Lost Xplorers

In the first hour, we talk about:

UFOs Declassified / Distrust in the Media / The Cultural Significance of Bigfoot / Conspiracy as Folklore

In the second hour, we talk about:

What Would an Alien Intelligence Look Like? / The Primacy of Symbols / Are Languages Entities? / The Multiplicity of Answers

Show Notes:

“The £1,000,000 Bank-Note” by Mark Twain

The Power of Eight by Lynne McTaggart

Charles Fort

UFOs as a Modern Myth by Carl Jung

The Red Book’s Illustrations

Voynich Manuscript

Culture Tracking

Philip K. Dick’s Pink Laser Beam

Robert Anton Wilson’s Reality Tunnels

Programmed to Kill by David McGowan

Disinfo

The Illuminatus! Trilogy by RAW

The Long Walk by Sławomir Rawicz

“The Willows” by Algernon Blackwood

Lake Thunderbird Squid

Robert Irwin

Is Bigfoot an Extraterrestrial Visitor?

The Bradbury Building

Conner Habib

Gregory Bateson

Gilbert Ryle

Alien Autopsy

On this episode, Kris and I wrap up our discussion of celebrity. We discuss our own personal heroes, and the gradual cultural slide from the sacred to the ubiquitous. David also relates the story of a recent burglary.

TMNT / Johnny Quest / Totems / Postmodern Syncretism / The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction / The Real World / Drag Race / Mimetic Desire / Snoop Dogg / Graham Greene / Meteorites & Satellites

On this episode, Kris and I continue our discussion of our relationship with the concept of celebrity. We end with a beautiful reading from Kris's new collection.

Fear & Love / Witnessing a Live Mental Breakdown / Magicians vs. Narcissism / Hierarchy of Social Scenes / The Terrible Smoothness of Jeff Koons / Chubby Checker / The Locust / How We Remember Our Lives

On this episode, Kris and I take a look at the concept of celebrity in pop culture by first taking a dive into the past, where we focus on Alexander the Great, Jenny Lind, and Bing Crosby.

On this episode, Kris and I discuss my new role as a father, the joys and trials of raising a newborn, the role of influence in online media, and how The Wicker Man is the perfect metaphor for our times.

On this episode, Kris and I continue our discussion of media saturation, this time focusing on the issue of advertising and its insidious effects on information consumption.

On this episode, Kris and I begin our discussion of the history of media and advertising’s control over the public consciousness.  We discuss the trajectory of modern news networks, test pattern curses, and the decentralization of journalism vs. tech company censorship.

Show notes:

Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

The monkey and the ant reference

Lowell Thomas

Curtis Yarvin’s “Cathedral”

“TV’s First Star - Felix the Cat”

Walter Cronkite

William Randolph Hearst

“Profiles in Journalistic Courage”

Studs Terkel

Nicholson Baker’s “Lab Leak” article

 

 

E-mail us with your thoughts at [email protected]

Kris on Twitter: @KrisSaknussemm

David on Twitter: @brbjdo

Leave us a review on iTunes

David’s novels are available here

Music/mixing by ous/li

On this episode, Kris and I round up our discussion on the five elements of human progress. This time, we focus mainly on social progress, with a focus on Prohibition, the tradeoffs of social reform, and the need to maintain our humanity.

Plus, we answer listener mail, responding to an extremely insightful comment from Philippa of Greenspace.

Show notes:

Robert Irwin

Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees by Lawrence Weschler

“LOST IN TIME AND OUT OF SEASON: GROWING UP IN 1960’S BERKELEY” by Kris Saknussemm

The Public Universal Friend

“Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beyond Culture by Edward T. Hall

Slavoj Žižek - Tell me a dirty joke about yourself and we will be friends

Chester A. Arthur

The Pendleton Act of 1883

The Riddle of the Sphinx

 

E-mail us with your thoughts at [email protected]

 

Kris on Twitter: @KrisSaknussemm

David on Twitter: @brbjdo

 

Leave us a review on iTunes

 

David’s novels are available here

 

Music/mixing by ous/li

On this episode, Kris and I continue our discussion of technological and cultural progress, touching on the agency of the homeless, the violence of revolution, and how the powers that be utilize technology to respond to social change.

Show Notes:

Bayo Akomolafe

The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Dante’s Inferno

Milton’s Paradise Lost

The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

The Seattle Space Needle

Century 21 Exposition

“The Gernsback Continuum” by William Gibson

Leave No Trace

Hobo Sigils

Adam Curtis’s Can’t Get You Out of My Head

 

E-mail us with your thoughts at [email protected]

 

Kris on Twitter: @KrisSaknussemm

David on Twitter: @brbjdo

 

Leave us a review on iTunes

 

David’s novels are available here

 

Music/mixing by ous/li

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

 

E-mail us with your thoughts at [email protected]

 

Kris on Twitter: @KrisSaknussemm

David on Twitter: @brbjdo

 

Leave us a review on iTunes

 

David’s novels are available here

 

Music/mixing by ous/li