Podcasts about strange attractors

Michael Cohen has created comics such as Strange Attractors and Tangled River, and is credited with helping to create the first known comic book price guide. He's also co-host of the Unpacking Peanuts podcast, and his talk with Tim includes discussion of Charles Schultz's strip, including about the reason why Michael has no interest in … Continue reading #832 Michael Cohen: Comics price guides, “Peanuts”, and more

In this weeks episode of The Heroes Rewatch, Cory and Tom survive hellish torment and brain injury as they discuss season 4 episodes 6 & 7, Strange Attractors and Once Upon a Time in Texas. Blog Post

Ken Hollings is a writer and broadcaster based in London. He is the author of The Bright Labyrinth, Welcome To Mars, The Space Oracle and Destroy All Monsters. His work appears in a wide range of journals and publications, including The Wire, Sight and Sound, Strange Attractor, Frieze, Noon and Satori, and in numerous anthologies and collections, as well as in features and series for BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4 and Resonance 104.4FM. He teaches at The Royal College of Art and Central St Martins College of Art and Design. On this week's episode of Little Atoms, the first of 2025, he talks to Neil Denny about The Trash Project, a trilogy of books on trash culture structured around Dante's Divine Comedy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Gary Lachman ranges broadly and deeply through the esoteric mysteries. He rightly criticizes Jung for being too scientific around unus mundus (one world). Gary illuminates our ability to be precognitive through that everyday transition between waking and sleeping--hypnogogic-the guide from sleep. His information presents as auditory, other people use visuals. Practice monitoring your information flow as you fall asleep and as you wake up perhaps starting with waking up. Let your mind drift in this in between world and you are like to find creative urges to build on during the day. *This episode was originally uploaded to YouTube on October 6, 2024 * Gary Lachman is the author of many books on topics ranging from the evolution of consciousness to literary suicides, popular culture and the history of the occult. He has written a rock and roll memoir of the 1970s, biographies of Aleister Crowley, Rudolf Steiner, C. G. Jung, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Emanuel Swedenborg, P. D. Ouspensky, and Colin Wilson, histories of Hermeticism and the Western Inner Tradition, studies in existentialism and the philosophy of consciousness, and about the influence of esotericism on politics and society. He writes for several journals in the UK, US, and Europe, including Fortean Times, Quest, Strange Attractor, Fenris Wolf, and his work has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Times Educational Supplement, Guardian, Independent on Sunday, Sunday Times, Mojo, Gnosis and other publications. He lectures regularly in the UK, US, and Europe, and his work has been translated into a dozen languages. He has appeared in several film and television documentaries and on BBC Radio 3 and 4 and is on the adjunct faculty in Transformative Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Before becoming a full-time writer Lachman studied philosophy, managed a new age bookshop, taught English Literature, and was a Science Writer for UCLA. As Gary Valentine he was a founding member of the pop group Blondie and in 2006 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Lachman was born in New Jersey, but since 1996 has lived in London, UK. https://www.gary-lachman.com/ Bernard D. Beitman, MD has broken out of the restrictive bounds of conservative academic research to produce a blueprint for the practically-oriented new discipline of Coincidence Studies. He has served as chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology and then as chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has reached more than one million people through his Psychology Today blog, radio show, website, and two coincidence books, Connecting with Coincidence and Meaningful Coincidences. Yale and Stanford educated, He is the founder and president of The Coincidence Project. https://www.innertraditions.com/books/meaningful-coincidences to purchase Dr. Beitman's new book "Meaningful Coincidences". Visit https://www.coincider.com/ to learn more about Dr. Beitman's research #coincidence #serendipity #synchronicitiy

Kris tells a gross story at the beginning of this episode. Then there's a bunch of stuff that's not gross, like knife queens™, heart punchers, and the dangers of sneak reading. All of that is followed by recommendations, as always. Official Recommendations From Kris: In Bloom by Kat Jackson This week, Kris recommends In Bloom by Kat Jackson. It centers around two damaged people, burned by love, who discover that they may not have actually experienced love until now. This is a difficult book, with lots of hard emotions. Kris praises the writing, including Jackson's way with words and characterization, as well as the book's sense of humor. Run, don't walk, and get ready to feel something. From Tara: View from the Top by Rachel Lacey This week, Tara recommends View from the Top by Rachel Lacey. Tara has read five books by this author, and this smalltown romance is her favorite. She describes it as a "one-night stand to enemies (ish?) to friends to lovers" and it immediately went to her to-reread list.  Works/People Discussed Frozen Attitudes Melted Hearts Panel (The Lesbian Review) Sense8 (Netflix) Prison Break (Fox) Fear the Walking Dead (AMC) Wynonna Earp: Vengeance (2024) RuPaul's Drag Race Global All Stars (Paramount+) Race Chaser Podcast Just One Good Reason by Harrytoad (Devil Wears Prada fanfic) Strange Attractors by Ana K. Wrenn Informed Consent by Rachel Spangler Support & follow the show Buy us a Ko-fi Sign up for our newsletter on Substack Twitter: @queerlyrec Facebook: @QueerlyRecommended Instagram: @queerlyrecommended Blusky: @queerlyrec.bsky.social Get all our links on Linktr.ee

Fecha de Grabación: Viernes 13 de septiembre de 2024. Algunos temas comentados: Kid Eternity. Paul Jenkins y Peter Parker. Kite Man: Hell Yeah. Letter 44 de Charles Soule y Alberto Alburquerque. Cómics inspirados en la Biblia.Fallecieron James Earl Jones, John Cassaday y Karl Moline. ¿Sería buena idea llevar a Adam Strange al cine o la TV?¿Cuál ha sido el cómic más difícil de traducir para Alberto?¿Cuál ha sido el cómic más difícil de leer?¡...y mucho más! Comentario de cómics: The Flash: Strange Atractor, The Flash #800 y The Flash v.6 #1 a #6 por Si Spurrier, Mike Deodato Jr, Trish Mulvihill y Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, entre otros. (DC Comics). Epithaphs from the Abyss #1 y Cruel Universe #1, los cómics con los que Oni Press trae de regreso el nombre de EC Comics. Pueden escuchar el podcast en este reproductor: Descarga Directa MP3 (Botón derecho del mouse y "guardar enlace como"). Peso: 106.6 MB; Calidad: 128 Kbps. El episodio tiene una duración de 1:56:07 y la canción de cierre es "Gran Pecador" de Chico Trujillo. Además de en nuestras redes sociales (Twitter, Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram), también puedes interactuar con nosotros en nuestro servidor en Discord, donde una pequeña comunidad comparte recomendaciones, arte, ofertas, memes y más, y la conversación gira alrededor de muchos temas además de cómics. ¡Únete a nuestro servidor en Discord! También tenemos un Patreon. Ahí cada episodio se publica al menos 24 horas antes que en otros canales, y hay un especial mensual exclusivo para suscriptores de esa plataforma. Puedes convertirte en uno de nuestros patreoncinadores™ con aportes desde 1 dólar, que puede ser cada mes o por el tiempo que tú lo decidas, incluyendo aportaciones de una sola vez. También puedes encontrar nuestro podcast en los siguientes agregadores y servicios especializados: Comicverso en Spotify Comicverso en iVoox Comicverso en Apple Podcasts Comicverso en Google Podcasts Comicverso en Amazon Music Comicverso en Archive.org Comicverso en I Heart Radio Comicverso en Overcast.fm Comicverso en Pocket Casts Comicverso en RadioPublic Comicverso en CastBox.fm ¿Usas alguna app o servicio que no tiene disponible el podcast de Comicverso? En la parte alta de la barra lateral está el feed del podcast, el cual puedes agregar al servicio de tu preferencia si éste ofrece la opción. Nos interesa conocer tus críticas y opiniones para seguir mejorando. Si te gusta nuestro trabajo, por favor comparte el enlace a esta entrada o a nuestro perfil en el servicio de tu preferencia, cuéntale a tus amigos sobre el podcast, y recomiéndalo a quien creas que le pueda interesar. Deja tus comentarios o escríbenos directamente a comicverso@gmail.com

In this episode we welcome the esteemed David Toop to Hammersmith – on the UK's General Election day – to discuss his extraordinary new book about (and around) Dr. John's 1968 album Gris-Gris. First we revisit the short-lived but splendidly eclectic Collusion magazine our guest co-founded in 1981: we hear about its inception and mission, as manifest in groundbreaking pieces about rap, surf, salsa, exotica and "paranoid sex in '60s soul". We touch on key points along the journey of David's journalistic career before arriving at The Wire in the '90s. A 2012 Pitchfork piece about Wire icon Scott Walker leads us to David's audio interview for that article: two clips from the conversation prompt discussion of Walker's remarkable career from the Walker Brothers to his new album Bish Bosch. Finally we reach the debut album by Malcolm Rebennack, a.k.a. "Dr. John the Night Tripper", and learn of the long gestation of David's book during lockdown. David discusses the complex themes and issues explored in Two-Headed Doctor, including voodoo, racism, minstrelsy, New Orleans, unreliable mythography, and the unsung brilliance of the album's co-creator Harold Battiste. A gravelly clip from the late Charlie Gillett's 1971 audio interview with the Night Tripper himself provides a capsule backstory to the album's germination.  Mark talks us out with quotes from newly-added library pieces about Stan Getz (1973), Fred Wesley (1974), Primal Scream (1997) and Robbie Williams (1999). Many thanks to special guest David Toop. Listening for Ghosts in Dr John's Gris-Gris will be published on August 20th by Strange Attractor. Pieces discussed: ¿Te Gusta La Musica Latina?, Alone in the Dark: Björk on Vespertine, Incredibly Strange and Highly Exotic, Scott Walker audio, Mystic vapour: 'Jump Sturdy' (book excerpt), Dr. John: Shadowy Singer Rises From Bayou, Dr. John In Babylon, Dr. John audio, Harold Battiste, Stan Getz, Fred Wesley, Primal Scream and Robbie Williams.

