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- Voices of VR podcast: A Primer on Whitehead’s Process Philosophy December 10, 2020
- Who are we? (thinking w/ Berry and Swimme) December 9, 2020
- Thinking with Carlo Rovelli: The Physics of Consciousness December 3, 2020
- Science and the Soul of the World: Participatory Knowing in Goethe and Whitehead November 25, 2020
- Dialoguing with Philip Goff about Consciousness, Panpsychism, and Process Philosophy November 18, 2020
- Concrescence and the Implicate Order: Whitehead and Bohm in Dialogue November 8, 2020
- Election Coverage: Live-streaming on Growing Down November 3, 2020
- Consciousness between Science and Philosophy (response to Philip Goff on panpsychism) October 30, 2020
- Apology for a Democratic Ontology (response to Keith Woods) October 29, 2020
- Rune Soup Podcast with Gordon White: Talking Whitehead, Plato, & Panpsychism October 24, 2020
- Thinking Cosmologically with Whitehead October 21, 2020
- Towards a Marian Consciousness (Ep. 1 of the Great American Road Trip Diaries) October 21, 2020
- Alchemical Consciousness After Descartes: Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism as Psychedelic Realism October 15, 2020
- American Immanental Philosophies and the Future of Theopolitics: Dialoging with Michael Hogue October 15, 2020
- The brain is not a computer, and thinking is not information-processing. October 14, 2020
- “The Great American Trip,” dialogue on “Growing Down” October 10, 2020
- Rupert Sheldrake on Whitehead September 26, 2020
- Reason, Reality, & Religion in the Making (dialoguing with John Vervaeke) September 13, 2020
- Naturphilosophie as Process Philosophy in Schelling and Whitehead August 30, 2020
- Meta-Linguistics (dialoguing with Layman Pascal) August 29, 2020
- Metamodernism, the Integral Left, and Postmodern Traditionalism (dialoguing with Brent Cooper) August 27, 2020
- Parsimonious Panpsychism? (response to Julian Walker) August 25, 2020
- Emergent Evolution in a Panpsychist Cosmos (dialoging with Corey Anton) August 22, 2020
- Setting the Akashic Record Straight (final response to David Long about emergence and panpsychism) August 21, 2020
- What is at stake in cosmological inquiry? August 20, 2020
- Cosmologies in Question: A Debate with David Long August 19, 2020
- Consciousness in the Wild August 17, 2020
- Toward an Integral “God” – a dialogue with Layman Pascal August 14, 2020
- Death Denial in a Panpsychist Cosmos: A Dialogue with Corey Anton August 11, 2020
- Meta-Politics – a discussion with Layman Pascal on “The Integral Stage” August 8, 2020
- Remembering and Carrying Forward Michael Brooks on “Growing Down” July 25, 2020
- Dialogue with a Whiteheadian Thelemite Vajrayanist Wiccan, Sam Webster July 22, 2020
- The Rheomode Series, a YouTube playlist July 16, 2020
- Integral Entheogens (Ep. 5) – Molecular Alchemy and the Evolution of Spirit July 16, 2020
- Growing Down Podcast on “the Integral Left” July 4, 2020
- Dialoguing with Brent Cooper about ecosocialist politics and integral spirituality June 9, 2020
- “He maketh his sun to rise,” featuring Donald Trump, Cornel West, and Ram Dass June 4, 2020
- The Place of Psychedelic Chemistry/Alchemical Consciousness in Philosophy May 8, 2020
- Imagination as the Topographical Inversion of Reality: Musings with Becca Tarnas May 7, 2020
- Episode 6 of The Future Faces of Spirit April 25, 2020
- Reading and Riffing on Murray Bookchin’s “The Ecology of Freedom” April 15, 2020
- Prayers to a Process-Relational God April 12, 2020
- Ecological Civilization, or Anarcho-Primitivism? March 30, 2020
- Imagining a Gaian Reality After the Virus March 23, 2020
- Thoughts on William James, Pure Experience, and Materialism February 2, 2020
- Musing on “Consciousness” with William James & Alfred North Whitehead January 31, 2020
- What is life? interview with Tim Freke January 17, 2020
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- Stream on Capitol Insurrection January 10, 2021
- “How does matter give rise to consciousness?” (response to Sam Harris) January 3, 2021
- A review of Michael Hogue’s “American Immanence: Democracy for an Uncertain World” (2018) December 18, 2020
- Voices of VR podcast: A Primer on Whitehead’s Process Philosophy December 10, 2020
- Who are we? (thinking w/ Berry and Swimme) December 9, 2020
- Thinking with Carlo Rovelli: The Physics of Consciousness December 3, 2020
- Science and the Soul of the World: Participatory Knowing in Goethe and Whitehead November 25, 2020
- Dialoguing with Philip Goff about Consciousness, Panpsychism, and Process Philosophy November 18, 2020
- Concrescence and the Implicate Order: Whitehead and Bohm in Dialogue November 8, 2020
- Election Coverage: Live-streaming on Growing Down November 3, 2020
- Consciousness between Science and Philosophy (response to Philip Goff on panpsychism) October 30, 2020
- Apology for a Democratic Ontology (response to Keith Woods) October 29, 2020
- Rune Soup Podcast with Gordon White: Talking Whitehead, Plato, & Panpsychism October 24, 2020
- Thinking Cosmologically with Whitehead October 21, 2020
- Towards a Marian Consciousness (Ep. 1 of the Great American Road Trip Diaries) October 21, 2020
