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The Òrga Spiral Podcasts — 224 episodes

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Kevin Mitchell and "The Streets of Glasgow"

2

The Romana Acoustic Passport

3

The Internal Colonization of the Highlands

4

Rhythm’s Hidden Power

5

How Dance Built and Broke Empires

6

Nature strikes back in global literature

7

Poetry was humanity's original hard drive

8

Pushkin and the Battle for the Russian Soul

9

Walt Whitman and the Poetry of Forgetting

10

How Shakespeare Weaponized His Invented Words

11

Shakespeare Invented the Modern Human Personality

12

The History of Theatres

13

Desmond Barrit: The Accountant that Conquered the Theatre.

14

Alexandra Kollontai's Blueprint for Love and Labour

15

Jiang Qing and the Gang of Four

16

China's Tiangong Station and 2030 Moon Mission

17

The Genius Who Refused a Million Dollars

18

Weaponizing Flowers For Protest And Profit

19

Langston Hughes: The Poet Laureate and the Radical

20

The Logic of Escher's Impossible Worlds

21

Fractal Expressionism: The Mathematics of Nature in Art

22

Fractals and the Infinite Coastline Paradox

23

Golden ( Órga (Scottish gaelic -archaic)) Ratio: Factoring the Fibonacci Myths

24

Writing to Survive Behind Prison Walls

25

China's Solid-State Battery and Chip Breakout

26

Lenin's Wife Was The Revolution's Architect

27

Zapatistas Dissolve Government to Survive Cartel War

28

The Colonial Lie That Africans Cannot Think

29

Christopher Caudwell: The Pulp Writer Who Anticipated Quantum Theory

30

Ancient Indian Astronomy and Mathematics: A Brief History

31

Poemage: Visualizing the Sonic Topology of a Poem

32

The Mapper Algorithm: Advancements and Applications in Topological Data Analysis

33

The Skeleton of Singularities: Forecasting Mental Health Episodes

34

Boiling Tea in 196,884 Dimensions

35

The Spectre of Dietzgen: Topological VSA and Verifiable AGI

36

The Silver Inversion: Imperial Decay and the War of Manoeuvre

37

1939: The Alliance That Never Was

38

Biomimicry: Life's Genius

39

Propaganda and Structural Control

40

The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2025

41

Goethe's Colour War against Newton

42

Common Sense: From Scottish Philosophy to Gramsci to Modern AI

43

UNESCO Ethics and the Lisp AGI Soul

44

Poetry and Celestial Anthropology

45

Sorley MacLean: Tradition, Politics, and Poetic Forms

46

REM Sleep Theta Activity and Emotional Memory

47

Tangled Hierarchies and the Topological Dynamics of Intelligence

48

Metrics for Ethical Cybersecurity Resilience

49

Augmented Reality in Education and Training

50

Engineering Robustness and Complexity in Biology

51

Persian Literature: Sháh Námeh, Rubáiyát, Divan, Gulistan

52

Frankenstein's Scottish Secret

53

The Plebeian Fair: Lyrical Genius, Body Snatchers, and the Fight for Reform

54

Elspeth King: Scottish Curator and Historian

55

The Scottish Folk Revival: Matt McGinn and the Birth of a Radical Cultural Identity

56

UNESCO's Twentieth Anniversary: Human Rights and Future Programs

57

Culture's Case for Scottish Independence

58

A New Psychodynamic Theory of Schizophrenia by Torsten Oettinger

59

Situationist International: Critique and Revolutionary Action

60

The History of Heroin: From Miracle Cure to Global Plague

61

The Two-Fisted Life of Jack London: A Deep Dive

62

The Manufacture of Meaning: Unpacking the Politics of Cultural Construction

63

Poetry as Engine: How Avant-Garde Poets Built the Modern World with Words

64

Paradise Project: Ethical AR for Urban Regeneration

65

Sorley Maclean, Spanish Civil War, and Dàin do Eimhir

66

Ranavalona I: Jezebel or Madagascar Patriot?

