Public Shadow in the Planetary Age #2: "The Liminal Comedy Roast of Alexander Bard"
Description
In this second episode of Layman's exploration of public shadow, he hosts a special cross-over between The Integral Stage, Parallax Media & Pascal's Integral Batcave.
A "roast" is a benevolent but crude public assault on someone's person. In this case, Swedish synthesist, Zoroastrian & digital philosopher Alexander Bard gets reamed by a motley assembly of metamodern scholars and liminal activists in a deliberately shoddy, foul-mouthed but ultimately benevolent assault.
Whether you find it funny or not, it probes patterns of perception, person-cracks, and potential shadow elements in the way that liminal, integral and metamodern folks perceive each other. This is downright silly and playfully amateurish but demonstrates one "antifragile" response to how people are publicly perceived.
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Published 10/29/24
Our research into the philosophical premises of whatever is going under the names of "Cosmo-Erotic Humanism" and "David J. Temple" continues with a first pass into Tears -- a book that uses the Jewish Rite of Rosh Hashanah to explore the necessity of the return of ritual and the importance of...
Published 10/22/24