The Cultures

By The Cultures

Adrian Hon, Andrea Phillips, and Naomi Alderman talk about technology, books, publishing, games, science, religion, films, TV, politics, and how to live a good life.... more

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September 14, 201461: Enjoying Anticipation, Why We're Reading Less, Competition, Coffee Naps
Enjoying anticipation
Why we're all reading less
Areas in which we're competitive
Coffee naps!
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34min
September 07, 201460: Worldcon, Talking to Fundamentalist Children, Losing the Robotics War
Drone hiking feedback
Worldcon in London (Daily Dot on young vs. old fans, Metafilter discussion)
How to talk to fundamentalist children (Sue Blackmore's account of her lecture)
How to lose the robotics war
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33min
August 31, 201459: Too Much Success, Deep Signals from the Past, Antisemitism
What happens with artists have too much success?
Why art, literature, and philosophy can be 'deep signals' from the past that help people open their minds.
Antisemitism, and why it appears to cause more disquiet to call out these days than sexism.
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48min
August 24, 201458: Destressing with Candy Crush, Mindfulness, Who Wants to be Normal?
Candy Crush as a meditative/destressing practice, judging the things people do for enjoyment
"Mindfulness is all about self-help. It does nothing to change an unjust world."
Who wants to be normal?
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42min
August 17, 201457: An Argument for the Sake of Heaven, Holidays, Metafilter Travails
"An argument for the sake of heaven"
The holiday you'd love to take
Metafilter travails, and the dangers of living in a bubble (Jessamyn's post about leaving Metafilter)
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40min
August 10, 201456: Adrian in San Francisco, Being Offline, Precrastination
Adrian in San Fransisco (his talk at the Long Now Foundation)
Being offline for two weeks, and being online now
Precrastination
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32min
August 03, 201455: The Arctic, Beauty as Performance, Why we need our clutter
Naomi's visit to the Arctic
Beauty as performance (before and after makeup galleries of porn stars)
Why we need our 'clutter' (We We Need Things by Csikszentmihalyi)
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31min
July 27, 201454: Projection bias in California, The Downward Ramp, @SavedYouAClick
Followup from our discussion about misogyny
'California Ideology' as an excellent example of Projection Bias (see Dan Hon's Tinyletter, Marc Andreeseen's blog post This is Probably a Good Time to Say That I Don’t Believe Robots Will Eat All the Jobs..., Alex Payne's excellent response to Marc, Adrian's Metafilter comment)
The Downward Ramp - college grads are increasingly taking on jobs that are less cognitively-demanding
@SavedYouAClick's crusade against clickbait headlines
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33min
July 20, 201453: Only buy what you want and use!
If we're so rich, why aren't we happy? from 3QuarksDaily
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34min
July 13, 201452: Being in hospital with friends, being a hacktivist, the failure of consensus
Andrea's experience in hospital - having your friends always with you (online)
How to be an actual hacktivist (It's Not You, It's The System from Model View Culture)
The Failure of Consensus - how General Assemblies worked in the Occupy Movement (from Counter-power as common power: beyond horizontalism)
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36min

FAQs about The Cultures:

How many episodes does The Cultures have?

The podcast currently has 285 episodes available.