The Technosocial Institute

By The Technosocial Institute

Digital humanity. Who are we? Where are we going? And what are the machines driving us? Daniel Fraga and Owen Cox delve into the fringes and subcultures of the internet, exploring exodus, ontological ... more

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The podcast currently has 82 episodes available.

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October 14, 2020 Capitalism, Anarchs and Talking to the Outside with Meta-Nomad
Meta-Nomad is the host of Hermitix podcast and a writer. In this episode we discuss: trends that the mainstream academy follows - and that it ignores; the popularity of Marxist materialism and the obscurity of mysticism and occultism; subjective and objective ways of knowing; precognitive dreams; technocapitalism as an intelligence; collapse theory and accelerationism; genius and how ideas have people; opening self to the outside; how fantasies are immanentized as fictions, which then inspire reality; how democracy shortens human time horizons, and the implications for civilisation; virtue signalling; tokenism in contemporary culture; Junger's idea of the anarch; how capitalism recuperates attempts to change it because it thrives off unfulfilled desires; accepting defeat; nonlinear time and eschatology; purpose and meaning; avoiding hypocrisy by staring the monstrosity of humanity in the face.
Support Technosocial
https://www.patreon.com/technosocial
Also on
https://anchor.fm/technosocial
Music by Salvatore Schiano
http://www.salvatoreschiano.com/

Find Meta-Nomad at:
https://hermitix.podiant.co/
https://www.meta-nomad.net/
https://twitter.com/meta_nomad
https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast
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1h 19min
October 10, 2020 Scouts of the Noosphere Vol 1. Egregores and Superorganisms
Scouts of the Noosphere is a weekly show where Daniel Fraga and Owen Cox explore strange forms from the depths of the internet. This episode is about egregores and memetic superorganisms.
Support Technosocial
https://www.patreon.com/technosocial
Also on
https://anchor.fm/technosocial
Music by Salvatore Schiano
http://www.salvatoreschiano.com/
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1h 10min
October 08, 2020 The World as Will and Meme with MemeAnalysis (Chris Gabriel)
Chris Gabriel is the visionary behind MemeAnalysis, a YouTube channel producing in depth analysis of popular internet memes, trends, and philosophies.
In this conversation we explore: meme magic and symbols; digital culture, schizophrenia, and how the internet brings out the bizarre from the collective unconscious; archaic archetypes in contemporary memes; memetic lineages; Dionysian and Apollonian drives; Hassan-i-Sabbah and the idea that everything is permitted; the personal development scene; tantra and crazy wisdom; old and new gods; the Donald; sex, masculinity and society; music subculture; the castration of art in current society; will, egoists and egotists; digital sexuality; and how apps are altering the perception of young people.
Support Technosocial at:
https://www.patreon.com/technosocial
Find Chris here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb4pvsyqNrmBIGJFQxEukUA
https://www.instagram.com/aeoniccomics/
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1h 18min
September 27, 2020 A New Art Aristocracy with Rachel Haywire
Rachel Haywire is a Cultural Futurist who recently founded Elixir Salon. She is the author of The New Art Right, and an entrepreneur with a love for VR and transgressive art. She posts frequently to her Substack, where she now holds her own private events.
We discuss: Elixir Salons, Rachel's digital art parties, and her history of throwing events; subcultural creativity; embracing chaos while avoiding nihilism; the idea of transcending the center; aristocratic values and gravitas in artists; exodus and outsideness; rhizomes; how the supposedly decentralised internet has centralised around Twitter, Joe Rogan and other core nodes; our projects as responses to this centralisation; attention whoring and the cult of instagram influencers; philosopher queens; the cultural fetish for liberty; embodying new artistic directions.
Support Technosocial at:
https://www.patreon.com/technosocial
Find Rachel at: https://rachelhaywire.substack.com/
Her book is: https://www.amazon.com/New-Art-Right-Reaction-2018/dp/0648299678
And Elixir Salons: https://www.elixirsalon.net/
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1h 7min
September 21, 2020 Operative Frameworks: Designing, Self, Society and the Machine with Moritz Bierling
Moritz Bierling is an independent researcher, writer, programmer, and open source operative. In this conversation we discuss: communities and practices for developing virtue and non-exploitative relationships with self and world; faith and choice; Peter Thiel's idea of Zero to One; becoming a Zero to One person; capitalism and alienation; operative frameworks for engineering and interfacing with reality; currencies as the grammars of cultural exchange; designing new currencies to enable new social formations; the priestly function and the barred absolute; digital monasteries as the next power concentrations in society; the prospect of AIs ruling societies, and how to adapt; the commodification of mind by technocapital; new technical interfaces for human activity; using operative frameworks to capture and optimize energy efficiency in life; genius, and the dangers of overidentifying with it; animism; oral and written communication, and the codification of language and power.

