THE 'ART OF THINKING' with Greg Scorzo

In this Art of Thinking Podcast, Greg Scorzo talks to writer, podcaster, and Zero Books publisher Douglas Lain. In the first two hours of this podcast, Scorzo and Lain discuss the ethos of Zero Books, Diet Soap media, Lain’s departure from Zero Books, communism, the instability of capitalism, working class revolutions, the problem of mass production, whether social structures undermine free will, incentives as desire technology, a world without wages or profit, the prospects for a working class revolution, and whether capitalism is worse than alternative forms of social organisation.  In the third hour of this podcast, Scorzo and Lain discuss Lain's experiences on dating Apps, his experience as a newly single person at age fifty, sex positive feminism, the connection between sex and love, and whether or not Lain would ever date a porn star. 

Sorry about the mic issues. However, it goes without saying, this discussion is still audible, and still riveting....

All The ‘Art of Thinking’ with Greg Scorzo podcasts are available on major platforms via Audio Boom including Spotify, Apple Podcasts and many more. 

Also listen to recorded dialogues from Greg Scorzo's debut novel 'Love Before Covid,'  - traumatic (sur)realism at it's best. An experimental and extreme collection of real-time dialogues, traversing a complex moral maze of how love is being impacted by gender politics in these polarised political times. Exploring the nature of love and drawing focus to the dark side of romance, procreation and sex, it deals unsparingly with unpredictable behaviour, abuse, depravity and forgiveness. To find out what healthy love could be, this book explores what it shouldn’t be. "Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other." - Carl Jung

Available from Troubador Publishing and all good bookshops.

In this Art of Thinking podcast, philosopher Greg Scorzo talks to Todd McGowan about his book, The Impossible David Lynch (2002). The podcast examines Todd’s theories explaining the meaning of three David Lynch movies: Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, and Eraserhead. Also discussed is how McGowan analyses all three movies using the Lacanian conceptualisations of desire and fantasy. Throughout the podcast, Scorzo and McGowan discuss what Lynch’s movies can teach us about politics, the superego, jealousy, love, truth, responsibility, capitalism, time off of work, and the potential we all have to follow our fantasies to the very end. This podcast contains movie spoilers.

All The ‘Art of Thinking’ with Greg Scorzo podcasts are available on major platforms via Audio Boom including Spotify, Apple Podcasts and many more. 

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Also listen to recorded dialogues from Greg Scorzo's debut novel 'Love Before Covid,'  - traumatic (sur)realism at it's best. An experimental and extreme collection of real-time dialogues, traversing a complex moral maze of how love is being impacted by gender politics in these polarised political times. Exploring the nature of love and drawing focus to the dark side of romance, procreation and sex, it deals unsparingly with unpredictable behaviour, abuse, depravity and forgiveness. To find out what healthy love could be, this book explores what it shouldn’t be. "Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other." - Carl Jung

Available from Troubador Publishing and all good bookshops.

In this Art of Thinking podcast, Greg Scorzo talks to writer, computer programmer, and science consultant consultant Bob Kruger. Scorzo and Kruger talk about feminism, patriarchy theory, identity politics, evolutionary psychology, the seductiveness of morality without factual accuracy, the importance of bridging the left-right divide, the social utility of religion, the ubiquitousness of tribal bigotry, whether social media has democratised people power, white privilege, “mansplaining”, vanity, narcissism, slut shaming, exacerbated entitlement, and the mating strategies of gender queer fish.

All The ‘Art of Thinking’ with Greg Scorzo podcasts are available on major platforms via Audio Boom including Spotify, Apple Podcasts and many more. 

Follow the link to listen and subscribe to all of our podcast channels that are applicable.

Our podcasts are also available via YouTube. Follow and subscribe to our YouTube channel

Also listen to recorded dialogues from Greg Scorzo's debut novel 'Love Before Covid,'  - traumatic (sur)realism at it's best. An experimental and extreme collection of real-time dialogues, traversing a complex moral maze of how love is being impacted by gender politics in these polarised political times. Exploring the nature of love and drawing focus to the dark side of romance, procreation and sex, it deals unsparingly with unpredictable behaviour, abuse, depravity and forgiveness. To find out what healthy love could be, this book explores what it shouldn’t be. "Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other." - Carl Jung

Available from Troubador Publishing and all good bookshops.

