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Visionaries

Hosted by John Lobell, we talk with visionaries – people in the arts, technology, science, culture, and spirituality

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47:19

Visionaries - The Culture Wars: Then and Now.

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2019/04/29

“The Culture Wars: Then and Now.” In 1987 Allan Bloom published "The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students," and in that same year E.D. Hirsch published "Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know," and the culture wars were on. xx point was (or should have been) rather innocuous - you can't think critically (or even uncritically) unless you have something to think about. But Bloom's position was certainly

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50:28

Visionaries - MJDorian: Revisited.

Visionaries ·

2019/04/15

“MJDorian: Revisited.” We talk about creativity with Milosz Jeziorski, an award winning composer who writes music for film and television. In 2016, he took on the identity of MJDorian: a faceless music producer who wears a poltergeist mask which obscures any indication of age, race, or gender. Look for his blog, Creative Codex on your blog app, where you will find, among others, discussions of Frida Kahlo and Leonardo da Vinci. Find more at www.mjdorian.com

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49:45

Visionaries - Brian Francis Culkin, Part 2

Visionaries ·

2019/03/25

Our guest is again Brian Francis Culkin, writer, cultural theorist, and film director. Today we talk with Brian about the impact of new technologies, especially social media and our lives, and on the gentrification of our cities. Find more at: https://www.brianculkin.com

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51:16

Visionaries - Brian Francis Culkin

Visionaries ·

2019/03/11

Our guest is Brian Francis Culkin, writer, cultural theorist, and film director. Brian's books include: - The Meaning of Trump - Postscript on Boxing - There is No Such Thing as Boston - Conversations on Gentrification - On Heroin, Spontaneous Reflections - The Problem for Men Find more at: https://www.brianculkin.com

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52:21

Visionaries - Our Fragmenting Culture

Visionaries ·

2019/02/26

Starting with "Merchants of Truth" by Jill Abramson we look at our fragmenting culture anthem movement from feed to seed, and the antinatalism movement.

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43:47

Visionaries - JOHN DAVID EBERT: Part 3, Myths and Movies

Visionaries ·

2019/02/04

Continuing our conversations with Ebert, here we apply mythological insights to movies. Our discussion includes "2001: A Space Odyssey" and its relationship to "Solaris," "Apocalypse Now" and its origins in the Odyssey and Heart of Darkness, "The Truman Show," and "Blade Runner."

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48:23

Visionaries - JOHN DAVID EBERT: INTELLECTUAL...

Visionaries ·

2019/01/21

Ebert is a major intellectual figure, the author of over 20 books which you can find on Amazon and 600 videos you will find on YouTube. Here we talk about Ebert's intellectual foundations -- books on mythology, media studies, German Idealism, Post-Modernism, etc.

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47:43

Visionaries - WHO IS JOHN DAVID EBERT? Part 1

Visionaries ·

2019/01/14

"WHO IS JOHN DAVID EBERT? Part 1.” Ebert is a major intellectual figure, the author of over 20 books which you can find on Amazon. You can find his essays on Cultural-Discourse.com and CinemaDiscourse.com, and his lectures on YouTube and Google+. Ebert puts together Spengler’s approach to culture, McLuhan’s approach to media, and Campbell’s approach to mythology to give us insight to our world today. Here we focus on Hypermodernity. This is the first of four interviews that will survey the

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55:12

Visionaries - Things I Can't Talk About.

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2019/01/07

"Things I Can't Talk About." I was going to talk about archetypes and Spiritual Feminism, and then the cover item in the New York Times Book Review was about psychedelics, and I thought I would talk about that also, and then I realized that both were dangerous topics. Psychedelics are illegal, and I have been warned off of talking about essentialism and archetypes where I teach. So here are my thoughts with some tricky navigation.

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54:25

Visionaries - "Archetypes and Movies, Part 5.