Support Technosocial at:
https://www.patreon.com/technosocial
Find Moritz here:

https://operationautarch.com/
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2h 7min
September 16, 2020 Operative Frameworks: Designing, Self, Society and the Machine with Moritz Bierling
Moritz Bierling is an independent researcher, writer, programmer, and open source operative. In this conversation we discuss: communities and practices for developing virtue and non-exploitative relationships with self and world; faith and choice; ...
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2h 7min
September 03, 2020 Artificial Intelligence and Power with Dan Faggella
Dan Faggella is Founder and Head of Research at Emerj and advises the UN, Interpol and global enterprises on Artificial Intelligence. He is also a former MMA coach and fighter.

In this conversation we discuss: AI, social media and filter bubble creation; monopolies and power concentration in Big Tech; weaponisation of social media and AI, and the difficulties in defining what can be classed as weaponisation; whether digital media culture is fragmenting nations; autocults; blind spots in public understanding of AI; the rapid increase in capability of AI image manipulation, and the end of the correspondence between images and reality; the pace at which different sectors will be affected by AI; user experience and interface design; the difference between customer facing and backend AI applications, and the amount of error they can tolerate; the prospects of friendship, lovers, teachers and other social relationships being replaced by virtual versions; Dan's concepts of Lotus Eaters and World Eaters - the former numbing themselves and escaping with tech, the latter radically extending their capabilities with it.
Support Technosocial at:
https://www.patreon.com/technosocial

Find Dan here:

https://danfaggella.com/

https://emerj.com/
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56min
August 05, 2020 Heavy Metal and Postmodern Shamanism with David Burke
David Burke is a writer and critic.

In this conversation, we explore: heavy metal as a critical response to late capitalism and industrial society; the idea of the original metalheads as dark hippies, and what metalheads have evolved into; shamanism, esotericism and occultism; lyrical explorations of death, mortality and hedonism; black metal, terrorism, fascism and the aesthetics of death and occult iconography that often inform these movements; whether metal has a coherent political or theoretical project within it; heavy metal fashion and its roots in 60s, working class and gay culture; the self-mythologisation of metal as a reaction to postmodernity and the loss of cultural meaning; the sacred and the profane; a comparison between heavy metal and hip hop and their connections to class; the fluidity of performers and audiences within underground genres; metal concerts as postmodern shamanic circles; the Deleuzian notion of intensity as difference, and how this is reflected in metal; how heavy metal as an aesthetic of late industrialism and machinery is transposed into digital and the internet age; and how "heaviness" has become culturally canonized, and overflows into other genres and objects.
Support Technosocial at:
https://www.patreon.com/technosocial

Find David's writings here

https://soton.academia.edu/DavidBurke

https://astralnoizeuk.com/
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1h 7min
July 31, 2020 Capitalism and the Antichrist with Justin Murphy
Justin Murphy is a political scientist and online intellectual and entrepreneur.

In this conversation we explore: Balancing compassion and analytical coldness, and how an excessive focus on compassion hinders the contemporary radical left; how "woke capital" manipulates this aversion to analytical coldness; accelerationism and how the global market order functions as an AI; the impossibility of computing the end goals of this "AI", and how it maps onto the religious notion of God; the Christian eschatology, and the overlap between capitalism, instrumental rationality and the antichrist; alternatives to instrumental rationality (using rationality to optimise certain outcomes; efficiency); Justin's Christian faith, and the Christian focus on the truth as the fundamental ethical imperative; eschatology and the Kierkegardian "leap of faith"; the notion that modernity and exponential economic growth may have come as a result of a Faustian pact with the devil; US geopolitical hegemony and US-China relations; political responses to the coronavirus pandemic, and how the US federal government's failings might actually motivate citizens to become more creative and self reliant; social cohesion and building small, technologically sophisticated communities; reengineering humanity to adapt to digital, and the inequalities that will open between those who experiment and adapt and those who cling to a "normal" that has disappeared.
Support Technosocial at:
https://www.patreon.com/technosocial

Find Justin at

https://jmrphy.net/

https://theotherlifenow.com/

https://twitter.com/jmrphy
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1h 6min
July 25, 2020 Liminal Crisis and Psychological Wellbeing with Gregg Henriques
Gregg Henriques is a clinical psychologist and professor at The University of Madison, Virginia. This is part 2 of a 2 part discussion, in which we explore: the notion that we are living through a liminal crisis and existential responses to them - depression, anxiety, following cult leaders, and transcendent pathways; the fragmentation and polarisation of American society; the value and limits of scientific thinking; regulating sex and conflict; Gregg's CALM MO approach to psychological mindfulness, an internalised "wise elder"; Jordan Peterson, male pathos, and creating interpersonal spaces to explore and regulate it; curating a healthy, positively aligned superego; creative, pathic ways to communicate; the danger of the present moment, and the possibilities opened by digital; power games, the distinction between growth hierarchies and dominator hierarchies; ethics and pluralism; and creating teams and processes for designing new social organisations and technologies.
Support Technosocial at:
https://www.patreon.com/technosocial

Find Gregg here:
https://www.gregghenriques.com/

and his writings on Psychology Today here:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/experts/gregg-henriques-phd
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1h 3min

FAQs about The Technosocial Institute:

How many episodes does The Technosocial Institute have?

The podcast currently has 82 episodes available.