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An ongoing chronicle of my explorations and creative experiments at the edge of the known and knowable: essays, podcasts, speculative fiction, art, and music exploring our weirding world and the pre- and post-history of human-technology co-evolution.
Future Fossils is the overarching container for all of my work, completely unchained from paradigmatic and professional considerations.
Humans On The Loop is the vehicle for my grant-funded dialogues and essays exploring the question, “We have magical technologies; now what?”
Join me for bold, playful, and provocative forays into psychedelic futurism, the philosophy of complexity, AI as an adjunct for the transformations of consciousness, collective intelligence, deep time, the nonhuman turn, hyperstition, reality ruptures, weird ontology, extended cognition, hyperobjects, and the ongoing generative explosion of our categories. In other words, science poetry for a transdisciplinary age, to help you navigate our ever-weirder world.
Humans On The Loop is fiscally supported by HAPPI and accepts tax-deductible donations. If you would prefer to set up a recurring contribution at every.org/humansontheloop, you can get all of the same perks and all fees go to building a regenerative economy.
🔮 Who Am I?
Your guess is as good as mine. Over the last twenty years I’ve been a paleontologist, a scientific illustrator, an art director, a technology blogger and futures essayist, a world-touring electroacoustic musician and public speaker, a live performance painter, the editor-in-chief of multiple web magazines, an eco-tour guide and clean water conservationist for Save Our Springs Alliance, the Digital Media Strategist for The Santa Fe Institute, the Community Manager for The Long Now Foundation, the first research and comms hire for a Mozilla Internet Ecosystem AI spin-off, and the host of multiple podcasts with millions of combined listens.
The one thing that holds it all together is my fierce and unyielding curiosity and a commitment to learning, communication, synthesis, and commons-building.
Also, my conviction that this world is full of wonder and I want to share it.
🏆 Paying Members Get
An extensive back log of members-only writing, course recordings, music, and extra podcast episodes; private Discord channels; live monthly community calls; and copious additional link dumps and research resources.
Plus, the warm fuzzy feeling of supporting work that is incredibly difficult to fund by conventional means: the generation of public goods and online community organized around the question of how we flourish amidst the transformations.