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2018/12/31

“Archetypes and Movies, Part 5.” Lobell explores what "Lucy," Mummy movies, "Wolf" with Jack Nicholson, and Andre Gide's "The Immoralist" have in common.

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55:53

Visionaries - "Archetypes and Movies, Part 4."

Visionaries ·

2018/12/26

Archetypes and Movies, Part 4." More of our usual digressions, and then we pick up on movies.

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57:04

Visionaries - "Archetypes and Movies, Part 3."

Visionaries ·

2018/12/11

"Archetypes and Movies, Part 3." More of our usual digressions, and then we pick up on movies, looking at "Puzzle" and "The Wife," and then at female revenge movies. More on those, plus "Lucy" next time.

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56:12

Visionaries - Archetypes and Movies, Part 2

Visionaries ·

2018/11/15

"Archetypes and Movies, Part 2." After our usual digressions, we pick up on archetypes in movies, including "Babette's Feast."

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55:10

Visionaries - Archetypes and Movies

Visionaries ·

2018/11/15

"Archetypes and Movies, Part 1." Movies are perhaps our most archetypal medium--maybe it has something to do with the big screen. Our most prominent example is Star Wars, straight from Jospeh Campbell's "Hero With a Thousand Faces." Here we look at several, including "Phantom of the Opera."

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44:53

Visionaries - 10.30.18

Visionaries ·

2018/10/30

"Essentialism and Archetypes." The pioneering Modern American Architect, Louis Sullivan, wrote, "The germ is the real thing; the seat of identity. Within its delicate mechanism lies the will to power: the function which is to seek and eventually find its full expression in form." Frank Lloyd Wright wrote, "What is honor? Not the rules of a code—but the nature of honor. What would be the honor of a brick? That in the brick which makes the brick a brick." What did these architects mean? How does it

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50:36

Visionaries - 09.25.18

Visionaries ·

2018/09/25

"The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure." Our guest is Greg Lukianoff who is coauthor of "Coddling" along with Jonathan Haidt. Greg is president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. Jonathan is Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University's Stern School of Business. His is the author of "The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom" and "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are

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54:49

Visionaries - 08.13.18

Visionaries ·

2018/08/13

“Our Culture Today: Ressentiment and the Attack on the Enlightenment.” Our culture today, as reflected in the media, politics, and particularly in our university is dominated by "Post Modern Marxists" who have mounted a broad and sustained attack on the Enlightenment and on anyone who defends it. Given the benefits brought by the Enlightenment one wonders why the attack, and perhaps it is the "ressentiment" that was identified by Herman Kahn in his 1976 book, "The Next 200 Years."

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54:26

Visionaries - 07.24.18

Visionaries ·

2018/07/24

“David Deutsch and Quantum Constructor Theory.” Wikipedia says: “David Deutsch, born 1953 is an Israeli-born British physicist at the University of Oxford. He is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation in the Clarendon Laboratory of the University of Oxford. He pioneered the field of quantum computation by formulating a description for a quantum Turing machine, as well as specifying an algorithm designed to run on a quantum computer

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Visionaries - 07.09.18

Visionaries ·

2018/07/09

“Nikola Danaylov, aka Socrates and the Singularity.” Nik’s Singularity Weblog started as a personal journal of thoughts on trends, news, issues, films and people related to the technological singularity. However it has evolved into a growing community of people interested in exploring and shaping our future. Nik has interviewed numerous leading thinkers. Catch his podcasts at SingularityWeblog.com and Singularity.FM.

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54:17

Visionaries - 06.28.18

Visionaries ·

2018/06/28

John David Ebert and Hypermodernity.” Ebert is the author of over 20 books which you can find on Amazon. You can find his essays on Cultural-Discourse.com and CinemaDiscourse.com, and his lectures on YouTube and Google+. Ebert puts together Spengler’s approach to culture, McLuhan’s approach to media, and Campbell’s approach to mythology to give us insight to our world today. Here we focus on Hypermodernity.

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