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Jim talks with Grandmaster chess player and philosopher Jonathan Rowson about the recent drama between Magnus Carlsen and Hans Niemann in the Champions Chess Tour… Continue reading Currents 068: Jonathan Rowson on the Chess Drama
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Jim talks with John Markoff about his new biography, Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand… Continue reading EP 164 John Markoff on the Many Lives of Stewart Brand
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Jim talks with Benedict Beckeld about his new book Western Self-Contempt: Oikophobia in the Decline of Civilizations… Continue reading EP 163 Benedict Beckeld on Western Self-Contempt
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Jim talks with recurring guest Max Borders about the ideas in his new book The Decentralist: Mission, Morality, and Meaning in the Age of Crypto… Continue reading EP 162 Max Borders on Decentralism
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Jim talks with recurring guest Zak Stein about the Consilience Project’s article “Technology is Not Values Neutral: Ending the Reign of Nihilistic Design“… Continue reading Currents 067: Zak Stein on Ending Nihilistic Design
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Jim continues his discussion with Matthew Pirkowski on ideas of emergence and how they can be applied to today’s meta-crisis… Continue reading Currents 066: Matthew Pirkowski on Emergence in Possibility Space
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Jim talks with Greg Thomas about American democracy & the problems created by racial essentialism & racialization… Continue reading EP 161 Greg Thomas on Untangling the Gordian Knot of Race
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Jim talks with Curtis Yarvin about his proposal to replace our current government with a monarchy, part of an ongoing exploration of problems with and alternatives to democracy… Continue reading EP 160 Curtis Yarvin on Monarchy in the U.S.A.
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Jim talks with Bobby Azarian about the ideas in his new book The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity, which Jim calls “the most Jim Rutt Show-ish book ever”… Continue reading EP 159 Bobby Azarian on the Romance of Reality
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Jim talks with Alexander Bard, continuing a series of encounters between GameB and the Dark Renaissance movement… Continue reading Currents 065: Alexander Bard on Protopian Narratology