🫠 Jamming on The Future of Time & Culture with Jeremy Johnson, Tim Adalin, Cadell Last...and You

Two solid recent conversations and details for the next monthly members hangout

My kids are home for summer vacation and it’s taking some time to re-adjust to my own regular podcast release schedule, so thanks for your patience. Tons of superb guests in the editing queue (scope the full list here) along with half a dozen essays on what evolutionary biology suggests about the future of the economy, how to reclaim our agency from The Big Machine, and further explorations of Global Weirding.

For Now, here are two recent mind-jazz sessions on my friends’ deeply subscription-worthy platforms, and you are invited join us tomorrow for the next monthly hangout!

Below the paywall you’ll find call details to join me and other members of the Humans On The Loop scene tomorrow, May 31 at 1 pm Pacific/4 pm Eastern.

💫 Mythos After Progress on Voicecraft

Thanks to maestro Tim Adalin for bringing me and Jeremy Johnson — both of us teaching classes right now on planetary culture and the future of consciousness — into trialogue, where we explored the historical context and implications of the idea of progress, the nature of myth in scientific narratives, and how we may re-think time itself in order to accommodate the complexity of our era’s intelligence explosion.

Some of the themes from this soulful and contemplative discussion include:

• The Problematization and Relativization of Modernist Ideas of Progress
• The Pervasive Role of Myth and Narrative in Science
• Complex and Multidimensional Temporality
• Embodied Cognition and Spatial Orientation
• Belonging and Finding a Home in the World
• Agency, Future as Present, and Choosing What to Give Life To

Inspired by the success of AskFutureFossils.com I’m in the habit now of offering NotebookLM interactive study guides so people can “talk” to these long-form offerings. You can prompt this small slice of our collective intelligence with your own questions here. Obviously this is not a replacement for actually listening to the trialogue or riffing with us in real-time, but it’s a fun way to bring questions into focus for us to explore together later and without AI intermediation. If you have a particularly interesting and useful exchange with the model, I’d love to hear about it!

💫 How To Live In The Future on Philosophy Portal

Also! Cadell Last (who just kicked ass in the guest seat on Humans On The Loop Ep. 18) just had me on Philosophy Portal for a different, but complementary, exploration of “the future” infused with his commitment to social theory and self-actualization in the commons of the emerging Global Brain. We covered a lot of ground, including:

• Distinguishing Prediction vs. Prophecy
• The Challenge of Saturation and Complexity in the Information Age
• The Shifting Landscape of Subjectivity and Institutions
• Beyond Linear Growth: Ecological and Regenerative Frameworks
• Navigating the "Infoquake": Embracing Paradox, Play, and the Posthuman

(A note on context: I got somewhat overheated in my sunny window about an hour into this and you may notice the metabolic effect on an already high-temperature dialogue… Lesson learned: don’t just cool your computers when they’re working hard!)

And here is the NotebookLM page for this dialogue. Again, if something really cool happens here feel free to save it as a note in the shared document or copy/paste and email it to me — I’m very curious to learn how people and bringing their own perspectives to these conversations!

💫 Call Info for Our Next Monthly Hangout

I recommend bringing something specific to discuss — what is the most interesting thing for you right now, or what are you working on, or are you grappling with something we might be able to help you think through together?

This will not be recorded, so feel free to engage with candor and please turn off AI notetakers so I don’t have to kick ‘em all out before we start.

RSVP and video call link here: