Other Life

Some reflections on despair, existentialism, and Christianity via Kierkegaard's book The Sickness Unto Death . ➡️ I publish a free weekly newsletter about independent intellectuals on the internet. You should subscribe. ➡️ If you'd like to join my Discord server, request an invitation here. ➡️ Big thanks to my patrons who help me keep the lights on. Patrons get access to a lot of good stuff (inclu...

This is Lecture 4 (out of 6) in the Based Deleuze lecture course. You can get the whole series at gum.co/deleuze. ➡️If you'd like to join my Discord server, request an invitation here. ➡️Big thanks to my patrons who help me keep the lights on. Consider becoming one here. Works Cited Deleuze, Gilles. “Postscript on the Societies of Control.”  October  59 (1992): 3–7. Foucault, Michel.  The Courage...

In-depth case study of a nuclear tweet. After my globally nuclear tweet about Greta & Epstein, I thought a lot about the factors that predict negative virality (AKA being "ratio'ed" on Twitter; getting a high ratio of replies to retweets, i.e. a lot of backlash relative to endorsement). A few weeks later, when drafting a quick tweet, I had a very strong intuition that the tweet would be ratio'...

The absolute final word on all social-scientific questions related to Tiger King, the recent Netflix documentary. Taking questions from Twitter, we analyze: Why these tiger-breeding cult leaders score hot chicks (and guys, including straight guys!), the personality traits of these people, the ethical culpability of Joe vs. Carole, the ethics of animal breeding in general, etc. We also highlight mu...

We recorded this late in the evening before the live show with Curtis Yarvin. It's lit, based, and fire. ✦ Alex Moyer, director of TFW NO GF ✦ Wanyoung Kim, author of Cosmophenomenology ✦ Barrett

In our epic 3-hour talk, Curtis Yarvin discusses: Democracy, his preference for Bernie Sanders, debunking the American Revolution, benevolent dictatorship, Ancient Rome and the need for an American Augustus, s alus populi suprema lex esto, formalism, sovereign corporations, his rejection of Nazis and White Nationalism, and much more. This podcast was recorded at the first ever live show of the Oth...

On the COVID-19 pandemic, intergenerational warfare, comparative politics, exogenous shocks, class war, whether Trump caught the virus, and other speculations on the next few days. Follow Geoffrey Miller on Twitter and Youtube. Follow Diana Fleischman on Twitter and Youtube. More stuff 👉 Based Deleuze is now available in paperback.   👉 If you'd like to discuss this podcast with me and others, su...

TFW NO GF is a documentary about young men on the internet (pepe? wojak? frogtwitter? incels?). It was set to premiere at SXSW before the whole festival got cancelled due to coronavirus. https://schedule.sxsw.com/2020/films/2023330. The director, Alex Lee Moyer, sat down with me while I was in LA a couple weeks ago. ➡️If you'd like to join my Discord server, you can request an invitation here: htt...

Aella ( @Aella_Girl ) is an internet thinker/creator/entrepreneur in the Rationalish sphere. She just launched a new card game called Askhole , research-backed card game designed to generate intense discussion. Aella's currently doing research on people who claim to have experienced Enlightenment. To learn more about Aella, check out her website at https://knowingless.com/. If you're in the Los An...

Charlie Looker is best known as a musician but he's also a passionate weird-theory lurker in various internet recesses of ill-repute. We've chatted here and there for well more than a year now, so I'm glad to finally sit down with him. Charlie's band, Psalm Zero, just released a new album called Sparta. Sample track from his new album (metal) and another single, Nothing Human (electronic). If you'...

Chris Gabriel runs the Youtube channel MemeAnalysis . He's also written for the revivified Acephale I've been hearing about lately. He's also co-creating a comics Instagram at Aeonic Comics . First live show and Based Mansion, Los Angeles, Feb. 28-March 1 On February 28 I'll be doing a live podcast show in Los Angeles. You can get tickets here . From that night until the morning of Sunday March 1,...

Akira runs Lovecrypt, an indie digital-first music label. Akira: https://twitter.com/lovecryption Lovecrypt: https://lovecrypt.bandcamp.com/ Other Life live show and Based Mansion in LA, Feb 28 - March 1 On February 28 I'll be doing a live podcast show in Los Angeles. You can get tickets here. From that night until the morning of Sunday March 1, I will also be hosting internet friends in a mansion...

