A Science Icon Died 17 Years Ago. In His Last Interview, He Made A Warning That Gives Me Goosebumps. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot's prison letters to Slavoj Žižek. 2 January 2013 Dear Nadezhda, I hope you have been able to organise your life in prison around small rituals that make it tolerable, and that you have time to read. Here are my thoughts on your predicament. John Jay Chapman, an American political essayist, wrote this about radicals in 1900: "They are really always saying the same thing.
They don't change; everybody else changes. They are accused of the most incompatible crimes, of egoism and a mania for power, indifference to the fate of their cause, fanaticism, triviality, lack of humour, buffoonery and irreverence. But they sound a certain note. But what is this truth? [Žižek then explores what he sees as a global trend towards limiting democracy.] But the crisis provided proof that it is these experts who don't know what they are doing, rather than the people. Comradely greetings, Slavoj 23 February 2013 Dear Slavoj, We are a part of this force that has no final answers or absolute truths, for our mission is to question.
Nadia 4 April 2013. A Neuroscientist's Radical Theory of How Networks Become Conscious - Wired Science. WIRED: How do you square what you believe about animal consciousness with how they're used in experiments? Koch: There are two things to put in perspective. First, there are vastly more animals being eaten at McDonald's every day. The number of animals used in research pales in comparison to the number used for flesh. And we need basic brain research to understand the brain's mechanisms.
My father died from Parkinson's. One of my daughters died from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. To prevent these brain diseases, we need to understand the brain — and that, I think, can be the only true justification for animal research. WIRED: Getting back to the theory, is your version of panpsychism truly scientific rather than metaphysical? Koch: In principle, in all sorts of ways. The theory also says you can have simple systems that are conscious, and complex systems that are not. The more relevant question, to me as a scientist, is how can I disprove the theory today.
'I Built The Platform Myself': M.I.A. On Being Heard. Hide captionM.I.A.'s fourth album, Matangi, is out now. Daniel Sannwald/Courtesy of the artist M.I.A.'s fourth album, Matangi, is out now. It's been three years since M.I.A.'s last album, but the singer-rapper has kept the pop world on its toes since then. She followed 2010's divisive Maya with a mixtape, Vicki Leekx, dropped on the resolutely unorthodox release date of New Year's Eve. M.I.A.' "It's what's on the passport but I haven't used it since I was very young," she says.
What M.I.A. didn't know about her real name until recently is that she shares it with a Hindu goddess — and, as she tells NPR's David Greene, it's one with whom she's grown to feel a particular kinship. Matangi is, as you've come to learn, the name of a Hindu goddess of music. She's basically a goddess of inner thoughts — the outward expression or the outward articulation of inner thoughts. Remind us who the untouchables were. The untouchables were basically the lowest caste in India. Yes. Yes! I didn't say that. The Wisdom of Robert Anton Wilson: A Tonic for the Internet Age.
On October 23rd, the London Fortean Society celebrated "The Late Great Robert Anton Wilson" at the Horse Hospital in London. featuring lectures by our good friend John Higgs as well as Daisy Eris Campbell. John's well-presented talk, in which he riffs on RAW's thoughts about belief and reality, has been uploaded to YouTube and I heartily recommend it - in fact, I wish everyone on Earth would hear what John is talking about, because it's such a key aspect of the ways in which we fool ourselves (often to the detriment of others). I've embedded the talk below (John's talk is just over half an hour, followed by about 15 minutes of questions and money burning...literally), and after it I've pulled out a short quote from John's talk that resonated strongly with me (also, to whomever produced the video, I enjoyed the easter egg!)
: My favorite author, my worst interview. It was the most unpleasant interview I’ve ever done. And one of the most instructive. Science-fiction writer Orson Scott Card wrote one of my favorite books of all time. So when he came out with a sequel, I was delirious with the desire to interview him. “Ender’s Game,” which won the Hugo and Nebula awards in 1985, is the best book I have ever read about violence. Who would have thought it would result in an interview in which I wanted to throttle the author? “Ender’s Game” is also about loving your enemies, a goal so important to me that I wrote a book about it myself. How could I guess that interviewing the author would make me question that entire project?
