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Other Life — 244 episodes

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The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control with Jacob Siegel

2

On Fatherhood (Reply to Matt Walsh, TMZ, etc.)

3

"Neo-China Arrives From the Future:" On Nick Land's Sino-Futurism (The Meltdown Lectures)

4

Montaigne, IVF & Embryo Selection, Q&A

5

I Fell Off (It's So Over)

6

Urbit, Nockchain, and the Current State of Sovereignty Technology

7

Soft-Engineering, Transversality, Human Security System (Nick Land, Meltdown, Sentences 7-8)

8

Markets Learn to Manufacture Intelligence and Politics Modernizes (Nick Land, Meltdown, Sentence 3)

9

Intoxicated by Truth: Plato's Symposium with Alex Priou

10

From Tech to Public Philosophy: Johnathan Bi on Production Quality and Patronage Networks

11

Plato's Republic with Nina Power and DC Miller: Philosophy, Repression, Madness, and Courage

12

The Truth Will Set You Free: Nietzsche vs. St. John

13

Don't Be a Slave: Nietzsche on Philosophy and Slavery

14

We're Back: On how I fixed the company (a big lesson for independent scholars)

15

we almost just died (and it was great, I think?)

16

The Rigor of Angels: Kant, Borges, & Heisenberg with William Egginton

17

Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano

18

Literary Outlaw: The Life of William S. Burroughs

19

John Kennedy Toole and A Confederacy of Dunces With Dan Baltic

20

AI for Writers: Striking a Balance Between Automation and Humanity

21

Ezra Pound: The Curse of Genius

22

Write for Yourself and Yourself Alone

23

Vanishing Virility: Understanding the Modern Testosterone Crisis

24

Dr. Samuel Johnson: Hustler, Savage, Grifter, Great

25

Plato Uncovered: Building Influence in the Ancient and Modern World

26

Oscar Wilde and J.R.R. Tolkien with Paul Fortunato

27

YouTube Radicalization is a Myth with Mark Ledwich

28

Virtue and Excellence: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics with Colin Redemer

29

The Violent Focus of Francis Bacon

30

Writing in the Age of Machine Intelligence

31

Young Balzac: Disordered Knowledge, Strange Student

32

From PhD to LandChad: Digital Sovereignty, Christianity, and IRLmaxxing with Luke Smith (Live at Mansion #3)

33

"360 Degree Conviction:" 10 Years of Counterculture with Asher Penn of Sex Magazine

34

Bad CEX: On FTX and SBF (with The Network Age podcast)

35

Alex Lee Moyer's War with Filmmaker Alex Lee Moyer

36

Ye the Holy Fool; Nick Land Dead?; Sam Kriss on the Internet

37

Deregulation and the State Arms-Race Into Cyberspace

38

How the "Intellectual Dark Web" Ended with David Fuller

39

The World's Best Crypto Investor Invested in Urbit with Joey Krug of Pantera Capital

40

Insanely Bullish on Urbit With Uqbar Founder ~timluc-miptev

41

The ESG Scam: Bitcoin, Indie Media, and Natural Gas with Marty Bent

42

The Harvard Finance Bro Building an Urbit Network State in El Salvador

43

Charles Taylor and Paperclip Maximizers with Ellie Haine and Joe Edelman

44

Logistically Accelerating Techno-Economic Interactivity Crumbles Social Order

45

How Chris Williamson Grew Modern Wisdom From Zero to 450k Subscribers

46

Curtis Yarvin on Crypto: Bitcoin, DAOs, Inflation, and Government Crackdowns

47

Flannery O'Connor and the Mysterious Secrets of Writing

48

"The story goes like this: Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity..."

49

The Hyperreal Plague: How Girard & Baudrillard Explain the Pandemic with Geoffrey Shullenberger

50

Zero-Knowledge Crypto-Anarchy with Rachel-Rose O'Leary from DarkFi

51

Be Not Afraid with James Ellis from Hermitix

52

Software as Soulcraft and the Metaphysics of Engineering with Neal Davis

53

The Bull Case for Milady: Evaluating NFTs and Debunking the Miya FUD with Vers la Lune

54

Launching the Mars Review of Books with Noah Kumin

55

The Metaphysical Desires of René Girard with Johnathan Bi

56

What's Going on With Milady Maker? How to Think About Decentralized and Controversial Art