Holy smokes, Mark Pilkington is my guest this week! Like many folks interested in UFOs, his wildly important book Mirage Men was a paradigm shifter for me,  so this was a biggie for the Hi, Strangeness Pod. Obviously, we discuss Mirage Men (how could you not?), but we also get into his incredible publishing company Strange Attractor, his music, Strange Attractor Press's Austin Osmond Spare Tarot Deck, and other assorted angular goodness. I can't recommend visiting the Strange Attractor Press's website enough to peruse all the wonderful offerings. Oh, and one more thing..please do check his music (links below). I love it so much!  I hope you all enjoy this interview as much as I did! Love, SteveFor more of Mark's work:https://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/teleplasmiste.bandcamp.comhttps://teleplasmistehom.bandcamp.com/album/to-kiss-earth-goodbyehttps://urthona.bandcamp.com/album/afonhttps://twitter.com/markopilkington

Check out Dragonsteel's recent BackerKit campaign for the Words of Radiance leather bound here: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/dragonsteel/words-of-radiance-leatherbound?ref=HTBOn this week of Intentionally Blank, Brandon Sanderson and Dan Wells discuss what the remakes and sequels of films are doing for the market and storytelling. Along with that, they debate on what Oscar's best picture movies would be amazing if they got "muppetized," trading lunch meat for drugs, and having Snoop Dog as the Aladdin Genie!Muppet Movie Article: https://hard-drive.net/hd/entertainment/every-best-picture-winner-ranked-by-how-good-a-muppets-version-would-be/Want to send me something to open?Dragonsteel EntertainmentATTN: AdamP.O Box 698American Fork, UT 84003Stay up to date by following my newsletter: https://www.brandonsanderson.com/tag/newsletter/#footerInterested in signed books and swag? Check here: https://www.dragonsteelbooks.com/You can also follow me on:Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@authorbrandonsandersonFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/BrandSandersonTwitter: https://twitter.com/BrandSandersonInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/brandsanderson/?hl=enTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/mistbornbrandonFrequently asked questions: https://faq.brandonsanderson.com/(0:00) - Best Picture Muppet Versions(10:09) - Food Heist(11:55) - Sequels and Remakes(12:50) - Stage Performance "Remakes"(16:25) - Strange Attractor(21:30) - Disney Remakes(28:04) - Why did Top Gun Maverick work?(29:16) - "Out with the old, in with the new."

Dr. Amy Hale is an Atlanta-based writer, curator, critic, ethnographer, and folklorist, who focuses on esoteric history, magic, art, culture, women, and Cornwall. She has written widely on the surrealist and occultist Ithell Colquhoun, and in 2009 she received a grant from the Paul Mellon Foundation for her research. Her biography of Colquhoun, Ithell Colquhoun: Genius of the Fern Loved Gully (2020) is widely praised, and is just one of many ways that Amy has helped amplify Ithell's impact on art and magic. Her newest book, Sex Magic: Diagrams of Love, Ithell Colquhoun is out this week from Tate Publishing, and A Walking Flame: Selected Magical Essays of Ithell Colquhoun is coming out from Strange Attractor later this year.Amy is also the editor of numerous other collections including the groundbreaking Essays on Women in Western Esotericism: Beyond Seeresses and Sea Priestesses. And she has contributed essays for Tate, Burlington Contemporary, The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, and many more. And if that wasn't enough, Amy is currently a curator and host for the internationally beloved London-based Viktor Wynd's Last Tuesday Society lecture series. She has been featured on BBC Radio Cornwall and the BBC World Service, and is a regular guest on a variety of podcasts, lecture series, and conferences including the Occult Humanities Conference at NYU. On this episode, Amy discusses the visionary art and sex magic of Ithell Colquhoun, the power of alternative depictions of divine union, and the energetic connections between color, body, and the land.Pam also talks about radical reimaginings of the lovers archetype, and answers a listener question about keeping a long-term love flame lit.Our sponsors for this episode are Ritual+Shelter, Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, The Love Witch, BetterHelp, Woodland Magic, and Sphere + SundryWe also have brand new print-on-demand merch like Witch Wave shirts, sweatshirts, totes, stickers, and mugs available now here.And if you want more Witch Wave, please consider supporting us on Patreon to get access to bonus Witch Wave Plus episodes, Pam's monthly online rituals, and more! That's patreon.com/witchwave

"Coal Toungue" by Smote from Launch300; "Bubblegun" by Frunk29 from Sequentia; "Strangefruit" by Erwan Sene from JunQ; "The Strange Attractor" by Silent Servant from Negative Facination; "A Yellow Robe (The Soft Pink Truth Dawn Mix)" by Sam Prekop and John McEntire from the A Yellow Robe Remixes EP; "Its me (g8)" by Actress from LXXXIII; "Emergi" by Fanscesco Gennari from Frammenti; "NADA" by The Soft Moon from Exister; "Club Exterieur" by DJ Voilaa from Aimless Summer; "Turn" by Pmxper from the self titled album; "Interfaith Medical" by Rachika Nayar from Fragments Expanded; "Lucrezia" by Donato Dozzy from Magda.

*In this, the second of a two parter, we hear more of the crazy countercultural life and times of The Incredible String Band  - from the inside looking out  - with Rose Simpson   *Rose was one quarter of the band during what many regard as their creative and countercultural peak in the late 60s and early 70s.   •Her memoir 'Muse, Odalisque, Handmaiden' is an incredible story, relating how she rocketed (as a student without any particular interest in music or the counterculture), via an accidental meeting in a Scottish mountain cottage, to photoshoots in American Vogue and playing at Woodstock - and then came all the way back again.   *It's a fascinating tale, not just because the ISB were fascinating in themselves, but because it is beautifully told with a wealth of detail about a time that is usually dominated by mens' voices.   •She had many psychedelic adventures along the way, narrowly escaped getting involved in Scientology and then - and then left it all behind.   *And she knows where the sitars are buried...   *We dived into drugs, communal life, the ups and downs of free love, the catastrophe of the cult, making it up as you go along, the mysterious life and disappearance of Rose's bandmate Licorice, going full on and far out.   *Rose's memoir 'Muse, Odalisque, Handmaiden' (published by Strange Attractor)    *Adrian Whittaker's compilation book Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending    *Thanks to Peter Neal for the audio clips from his film Be Glad for the Song has No Ending       #tripping #psychedelics #london #consciousness #scotland #scottishcounterculture #counterculture #drug  #lsd #music  #joeboyd #1960s #scientology #rosesimpson #incrediblestringband #begladforthesonghasnoending #woodstock #stephenduffy #hippie  

This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we're looking at some cool books that came out in 2023. Perhaps in a novel twist on frequency bias, Stu noticed a bunch of books hitting shelves that, like steak and red wine, seem to pair well with his own Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground in a variety of ways. So here we are, chatting about Adam Rowe's Worlds Beyond Time, Astral Eyes' Spell Bound, Aaron A. Reed's 50 Years of Text Games, the two-volume Talking Miniatures from Shaggy Dog Publishing and the truly astounding Arik Roper retrospective, Vision of the Hawk. Call it a holiday gift guide - if you like our work, we bet you'll like theirs! * * * Worlds Beyond Time is available via Barnes & Noble (and Amazon, but ugh). Your best bet for getting Spell Bound is to follow Bibliomancers on Instagram - they regularly post stock and shop links in their stories. The offset printed edition of 50 Years of Text Games is sold out, but you can still get print-on-demand editions. The best bet for Talking Miniatures, in the US at least, is probably Amazon (sign). In the US, you can get Vision of the Hawk through MIT Press. In the UK, buy direct from Strange Attractor. * * * Stu's book, Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground is for sale now! Buy it! Patreon? Discord? Cool RPG things to buy? All the Vintage RPG links you need are right here in one place! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Vintage RPG Podcast!

“O cinematógrafo é uma escrita com imagens em movimento e sons.” (Robert Bresson) Mantendo-se fiel a Bresson, inauguramos nossa coluna sobre cinema e produções audiovisuais, VULTOS & SOMBRAS. Uma homenagem aos movimentos indistintos e fantasmagóricos que surgem no canto de nossos olhos e que nos oferecem, mediante rituais adequados, nossa cota de maravilhamento com a narrativa audiovisual. Episódio de hoje: Somos todos mecanismos aniquilados (“The Stone Tape”, de Nigel Kneale) O filme “The Stone Tape” está disponível no Youtube, sem legendas, e em DVD pela BBC. O livro “The Twilight Language of Nigel Kneale”, resultado de um colóquio, realizado em 2012 como parte do evento “A Cathode Ray Séance: The Haunted Worlds of Nigel Kneale”, foi distribuído pela Strange Attractor mas está esgotado, sendo bem raras as cópias remanescentes. Apoie nossa nova campanha, CREPÚSCULO DA HUMANIDADE: https://www.catarse.me/crepusculo_da_humanidade Entre para a nossa sociedade, dedicada à bibliofilia/cinematografia maldita e ao culto de tenebrosos grimórios/projeções: o RES FICTA (solicitações via http://raphuspress.weebly.com/contact.html). Nosso podcast também está disponível nas seguintes plataformas: - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4NUiqPPTMdnezdKmvWDXHs - Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-da-raphus-press/id1488391151?uo=4 - Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8xMDlmZmVjNC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw%3D%3D Apoie o canal: https://apoia.se/podcastdaraphus. Ou adquira nossos livros em nosso site: http://raphuspress.weebly.com. Dúvidas sobre envio, formas de pagamento, etc.: http://raphuspress.weebly.com/contact.html.

