Other Life

After getting some heat for our livestream together, Nina Power sat down with me in London to set the record straight on her political views. I spoke little and mostly let her riff. I've probably never spoken with anyone whose political ethic comes closer to my own. We pretty much summarize this podcast's concept: A radical left politics of the other life . A radical left politics based on the sea...

Sonya Ellen Mann runs communications for the Zcash Foundation. Sonya's a thinker and writer interested in economics, tribalism, and cypherpunk. We talk about the Pink Pill, cypherpunk, crypto, and anarcho-capitalism among other things. This was a fun, high-energy romp through a lot of topics... Sonya's website is sonyaellenmann.com and you can find her on Twitter  @sonyaellenmann . If you'd like t...

Logo Daedalus is a writer, best known on Twitter ( @Logo_Daedalus ). He has a new book out, called Selfie, Suicide: or Cairey Turnbull's Blue Skiddoo . We talk about Logo's politics, his experience self-publishing his book, Wyndham Lewis, and the rise of Andrew Yang among the so-called Alt-Right, among other things. If you'd like to discuss this podcast with me and others, suggest future guests, o...

Nina Power is a philosopher and writer, and DC Miller is a writer best known for his opposition to the Shutdown LD50 campaign. This talk has become quite a scandal. In response to this talk, someone wrote a ridiculous Open Letter Concerning Nina Power , and Nina just today published a response.  You can watch the original conversation here, on my Youtube channel . Other Life is a pretty punk-rock-...

DC Miller is a controversial but misunderstood person. He is a writer in London outcast from polite society after his opposition to the Shutdown LD50 campaign two years ago. I've talked with him enough to know he is not the evil caricature his enemies make him out to be, but I still don't understand his views fully. In this livestream we will try to get to the bottom of what DC really thinks. In d...

Reposted with permission from the Parallax Views podcast by JG Michael. For many other talks like this one, find Parallax Views at  @ViewsParallax and patreon.com/parallaxviews.  Big thanks to JG for his interest in my ideas, and for extracting these atypically coherent thoughts from me. JG's excellent questions helped me make connections I've never made in public before, which reminds me how thes...

I'm joined by @systemkei, who works in the field of Automated Reasoning and wrote the article "Pacific Dialectical Materialism:" http://debayou.net/pacific.html 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 conversat...

On the naked anti-Brexit academic lady, my fondness for youthful romantic insurrectionary anarchism, and my take on the Resurrection of Jesus Christ — are we really supposed to believe a guy died and rose from the dead? This was first recorded on February 17, 2019 as a livestream on Youtube . To receive notifications when future livestreams begin, subscribe to my channel with one click , then clic...

This livestream took place the day after my hearing for "gross misconduct" was scheduled. On being fired vs. resigning — on ruling the void and the work of social scientists such as Peter Mair and Wolfgang Streeck — is Lacan a charlatan? — and how to pick a major. More below... The blog post corresponding to this podcast is:  Evaluating Exit Modes: Resign or Be Fired? (How Academia Got Pwned 11) T...

Christlover2000 is one half of the podcast Girls Chat. You can find them at  patreon.com/girlschat . This conversation was first recorded as  a livestream on Youtube . Big thanks to all the  financial contributors  who help to keep this running.

Ted Blackman is a senior engineer at Urbit. Urbit is a mysterious tech startup founded by Curtis Yarvin, aka Mencius Moldbug. Ted kindly answered all my questions, and he dealt very graciously with my efforts to politicize everything. This conversation was first recorded as a livestream on Youtube . Big thanks to all the  members who help to keep this running.

Razib Khan is a geneticist, blogger, and man about the internet. Razib is the kind of extremely online intellectual we like here at Other Life . Razib has written for publications including The New York Times , India Today , National Review Online , Slate , and  The Guardian. Razib and I talked about the present and near-future of personal genomics; why Razib thinks Elizabeth Warren's genetic clai...

I talked to fantasy author, philosopher, and blogger R. Scott Bakker about his views on the nature of cognition, meaning, intentionality, academia, and fiction/fantasy writing. See Bakker's blog, Three Pound Brain. Listeners who enjoy this podcast might check out Bakker's   What is the Semantic Apocalypse?  and  Enlightenment How? Omens of the Semantic Apocalypse . This conversation was first reco...

