This episode was recorded ahead of the European Men's Leadership Summit and the MANN SEIN gathering in Berlin in June. We discuss the challenges of modern masculinity, fathers, mentorship, the art of seduction, men's groups, the history of men's work, and much more. We will all be attending the gathering on June 17-18 to continue and develop these conversations. If you are interested in hanging out or joining the conversation, then check out the event at https://mannsein.org/en/ Robert Glover ht...
May 17, 2023•53 min
In this conversation we talk about Urbit, its core philosophy, the technological problems it seeks to address, and its community. We also reflect on Curtis Yarvin's thought, the influence of Jorge Luis Borges on Urbit, and more besides. Find Jurij on Urbit at ~dilryd-mopreg
May 08, 2023•1 hr 10 min
This is the third installment of our series engaging in a chapter by chapter analysis of René Girard's book "Things Hidden since the Foundation of the World", along with Girardian expert and AI professor Thomas Hamelryck. In this episode we dive into Chapter 3 of the book, "The Process of Hominization". Check out Daniel Fraga's book Ontological Design: Subject is Project, available on Amazon now: https://www.amazon.com/Ontological-Design-Subject-Daniel-Fraga/dp/B09VWMV9Y8 And check out the new T...
Apr 27, 2023•1 hr 51 min
In this conversation, Owen Cox speaks to Alexander Bard, Shauheen Etminan and Zachary Adama about psychedelics, shamanism, the state of culture, and the thesis that Mexico, Iran and Peru are the three superpowers of plant medicine. Shauheen Etminan https://linktr.ee/shauheenetminan Zachary Adama https://zacharyadama.com/ Alexander Bard http://futuricamedia.com/ Check out Daniel Fraga's book Ontological Design: Subject is Project, available on Amazon now: https://www.amazon.com/Ontological-Design...
Apr 27, 2023•1 hr 45 min
Brendan Graham Dempsey joins us to talk about the explosive creative relationship between Wagner and Nietzsche, and debate the approaches to art and mythology that appear in metamodern and dark renaissance thought. Brendan can be found here https://www.brendangrahamdempsey.com/...
Feb 16, 2022•1 hr 53 min
Daniel Garner, one half of O.G. Rose, joins us to talk about ethics, Dostoevsky, walking a path between extremes, and much more besides. Find his work here: https://www.og-rose.com/
Jan 24, 2022•2 hr 9 min
Cadell Last and Owen Cox are launching a new project in January in collaboration with Maniphesto, called The Art of Being a Man. https://maniphestocore.com/art-of-being-a-man/ We have both been doing men's work together for some time, as well as exploring questions of contemporary culture and masculinity on our YouTube channels and in other creative work (for instance, Cadell's book Sex, Masculinity, God, coauthored with Daniel Dick and Kevin Orosz). We wanted to create a type of men's work that...
Dec 28, 2021•1 hr 49 min
Cadell Last and Alexander Bard join us to dissect the past two years and think about future projects, antagony buttons and activism. Check out Cadell's new platform for courses and ideas, including courses on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and The Art of Being a Man https://www.philosophyportal.online/ Alexander's latest book https://www.amazon.co.uk/Digital-Libido-violence-network-society/dp/9188869237/ref=sr_1_1?adgrpid=1294125396667647&hvadid=80882890106232&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&h...
Dec 16, 2021•1 hr 34 min
Alexa Vartman is a tantra teacher and the founder of The New Tantra. We discuss all things tantra, androgyny, orgasms, dangers on the spiritual path, and criticisms of The New Tantra. Maniphesto Media Academy: https://maniphestocore.com/maniphesto-media-academy/ TNT workshops, private sessions & online courses: https://thenewtantra.com Start practising tantra at home for free: http://21daychallenge.com Alexa's book: http://50misconceptionsofsex.com Support Technosocial https://www.patreo...
Sep 14, 2021•1 hr 36 min
John Robb is an author, military analyst, entrepreneur, and writes the monthly Global Guerilla report. In this conversation we discuss new networks of power, conflict and warfare in the information age, the emergence of the tech elite, citizens' data rights, the concept of The Long Night, blockchain and networked consensus building. The Global Guerillas report: https://www.patreon.com/johnrobb Maniphesto Media Academy: https://maniphestocore.com/maniphesto-media-academy/ Support Technosocial htt...
Aug 20, 2021•1 hr 54 min
Edwin Bywater is an engineer and author. In this conversation, we explore ideas from Edwin's book, different types of ecological consciousness, planetary desire, capitalism and attentionalism, critiques of the environmentalist movement and global power dynamics and networks. Support Technosocial https://www.patreon.com/technosocial Music by Salvatore Schiano http://www.salvatoreschiano.com/ Also on https://anchor.fm/technosocial...
