Source: EDM Music
Avicii – Chariot (Ft. Alex Ebert)
September 3, 2021
September 3, 2021
Source: EDM Music
September 1, 2021
Alex Ebert is a Golden Globe winning musician who has performed on the Colbert show and is interested in the philosophy of oscillations. He and Gregg explore this frame in relationship to the iQuad Coin and UTOK.
Source: TOK 21
September 1, 2021
We feel the lack of an absolute being, and reality itself seems to lack as a split between atom/void. Here we play with the imaginary of the mind which exists in this split between nothing and everything: what would it look like if we could “subtract lack” or “become lack” and “connect to the absolute”? Would we be “fucking everything”? Would we exist in a “giant social orgy”? To start this dialogue, I give the personal example of a psychedelic experience which “connected to the absolute”, the feeling of such a state, as well as the after-effects. We then spend the majority of the discourse discussing dialectical dynamics of our relations to the feeling of the absolute under the model of “oscillations and negativity”. From this we push towards the idea of a dialectical-historical understanding of the emergence of “perfect form.”
Source: Cadell Last
August 23, 2021
Claudia Mason spoke with singer-songwriter-composer and thought provoker Alex Ebert in the spring of 2021 on a variety of social themes that are greatly affecting humanity today: the importance of the universal law of interconnectivity; the need for a re-integration of death rituals; why we need a declaration of interdependence; and so much more.
Source: Claudia Mason
August 23, 2021
Claudia Mason spoke with singer-songwriter-composer and thought provoker Alex Ebert in the spring of 2021 on a variety of social themes that are greatly affecting humanity today: the importance of the universal law of interconnectivity; the need for a re-integration of death rituals; why we need a declaration of interdependence; and so much more, in her first interview since covid began.
Source: Claudia Mason
August 13, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dNKqS8Bbnk
July 20, 2021
Part 2 of 2 videos from a trip to Mexico City with Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros. We organized a trip to the neighborhood of Ecatepec just outside of Mexico City where they met up with students at a local school.
Source: Sean Patrick
July 16, 2021
We started our first discourse on lack in the context of the origin of philosophy in the Parmenidean presupposition of absolute being banishing the void; and its relationship to the emergence of psychoanalysis as a discipline that operates by necessity in the void of subjectivity. In our second discourse, I propose to shift our context to Democritus, and his atomist ontology, which we may say is the spontaneous unofficial metaphysics of scientific materialism (i.e. the universe at base is divided between indivisible somethings and nothing (“the void”). However, the complimentary opposite of atoms, the void, is often left unthought by scientific materialists, leaving open-ended the philosophical consequences of a presence that depends on absence. For Democritus, a presence that depends on absence signifies an important distinction vis-a-vis thinking “the real” (or fundamental reality), namely, that the most essential cannot be either a being (atoms, something), and neither can it be a non-being (void, nothing), but a paradox of the two. He referred to this paradox of the two as a “not-nothing”, or what we might call “Lack”. What does thinking Lack as a fundamental reality mean for scientific materialism?
Source: Cadell Last
July 15, 2021
Alex Ebert talks about how his success allows him to talk shit and care less about what “The Man” wants from him, but how we have unintentionally created creative homogeneity by making music so accessible.
Source: Loudermilk Clips
July 8, 2021
Source: Original The Kelly Clarkson Show | May 7, 2021
July 3, 2021
Source: Ken Kilgore
June 25, 2021
Our wide ranging conversation covers creativity, spirituality, racism, transgender, identity, death, rites of passage, and much more. This clip is taken from episode 339 of the Derek Loudermilk Show.
Source: Derek Loudermilk Show
June 17, 2021
I have little idea if this is going to help matters or worsen them. The cultural climate is toxic and its participants so fragile that it’s impossible to know how anything will be received. But it’s time I finally lay out my thoughts on the movement nearest me. I don’t see a lot of open self-reflection from the Left these days, and though many tongues are frozen, I feel many minds are racing.
Anyhow, the only real dissent is from the group to which you belong — and the time for my reluctance is over.