57

The Pathless Path with Indie Consultant Paul Millerd

58

Coffee With Hitler: Writing Poetry and Novels with Steff and Autumn

59

10% More Psycho: On Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Christ with Mike Elias of IdeaMarket.io

60

Building a Village DAO with Andrew Hitchcock of Montanoso

61

Only God Can Cancel Us: On Immanent Cyberculture with Endproject

62

Personal Knowledge Management is Bull5h1† — Other Life

63

Web3 Gaming is Mostly a Scam with Charlie Smith, Co-Founder of Nifty Island

64

Alt-Lit and Indie Sleaze Redux with DefaultFriend

65

Building DAOs on Urbit with Holium & The Combine

66

Human Forever with James Poulos

67

Riva Tez on Epistemological Freedom: Feyerabend, Science Funding, and How to Do Whatever You Want

68

The Improvement Illusion and the Dying NYRB

69

Milady, Angelicism, and the Imperceptible Country

70

Quantum Computing and Anarcho-Communist Swarm Intelligence with Jonathan Paprocki | The Urbit Series

71

Demystifying the Politics of Urbit Governance with Anthony Arroyo of The Combine | The Urbit Series

72

Alien Invasions From the Future with Sam Frank, Writer and Galaxy Owner | The Urbit Series

73

How the CCRU Predicted Crypto and DeFi

74

Urbit, Blockchains, and the Next Billion Users with Ted Blackman, Engineer at Tlon | The Urbit Series

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The Most Correct Computer (How Urbit Wins) with Philip Monk, CTO of Tlon | The Urbit Series

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Building Web3 Products on Urbit with Nico Arqueros of dcSpark | The Urbit Series

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"Rationalists Are a Bunch of Queers" with Wet Brain | The Urbit Series

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The 100-Year Computer with Galen Wolfe-Pauly | The Urbit Series

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The Only Dignified Computer with Tirrel Corporation | The Urbit Series

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The Most Beautiful Computer with Édouard Urcades | The Urbit Series

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Chivalry, Christian Vitalism, and Building a Theory Brand on Twitter with Parker from Chivalry Guild

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Truth Machines Against the Gerontocracy with Richard Craib of Numerai

83

The Bitcoin Whitepaper, Nick Land, and Kant

84

Exit, Voice, and Loyalty by Albert Hirschman (Lecture)

85

The Internet is a Schizophrenia Simulator with Paul Town

86

Get jacked, build a cult, and get $$$ with Gritcult

87

The Future of Social Businesses with Mark Beylin of Myco

88

The Crypto Reformation with Josh Rosenthal

89

The Art of Violence with Girardian Stuntman Eric Jacobus

90

Pseudonymous Decentralization with Indian Bronson

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How the Metaverse Takes Over National Economies with Gabby Dizon of Yield Guild Games

92

From Frogtwitter to Crypto Millionaire with Path

93

ȘȈǤƝȘ 63: Reality Splitters (Based Mansion 2)

94

Bataille, NFTs, and Crypto-Sovereignty with Mónica Belevan

95

Crowdfunding an Urbit Galaxy?

96

The Psychedelic Century with Brom Rector

97

DIY Gene Hacking, Genetic Bioweapons, and Crushing It on Substack with Razib Khan

98

The Testament of Ivan Illich with Biographer David Cayley

99

How to Build a Tokenized Creator Community with Jess Sloss of Seed Club

100

The Abolition of Institutions: On Ivan Illich with LM Sacasas and Nina Power

101

Building an Idea Company on Youtube with David Fuller of Rebel Wisdom

102

McAfee $WHACKD? Ivan Illich, DAO, China

103

Augustine, Girard, Closed Patreon, Bitcoin Maximalism

104

How to Reboot the American Empire with Wolf Tivy, Editor-in-Chief of Palladium

105

Other Life Live - Vaxxed, Reply to Luke Smith, Chat for God updates, etc.

106

Ivan Illich: Deschooling and Conviviality with Nina Power

107

Artificial Intelligence, Dogecoin, Arranged Marriages - Other Life

108

Other Life with Bitcoin Sign Guy Christian Langalis

109

Is the Normie Internet Satanic?

