Conversations

Author of The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos, Jaime Green-- Timestamps: 00:00 - Start 01:51 - Jaime's beginnings 04:48 - Jaime's pop culture influences 12:30 - Jaime's Journey to Editing 21:07 - The writing process 30:50 - Jaime's experience as the series editor of Best American Science and Nature Writing 38:07 - Being a former editor at FutureTense 44:48 - The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos 58:18 - Is Jaime more excited about scientific knowledge or cultures creating good pieces of art, such as science fiction? 01:00:49 - The Overview Effect -- Book Website: https://www.jaimegreen.net/book Twitter: https://twitter.com/jaimealyse Website: jaimegreen.net -- More on Eclectic Spacewalk: Subscribe to Substack Newsletter ⁠⁠https://eclecticspacewalk.substack.com/⁠⁠ Listen to all podcasts on Anchor ⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/eclecticspacewalk⁠⁠ Watch all podcasts on YouTube ⁠⁠   • Conversations  ⁠⁠ Follow Eclectic Spacewalk on Twitter ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/ESpacewalk⁠⁠ Eclectic Spacewalk Website ⁠⁠https://www.eclecticspacewalk.com

Author and Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Shannon Mattern— Timestamps: 00:00 - Start 01:55 - Shannon's Earliest Curiosities 03:49 - How Shannon got started in her academic career 10:13 - How do materiality and other lenses ground your research? 12:49 - The Importance of Archival Studies 18:31 - Green Screens and 8 Channels Project 21:55 - Book Writing 28:28 - Libraries and Ethnography 34:20 - "A City is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligence" 42:00 - Redesigning the Academy, Epistemic Activism 47:09 - The Overview Effect, Is there any message Shannon would want to share if she was up at the level of seeing Earth from space? -- More on Shannon Mattern: Website: https://wordsinspace.net/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/shannonmattern Book website: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691208053/a-city-is-not-a-computer -- More on Eclectic Spacewalk: Subscribe to Substack Newsletter ⁠https://eclecticspacewalk.substack.com/⁠ Listen to all podcasts on Anchor ⁠https://anchor.fm/eclecticspacewalk⁠ Watch all podcasts on YouTube ⁠   • Conversations  ⁠ Follow Eclectic Spacewalk on Twitter ⁠https://twitter.com/ESpacewalk⁠ Eclectic Spacewalk Website ⁠https://www.eclecticspacewalk.com

The ‘Godfather of Twitter’ and Author of Friendly Ambitious Nerd & Introspect, Visakan Veerasamy— Substack: https://eclecticspacewalk.substack.com/p/conversations-26-visakan-veerasamy Timestamps: 00:00 - Start 01:44 Visa's curiosity journey. 06:44 How does Visa deal with the reality of understanding who he is as a person, within society, within history, and with relationships? 10:44 Books that captivated Visa growing up and today. 18:49 How does Visa think about remixing and what is he remixing now? 24:05 How does Visa ground himself? 33:45 Visa's memes 58:57 What are some essential ingredients for supportive and nourishing scenes? 01:04:04 How do you resist bad faith attacks from bad actors when a community is built on maximizing openness? 01:14:07 How does Visa think about the social aspects of science and technology? 01:21:11 What are Visa's thoughts if he were to be in space looking at Earth? The Overview Effect -- More on Visakan Veerasamy: FRIENDLY AMBITIOUS NERD ebook: http://gum.co/FANbook INTROSPECT ebook: http://gum.co/introspect Website: https://visakanv.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/visakanv YT channel:    / visakanv   Substack: https://visakanv.substack.com/ -- More on Eclectic Spacewalk: Subscribe to Substack Newsletter https://eclecticspacewalk.substack.com/ Listen to all podcasts on Anchor https://anchor.fm/eclecticspacewalk Watch all podcasts on YouTube    • Conversations   Follow Eclectic Spacewalk on Twitter https://twitter.com/ESpacewalk Eclectic Spacewalk Website https://www.eclecticspacewalk.co

A conversation with Author and Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Leicester, Bleddyn Bowen Bleddyn Bowen is the author of two books: “War in Space: Strategy, Spacepower, Geopolitics” and “Original Sin: Power, Technology, and War in Outer Space.” He is an associate professor of International Relations at the University of Leicester, specializing in space policy and military uses of outer space.  He also consults on space policy for institutions including the UK Parliament, the European Space Agency, and the Pentagon Timestamps: 00:00 - Start 09:38 What specific publications or topics create the most discussion in Bleddyn's classes?  11:57 What has society as a whole viewed space as?  14:06 What is Astropolitics?  17:08 What is space power?  20:05 What is space policy?  32:25 Bleddyn's books "War in Space, Strategies, Space Power, Geopolitics" and "Original Sin"  01:10:51 Summary of "Original Sin"  01:14:30 How does Bleddyn use his research, academia, writing, etc. for his work in consulting on space policy?   01:16:49 What's next for Bleddyn?  01:18:21 How can we be critical of "The Overview Effect"?  -- More on Bleddyn Bowen: Twitter: https://twitter.com/bleddb Website: https://astropoliticsblog.wordpress.com/ Book Website: https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/original-sin/ Tweet thread about the book: https://twitter.com/bleddb/status/1584507574337998849 -- More on Eclectic Spacewalk: Subscribe to Substack Newsletter https://eclecticspacewalk.substack.com/ Listen to all podcasts on Anchor https://anchor.fm/eclecticspacewalk Watch all podcasts on YouTube https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8ADA5JhLe2_fw5i2PTRJkQLISGqqFiKC Follow Eclectic Spacewalk on Twitter https://twitter.com/ESpacewalk Eclectic Spacewalk Website https://www.eclecticspacewalk.com

