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Tom and Andrew ramble about Oppenheimer, dreams and freak accidents

Prof. Dr. Dirk Baecker is a sociologist and holds senior professorship for organization theory and theory of society at Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen at Lake Constance. He studied systems theory with Niklas Luhmann. He has been recognized as one of the most prominent German sociologists with important works on cultural theory, sociological theory, economic sociology and organizational sociology. He is the author of numerous books, including KATJEKTE, published at Merve. In this conversation we talk about Luhmanns system theory and his media theory in context of Internet, digitalization and AI as well as how we can meaningfully differentiate between construction of media as a system property and fake news.

Masha and Tom ask the relevant questions

Check out https://parallax-media.eu/courses for more info Bonnitta is a visioneer, insight guide and horse whisperer. Her work is deeply embodied and grounded, and over the last several years, she's shown us how to trust the intelligence of life again. She is the founder of Alderlore Insight Center and curates wickedly provocative and seriously surprising conversations at The Pop-UP School. Her course, THE CONVIVIAL LIFE - CONVERSATIONS WITH IVAN ILLICH & FRIENDS, begins on Sunday, September 10th and will continue for 4 weeks. It will include prerecorded lectures, live Zoom sessions and campfire community sessions. For more information and join us in the learning and conviviality

Consider supporting us by donation via PayPal, Patronage or by becoming an Academy member: https://parallax-media.eu/donateParallax Events: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendarParallax Academy: https://parallax-media.eu/curriculumMembership: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar The 3rd of a monthly series of discussions, Love or Die, in which Marc and Andrew discuss the meta-crisis, Hebrew Wisdom and AI. How can we rewrite the source code of the present epoch and create a new story? The stakes are high. It’s Love or Die! Dr. Marc Gafni is a visionary thinker, social activist, and passionate philosopher. He is known for his “source code teachings,” including Unique Self theory, the Five Selves, the Amorous Cosmos, A Politics of Evolutionary Love, A Return to Eros and Digital Intimacy. He is author of over twenty-five books, including the award-winning Your Unique Self: The Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment. He holds a doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University, as well as Orthodox rabbinic ordination.He teaches on the cutting edge of philosophy and spirit in the West, with the aim of participating in the articulation of what Dr. Gafni together with Dr. Zak Stein and colleagues are calling CosmoErotic Humanism. At the core of CosmoErotic Humanism is what Dr. Gafni and Dr. Stein are calling ‘First Principles and First Values,’ Anthro-Ontology and a “Universal Grammar of Value.” This shared story rooted in First Principles and First Values can then serve as the matrix for a global ethos for a global civilization.Dr. Gafni is the Co-Founder and Co-President of the Office for the Future, the Center for World Religion and Philosophy and the Foundation for Conscious Evolution. At the core of their shared missions is the articulation and delivery into culture of a Great Library - in multiple forms - which participates in evolving the source code of consciousness and culture in response to the Meta Crisis. Website Dr. Marc Gafni: http://www.marcgafni.comYour Unique Self: the Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment (book):http://bit.ly/3FkFhli A Return to Eros: the Radical Experience of Being Fully Alive (book): https://bit.ly/3XRCA28

The boys review the Barbie movie and discover the laws of Magick

Daniel Görtz and Michael Garfield in dialogue, hosted by Tom Amarque "Evil is the annunciation of the next level of order" Paleontologist-Futurist Michael Garfield is devoted to helping navigate our age of accelerating weirdness and helping cultivate the curiosity and play we'll need to thrive in it. As host and producer of both Future Fossils Podcast & The Santa Fe Institute's Complexity Podcast, Michael acts as interlocutor for a worldwide community of artists, scientists, and philosophers — a practice that feeds his synthetic and transdisciplinary "mind-jazz" performances in the form of essay, music, and fine art. Standard-bearer for a new generation of boundary-defying scholars, Michael refuses to be enslaved by a single perspective, creative medium, or intellectual community, walking through the walls between academia and festival culture, theory and practice — speaking and performing everywhere from Moogfest to Burning Man, SXSW to Boom Festival, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia to Long Now's Ignite Talks to The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors. Daniel Görtz is the co-author, with Emil Esper Friis, of both “Hanzi Freinacht” books The Listening Society and Nordic Ideology. Daniel’s work approaches what many know as Ken Wilber’s integral theory, but considers its secular and practical application to politics, cultural currents in society, within the arts and beyond. He lives in Sweden and works for Metamoderna, the publisher of metamodern books, and for Glimworks, an IT-company where he is In-House Philosopher.

The perverts Masha Anderson and Tom Amarque dig into Freak-Pageants, fuckibility factors, the Marilyn-Monroe-Mechanism and Sissy-Porn, Red Scare and Steve Bannon. Go to patreon.com/kulturwang for more episodes

Tom and Andrew ramble about the architecture of memes, archetypes, buildings, sex and innovation

There is no meaning crisis, there is no time between worlds.