The NanceCast

Sean of No Future joins me for a conversation about all kinds of stuff! We talk about Rousseau on Vanity and Care, we talk about Girard on Mimesis and Rivalry, we talk about Peter Thiel and Power; Ethics, Politics, the Commodity Form, South Park, Avatar and Star Wars, China and Economics, and some other stuff too! Come along on this meandering conversation about nothing in particular, but also kin...

Mikey and I engage in an accelerated reading of Nick Land’s blog post Capital Escapes, written in 2014 and collected in Xenosystems. This short pieces is a nice addition to the readings we’ve been doing and the conversations we’ve been having; it touches on the statement Capital=Modernity=Acceleration (tech autonomization), it addresses the question of the Political when the Future has already bee...

In this episode Addam jumps across the eighth dimension to have a conversation with me about Ethics, Narratology, Temporality, and some other stuff too!! Join us as we try and work some things out, and have fun goofing around while doing it!!!!! check out addam on YouTube!! Or don’t, that’s cool too.. Thanks for reading Three Billion Nances! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my w...

In this Brolo Episode, I spend the first twenty minutes or so trying to get everyone to stop listening by rambling on and on and on. In the second half, I discuss Left vs Right vs Unconditional Accelerationism, why I think they’re ultimately the same thing, and why I think we need a better political framework than just Go Baby Go; and I talk about the Ergodic Ethic vs the Strive Ethic and why you...

Mikey and Sean are here! Today we're talking about the recent film Bugonia. The three of us recently watched this film, and we couldn't wait to discuss it! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HEAVY SPOILERS! DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE IF YOU WANT TO SEE THIS MOVIE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't want to give away too much in the description, to...

Mikey The Dangerous Maybe and I are joined by our friend Chris Cutrone to discuss Marxism and the world we live in today. There is a lot of hubub going around about Artificial Intelligence and what it might do, or might be doing, or might have done already, to the economy and to political and social relations, and to the possibility of Freedom itself. We don’t answer any of these questions, that’s...

In this Bonus Brolo Episode, I continue talking about Intelligence, Functionalism, Subjectivity, and the end of the world. Recently, Mikey and I spoke with Marek and Roberto, excellent dudes and co-authors of the book Exocapitalism: Economies With Absolutely No Limits. One of the things we touched on was their notion of Computation, which I think is very similar to Nick Land’s interpretation of In...

In this brolo episode I talk about Paranoia, Nihilism, and dog-walking-etiquette; among other things. Recently I’ve been thinking through some kind of cynicism or irony-poisoning, or something, that feels bad, man. It’s come up over and over, and I think it’s a terminal condition. I draw some connections from, and through, this malaise to Superego and TechnoCapital, and the end of the world!! Come...

In which I talk s**t, talk about s**t, talk s**t about talking s**t, and then go on to try and make some clarifications to how I use the term Intelligence and why I use it that way, and why it’s not absurd to accuse my toaster of being Intelligent. What is the difference between Machine Intelligence and Human Intelligence? I don’t know, but I do know that there appears to be one. This appearance i...

Dolo bonus! The front half of this episode is me navelgazing about niche consumer identity, and the back half is me trying to make the distinction between AI/AGI in general and AITechnoCapital clear. I fall into the Doomer category, but I’m not just a dumb doomer by default, I have a good reason! Anyway, thanks for droppin’ by, see ya’ soon space-consumernode! For access to Mikey’s course, go to T...

In this episode, Mikey The Dangerous Maybe and I discuss the “Tucker Carlson Numogram Incident,” a moment that future historians might look to as a pivotal moment in the development of the Human Resistance against the Terminators and the Decepticons. We also spend a weekend at Bernie’s, or at least a good twenty-minutes; discussing the dangers of A.I., some potential benefits, and how Workerist an...

Another shitty bonus episode. This is what you’d be getting if I had a paywall, but I don’t, so I’m forcing myself onto free followers and subscribers. I’m crying about Identities and Politics and the Internet, but I think the sparkplug thing was clever. This episode sucks. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nan...

The Dangerous Maybe and No Future join me for a discussion about films, Theory, Marxism, History, and some other stuff too! Spoiler alerts for Steven Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence, which came out like twenty-five years ago, D.A.R.Y.L., which came out like forty years ago, Shane, which came out like seventy years ago, and some other films too. This was a fun discussion, we use these film...

