Damien Walter

Ken MacLeod on The Culture of Iain M Banks

SF author Ken MacLeod on his lifelong friend Iain Banks.

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The 3 Body Problem, Problem

Does it matter that the Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin is a work of propaganda? I think it does. But it’s going to take 2 hours to explain.

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Dune part 2 is the savior of science fiction

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Prof. Elana Gomel on Stanislaw Lem

00:00:57 Introduction
00:03:39 Professor Elana Gomel
00:09:55 Charles Dickens as scifi writer
00:14:17 Stanislaw Lem and The Other
00:18:59 Anti-Humanism
00:22:46 Lem vs the SFWA
00:26:27 Beyond Humanism
00:28:12 LEM and Posthumanism
00:33:37 Fear of the Posthuman
00:38:00 Lem’s criticism of non-existant novels
00:40:41 Lem on AI
00:47:08 Philosophy of Posthumanism
00:51:02 Monster Fantasies
00:54:47 Dangerous utopias
00:58:34 A new mythos of time
01:03:37 Why does Elon Musk like simulation theory?
01:08:08 The dangers of Messianic myths
01:11:09 Darko Suvin and socialism
01:14:24 Communism was oppressive and boring

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Iain McGilchrist interview

00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:50 Is Iain McGilchrist a scifi fan?
00:07:05 Iain McGilchrist’s work and philosophy
00:17:34 Reason vs Rationalisation
00:22:30 Kubrick’s 2001 and the hemispheres
00:27:14 Why do we take everything literally now?
00:34:41 The myths that form us
00:43:22 How do we reconnect to the mythos?
00:49:36 Campbell, Jung and the synthetic mythos
00:55:27 Creativity and the hemispheres
01:03:27 Is the right hemisphere the source?
01:07:00 The mythos and the machine
01:15:27 AI and administration
01:24:42 Is myth the true reality?
01:39:24 What does a better balanced future look like?

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