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Jeremy D Johnson
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02/28/19 • 32 min
The inaugural solo show is finally live! I recorded this not long after my talk with Dr Becca Tarnas (episode 4). Glad it’s finally out there.
CONSTELLATING “FIGURATIONS” OF MEANING
Illustration by J.R.R. Tolkien
In this episode, I’m linking Gebser’s insights on the phenomenology of awakening consciousness (Bewusstwerdung phänomenologie) to some of the existential problems of the hyper-mediated self, and how this all ties to the important mythopoeic image in J.R.R.’Tolkien’s Middle-Earth: Sauron’s eye.
Facebook and social media seems only to rev up the cultural fragmentation of communities into smaller and smaller siloed identitarian groups in a “post-truth world” (which, alone, is worth discussing in another solo show). In the age of networks, why is it that communication is breaking down? As I argue, and as Gebser points out, or Douglas Rushkoff has been articulating in his recent Team Human book (and elsewhere, such as Life, Inc), much of this has to do with the underlying structure of consciousness we’ve been leaning on since the Western Renaissance: perspectival consciousness and its potent but immoderate capacity of ratio, to divide. Extractive capitalism, deficient mental-perspectivalism’s spatialized “eye,” and the mythopoeic image of Sauron’s eye all offer us different ways of looking (pun intended) at the phenomenology and crisis of culture (kulturphilosophie) in our own mediated moment.
Illustration by J.R.R. Tolkien
01/17/19 • 79 min
11/28/20 • 108 min
November 24, Barbara Karlsen and Brandt Stickley return to Mutations for a community call on embodying integral consciousness and exploring what they mean by the "aperspectival body." |
Barbara Karlsen: http://www.barbarakarlsen.com, |
Brandt Stickley: https://www.brandtstickley.com |
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21. The Acid Left w/ Adam Ray Adkins
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01/12/21 • 77 min
Mutations speaks with Adam Ray Adkins of The Acid Left project on Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism, the felt sense of time and consciousness in our cultural phenomenology, and the role of creativity, art, and even spirituality on the Left for imagining a better world.
The Acid Left on FB: https://www.facebook.com/theacidleft |
On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbLjoC_tct5byCV6JBoQPtA/featured |
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01/06/20 • 86 min
An episode for the Epiphany.
I spoke with author, philosopher, and psychotherapist Mark Vernon about his 2019 book: A Secret History of Christianity: Jesus, the Last Inkling, and the Evolution of Consciousness.
You may have already listened on Mark's YouTube channel. Great, but also be sure to tune in below for a new introduction.
Mark has a PhD in ancient philosophy, with two other degrees in physics and theology. What brought us together was a mutual interest in the evolution of consciousness; Mark, by way of the Oxford Inkling Owen Barfield, and myself by way of the Swiss cultural philosopher and poet Jean Gebser. Mark read my book and I read his. We agreed that we simply needed to have a chat.
To my knowledge, Gebser and Barfield never actually talked with one another in life, even though their ideas find many significant convergences; the theme of participation, for instance, plays a prominent role in both of their works.
Mark's A Secret History of Christianity is also a history of religion, which is to say the history of consciousness. His documentation of pivotal transformations in the evolution of religion were highly illustrative.
(For a direct reading of Barfield I recommend starting with Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry).
I mentioned earlier this year in the episode with Dr Becca Tarnas that J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth cosmology also has interesting synergy some of Gebser's ideas, particularly how the consciousness structures unfold (a series of gains and losses as we move further "away" from spiritual origin in time and becoming).
We need a general "The Inklings and the Evolution of Consciousness ft. J. Gebser Remix" episode. Roundtable scholarly nerd-out imminent. Mark, Becca, and I are talking about making it happen. Stay tuned.
MUSIC:
Artist: Billy Mays III / Infinite Third.
Album: Channel(s)
Tracks: "Vision(s)" for intro/outro, "In(to)" for intermezzo
PATREON:
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ARTWORK:
Sponsorships: off for this episode
08/09/19 • 69 min
In episode 7 of Mutations podcast, I am joined by paleontologist-futurist Michael Garfield.
Michael is an artist, podcast host (Future Fossils), musician, painter, philosopher--am I missing anything? Like me, Michael wears many hats.
We recorded a back-to-back episode. This is part one. You can find part two on Future Fossils.
Michael and I offer philosophical and existential reflections on the “Deep Adaptation” movement, popularized by Jem Bendell’s recent climate report paper, and Daniel Thorson’s Emerge podcast interview, by considering what we can learn from evolutionary and cultural catastrophes throughout history. While we don’t arrive at easy answers, I sense that there is a way of thinking and relating that is emerging in the age of the Anthropocene, as Sean Kelly writes, “beyond hope and despair.” This way of thinking and being leaves open the possibility of a hyper-illuminated dark age... as a way of seeing, like the owl-eyed Athena, into the dark places.
LINKS:
Sean Kelly, Living in End Times: Beyond Hope and Despair (Revelore Press)
MUSIC:
Artist: Billy Mays III / Infinite Third.
Album: Channel(s)
Tracks: "Vision(s)" for intro/outro, "In(to)" for intermezzo
PATREON:
Join the Mutations Patreon community here for access to our Discord channel, Zoom salon calls, early podcasts and featured writing content.
