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Humans On The Loop — 266 episodes
Games & Metrics: Agency as Art & Artifice with C. Thi Nguyen
Collective Futurecrafting: Play, Trauma, and The Duty of Care with Mathew Mytka
Neuroscience in Hyperspace with Andrew Gallimore
(Re)Building Trustworthy Institutions with Nathan Kinch
AI Doesn't Have To Be This Way feat. Alex Komoroske
Fostering "Prodigies of Uncertainty" with Layman Pascal
Becoming Hyperhuman with Carl Hayden Smith
Co-Intelligence & Planetary Perspectives with Rimma Boshernitsan of DIALOGUE
Co-Evolving with Magical Technologies feat. Sam Arbesman
Holistic Technology for Growing a World in Love with Larry Muhlstein
Taryn Southern on Surfing the Exponential Tech Tsunami
Chaim Gingold on Building SimCity & Simulation as Discourse
Culture, Consciousness, and the Second Renaissance with Rufus Pollock
Lessons from a Metamodern AI Shaman with George Pór
Design for Provably Safe AI with Evan Miyazono
Religions of the Future & The New Monstrous with Rina Nicolae
Self-Actualization in the Global Brain with Cadell Last of Philosophy Portal
The Architecture of The Next Creative Economy with Michael Dean
The Art & Technology of Conversation with Robert Poynton
Scale Theory: Contemplating Everything-At-Onceness with Joshua DiCaglio
Jim O'Shaughnessy on Creativity, Crisis, and Trust as The Fabric of Society
Aishwarya Khanduja on Living Inquiry & Fostering Imagination
Matt Segall on Culture as The Lifeblood of The Machine Economy
Andrew McLuhan on Needling The Somnambulists about How We've Never Been Autonomous
J.F. Martel on Machines vs. Fractals, Black Box Personhood, and Navigating The AI Fairy Tale
Adah Parris on Neurodivergent Cyborg Shamans & Elemental Tech Ethics
Howard Rheingold on Lucid Life Online & Attention As A 21st Century Literacy
Jessica Clark on Making New Realities with New Media
New Selves of Neural Media & AI as 'The Poison Path' with K Allado-McDowell
Futures Indistinguishable from Magic with Robin Sloan
Transcending (and Including) Partisan Debate with Stephanie Lepp
Mycopunk Community Coordination with Christina Bowen of Socialroots
The Inner Life of a Responsible Tech Practitioner with Benjamin Olsen
Reclaiming Attention from 'The Ravenous Maw of The Screen' with Richard Doyle
📚🧙🏼♂️🦾 232 - Myth & Magic in Technological Metamodernism
⏳🎨🔮 231 - Eric Wargo & J.F. Martel on Art as Precognition, Biblically-Accurate A.I., and How to Navigate Ruptures in Space-Time
🐦⬛🐙🖤 230 - Jamie Curcio on Living in Mythpunk, Eldritch Complexity, and Finding The Bright Side of Dark Ages
👾🖼️🏯 229 - Sara Phinn Huntley on Making A Field Guide to DMT Entities
🧬🕰️⚗️ 228 - William Sarill on Intuition in Science & The Physics of Philip K. Dick
🎙️🖇️🕸️ 227 - MG + Tim Adalin of Voicecraft: Network Philosophy, Caring Organizations, & Wiser Innovation
📚🧐🦾 226 - Stephen Reid on Technological Metamodernism
🤰🏽🧐🕸️ 225 - Alyssa Allegretti on Sacred Domesticity and Hard Times in The Liminal Web
🔍👁️🔮 224 - Helané Wahbeh of IONS on Arguments against Materialism and for New Theories of Consciousness
🔥🌎💒 223 - Timothy Morton on A New Christian Ecology & Systems Thinking Blasphemy
👾🍄🧮 222 - Andrés Goméz Emilsson on Psychedelic Computer Science & The Mathematics of Consciousness
📯💗🌌 221 - Tom Morgan on Answering The Call of Destiny & Love As An Attractor
🤖🌳📈 220 - Austin Wade Smith on Convivial Ecological Institutions and Open Source Commons for Sensemaking
🙏🏽⛩🤖 219 - Joshua Schrei on Embodied Ethics in The Age of A.I.