A conversation with Author, Co-Founder of Brick Moon Space, and Program Director of Graduate Architecture at Morgan State University, Fred Scharmen Fred Scharmen is a designer and researcher in the history and theory of space architecture. Timestamps: 00:00 - Start 01:30 - What were you first curious about? 10: 25 - Epistemic Activism 15:15 - Director of Graduate Architecture at a historically black college 25:00 - The Working Group on Adaptive Systems 40:50 - Space Forces: A Critical History of Life in Outer Space 57:10 - ‘Space Codes: The Astronaut and the Architect’ 01:01: - Brick Moon Space 01:11:55 - Offering a critical perspective of the Overview Effect -- More on Fred Scharmen: Twitter - https://twitter.com/sevensixfive Book - https://www.versobooks.com/books/3889-space-forces The Working Group on Adaptive Systems: - https://w-as.net/ Brick Moon Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrickMoonSpace Brick Moon Website -  Brickmoonspace.com -- More on Eclectic Spacewalk: Subscribe to Substack Newsletter https://eclecticspacewalk.substack.com/ Listen to all podcasts on Anchor https://anchor.fm/eclecticspacewalk Watch all podcasts on YouTube https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8ADA5JhLe2_fw5i2PTRJkQLISGqqFiKC Follow Eclectic Spacewalk on Twitter https://twitter.com/ESpacewalk Eclectic Spacewalk Website https://www.eclecticspacewalk.com/

Hello Eclectic Spacewalkers! This past month I had the pleasure to finally talk with Malcolm Ocean, a long-time Twitter mutual of ours. Malcolm Ocean is a systems designer, a self-described “feral free agent, singer-songwriter, and trust-dancer.” He also runs a software company called Complice - the to-do list that never goes stale. Malcolm is a unique and eclectic soul whose thinking I have found to be useful and playful in solving problems, building networks, and being curious about all things dealing with the ‘interpersonal.’ Malcolm runs Complice, a software company that  “helps people stay in touch with their big-picture goals on a day-to-day basis, and act strategically & improvisationally” Instead of productivity, we focus on intentionality choosing & doing, over organizing aliveness, instead of exhaustiveness goals as fundamental, rather than tasks proactive, rather than reactive We thank Malcolm for their time, research, and eclectic mind. Enjoy the conversation, and until next time - Ad Astra! Timestamps: Donella Meadow’s ‘Dancing & Thinking’ with systems (04:30) Full Fractal Buy-In (11:27) Key learnings from traveling, working remote, and being in movement (18:00) ‘Trust dancing’ with others (23:00) Concessions, compromises, and feeling understood (33:00) Creating & running Complice - “the to-do list that never goes stale” (38:00) Complice keeps your long-term goals fresh and tied to your feelings (47:15) “Weirder Questions” from Twitter mutual @SissiPhys (53:40) What is Malcolm not very good at? (01:01:30) Malcolm’s response to the “Overview Effect” question (01:07:52) — More on Malcolm Ocean: Website Twitter Complice — More on Eclectic Spacewalk: Subscribe to Substack Newsletter Listen to all podcasts on Anchor Watch all podcasts on YouTube Follow Eclectic Spacewalk on Twitter Follow Eclectic Spacewalk on Medium Eclectic Spacewalk Website

#STS #ScienceandTechnology #AmmoniumNitrate #EclecticSpacewalk   A podcast about the dual-use nature of ammonium nitrate.    Interviewees include:  - Dr. Fracesco Amodio, Associate Professor of Economics at McGill  University  - Dr. Hans Pasman, Emeritus Professor in Chemical Risk Management at the Technical University of Delft  - Dr. Vyto Babrauskas, Fire Science & Technology, Inc.   - Jonathan Dagher, Investigative Journalist Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AMstUpJPMlNriWf0YRrhM2M2Nqtwy6_p/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=104043058832235051025&rtpof=true&sd=true Presented by Nicholas McCay, Salma Attalla, and Karl Dagher - all STS  grad students within the 'Responsibility in Science, Technology, and  Society' program at Technical University Munich (TUM): https://www.mcts.tum.de/programs/master-reset/   -- More on Eclectic Spacewalk:  Subscribe to Substack Newsletter https://eclecticspacewalk.substack.com/   Listen to all podcasts on Anchor https://anchor.fm/eclecticspacewalk   Watch all podcasts on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUfJ_jcO5qXRbvq2ImkuPGA   Follow Eclectic Spacewalk on Twitter https://twitter.com/ESpacewalk

