“Civilized” people regard technology through the lens of “How can we do more?” I want to flip the script and ask, “If anything is possible, how do we decide what to do?”
• the playful exploration of agency in the age of automation
• the cultivation of multiperspectival mind-jazz as both intrinsically rewarding and an adaptive strategy
• diverse inquiries into the nature of technology and evolution
• open protocols for better dreaming together
• a transdisciplinary wizard school for the age of AI
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An ongoing series of 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.
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.
This series is produced by Future Fossils, the overarching container for all of my work, completely unchained from disciplinary considerations.
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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.
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🔮 Who Am I?
This world is full of wonder and I want to share it.
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.
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