Ben Sixsmith ( @BDSixsmith ) is a British writer based in Poland. He has a new book out, called  Kings & Comedians: A Brief History of British-Polish Relations . His work has appeared in  The Catholic Herald,  The Spectator US ,  and  Quillette, among other places. I find Ben interesting because he writes sympathetically of religion, although he's not religious. We talk about this, being immig...

Dave Hoover ( @davehoover ) is a software engineer and expert developer of Ethereum smart contracts. He wrote the book Apprenticeship Patterns: Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman  and runs a distributed software development firm called Red Squirrel . He is currently writing a book on smart-contract development, called  Hands-on Smart Contract Development with Solidity and Ethereum . In t...

CryptoChamomile works in the Silicon Valley crypto space. He was raised a Jehovah's Witness, went secular, then went Christian. We talk about  Silicon Valley, the problems with secularism, and why the pull of religion is more rational than people think. CryptoChamomile is on Twitter: @cryptochamomile . CryptoChamomile hosts the Youtube show Conversations with Chamomile . This podcast was originall...

John David Ebert is a cultural critic and the author of 26 books (with traditional publishers and self-published), including Art After Metaphysics , The New Media Invasion , The Age of Catastrophe and Dead Celebrities, Living Icons . You can support his work at patreon.com/johndavidebert . We talked about John's big ideas regarding long-term cultural dynamics, Oswald Spengler, Marshall McLuhan, He...

Mike Crumplar ( @mcrumps ) is one of many strange people who have entered my internet orbit in recent months. I can't tell you much about him because I can't understand or remember anything about anyone I interact with on the internet. In this video chat I will hopefully learn more about him. He recently wrote an essay in Jacobite about Bronze Age Pervert. That will be the initial pretext for our...

Nyx Land is a blogger and internet persona in the accelerationist sphere. She explains to me her ideas about gender accelerationism and lesbian neoreaction. I believe this is the longest podcast I have ever done, clocking in just shy of 4 hours. Nyx's website is nyxus.xyz and her Twitter handle is @NyxLandUnlife. This podcast and my blog have now been unified! The website is now  theotherlifenow.c...

We talked about Joshua's music career, theory and psychoanalysis, Josh's time at the New School, Christopher Hitchens, neoreaction and patchwork, internet culture, instrumental rationality, and other things. With Zohra Atash, Josh is in the band Azar Swan. http://www.azarswan.com/ This podcast and my blog have now been unified! The website is now https://theotherlifenow.com . Huge thanks to my sup...

Robin Hanson is an economist, futurist, and blogger at overcomingbias.com . I've been following Robin for a while now because he's a genuine intellectual: he thinks, speaks, and writes intensely and prolifically about whatever he wants, even if it seems weird to other people. His recently published book, co-authored with Kevin Simler, is called The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday...

Nick Land is a British philosopher living in Shanghai. Nick is one of the main figures in the school of thought known as accelerationism. He is currently writing a book about the philosophical implications of Bitcoin. We talked about accelerationism, cybernetics, ideology, the evolution of Nick’s perspective, Deleuze and Guattari, emancipation and dehumanization, artificial intelligence, capitalis...

Taylor Adkins is a translator of French philosophy. He has translated influential books by Félix Guattari, such as Machinic Unconscious (Semiotext(e) 2010), and lesser known works by Jean-François Lyotard and François Laruelle. He’s a philosophy/theory blogger at Speculative Heresy and Fractal Ontology , and co-hosts the podcast Theory Talk with Joe Weissman. You can support them and enjoy extra t...

Elizabeth Suhay is a political scientist who specializes in the study of public opinion and political psychology, especially regarding beliefs about the causes of inequality. In particular, her work has made some intriguing discoveries about how and why different individuals do or do not believe genetics are an important causal explanation for various phenomena. Dr. Suhay is Assistant Professor at...

Sean Trainor ( @ess_trainor ) is an historian, educator, writer, and podcaster. Sean has written for  The Atlantic,  TIME,   Salon, and many other venues popular and academic. He is a professor at the University of Florida, where he is currently writing a book about beards in the nineteenth century. Sean co-hosts his own podcast,  Impolitic . You can find more about Sean's work at his website, sea...