In this Art of Thinking podcast, Greg Scorzo talks to philosopher Quassim Cassam about his book, “Extremism: A Philosophical Analysis”, available from amazon. Specifically, Scorzo and Cassam will be talking about the mindset of extremists, whether extremist beliefs are delusional, victimhood fantasies, the distinction between extremism and radicalism, whether extremism is time-relative, the Overton window, whether extremism can become mainstream politics, whether the contemporary left or right is more extreme, whether mainstream ideology is what wins elections or kicks you out of polite society, whether polite society marginalising certain views is evidence that polite society is extremist, whether racist views should be allowed to be expressed in polite society, and whether psychologically violent activism is extremist.

Also available on YouTube

Also listen to recorded dialogues from Greg Scorzo's debut novel 'Love Before Covid,'  - traumatic (sur)realism at it's best. An experimental and extreme collection of real-time dialogues, traversing a complex moral maze of how love is being impacted by gender politics in these polarised political times. Exploring the nature of love and drawing focus to the dark side of romance, procreation and sex, it deals unsparingly with unpredictable behaviour, abuse, depravity and forgiveness. To find out what healthy love could be, this book explores what it shouldn’t be. "Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other." - Carl Jung

Available from Troubador Publishing and all good bookshops.

In this podcast, Greg Scorzo dialogues with the controversial  Australian journalist and writer Antonella Gambotto-Burke about her book, Mama: Love, Motherhood and Revolution. Many of the issues raised in Mama are discussed: issues such as Antonella’s experience becoming a mother, her views on the devaluation of the feminine, attachment parenting, whether it is useful to value female beauty, fractured intimacy, the emotions behind sex work, oxytocin and love, whether personality is more a product of nature or nurture, the specific role of the mother during infant and toddler years, whether you can spoil an infant or toddler, whether or not nannies are problematic, emotional literacy, and the role of consumer culture in changing how we parent. As in all 'Art of Thinking ' podcasts whether or not you agree is less important than grappling with the ideas. You don't have to think like everybody else.

Also available on YouTube

Also listen to recorded dialogues from Greg Scorzo's debut novel 'Love Before Covid,'  - traumatic (sur)realism at it's best. An experimental and extreme collection of real-time dialogues, traversing a complex moral maze of how love is being impacted by gender politics in these polarised political times. Exploring the nature of love and drawing focus to the dark side of romance, procreation and sex, it deals unsparingly with unpredictable behaviour, abuse, depravity and forgiveness. To find out what healthy love could be, this book explores what it shouldn’t be. "Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other." - Carl Jung

Available from Troubador Publishing and all good bookshops.

In this podcast, Greg Scorzo will be talking to educator, writer, and web scholar Steven J. Lawrence. More specifically, they will be discussing the language of wider communication, the importance of cultivating agency in young people, problems with accommodating fragility, how to reach misbehaving kids, the universality of enlightenment principals, the role of identity in classroom culture, the trendiness of zero-sum thinking, the mechanics of dehumanisation, the dignified principals of silent protest, staying in one’s lane, police killings of African-Americans, culturally responsive teaching, the culture of mental health awareness raising, and the conjoining of narcissism with sadism.

Also available on YouTube

Also listen to recorded dialogues from Greg Scorzo's debut novel 'Love Before Covid,'  - traumatic (sur)realism at it's best. An experimental and extreme collection of real-time dialogues, traversing a complex moral maze of how love is being impacted by gender politics in these polarised political times. Exploring the nature of love and drawing focus to the dark side of romance, procreation and sex, it deals unsparingly with unpredictable behaviour, abuse, depravity and forgiveness. To find out what healthy love could be, this book explores what it shouldn’t be. "Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other." - Carl Jung

Available from Troubador Publishing and all good bookshops.

