Infinite Conversations
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Infinite Conversations episodes

  • Can You Be Naked Without a Map and Still Be Integral?

    A discussion of Winter of Origins—the #litgeeks book club reading of The Ever-Present Origin, by Jean Gebser—with Jeremy D. Johnson. We explore how a return to literary, philosophical, and spiritual origins could reinvigorate our creativity and communities of thought.

    1 hr 16 min
  • Does an Artist Need a Business Plan?

    This pilot episode of the Infinite Conversations podcast—featuring writer, actor, mystic, and activist Mark Binet—explores the difficult relationship between art, commerce, and activism—and asks to what degree contemporary artists are implicated in unjust systems and self-serving motives. Must an artist necessarily oppose power, or can she work with power—especially economic power—to serve noble ends? What might be these ends be? In other words: What are the ethics of aesthetics?

    Topics Discussed:

    The New Jim Crow

    Integral Theory

    Authors Mentioned:

    Don DeLillo

    Douglas Rushkoff
    Jonathan Franzen
    Michelle Alexander

    34 min

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How far can we go in our thinking, our imagination, our love? This show is about transgressing the limits of our minds and dissolving the boundaries of our hearts. While exploring diverse topics in…