• Home
  • About
    • Jon Lebkowsky, CoFounder and CoHost
    • Scoop Sweeney, CoFounder and CoHost
    • Wendy Grossman, CoHost
  • Podcast
  • Blog
  • YouTube
  • Subscribe via Patreon
  • Support via Paypal
  • Contact
  • Merch
  • Bookshop
  • Ken MacLeod: Imagined Futures

    Adam Roberts: Fantasy

    Dave Evans: Does It Square?

    Renshin Bunce: Love and Fear

    Plutopia News NetworkAugust 18, 202003.8K views

    Interview with Renshin Bunce, hospice chaplain and Zen priest, and author of the book “Love and Fear.”

    Read more

    Mark Frauenfelder: Make Wired Boing

    Plutopia News NetworkAugust 11, 202003.5K views

    Mark Frauenfelder, Research Director of Institute for the Future, discusses his life as editor, blogger, maker, and influencer. Mark has been a vital part of the mainstreaming of the Internet.…

    Read more

    Ed Ward and Nate Wilcox: Let It Roll!

    Plutopia News NetworkAugust 3, 202003.8K views

    Ed Ward and Nate Wilcox of the “Let It Roll” podcast talk about the history, business, and culture of rock and roll.

    Read more

    Bijoy Goswami and Robert Matney: The Galloping Gurus!

    Plutopia News NetworkJuly 28, 202003K views

    Bijoy Goswami and Robert Matney work with Jon and Scoop to create a “cult of punditry.” This freewheeling conversation covers cults, conspiracies, gurus, toxic soup, science (and the lack of…

    Read more

    Robert Matney: Conspiracy Theories and Information Warfare

    Plutopia News NetworkJuly 21, 202002.8K views

    Robert Matney is Managing Director of Government Affairs at Yonder. Yonder is a company that discovers who controls and amplifies narratives across the internet. It uses AI to identify influential…

    Read more

    Jasmina Tešanović: Europe in the Time of Covid-19

    Plutopia News NetworkJuly 13, 202012.9K views

    Jasmina Tešanović is a Feminist and political activist, originally from Serbia. She is also author of 15 books, a journalist, musician, translator and film director. More recently, she was one…

    Read more

    Emily Gertz: State of the News Industry Today

    Plutopia News NetworkJuly 6, 202002.8K views

    Jon and Scoop discuss the state of the news industry with Emily Gertz, a New York-based journalist, and Senior Editor at Drilled News.

    Read more

    Gary Gach Returns: Covid-19, Mindfulness, and Equanimity

    Plutopia News NetworkJune 30, 202002.5K views

    Gary Gach returns to the Plutopia Podcast to discuss mindfulness and joy in the era of Covid-19. Our conversation was inspired in part by Gary’s March Lion’s Roar essay, “Practicing Equanimity in a State of Emergency.”

    Read more

    Honoria Starbuck: Mindful Creative Zen Chickens

    Plutopia News NetworkJune 22, 202004.4K views

    Honoria Starbuck is an artist known for her vibrant watercolors, and especially for her Zen Chicken series.

    Read more

    Jack McFadden: Music Venue Mojo

    Plutopia News NetworkJune 16, 202003.3K views

    Jack McFadden, Senior Talent Buyer at Austin City Limits Live, joined the Plutopia News Network livestream on May 12. This episode is a rebroadcast of that session. We discuss rock…

    Read more

    Jon and Scoop: History of Plutopia (etc.)

    Plutopia News NetworkJune 8, 202002.6K views

    Plutopians Jon Lebkowsky and Scoop Sweeney discuss the history of Plutopia, the Chuckwagon riot, protests, COINTELPRO, sensemaking, narrative wars, information overload, filter bubbles, and the Plutopian non-conspiracy! Sign up for…

    Read more

    Jerry Michalski: Open Global Mind

    Plutopia News NetworkJune 2, 202003K views

    Technology muse and influential connector Jerry Michalski joins Jon and Scoop to discuss his latest project, Open Global Mind, “a project to build communities and platforms that will help us…

    Read more

    Web 3.0, Polkadot & the 2020s: Internet Privacy Beyond Big Tech

    Plutopia News NetworkMay 25, 202006.4K views

    Recording of an April 14, 2020 talk by Dan Reecer, Community & Growth Manager for Polkadot, a next-generation blockchain network founded by the former co-founder and CTO of Ethereum, Gavin…

    Read more

    Tiffany Lee Brown: Burning Tarot

    Plutopia News NetworkMay 18, 202003.9K views

    Tiffany Lee Brown (aka magdalen, aka T) is a writer and interdisciplinary artist who lives off in the woods somewhere in Oregon. T has been a Tarot card reader for…

    Read more

    Jane Hirshfield: A Poetry of Balance

    Plutopia News NetworkMay 12, 202005.6K views

    Jane Hirshfield is an award-winning poet, translator, essayist, and editor. She’s written nine books of poetry. Her latest book, Ledger, “poses meticulous equations of the self coping with doubt, hunger,…

    Read more

    Erik Davis: High Weirdness

    Plutopia News NetworkMay 5, 202002.7K views

    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.

    Read more

    Posts navigation

    1 … 18 … 22
    View Desktop Version

    This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

    Back To Top