Natura Naturans

On the psychology of optimism. Ortus Journal: https://ortusjournal.org/ Support the podcast on Patreon at: www.patreon.com/metaspinoza Follow me on Instagram at: www.instagram.com/metaspinoza/

My sit-down with Connor continues with a discussion of TS Eliot's The Wasteland, how one ought to relate to controversial or problematic texts, and more. (Part two of two). Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/metaspinoza Link to the PDF containing the poems we discuss: shorturl.at/CMNS2 Follow Connor on Instagram: www.instagram.com/connor.may.cm/ Solare by spacecadet: hazelspacecadet.bandcamp.com/track/solare Discord: discord.gg/9HWEkZ8

“If life had a single argument in its favour—distinct, indisputable—it would annihilate itself.” When I can't sleep, I read Cioran. When Cioran couldn't sleep, he humiliated life, and every philosophy that presumed to give it value. An exploration of some themes in Cioran's A Short History of Decay. Warning: it gets bleak. Support the podcast on Patreon at: www.patreon.com/metaspinoza Follow me on Instagram at: www.instagram.com/metaspinoza/

What do J.H. Prynne, poetic interpretation, Sir Henry de Bodrugan, and my attempts to articulate what I like about a poem have in common? This conversation with Connor May, an Irish Studies masters student at Queen's University Belfast. (Part one of two). Link to the PDF containing the poems we discuss: shorturl.at/CMNS2 Follow Connor on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/connor.may.cm/ Solare by spacecadet: https://hazelspacecadet.bandcamp.com/track/solare Discord: http://discord.gg/9HWEkZ8

Some friends and I gather around for a symposium on love. It’s very cosy. (Part 3 of 3) Featuring speeches from Hammuraber and existentialcrisesmemes. Follow them on instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/hammuraber/ https://www.instagram.com/existentialcrisesmemes/ Support the podcast at: https://patreon.com/metaspinoza

Some friends and I gather around for a symposium on love. It’s very cosy. (Part 2 of 3) Support the podcast on Patreon at: www.patreon.com/metaspinoza Discord: discord.gg/9HWEkZ8 Follow me on Instagram at: www.instagram.com/metaspinoza/

Some friends and I gather around for a symposium on love. It’s very cosy. (Part 1 of 3) Support the podcast on Patreon at: www.patreon.com/metaspinoza Discord: discord.gg/9HWEkZ8 Follow me on Instagram at: www.instagram.com/metaspinoza/

Some friends and I gather around for a symposium on love. It’s very cosy. (Part 1 of 3) Support the podcast on Patreon at: www.patreon.com/metaspinoza Discord: discord.gg/9HWEkZ8 Follow me on Instagram at: www.instagram.com/metaspinoza/

Concluding my series on my favourite works of philosophical pessimism with an episode on Susan Sontag's "Regarding the Pain of Others." CW for torture, police brutality. Support the podcast on Patreon at: www.patreon.com/metaspinoza Discord: discord.gg/9HWEkZ8 Follow me on Instagram at: www.instagram.com/metaspinoza/

“Being alive is all right, or so most of us say. But when death walks through the door, nothing is all right." Continuing on with my favourite works of philosophical pessimism, this episode discusses and muses alongside Thomas Ligotti's work of philosophical horror, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race. Warning: it gets pretty bleak. Support the podcast on Patreon at: www.patreon.com/metaspinoza Follow me on Instagram at: www.instagram.com/metaspinoza/

For spooky season I'm covering a few of my favourite works of philosophical pessimism, starting with John Gray's Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals, a blistering attack on liberal humanism, the secular religion of the modern age. Support the podcast on Patreon at: www.patreon.com/metaspinoza You can follow me on Instagram at: www.instagram.com/metaspinoza/

A bedtime story about you, an orangutan named Hutan, and a paper which asks if conversation size is limited by the participants' ability to model each other's minds. Somnolence is all about presenting papers I've read and found interesting in a way that you'll find calming. Good for comprehension? Perhaps not. Good for relaxing? Hopefully! Support the podcast on Patreon at: www.patreon.com/metaspinoza You can follow me on Instagram at: www.instagram.com/metaspinoza/

In which (1) I remember I actually run a podcast, (2) delightful interlocutor rothkos.basilisk walks me through the basilisk itself and just what it is that makes it so spooky and so interesting. (Part two of two!) Support the podcast on Patreon at: www.patreon.com/metaspinoza You can follow rothkos.basilisk on Instagram at: www.instagram.com/rothkos.basilisk/ You can follow me on Instagram at: www.instagram.com/metaspinoza/ Featuring music from Kimiko Ishizaka's Open Goldberg Variations: opengoldbergvariations.org/ Ortus Journal: https://ortusjournal.org/

In which the convivial and clever rothkos.basilisk takes me on a speed tour through decision theory, Newcomb's Paradox, the Prisoner's Dilemma, and everything else we'll need to know before we're ready to discuss Roko's Basilisk properly. (Part one of two!) You can follow rothkos.basilisk on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/rothkos.basilisk/ You can follow me on Instagram at: www.instagram.com/metaspinoza/ Featuring music from Kimiko Ishizaka's Open Goldberg Variations: opengoldbergvariations.org/

In which fakebifoberardi and I continue our discussion of cybernetics and societies of control. If you've not already heard it, I recommend checking out the first part first! You can follow fakebifoberardi on Instagram at: www.instagram.com/fakebifoberardi/ You can follow me on Instagram at: www.instagram.com/metaspinoza/ AND you can find a free reading of Deleuze's paper on control societies on my Patreon if you'd like to familiarise yourself with it before you jump in here: www.patreon.com/posts/reading-on-of-40392902 Featuring music from Kimiko Ishizaka's Open Goldberg Variations: opengoldbergvariations.org/

In which I sit down with the charming fakebifoberardi to discuss Tiqqun, Deleuze, and Berardi's works with respect to cybernetics and societies of control. If that sounds like heady stuff, don't worry, he's a great explainer. (Part one of two!) You can follow fakebifoberardi on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/fakebifoberardi/ You can follow me on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/metaspinoza/ AND you can find a free reading of Deleuze's paper on control societies on my Patreon if you'd like to familiarise yourself with it before you jump in here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/reading-on-of-40392902 Featuring music from Kimiko Ishizaka's Open Goldberg Variations: opengoldbergvariations.org/

Eduard von Hartmann was a German philosopher who wrote a remarkable book called the Philosophy of the Unconscious, in which he argued that humanity's aim was to destroy all of existence by taking over the Unconscious Spirit that made up the universe and committing collective suicide. I know, right? Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/metaspinoza Substack: https://metaspinoza.substack.com/ Featuring music from Kimiko Ishizaka's Open Goldberg Variations: https://opengoldbergvariations.org/

In which I sit down with the lovely host of thatintimatefeeling for a chat about the creative process, pessimism, emotional vulnerability, sublimation, and much more. If you've not seen her stuff before, you can find it at https://www.instagram.com/thatintimatefeeling/ --- Music Credit: LAKEY INSPIRED Track Name: "Better Days" Music By: LAKEY INSPIRED @ https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired Official "LAKEY INSPIRED" YouTube Channel HERE - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOmy... License for commercial use: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported "Share Alike" (CC BY-SA 3.0) License. Full License HERE - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Music promoted by NCM https://goo.gl/fh3rEJ

In which Spinozism is given a couple new machine parts to play with. A transcript is available on my Wordpress here: https://metaspinoza.wordpress.com/2020/07/26/transcript-patching-the-ethics/