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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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47:47

Visionaries - The Four and Loop Quantum Gravity -...

Visionaries ·

2021/01/04

The Four and Loop Quantum GravityToday we look at some books about where we are now. We start with Scott Galloway's "Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity." The publisher says, "The COVID-19 outbreak has turned bedrooms into offices, pitted young against old, and widened the gaps between rich and poor, red and blue. But as author Scott Galloway argues, the pandemic has not been a change agent so much as an accelerant of trends already well underway...." What is this going to mean for all of us

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47:46

Visionaries - 08.31.20

Visionaries ·

2020/08/31

Movies Myths and Archetypes This week Lobell talks about his new book, "Movies Myths and Archetypes," which is available on Amazon. Lobell describes an archetypal approach to movies, beginning with "Phantom of the Opera," which is the archetype of how a woman negotiates between key male figures, the father, the demon lover, and the husband lover. He then goes on to look at The Hero Journey in movies like "Apocalypse Now," Mean Streets in movies like "Chronicles of Riddick," Promethean Visions in

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45:04

Visionaries - Architecture as Philosophy

Visionaries ·

2020/08/17

Architecture as Philosophy John Lobell talks about his new book, Louis Kahn: Architecture as Philosophy. https://www.amazon.com/Louis-Kahn-Architecture-John-Lobell/dp/1580935281/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=John+lobell&qid=1597670486&sr=8-1 There is only one philosophical question: "Who are we and what are we doing here?" Philosophy seeks to address this, but we do philosophy sitting in chair. However, we experience architecture. We are born in, live in, work in, die in buildings. Architecture

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48:22

Visionaries - Tegy Thomas

Visionaries ·

2020/06/16

Today we talk with Tegy Thomas who tells us about his work with the Obama campaign, MIT startup competitions and the 2010 TEDx Brooklyn event he organized. We look at how Richard Saul Wurman created TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) and the roll of TEDx.

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49:25

Visionaries - M.J.Dorian. June 8, 2020

Visionaries ·

2020/06/10

M.J.Dorian is once again our guest. We discuss his recent podcast, "14. Why Humans Need Art." Find M.J.'s podcast, Creative Codex, on your favorite podcast source. M.J.Dorian is an award winning composer who writes music for film and television. Catch our previous interviews on past shows, and find out more at: www.mjdorian.com

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41:10

Visionaries - Andrew Feenberg

Visionaries ·

2020/06/02

Andrew Feenberg is Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology in the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, where he directs the Applied Communication and Technology Lab. He was a student of Herbert Marcuse. Today we talk about Marxism. Find more at: Find more at: https://www.sfu.ca/~andrewf/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Feenberg

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47:17

Visionaries - Alexis Karl

Visionaries ·

2020/05/04

Alexis Karl is a filmmaker, multimedia artist and perfumer, founder and perfumer of Scent By Alexis and co-founder and perfumer of House of Cherry Bomb. She teaches at Pratt Institute. Find more at:

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55:08

Visionaries - Technological Optimism.

Visionaries ·

2020/02/17

"Technological Optimism." We have just finished the most prosperous decade in human history in which one billion people exited abject poverty. Today the poorest people carry $3 million Cray super computers and live to their 80s. So why the pessimism? Tune in as we explore.

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55:02

Visionaries - The Economist Clayton Christensen

Visionaries ·

2020/01/27

The economist, Clayton Christensen who introduced the idea of "disruptive innovation,” just died, so we look at some of his ideas, and then wander off into thinking about who are some of the most important "idea" people of our time, and why they are seldom (or never) mentioned in the New York Times. Look up Matt Ridley, Steven Kotler, Craig Venter, Sebastian Thrun, Jimmy Wales, and Peter Diamandis, and see what you get.

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53:12

Visionaries - MJDorian on Carl Jung's Red Book

Visionaries ·

2019/12/03

Today our guest is composer and music producer MJDorian. On his blog he looks in depth at creative figures such as Salvador Dalí, Frida Kahlo, Leonardo da Vinci, Nikola Tesla, and Clinton King. Today we discuss the Red Book by Carl Jung. Once a colleague of Freud, Jung broke away to explore the unconscious in much greater depth. Once dismissed as a mystic, Jung is now central to any meaningful discussion of the arts and of culture. Find more at http://www.mjdorian.com. His blog is Creative

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45:11

Visionaries - Rachel Fulton Brown

Visionaries ·

2019/10/28

Our guest today is Rachel Fulton Brown. Rachel is an associate professor of Medieval History at the University of Chicago. She writes: I am the professor your other professors warned you about. I love Christianity, America, and the Western tradition of theology, art, philosophy, music, letters, and education. I believe in the reality of truth, beauty, goodness, and love. I teach history as an exercise in empathy, rethinking the thoughts of the past so as to shed light on our common humanity. I judge

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53:15

Visionaries - The Canon Wars (Plus Eve Babitz)...