- Alchemical Consciousness After Descartes: Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism as Psychedelic Realism October 15, 2020
- American Immanental Philosophies and the Future of Theopolitics: Dialoging with Michael Hogue October 15, 2020
- The brain is not a computer, and thinking is not information-processing. October 14, 2020
- “The Great American Trip,” dialogue on “Growing Down” October 10, 2020
- Rupert Sheldrake on Whitehead September 26, 2020
- Reason, Reality, & Religion in the Making (dialoguing with John Vervaeke) September 13, 2020
- Naturphilosophie as Process Philosophy in Schelling and Whitehead August 30, 2020
- Meta-Linguistics (dialoguing with Layman Pascal) August 29, 2020
- Metamodernism, the Integral Left, and Postmodern Traditionalism (dialoguing with Brent Cooper) August 27, 2020
- Parsimonious Panpsychism? (response to Julian Walker) August 25, 2020
- Emergent Evolution in a Panpsychist Cosmos (dialoging with Corey Anton) August 22, 2020
- Setting the Akashic Record Straight (final response to David Long about emergence and panpsychism) August 21, 2020
- What is at stake in cosmological inquiry? August 20, 2020
- Cosmologies in Question: A Debate with David Long August 19, 2020
- Consciousness in the Wild August 17, 2020
- Toward an Integral “God” – a dialogue with Layman Pascal August 14, 2020
- Death Denial in a Panpsychist Cosmos: A Dialogue with Corey Anton August 11, 2020
- Meta-Politics – a discussion with Layman Pascal on “The Integral Stage” August 8, 2020
- Remembering and Carrying Forward Michael Brooks on “Growing Down” July 25, 2020
- Dialogue with a Whiteheadian Thelemite Vajrayanist Wiccan, Sam Webster July 22, 2020
- The Rheomode Series, a YouTube playlist July 16, 2020
- Integral Entheogens (Ep. 5) – Molecular Alchemy and the Evolution of Spirit July 16, 2020
- Growing Down Podcast on “the Integral Left” July 4, 2020
- Dialoguing with Brent Cooper about ecosocialist politics and integral spirituality June 9, 2020
- “He maketh his sun to rise,” featuring Donald Trump, Cornel West, and Ram Dass June 4, 2020
- The Place of Psychedelic Chemistry/Alchemical Consciousness in Philosophy May 8, 2020
- Imagination as the Topographical Inversion of Reality: Musings with Becca Tarnas May 7, 2020
- Episode 6 of The Future Faces of Spirit April 25, 2020
- Reading and Riffing on Murray Bookchin’s “The Ecology of Freedom” April 15, 2020
- Prayers to a Process-Relational God April 12, 2020
- Ecological Civilization, or Anarcho-Primitivism? March 30, 2020
- Imagining a Gaian Reality After the Virus March 23, 2020
- Thoughts on William James, Pure Experience, and Materialism February 2, 2020
- Musing on “Consciousness” with William James & Alfred North Whitehead January 31, 2020
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the dark web reaches a tiny tiny number of people (as do all long-form outlets unlike the mega social media platforms) and there isn’t a deep thinker in the bunch, people aren’t just rejecting govt technocrats they are rejecting academics, clergy, judges, scientists, and on and on, none of which is new in America been going on for as long as we’ve been a country, check out the Scopes trial someday or look into the sales pitches/defenses of diet “supplements”, for some historical perspective see:
I don’t care so much about the dark per se, but I think the numbers on these YouTube / podcast / social media-driven folks are bigger than you think (bigger at least, than say, the nightly news shows on CNN, MSNBC, Fox, etc.)
have any numbers of hits and how many of them are something other than gossip, take a deep dive on any issue? that said even a huge show on Fox (into the millions of viewers) only reaches a tiny part of even the US population what’s the numbers on twitter (gotta be over the total US pop) let alone facebook?
I’m not sure exactly what you’re saying, but insofar as we’re talking about media and media use in general I think the comparison between new media and Fox news is pretty apt, the fact that neither reach everyone or most people notwithstanding. There’s some data on Twitter use here (68 million active US users; I’m not sure if this takes account of people with multiple profiles, though):
https://www.statista.com/statistics/274564/monthly-active-twitter-users-in-the-united-states/
As for some of the folks we were talking about, Rogan on YouTube had over 10 million views for his Musk podcast, 3.7 million for deGrasse Tyson, and 776,000 for Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, and as I understand things YouTube is not the primary subscription source for these podcasts (iTunes and Stitcher and the like are the main platforms, so these numbers don’t represent the bulk of listeners). To be sure, Rogan’s podcast is one of the biggest, but it’s not *the* biggest, and I’d bet even his juggernaut is dwarfed by the combined numbers of, say, the rest of the top 20 downloaded podcasts every month. It would be interesting to look at those combined numbers.
My point is just that this is a huge shift in numbers/viewers. Is it seminar-level close-reading among experts? Definitely not. Is it a step up from what it’s replacing (i.e., TV and radio)? Absolutely.