Bringing in chapter 1, The Myth of Economics, from the book, 33 Myths of the System by Darren Allen, I also read the poetry of Maura O' Connor, Gravity and Testimony. And we wrap things up with an original song, Strange Attractors. Thank you so very much for stopping by! Peace, Love and Rock & Roll, Stone --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stonepetoskey/message

This episode is in memoriam to my father, Thomas Edward Sisson, who passed from the finite game into the Infinite Game on September 12, 2023. Michael & I discuss mentors, living & dying, strange attractors & a beautiful life. Godspeed, Dad, godspeed.  

Join us for an insightful discussion with esteemed anthropologist Dr. Amy Hale, focusing on the historical usage and evolution of the term 'Celtic' and its intertwining with alternative spiritualities since the 17th century. In this video, Dr. Hale dissects the layers of 'Celtic', tracing its journey from a linguistic and ethnic identifier to a symbol often adopted within various spiritual paths. She explores how and why this ancient term has become a pivotal part of many alternative spiritual movements, particularly from the 17th century onwards. Through this academic lens, viewers will understand the historical shifts in the interpretation of 'Celtic' and its impact on contemporary spiritual and cultural landscapes. Dr. Hale's nuanced discussion emphasizes the importance of contextual understanding when engaging with this complex term. Ideal for scholars, students, and those interested in the intersections of history, culture, and spirituality, this video invites viewers to rethink their perceptions of 'Celtic' and its implications within alternative spiritual practices. CONNECT & SUPPORT

Ana K. Wrenn joins me to talk about her 2022 debut, Strange Attractors, what she's working on now, having Lee Winter edit her first book, the transition from academia to full time writing, living in Appalachia, the experience she had at her first GCLS, and much more! To learn more about Ana visit, Ana K. Wrenn (anakwrenn.com)To purchase her book visit, You searched for ana k wrenn - Ylva Publishing (ylva-publishing.com)To show your support for this podcast, visit sapphiclaura is Bringing you fun chats with the best authors in sapphic fiction. (buymeacoffee.com)Support the show

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WATCH: https://youtu.be/wHORa9hwScU Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is a novelist, public intellectual and Professor of Philosophy. She has written ten books, both fiction and non-fiction. She graduated summa cum laude from Barnard College, receiving the Montague Prize for Excellence in Philosophy, and immediately went on to graduate work at Princeton University, receiving her Ph.D. in philosophy. She has taught at Columbia and Rutgers. She has been a visiting scholar at Brandeis University, a visiting professor in the Department of Philosophy at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, a Visiting Professor of Philosophy and English at NYU, as well as Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the New College of the Humanities, London, England. She has been the recipient of many awards, including the 2014 National Humanities Medal given by President Barack Obama, the 2011 Humanist of the Year from the American Humanist Association, the Koret Jewish Book Award in Jewish Thought for her book Betraying Spinoza, the National Jewish Book Award for Strange Attractors, and the National Jewish Book Award and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Mazel. Goldstein has been named a Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, a Guggenheim Fellow, a MacArthur Fellow, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has also been awarded Whiting Foundation Fellowship. CONNECT: - Website: https://tevinnaidu.com - Instagram: https://instagram.com/drtevinnaidu - Facebook: https://facebook.com/drtevinnaidu - Twitter: https://twitter.com/drtevinnaidu - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/drtevinnaidu TIMESTAMPS: (0:00) - Introduction (0:45) - The Mind-Body Problem & the Matter with Matter (9:54) - Consciousness (13:45) - Descartes & Spinoza (18:37) - Materialism (21:56) - Minds & behaviour in other species (29:24) - NCCs, Artificial Intelligence & Teleology (34:25) - The awe inspiring story of what makes us human (39:23) - Theories of consciousness (46:03) - Free Will & Agency (50:42) - Morality (54:48) - Spirituality, Religion & Longing to Matter (1:00:48) - Secular Humanism (1:05:07) - Rebecca & Steven Pinker's amazing story together (1:07:10) - Conclusion Website · YouTube

WATCH: https://youtu.be/wHORa9hwScU Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is a novelist, public intellectual and Professor of Philosophy. She has written ten books, both fiction and non-fiction. She graduated summa cum laude from Barnard College, receiving the Montague Prize for Excellence in Philosophy, and immediately went on to graduate work at Princeton University, receiving her Ph.D. in philosophy. She has taught at Columbia and Rutgers. She has been a visiting scholar at Brandeis University, a visiting professor in the Department of Philosophy at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, a Visiting Professor of Philosophy and English at NYU, as well as Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the New College of the Humanities, London, England. She has been the recipient of many awards, including the 2014 National Humanities Medal given by President Barack Obama, the 2011 Humanist of the Year from the American Humanist Association, the Koret Jewish Book Award in Jewish Thought for her book Betraying Spinoza, the National Jewish Book Award for Strange Attractors, and the National Jewish Book Award and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Mazel. Goldstein has been named a Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, a Guggenheim Fellow, a MacArthur Fellow, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has also been awarded Whiting Foundation Fellowship. CONNECT: - Website: https://tevinnaidu.com - Instagram: https://instagram.com/drtevinnaidu - Facebook: https://facebook.com/drtevinnaidu - Twitter: https://twitter.com/drtevinnaidu - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/drtevinnaidu TIMESTAMPS: (0:00) - Introduction (0:45) - The Mind-Body Problem & the Matter with Matter (9:54) - Consciousness (13:45) - Descartes & Spinoza (18:37) - Materialism (21:56) - Minds & behaviour in other species (29:24) - NCCs, Artificial Intelligence & Teleology (34:25) - The awe inspiring story of what makes us human (39:23) - Theories of consciousness (46:03) - Free Will & Agency (50:42) - Morality (54:48) - Spirituality, Religion & Longing to Matter (1:00:48) - Secular Humanism (1:05:07) - Rebecca & Steven Pinker's amazing story together (1:07:10) - Conclusion Website · YouTube · YouTube

We explore the strange attractor of the off message of "post consumer branding" and how its attraction lies in the way it reveals our being sold is the way we cannot see the consequences of the totalising claim made on time when given as economic good.  

In August, 2022, JF and Phil flew to the UK to attend the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) at the University of St. Andrews and the Supernormal Festival in Oxfordshire. In addition to recording two live shows (to be released in the coming weeks), they encountered billiant minds, novel ideas, and arresting works of art that opened new avenues for thought. It's these encounters that anchor this conversation, which branches off to touch ideas such as the elusive ideal of intersciplinarity, Hakim Bey's temporary autonomous zone, the legacy of the 20th-century counterculture, the fate of revolutionary movements, non--human intelligences, and the weirdness of human thought. Header Image by RomitaGirl67 via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vintage_Malibu_Barbie_2.jpg#mw-jump-to-license). Listen to volume 1 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-1) and volume 2 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-2) of the Weird Studies soundtrack by Pierre-Yves Martel (https://www.pymartel.com) Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies) Find us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/Jw22CHfGwp) Get the new T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau (https://cottonbureau.com/products/can-o-content#/13435958/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s)! Get your Weird Studies merchandise (https://www.redbubble.com/people/Weird-Studies/shop?asc=u) (t-shirts, coffee mugs, etc.) Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/weirdstudies) References Dial M for Musicology, Interdisciplinarity (https://dialmformusicology.wordpress.com/2015/06/28/disciplinarity/) Hakim Bey, The Temporary Autonomous Zone (https://bookshop.org/books/t-a-z-the-temporary-autonomous-zone-ontological-anarchy-poetic-terrorism/9781570271519) Entitled Opinions Podcast (https://entitledopinions.stanford.edu/episodes) William Gibson, Foreword to Samuel Delaney's Dhalgren (https://bookshop.org/books/dhalgren/9780375706684) DISI Podcast, Many Minds (https://disi.org/manyminds/) John Krakauer (https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/john-krakauer), professor of nuerology and neuroscience Hunter S. Thompson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson), American journalist The Great Ape Dictionary (https://greatapedictionary.ac.uk/), specific database used by Cat Hobaiter (https://zenodo.org/record/5600472#.Yxe3NOzMK_L)