🎋🔬🕸️ 218 - Neil Theise on Complexity & Nonduality
💻💶🌏 217 - Gregory Landua & Speaker John Ash on Regenerative Accelerationism & How To Heal A Broken Internet
🐦⬛🦖🕵🏼♀️ 216 - Jingmai O'Connor on Dead Birds & Living Paleontologists
🫂👩🏼💻🔍 215 - Social Science & Collective Intelligence with Brigham Adams of Goodly Labs
👁️🔄📀 214 - J.F. Martel, Phil Ford, & Megan Phipps on Weird Cybernetics: Waking Up From The Ecstasy
🕸️⛩️💻 213 - Amber Case & Michael Zargham on Entangled Technologies & Design As Governance
🌏🚜🫀212 - Manfred Laubichler & Geoffrey West on Life In The Anthropocene & Living Inside The Technosphere
💻🍄🧙🏼♂️ 211 - Adam Aronovich on A Cultural Anthropology for The Psychedelic Internet
👁️🧠🎧 210 - Mitch Schultz & Shanta Stevens on Documenting The Next Psychedelic Revolution
🍄🎥👁️ 209 - Ken Adams on A Life of Psychedelic Film-Making & Collaboration with Terence McKenna
👷🏽🌎🎊 208 - Building Cultural Capacity for A REAL Psychedelic Renaissance with Samantha Sweetwater, Ian-Michael Hebert, and Jahan Khamsehzadeh @ Psychedelic Science 2023
🌊🏄🌱 207 - Tech & Community LIVE at Junkyard Social Club with Evan Snyder, Ryan Madson, Roger Toennis, Aaron Gabriel, & Juicy Life
🤩🎻🤖 206 - Scout Rainer Wiley on AI vs. BS Jobs, The Return of Culture, and Eldritch Wonders in The Bright Apocalypse
🎶⚔️👏🏼 205 - Greg Thomas & Stephanie Lepp on Jazz Leadership & Antagonistic Cooperation
💐📚🏛️ 204 - Jamie Joyce on The Society Library and Tools for Making Sense Together
203 - Kevin Kelly on Excellent Advice for Living, Playing with AI, and Staying Curious
202 - Caveat Magister on Psychomagic, Amusement Parks, & Turning Your Life Into Art
201 - KMO & Kevin Wohlmut on our Blue Collar Black Mirror: Star Trek, Star Wars, Blade Runner, Jurassic Park, Adventure Time, ChatGPT, & More
200 - Ehren Cruz & Daphne Krantz on Psychedelics, Addiction, and Transcendence
199 - The Great Decoherence of Android Jones
198 - Tadaaki Hozumi on Japanese Esotericism, Aliens, Land Spirits, & The Singularity (Part 2)
197 - Tadaaki Hozumi on Japanese Esotericism, Lost Civilizations, and The Singularity (Part 1)
196 - Robert Poynton on Improvisation As A Way of Life
195 - A.I. Art: An Emergency Panel with Julian Picaza, Evo Heyning, Micah Daigle, Jamie Curcio, & Topher Sipes
194 - Simon Conway Morris on Convergent Evolution & Creative Mass Extinctions
193 - Kimberly Dill on Environmental Philosophy: In Defense of Wildness & Night
192 - My Cataract: An Initiation 👁✨
191 - Roland Harwood on Learning To Be Liminal
190 - Lauren Seyler on Dark Microbiology & Right Relations in Science
189 - Planet-scale Musical Chairs: 21st Century Human Geography with Parag Khanna
188 - LARPing as a Nation-State with Jon Hillis & 0xZakk of CABIN DAO and Christian Lemp of Diamond DAO
187 - Fear & Loathing on the Electronic Frontier with Kevin Welch & David Hensley of EFF-Austin
186 - A Manifesto for Weird Science
185 - What Good Is Conversation? Jonathan Rowson, Bonnitta Roy, Jason Snyder, Ashley Colby, & Stephanie Lepp Play Liminal Lingo Bingo Amidst The Metacrisis
184 - Henry Gee on The History & Future of Life on Earth (& Much Else!)
