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Weekly Why 016: Fuck Marshall McLuhan!

24 January 2016 By StephenTorrence 0 In Podcast, Weekly Why

Local poet Marc Powell joins Stephen for some high-frequency riffing on world systems, philosophy …and each other

activism, Adam Smith, addiction, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Anarcho-Syndicalism, art, Austin, Beehive Collective, beer, bees, Capital Factory, capitalism, cartoons, celebrity, communication, conservative fusionism, culture, David Holmgren, death, EFF-Austin, environmentalism, Facebook, FarmVille, flooding, food, gentrification, Heidegger, hubris, humility, Iain McGilchrist, IMF, intellectualism, Ivan Illich, John Michael Greer, Jon Lebkowsky, language, Marc Powell, Masanobu Fukuoka, meta, mythology, Neal Postman, Neil Degrasse-Tyson, permaculture, poetry, politics, privilege, progress, reality, religion, Richard Dawkins, Roland Barthes, San Francisco, science, Silicon Valley, Socrates, somatic experience, Stephen, stereo, Taoism, technology, The Holy Mountain, The Internet, The Peripheral, The Singularity, Tony Robbins, TV, Wendell Berry, William Gibson, World Bank

Episode 161: Zero to WHAT?

26 April 2015 By StephenTorrence 4 In Podcast

Special guest Dania Toth joins us to talk startups, success, and beer.

Adelbert’s Brewery, beer, Center 61, consequentialism, corporate social responsibility, Dani, Dave Eggers, deontology, Dogfish Head Brewery, ecology, Elon Musk, entrepreneur, environmentalism, ethics, Facebook, John Mackey, Kevin, Marc Andreesen, Onion Talks, Peter Thiel, Philosophizer, Ruth Glendinning, Silicon Valley, social entrepreneurship, startups, Stephen, success, sustainability, Ten Acre Organics, uncertainty, Unltd USA, Whole Foods, Zero to One

Episode 155: The Right to [REDACTED]

05 September 2014 By StephenTorrence 1 In Podcast

Does the “Right to be Forgotten” entail censorship? What is public or private anymore? Can PHP save us? Kevin and Stephen dive into all this and more.

Anil Dash, Banksy, big data, Canada, censorship, Chelsea Manning, Cory Doctorow, Dan Geer, defamation, Edward Snowden, encryption, EU, European Court of Justice, Facebook, Figure8 Coffee Purveyors, Glenn Beck, Google, human rights, Justin Carter, Kate Crawford, Kevin, libel, Linguistic Labyrinth, Mario Consteja Gonzales, metadata, NSA, privacy, public, security, Stephen, Streisand Effect, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, The Right to Be Forgotten, Tor, trust

Episode 153: Moral Prodcasting

29 June 2014 By StephenTorrence 1 In Podcast

Where do moral values come from? Kevin and Stephen tackle this question personally and theoretically.

behaviorism, Boy Scouts, Community, consequentialism, ethics, Facebook, Golden Rule, Kenan Malik, law, McSweeney’s, morality, Net Neutrality, Nietzsche, normative ethics, pain, philosophy of mind, politeness, postmodernism, reality TV, religions, Slavoj Zizek, Starbucks, utilitarianism, virtue ethics

Episode 137: Keep Your Pants On, Monkey Brain

07 May 2013 By StephenTorrence 0 In Podcast

What do trees, brains, and pants have in common? Kevin, Stephen, John Elliott, and Matt Epperson explore our complex world through the works of Manuel Lima.

Amazon, Amsterdam, Anatta, brain, Buddhism, Charles C. Mann, complex networks, complexity, connectome, consciousness, cyborgs, data, data visualization, dialup, Dunbar's Number, education, emergence, Facebook, functionalism, Google Fiber, identity, Inca, individualism, intelligence, Janet Jackson, John Elliott, Kevin, Leonhard Euler, Manuel Lima, Matt Epperson, memory, Monkeysphere, network visualization, New Hampshire, philosophy of mind, rhizome, Royal Society of the Arts, self-awareness, SkyNet, Star Wars, Stephen, stock market, The Internet, The Power of Networks, Traveling Salesman Problem, trees, Visual Complexity

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Weekly Why 016: Fuck Marshall McLuhan!

Episode 161: Zero to WHAT?

Episode 155: The Right to [REDACTED]

Episode 153: Moral Prodcasting

Episode 137: Keep Your Pants On, Monkey Brain

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