Other Life

We talked about the Joker film right after we saw it. We discuss mental illness, heredity, violence, the 1970s, praying, silly health foods, and the quantum incel multiverse. 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.

Nicolas Hausdorf (@dcntrrr) co-authored Superstructural Berlin (Zero Books). Then Zero Books threw him under the bus when he started writing for Jacobite. 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. Big thanks to all the patrons who help me keep the lights on.

This podcast introduces an online course I'm producing with Heidegger scholar Johannes Niederhauser. Get the syllabus at  https://theotherlifenow.com/deleuze-vs-heidegger Find Johannes on Youtube here . 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. Big thanks to all the patrons who...

Angela Nagle is a writer best known for her book "Kill All Normies" and her recent piece "The Left Case against Open Borders" https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2018/11/the-left-case-against-open-borders/ 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...

After my first livestream with Nina Power and DC Miller, we decided to sit down and continue the conversation. In this podcast, we discuss whether or not the Left can be saved from its current insanity. This conversation was recorded in March 2019, right before I left England for good. Nina and DC are currently raising money for a legal campaign against Luke Turner. You can support their campaign...

Txgen Meyer is an artist, researcher, and philosophy tutor. Learn more about Txgen at http://txgenmeyer.com/ . Big thanks to all the  patrons  who keep this running. If you'd like to discuss these and similar themes with me and others, request an invitation to the Discord server. This conversation was first recorded as a livestream on Youtube . Subscribe to my channel with one click , then click t...

Dasha Nekrasova is co-host of the podcast Red Scare. We discussed the One Holy Apostolic Church, Simone Weil, the best and worst drugs, prayer, Pussy Riot, Zizek, shoplifting, abortion, Deleuze, accelerationism, and many other things. They just shut down Google Hangouts so we're still adjusting to a whole new recording setup — the audio is a little wonky, sorry! Big thanks to all my  patrons who h...

From the rap sheet that nearly got me fired. I thought I made a very good case! "Tonight's livestreamed disquisition will be on the ethics of shoplifting from self-checkout kiosks. Hint: I'm in favor. But I often feel guilty, so I need to think this through clearly and explicitly. Then we will be joined by @Xenogothic , a denizen of "acc twitter" and "cave twitter" and the batshit blogosphere. I b...

David John Roden is a philosopher interested in eccentric alternatives to humanity. He is the author of Posthuman Life: Philosophy at the Edge of the Human . 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. This conversation...

"So that's how academia got pwned, and that's how I pwned this university." In this short talk, I discuss the purpose of the university, how technological acceleration is overheating academia, how I made the decision to leave academia for full independence on the internet. If you'd like to discuss this podcast with me and others, suggest future guests, or read/watch/listen to more content on these...

I was interviewed by Katie Way (formerly of Babe.net) after one of my nuclear tweets went viral. Given the role this tweet played in my eventual departure from academia, I'm posting this interview (with permission from Ms. Way) for anyone interested in the larger story. It's pretty interesting as an artifact of media culture in the year 2018. https://patreon.com/jmrphy Related links: https://twitt...

I speak with Chad A. Haag of the Chadafrican Philosophy channel. Chad wrote a short book called A Critique of Transcendental Memology , which seeks to join "the insights of John Michael Greer, Dmitry Orlov, and Richard Heinberg with the philosophical rigor of Aristotle, Kant, Zizek, and Heidegger." Big thanks to all the patrons who help me keep the lights on. If you'd like to discuss this podcast...

To learn more about @MimeticValue , see  http://mimeticarbitrage.com/.  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. Big thanks to all the patrons who help me keep the lights on. This conversation was first recorded on February 13, 2019 as a livestream on Youtube . To receive notif...

Zero HP Lovecraft ( @0x49fa98 ) is a horrorist. His blog is https://zerohplovecraft.wordpress.com. 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. This conversation was first recorded on July 5, 2019 as a livestream on Yout...

Eli Schiff ( @eli_schiff ) is a design critic and UI designer. His latest book is called Uber's Undoing , which you can learn more about on Eli's website: http://www.elischiff.com/ . 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 invitatio...

Jordan Hall writes the blog Deep Code and has his own Youtube channel . 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. This conversation was first recorded on September 26, 2018 as a livestream on Youtube . To receive noti...

We discuss the imminent social and political consequences of "deepfake" technology (fake multimedia indistinguishable from the real thing). Geoffrey Miller is an evolutionary psychologist. Pre-order his ebook, "Virtue Signaling: Essays on Darwinian Politics, Language Games, & Free Speech" — Geoffrey also has a new Youtube channel, which you can subscribe to here. Big thanks to all the patrons...

Aimee Terese ( @aimeeterese ) is co-host of the podcast What's Left?  In this long talk, we discussed: why Aussies are good for American politics, the internet vs. Brooklyn, sugar-free Red Bull, is there even a Left?, John McAfee, the Harvard Prof who got played, the family, TradCath leftism, and quite a few other things. Other stuff mentioned: True Anon Pod , The Good Ole Boys Huge thanks to all...

Rachel Haywire is a futurist and industrial musician. She tells me she is running for President of the United States as a candidate for the Transhumanist Party. She recently wrote a book called The New Art Right . 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. This conversation was f...

On my new short book project, Based Deleuze .  Pre-order here!   This conversation was first recorded on June 26, 2019 as a livestream on Youtube . To receive notifications when future livestreams begin, subscribe to my channel with one click , then click the little bell. If you'd like to discuss this podcast with me and others, suggest future guests, or read/watch/listen to more content on these...

Robert Mariani is co-editor of Jacobite Magazine . You can subscribe to Jacobite here . 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. This conversation was first recorded on October 14, 2018 as a livestream on Youtube . T...

This is a conversation I had with Geoffrey Miller on the psychology of Antifa and antifascism. It was first recorded yesterday (July 2, 2019) as a livestream on Geoffrey new Youtube channel. Watch the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHdKxRAVrHA and subscribe to Geoffrey's channel at http://bit.ly/2FMRtMO. The only reason I'm able to expand my projects like this, e.g. moving to Albuquerque...

Eliot Rosenstock is a practicing psychotherapist and author of Žižek in the Clinic. 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. This conversation was first recorded on Dec 15, 2018 as a livestream on Youtube . To receiv...

Johannes Niederhauser recently completed his PhD at Warwick University for a dissertation entitled, "Heidegger on Death and Being." Check out his Youtube channel here . Johannes says his dissertation is on Heidegger's entire philosophy but death is the key to his thought. I hung out with Johannes in London recently and his takes on Heidegger are very germane to my own interests, so it was a no-bra...

Audio of my talk given at the first Diffractions/Sdbs workshop on Patchwork. My thesis is that rigorous (voluntary) enforcement of honesty using blockchain + IoT (Internet of Things) presents an opportunity for leftists to solve the game-theoretic problems of communism in a potentially scalable way. I got flak for this being "fascist," which led me to write a short extension and clarification enti...