183 - The Evolution of Poetic Song Verse with Mike Mattison & Ernest Suarez
182 - Siv Watkins on Microanimism: Living with The Smalls
181 - Jim Rutt on The Pre- and Post-History of GameB
180 - Web3 & Complex Systems with Park Bach, Sid Shrivastava, Shirley Bekins, & Avel Guénin-Carlut at Complexity Weekend
179 - Scout-Lieder Wiley on Transrational Oracles & Magical Thinking in The 21st Century
178 - Chris Ryan on Exhuming The Human from Our Eldritch Institutions
177 - Systems Design & Extended Cognition at Complexity Weekend with Tom Carter, Jenn Huff, Pietro Michelucci, and Richard James MacCowan
176 - Exploring Ecodelia with Richard Doyle, Sophie Strand, and Sam Gandy at the Psilocybin Summit
175 - C. Thi Nguyen on The Seductions of Clarity, Weaponized Games, and Agency as Art
174 - Evan "Skytree" Snyder on Sound Design for A Robotic Built Wilderness
173 - Daniel Shankin on Psychedelic Integration - The Path of the Heart
172 - Tyson Yunkaporta on Indigenous Systems Thinking, Fractal Governance, Ontopunk, and Queering W.E.I.R.D. Modernity
171 - Eric Wargo on Precognitive Dreamwork and The Philosophy of Time Travel
170 - The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo Rides The Transtempouroboros and Waits for The End of The World to End
169 - Leidy Klotz on Design, Behavior, and When to Subtract
168 - Mikey Lion & Malena Grosz on Festival Time, Life-Changing Trips, and Community in COVID
167 - Robert Jacobson on Opening The High Frontier for Business
166 - Anna Riedl on Bounded Rationality & Effective Altruism
165 - Kevin Kelly on Time, Memory, Change, and Vanishing Asia
164 - Violet Luxton on Scientific Reductionism vs. Traditional Ecological Knowledge
163 - Bitcoin & Fungal Economies with Toby Kiers & Brandon Quittem
162 - "AHA" (Ask Him Anything) #1: Aliens, Death, Creativity
161 - On Play & Innovation with Michael Phillip: Hermes, EvoBio, Bitcoin, and Good Noise
160 - His Dark Materials: Narnia, Fillory, and Coming of Age in the Multiverse, with Stephen Hershey & Kynthia Brunette
159 - Michael Dowd on Post Doom: Life After Accepting Climate Catastrophe
158 - Ramin Nazer & The TeaFaerie: Mid-Singularity Trialogues, Part 1
157 - Phil Ford on Taboo: Time and Belief in Exotica
156 - Stuart Davis on Zen, Aliens, and Psychedelics
155 - Michael Morgenstern on Fictions as Weapons and 21st Century Media Literacy
154 - Stephanie Lepp on Pro-Social Deepfakes, Post-Normal Science, and The Future of "Reality"
153 - Burning Man VR x IRL with Caveat Magister, Naomi Most, and Raven Mitch Mignano
152 - Weird Artist Medicine Storytelling Hour with Colin Frangicetto
151 - Artist Jon Marro on Living a Life of Creative Service
150 - A Unifying Meta-Theory of UFOs & The Weird with Sean Esbjörn-Hargens
149 - Cultural Somatics & Ritual as Justice with Tada Hozumi, Dare Sohei, and Naomi Most
148 - Sahana Chattopadhyay on Community, Leadership, and Befriending Uncertainty
147 - How to Live in The Future (Parts 1 - 4)
146 - Raising Earth Consciousness with Ralph Metzner, Dennis McKenna, Gay Dillingham, Valerie Plame Wilson, Allan Badiner, and Michael Garfield at Synergia Ranch, April 2016