The American writer and thinker Victoria Nelson is justly revered by afficionados of the Weird for The Secret Life of Puppets and its follow-up Gothicka. Both are masterful explorations the supernatural as it subsists in the "sub-Zeitgeist" of the modern secular West. In 2021, Strange Attractor Press released Neighbor George, Nelson's first novel. In this episode, JF and Phil discuss this gothic anti-romance with a mind to seeing how it contributes to Nelson's overall project of acquainting us with the eldritch undercurrents of contemporary life. Click here (https://www.supernormalfestival.co.uk) for more information on the Supernormal Festival, Aug 12-14, in Oxfordshire, England. Listen to volume 1 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-1) and volume 2 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-2) of the Weird Studies soundtrack by Pierre-Yves Martel (https://www.pymartel.com) Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies) Find us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/Jw22CHfGwp) Get the new T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau (https://cottonbureau.com/products/can-o-content#/13435958/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s)! Get your Weird Studies merchandise (https://www.redbubble.com/people/Weird-Studies/shop?asc=u) (t-shirts, coffee mugs, etc.) Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/weirdstudies) References Victoria Nelson, Neighbor George (http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/neighbor-george/#:~:text=Set%20in%20a%20haunted%20northern,comic%20companion%20tale%2C%20Bolinas%20Venus%2C) Victoria Nelson, The Secret Life of Puppets (https://bookshop.org/books/the-secret-life-of-puppets/9780674012448) Victoria Nelson, Gothicka (https://victorianelson.net/gothicka-vampire-heroes-human-gods-and-the-new-supernatural/) Wendy Lesser (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Lesser), American critic Ward Sutton Onion cartoons (https://www.theonion.com/queasy-on-the-eyes-1849035193) Extension (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extension_(metaphysics)), metaphysical concept Terry Castle, The Female Thermometer (https://bookshop.org/books/the-female-thermometer-eighteenth-century-culture-and-the-invention-of-the-uncanny/9780195080988) Cessation of Miracles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessationism_versus_continuationism), theological belief E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande (https://bookshop.org/books/witchcraft-oracles-and-magic-among-the-azande-9780198740292/9780198740292) Greg Anderson, “Retrieving the Lost Worlds of the Past: A Case for the Ontological Turn” (https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article/120/3/787/19855?login=true) Orcus Grotto (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardens_of_Bomarzo), sculpture Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman (https://bookshop.org/books/the-edible-woman/9780385491068) Nathalie Cooke, [Margaret Atwood: A Biography](https://www.google.com/books/edition/MargaretAtwood/zUBaAAAAMAAJ?hl=en)_ Weird Studies, Episode 96 on Beauty and the Beast (https://www.weirdstudies.com/96) M. C. Richards, “Wrestling with the Daemonic” (https://bookshop.org/books/the-crossing-point-poems/9780819560292)

This week we're discussing every album by Mercury Rev. Led by Jonathan Donahue and Grasshopper (with huge contributions by Dave Fridmann), Mercury Rev left their mark on indie rock with their 1998 album, Deserter's Songs. But they have so many other albums that are either insanely underrated or overlooked completely. Their friendship with the Flaming Lips explains the stylistic similarities between the two, but their songwriting stands on its own.Closing track: “Sudden Ray of Hope” from See You on the Other Side (1995)Spotify playlist on Mercury Revhttps://open.spotify.com/user/motherpuncherincPatreonhttps://www.patreon.com/everyalbumeverMerchhttps://pandermonkey.creator-spring.com/Instagram:Mike @pandermonkeyAlex @motherpuncherTom Osman's stuff:Debut album on Bandcamp, Spotify, AppleSubstackInstagramTwitterFacebookMike's Picks:See You on the Other Side (1995) — Best Album, Personal FavoriteInner Autumn Outer Space (2013) — Worst AlbumThe Light in You (2015) — Least FavoriteAlex's Picks:All Is Dream (2001) — Best AlbumSee You on the Other Side (1995) — Personal FavoriteInner Autumn Outer Space (2013) — Worst Album, Least FavoriteAlbums we discussed this episode..Yerself Is Steam (1991)Boces (1993)See You on the Other Side (1995)Deserter's Songs (1998)All Is Dream (2001)The Secret Migration (2005)Snowflake Midnight (2008)Strange Attractor (2008)Inner Autumn Outer Space (2013)The Light in You (2015)Bobbie Gentry's The Delta Sweete Revisited (2019)

It's normal and healthy for us to try to process our experiences emotionally, but sometimes during that process we find ourselves getting stuck on the same painful memory, anxiety, or disturbing thought. This frustrating experience, known as rumination, is a common psychological challenge that is both discouraging and unhelpful.On this episode of Being Well, Dr. Rick and Forrest Hanson spell out what rumination is, where it comes from, and how it functions in the brain. They then explore what practices and strategies we can use to identify rumination when it comes up, and move through an obsessive thought compassionately and effectively.Watch the Episode: Prefer watching video? You can watch this episode on YouTube.Key Topics:0:00: Introduction2:25: How do we define rumination?7:45: What do we get out of rumination?13:30: Distinguishing rumination from grieving16:30: Where rumination comes from in people18:40: The default mode network22:30: Ways to disengage the default mode network 25:50: Strange attractors, Krishna, and the Gopis30:35: Thought acceptance and noting33:15: Recurring themes of your rumination37:10: Novelty38:45: Self-constructing invites rumination, self-acceptance undermines it47:05: A quick walkthrough for dealing with a negative thought53:00: RecapSupport the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link.Have a question for us? Email: contact@beingwellpodcast.com to submit questions or potential topics you'd like us to explore in future episodes.Sponsors:Make Woven Earth a part of your nightly routine, and use code BEINGWELL20 for 20% off your purchase of Single Products.Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world's largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month!Want to sleep better? Try the Calm app! Visit calm.com/beingwell for 40% off a premium subscription.Try Splendid Spoon today and take meal-planning off your plate. Just go to SplendidSpoon.com/BEINGWELL for $50 off your first box.Connect with the show:Subscribe on iTunesFollow Forrest on YouTubeFollow us on InstagramFollow Forrest on InstagramFollow Rick on FacebookFollow Forrest on FacebookVisit Forrest's website

What are the differences between crisis and chaos? Is a sudden bifurcation better than a gradual bifurcation? How might a "strange attractor" contribute to the sometimes long duration, and difficult-to-recognize, patterns in chaos? Doc will discuss these questions and read an excerpt pertaining to them from his book 'The Velocity of Information: Human Thinking During Chaotic Times.' WHAT IS CRISIS? The following excerpts are from pages 139-140 of the book The Velocity of Information: Human Thinking During Chaotic Times. “Crisis implies a decisive point in a dangerous situation with anticipation of an abrupt change to the condition, for better or for worse. [A] crisis is often of short duration and will have an identifiable turning point(s). It tends to scale in a predictable manner. People believe their own actions might resolve a crisis. This is a key distinction between crisis and chaos. While people believe that they can negotiate to resolve a crisis, the mindset when faced with chaos is to survive, or “wait-out” the condition. HARD OR SOFT BIFURCATIONS. A crisis may be characterized by a bifurcation, which is a parameter-dependent change in dynamical behavior. A useful distinction exists between hard (abrupt) and soft (gradual) bifurcations. Hard bifurcation: the ice on a lake slowly warms (temperature is the bifurcation parameter) and suddenly breaks, dropping you into the cold lake. Soft bifurcation: an ice cube (temperature is again the bifurcation parameter) once at a temperature greater than or equal to 32 degrees slowly melts into a glass of Scotch. A soft bifurcation is clearly preferable, particularly because its impacts are dispersed over time. STRANGE ATTRACTORS (Has Nothing To Do With Gravity). As mathematically defined, a crisis occurs with the appearance of a strange attractor. The word “attractor” has nothing to do with gravitation. As in dynamic systems, attractors provide a way to describe the asymptotic behavior of typical orbits. Operationally, this means that there is a dramatic change in the dynamical behavior of the system. The present disconnects from the past and the past behavior has little or no predictive value as the system navigates its way through a profoundly altered landscape. An undetected, racing comet with a 20,000 year orbit could be a strange attractor that alters life on earth. HYPERINFLATION AS A STRANGE ATTRACTOR. In a fiat money economy, sudden-onset hyperinflation might be characterized as a strange attractor resulting in extraordinary behaviors in the country's monetary system. For example, during the 1923 hyperinflation crisis of the Weimar Republic, “workers were often paid twice per day because prices rose so fast their wages were virtually worthless by lunchtime (1).” In addition, “[f]armers refused to take any form of paper money for their crops. The harvest of 1923 sat in farmers' warehouses while supermarkets in the cities were empty. Starvation and civil unrest loomed (2).” WHAT IS CHAOS? “Chaos is a state of disorder that is amorphous and without clear turning points. Chaos quickly or gradually settles into outcome basins or creates a new mean. Chaos describes a system that will develop in unpredictable ways and will not scale linearly. It exists on a continuum with degrees of absorption by systems. A state of chaos, due to a lack of, or impossibility of, a scripted response will usually, if not inevitably, spread. Chaos affects the global consciousness, even if only temporarily. The 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami near Japan was a chaos event that killed 15,899 people and caused the Fukushima nuclear energy plant disaster. CITATIONS: (1) BBC. “Bitesize The Weimar Republic 1918-1929: The Hyperinflation Crisis, 1923.” https://www .bbc .co .uk /bitesize /guides /z9y64j6 /revision /5.; (2) Forbes. “In Hyperinflation's Aftermath, How Germany Went Back to Gold.” Forbes .co m. June 9, 2011. https://www .forbes .com /2011 /06 /09 /germany -gold -standard.html ?sh =330426c35934. FOLLOW DR. PERRODIN: Twitter @SafetyPhD and subscribe to The Safety Doc YouTube channel & Apple Podcasts. SAFETY DOC WEBSITE, BLOG & BOOKS: www.safetyphd.com. The Safety Doc Podcast is hosted & produced by David P. Perrodin, PhD. This podcast and blog post represent the opinions of David P. Perrodin and his guests to the show. The content here is for informational purposes only. Please consult with your safety professional regarding the unique needs of yourself or your organization.This is episode 174 of The Safety Doc Podcast published on 03-08-2022. GET the book VELOCITY OF INFORMATION. Purchase the preeminent book of scholarship for an uncertain epoch from your favorite bookstore or online retailer and recommend it as a purchase for your local library! The Velocity of Information: Human Thinking During Chaotic Times (2022) by David P. Perrodin. Purchase Dr. Perrodin's Books: School of Errors – Rethinking School Safety in America. www.schooloferrors.com Velocity of Information - Human Thinking During Chaotic Times. www.velocityofinformation.com 

