BlogHide Resteemsmichaelgarfield (55)in dsound • 6 years agoFuture Fossils Podcast Episode 99 - Erik Davis on How to Navigate High WeirdnessThis week’s guest is Erik Davis – one of my great inspirations, someone who has influenced me and this podcast in immeasurable ways since I first encountered his amazing criticism, histories, and…michaelgarfield (55)in dsound • 6 years agoFuture Fossils #98 - Decentralization Panel at Arcosanti ft. Members of Holochain, NuMundo, & UnifyIt’s a deep and wide investigation of decentralized networks of many kinds this week, drawing on the insights and wisdoms of five very different panelists in a discussion held at the legendary…michaelgarfield (55)in dsound • 6 years ago0097 - Zak Stein on Love in a Time Between Worlds - A Metamodern MetaphysicsThis week’s guest is Dr. Zak Stein, an author and educator whom I met as fellow students of the work of philosopher Ken Wilber over ten years ago. Zak took the road of serious high academic…michaelgarfield (55)in dsound • 6 years agoFuture Fossils Podcast Episode 96 - Malena Grosz on Community-Led Party Culture vsThis week’s guest is the intriguing, talented, and amazingly well-organized Malena Grosz, who is currently traveling across the United States to interview party culture professionals for her…michaelgarfield (55)in dsound • 6 years ago0095 - Mark Nelson (Part 2) on The Legacy of Biosphere 2This week’s episode is the conclusion of a special two-part conversation with Dr. Mark Nelson, one of the eight “biospherians” who lived for two years inside the closed ecological network Biosphere…michaelgarfield (55)in dsound • 6 years agoFuture Fossils Podcast #94 - Mark Nelson on Ecotechnics & Living in Biosphere 2 (Part 1)This week’s episode is the first of a special two-part conversation with Dr. Mark Nelson, one of the eight “biospherians” who lived for two years inside the closed ecological network Biosphere 2 –…michaelgarfield (55)in dsound • 6 years agoFuture Fossils Podcast #93 - Virtuoso Guitarist Andreas Kapsalis on Travel, Life, and MusicThis week’s guest is one of my favorite living musicians, acoustic guitarist Andreas Kapsalis. We linked up at the magical experimental city of Arcosanti, Arizona last year during their Convergence…michaelgarfield (55)in dsound • 6 years agoFuture Fossils Podcast #92: The Pre- & Post-History of VR, Surveillance, & Swarm IntelligenceThis week’s a treat – not one, but FOUR amazing guests, in Future Fossils Podcast’s first live taping at EFF-Austin, 10 July 2017. Heather Barfield (Head of EFF-Austin Digital Arts Coalition and…michaelgarfield (55)in dsound • 6 years agoFuture Fossils Podcast #91 - An Oral History of The End of "Reality"This week’s episode is an experiment in science fiction storytelling – the author-read short story “An Oral History of The End of ‘Reality.’” Originally released to Patreon supporters (without the…michaelgarfield (55)in dsound • 6 years agoFuture Fossils Podcast #0090 - Kate Greene on Humanizing Science & Cooking on MarsThis week we chat with science writer (and former laser physicist) Kate Greene, whose writing explores everything from Big Data to boredom to brain scans, and whose fascinating and eclectic life is…michaelgarfield (55)in dsound • 6 years agoFuture Fossils #89 - Joanna Harcourt-Smith, José Soler, and Jacob Aman on Breakdowns & BreakthroughsThis week we have a roundtable discussion (which took place around an actual table in Santa Fe, New Mexico) with Joanna Harcourt-Smith, José Soler, and Jacob Aman, the hosts and producers of Future…michaelgarfield (55)in dsound • 6 years agoFuture Fossils Podcast #88 - Dennis McKenna on Psychedelics as Scientific InstrumentsThis week we’re blessed to chat with living legend, ethnobotanist Dennis McKenna – one of the most rigorous scientific intellects working with psychedelics in the modern era, responsible with his…michaelgarfield (55)in dsound • 6 years agoFuture Fossils Podcast #0087 - Onyx Ashanti (Part 2) on Open Source P2P ConcresenceThis week we continue the ecstatically futural mind-jazz duet with cyborg performance artist and body-machine interface master hacker Onyx Ashanti, exploring the frontiers of new meta-languages…michaelgarfield (55)in dsound • 6 years agoFuture Fossils Podcast #0086 - Onyx Ashanti on Surfing Exponential Change (Part 1)This week’s guest is the one-of-a-kind, ever-evolving Onyx Ashanti, a cyborg performance artist of world renown, who is as busy as anyone I know (in the words of Terence McKenna) “immanentizing the…michaelgarfield (55)in dsound • 6 years agoFuture Fossils Podcast Episode #85 - Charles Eisenstein on Living in the Space Between StoriesThis week’s guest is Charles Eisenstein, author of five books that challenge our inherited stories of civilization and progress – but move beyond critique and into an articulation of the new…michaelgarfield (55)in dsound • 6 years agoFuture Fossils Podcast #84 - Armin Ellis on Organizing Visionary ProjectsFormer NASA-JPL Mission Architect and founder of the Exploration Institute, Armin Ellis helps people think big and execute visionary projects for a living. He’s also now the Mission Architect for…michaelgarfield (55)in spirituality • 6 years ago"Wholeness Wants to Have Its Say" - Terry Patten on Future Fossils PodcastFrom Episode 74 of Future Fossils Podcast: Register for a personal live web event with Terry Patten on 8/1/2018: Join our Facebook Discussion Group for daily news and conversations:…michaelgarfield (55)in dsound • 6 years ago83 - Michael Strong on The Future of EducationOne third of American adolescents are on medication – half of that number, on psychoactive prescriptions. We have an educational system that not only can’t prepare young people for the rapidly…michaelgarfield (55)in dsound • 6 years agoFuture Fossils Podcast #82 - Lydia Violet on Community, Ecology, and Music as MedicineLydia Violet Harutoonian is a badass Armenian-American violinist and folktronica artist who has played with some of today’s juiciest crossover acts, including Rising Appalachia and The Polish…michaelgarfield (55)in dsound • 6 years agoFuture Fossils Podcast #81: Arthur Brock of Holochain on Rethinking CurrencyThis episode’s guest is Arthur Brock, currency design expert and lead visionary behind the Holochain project – which just might be the basis for the truly free, encrypted, peer-to-peer…