Eric Jacobus is a professional stuntman, motion designer, and independent philosopher. He is writing a book called the Art of Violence, about how mirror neurons and mimetic rivalry affect perceptions of violence. We talked about film, how to theorize cinematic violence, René Girard, how social crises change cinematic norms around violence, why mainstream cinema has degenerated so badly, and much more.Eric JacobusThe Art of Violence: https://ericjacobus.com/the-art-of-violence/Eric's Youtube: https://youtube.com/ericjacobusofficialRope a Dope (short film): https://youtu.be/G5xAbp1SW5cOther Life✦ Join 5,500 academics, creators, and investors who read the Other Life newsletter: https://OtherLife.coIndieThinkers.org✦ If you're working on long-term intellectual work outside of institutions, request an invitation at https://indiethinkers.org

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The Art of Violence with Girardian Stuntman Eric Jacobus

Indian Bronson is a pseudonymous writer and an early employee at Swype. Swype is building pseudonymous payment infrastructure on crypto rails.Swype: https://getswype.io/Indian Bronson on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lndian_bronsonOther Life✦ Join 5,500 academics, creators, and investors who read the Other Life newsletter: https://OtherLife.coIndieThinkers.org✦ If you're working on long-term intellectual work outside of institutions, request an invitation at https://indiethinkers.org

Pseudonymous Decentralization with Indian Bronson

Gabby Dizon is the founder of Yield Guild Games ($YGG), a decentralized autonomous organization that lends video-game assets to professional gamers for profit. Like a "World of Warcraft guild with a balance sheet." Their serious gamers earn around $1,000/month on average, sometimes much more. Remittances from the game Axie Infinity to the Philippines are greater than remittances from Hong Kong.Gabby Dizon on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gabuschYield Guild Games: https://yieldguild.io/Other Life✦ Join 5,500 academics, creators, and investors who read the Other Life newsletter: https://OtherLife.coIndieThinkers.org✦ If you're working on long-term intellectual work outside of institutions, request an invitation at https://indiethinkers.org

How the Metaverse Takes Over National Economies with Gabby Dizon of Yield Guild Games

Path started trading crypto when he was 15 and made a ton of money. He's famous for calling the Bitcoin top in 2017 but less known is that he's an OG of the 2015 Meme War and an Urbit bull.We talked about how meme culture informs his trading strategies; how artists and intellectuals should think about developing crypto projects; what he's bullish on right now, and what he thinks will stand the test of time amid all the hype bubbles rising and falling in recent years. Not financial advice, of course!➡️  Follow Path at @Cryptopathic on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CryptopathicOther Life✦ Join 6,000+ academics, creators, and investors who read the Other Life newsletter https://OtherLife.coIndieThinkers.org✦ If you're working on long-term intellectual work outside of institutions, request an invitation at https://indiethinkers.org

From Frogtwitter to Crypto Millionaire with Path

Signs of Life is my weekly newsletter about philosophy and science on the frontiers of internet culture. Subscribe at https://OtherLife.co.This podcast is based on Signs #63: Reality Splitters. We explore... How to find frontiers Mónica Belevan's theory of Covidian Aesthetics How to listen to podcasts A light for the most midnightly men, according to Nietzsche How microdosing works News and events coming up (Based Mansion, Austin!) Links✦ ȘȈǤƝȘ 63, Reality Splitters: https://www.otherlife.co/signs-reality-splitters/ ✦ IndieThinkers.org: https://indiethinkers.org✦ Philip Monk's How to Find Frontiers https://pcmonk.me/2019/02/19/how-to-find-frontiers.html✦ Join a Tuesday morning work session: https://lu.ma/fhonr8u8✦ Edgeware Agency's Discord server: https://discord.gg/JXcdzNeQys✦ RSVP to Based Mansion: https://jmrphy.typeform.com/mansion-atx#source=pod

ȘȈǤƝȘ 63: Reality Splitters (Based Mansion 2)

