The NanceCast

In this episode, The Dangerous Maybe and I talk about a few things. We planned on reading from Todd’s Book, The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan, and discussing some concepts of “Late Lacan.” We still accomplished this, but we were also kinda preoccupied with breaking events, namely the violent death of far right provocateur Charlie Kirk. We also discuss a piece from Levi Bryant on The Capitalist Discourse and how Superego might give those of us less enamored by “Late Lacan” some insight into Sinthome. We also discuss the problem with Marxism in today’s world, and loft an excellent idea for a documentary series.

As always, thanks for your time and attention, see you soon space cowperson…

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Yo! Mikey The Dangerous Maybe and I catch up a little bit, talk about some recent events and some things that have been on our minds, and we give you, Dear Reader, an assignment that we’ll get around to cashing in on soon!

This is another loosey-goosey episode, but it’s packed with Theory too!

Stay tuned! Don’t forget that Mikey has a course coming up with Philosophy Portal soon, so go sign up for that if you haven’t yet. Also, check out what the Portal has going on this month, it’s sick!!!

Thanks for dropping in, see you on the next one!!

The homie Sean No Future joins me in this conversation about History and the Future. We’re a bit loosey goosey in this episode, because we’re buddies and we’re kinda just chillin, but we’re also carrying on a discussion that has been unfolding between us, and online in general. We were going to talk about the movie Alien Covenant, and we did a bit, but we were also too engaged in the topics we started talking about to have a more focused discussion of the movie, so when it comes up it might seem a bit out of place, but just run with it.

We ask whether or not Humans need God, posit that we’ve already replaced God with something else, complain a bit about stuff we can’t control or change, talk Marcuse vs Girard (Rousseau vs Hobbes 2.0), and generally have a good ol’ time just kickin it and catching up!

Check out Sean’s Substack, https://substack.com/@dukesdoswing, and stay tuned because a little bird told me that he’s got some really dope s**t coming!

I felt like doing something “productive,” but then I wondered why I thought that recording an episode would make me feel like I’d been “productive.” Feel free to listen to this while you do dishes or laundry or work out, or even skip this episode altogether, do what you gotta do, boo boo!

There will be some worthwhile stuff coming soon, so stay tuned!!

In this exciting episode, The Dangerous Maybe and I are joined by Zero Philosophy to discuss The Future, The Past (if that’s even a real thing), sexbots and Tom Cruise’s girlfriends, and some other stuff too!

We delve into Artificial Intelligence, Doom, Accelerationism—of the Cute and the Zero varieties—The Dialectic, and even indulge in some live-Diagonalizing!

This is something of a “bonus” episode, following on from the stellar discussion we had with Nick regarding the Numogram—you should have already watched that video in its entirety at least once before consuming this. As always, Dear Reader, thank you for dropping in! Make sure to support Mikey on Substack, YouTube, and Patreon! Thank you, Nick, sincerely had a blast, can’t wait to talk again soon!!! The Dark Future’s tentacles are tickling my brain! (or are they trying to strangle me?)

The Dangerous Maybe and I read another piece from Xenosystems Fragments, Intelligence and the Good.

This short piece further elucidates Nick’s view of Intelligence, that which resists entropy and just might make its way out of the Future; be that near, far, virtual, or otherwise.

Nick’s position is extreme, but as far as I can tell is consistent, and makes more sense than anyone else I am aware of in the various /acc camps.

Sit back, strap in, and join us as we grapple with doom, inevitability, futility, and maybe even a bit of hope—or is that just romance?

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The Dangerous Maybe and I were joined by our homies, Nick and Andrew, the Vanishing Mediators, to talk about “psychology” and “mental health,” Subjectivity and Intelligence, Cybernetics, Psychoanalysis, Production, History, the Family, and more!!

Go follow these guys on social media! I don’t know where they are because I’m not on the platforms and I always forget that I should get everyone’s links to put here so you can find them, but you should already be following everyone anyway!

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In this episode, I’m joined by The Dangerous Maybe and Sean K Mittelstaedt to deepen the conversation on Structural, or Secondary, Narcissism and the Social (or Society, or the Socius—I’m not sure what the best way to sum that up is, but the three are distinct yet very similar.)

Mikey and Sean draw out some of the intricacies of the Clinical Structures, and I got to sit back and be a part of the audience for a bit - this show is great!!!

We go on to ponder and opine on just what the hell is going on with the world these days, but I think we resist the temptation to just start yelling at clouds! I’m already looking forward to the follow up conversations, I’ve been sending Sean messages incessantly because I just keep having bright ideas downstream of his analysis!

Thanks for stopping by, see you on the next one!!!

The Dangerous Maybe is back once again! This time we’re joined by a prestigious friend, Todd McGowan!! Todd doesn’t appreciate it when people go on about just how impactful he is/has been on contemporary Theory and Philosophy, so I won’t—but I will say that I respect and look up to Todd more than just about anybody else.

This conversation is a continuation of what Mikey and I have been talking about, and also follows on from one of Todd’s recent Why Theory? episodes with Ryan Engley—another awesome guy you should get to know if you don’t already!

Todd lofts a very powerful Hegelian interpretation of Intelligence, tells us why all the current Girard hype might be a bit mistaken, and opines on Freedom, Utility, Finitude, Creativity, and Subjectivity.

This one was a blast! Looking forward to the next one!! Thank you!!!

p.s. shoutout to Oriel Farajun for insightfully pushing back against the LLM’s preposterous claims of Mastery! There’s a lot going on there, and it’s correct to be suspicious of the Machine!!

The Dangerous Maybe and I read Nick Land’s short piece, What Is Intelligence, and have a two-hourish conversation about it.

How one defines intelligence might seem a bit too academic for the average-everyday person to care about, it might seem like it doesn’t really matter because we all, ostensibly, have it, and it’s safe to take it for granted; it’s one of those things about which one could sit around and gather wool and bellybutton-lint all day, but when it comes to the important business of living daily life, there are just so many more important things to worry about!

Sure. But also, it kinda matters. A lot.

There are a lot of people who take Intelligence for granted, and who are currently developing globe-spanning technologies and tools that are already radically changing the world we live in, and whose effects will only accelerate and intensify as we hurtle deeper into the Dark Future. Many of these people, in fact I’m confident that most, mean well, and genuinely believe that they are doing work to improve the lives of all Humans here on our lovely little Pale Blue Dot. The thing is, without critically investigating the notion of Intelligence, these well-meaning people are actively working to accelerate contact with catastrophe.

I’m not saying that Mikey and I have the answers, that we have it all figured out and that people who don’t share our views are evil or dumb or wrong, or at least I’m not trying to say that—what I am trying to say is this—we should probably pump the brakes a bit and reexamine our trajectory, reexamine our presuppositions, and maybe turn the certainty and the utility sliders down a bit, we may not get another chance…