The NanceCast

Yo!! Mikey are Sean are here to discuss the film, Good Luck Have Fun Don't Die! ***SPOILER ALERT!!! If you haven't seen this movie yet, we recommend doing so before you consume this episode, as there are several pleasant surprises in the movie that we probably spoil in this discussion!*** This movie is excellent! I don't want to write this description, it's kinda all in the episode. Although, I di...

Yo!! In this solo episode, I talk a bit about going into The Hospital as someone who has effectively sworn off modern healthcare treatment. It was gnarly. Then I talk a bit about Ivan Illich, a guy who has a pretty robust critique of Modernity and its Institutions; including Education, Healthcare, Tranportation/Infrastructure, and Media/Communication. I then talk about where Illich fails and how h...

In this episode, Mikey and I catch up and shoot the proverbial s**t for a bit, then move into a discussion of Baudrillard's interpretation of Bataille's Accursed Share. We unpack the superegoic dimension of how society manages The Accursed Share, touch on why increasingly sophisticated social coordination will not save us from the impending Apocalypse of The Object, and where Baudrillard and Lacan...

Benjamin Studebaker joins Mikey, The Dangerous Maybe , and I for a conversation about Intelligence. What is Intelligence? Why does the question even matter? What does the reduction of Intelligence to tasks that can be mechanically simulated do to the notion of Freedom? Politics? The Soul? Can this question lead to an emancipatory project? We touch on A LOT in this conversation, Orthogonality, The...

Yo! In this episode, Mikey The Dangerous Maybe and I talk about Backrooms, the film that just hit theatres and seems to have been assembling itself out of disparate bits of online fiction and memes posted on The Chans, Reddit, and Instagram over the last two decades or so. What is it about The Backrooms lore that speaks so loudly to people? We get into Liminality, touch on Phenomenology, consider...

In this Solo Dolo Brolo Bellybutton Extravaganza Episode, I invite you all to my fireside chat where we discuss things that've been on my mind of late. I talk about, Consciousness, Geoffrey Hinton and A.I. (of course), I talk about Family Values and Virtue Signaling (and Anti Natalism too!), I indulge in some reflexivity, and then I talk about Diversity as "our greatest strength" and why Contradic...

Yo!! Mikey The Dangerous Maybe and Sean No Future are here, and you won't want to to miss this one! in this episode we go all over the place! We start out discussing Retrostition, Hypostition, and Hyperstition (you can read more about this in the linked Substack post). Then we talk about Intelligence and Functionalism, Alan Turing and Artificial Intelligence, Object Oriented Ontology versus Heideg...

In this brolo dolo episode, I read and discuss the Ur document of the Modern A.I. industry, A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence! Check it out! Don’t miss out on all the stuff going on at Mikey’s Patreon, YouTube channel, and Substack - https://www.patreon.com/thedangerousmaybe https://youtube.com/@TheDangerousMaybe?si=2btoEcN3ta3Dd-V2 https://substack.co...

This bonus brolo episode is all about my love of Star Trek The Next Generation. Yes, it's Star Wars Day, yes, TNG is better than Star Wars, yes I will fight you over it! Make sure to check out philosophyportal.online for info on all the ongoing stuff at The Portal, and how to get your hands on the Rosy Cross anthology!! Make sure to check out https://youtube.com/@thedangerousmaybe?si=mxUDEoJvLbsM1...

On this special Tuesday edition of The Dangerous Weekend Update, Mikey and I chop it up a bit about Claude Mythos, A.I. Safety, Bill Maher's views on A.I., whether or not we'd like an all-powerful A.G.I. who loves Mark Fisher, the Superego of it all, and some other stuff too!! Don’t miss out on all the stuff going on at Mikey’s Patreon, YouTube channel, and Substack - https://www.patreon.com/theda...

Mikey The Dangerous Maybe and Sean No Future are here again! This is the sixth installment in our series of reading through and discussing The Accursed Share. Georges Bataille was a weird little French guy writing weird fiction, erotic poetry, and doing all types of ill s**t. Then, he witnessed the world wars, the rise of Fascism, and the Total Mechanization of Earth and those who call it home; so...

In this kicked-back episode, Mikey and I catch up on some of the things that've been going on recently. We talk about AI Slop Ninja Turtles videos, the Ariforming of American cities, True Detective season one (spoiler alert!), Space Anarchism, I make the claim that Cybernetics *IS* Dialectics; and we get into some other stuff too!!! There will be a bonus video hitting Patreon soon with some outtak...