Buckminster Fuller once said, ”You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” If the current system is „Game A“, how do new organizational models for a "Game B“ world look like? What insights can we glean from experiments in the space of self-management? How would a truly integral, metamodern, holistic form of running a business look like? How can we make purpose the boss and decentralize power systematically? What role might the emergence of Web3 and Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) play to create better incentive structures and solve global coordination problems? How can new organizational and business models outcompete the legacy system? With Hosts Tom Amarque & Dennis Wittrock and guests: Jim Rutt He is the host of the “Jim Rutt Show” and the former CEO of Network Solutions. The New York Times once referred to him as “the Internet's bad boy” due to his reputation for creative mischief. He sold Network Solutions at the peak of the Dot Com boom and then went into scientific research. Jim has been affiliated with the Santa Fe Institute since 2002, serving as Chairman from 2009 thru 2012. In a conversation with Jordan Hall he coined the term “Game B” that now galvanizes a global movement of changemakers. Thomas Thomison A seasoned entrepreneur and business builder, Thomas Thomison is a recognized leader, developer, and practitioner of self-organizing systems and methods. In 2007, he co-founded HolacracyOne, LLC, to develop and mature Holacracy® into what is now the gold-standard replacement for conventional management hierarchies. In 2015 he launched encode.org to further embed self-organization practices in legal, capital, and social structures. In 2019, encode.org launched PowerShift Capital LLC to re-invent sourcing and deploying capital for purposeful, self-organized, and power-shifted endeavors. And in 2020, encode.org launched PowerShift People, LLC to create a global community of interdependent agents working in purposeful, self-organized, and power-shifted systems. Marco Robledo Marco Robledo is the author of the book "3D Management, an integral theory for organizations in the vanguard of evolution", and advises on how to build more conscious, humane, efficacious, and responsible forms of enterprise. He is a Professor of Business and Director of the Master of Business Administration (MBA) at the University of the Balearics (UIB). He defines himself as a change agent that helps organizations and individuals in their development towards higher consciousness. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/podcast-c709ee4/message

Pages 116 - 124 │Hades, part II│Read by Richard BarnettRichard Barnett is a historian and a poet. He taught at Cambridge, Oxford, UCL, and other leading institutions for more than a decade, and his essays have appeared in many places, from the Lancet and the London Review of Books to Strange Attractor and the Natural Death Handbook. His books include Medical London, a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, international bestseller The Sick Rose, and the widely-praised book-length poem Wherever We Are When We Come To The End. Buy Wherever We Are When We Come To The End: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/I/9781912436583/wherever-we-are-when-we-come-to-the-endrichardbarnettwriter.comFollow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/doctorbarnett*Looking for our author interview podcast? Listen here: https://podfollow.com/shakespeare-and-companySUBSCRIBE NOW FOR EARLY EPISODES AND BONUS FEATURESAll episodes of our Ulysses podcast are free and available to everyone. However, if you want to be the first to hear the recordings, by subscribing, you can now get early access to recordings of complete sections.Subscribe on Apple Podcasts here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/channel/shakespeare-and-company/id6442697026Subscribe on Spotify here: https://anchor.fm/sandcoSubscribe on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/sandcoIn addition a subscription gets you access to regular bonus episodes of our author interview podcast. All money raised goes to supporting “Friends of Shakespeare and Company” the bookshop's non-profit.*Discover more about Shakespeare and Company here: https://shakespeareandcompany.comBuy the Penguin Classics official partner edition of Ulysses here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/d/9780241552636/ulyssesFind out more about Hay Festival here: https://www.hayfestival.com/homeAdam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. Find out more about him here: https://www.adambiles.netBuy a signed copy of his novel FEEDING TIME here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/S/9781910296684/feeding-timeDr. Lex Paulson is Executive Director of the School of Collective Intelligence at Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique in Morocco.Original music & sound design by Alex Freiman.Hear more from Alex Freiman here: https://open.spotify.com/album/4gfkDcG32HYlXnBqI0xgQX?si=mf0Vw-kuRS-ai15aL9kLNA&dl_branch=1Follow Alex Freiman on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/alex.guitarfreiman/Featuring Flora Hibberd on vocals.Hear more of Flora Hibberd here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5EFG7rqfVfdyaXiRZbRkpSVisit Flora Hibberd's website: This is my website:florahibberd.com and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/florahibberd/ Music production by Adrien Chicot.Hear more from Adrien Chicot here: https://bbact.lnk.to/utco90/Follow Adrien Chicot on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/adrienchicot/Photo of Richard Barnett by Isabella Cuan See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Selase Botchway is an actor and director, known for The Lines Between, Strange Attractors and Queen of the South. #HowMenCry(HMC) is a campaign founded by Dxtr Spits focused on getting 1000 men to share stories about vulnerability & healing. We can no longer avoid having conversations about men's mental health. #HowMenCry is a movement aimed at changing the narrative around men's connection to their higher self, to begin healing, and end suffering in silence. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/howmencry/support

Screenwriter Stuart Wright talks with novelist, writer and editor CATHI UNSWORTH about 5 Great Films that influenced the writing of her novel BAD PENNY BLUESBAD PENNY BLUES is out now from Strange Attractor http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/bad-penny-blues/The 5 Great Films that influenced the writing of this novel are:BEAT GIRL (1960) (aka WILD FOR KICKS) POP GOES THE EASEL (Ken Russell's 1962 Monitor film for BBC2 about the Pop Artists)THE L-SHAPED ROOM (1962)SEANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON (1964)THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE (1966)For more about Cathi Unsworth see http://www.cathiunsworth.co.uk/You can buy me a cup of coffee & support this independent podcast that I host and produce at https://app.redcircle.com/shows/ae030598-6b83-4001-8a29-5e5dd592ed26/sponsort Rate, review and subscribe wherever you listen to your podcastsCreditsIntro/Outro music is Rocking The Stew by Tokyo Dragons (www.instagram.com/slomaxster/)Podcast for www.britflicks.com. Written, produced and hosted by Stuart WrightSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/britflicks-com-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

What up y'all! Welcome to another episode of Getting Stoned with your host Stone Petoskey, I am so grateful you stopped by! In this episode I riff on the usual suspects and sing an epic original song, Strange Attractors, which is the title song from my latest album. And I read a poem, Revolutionary Letters, by Diane di Prima. Thank you so much for giving a listen! Peace & Love, Stone --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/stonepetoskey/message