A strangely empathic novel about 6-year-olds forced to be military commanders, “Ender’s Game” brought together a fan base that might reasonably be expected to be at one another’s throats (in some cases literally): progressives, children and soldiers. I knew that Card, like his readership, was an outrageous hodgepodge. “Not really. Talking good and evil with Keanu Reeves. Keanu Reeves is wearing a very nice suit and covered in blood. This does not seem to bother him; he greets a visitor with his customary off-kilter bonhomie, bobbing his head in an almost teenage gesture of hello. “Good to see you again, man!” He says cheerfully. It’s true that we have met before but in this job you learn not to put much store in that; as Jack Nicholson once observed, a celebrity meets more people in one year than most people meet in their entire lives.
The blood looks real even when I’m sitting next to him on a sofa, but of course it isn’t. Keanu Reeves is a movie actor — no longer a superstar or a goofy Internet meme — and I’m meeting him in a trailer positioned directly under the Williamsburg Bridge in Brooklyn, with the J train clattering overhead every few minutes. Having spent about an hour and a half of my life in the company of Keanu Reeves, I feel qualified to tell you that he isn’t an idiot, as many people seem to believe.
Not get what? I did. [Laughter.] Mm. Da Ali G Show - Ali G talks about Human Rights. Da Ali G Show - Ali G interviews Marlin Fitzwater, White House Press Secretary. Ali-G...Interview with Boutros Boutros Ghali About The UN. Russell Brand's Scathing Critique Of The Political System. Head to Head with Charles Bukowski. Film director Barbet Schroeder’s nearly four hours of interviews with the late poet Charles Bukowski have taken on an air of legend since their initial release on VHS in 1987.
Various segments from the captured conversations have appeared on YouTube in the past, but this is the first time I’ve found the entire interview available as one streaming video, connected by the somber piano score that accompanied the original — the music was the sign-off tune for the German television station that aired the footage in 52 separate segments. Schroeder shot the interviews over three years leading up to the filming of Bukowski’s autobiographical screenplay Barfly, which was also released in 1987.
This version was culled from a reported 64 hours of footage, and it finds Schroeder and Bukowski talking about alcohol, violence, writing and women, and even includes a tour of Buk’s childhood home. The Charles Bukowski Tapes has become a cult classic and it’s a real thrill to share these with you here: Stefan Molyneux Interviews Institute for Psychohistory Director Lloyd deMause. An Interview With Occult Author and NLP Master, Philip H. Farber. A couple of years ago, I realized that thanks to social media, I could start hunting down authors I was interested in like dogs, hounding them with questions I’d never been able to ask before. One of these poor schmucks was Philip H. Farber, occult author of FutureRitual, Meta Magick: The Book of Atem, and Brain Magick: Exercises in Meta-Magick and Invocation.
He has also written a novel, The Great Purple Hoo-Ha. Philip is a hypnotist, Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) practitioner, and magician. Friending Phil on Facebook was one of my smartest moves. In preparing for this interview, I reread some of his books, re-watched some DVDs, and reviewed some of our old correspondences. This interview is an act of apology to Phil. Sorry, Phil. Isla: Can you explain NLP in terms a dummy like myself can understand? Farber: Heh. What parallels have you found between NLP techniques and magical practices? They are certainly related fields. Describe Atem. What do mirror neurons have to do with magic? Are You A Transhuman? Larry King Interviews Futurist FM-2030. Nicholas Schreck: The Manson File. Stuart Firestein: The Pursuit of Ignorance. The Eternities - Conversations on Consciousness. Sibel Edmonds Blows the Whistle on Government Blackmailing.
Neko Case: 'I Couldn't Really Listen To Music' Hide captionNeko Case's new album is called The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You. Emily Shur/Courtesy of the artist Neko Case's new album is called The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You. For a year and a half now, Morning Edition has been following the singer-songwriter Neko Case as she worked on an album that would come to be titled The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You. It includes "Where Did I Leave That Fire," a song with a haunting question at its heart, and now we know that the singer who asked where she left that fire was feeling depressed. But Case also went through a series of deaths in the family, including her grandmother and both parents, although she says she'd really lost them years ago.
"They've really never been my parents," Case tells NPR's Steve Inskeep. 'Weird Diving Bell Suit' "Yeah, definitely," Case says. 'It Happens To Everyone' The Eternities - Conversations on Consciousness. A Quick Conversation with Lovecraft Scholar and 'Nazi Occult' Author Kenneth Hite. The Only Surviving Recording of Raymond Chandler's, in a BBC Conversation with Ian Fleming on Writing.