Jul 22, 2021•2 hr 18 min
The Alexandrian Trinity join us for an epic enquiry into metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics and more. Alexander Ebert is an American singer-songwriter, composer and philosopher. Alexander Elung is a storyteller and philosopher. Alexander Bard is a music producer, TV star and philosopher. In this conversation we touch on emergence vectortTheory, transcendental emergentism, theories of the prima materia of the universe - spacetime, space, hypertime, compression, implicate and explicate orders, habits...
Jun 04, 2021•2 hr 46 min
Jean-Philippe Marceau is an editor of the Symbolic World blog and a YouTuber. His work explores symbolism and uniting religious ideas with scientific thinking. In this conversation, we debate and discuss ways of approaching truth and universality, Christian metaphysics and Hegelian dialectics, freedom and necessity, Christ's resurrection, and religion as pragmatic instrument. Find J.P here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZzlvx0HHYiPOJTEOU399WA/featured https://thesymbolicworld.com/ Support Tec...
May 08, 2021•1 hr 7 min
Ole Bjerg is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Economics at Copenhagen Business School and the author of The Meaning of Being A Man. In this conversation we discuss Heidegger and the existential task of becoming a man, "Das Mann" and the new movement of gender moralism, entering into relationship with nature as it expresses in subjectivity, cryptocurrencies and paradigms of money, Being and technology, fatherhood and abortion. Find Ole: https://www.themeaningofbeingaman.com/ Support Tec...
Apr 20, 2021•1 hr 27 min
Peter Limberg is the founder and steward of The Stoa. Peter is a friend and an earnest, balanced sensemaker in today's chaotic cultural world. As steward of the Stoa, Peter is a respected cultural commentator, having had conversations with a vast and diverse range of powerful and insightful thinkers. He also coined the term "memetic tribes" in his celebrated medium article "Memetic Tribes and Culture War 2.0", and is a practicioner of stoicism. In this free-flowing conversation Limberg tells us ...
Apr 16, 2021•1 hr 43 min
Thomas Hamelryck is a Lecturer and Researcher at the Bioinformatics Centre at the University of Copenhagen Biocenter. His academic research interests revolve around Machine learning, Bayesian statistics, Protein Structure Prediction, Probabilistic Programming, Deep Learning. In this conversation, we discuss the topics of Mimetic Desire and René Girard, Nietzche, Religion and mass culture, the Internet, the spiritual practices of Tantra, Sutra, and Tribal Dynamics in the Internet age. Support Tec...
Mar 21, 2021•1 hr 47 min
Paris Cecilia Jayer and Timo Jansen are teachers and practitioners of tantra. In this conversation we discuss The New Tantra and their workshops, anal and vaginal de-armouring, crossdressing, practicing sex without orgasms, polyamory and jealousy, physical techniques for working with sex, sex education, NoFap, sexual shame, porn and internet culture, playing with masculine and feminine polarities and having confidence when flirting. Find out more: TNT workshops, private sessions & online cou...
Mar 10, 2021•1 hr 27 min
Dylan Walker is the original co-founder of Technosocial. He spent 9 months living in the Canadian wilderness during the coronavirus pandemic of 2020. We discuss Dylan's 9 months in the wilderness, technology, agriculture, ideology and civilisation, universal basic income and the Silicon Valley elite, immortality and end of history thinking, history as contraction and expansion, all-encompassing institutions like modern medicine and education, modernity's allergy to suffering, and returning death...
Feb 15, 2021•1 hr 24 min
Raven Connolly is a thinker and facilitator on the Stoa. Cadell Last is a philosopher and YouTuber. In this episode we explore: hyperstition; the notion of "Late Capitalism", and whether it is still meaningful to speak of capitalist societal structure; the new problems of desire created by sharing economies; using reason to work through the paradoxes of bodies, and reason's limits; what reproduces itself in a post-capitalist culture; dying a good death; defeat and the present historical moment; ...
Jan 11, 2021•1 hr 56 min
Brent Cooper is a Political Sociologist, behind the The Abs-Tract Organization (TATO), a Metamodern Think Tank producing political theory and critique. In this podcast we explore critiques of both Ontological Design, as explored in Technosocial by ourselves, as well as of some of the broader ideas around Metamodernism. We speak of critique, of progressivism and about activism - through political action as well as design interventions. Correction: The Centre Pompidou in Paris is not a train stati...