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Hello Interactors,I spent this week listening to my favorite Rolling Stones songs and fretting over whether democratic infighting in Washington would end our best, and perhaps only, hope of climate change legislation. I can’t get no satisfaction and my sympathy for the devil is wearing thin. I hate to be the beast of burden, but can somebody gimme shelter?As interactors, you’re special individuals self-selected to be a part of an evolutionary journey. You’re also members of an attentive community so I welcome your participation.Please leave your comments below or email me directly.Now let’s go…MAINTAINING ORDERThe drummer for the Rolling Stones, Charlie Watts, passed away this week at 80 years old. The Stones have been around longer than I have and Charlie was their only drummer. He was never the flamboyant type, seeking drum solos or surrounding himself with racks of drums to satisfy some insatiable percussive proclivity. He just sat there in his suit doing his job – keeping rhythm for a singer who dances like he has ants in his pants.Drummers never get the credit they deserve. They live in the shadows of vanity seeking vocalists and guitarists grasping for glamour. They’re always the brunt of sinister jokes about lacking the intelligence or talent to play a ‘real instrument’; so they’re stuck beating sticks on thin bouncy membranes stretched over cylindrical cannisters.But having played in bands with no drummer, I can tell you it’s no fun. It’s hard to find drummers, and even harder to keep them. I wonder if Mick and the boys knew how good they had it? Keeping a beat is no easy feat. A good bass player helps, and while we’re all drawn to a pleasantly sounding harmony, it’s the lowly drummer who sets tone. Without a steady beat, music quickly unravels into a chaotic cacophonic calamity. The world could use a drummer right about now. Nature, humans, society, and the climate have lost the beat. After decades of operating in regular 4/4 time, with occasional key changes or transitions to alternating rhythms, the universe has devolved into a seemingly extended random free-form improvisation. Pure chaos. How does this happen?Learning new songs with a band hints at how it unravels. Humming along and feeling good about yourself, out of no where some band member misses a chord or drifts off beat. Everyone starts glancing around at each other in search of the culprit as you sense it getting worse. As the piano player and band leader, I’d sometimes start to pound my keys a little harder — emphasizing the beat in the process. Kind of like speaking louder and with a DIS-TINCT CA-DENCE TO SOME-ONE WHO DOES NOT SPEAK YOUR LANG-UAGE in hopes they’ll suddenly clue in. But invariably another band mate would follow my lead and start playing louder to match my increasing volume. The next thing you know the drummer does too. It’s hard to play drums loud and slow, so the pace of the song quickens. Each change from one single individual results in corresponding feedback from other individuals in the group; that, in turn, induces more reactions from individuals – a dynamical system in a self-perpetuating feedback loop. Soon things evolve into a loud frenetic chaos. That’s when you understand how punk music was born. Eventually everyone realizes that while playing fast, loose, and loud is fun for awhile it’s also exhausting and futile. Especially when learning songs like the sanguine but melancholy jazz standard, My Funny Valentine. We managed to learn enough songs to be hired for a wedding once, but we’d joke that music critics probably would have slotted us somewhere between jazz, R&B, and comedy.Many classic jazz standards start out steadily predictable, but then cascade into chaotic frenzied solos that pass from one instrument to the other. I suspect even the subdued Charlie Watts took his turn soloing in his early days as a jazz drummer. Another standard of jazz standards is to collectively return to the steady state of the song’s uniform pattern played in unison — restoring order after the disturbance. Many jazz conventions are rooted in the 12-bar Blues. Blues is recognized as blues, and jazz as jazz, because there are strict underlying rules governing the controlled creative chaos of soundwaves emanating from instruments and vocal chords. The Rolling Stones knew as much. That’s why Mick Jagger described their work on the 1972 album, Exile on Main St., as "runaway outlaws using the blues as its weapon against the world.” That album took the world by storm and is the highest ranking Stones album on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. That’s one storm nobody could have predicted.THE STRANGE ATTRACTORThat same year, 1972, MIT mathematician and meteorologist, Edward Lorenz, published a paper on the challenges of predicting storms titled, Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly's Wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas? His paper was the first to describe chaos theory. And the premise of his paper’s title has been shortened to what we now call the Butterfly Effect. Poetically, a certain set of values in an equation that exhibits a concept central to chaos theory called a strange attractor yields a plot that resembles a butterfly.While studying mathematical models of weather systems, he discovered one small change in these dynamical systems could result in disproportionate and unforeseen effects. It was a major discovery. Chaos theory is believed by some to rank up there with the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics as three of the biggest scientific revolutions of the 20th century. His research showed prediction of dynamical systems is dependent on an initial condition. He posited the gentle small flap of a butterfly’s wings could be an initial condition that could lead to a massively destructive typhoon on the other side of the globe. That’s not to say weather systems actually work this way, but his point was no meteorologist can accurately predict the weather without first knowing the initial condition of the weather system. When our band would spiral into chaos, it was the result of some initial event; a band member playing too slowly or quickly, off melody, out of tune, or a myriad of other mitigating circumstances. It could have even been the locally brewed Hefeweizen we were drinking or the spicy green curry we sometimes ate before practice at the hole-in-the-wall Thai place down the street.Dynamical systems are complex systems that change over time and are fundamental to chaos theory;  weather systems are just one example. We are surrounded by dynamical systems. Our own bodies are dynamical. Ecosystems, societies, companies, local, state, provincial and national governments, continental regions, and global institutions all exhibit elements of dynamical systems. And like members of a band playing from the same sheet music, they don’t stand on their own in isolation, but instead are connected and bonded through mutual interactions. They influence each other and are in-turn influenced. But complex systems are also self-healing systems. If a single component is removed, the system can carry on. Just as many bands do when they lose a drummer. People who study complex dynamical systems, like Lorenz did, use mathematical models – equations that represent a simplified model of real phenomena – to simulate the behavior of these systems. One such model is called a logistic model. Not to be confused with military or freight logistics, this word was offered by the Belgian mathematician, Pierre François Verhulst in 1845. He presumably chose the word logistic to both contrast and relate it with the more well known term logarithmic which he used to describe a curve that today we’d call an exponential curve – a curve that shows a greater increase in growth over time. A logistic curve appears ‘log-like’ or ‘log-ish’ in its appearance because it starts out looking like an exponential curve but then flattens out over time. Some believe Verhulst merged log with istic the same way we merge simple with istic to form the word simplistic, hence the word logistic. But by now some of you are thinking, “Brad, nothing about this is simplistic and the growth of my confusion is growing exponentially over time. At what point does my confusion level out and become more logistic?” Not yet, I’m afraid.Logistic models can be used to simulate population growth, just as Verhulst was when he discovered it. Human populations around the world are growing exponentially and aren’t expected to level off until 2050 or 2060. Non-linear population growth is hard to fathom. The only compound growth we seem to relate to are our savings accounts. But with disappointingly low interest rates, even those are hard to imagine growing.There’s also the issue of carrying capacity in studying population growth. Limited space and resources impact growth rates. So do viral diseases like COVID-19 – a deadly nonlinear dynamical system that is so dumbfounding that even the most reasoned people refuse to take steps to stunt its growth. Epidemiologists, biologists, demographers, pathologists, economists, and climatologists all use mathematical models, and other elements of chaos theory and complexity science, to find patterns amidst what appears to be random disturbances within these dynamical systems. In the 1980s two scientists expanded on the work of Lorenz’s logistic model. Lord Robert May, a theoretical biologist, and Mitchell Feigenbaum, a theoretical physicist, discovered a way to map variables of the logistic model to create a simple equation that when iterated over time can predictably display chaos. It was a discovery that displaced Newton’s idea that the universe operates like clockwork in an infinitely predictable fashion. A universe that ends in chaos sounds scary. Learning that dynamical systems are mathematically proven to yield chaos makes good ole’ mother earth seem more like a tyrannical erratic witch. The work of the devil. But what May and Feigenbaum discovered, as did the French team of Pierre Collet and Charles Tresser a year later, is there is order to be found in the chaos. They were able to mathematically determine the rate at which predictable patterns of disruption reorganize until the next point of disturbance. The time between these self-healing disturbances become shorter over time leading to what is called ‘the edge of chaos’ — the strange attractor. After which, predictability vanishes into chaos. If I had a recording of our band spinning into chaos learning a new tune, I suspect I could probably predict when we were on the edge of chaos. But while we could all feel those moments of disturbance that returned to a steady state, and even the edge of chaos, there is no way we could have predicted them in the moment. Given the frequency of climate calamities, it sure feels like we’re approaching the edge of chaos, even if we can’t predict when.THE TIPPING POINTThe abrupt change that occurs after the edge of chaos can sometimes be called a tipping point. The Paris Agreement includes a series of legally binding pledges various countries have taken to avoid a climatic tipping point. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), refer to the tipping point like this:“An abrupt change is defined in this report as a change that takes place substantially faster than the rate of change in the recent history of the affected component of a system. In some cases, abrupt change occurs because the system state actually becomes unstable, such that the subsequent rate of change is independent of the forcing. We refer to this class of abrupt change as a tipping point, defined as a critical threshold beyond which a system reorganizes, often abruptly and/or irreversibly.”When you hear reports like this of researchers using models to predict the effects of climate change, many of them are using these same techniques. Building models that more accurately simulate the real world offers better predictions of how long we have between periods of self-stabilization on a potential path to chaos. The good news is improvements in large scale computing power enables nests of multi-variate differential equations to be calculated faster than ever. But some argue the divergence from the historical norm is often so great, that using the past to predict the future may be futile. This graph of the recent Tennessee flood shows the time it took to achieve record flood levels over the last 1000 years. These record rainfalls were measured over a two day period. This area of the state reached a ‘once in a thousand years’ flood of 13 inches in just eight hours. By the end of the second day of measuring, it had peaked at a new record high of 17 inches.We’re in a race between using mathematical models that leverage events of the past to understanding what’s happening to us now, and perhaps the future edge of chaos. But current events are nothing like we find in the past. This makes it all the more necessary and urgent to turn the Paris pledges into American action. Step one is to pass the budget reconciliation bill the Democrats were hashing out this week. It includes most of President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda, including the recent bipartisan infrastructure package out of the Senate. We may have lost Charlie Watts, but our elected officials have a chance to get the beat back. This package includes what is needed for us to meet our end of the Paris Agreement and hopefully return to some kind of climatic stability. If not, we face the edge of climatic chaos – the tipping point. Future generations will look back at this week and either credit us with being sinners or saints. I’m reminded of a Rolling Stones tune Mick Jagger and Keith Richards wrote off of the 1968 album, Beggars Banquet. It’s a song I sang with my buddies one summer nearly a decade after its release called Sympathy for the Devil. Mick sings in the first person as the devil; a metaphor for the historical devilish British behavior as he chronicles throughout the song. But, the mention of the Kennedy’s reveals the sentiment extends overseas to the Yanks as well. The first verse introduces the devil embodied as a stereotypical Christian colonial capitalist. The final verse exits with a vision of a hellish wasteland of chaos the devil is willing to inflict if we don’t do some serious reflecting, repenting, restraining, and repairing. We need to restore the natural earthly rhythms, or else. It goes like this:Please allow me to introduce myselfI'm a man of wealth and tasteI've been around for a long, long yearStole many a man's soul and faithI was 'round when Jesus ChristHad his moment of doubt and painMade damn sure that PilateWashed his hands and sealed his fateJust as every cop is a criminalAnd all the sinners saintsAs heads is tails, just call me Lucifer'Cause I'm in need of some restraintSo if you meet me, have some courtesyHave some sympathy, and some tasteUse all your well-learned politesseOr I'll lay your soul to waste Subscribe at interplace.io