I'm joined by the half-wolf, half-kitten girl who appeared in a recent viral video. This video took her from 47 Twitter followers to about 18,000 and so she's gone to LA. She told me that when she had a baby, she decided to go all-in on being a full-time crazy person on the internet. She explains her life philosophy of not planning anything, not worrying, and relying on the kindness of strangers....

Jeremy Kauffman is the CEO of LBRY, a free, decentralized, blockchain-based digital content platform. We discuss the benefits and drawbacks of decentralized content platforms for independent intellectuals. https://lbry.com  — https://lbry.tv If you'd like to discuss this podcast with me and others, suggest future guests, or read/watch/listen to more content on these themes, request an invitation t...

Once a normie record producer, Alexander is now a creative internet madman who commands billionaires to do whatever he wants. In this podcast, he explains how he did it. First, he says, "whore" yourself out to make "f*ck you money." If you're ever afraid of speaking freely, just "get out of there!" Whore yourself another way. Read Deleuze and implement a practical nomadology. Know yourself, know y...

Eliot blogs at Mad Black Freud . He wrote the book Zizek in the Clinic. He came all the way from LA to visit me in person. I enjoyed hanging out with him and getting to know him better. You can also watch this talk on video. If you'd like to talk with me and others about the podcast, join my Discord server. Are you an independent intellectual? Check out IndieThinkers.org This podcast is made possi...

This is the Preface to my book Based Deleuze. You can buy the book, the audiobook, or even a short video course here. Paperback soon! Are you working on your own idea in some hidden recess of the internet? Have a sneak peek at my next big project: IndieThinkers.org Big thanks to my patrons , who make this podcast possible.

John David Ebert and Brian Francis Culkin discuss their new book, Hypermodernity and the End of the World . If you'd like to discuss this podcast with me and others, suggest future guests, or read/watch/listen to more content on these themes, you can join my Discord server. Big thanks to all the patrons who help me keep the lights on.

Claire Lehmann is Editor of Quillette. I'm starting to play with a slight shift of focus for some of these podcasts. When I talk with really successful and impactful independent intellectuals, I'm going to focus a bit more on learning how the succeeded: strategies, tactics, things like that. Let me know if you like or dislike this direction. If you'd like to discuss this podcast with me and others...

I first heard about Deanna through Nina Power but I've never been able to find a full account of her story, so I asked her if she would tell it herself. I'm not sure yet but from what I can find she seems like a badass, perhaps too badass for the Art World. She experienced some kind of cancellation but she tells me she is making a comeback, so I'm really excited to meet her and learn more about wh...

Geoffrey and I discuss Bronze Age Pervert, what it means to SUBMIT, Kanye West, bugmen, Curtis Yarvin, and much more. You can watch the video on Geoffrey's channel. Catch the first glimpse of my next big project at IndieThinkers.org. Big thanks to all the patrons who help me keep the lights on.

Nina and DC are fundraising for a legal campaign against Luke Turner. If you'd like to discuss this podcast with me and others, suggest future guests, or read/watch/listen to more content on these themes, request an invitation here. I'm offering a free course on how to be a Revolutionary Internet Galaxy-Brain . Big thanks to all the patrons who help me keep the lights on.

Mark Ledwich is an independent data scientist decoding the Youtube recommendation algorithm. Here Mark debunks several myths and we discuss the real underlying political implications of the Youtube algorithm. See Mark's political Youtube network explorer and his Medium articles . Big thanks to all the patrons who help me keep the lights on. If you'd like to discuss this podcast with me and others,...

Big thanks to all the patrons who help me keep the lights on. If you'd like to discuss this podcast with me and others, suggest future guests, or read/watch/listen to more content on these themes, request an invitation here.

"Today, inappropriate honesty is not merely feasible, increasingly it is a dominant strategy.” I discuss the concept of parrhesia, its history, and its present political prospects. Thanks to Nina Power and DC Miller for the invitation. Big thanks to all the patrons who help me keep the lights on. If you'd like to discuss this podcast with me and others, suggest future guests, or read/watch/listen...