Hello Eclectic Spacewalkers! This month, we sat down with Stephanie Lepp. Stephanie is an executive producer at the Center for Humane Technology, where she leads the podcast “Your Undivided Attention” hosted by Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin where they “explore the incredible power that technology has over our lives — and how we can use it to catalyze a humane future.” Some of our favorites are episodes with Daniel Schmactenberger, Tim Wu, and Kate Raworth. “A producer whose work strives to hold up a mirror - inviting us to grow from what we see.” The Center for Human Technology produced the documentary “The Social Dilemma” and has a course “Foundations of Humane Technology: An Online Course For Professionals Shaping Tomorrow's Technology.” We thank Stephanie for their time, research, and eclectic mind. Enjoy the conversation, and until next time - Ad Astra! Timestamps: Early influences (03:28) Studying Science, Technology, and Society or STS (05:43) “A producer whose work strives to hold up a mirror - inviting us to grow from what we see.” (10:24) Reckonings project (17:08) Deep Reckonings (21:14) The Center for Humane Technology (34:53) Your Undivided Attention podcast (51:34) “Wormhole through constellations of tribes” & Synthetic Strategy (56:08)  The power and influence of New Media like Animation/AR/VR/etc. (01:05:53) Overview Effect question (1:11:07) — More on Stephanie Lepp: Your Undivided Attention podcast: https://www.humanetech.com/podcast  Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephlepp  Infinite Lunchbox website: https://www.infinitelunchbox.com/  Deep Reckonings website: https://www.deepreckonings.com/ — More on Eclectic Spacewalk: Subscribe to Substack Newsletter Listen to all podcasts on Anchor Watch all podcasts on YouTube Follow Eclectic Spacewalk on Twitter Follow Eclectic Spacewalk on Medium Eclectic Spacewalk Website

A conversation with Writer, Coach, and Consultant, Paul Millerd— Hey Eclectic Spacewalkers! This month, we sat down with Paul Millerd. Paul is a writer, coach, and consultant and who I would describe as the epitome of a digital nomad. He is also a freelancer and digital creator. Paul is “Trying to carve my own path. Sharing what I learn along the way” and he recently released a new book called: The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story for Work and Life Paul’s book is a fantastic read and goes deep into his personal journey through the “default path” of business school, working at McKinsey, and chasing prestige as a “world-class hoop jumper.” After a bout with Lyme disease and reassessing what is important in life, Paul realized that “wonder tips the scales” and that he was somewhat fearful in pursuing what he really wanted. Summarizing (not absolutely) to finding and walking your “own pathless path.” - Question the Default - Reflect - Figure out what you have to offer - Pause & Disconnect - Go make a friend - Go make something - Give generously - Experiment - Commit - Be Patient We thank Paul for their time, research, and eclectic mind. Enjoy the conversation, and until next time - Ad Astra! -- Timestamps: Being a “world-class hoop jumper” (04:44) Strategy consulting and creating StrategyU (10:48) Being a digital nomad and moving to Taipei, Taiwan (15:44) The power of Twitter networking (22:44) Paul’s writing journey, influences, and self-publishing (28:13) The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story for Work and Life (38:39) Dealing with fears that inevitably come up (42:54) Some aspects of being on “The Pathless Path” (46:27) This is not a business or self-help book (55:24) Paul’s answer to the “Overview Effect” question (1:00:42) -- More on Paul Millerd: (BOOK) The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story for Work and Life: https://think-boundless.com/the-pathless-path/ Website: https://lu.ma/paulm Twitter: https://twitter.com/p_millerd Newsletter: https://boundless.substack.com/ StrategyU website: https://strategyu.co/ -- More on Eclectic Spacewalk: Subscribe to Substack Newsletter Listen to all podcasts on Anchor Watch all podcasts on YouTube Follow Eclectic Spacewalk on Twitter Follow Eclectic Spacewalk on Medium Eclectic Spacewalk Website

In a captivating discussion with Patricia Hurducaș, creator of The Flâneuse Project, listeners are taken on a journey through her Romanian roots and experiences in various cities. She dives into the art of flânerie, exploring how urban wandering intersects with societal perceptions, especially for women. Patricia shares insights on integrating spontaneity into daily life, the transformative power of virtual salons, and her aspirations for a creative cabin in the Romanian Carpathians. This exploration of curiosity and connection is both enlightening and inspiring.