FREq - Strange Attractor (Original Mix) Iboga Revival, Vol. 02 - Iboga Records http://musicshop.iboga.dk/store/view_release?release=1643 IBOGADIGITAL709 1. FREq - Strange Attractor (Original Mix) 2. Son Kite - Catch (Original mix) 3. Liquid Soul - Why (Original Mix) 4. Ace Ventura, Zen Mechanics - Mind=God (Original Mix) 5. Liquid Soul - The Source (Atmos Remix) 6. Ace Ventura - Serenity Now (Original Mix) 7. Perfect Stranger - No 1 (Original Mix) 8. Yotopia - Game On (Original mix) 9. Ace Ventura - Judo Chop (Original Mix) 10. Weekend Heroes - Sidewinder (Ticon Remix) 11. Atmos - One You Need (Original Mix) 12. Lish - Feel Good (Original mix) 13. Flowjob - Run Baby Run (Original mix) 14. Liquid Soul - Crazy People (Captain Hook & Domestic Remix) 15. Easy Riders - Rolling Stoned (Original Mix) 16. Perfect Stranger, Zen Mechanics - Desert Session (Original Mix) 17. Vibrasphere - Capsize (Sphera Remix) 18. Phaxe - Street Lights (Original mix) 19. Flowjob - 10000 Smiles Away (Original mix) 20. Behind Blue Eyes, Krusseldorf - Kisses from the Clouds (Phaxe Remix) 21. Human Element - Blue Elephant (Original mix) 22. Ticon, Weekend Heroes - Teleport (Original Mix) 23. Liquid Soul - Global Illumination (Martin Roth OMFG! Remix) 24. FREq - Return of the Masters (RPO Remix) 25. Ryan Hallifax - Love Song (Original Mix) 26. Peter Gun, Terzi - Acapulco (Original Mix) 27. Antix - Little Honey (Original Mix) 28. Tripswitch - Squeeze Theorem (Original Mix) We take a psychedelic trip down memory lane with the 2nd edition of the Iboga Revival compilation. Featuring some of the epic classics that have brought us so many moments of joy and dancefloor bliss, this close to 30 track compilation spans over a decade of truly impactful tunes, showing just how timeless the true gems are. Aran Gallagher 2004 Iboga Records Iboga Records Publishing

After listening to Alex Ebert's fantastic presentation ‘Dead Cool' at the Stoa we thought we would invite Alex, who like Alexander Bard, is a pop star turned philosopher for a discussion on ‘The Philosophy of Cool'. What is cool in the age of attentionalism? What is fake cool and what is real cool? How is cool related to Réne Girard's theories of mimetic desire. Originally part of the Sweeny vs Bard podcast, we thought it exemplified a lively round table and should be part of the Strange Attractor series. After all ‘cool' is a strange attractor and mysterious enough to merit a serious conversation. One of the coolest (in the sense of ‘most awesome') conversations so far. Part 2 coming soon. Alex Ebert is an erstwhile multiplatinum songwriter and Golden Globe-winning film composer now taking up philosophy in New Orleans. He is currently finishing his first book, Dead Cool, an analysis of sociodynamics and status anxiety in the age of Cool. Alexander Bard: Alexander Bard is a Swedish author, lecturer, artist, songwriter, music producer, TV personality, philosopher and political activist, and one of the founders of the Syntheist movement along with his co-author Jan Söderqvist. His books include “The Futurica Trilogy”, “Digital Libido” & “Syntheism”. Thomas Hamelryck is a Lecturer and Researcher at the Bioinformatics Centre at the University of Copenhagen Biocenter. His academic research interests revolve around Machine learning, Bayesian statistics, Protein Structure Prediction, Probabilistic Programming, Deep Learning. He is also an enthusiast of Réne Girard, and denies all rumours that he was once the keyboard player for Depeche Mode. Andrew Sweeny: Andrew Sweeny is a writer, editor, blogger, Youtuber, published poet, podcaster, musician, and teacher. He has worked as a touring musician and put out several albums, published a book of poetry, and animated two popular podcasts and a philosophical blog on Medium and now on Parallax. He Lectures at Sciences Po, in Paris, France. DONATE ON PAYPAL Patreon Parallax Facebook Medium Intro music: Beautiful Machines, by Andrew Sweeny --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/podcast-c709ee4/message

After listening to Alex Ebert's fantastic presentation ‘Dead Cool' at the Stoa we thought we would invite Alex, who like Alexander Bard, is a pop star turned philosopher for a discussion on ‘The Philosophy of Cool'. What is cool in the age of attentionalism? What is fake cool and what is real cool? How is cool related to Réne Girard's theories of mimetic desire. Originally part of the Sweeny vs Bard podcast, we thought it exemplified a lively round table and should be part of the Strange Attractor series. After all ‘cool' is a strange attractor and mysterious enough to merit a serious conversation. One of the coolest (in the sense of ‘most awesome') conversations so far. Part 2 coming soon. Alex Ebert is an erstwhile multiplatinum songwriter and Golden Globe-winning film composer now taking up philosophy in New Orleans. He is currently finishing his first book, Dead Cool, an analysis of sociodynamics and status anxiety in the age of Cool. Alexander Bard: Alexander Bard is a Swedish author, lecturer, artist, songwriter, music producer, TV personality, philosopher and political activist, and one of the founders of the Syntheist movement along with his co-author Jan Söderqvist. His books include “The Futurica Trilogy”, “Digital Libido” & “Syntheism”. Thomas Hamelryck is a Lecturer and Researcher at the Bioinformatics Centre at the University of Copenhagen Biocenter. His academic research interests revolve around Machine learning, Bayesian statistics, Protein Structure Prediction, Probabilistic Programming, Deep Learning. He is also an enthusiast of Réne Girard, and denies all rumours that he was once the keyboard player for Depeche Mode. Andrew Sweeny: Andrew Sweeny is a writer, editor, blogger, Youtuber, published poet, podcaster, musician, and teacher. He has worked as a touring musician and put out several albums, published a book of poetry, and animated two popular podcasts and a philosophical blog on Medium and now on Parallax. He Lectures at Sciences Po, in Paris, France. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/andrew-sweeny/message

WITH STEVE MCINTOSH, DANIEL GÖRTZ, JOHN BUNZL, MAX BORDERS AND THADDEUS RUSSELL Since the system of politics in its modern and postmodern iteration is obviously not fit to deal with the manifold problems (meta-crisis), how could a ‘post-postmodern' approach to politics look like? What new narrative is needed to legitimize a new (metamodern/post-postmodern/post-progressive) approach to politics? GUESTS Thaddeus Russell: American professor of history, author and creator of the renegade university Daniel Görtz: Swedish sociologist, 'meta-modern' philosopher and author of 'The Listening Society' and 'The Nordic Ideology' Steve McIntosh: American 'integral' philosopher and author of 'Developmental Politics' John Bunzl: British entrepreneur, economist and author of 'The SIMPOL Solution' Max Borders: author of 'The Social Singularity' and 'After Collapse'; he is also Executive Director at 'Social Evolution' and Co-founder of the Future Frontiers Conference HOSTED BY Tom Amarque: Founder of Parallax Dennis Wittrock: Holacracy Coach, Philosopher and Co-founder of the Integral European Conference www.denniswittrock.com About the Strange Attractor Series In the last couple of years, we have witnessed the emergence of different meta-models, theories, and future visions which try to go beyond the worldview of postmodernism: a strange attractor that seems to run on new and exciting algorithms. But what—if anything—do all of these models and movements have in common? Is there a shared deep-structure that is expressing itself, not only in new and more complex ways of thinking and cognition, but also in geopolitics, science, industry, religion, ecology, sexuality, parenting, culture, technology, architecture, the arts—and in every other area of contemporary life. Is there a strange attractor that emerges after postmodernity? What are its shape and characteristics? What new and exciting vistas and opportunities do these new vistas open up for us? Can they contribute to solving the existential problems of the current meta-crisis? What are the moral and ethical injunctions that we could infer from the present emergence of these meta-tribes. In this Roundtable-series - hosted by PARALLAX - we invite a multitude of ‘post-postmodern' pioneer—thinkers, psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, educators, economists, and artists—to have an interdisciplinary discussion about the essence of Post-Postmodernity – given there is such a thing. More precisely, this podcast-series is an experiment which seeks to find out whether these movements and models after Postmodernity have something in common. Can these movements leave their respective bubbles and contribute something essential to the development of the world we live in? That is our primary question. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/podcast-c709ee4/message

Jimmy Gownley is the New York Times Bestselling author of Amelia Rules! And the Dumbest Idea Ever. He has done work for Disney on properties such as Tangled, Zootopia and an upcoming Little Mermaid series. His new book 7 Good Reasons Not to Grow Up is out now from Scholastic.  https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Jimmy-Gownley/20799241   https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/authors/jimmy-gownley/   Michael Cohen Co-writer/artist of Strange Attractors, a science fiction comic which ran for 17 issues 1993-1995. The editor and publisher of Mythography, a fantasy anthology which ran for 8 issues in 1995-1997. He contributed Empyrean Tales, an ongoing fantasy adventure. He was the editor of Forbidden Book from Renaissance Press, an anthology of short stories about magic, which ran for 2 issues in 2001-2002. He also did the cover art and wrote and drew several stories. He wrote and drew the Science Fiction comic The Washouts. He was the editor of the Amelia Rules comic from Renaissance Press 2000-2005. He has recently finished a 4 volume graphic novel called Tanged River, and is currently working on finishing his long incompleted fantasy graphic novel A Gathering of Spells. He has published a compilaton of his early short science fiction and fantasy comics called Off the Map. TangledRiver.com MichaelCohenArt.com

WITH ZAK STEIN, JEREMY JOHNSON, DANIEL GÖRTZ, RAOUL ESHELMAN & ALEXANDER BARD In the last couple of years, we have witnessed the emergence of different meta-models, theories, and future visions which try to go beyond the worldview of postmodernism: a strange attractor that seems to run on new and exciting algorithms. But what—if anything—do all of these models and movements have in common? Is there a shared deep-structure that is expressing itself, not only in new and more complex ways of thinking and cognition, but also in geopolitics, science, industry, religion, ecology, sexuality, parenting, culture, technology, architecture, the arts—and in every other area of contemporary life. Is there a strange attractor that emerges after postmodernity? What are its shape and characteristics? What new and exciting vistas and opportunities do these new vistas open up for us? Can they contribute to solving the existential problems of the current meta-crisis? What are the moral and ethical injunctions that we could infer from the present emergence of these meta-tribes. In this Roundtable-series - hosted by PARALLAX - we invite a multitude of ‘post-postmodern’ pioneer—thinkers, psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, educators, economists, and artists—to have an interdisciplinary discussion about the essence of Post-Postmodernity – given there is such a thing. More precisely, this podcast-series is an experiment which seeks to find out whether these movements and models after Postmodernity have something in common. Can these movements leave their respective bubbles and contribute something essential to the development of the world we live in? That is our primary question. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/podcast-c709ee4/message

Episode: 2599 The Art of Attraction: Imagery from Strange Attractors.  Today, the art of attraction.

