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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/

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/ 

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 expresses our shared interest in existential questions, continental philosophy, and Freudian psychoanalysis (and Heavy Metal and Hip Hop music). The idea with the Art of Being a Man was to create a series of workshops to explore elements of the psyche that are often overlooked, ignored, repressed or experienced as "problems to solve". Our intention is to lead a group of men in spending time with these parts of our selves, exploring what they mean, what we can learn from them, how we can draw inspiration and strength from them - in short, to see if we can live more artfully with all parts of our selves, and sublimate the forces that move through us for expression in our creative work.    The topics we will cover in our workshops will be:  Pleasure and Infantile Drives (Kill, Eat, Fuck)  Adult Eroticism and Sexuality  Melancholy and Depression  Power  Death   Love and Community  Creativity and Art   The idea is that we begin with the early beginnings of the psyche, the drives that we are created with, and slowly move through to our own ability to express ourselves and influence the world around us.  In addition to the core workshops, there will be a facilitated community platform, optional "homework" exercises and prompts for those who want to go deeper into the material, and optional extra community calls or 1on1 support.  The course will begin on Sunday 16th January and run on alternative Sundays through to 8th May. Each workshop will last 5 hours, with an hour break in the middle. They will start at 4pm CET, 3pm GMT, 10am EST.  If you're interested, check out the links below,. You can sign up by following the Maniphesto link. And if you have any questions, get in touch with Owen or Cadell!    https://maniphestocore.com/art-of-being-a-man/ Outline: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/615abdea83700f2629ae1cf5/t/61a4d28d61b9581da57afab7/1638191777678/Art+of+Being+a+Man+outline.pdf

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&hvlocphy=133318&hvnetw=s&hvqmt=e&hvtargid=kwd-80882977468569%3Aloc-188&keywords=digital+libido&qid=1639665249&sr=8-1

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.patreon.com/technosocial​​​  Music by Salvatore Schiano http://www.salvatoreschiano.com/​​​  Also on  https://anchor.fm/technosocial

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  https://www.patreon.com/technosocial Music by Salvatore Schiano http://www.salvatoreschiano.com/​​​​  Also on  https://anchor.fm/technosocial

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

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 of nature vs. laws of nature, determinism and transdeterminism, Roger Penrose's physics, ontological design, ethics, the barred absolute, and aesthetics.  Ebert's writing: https://badguru.substack.com/  Bards latest book: https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Libido-Violence-Network-Society/dp/9188869237  Support Technosocial  https://www.patreon.com/technosocial  Music by Salvatore Schiano http://www.salvatoreschiano.com/​​​​  Also on  https://anchor.fm/technosocial

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 Technosocial  https://www.patreon.com/technosocial​​​​​  Music by Salvatore Schiano http://www.salvatoreschiano.com/​​​​​ 

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 Technosocial  https://www.patreon.com/technosocial​​​​​  Music by Salvatore Schiano http://www.salvatoreschiano.com/​​​​​  Also on  https://anchor.fm/technosocial

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 about his perspective on the culture wars, on politics, creativity, the internal daemon whose advice he follows, the relationship between parental issues and political inclinations, and the concept of virtue.   https://www.thestoa.ca/​  https://medium.com/s/world-wide-wtf/memetic-tribes-and-culture-war-2-0-14705c43f6bb Support Technosocial https://www.patreon.com/technosocial​​​  Music by Salvatore Schiano: http://www.salvatoreschiano.com/​​

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 Technosocial  https://www.patreon.com/technosocial​​  Music by Salvatore Schiano http://www.salvatoreschiano.com/​​  Also on  https://anchor.fm/technosocial

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 courses: https://thenewtantra.com​​    Start practising tantra at home for free:  http://21daychallenge.com​​    Book by TNT founder Alexa Vartman:  http://50misconceptionsofsex.com​​    Support Technosocial https://www.patreon.com/technosocial​​​​  Music by Salvatore Schiano http://www.salvatoreschiano.com/​​​​  Also on  https://anchor.fm/technosocial

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 to consciousness.   Support Technosocial  https://www.patreon.com/technosocial​​​  Music by Salvatore Schiano http://www.salvatoreschiano.com/​​​  Also on  https://anchor.fm/technosocial

Sebastian Östlind is a psychosomatic researcher.  In this conversation we discuss embodied cognition, and how neurophysiology reflects the decisions we make in life; incentive structures in academic institutions; sensocratic data collection and integrating darker parts of the self.   Support Technosocial  https://www.patreon.com/technosocial​  Music by Salvatore Schiano http://www.salvatoreschiano.com/​  Also on  https://anchor.fm/technosocial

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; ego, immortality and original perception; Cadell's notion of the invisible handjob of history; commodity fetishism; creative tension between objects; the impotence of human bodies; love stories and romance, and how they might look in the 21st century; new forms of storytelling; and bringing digital subcultures into the Real.    Find Cadell here:   https://cadelllast.com/   https://www.youtube.com/user/TheAdvancedApes   Support Technosocial  https://www.patreon.com/technosocial   Music by Salvatore Schiano http://www.salvatoreschiano.com/   Also on  https://anchor.fm/technosocial

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 station but an arts centre (I swear I didn't mean it on purpose). Additionally, the Dutch artist and architect behind “New Babylon” is Constant Nieuwenhuys.    Find Brent on:  https://medium.com/the-abs-tract-organization  https://twitter.com/tato_tweets    Support Technosocial  https://www.patreon.com/technosocial  Music by Salvatore Schiano http://www.salvatoreschiano.com/  Also on  https://anchor.fm/technosocial

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 disrupted; how racial and gender struggles have replaced national and religious struggle; bringing language and knowledge to sexuality; Hegel, death and disappointment; relationships between masters and students; the Big Other and lack; Heidegger, Einstein, Being and Time; Islam, Communism and other competing universalities; the production of self creating, purely technological life; biological, cultural and technological reproduction; the prospect of a new, noological species; collapsing temporality; dialectics, division, and the trap of perfect images.   Find Cadell here:   https://cadelllast.com/   https://www.youtube.com/user/TheAdvancedApes   Support Technosocial  https://www.patreon.com/technosocial   Music by Salvatore Schiano http://www.salvatoreschiano.com/   Also on  https://anchor.fm/technosocial

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 (often unappreciated) power; archetypal possession; psychological operations; embracing uncertainty with regard to conspiracy; knowledge that cannot be integrated; practices for embodiment, and their commodification.   Find Jasun here https://auticulture.com/  His latest book is on sale https://auticulture.com/liminalist/16...  Support Technosocial  https://www.patreon.com/technosocial  Music by Salvatore Schiano http://www.salvatoreschiano.com/  Also on  https://anchor.fm/technosocial

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 path; knights templars and freemasons and their legacy in crafts; technique and technology; the constraint of bourgeois values; art as more than entertainment; approaching the internet as a raw material; using paradigms as materials; belonging to something greater than oneself; wholeness as the maximum expression of what is possible in the moment - as opposed to perfection; suffering, guilt and the myth of paradise; approaching power structures themselves as raw materials that can be learned from.   Find his work here: https://www.thesolarwarrior.com/  Support Technosocial  https://www.patreon.com/technosocial   Music by Salvatore Schiano http://www.salvatoreschiano.com/ Also on  https://anchor.fm/technosocial