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…
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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…
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…
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,…
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.
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.
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.