One of my favorite Detroit songwriters and people, Vern! He is absolutely unmistakable and this podcast is no different. Hear how Vern developed his indelible stage presence and how a schoolyard crime ring led him to playing Piedmont blues.

Erik Davis is an author, a podcaster, an award-winning journalist, and a lecturer based in San Francisco. His wide-ranging work focuses on the intersection of alternative religion, media, and the popular imagination. He is the author of several books, including Nomad Codes, The Visionary State, and TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information. His work has been translated into a dozen languages, and his essays have appeared in scores of books, including Zig Zag Zen, Magic in the Modern World, The World According to Philip K. Dick, and AfterBurn: Reflections on Burning Μan. Erik explores the cultures of consciousness on his long-running weekly podcast Expanding Mind, on the Progressive Radio Network. He has also written for The Wire, Bookforum, Arthur, Artforum, Wired, the LA Weekly, and the Village Voice, and he has been interviewed by CNN, the BBC, public radio, and the New York Times. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale University, and recently earned his PhD in religious studies at Rice University. His next book, High Weirdness: Drugs, Visions, and Esoterica in the Seventies, will be out in the Spring of 2019 through MIT Press and Strange Attractor. Aaron Weiss is a doctoral candidate in philosophy and religion program at CIIS in San Francisco, where he studies Indo-Tibetan and Western philosophies.

This episode of the End of Trauma introduces the idea that to be sustainable in right action, our biology needs specific support. Have you tried just about everything? Tired of all the things you've been told you have to do to feel better ? Here's an idea straight from biology— the best support is here and now: simple human pleasure. If we are to face the headwinds of a host of institutional ills and injustices, our empowerment must be rooted in how our biology wants to function. The End of Trauma offers a new vision of social engagement— that our action in the world can be fueled by a biology that has returned to its origins in states of curiosity, exploration and outright joy. These are our birthrights as humans. E.O. Wilson calls our nature, “biophilia" — we are lovers of life. Yet we are too often straying from the path of compassion because of lasting wounds not only in our emotions, but mostly in our nervous system. OI teaches how these wounds are not scars for a lifetime, but rather simple conditioning — learnings that are to be unlearned. It will take some time, and yes, hard work. But, the deceptively simple trajectory of the work is this: the job is enjoyment. Let's build from the ideas of “The Strange Attractor of Trauma” podcast last week, and give ourselves a break from the “What's Wrong Attention” and the negativity bias. Find out how we can easefully land again in our nature of compassion, and love of nature. New energy reserves for responsible and sustainable living await you.

In our second podcast, Organic Intelligence® founder Steven Hoskinson helps us rethink our psychology of trauma treatment. Meant to inform clinicians and non-clinicians alike, this information will help anybody dealing with trauma. First we will see how trauma is everywhere — and exactly how trauma keeps itself going over and over again. Trauma biology is addiction biology. 

It's the first week of April, so that must mean that it's time for the Two Guys with PhDs to look through the latest Previews catalog. This month, Andy Kunka is back for his first Previews show of 2016 -- where has the time gone? -- so Derek helps him to shake off the cobwebs and get down to deep solicitation-reading business. Among the many upcoming releases they highlight are titles from publishers such as Dark Horse Comics - Weird Detective #1, Alena, and Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan: The Complete Joe Kubert Years DC/Vertigo - Wacky Raceland #1, The Sheriff of Babylon, Vol. 1, and Scalped Deluxe Edition, Book Five IDW Publishing/Top Shelf - Tales from the Darkside #1, Bacchus: Omnibus Edition, Vol. 2, and The Fun Family Image Comics - Midnight of the Soul #1, She Wolf #1, Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, and Blue Monday, Vol. 1: The Kids Are Alright AfterShock - The Revisionist #1 Albatross Funnybooks - Satan's Sodomy Baby! II and Hillbilly #1 Alternative Comics - Miss U.S. of Heya, SEC, and Sun Bakery #2 Big Planet/Retrofit Comics - Elf Cat in Love BOOM! Studios - Lumberjanes/Gotham Academy #1, Strange Attractors #1, and The Joyners #1 Canton Street Press - Torchy #1 Flashback Replica and The Senate Hearings on Juvenile Delinquency  Conundrum Press - Bird in a Cage and The Ghosts We Know Dynamite Entertainment - The Shadow: The Death of Margo Lane #1, Control #1, and James Bond Vol. 1: Vargr Drawn and Quarterly - The Birth of Kitaro and Hot Dog Taste Test Fantagraphics Books - Wrinkles, Lovf: An Illustrated Vision of a Man Losing His Mind, and Drinky Crow Drinks Again Farrah, Straus and Giroux - Compass South First Second - Nobody Likes a Goblin: A Picture Book Gen Manga - Sorako Grand Central Publishing - Indeh: A Story of the Apache Wars Odod Books/Uncivilized Books - Musnet: The Mouse of Monet One Press - The Sixth Gun #50 and Fresh Romance  Pegasus Books - The Stranger SelfMadeHero - The Shadow of Innsmouth Ten Speed Press - Cook Korean!: A Comic Book with Recipes Titan Comics - Sherlock: A Study in Pink #1 VIZ Media - Goodnight Punpun Vol. 2 Z2 Comics - The Sweetness #1 University of California Press - Hellboy's World: Comics and Monsters on the Margins North Atlantic Books - Otto Binder: The Life and Work of a Comic Book and Science Fiction Visionary The guys also discuss the pros and cons of DC and Image doing their own mini-catalogs, the mixed bag of publisher crossovers, and the weirdness surrounding recent book that have been repurposed as limited series. Derek also shares news about how a recent on-location episode of the podcast became a Steve Lieber boon for the manager of Collected Comics in Plano. It's apparently true: there is such a thing as The Comics Alternative bump and the success it can bring you!

On this episode of the interview show, Derek talks with Charles Soule about his most recent creator-own works, specifically Strange Attractors (Archaia) and the currently ongoing Letter 44 (Oni Press). They spend most of their time discussing the latter and the various narrative threads and subplots interwoven within the series. In their conversation, Charles tells Derek about the extent of his research for the title, his love of NASA history, the intrigue of writing political drama, and the ways in which his background in law helped give birth to series' premise.  They also discuss the contemporary rootedness of Letter 44 and the extent to which recent presidential history plays out in its storyline, albeit ramped up and taken to speculative extremes. Much of the conversation is also devoted to Strange Attractors, a book similar to Letter 44 with a high concept and a keen scientific bent. Charles explains how his interest in complexity theory and his love of New York City combine to create an unlikely sci-fi drama. But even though Derek is mostly interested in his non-mainstream work, he nonetheless asks Charles about his efforts in the DC and Marvel Universes -- e.g., his experiences writing Swamp Thing, Death of Wolverine, Superman/Wonder Woman, and She-Hulk -- how he balances the superhero narratives with his creator-owned work, and the ways he negotiates both franchise limitations and fanboy expectations. All in all, it's a fun interview, with listeners being able to hear about creative facets of Charles Soule that rarely surface in interviews.

Jermaine and Stephen take a break from painting Acme Comics Presents to clean themselves up and speak with 27 and Strange Attractors creator and future Swamp Thing writer Charles Soule for his plans involving rock 'n' roll, the Green and the Big Apple! Show Notes: Don't forget than Gail Simone will be at the store signing from 11 AM - 3 PM on Saturday, February 9th! Follow Charles on Twitter! Become friends with Charles on Facebook! The Land of 10,000 Things - Charles's blog! Pick up 27 First Set and 27 Second Set on Comixology! Read the first two chapters of Strange Attractors on Comixology, then pre-order your hard copy with Acme!

Once again Andy and Derek delve into the pages of the latest Previews catalog, and there they find many wondrous things!  This month they note upcoming new series such as X, Jupiter Legacy, Miniature Jesus, Polarity, as well as a number of original graphic novels and collected editions, including Bloodhound from Dark Horse, the Solo Deluxe Edition and Jack Kirby's In the Days of the Mob from DC Comics, The Secret Service from Marvel, Strange Attractors from Archaia, The Property from Drawn and Quarterly, and Crater XV and Heck from Top Shelf.  They also bring up flaming poop and sticks on fire.