67

Hamish Henderson: - The First Gramscian

68

Battlestar Galactica the Hard-hitting Sci-fi Show-- Decoding the Darkness

69

Freddy Anderson's Declaration of War Uncovering Glasgow's Suppression of Working Class Culture

70

Staging the Revolution: The Politics and Praxis of Scottish Theatre from Thatcher to Today

71

Palestine: Centre of Worldwide Anti-Colonial Struggle

72

Scottish Response to the French Revolution

73

The Living Rosetta Stone: Universal Phonetic System

74

The Three Columns of Ethical AI

75

The Limits of Knowledge and Ignorance

76

Latin American Philosophies of Anarchism

77

Scotland's Storybook: Ancient lore of Scotland

78

Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race {Ireland and Wales}

79

Dreams: Gateways to the Collective Unconscious and MultiverseDreams:

80

R. D Laing and the Ontological Security Showdown

81

The Sci-Fi Lab: Deconstructing Power, Identity, and Colonial Amnesia

82

Universal Dreams Versus Cultural Realities

83

Global Perspectives in Philosophical Thought

84

FringeWiki: The Alternate Universe Detailed

85

Thomas Muir: Exile and the Fight for Freedom

86

Colonial Hoax? Scotland's Explosive UN Petition to Redefine the UK

87

James Hogg: Shepherd, Visionary, and Divided Self

88

The Deep Psychology of Entitled Loss: From Burke to Neoliberalism

89

Modern African Feminism: Resistance, Reclamation, and Revolution

90

Interstices: Cracks of Subversion and Social Transformation

91

Gaelic Philosophy of Harmonious Doing and Scotland's Future

92

The Gardens of Democracy: A New American Story

93

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band: A Rough Guide

94

A Trial of Fear: The Enduring Injustice of Sacco and Vanzetti

95

Ivor Cutler and Critical Failure Studies

96

The Problems of Everyday Life by Leon Trotsky

97

The Challenge of Non-Western Philosophies .

98

Dolores Huerta: Architect of Personal Politicking in Farmworker Organizing (Sí se puede}

99

The Possibility Expansion Engine: AI as a Co-Pilot

100

A Call to Action for Modernizing Education Systems

101

A Debate: The Architecture of Scientific Revolutions

102

Quantum Entanglement:Carol Lynne Knight's Poetic Quest for Self-Discovery

103

African Feminist Theories: Stiwanism, Motherism, Nego-feminism

104

Unpacking Biodiversity Loss and the Big Bad UK

105

Kropotkin - Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution

106

The Dead Kennedys: with Dario Fo and Jello Biafra

107

The Pogues: with Brendan Behan and Shane MacGowan

108

The Empire of Cotton: A Global History

109

John Couzin's Life and Legacy (The Spirit of Revolt (Archive)

110

Black Athena: The Linguistic Evidence

111

Akira: Catalyst for Anime's Western Renaissance

112

Archaeology's Colonial Legacy and Restitution

113

Re-thinking Gender: A Yoruba Perspective

114

So Long a Letter: Senegalese Feminism and Social Critique

115

Buddenbrooks: Capitalism's Self-Consuming Cycle

116

The Clash: with Bertolt Brecht and Joe Strummer

117

The Dialectics of Quantum Computing

118

40 Years of Injustice. The Battle of Orgreave.

119

Topy-as a Bridge to Hodge's Conjecture, Quantum Electronics and String Theory

120

The Complete Atlas of Human Anatomy and Surgery

121

Against Empires, the Audacious Free Press :Guy Aldred and Richard Carlile

122

Democratizing Literary Journalism: Beyond Tom Wolfe's Legacy

123

How: an Operational Calculus for Geometric Design can revive Joseph Dietzgen (1828/88)?

124

The Pythagorean Path: Life, Lore, and Wisdom

125

Babylon 5: The Complete Collection (1995-2001)

126

The Doll's House :A Commentary on Marriage and Morality

127

Helen Crawfurd- the Fearless Organiser,

128

The Jute-Mill Song

129

The Pathfinder Paradox: Historicizing African Art within Global Modernity

130

Unpacking Scotland. From Lord Byron's Peaks to Hidden Female Voices

131

Kurihara Sadako: Let Black Eggs Hatch!

132

Iceland's Kitchenware Revolution: Crisis and Political Change

133

The Black Jacobins: San Domingo's Revolution and Toussaint Louverture

134

A History of Beauty: From Antiquity to the Avant-Garde

135

The Historian and Progress in a Changing World

136

The Second Sex: Woman's Reality and Myth

137

Tillie Olsen: Voice, Silence, and the Human Condition

138

The Poetry and Prose of Heinrich Heine

139

Ulysses and Faust: Tradition and Modernism

140

Contextualising Chomsky. Barthes and Leonard: Demystifying Language and Ideology

141

Becker's Structure of Evil: Denial and Immortality Projects

142

French Materialism: From Metaphysics to Communism

143

UNESCO's Global Gender Equality Initiatives

144

Same Old Story: A Topography of Anti-Colonialism

145

Ireland Unfree Shall Never Be at Peace

146

Robert Emmet's Final Appeal: For Ireland and History

147

Nothing About Us Without Us: Direct Participation Principle

148

Imaginary Matrices: An Algebraic Approach to Topology

149

Mesoamerican Astronomy: Celestial Influence on Culture and Architecture

150

Alan Watts: Eastern Wisdom for the Western Mind

151

The Role of the Individual in History

152

Specters of Marx: Debt, Mourning, and the New International - Derrida

153

Hegel: The Phenomenology of Spirit

154

Ancient Chinese Mathematics: Unseen Modern Impact

155

Igniting Revolution. A Concise History of Liberation Theology

156

Chichikov's Grand Acquisition of Dead Souls (Gogol)