In this episode, The Dangerous Maybe and I talk about a few things. We planned on reading from Todd’s Book, The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan, and discussing some concepts of “Late Lacan.” We still accomplished this, but we were also kinda preoccupied with breaking events, namely the violent death of far right provocateur Charlie Kirk. We also discuss a piece from Levi Bryant on The Capi...

Yo! Mikey The Dangerous Maybe and I catch up a little bit, talk about some recent events and some things that have been on our minds, and we give you, Dear Reader, an assignment that we’ll get around to cashing in on soon! This is another loosey-goosey episode, but it’s packed with Theory too! Stay tuned! Don’t forget that Mikey has a course coming up with Philosophy Portal soon, so go sign up for...

The homie Sean No Future joins me in this conversation about History and the Future. We’re a bit loosey goosey in this episode, because we’re buddies and we’re kinda just chillin, but we’re also carrying on a discussion that has been unfolding between us, and online in general. We were going to talk about the movie Alien Covenant, and we did a bit, but we were also too engaged in the topics we sta...

I felt like doing something “productive,” but then I wondered why I thought that recording an episode would make me feel like I’d been “productive.” Feel free to listen to this while you do dishes or laundry or work out, or even skip this episode altogether, do what you gotta do, boo boo! There will be some worthwhile stuff coming soon, so stay tuned!! This is a public episode. If you would like t...

In this exciting episode, The Dangerous Maybe and I are joined by Zero Philosophy to discuss The Future, The Past (if that’s even a real thing), sexbots and Tom Cruise’s girlfriends, and some other stuff too! We delve into Artificial Intelligence, Doom, Accelerationism—of the Cute and the Zero varieties—The Dialectic, and even indulge in some live-Diagonalizing! This is something of a “bonus” epis...

The Dangerous Maybe and I read another piece from Xenosystems Fragments, Intelligence and the Good. This short piece further elucidates Nick’s view of Intelligence, that which resists entropy and just might make its way out of the Future; be that near, far, virtual, or otherwise. Nick’s position is extreme, but as far as I can tell is consistent, and makes more sense than anyone else I am aware of...

The Dangerous Maybe and I were joined by our homies, Nick and Andrew, the Vanishing Mediators, to talk about “psychology” and “mental health,” Subjectivity and Intelligence, Cybernetics, Psychoanalysis, Production, History, the Family, and more!! Go follow these guys on social media! I don’t know where they are because I’m not on the platforms and I always forget that I should get everyone’s links...

In this episode, I’m joined by The Dangerous Maybe and Sean K Mittelstaedt to deepen the conversation on Structural, or Secondary, Narcissism and the Social (or Society, or the Socius—I’m not sure what the best way to sum that up is, but the three are distinct yet very similar.) Mikey and Sean draw out some of the intricacies of the Clinical Structures, and I got to sit back and be a part of the a...

The Dangerous Maybe is back once again! This time we’re joined by a prestigious friend, Todd McGowan!! Todd doesn’t appreciate it when people go on about just how impactful he is/has been on contemporary Theory and Philosophy, so I won’t—but I will say that I respect and look up to Todd more than just about anybody else. This conversation is a continuation of what Mikey and I have been talking abo...

The Dangerous Maybe and I read Nick Land’s short piece, What Is Intelligence, and have a two-hourish conversation about it. How one defines intelligence might seem a bit too academic for the average-everyday person to care about, it might seem like it doesn’t really matter because we all, ostensibly, have it, and it’s safe to take it for granted; it’s one of those things about which one could sit...

The Dangerous Maybe is back for a follow-up discussion all about Orthogonality! In this episode we go deeper into both of the Nick’s, Land and Bostrom, positions; trying to tease out all the threads and follow them where they lead. My favorite part of this episode is the discussion of Konsciousness, but I’ll leave it at that and let Mikey do the talking! We discuss this piece from Less Wrong a bit...

In this excellent episode, Mikey The Dangerous Maybe joins to discuss all things Futural. We talk about Artificial Intelligence, Human Intelligence, Acceleration and its many -isms, Subjectivity and Agency, Lack and Negation, and some of our favorite theorists and their theories! This episode has been a long time in the making, and I am beaming with joy and pride to have it serve as the opening sa...