing. See Bakker's blog, Three Pound Brain. Listeners who enjoy this podcast might check out Bakker's What is the Semantic Apocalypse? and Enlightenment How? Omens of the Semantic Apocalypse . This conversation was first recorded as a livestream on Youtube . Subscribe to my channel with one click , then click the bell to receiv...
Dec 20, 2018•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 29
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 has appeared in The Catholic Herald, The Spectator US , and Quillette, among other places. I find Ben interesting because he writes sympathetically of religion, although he's not religious. We talk about this, being immigrants, Brexit, and other topics relating to the pathologies of secular cosmopolitanism. Find Ben's websit...
Dec 20, 2018•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 28
Dave Hoover ( @davehoover ) is a software engineer and expert developer of Ethereum smart contracts. He wrote the book Apprenticeship Patterns: Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman and runs a distributed software development firm called Red Squirrel . He is currently writing a book on smart-contract development, called Hands-on Smart Contract Development with Solidity and Ethereum . In this podcast, Dave gave me a better understanding of the potential — and the limits — of Ethereum smart...
Dec 01, 2018•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 27