June 15, 2021
Alex Ebert talks about how his success allows him to talk shit and care less about what “The Man” wants from him, but how we have unintentionally created creative homogeneity by making music so accessible
Alex Ebert is one of the most unique and brilliant artists I have ever met. He is perhaps know for his hit song ‘Home’ and his band Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros; Alex has also won a Golden Globe for best original score for the 2013 film All is Lost.
Alex is not only an incredibly authentic musical artist, but he is also a philosopher, activist, and spiritual explorer. He produces videos on spirituality and social dilemmas on his Instagram
Our wide ranging conversation covers creativity, spirituality, racism, transgender, identity, death, rites of passage, and much more
Source: Loudermilk Clips | Episode 339 of the Derek Loudermilk Show
June 14, 2021
Source: The Austens
June 11, 2021
After listening to Alex Ebert’s fantastic presentation ‘Dead Cool’ at the Stoa we thought we would invite Alex, who like Alexander Bard, is a pop star turned philosopher for a discussion on ‘The Philosophy of Cool’. What is cool in the age of attentionalism? What is fake cool and what is real cool? How is cool related to Réne Girard’s theories of mimetic desire. Originally part of the Sweeny vs Bard podcast, we thought it exemplified a lively round table and should be part of the Strange Attractor series. After all ‘cool’ is a strange attractor and mysterious enough to merit a serious conversation.
Alexander Bard: Alexander Bard is a Swedish author, lecturer, artist, songwriter, music producer, TV personality, philosopher and political activist, and one of the founders of the Syntheist movement along with his co-author Jan Söderqvist. His books include “The Futurica Trilogy”, “Digital Libido” & “Syntheism”.
Thomas Hamelryck is a Lecturer and Researcher at the Bioinformatics Centre at the University of Copenhagen Biocenter. His academic research interests revolve around Machine learning, Bayesian statistics, Protein Structure Prediction, Probabilistic Programming, Deep Learning. He is also an enthusiast of Réne Girard, and denies all rumours that he was once the keyboard player for Depeche Mode.
Andrew Sweeny: Andrew Sweeny is a writer, editor, blogger, Youtuber, published poet, podcaster, musician, and teacher. He has worked as a touring musician and put out several albums, published a book of poetry, and animated two popular podcasts and a philosophical blog on Medium and now on Parallax. He Lectures at Sciences Po, in Paris, France.
Source: Parallex | Strange Attractor Roundtable Episode 3
June 10, 2021
Source: The Derek Loudermilk Show
June 5, 2021
Philosophy is a discipline classically concerned with “Being”, or the presence of Something. Why is there Something rather than Nothing? However, after more than a century of psychoanalysis, we may say that the human subject is an entity of Lack, or that Lacks. Thus, the human subject is a Being constituted by a contradictory identity, constantly attempting to fill in the persistent feeling that there is “Something missing.” In this conversation series, we seek to inquire deeper about the experience and the philosophy of Lack, and ultimately, what such a philosophy might say about our contemporary culture. Why is there Nothing rather than Something?
Source: Cadell Last
June 4, 2021
The Alexandrian Trinity join us for an epic enquiry into metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics and more. Alexander Ebert is an American singer-songwriter, composer and philosopher. Alexander Elung is a storyteller and philosopher. Alexander Bard is a music producer, TV star and philosopher.
In this conversation we touch on emergence vectortTheory, transcendental emergentism, theories of the prima materia of the universe – spacetime, space, hypertime, compression, implicate and explicate orders, habits of nature vs. laws of nature, determinism and transdeterminism, Roger Penrose’s physics, ontological design, ethics, the barred absolute, and aesthetics.
Source: Technosocial
June 4, 2021
The Alexandrian Trinity join us for an epic enquiry into metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics and more. In this conversation, we touch on emergence vectort Theory, transcendental emergentism, theories of the prima materia of the universe – spacetime, space, hypertime, compression, implicate and explicate orders, habits of nature vs. laws of nature, determinism and transdeterminism, Roger Penrose’s physics, ontological design, ethics, the barred absolute, and aesthetics.
Source: Technosocial