145 - Weaving A New Prehistory to Rewild The Future - Michael Garfield at Earth Frequency Festival 2017
144 - On Dinosaurs & Holy Wars: Creationist Amusement Parks & America's Strange Relationship with Science, with Monica Long Ross & Clayton Brown
143 - Sanjay Rawal on Endurance Running as an Integral Yoga
142 - Alex Shakar on Stories from The World After
141 - Nora Bateson on Warm Data vs. The Cold Equations
140 - Pandemic Perspectives with Erik Davis, Tony Blake, and Mitch Mignano
139 - On Coronavirus, Complex Adaptive Systems, & Creative Opportunity
138 - Tanya Harrison on Space Exploration 50 Years After Apollo
137 - Rolf Potts on Twenty-Five Years of World Travel
136 - Alyssa Gursky on Psychedelic Art Therapy & The Future of Communication
135 - Michael Phillip on The Cosmic Yes
134 - Anthony Thogmartin on Mind, Music, and Technology
133 - Brian Swimme on Telling A New Story of Our Universe
132 - Erik Davis on Perturbations in the Reality Field
131 - Jessica Nielson & Link Swanson on Psychedelic Science & Too Much Novelty
130 - Lydia Laurenson on Identity, Community, and The New Modality
129 - How to Live in the Future (Michael Garfield at Boom Festival 2016)
128 - Kevin Kelly on Evolving with Technology
127 - Cory Allen on Meditation, Music, and the Wow of Now
126 - Phil Ford & JF Martel on Weird Studies & Plural Realities
125 - Stuart Kauffman on Physics, Life, and The Adjacent Possible
124 - Norman "Dr. Blue" Katz on Hypnosis & The Mind
123 - David Weinberger on Everyday Chaos & Thriving Amidst the Complexity
122 - Magenta Ceiba on Regenerative Everything
121 - Divya M. Persaud on The Ethics of Space Exploration
120 - Ramin Nazer on Cave Paintings for Future People
119 - Jeremy Johnson on The Integral Time of Jean Gebser
118 - Nathan Waters on The Future of Housing, Mobility, and Work
117 - Eric Wargo on Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious
116 - The Next Ten Billion Years: Ugo Bardi & John Michael Greer as read by Kevin Arthur Wohlmut
115 - Eliot Peper on The History of Technology and The Future of Society
114 - Bernie Taylor on The Prehistoric Art of El Castillo & An Ancient Hero's Journey
113 - Sean Esbjörn-Hargens on Exostudies: Philosophical Explorations of the UFO Phenomenon
112 - Mitsuaki Chi on Serving the Mushroom
111 - Android Jones on Analog + Digital, Painting the Sutras, & Being an Artist Dad
110 - Erick Godsey on (Why It's Too Soon To Give Up) The Myths That Make Us
109 - Bruce Damer on The Origins and Future of Life
108 - Nadja Oertelt on Humanizing The Stories of Science
107 - Epiphany Jordan on Human Touch & Safe Intimacy in The Internet Age
106 - Stowe Boyd on The Future(s) of Work and How to Thrive Amidst Accelerating Change
105 - The Hypermoderns talk Clowns, Dead Souls, & UFOs (Part 2)
104 - The Hypermoderns Talk Snow Crash, Language, Mind, & Video Game Metaphysics
103 - Tricia Eastman on Facilitating Psychedelic Journeys to Recover from An Age of Epidemic Trauma
102 - Bill Pfeiffer on Continuity, Belonging, Ecstasy Among the Native People of the North