The Terence Mckenna OmniBus 2012 – 11/12 – “Conspiracy Theory” Penultimate in the TMOM2012 series, Part 11 attempts to unravel the various Conspiracy Theories we’ve all been involved in at some time or another. Let’s begin by ‘dragging in the witnesses’, as Terence so aptly puts it.OK, he doesn’t explain sunken cities or fused sand in the desert, but in matters of assessing situations that culture can get bogged down in, he’s still the man Like this: Like Loading... Related Siegfried Giedion: Mechanization Takes Command (1948) First published in 1948, Mechanization Takes Command is an examination of mechanization and its effects on everyday life. In "Art" Robb Smith, CEO & Entrepreneur | ONLY EVERYTHING. “The Millennials: Perfectly Prepared for a World that No Longer Exists.”
Robb is a social entrepreneur who works on “transformational era” systems at the intersection of human development, education, spiritual understanding and civilizational sustainability. He holds a uniquely grand view of what’s happening in the world today and what makes Millennials unique. We get into nothing short of the future of the world economy, human happiness, and where we’re heading in the next 5-6 decades. Some quotes: “Gen X was able to anchor their individuation, in their teens, 20’s and early 30’s, in careers, a stable and booming economy, a world that wasn’t chaotic, and where there wasn’t constant social comparison. Millennials are getting all of the messaging of having won the economic and social wars of the 20th Century, and the luxury of having a crisis of meaning, of worrying about existential issues instead of survival ones. Arthur C. Clarke: Science fiction writers are accidental prophets.
I HAD THE PLEASURE of visiting Arthur C. Clarke in his home in Sri Lanka in 1995 in my role as one of the directors of the Paramount Television syndicated series Sightings. The interview was for the story “Sci-Fi Prophets.” He lived in the capitol city Colombo, in a large stately house that he told me used to belong to The Vicar. He was warm, welcoming, and possessed a certain childlike glee.
TOD MESIROW: You were a rabid fan of science fiction writing in the 1930s. ARTHUR C. ACC: Well, we mustn’t overdo this, because science fiction stories have covered almost every possibility, and, well, most impossibilities — obviously we’re bound to have some pretty good direct hits as well as a lot of misses. TM: The idea of an intelligent computer, an artificial intelligence like HAL, do you think we’ll achieve that?
ACC: Oh, I don’t think there’s any question of that. TM: What was it like to create the scene when HAL is dying in 2001? TM: Was 2001 an interesting experience? TM: Even today. 1967 INTERVIEW WITH DEAN ANDREWS. Cornel West: Obama’s Response to Trayvon Martin Case Belies Failure to Challenge "New Jim Crow" This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: In the aftermath of the Zimmerman verdict and the mass protests around the country, we turn right now to Dr. Cornel West, professor at Union Theological Seminary, author of numerous books, co-host of the radio show Smiley & West with Tavis Smiley. Together, they wrote the book The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto, among Cornel West’s other books.
Professor Cornel West— CORNEL WEST: Yes, yes. AMY GOODMAN: President Obama surprised not only the press room at the White House, but the nation, I think, on Friday, in his first public remarks following the George Zimmerman acquittal. AMY GOODMAN: Where? CORNEL WEST: In Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen. Then he tells stories about racial profiling. AMY GOODMAN: Ray Kelly, the former police chief of New York City. CORNEL WEST: That’s right.
AMY GOODMAN: The current one, yeah. CORNEL WEST: Well, no, that’s beautiful. CORNEL WEST: Yes. AMY GOODMAN: That’s President Obama. Louis CK Hilarious Interview on The Daily Show - 'Royal Baby is my child' - 'F#@K Rolling Stones' "There Is No God and He Is Always with You" - A Conversation with Brad Warner; Monk. Punk. Dr. Funk. There Is No God and He Is Always with You is the title of Brad Warner’s latest book which is sure to raise a few eyebrows along with many questions, such as, “Can you be an atheist and still believe in God? Can you be a true believer and still doubt? Can Zen give us a way past our constant fighting about God?” From Publisher’s Weekly, “In his new book, Warner (Hardcore Zen) momentarily sets aside his punk weapons of iconoclasm and takes a more respectful, even reverential tone to a perennial question: does God exist?
