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Deregulation and the State Arms-Race Into Cyberspace

Every sentence from Nick Land's Meltdown, one at a time. https://nicklandcourse.com

Published 10/10/22

How the "Intellectual Dark Web" Ended with David Fuller

Now that we're past Peak Wokeness, has "heterodoxy" exhausted itself? That's the argument of David Fuller, co-founder of Rebel Wisdom, a popular but now retired media brand.

Published 09/30/22

The World's Best Crypto Investor Invested in Urbit with Joey Krug of Pantera Capital

Joey Krug is Co-Chief Investment Officer at Pantera Capital, the biggest crypto hedge fund in the world.

Published 09/21/22

Insanely Bullish on Urbit With Uqbar Founder ~timluc-miptev

Timluc is a top Urbit engineer and founder of Uqbar, a zero-knowledge ETH Layer 2 built on Urbit.

Published 09/14/22

The ESG Scam: Bitcoin, Indie Media, and Natural Gas with Marty Bent

Marty Bent is the founder of TFTC.io, a media company focused on Bitcoin and freedom in the digital age.

Published 09/08/22

The Harvard Finance Bro Building an Urbit Network State in El Salvador

~Nilrun-mardux is co-host of The Network Age podcast and founder of AlephDAO, an early network state project on Urbit via El Salvador.

Published 08/26/22

Charles Taylor and Paperclip Maximizers with Ellie Haine and Joe Edelman

Ellie Hain and Joe Edelman are itinerant thinkers designing a new kind of social movement.

Published 08/19/22

Logistically Accelerating Techno-Economic Interactivity Crumbles Social Order

One sentence in Nick Land's famous text Meltdown.

Published 08/18/22

How Chris Williamson Grew Modern Wisdom From Zero to 450k Subscribers

Chris Williamson runs the Modern Wisdom podcast and YouTube channel.

Published 08/11/22

Curtis Yarvin on Crypto: Bitcoin, DAOs, Inflation, and Government Crackdowns

Curtis Yarvin is the author of Gray Mirror.

Published 08/02/22

Flannery O'Connor and the Mysterious Secrets of Writing

How to persist on strange paths nobody else can understand.

Published 07/29/22

"The story goes like this: Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity..."

In the most underrated work of social theory from the 1990s, Nick Land presents a sweeping theory of modernity.

Published 07/19/22

The Hyperreal Plague: How Girard & Baudrillard Explain the Pandemic with Geoffrey Shullenberger

Geoffrey Shullenberger is a lecturer at NYU and runs the newsletter and podcast.

Published 07/13/22

Zero-Knowledge Crypto-Anarchy with Rachel-Rose O'Leary from DarkFi

Rachel-Rose O'Leary was an artist before getting into crypto through Nick Land and Julian Assange.

Published 07/06/22

Be Not Afraid with James Ellis from Hermitix

James Ellis hosts the podcast Hermitix.

Published 06/29/22

Software as Soulcraft and the Metaphysics of Engineering with Neal Davis

Neal Davis is a professor of computer science and the director of Urbit's Hoon School.

Published 06/22/22

The Bull Case for Milady: Evaluating NFTs and Debunking the Miya FUD with Vers la Lune

Vers la Lune is an NFT degen who hosts the podcast Version 4, which published the first interview with Miya the BPD God in 2020.

Published 06/16/22

Launching the Mars Review of Books with Noah Kumin

Noah Kumin is the founder and editor of the Mars Review of Books.

Published 06/09/22

The Metaphysical Desires of René Girard with Johnathan Bi

Johnathan Bi is a founder and independent scholar working on René Girard.

Published 05/29/22

What's Going on With Milady Maker? How to Think About Decentralized and Controversial Art

On Milady, Miya, and the controversy surrounding Remilia Corporation.

Published 05/27/22

The Pathless Path with Indie Consultant Paul Millerd

Paul Millerd was a McKinsey consultant before quitting for an independent life on the internet.

Published 05/24/22

Coffee With Hitler: Writing Poetry and Novels with Steff and Autumn

Steff is a poet and Autumn is a novelist.

Published 05/19/22

10% More Psycho: On Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Christ with Mike Elias of IdeaMarket.io

We discuss the enneagram personality model, my decision to become 10% more psycho, why Mike loves Gandhi, Christian anarchism, and markets for truth.

Published 05/13/22

Building a Village DAO with Andrew Hitchcock of Montanoso

Andrew Hitchock bought 21 acres outside Austin to build a village DAO.

Published 05/09/22

Only God Can Cancel Us: On Immanent Cyberculture with Endproject

At the Other Life x Urbit meetup in Austin, a group of 8 people rocked up wearing black trenchcoats.

Published 05/06/22