110

The Key Ideas of René Girard: Mimetic Desire, Violence, and Christianity with Geoff Shullenberger

111

Eric Weinstein's Geometric Unity

112

Samo Burja on Intellectual Legitimacy and His Business Model as a Private Researcher

113

Urbit for Creators with Josh Lehman, Director of Urbit Foundation

114

On NFTs, Papa John, Twitter Purge, Meghan Markle, Q&A

115

What Do Edgelord E-Girls Want? With @Unbridled_Id

116

On TikTok Alpha Males and Eric Weinstein

117

On Vaush, Tim Pool, and Antiracist Baby with Live Q&A

118

A Literal Marketplace of Ideas with Mike Elias of IdeaMarket.io

119

My $5k Deal with Ben, China, Bitcoin, Christianity - Live Q&A

120

On Outsider Teaching with Carl Jung Lecturer John David Ebert

121

Quirked Up Whodies

122

Revolt Against Wall Street with Day Trader Jacob

123

Capitol Riots and Bitcoin Christianity

124

Carl Jung's Model of the Psyche with John David Ebert

125

Building Startup Cities with Dryden Brown of Bluebook Cities

126

Leo Strauss on Persecution, Education, and Revelation with Michael Millerman

127

Reality-Forking Communities with Erik Torenberg and Greg Isenberg

128

Q&A on Crypto, Community, and the Future of Other Life

129

The Business of Indie Philosophy Comics, with Philosopher-Illustrator Tom K of Uncivilized Books

130

How Creators Are Creating Money for Their Communities, with Bradley Miles of Roll

131

Tokenizing Content with Kenny Rowe of the Dalten Collective

132

Can We Escape? On Deleuze and Heidegger with Johannes Niederhauser

133

Video Futurism: Networked & Monetized, with Anirudh Pai of Superpeer

134

Dating and Mating Via Twitter with @Default_Friend

135

On Marriage

136

Making Social Theory Viral on TikTok with Biz Sherbert

137

Buying Mansions Without Money and Writer-Entrepreneurship with Max Nussenbaum of On Deck

138

How to Build a Mafia with Sudarshan Sridharan of Fion.tech

139

Growing a Social Science Newsletter from a Creator House in Mexico, with Brett Goldstein

140

Meet the Gen Z Mafia, with Ringleader Emma Salinas

141

Should you start a Substack?

142

Self-Publishing Non-Fiction with David Kadavy

143

Internet Vitalism

144

Tech Twitter's Christian Wunderkind Nicole Williams

145

From Hacker to Homesteading Author with Travis Corcoran

146

The Lindy Scam: A Case Study of Paul Skallas

147

Introduction to Georges Bataille with Nina Power

148

Anna Khachiyan's Insubordination

149

Selling Zines and Quitting Jobs with Sonya Mann

150

How Aella Makes Bank on OnlyFans

151

Do Not Despair (Kierkegaard and The Sickness Unto Death)

152

Radical Politics for Control Societies: Based Deleuze Lecture 4

153

Engineering negative virality

154

The Social Science of Tiger King with Geoffrey Miller and Diana Fleischman

155

Midnight B4 Moldbug in LA

156

Curtis Yarvin Live at the Based Deleuze Release Party in LA

157

Quarantined Bunkercast with Diana Fleischman and Geoffrey Miller

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TFW NO GF with Filmmaker Alex Lee Moyer

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Aella the Enlightened Cam Girl Writer and Entrepreneur

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Music Careers and Hierarchy Cheers with Charlie Looker

161

How Memes Work with MemeAnalysis

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Catholic Accelerationism with Akira of Lovecrypt

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Going All-In on Crazy: The Witten

164

The Decentralized Content Landscape with LBRY CEO Jeremy Kauffman

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Get F*ck You Money, Practice Nomadology, and Join the Internet Aristocracy with Alexander Bard

166

Left Egoism with Eliot Rosenstock

167

Based Deleuze: Preface to Audiobook

168

Hypermodernity with John David Ebert and Brian Francis Culkin

169

"I had nothing better to do." Claire Lehmann of Quillette on the new intellectual economy and how she grew her blog into a media company

170

Cancellations and Comebacks with Deanna Havas

171

BAP Theory with Geoffrey Miller

172

Supernatural Toxicity with Nina Power and DC Miller

173

How the Youtube Algorithm Really Works with Mark Ledwich

174

Our Desert Commune of Monogamous and Poly Edgelords with Geoffrey Miller and Diana Fleischman