Visionaries ·

2019/10/28

More on what we might all be reading (or in my case, audio books I'm listening to). With thoughts on the "canon wars" promoted by the death of Harold Bloom. We discuss his idea of "swerving" (deliberately misreading an influence) and his terrific book, "The American Religion" in which he looks not at what denominations people belong to, but what they actually believe. Plus we discuss the fabulous Eve Babitz, who I somehow missed in the 1970s, but all of her books now have great audio

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51:38

Visionaries - What is our culture?

Visionaries ·

2019/10/15

What is our culture? For me in the late 1950s it was books - Gide, Freud, culminating in Mailer's Advertisements for Myself. Then in the early 60s it was foreign films - Bergman's Wild Strawberries, Fellini's La Dolce Vita, Antonioni's L'Avventura, and most of all Godard's Breathless. Then in the later 60s, rock music - The Beatles and the Stones, culminating in Dylan. For my students today, they say it is social media - wasup with that? Then we discuss Daniel Markovits's The Meritocracy Trap -

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52:42

Visionaries - Books on my phone

Visionaries ·

2019/09/17

Today we look at some of the books on my phone. "The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America" by Margaret O'Mara reviews a history of computers familiar to those who have followed the industry for the past 50 years. "Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World" by David Epstein presents powerful insights into creativity and performance, debunking the 10,000 hours thing. We will get to "The Meritocracy Trap" by Daniel Markovits in an upcoming show.

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54:16

Visionaries - MJDorian on Salvador Dalí

Visionaries ·

2019/08/13

Today we discuss the creativity of Salvador Dalí with MJDorian (Milosz Jeziorski), an award winning composer who writes music for film and television and blogs about creativity. 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, besides Salvador Dalí, discussions of Frida Kahlo, Leonardo da Vinci, Nikola Tesla, Clinton

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44:23

Visionaries - Liminal Dreaming

Visionaries ·

2019/08/05

Jennifer Dumpert, a dream hacker, explains how to explore liminal dreaming for creativity and spiritual inspiration. At the edges of consciousness, between waking and sleeping, there’s a swirling, free associative state of mind that is the domain of liminal dreams. Working with liminal dreams can improve sleep, mitigate anxiety and depression, help to heal trauma, and aid creativity and problem-solving. Readers of Liminal Dreaming will learn step-by-step how to create a dream practice outside of

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47:29

Visionaries - Hypermodernity - 07.15.19

Visionaries ·

2019/07/15

Hypermodernity and the End of the World” by John David Ebert and Brian Francis Culkin, preface By Michael Aaron Kamins. This new book follows the sweep of cultural history from Modernism to Post Modernism to Hypermodernity. It looks are how the Internet is upending our world are we know it, fragmenting all. Kamins writes in his preface: “The Book of Revelation got nothing on this new Apocalypse by Culkin and Ebert. They are, no doubt, the real hype of cultural criticism today (so was John of

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49:13

Visionaries - Raymond Storms - 07.08.19

Visionaries ·

2019/07/08

Raymond Storms is a Reiki Certified Psychic Empath who is able to see, hear and feel energy. He works privately with clients in New York City and abroad helping them free themselves from energy blocks, thus allowing them to dive into the beautiful sea of Love that is waiting for us all. Raymond has learned to live more in the present thereby reclaiming his power and he can help you do the same. As a singer who performs in cabaret, classical music, and opera, Raymond has a unique perspective on

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53:24

Visionaries - Books I'm listening to. - 07.01.19

Visionaries ·

2019/07/08

Today we discuss: "A Politically Incorrect Feminist: Creating a Movement with Bitches, Lunatics, Dykes, Prodigies, Warriors, and Wonder Women" by Phyllis Chesler. "Red Harvest" by Dashiell Hammett. "The Robots Are Coming!: The Future of Jobs in the Age of Automation" by Andres Oppenheimer. "Explaining Postmodernism (Expanded Edition): Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault" by Stephen R. C. Hicks. "Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI" edited by John Brockman.

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51:07

Visionaries - Brian Francis Culkn on ayahuasca and...

Visionaries ·

2019/05/27

“Brian Francis Culkn on ayahuasca and globalization” Our guest is again Brian Francis Culkin, writer, cultural theorist, and film director. Today we talk about his new book, "THE AYAHUASCA DIALOGUES: globalization, plant medicine, and the healing of the human heart" that he co-suthored with shaman Ricardo Amaringo.

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