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Jim talks with recurring guest Zak Stein about the Consilience Project’s article “Technology is Not Values Neutral: Ending the Reign of Nihilistic Design“… Continue reading Currents 067: Zak Stein on Ending Nihilistic Design
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Jim continues his discussion with Matthew Pirkowski on ideas of emergence and how they can be applied to today’s meta-crisis… Continue reading Currents 066: Matthew Pirkowski on Emergence in Possibility Space
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Jim talks with Greg Thomas about American democracy & the problems created by racial essentialism & racialization… Continue reading EP 161 Greg Thomas on Untangling the Gordian Knot of Race
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Jim talks with Curtis Yarvin about his proposal to replace our current government with a monarchy, part of an ongoing exploration of problems with and alternatives to democracy… Continue reading EP 160 Curtis Yarvin on Monarchy in the U.S.A.
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Jim talks with Bobby Azarian about the ideas in his new book The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity, which Jim calls “the most Jim Rutt Show-ish book ever”… Continue reading EP 159 Bobby Azarian on the Romance of Reality
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Jim talks with Alexander Bard, continuing a series of encounters between GameB and the Dark Renaissance movement… Continue reading Currents 065: Alexander Bard on Protopian Narratology
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This is the first, experimental episode of Who Are You, a subseries of the Jim Rutt Show in which Jim has an unplanned conversation with a mystery guest nominated and elected by listeners… Continue reading Who Are You EP 01: Seth Jordan on Social Threefolding
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Jim talks with Michael Garfield and J.F. Martel about the intersection of AI and art… Continue reading Currents 064: Michael Garfield and J.F. Martel on Art x AI
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Jim talks to Remzi Bajrami about the ideas in his book Common Planet: A New Game of Life… Continue reading EP 158 Remzi Bajrami on Flow Currency
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Jim talks with Jessica Flack about nth-order effects of the war in Ukraine… Continue reading Currents 063: Jessica Flack on nth-Order Effects of the Russia-Ukraine War