Kris and David begin their discussion on the five aspects of progress: religious, biological, technological, social, and cultural. We start with the first three, talking about reincarnation stories, the Red Queen Hypothesis, and hyperstitional beings along the way.

Show Notes:

The Myth of the Eternal Return by Mircea Eliade

“211th Chorus” by Jack Kerouac

CERN

Meister Eckhart

The Great Chain of Being by Arthur O. Lovejoy

“Man Gave Names to All the Animals” by Bob Dylan

Quokkas

Leigh Van Valen’s “Red Queen Hypothesis”

Edward T. Hall

Accelerationism

Fanged Noumena by Nick Land

The Cybernetic Culture Research Unit

Cyclonopedia by Reza Negarestani

“Notes on Hyperstition” by J.F. Martel

 

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