As a practicing Zen Buddhist, his way of considering this question is entangled in oft-misunderstood concepts such as enlightenment. Warner never shies away from such complications; instead, they become grounds where the Western understanding of God and the Buddhist approach to reality and experience meet. He describes himself on Twitter as, “Monk. What’s in your bass rig? Are we recording? Yes. Then it’s a secret. I noticed a stoner rock reference in your latest book. I did. Eddie Pepitone: A Mad Prophet. On Saturday night, in the side room of a city pancake house, I felt like I was swept up in the fervor of a mad prophet railing against a society out to get us fueled by our own stupid self-interests with the many occasioned cue to make us laugh.
That mad prophet? Comedian Eddie Pepitone. This was a guy burdened by the immediate world he inhabits, and also sick with the world at large. He’s pushing a boulder up a nearly infinite hill and anger, humor, sadness, philosophy, and social awareness are what he uses to lessen some of the burden caused by the rock’s strain. Pepitone weaved out of his prepared material to address a woman’s perpetual cough by wondering aloud if he was in the Soderbergh film CONTAGION, all without losing the momentum of the bit he cut away from.
It was seamless and perfect; as if it were part of his act. Burrowing further into his material, the woman kept coughing. 0Share 2Share. A Fundamentalist Turns To Magick? Hofmann's Potion - Albert Hofmann LSD Documentary. Julian Assange's Hilarious Rebuttal to ABC's Stephanopoulus' Grilling. Heretic Among Heretics: Jacques Vallee Interview. Graham Hancock and Lorna Byrne Video Conversation. Pussy Riot: "People fear us because we're feminists" Interview 685 – Russ Tice Reveals the Truth About NSA Spying. The Bond Code. Radio Discordia Presents: Hakim Bey And Bill Laswell - Temporary Autonomous Zone (T.A.Z.) Alan Moore – “Hey, You Can’t Just Make Stuff Up” Physicist Discovers Computer Code Embedded Within the Equations of String Theory.
Julian Assange on Fighting the International Crackdown on WikiLeaks. The world's most prolific cannabis dealer and a right wing columnist debate the war on drugs | Neurobonkers. Cast: 58: Russell Targ, 'The Reality of ESP' Paradigm Shift in Education: Krishnamurti on the Educator, RAW on Ignorance, Gato on the System, and Hamming on Learning. Alan Moore and Psychogeography. Cornel West: “You can get killed out here trying to tell the truth!” Jeremy Scahill and Noam Chomsky: The Truth About America's Secret, Dirty Wars. Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class. Present! - An Evening with Russell Targ (Part Two)
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Jim Jones Yells At a Senile Elderly. Jim Jones, Ranting. Maurice Sendak's Shocking Final Interview. David Byrne’s Multiple-Personality Interview Of Himself. Cast 49: Robots, Drones and Cybernetics with Daniel H. Wilson. Dennis McKenna – Origins of the Human Imagination: Plant-Human Co-Evolution. Louie Asks Her Out. Louis CK Donald Rumsfeld Lizard O and A. Chelsea Wolfe Musician Interview: Shedding Natural Light On Visions Of Doom - music art film review - REDEFINE magazine. Bruce Sterling: The Complete Interview, 2013. Cast 41: ‘Dispelling Wetiko’ with Paul Levy. Jacques Vallee , Contact Learning from Outer Space, GCF 2011 - 01 -23.f4v. Jacques Vallee: Implications of UFO Phenomena (excerpt) - Thinking Allowed w/ Jeffrey Mishlove. MMA Fighter Matt Horwich talks Multi-Universe and Limitless Potential. KGB Agent Tells You What The Illusion Is !
Did Philip K. Dick disclose the real Matrix in 1977? 195. Dr. Mario Beauregard Sees an End to the Era of Biological Robots. CNN's Erin Burnett Tries to Play 'Gotcha' With Julian Assange. Latvian Diplomat Tells Amusing Human Development Index Anecdote On 'U.N. Tonight! With Ban Ki-Moon' What Is Sandy Telling Us? A Talk with John Perkins. Undoing the Dogmas of Science: A Talk with Rupert Sheldrake. Daniele Bolelli Spars With Joe Rogan. Disaster Capitalism in Reverse: How Sandy Could Be The Catalyst For Progressive Change. Jeremy Scahill on Obama’s War Machine, American Assassinations & Journalism.
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