Episodes
Tuesday Nov 02, 2021
Tuesday Nov 02, 2021
Radiohead album showdown, remembering when 1970s Bernie Sanders wanted to overhaul commercial television, and answering listener questions about Gilles Deleuze, the Enlightenment, Chris Chan, and more.
Friday Oct 15, 2021
Friday Oct 15, 2021
From the MCU to Transhumanism. Answering questions about Warhol, Marvel movies, the Unabomber, and more. Then a discussion of crazy brilliant scientist J.D. Bernal's 1929 book, The World, the Flesh, and the Devil: An Enquiry Into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul. Other topics include MF Doom, Kool Keith, Final Fantasy VII, Chris Chan, and the fake Cold War.
Friday Sep 24, 2021
Friday Sep 24, 2021
Topics: Media as imposition... Memes... Orwell's "Politics of the English Language"... Normalizing dysfunction... Two greatest threats to university... "SJW wokeism" in pop culture... Warhol said "Pop" was about "liking things"... Chris Chan... Accelerationism... Baudrillard... Communist utopia... Technological singularity... Whale leviathan of technology... Jacques Ellul... Marx... Kanye as Christ figure... Mark Fisher... Aldous Huxley... Franz Kafka... Alienation of modernity