Mónica Belevan is a Peruvian theorist and crypto entrepreneur. She's the author of a newsletter called Covidian Aesthetics and co-founder of a Web3 production studio called Accursed Share. Her current focus is an NFT project called The Curse, which you can search for on Open Sea.We talk about Georges Bataille and the meaning of energy expenditure in the cryptoeconomy; Spengler, Wittgenstein, and Duchamp; the aesthetics of covid, the sentimentality of markets; the affective drama of Wallstreet Bets; egregoric warfare; and much more.➡️  Covidian Aesthetics newsletter: https://covidianaesthetics.substack.com➡️  Accursed Share production studio: https://accursedshare.art➡️  The Curse NFT: https://accursedshare.art/curse-nft-auction/Other Life✦ Join 6,000+ academics, creators, and investors who read the Other Life newsletter https://OtherLife.co✦ Join the Urbit group via https://exit.otherlife.coIndieThinkers.org✦ If you're working on long-term intellectual work outside of institutions, request an invitation at https://indiethinkers.org

Bataille, NFTs, and Crypto-Sovereignty with Mónica Belevan

Discord for this project: https://discord.gg/W43KSNgWctThe Point DAO group on Urbit: ~winlud-dirnet/point-daoIf you need an Urbit planet, I can give you one at cost of gas fees: https://exit.otherlife.coJames of Zora.co✦ James on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/new_username_22Kenny Rowe✦ Kenny Rowe on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/sicdev_pilnupJustin Murphy✦ I write a free newsletter to more than 6,000 academics, creators, founders, and investors: https://OtherLife.co✦ If you're working on long-term intellectual work outside of institutions, request an invitation at https://indiethinkers.org✦ If you're not already subscribed to the pod, subscribe at https://plnk.to/otherlifeJustin Murphy✦ I write a free newsletter to more than 6,000 academics, creators, founders, and investors: https://OtherLife.co✦ If you're working on long-term intellectual work outside of institutions, request an invitation at https://indiethinkers.org✦ If you're not already subscribed to the pod, subscribe at https://plnk.to/otherlife

Crowdfunding an Urbit Galaxy?

Brom Rector is a Youtuber, podcaster, and venture capitalist focused on the psychedelics industry. We discuss how he launched his creator brand and VC fund at the same time; the current FDA pipeline, which psychedelics are going to be mainstream medicine, in what order, and for what treatments; unknown psychedelic compounds that haven't been invented yet; the "picks and shovels" infrastructure that will boom as psychedelics go mainstream; how to track the space; why microdosing might be overrated and harmful; a serotonin receptor to improve long term memory; whether LSD can help ADHD; how the psychedelic industry is different from the cannabis industry; and how virtual reality is on a continuum with psychedelics.Brom Rector✦ Empath Ventures VC Fund: https://www.empath.vc✦ The Integration Conversation Podcast: https://www.theintegration.co✦ Brom on Twitter:  https://www.twitter.com/therealbromJustin Murphy✦ I write a free newsletter to more than 6,000 academics, creators, founders, and investors: https://OtherLife.co✦ If you're working on long-term intellectual work outside of institutions, request an invitation at https://indiethinkers.org✦ If you're not already subscribed to the pod, subscribe at https://plnk.to/otherlifeResources on the Psychedelics Industry✦ Clinical Trial Tracker: https://psilocybinalpha.com/data/psychedelic-drug-development-tracker✦ Database of Psychedelics Research and Companies: https://blossomanalysis.com/✦ Psychedelics Patent Tracker: https://psilocybinalpha.com/data/psilocybin-patent-tracker

The Psychedelic Century with Brom Rector

Razib Khan writes the #1 Substack in the Science category. We talk about how to genotype your unborn baby, whether we can increase our intelligence and testosterone with CRISPR, whether Genghis Khan was good actually, how Razib is succeeding on Substack, and much more.Check out Razib's Substack at razib.substack.com. If you subscribe, tell him I sent you.➡️  Join 6,000+ who read the Other Life newsletter at OtherLife.co➡️  If you're working on long-term creative or intellectual work, request an invitation to IndieThinkers.org