ARTWORK:
#11. The Meta-Crisis and Transitioning to a “Steady State” Civilization - Q&A [Friday Solo Show]
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04/03/20 • 75 min
Mutations truly go on! As we wade further into the murky complexities of the meta-crisis, I bring you an update from COVID-19 quarantine. This is a recording from 4/2/20. Part riff, part Q&A discussion with viewers as we explore how to navigate the “meta-crisis,” including helpful ways of looking the current world state and navigating to (latent), more beautiful futures. Themes of liminality, metaxis (“betweenness”), and integral ontology come into the picture right now, as we collectively attempt to find our way to a new mode of sensemaking and culture building that is more akin to Teilhard de Chardin’s planetization, or Jean Gebser’s integral aperspectivity. Do tune in. This one definitely felt like climbing on a pulpit.
PS: There’s now a backlog of interviews, some recorded before the COVID-19 epidemic--from another era! But they are coming. Thanks, listener, for your gracious patience.
- "Corona and the Commons" by Michel Bauwens of the P2P Foundation
- "Notes on Metamodernism,” by Timotheus Vermeulen & Robin van den Akker
- Mutual Aid (Kropotkin) and planetary consciousness
- Join My Patreon for more discussions like this one, access to my private Discord server, and sneak peeks at upcoming writing projects and interviews
08/03/20 • 125 min
[Crossposted from Growing Down podcast] Jeremy Johnson is joined by Ryan Nakade, Brent Cooper, Matthew T. Segall, Brad Kershner and Layman Pascal to honor the memory Michael Brooks (1983-2020) and discuss his contributions to integrative thinking in politics, "cosmopolitan socialism," and where we go from here in solidarity. Recorded on 7/25/20. Watch the YouTube livestream of this talk.
The struggle continues. #LeftisBest. #RestinPower.
Show notes: Follow and support TMBS / TMBS Patreon / Against the Web by Michael Brooks / Jacobin's Michael Brooks Tribute / Featured Intro/Outro & Track "Nobita" by Smith the Mister. |
Mutations Notes: Support my work via the Mutations Patreon, and access to a great community, bi-weekly salon calls, Discord, research Q&A, and sneak peaks at book drafts.
05/25/20 • 68 min
In this episode, I am joined by Gordon White, host of Rune Soup podcast, a show about magic, culture and the paranormal. Gordon is the author of The Chaos Protocols, Star.Ships, and Pieces of Eight: Chaos Magic Essays and Enchantment. Note that I recorded this before the new year, in December 2019, but if you listen until the end you might notice some oddly prescient comments about health and wellbeing in 2020. I begin my discussion with Gordon exploring the rise of communities of magical practice during a time of planetary crisis, and naturally, we roll into a discussion on imagination and storytelling. What are the kinds of stories - the planetary myths - we need to be tuning into right now, in the epoch of the Anthropocene/Chthulucene? Gordon talks about how to be “a pacifist in a living universe,” living artistically through a “non-tyrannical way of being in the world.” Authors like Ursula K. Le Guin and her Taoist-anarchic heroes (Georg Orr as depicted in The Lathe of Heaven, or Ged in A Wizard of Earthsea), or J.R.R. Tolkien’s Sam and Frodo in The Lord of the Rings, can teach us something about living this way. Gordon was a delight to speak to - and there’s much more in the conversation.
More show notes:
Visit Rune Soup and check out Gordon’s community, where he hosts subscriber events, book clubs, and classes
Talking Creation, Faerie, and Facing 2020 with Dr Becca Tarnas (Rune Soup ep.)
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Podcast music by Infinite Third, used with permission (thanks Billy)
Join the Mutations Patreon community for access to early podcasts, Discord server, and book club. Next month we start our Phenomenon of Man by Teilhard de Chardin reading club.
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11/16/21 • 55 min
In episode 23 of Mutations, I talk with Jeremy Lent about his new book: The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe. Lent's newest work proposes an integrated worldview very much in the philosophical spirit of the scholars and teachers we explore on Mutations (integral philosophy, theory, etc.). At the time of recording this, I was just coming down from the whirl of regenerative possibilities explored in the Integrales Forum panel, "Becoming the Planetary", where Lent and others talked about framing a new narrative around a "regenerative turn."
Part of this turn, however, means important breaks from traditional narratives in Western culture concerning evolutionism and progressive societal development. Lent's book articulates this regenerative narrative wonderfully, and I had to agree with Tyson Yunkaporta's blurb: "This book is a good place to sit for anybody interested in binding the wounds of thoughtless progress and allowing for the emergence of new patterns of being." I was also delighted to share some of my thoughts on the interrelationship with Lent's writing and my own research with Jean Gebser. We discussed the convergence points across the conversation.
Thanks for listening, and stay tuned with me: Mutations has a back log now, and as I continue to work on my next book, more conversations should be going up over the next few months.
Episode 23 Notes
- Jeremy Lent's homepage: https://www.jeremylent.com/the-web-of-meaning.html
- Becoming the Planetary panel: https://youtu.be/G1omWgjvPRM
- Support these conversations and join the Mutations community: https://www.patreon.com/jeremyjohnson
- Mutations blog: http://mutations.blog
- Connect with me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jdj_writes
- Join the Mutations group on FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/mutations.salon/
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