Mikey The Dangerous Maybe and Sean No Future are here again, again, again, again! This is the fifth installment in our series of reading through and discussing The Accursed Share! Georges Bataille was a weird little French guy writing weird fiction, erotic poetry, and doing all types of ill s**t. Then, he witnessed the world wars, the rise of Fascism, and the Total Mechanization of Earth and those...

In this episode, Mikey The Dangerous Maybe and I read and discuss a bit of Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals - specifically, the final two sections of the second essay. Neither of us are big Nietzsche guys (I can never even spell it properly!), which some might find odd seeing how many of our "favourite guys,' are, indeed, Nietzsche guys themselves. This bit about the "Cost of Revolution," is dope;...

Mikey The Dangerous Maybe and Sean No Future are here for a Brodown At High Noon! This special episode was extremely fun! We talked about all kinds of stuff, from the difference between Anxiety and Fear and why people often prefer Fear to Anxiety (read my recent Substack piece on The King in Yellow for some more on this); to the ontological status of Number; we disagree about Kant, Hegel, and Slav...

In this brolo bonus episode, I go on and on about why I like people more than toasters, even though toasters are cool, you just can't take a bath with them! Geoffrey Hinton is one of the most influential people on contemporary Artificial Intelligence, but he's wrong about where it's going, what it's doing to "us" and the world around us, and what it all means! check out Mikey's YouTube , Substack,...

Sean No Future joins me for a sprawling conversation that seems to be centered around music and other objects of "Culture" as discrete things that can be understood and discussed, but as we continue meandering through and among these concepts, it becomes apparent that we are discussing Plato, Kant, Modernity, Organizing, Lack, Love, and even Freedom!!! Check out Sean's Substack! https://open.subst...

https://nanceee.substack.com/p/the-accursed-share-as-destiny-desire Mikey The Dangerous Maybe and Sean No Future are here again, again, again!! This is the fourth installment in our series of reading through and discussing The Accursed Share! Georges Bataille was a weird little French guy writing weird fiction, erotic poetry, and doing all types of ill s**t. Then, he witnessed the world wars, the...

in this Brolo episode, I spend a good ninety minutes discussing the first thirty minutes of Michael Bay's hit 2005 movie, The Island. This movie has so much to say before it turns into a Hollywood-brained action flick, and I love it!!! Also, I recorded a "first-half" of this episode before I went into the movie, and I reference that a few times, disregard all mentions of "earlier" and "the first h...

Mikey and Sean are here again, again! This is the third installment in our series of reading through and discussing The Accursed Share! Georges Bataille was a weird little French guy writing weird fiction, erotic poetry, and doing all types of ill s**t. Then, he witnessed the world wars, the rise of Fascism, and the Total Mechanization of Earth and those who call it home; so, he set out to do some...

Brolo Bonus!! I don't know what to say for this description, I'm just tryna get shit off my chest, think through some of the things that came up while talking with Alenka, and trying to stave off the existential horror of being utterly impotent... Don’t miss out on all the stuff going on at Mikey’s YouTube channel and Substack - https://youtube.com/@TheDangerousMaybe?si=2btoEcN3ta3Dd-V2 https://su...

Mikey The Dangerous Maybe and Sean No Future are here again!!! We're continuing the reading of The Accursed Share!!! Georges Bataille was a weird little French guy writing weird fiction, erotic poetry, and doing all types of ill s**t. Then, he witnessed the world wars, the rise of Fascism, and the Total Mechanization of Earth and those who call it home; so, he set out to do something about it. Tha...

Mikey and I discuss the hot new conspiracy theory—Conformity Gate! What is Conformity Gate you ask? Well, you're in luck, dear reader, because we answer that question in this episode! We talk about our love of the Stranger Things franchise, how Netflix managed to get people hooked on a commodity that doesn't even exist, speculations and conjecture about the Truth of season five, and some other stu...

Mikey The Dangerous Maybe and Sean No Future are here! We're kicking off a new endeavor! Georges Bataille was a weird little French guy writing weird fiction, erotic poetry, and doing all types of ill s**t. Then, he witnessed the world wars, the rise of Fascism, and the Total Mechanization of Earth and those who call it home; so, he set out to do something about it. That something? Write a book ab...

Mikey and Sean are here! Today we're talking about a bunch of stuff; including Fascist AI, Dasein and Care and how they relate to Desire, Drive, and Temporality, Modernity and History and whether or not "we've changed," and some other stuff too!! This is a laid back, shoot the shit episode, to while away the hours here at the end of the year (and maybe even the end of the World!!). Happy New Year...