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Choosing the right fork for the lasagna of reality. World-building and metaphysical shelter-in-place with Italian philosopher and writer Federico Campagna.

Iranian-American philosopher Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh joins me for a garden walk - through evil and madness, secrets, games.  Poetry that sits at the start of every civilization, rave cultures in active war zones, programmers who can dance, horror films as the real history of reality, mysticism as transaction, and the praying mantis. Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh, Ph. D. in Comparative Literature and Middl...

A free-flowing talk with artist, writer, and arts educator John Cussans about potlatch, the Bataillean concept of excessive, communal expenditure, and whether figures like Trump represent a perverse modern version of it. A note on how John stopped consuming news entirely, the lost promise of the 1990s anarchist internet , the political polarization narrative, and the toll lacanian marxism takes on...

A special episode in memory of Guy Klucevsek. Sort of degerate radioplay in the spirit of Patrik Ouředník. No music here, just news and fake news of funerals and beheadings, Marlon Brando, degenerative art, mushroom poisoning, trump fragrances, Darwin's relations to bees, high IQ religion, Nick Land, Baudrillard, Collins and Crickillon and Avicenna. To listen with the music: https://www.mixclo...

Writer and artist Sophie Sleigh-Johnson unpacks her Code: Damp , An Esoteric Guide to British Sitcoms. From the marshes of Essex to alchemy, folklore, darts and the local newspaper, we explore how two 1970s sitcoms hide a strange occult code, and why damp records the past.

The episode about how mind and intelligence are fundamental and widespread (even if it doesn't seem like they are when you listen to the news). The discussion moves from regenerative medicine and aging to the deeper questions of how we recognize and ethically engage with unfamiliar minds, where ancient spiritual intuitions meet modern science, and what place hold in a world filling with hybrid...

We talk about "On Mysticism" book and around it. Simon Critchley is the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research. Over more than twenty books he's tackled Greek tragedy, David Bowie, football, suicide, and how philosophers die. This episode originally aired in February 2025 on ResonanceFM.

Turles, tumors, horrors all the way down? Robert Sapolsky thinks you have no free will. The Stanford neuroscientist, primatologist, and bestselling author of Behave and Determined argues that every choice you make was set in motion by biology and circumstance long before you "decided." We talk agency, blame, and what's left of the self.