157

In Remembrance of James D Young Scottish Historian

158

UNESCO's Evolving Decentralization Strategy and Caithness

159

Marxism, Literature, and Alienation: A Critical Overview

160

Don Quixote: Adventures and Musings of a Knight-Errant

161

Guantanamera: Verses of the Soul

162

Jane the Virgin: Telenovela Heart, Modern Smart

163

The Prisoner: The Finale.

164

The Water Margin: 1973 Japanese TV Series

165

Marx, Money, and Shakespeare's Timon of Athens

166

Fibonacci's Ocean: Spirals, Waves, and Sampling

167

A Concise History of Oceanography

168

Star Lore of All Ages

169

Ikebana: The Art of Living Flowers

170

Rebel Journalism: Wilfred Burchett's Global Dispatches

171

Aboriginal Storytelling: Culture, History, and Identity

172

Bury My Heart: A Call for Global Justice

173

Saving Scottish Gaelic and Other Endangered Languages

174

The Dawn of Greek Philosophy and Science

175

Paul Robeson: A Poem and Biography

176

An Introduction to Key Concepts of Derrida and European Identity

177

Victorian Poems of Hope and Despair

178

The Cosmos -our pale blue dot.

179

The Disappearing Spoon-The Secret Lives of the Chemical Elements

180

AI: Building an Accessible Future for Persons with Disabilities

181

Undecidable Questions When Math Breaks Reality Splits

182

Men in Prison by Victor Serge

183

The Ballad of Reading Gaol

184

The Last Emperor Film: A Comprehensive Overview

185

Ukraine Conflict: Diplomacy, Sanctions, and Global Power Dynamics

186

Marx's Ethnological Notebooks: A New Road to Revolution

187

Pablo Neruda and Victor Jara: A Chilean Artistic Legacy

188

The Good Soldier Švejk: Fortunes in the World War

189

African Philosophy: Emancipation and Practice Reviewed

190

Josef Dietzgen: Proletarian Philosophy's Theoretician

191

Unlocking Magic Realism.

192

Fibonacci Anyons: Quantum Computing's Topological Future

193

American Samoa's Paradox and Decolonisation

194

Poetry's Canon: Anthologies, Modernism, and Cultural Construction in India

195

Chinese Poetry: Mind, Mayhem, and Money

196

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

197

Hamish Henderson: War, Poetry, and Scottish Culture

198

The Many Faces of Resistance: Global Movements to Everyday Acts

199

Rethinking Math: The Maverick Tradition, Proof, and the Human Element

200

The Mathematician's Lament

201

A History of the Scottish People

202

Psychiatry and Anti-Psychiatry

203

Pepe Escobar: The Raging Twenties: Geopolitics, Economy, and Biosecurity

204

The Sufis: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Life

205

Michael Hudson's "Super Imperialism": US Global Economic Dominance

206

Transactional Analysis Made Simple: A Core Guide

207

I Am a Strange Loop

208

Tolstoy's Resurrection: A Tale of Moral Transformation

209

Marxism and Literature: A Critical Examination of Cultural Theory

210

Robert Tannahill: Artisan, Poet, and Radical Thinker by Jim Ferguson

211

John Maclean: Scotland's Accuser of Capitalism

212

Candide: Or, Optimism's Progress Through Suffering

213

The Destruction of Reason's German Roots

214

How Euler's Number and the Golden Ratio Shape Nature, AI, and the Future of Intelligence

215

Illusion and Reality: The Social Sources of Art

216

Richard Carlile: Printer, Reformer, and Free Press Champion

217

To Have or to Be: A Path to Human Flourishing

218

Overcoming Emotional Blindness: A Path to True Selfhood

219

Alan Horn's Inversion of the Enigma

220

Gaelic Spirit: Magic, Resistance, and Sorley MacLean

221

Astronomy, Art, and the Human Superstructure

222

From Eurocentrism to Global Philosophy: A Reassessment

223

Modern Art's Eurocentric Lens

224

The Decline of Imperialism and the Uneven Development of Capitalism