In this podcast Greg Scorzo chats to evolutionary theory scholar, writer, and comedian Paula Wright. We’ll be talking about the evolutionary origins of patriarchy, the biological vulnerability of women, feminism and safety culture, the impossibility of equality of outcome, the impossibility of ending violence against women, how intersectional Feminism disrupts the family, using twitter as a barometer for gauging public opinion, the public’s capitulation to rage, whether politics should go against nature, whether men who profess to be women are a danger to women, whether evolutionary psychology paints human nature as more left wing or right wing and whether autism makes one more immune to bad politics

Also available on YouTube

Also listen to recorded dialogues from Greg Scorzo's debut novel 'Love Before Covid,'  - traumatic (sur)realism at it's best. An experimental and extreme collection of real-time dialogues, traversing a complex moral maze of how love is being impacted by gender politics in these polarised political times. Exploring the nature of love and drawing focus to the dark side of romance, procreation and sex, it deals unsparingly with unpredictable behaviour, abuse, depravity and forgiveness. To find out what healthy love could be, this book explores what it shouldn’t be. "Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other." - Carl Jung

Available from Troubador Publishing and all good bookshops.

In this podcast, Greg Scorzo talks to professor of philosophy Dr Rick Ripetti, who teaches at The City University of New York. They discuss the veridicality of supernatural experiences, the tensions between philosophy and religious mysticism, why extremists see themselves as holding the moral high ground, how to discuss politics in an era of extreme political polarisation, whether Rand's philosophy is collectivist, the epistemic virtues of the political spectrum, sophistry, whether identity politics is a religion, marginalisation and narcissism, special pleading fallacies, progressivism and elitism, the ethics of describing people as “having been manipulated”, the complexity of Donald Trump, and the pros and cons of mindfulness.

Also available on YouTube

Also listen to recorded dialogues from Greg Scorzo's debut novel 'Love Before Covid,'  - traumatic (sur)realism at it's best. An experimental and extreme collection of real-time dialogues, traversing a complex moral maze of how love is being impacted by gender politics in these polarised political times. Exploring the nature of love and drawing focus to the dark side of romance, procreation and sex, it deals unsparingly with unpredictable behaviour, abuse, depravity and forgiveness. To find out what healthy love could be, this book explores what it shouldn’t be. "Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other." - Carl Jung

Available from Troubador Publishing and all good bookshops.

In this podcast, Greg Scorzo talks to Leicester poet and magician, the fabulous Will Horspool (AKA poetman). We’ll be discussing Will’s poems and issues they raise such as Free Speech, Cancel Culture in Leicester, Transgender Activism, Covid Restrictions, the UK Lockdown impact on the elderly, unrequited crushes, energy drinks, unpleasant visits to the dentist, the separation of the old from the young, mental health madness, and problems with the hyper-controlled society.

Also available on YouTube

Also listen to recorded dialogues from Greg Scorzo's debut novel 'Love Before Covid,'  - traumatic (sur)realism at it's best. An experimental and extreme collection of real-time dialogues, traversing a complex moral maze of how love is being impacted by gender politics in these polarised political times. Exploring the nature of love and drawing focus to the dark side of romance, procreation and sex, it deals unsparingly with unpredictable behaviour, abuse, depravity and forgiveness. To find out what healthy love could be, this book explores what it shouldn’t be. "Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other." - Carl Jung

Available from Troubador Publishing and all good bookshops.

Here is the second part of Greg Scorzo’s ‘Art of Thinking’ session with philosopher Piers Benn. Scorzo and Benn discuss additional issues that come up in Piers Benn’s book, Intellectual Freedom and the Culture Wars. More specifically, they discuss whether being in an historically oppressed group justifies verbally abusing people who belong to more privileged groups, when can one assume racism is no longer a political problem, the psychological incentives all parties have to take certain political stances within identity politics, whether racism accusations are unfalsifiable, the different varieties of virtue signalling, the definition of racism, the paradoxes of unconscious bias training, the political polarisation over Brexit, and the ethics of the unsolicited d**k pic.

Also available on YouTube

Greg Scorzo's debut novel 'Love Before Covid,'  traumatic (sur)realism at it's best. An experimental and extreme collection of real-time dialogues, traversing a complex moral maze of how love is being impacted by gender politics in these polarised political times. Exploring the nature of love and drawing focus to the dark side of romance, procreation and sex, it deals unsparingly with unpredictable behaviour, abuse, depravity and forgiveness. To find out what healthy love could be, this book explores what it shouldn’t be. "Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other." - Carl Jung

Available from Troubador Publishing https://troubador.co.uk/bookshop/contemporary/love-before-covid all good bookshops.