"Future Fossils 101" with Michelle Shevin & Michaelangelo
100 - The Teafaerie on DMT, Transhumanism, and What To Do with All of God's Attention
99 - Erik Davis on How to Navigate High Weirdness
98 - Decentralization Panel at Arcosanti Convergence with Members of Holochain, NuMundo, Unify, & Reality Sandwich
97 - Zak Stein on Love in a Time Between Worlds: A Metamodern Metaphysics of Eros
96 - Malena Grosz on Community-Led Party Culture vs. Corporate "Nightlife"
95 - Mark Nelson on The Legacy of Biosphere 2 (Part 2)
94 - Mark Nelson on Ecotechnics & Biosphere 2 (Part 1)
93 - Virtuoso Guitarist Andreas Kapsalis on Travel, Life, and Music
92 - Panel: The Pre- and Post-History of VR, Surveillance, and Swarm Intelligence
91 - An Oral History of The End of "Reality"
90 - Kate Greene on Humanizing Science & Cooking on Mars
89 - Joanna Harcourt-Smith, José Soler, and Jacob Aman on Breakdowns & Breakthroughs
88 - Dennis McKenna on Psychedelics as Scientific Instruments
87 - Onyx Ashanti (Part 2) on Open Source P2P Concrescence vs The Realm of Loud Dumb Sh*t
86 - Onyx Ashanti on Surfing Exponential Change (Part 1)
85 - Charles Eisenstein on Living in the Space Between Stories
84 - Armin Ellis on Organizing Visionary Projects
83 - Michael Strong on The Future of Education
82 - Lydia Violet on Community, Ecology, and Music as Medicine
81 - Arthur Brock of Holochain on Rethinking Currency & The Future of Distributed Systems
80 - George Dvorsky on Strange Days Ahead: Ethics for Autonomous Machines
79 - James Eggleston of Power Ledger on Decentralization & Resilience
78 - Archan Nair on Radical Nonduality & Living with Enthusiasm
77 - Dylan Curran on Life in the Panopticon and Privacy After Privacy
76 - Technology as Psychedelic Parenting (at Palenque Norte, Burning Man 2017)
75 - David Krakauer (Thinking Interplanetary with The Santa Fe Institute)
74 - Terry Patten (A New Republic of the Heart)
73 - Patricia Gray on BioMusic, The New Science of Our Musical Brains & Biosphere
72 - Ira Pastor (Nervous Tissue Reanimation & The Future of Curative Biotech)
71 - JF Martel (On Sequels & Simulacra, Blade Runner 2049 & Stranger Things 2)
70 - Steve Brusatte on The Golden Age of Dino-Science!
69 - Tim Freke (The Evolution of the Imagination)
68 - Charles Shaw (Soul in the Heart of Darkness)
67 - Douglas Rushkoff & Michael Phillip (Playing For Team Human)
66 - John Danaher (Robot Sex & AI Love)
65 - John David Ebert (Hypermodernity & Blade Runner 2049)
64 - Barry Vacker (Our Destiny in Space & Sci Fi's Failures of Imagination)
63 - David Bronner (Psychedelics, Activism, & Social Trans-foam-ation)
62 - David Krantz (Cannabis Nutrigenomics)
61 - Jamaica Stevens (On Crisis, Rebirth, Transformation)
60 - Sean Esbjörn-Hargens Goes Meta on Everything: Integral Ecology & Impact
59 - Charles Shaw (Trauma, Addiction, and Healing)
58 - Shane Mauss (Psychonautic Adventures at the Edge of Genius & Madness)
57 - Conner Habib & Mitch Mignano (Occult Biology)
56 - Sophia Rokhlin (Anarchy, Ecology, Economy, and Shamanism)
55 - "Creativity & Catastrophe" (Talk at Palenque Norte, Burning Man 2017)
