Erik Davis is the author of High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies. The book covers the emergence of a new psychedelic spirituality that arose from the American counterculture of the 1970s.
“A meeting is not all pure transaction for the task at hand. It is also transaction of how we are, who we are, and how we are together.” Nancy White…
Danny Sands is a physician who’s worked in a variety of capacities in the healthcare IT industry for over 25 years. Danny is passionate about, and dedicated to, healthcare transformation.
Steven Levy is editor-at-large for Wired Magazine. He’s an author and journalist who has written several books on computers, technology, cryptography, the internet, cybersecurity, privacy, and artificial life.
Recorded March 26, 2019. Susan Engelking is a mobility disruptor, a tireless advocate for “Tiny Transit” and LEAN mobility. Her new book, Tiny Transit: Cut Carbon Emissions In Your City…
Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, and journalist. He is the author of RADICALIZED and WALKAWAY and other novels, short stories, and nonfiction. He works for the Electronic…
Brandon Wiley discusses exfiltrating data from restrictive networks, a skill that every hacker can use. As firewall filtering techniques become more advanced, so must we advance the methods for defeating firewalls.
Interview with Gary Gach, author of PAUSE BREATHE SMILE – Awakening Mindfulness When Meditation Is Not Enough., discusses his history with Buddhism and mindfulness, and his latest focus on presenting a full framework of mindfulness instruction.
A conversation with Steve O’Keefe, author of “Set the Page on Fire,” about zines, the early Internet, online community, and the emergence of web publishing. We also talk about AI and singularity, cyber-activism, and (of course) setting the page on fire!
Interview with Toby Johnson – activist, psychotherapist, and spiritual writer; author of Finding Your Own True Myth: What I Learned from Joseph Campbell.
Christopher Brown returns to the Plutopiaverse to discuss his new dystopian legal noir, Rule of Capture.
Joey Lopez, PhD is the Media Lab Director in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University. Receiving his B.S., M.A. and Ph.D. in New Media at UT Austin in…
Jon and Scoop interview Hugh Forrest, Chief Programming Officer for South by Southwest (SXSW). SXSW is perhaps the world’s largest annual media festival. The SXSW conference has over 70,000 attendees…
“Joy Cunningham knows that theatre saves lives. She’s been creating original theatre for 20 years and working with young people all her life. She also knows folks want to have…
Plutopians met Robert Jackson Bennett at “Science Fiction House” during SXSW 2019. Thats where we began our fascinating discussion about the blurry border between fantasy and science fiction. Robert is…
Author, lecturer, critic, and culture jammer Mark Dery gave this talk, “Let’s Get Lost: an Experiment in Controlled Digression,” at the ACTLab 2019 conference in June. (For more information on…