Fluidity

Fluidity

By Matt ArnoldSociety & CultureScienceSocial SciencesPhilosophy
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Fluidity episodes

  • The Personal Is Political

    The 1960s-80s countercultures dissolved the boundaries between self and society, ethical and political—setting us up for decades of culture war.

    You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon:

    https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks

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    Original music by Kevin MacLeod.

    This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.

    50 min
  • Renegotiating Self And Society

    How—and why!—countercultures sought to reform psychologies and polities: to counteract alienation, anxiety, and anomie.

    Original music by Kevin MacLeod.

    This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.

    18 min
  • Hippies And Evangelicals: Monist & Dualist Countercultures
    The hippie counterculture was structurally and functionally similar to the Moral Majority Christian Right counterculture a decade later. https://meaningness.com/monism-dualism-countercultures Original music by Kevin MacLeod. This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.
    39 min
  • A Bridge To Meta-Rationality Vs. Civilizational Collapse
    Taking a break from narrating "Meaningness And Time" to give you a standalone essay by the author, David Chapman, which I call the Bridge essay. It will be helpful in our next few episodes, in which "Meaningness And Time" describes the counter-cultures' renegotiation of the relationship between self and society. The Bridge essay provides the urgency behind this entire audiobook podcast, and the reason I titled the podcast "Fluidity". When I first read it in 2020, that was the moment I decided I wanted to narrate David Chapman's work on my podcast. https://metarationality.com/stem-fluidity-bridge The Bridge essay references Chapman's summary of Robert Kegan's framework of adult cognitive development, which I narrated on this episode: https://fluidity.libsyn.com/developing-ethical-social-and-cognitive-competence Original text of Chapman's summary of Kegan here: https://vividness.live/developing-ethical-social-and-cognitive-competence Yesterday I encouraged David Chapman to link from the Bridge essay to an enlightening recent article by John Nerst on his blog Everything Studies (later published in Aero Magazine) clarifying the difference between postmodernism and "pseudo-pomo": https://areomagazine.com/2018/06/30/postmodernism-vs-the-pomo-oid-cluster/ Original music by Kevin MacLeod. This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.
    31 min
  • Countercultures: Modernity's Last Gasp
    The hippies and the Moral Majority both tried to rescue systematic eternalism—and failed. We live amongst their wreckage. https://meaningness.com/countercultures Countercultures defined as new, alternative, universalist, eternalist, anti-rational systems: there were two in the late 20th century. https://meaningness.com/counterculture-definition If you want to support this podcast, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold Original music by Kevin MacLeod. This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.
    20 min
  • The Collapse Of Rational Certainty
    Modernity was built on certainty in science and mathematics. That was revealed as delusional during the early 20th century. An hour-long episode! For many of my acquaintance, this is an important entry point into Chapman's work, tying together Meaningness And Time with his other book In The Cells Of The Eggplant. It's also the most recent page he's written. https://meaningness.com/collapse-of-rational-certainty If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold Original music by Kevin MacLeod. This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.
    1 hr 1 min
  • Systems Of Meaning All In Flames

    How and why modernity failed. All systems of meaning—religious, political, artistic, psychological—began to fall apart. Nihilism seemed the only alternative.

    https://meaningness.com/systems-crisis-breakdown

    If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold

    Original music by Kevin MacLeod.

    This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.

    36 min
  • Invented Traditions And Timeworn Futures
    Ideological time-distortion strategies are highly effective in propaganda. The Victorian age and the twentieth century gave us many new things that were supposedly ancient. These include: - British royal coronation ceremonies. - kilts and almost the entire Scottish national identity. - almost all of the history of Buddhism. - and don't get us started on Thanksgiving and Christmas. This is a fun episode. https://meaningness.com/invented-traditions-and-timeworn-futures

    You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon:

    https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks

    If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold

    Original music by Kevin MacLeod.

    This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.
    27 min
  • The Glory Of Systems
    Systems of society, culture, and the self were the foundation of the modern world. Their glories have passed. https://meaningness.com/systematic-mode

    You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon:

    https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks

    If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold

    Original music by Kevin MacLeod.

    This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.
    26 min

About Fluidity

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After the collapse of the 20th-century systematic mode of social organization, how can we move from our internet-enabled atomized mode, toward a fluid mode? We take problems of meaning-making, typically considered spiritual, and turn them into practical problems, which are more tractable.