Contain Podcast

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www.patreon.com/contain Podcast / multimedia project--interviews and deep research episodes, original music, videos, and more Music from the show up on SoundCloud. Founded in 2019 by Barrett Avner and Alex Talan CDs/Books/Shirts: WWW.CONTAINCONTAIN.COM.

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201. Outer Space and Network Cities w/ Fred Scharmen Unlocked

Feb 28 2025 90 mins

This New Year we're going in on all things space-relevant and the weird development of libertarian Network States with Fred Scharmen, author of Space Forces.Topics: Biocosmism in Russia, the project Concept Country, Bitcoin City, Nick Land Acknowledgement, mini singularities in the 1970's, astral exploration, lines by decade, science beyond earth, van stripes of the 1970's as cultu

PREVIEW BONUS Megalopolis #Long2014 Utopia Special w/ Millennial Amenities

Feb 28 2025 2 mins

Full episode w/ Nathan (Looming Totality/Y2K_Mindset) on the ideas and sociology of Megalopolis, his hypothesis on the Long 2014, the past decade of slop, and why utopian thinking is goodDavid Graeber, Elective Affinities by Goethe, The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (1899), by Thorstein Veblen, The Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler, Nixon shock/

Episode 200 - The Abstraction Episode - Pt A Preview

Jan 08 2025 36 mins

200th episode special on the history and future of abstraction in social life, art, and more. For full 4hr20 minute episode: Part A Part B Patreon.com/Contain

199. Democracy of Free People w/ Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt

Dec 05 2024 93 mins

Ok this is a big one: Professor Emeritus of Leisure Studies and author of Free Time and Age of Experiences Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt joins for a lively discussion on the possibility of leisure and freedom in the age of experience. Other subjects: Jeffersonian Democracy, taking Eugene McCarthy to the airport, the spark of poetic creativity, Frank Lloyd Wright, UBI, the heart of the

Preview 198. Laruelle, Elections, Non-Empiricism, and the Story of Art

Dec 05 2024 25 mins

3hr30 min tribute to the non-philosophical thought of François Lauruelle...full episode Francois Laruelle was a French philosopher who developed the concept of "non-philosophy." His work influenced facets of the project (particularly The Spectre of Finance Punk) through his critiques of traditional philosophical systems that prioritized the material and empirical over abstract th

197. What Is The Value of Music w/ Callahan and Witscher

Oct 21 2024 109 mins

What happens when two experimental music veterans go full Smashmouth? Callahan and Witscher's new album Think Differently answers just that-full of wry introspection on the conditions of music, it's value, and despite misreads by music journalists as being "irony poisoned"-comes across as uniquely sincere in a way most things don't. We talk about the album, what is the value of a c

PREVIEW 196. Lost City of the Future: The Columbus Indiana Story w/ Matt Shaw

Oct 11 2024 31 mins

For full full episode, music, and to support the project subscribe Here Architect/author Matt Shaw comes on to discuss his new book American Modern on the anomaly of Columbus, Indiana: a futuristic small town designed by a who's who of architects (Saarinen, Pei, Robert Venturi, Girard) almost entirely bankrolled by progressive Christian industrialist J. Irwin Miller. This is a hist

PREVIEW - 195. The Experience Economy Pt. 1 & 2

Oct 11 2024 36 mins

For full 6 hour episode and more deep research excursions subscribe to our Patreon Part two of the experience economy episode, this one focused on the history of experience design, the combinatorial arts, and independent value creation in order to advance some solutions to the problems politics can only scratch the surface of. Topics: the rise of Kill Tony and interactive cring

PREVIEW 194. Gold Fever in the Coup Belt and the American Dreamscape w/ James Pogue

Aug 16 2024 42 mins

This is a preview, for full 3 hour episode: patreon.com/contain Writer/journalist James Pogue comes on to discuss his recent stint in central Africa as it undergoes one of the biggest gold rushes in human history plus: contracting Malaria in a CAR prison and your hotel getting shot up, diamond heists, geiger counters, JD Vance and the Anti-American NatCon right, the Wagner groups

PREVIEW 193. The Oil Episode (Fossil Fuels, Abiotic) w/ Jed (Spouter)

Aug 16 2024 15 mins

This is a preview, full episode: patreon.com/contain Episode all about oil, maybe the most important and controversial substance in the world and how it came to dominate our history and take over our planet Abiotic oil theory, climate change, is oil fake, the origin of the term fossil fuels, did Dinosaurs even exist, artificial scarcity, Reza Negarestani's Cyclonopedia, 's