DIY Gene Hacking, Genetic Bioweapons, and Crushing It on Substack with Razib Khan

We talk with the preeminent biographer of Ivan Illich on the life and times of the great Catholic anarchist priest; Giorgio Agamben and the coronavirus; why friendship is the modern form of prophecy, and much more.➡️  Nina Power's course on Ivan Illich: IllichCourse.com➡️  Join 6,000+ readers of my newsletter at OtherLife.co➡️  If you're working on long-term creative or intellectual work, request an invitation to IndieThinkers.org

The Testament of Ivan Illich with Biographer David Cayley

Jess Sloss is a lead instigator of Seed Club, an incubator of tokenized communities—communities that use custom cryptocurrencies to align incentives and distribute value among stakeholders.Learn more about Jess Sloss and Seed Club✦ https://SeedClub.io✦ The Seed Club Discord https://discord.gg/42UjJskuEF✦ Jess Sloss on Twitter https://twitter.com/thattallguyLearn more about the $LIFE dao✦ Join my free Urbit group and get some $LIFE: https://exit.otherlife.coAre you working on a long-term creative project outside of institutions?✦ Request an invitation to https://IndieThinkers.org

How to Build a Tokenized Creator Community with Jess Sloss of Seed Club

LM Sacasas is a theorist of technology and expert on Ivan Illich. He writes a popular Substack called the The Convivial Society, and recently published a book entitled The Frailest Thing. We're joined by friend of the show Nina Power to discuss Ivan Illich's prescient theories of technology, institutions, and the senses.Learn more about LM Sacasas✦ Subscribe to LM's newsletter, The Convivial Society.✦ Read LM's book of collected essays, The Frailest Thing.Learn more about Ivan Illich✦ Download our free Ivan Illich reading list at https://IllichCourse.com✦ Apply to Nina Power's 8-week course on Ivan Illich at https://IllichCourse.comAre you working on a long-term creative project outside of institutions?✦ Request an invitation to https://IndieThinkers.org

The Abolition of Institutions: On Ivan Illich with LM Sacasas and Nina Power

David Fuller is a co-founder of Rebel Wisdom, a media company and community dedicated to ideas and independent sense-making.Rebel Wisdom’s newest course, Sensemaking 101, starts this Thursday. With guest faculty including Daniel Schmachtenberger, John Vervaeke and others participants will spend 8 weeks developing their judgment, thinking, speaking, and relating skills. David is giving Other Life listeners 10% off, just use the coupon code “Indie_10”.✦ Sensemaking 101: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/sensemaking101✦ Rebel Wisdom on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/rebelwisdomOther Life✦ I write a free newsletter about philosophy, science, and tech to +6,000 academics, creators, founders, and hackers. Subscribe at https://otherlife.co✦ If you like the podcast, do me a favor and leave a review on Apple podcasts! https://otherlife.co/reviewIndieThinkers.org✦ Are you working on a long-term intellectual project? With about 400 members working on blogs, books, films, and more, IndieThinkers.org provides recurring work sessions to improve your productivity, monthly conferences to share your work, private workshops and Q&As with other successful indie thinkers, a content library with instructional material, and a curated network for finding collaborators. Request an invitation to IndieThinkers.org: https://bit.ly/3jH5DUg

Building an Idea Company on Youtube with David Fuller of Rebel Wisdom

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McAfee $WHACKD? Ivan Illich, DAO, China

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St. Augustine Destroys Paganism with Facts and Logic

Everything I don't get to talk about in normal life. Recurring themes include political science, ideology and the culture wars, media and technology, religion, philosophy, and the personal. By political scientist Justin Murphy.

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