175

Parrhesia and the Future of Honesty (Talk given at the Invisible College, London)

176

Joker: Very Serious Symposium with Geoffrey Miller and Diana Fleischman

177

Zer0 to Hero with Nicolas Hausdorf

178

Deleuze vs. Heidegger on Technology, Enslavement, Escape with Johannes Niederhauser

179

The Anti-Woke Left with Angela Nagle

180

Can the Left Be Saved? With Nina Power and DC Miller

181

Teenage Internet Philosophy Tutor Txgen Meyer

182

Cath-Pilled Shoplifting Theory with Dasha from Red Scare

183

Ethics of Shoplifting From Self-Checkout Kiosks With Xenogothic

184

Posthuman Life with David John Roden

185

Has Academia Failed? Talk Given to U. of Southampton Students Upon My Honorable Retirement

186

My Interview on Abortion/Necrophilia with Katie Way for Babe.net

187

Memology of Peak Oil with Chadafrican

188

Mimetic Arbitrage with @MimeticValue

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Horror of Acceleration with Zero HP Lovecraft

190

Design Politics with Eli Schiff

191

Deep Code with Jordan Hall

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Deepfakes in the Near Future with Geoffrey Miller

193

"There Is No Left" with Aimee Terese

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Dark Bohemian Transhumanism with Rachel Haywire

195

Introducing Based Deleuze

196

Post-Politics with Robert Mariani, Editor of Jacobite

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The Psychology of Antifa with Geoffrey Miller

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My Lacanian Psychotherapy Session with Eliot Rosenstock

199

Heidegger, Ecstatic Time, and the Community of Mortals with Johannes Niederhauser

200

Reality Patchwork and Neo-Feudal Techno-Communism

201

A Postscript to Transgression with Nina Power

202

Cypherpunk Neoliberalism with Sonya Ellen Mann

203

Frog Twitter, Self-Publishing, and #YangGang with Logo Daedalus

204

Hate Speech, Feminism, and Paganism with Nina Power and DC Miller

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The Rectification of Names with DC Miller: On Conservatives, Fascists, NRx and Free-Speech Leftism

206

Acceleration, Adorno, JB Peterson, Catholicism

207

Automated Reasoning, Gen Z Reaction, and Pacific Dialectical Materialism with Systemkei

208

Naked Academics, Crimethinc Anarchism, and the Resurrection of Christ

209

Get Fired or Resign? — Ruling the Void — Lacan, Charlatan? — How to Pick a Major (Livestream Q&A)

210

Dominatrix E-Girl Christians (Christlover2000)

211

Urbit and Exit with Urbit Engineer Ted Blackman

212

Personal Genomics and Internet Intellectualism with Razib Khan

213

Semantic Apocalypse & Life After Humanism with R. Scott Bakker

214

Pathologies of Secular Cosmopolitanism with Ben Sixsmith

215

Ethereum Smart Contracts & Political Engineering with Dave Hoover

216

Crypto-Current Religious Becoming with CryptoChamomile

217

The Cultural Decay Rate, Traditional vs. Self-Publishing, and Talking to the Alt-Right with John David Ebert

218

Bronze Age Perversity with Mike Crumplar

219

Gender Accelerationism and Lesbian Neoreaction with Nyx Land

220

A conversation with Joshua Strawn

221

Motives and Institutions with Robin Hanson

222

Ideology, Intelligence, and Capital with Nick Land

223

On French Philosophy with Taylor Adkins

224

The Political Science of Genetic Explanations with Elizabeth Suhay (#19)

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#18 - Sean Trainor

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#17 - Roman Montero

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#16 - Uriel Fiori

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#15 - Philipp Streicher

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#14 - Greg Osei

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#13 - Geoffrey Miller (Part 2 of 2)

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#12 - Geoffrey Miller (Part 1 of 2)

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#11 - Will Sharkey

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#10 - Ilan Zvi Baron

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A Talk on "Immediate Collective Liberation"

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#9 - Sam Berkson

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#8 - Russell Bentley

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#7 - Mindy Isser

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Other Life #6 - Diana S. Fleischman

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Other Life #5 - Dan Goss and Rosie Hiscock

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You communists!

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Other Life #4 - Jonathan Havercroft

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Other Life #3 - Adriana

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Other Life #2 - Jonathan Havercroft

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Other Life #1 - My wife