54 - Maya Zuckerman (Feminine Futurism & Techno-Religion vs. Introspective Technology)
53 - A Very Xeno Christmas! with Evan "Skytree" Snyder
52 - Blockchain & The Evolution of Consciousness with Michael Phillip & Jennifer Sodini
51 - Daniel Schmachtenberger (Designing A Win-Win World for Everyone)
50 - Ayana Young (Ecological Activism & Living For The Wild)
49 - Jake Kobrin (Sex, Death, & The Return of the Black Madonna)
48 - Lindsay (Mermaids For Clean Water)
47 - Eliot Peper (The Weird Turn Pro: Sci-Fi & Scenario Planning)
46 - Magenta Ceiba (Bloom Network's Anarcho-Permaculture Future)
45 - Kerri Welch (Fractal Synchronicity & The Future of Time)
44 - Christopher Sheehan (Time Bound in the Body: Transformational Tattoo)
43 - William Irwin Thompson, Part 2 (Thinking Together at the Edge of History)
42 - William Irwin Thompson, Part 1 (Thinking Together at the Edge of History)
41 - Hannah Yata (Art, Wilderness, Rebellion)
40 - Andrew J. O'Keefe (The Sacred Task of Record-Keeping)
39 - Hunter Maats (The Future of Education & Knowledge Transmission)
38 - Marya Stark (Reweaving The Magical Feminine)
37 - Michaelangelo aka Void Denizen (Excavating the Future with "Paisley-ontology")
36 - Meow-Ludo Meow Meow (Part 2 - Modern Art & Surviving The Singularity)
35 - Meow-Ludo Meow Meow (Part 1 - Polyamory, Cryptocurrency, & Nukes)
34 - Tara Djokic (The Oldest Fossils Known To Science!)
33 - Jon Lebkowsky (Pluralist Utopias & The World Wide Web's Wild West)
32 - Mark Henson, Visionary Painter (The Past & Future of Provocative Art)
31 - Mitch Altman (Hacking Life For Fun & Profit)
30 - Becca Tarnas (Archetypal Astrology & Living Through A Revolutionary Age)
29 - Sara Huntley (Raising Robots Right)
28 - John Petersen (Forecasting the Unimaginable)
27 - Rak Razam & Niles Heckman (5-MeO DMT & Consciousness)
26 - Jessa Gamble (Circadian Rhythms & The Science of Sleep)
25 - DADARA (Art, Virtual Realities, & Flow States)
24 - Daniel Zen (Surveillance, Festivals, VR)
23 - "Our Psychedelic Future" at the Australian Psychedelic Society
22 - Simon Yugler (Travel Alchemy & Initiation)
21 - Aunia Kahn (Human Dignity vs The Internet)
20 - Joanna Harcourt-Smith (Timelessness & Play)
19 - Susan Molnar (Tech Education & The Maker Revolution)
18 - JF Martel (Art, Magic, & The Terrifying Zone of Uncanny Awesomeness)
17 - Tibet Sprague (Envisioning Utopian Communities)
16 - Cory Allen (De-Anthromorphizing The Universe)
15 - Trevor Goodman (Body Hacking & Sensory Augmentation)
14 - WESTWORLD Problems (feat. Michael Phillip of Third Eye Drops)
13 - Rupert Till aka Dr. Chill (Ancient Audio & Future Ritual)
12 - Mark Lee aka Somnio8 (Alt Physics & Visionary Art)
11 - Shaft Uddin & Camillo Klingen (Tantra & Society)
10 - Anthony Thogmartin & David Krantz (Future Music)
9 - Ashley Dawson (Mass Extinction)
8 - Kingsley Dennis (New Monasticism)
7 - Shane Mauss (Psychedelic Comedy)
6 - Maraya Karena (A Different Perspective)
5 - Mitch Schultz (The Spirit Molecule)
4 - Bruce Damer (Asteroid Mining & Origins of Life)
3 - Tony Vigorito (Synchronicity)
2 - Cairos (Time as Feeling)
1 - Chronos (Time as Geometry)