Jan 11, 2021•1 hr 9 min
Cadell Last is a philosopher and YouTuber. In this conversation we explore: why Cadell wrote a book on sex, masculinity and God; the paradox between evolutionary theory and religious civilisation; capitalism, the collapse of religion and the explosion of sexuality; the political struggle for liberty and sex; sex as a battleground; the interplay between identity and the real of the sex drive; noopolitics and competing meme complexes; how identity constellates around memes, and how these memes are...
Jan 02, 2021•2 hr 33 min
Jasun Horsley is an author of a number of books on Hollywood and secret societies, and host of The Liminalist podcast. In this conversation we discuss dissociation and movies; trauma and the nervous system; parenthood and behavioral imprinting; disassociation and fostering a docile population; child sacrifice and paedophilia and its ubiquity in society; secret societies; uninstalling social programming; memes, people, groups and superorganisms; our inheritance of the technology of drama, and its...
Dec 15, 2020•2 hr 1 min
Miguel A. Fernandez is the author of the Operative Traditions book series and an industrial engineer. In this conversation we explore: how tools and creative disciplines shape human beings; how literacy has replaced the intelligence of other senses; the way a craftsman's nervous system fuses with his tools; Eastern traditions, why Westerners seek them, and how they have been coopted by capitalism; how ancient cosmologies cannot easily be applied in cybernetic or industrial cultures; the heroic p...
Dec 09, 2020•1 hr 54 min
Carl Hayden Smith is Director of the Learning Technology Research Centre (LTRC) and Principal Research Fellow at Ravensbourne University London. His research interests include Embodied Cognition, Spatial Literacy, Perceptual Technology and Hyperhumanism. His other projects involve Context Engineering, Umwelt Hacking, Natural Media, Sensory Augmentation, Memory Palaces, Artificial Senses and Body Hacking. In this conversation we discuss context engineering, ontological design, the brave new world...
Dec 08, 2020•51 min
In this episode, we interview Professor Aleksandr Gelyevich Dugin, Russian political analyst and strategist, often called the most dangerous philosopher in the world. Duginism's influence on contemporary Russian thought, geopolitics and contemporary political discourse is widely recognized. Dugin is a traditionalist, a critic of liberalism and of modernity, and a proponent of Eurasianism. He is also a prominent student of Heidegger, of the Kaballah and a Platonist; and in this interview we explo...
Dec 08, 2020•1 hr 28 min
Raven Connolly is a thinker and facilitator on the Stoa. In this conversation we discuss: sexual reproduction and game theory; the Egg as a philosophical concept; technology and nature; pathos, creativity and the distinction between the complex and complicated; anarchs; design; contemporary ideology and purging the "impurities" of the past; androgyny, phallus and virtual phallus; female sexuality and pathos; Onlyfans and porn; motherhood and infanticide; the collapse of civilizations; how modern...
Nov 24, 2020•2 hr 16 min
Scouts of the Noosphere is a weekly show where Daniel Fraga and Owen Cox explore strange forms from the depths of the internet. This episode is about Glastonbury, Hippies, magic, super/hyper-stition, and reality bubbles. Support Technosocial https://www.patreon.com/technosocial Also on https://anchor.fm/technosocial Music by Salvatore Schiano http://www.salvatoreschiano.com/...
Nov 03, 2020•1 hr 2 min
Dan Faggella is Founder and Head of Research at Emerj and advises the UN, Interpol and global enterprises on Artificial Intelligence. He is also a former MMA coach and fighter. In this conversation we discuss: Lotus eaters and world eaters; digital dominance and tools for today's Napoleons; advertising and future online business models; virtual reality and novel experience; political struggle in digital space and the battle for the computational substrate; the permeability of the Western online ...
Nov 02, 2020•53 min
Scouts of the Noosphere is a weekly show where Daniel Fraga and Owen Cox explore strange forms from the depths of the internet. This episode is about the recent history and future of human productive organisation. Support Technosocial https://www.patreon.com/technosocial Also on https://anchor.fm/technosocial Music by Salvatore Schiano http://www.salvatoreschiano.com/...
Oct 21, 2020•53 min
Meta-Nomad is the host of Hermitix podcast and a writer. In this episode we discuss: trends that the mainstream academy follows - and that it ignores; the popularity of Marxist materialism and the obscurity of mysticism and occultism; subjective and objective ways of knowing; precognitive dreams; technocapitalism as an intelligence; collapse theory and accelerationism; genius and how ideas have people; opening self to the outside; how fantasies are immanentized as fictions, which then inspire re...
Oct 14, 2020•1 hr 18 min
