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| 12/29/2001 |
Relinquishment
or Regulation: Apocalyptic Threats, Part 2 and
Digital
Market Failures
Dr. J. concludes his reading of his essay "Relinquishment
or Regulation" and
then talks with Pat Gratton,
author of the forthcoming Digital
Needs.
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| 12/22/2001 |
Relinquishment
or Regulation: Apocalyptic Threats, Part 1
Dr. J. reads his essay
"Relinquishment
or Regulation: Dealing with Apocalyptic Technological Threats"
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| 12/15/2001 |
Getting
High for Science
Dr. J. Talks with Rick Doblin,
chair of Multidisciplinary Association for
Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), a group promoting the scientific study of
the therapeutic and spiritual use of psychedelic drugs. In November the
Food and Drug Administration approved a MAPS
proposal to study Ecstasy. |
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| 12/1/2001 |
Corporate
Cooptation
of the UN
Dr. J. talks with Connecticut globalist activists Judy Hyde and Charlie
Prewitt about the decision to disband the NECT chapter of the United
Nations Association in protest of corporate cooptation of the UN mission. |
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| 11/24/2001 |
Future War
Dr. J. talks with futurist John
Petersen, head of the Washington D.C.-based think tank The
Arlington institute, author of Out
of the Blue, on the future directions for terrorism
and military conflict. |
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| 11/17/2001 |
The Politics
of the Spike
Dr. J. talks with Damien
Broderick,
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| 11/10/2001 |
Osama
the Messiah: Islamic Apocalypticism
Dr. J. talks with Richard
Landes, Professor of Medieval History at Director of the Center
for Millenial Studies, about the Islamic apocalyptic mythos and its
connection to terrorism. |
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| 11/3/2001 |
Peace and Justice Through World Law
Dr. J. talks with
John
Anderson,
President of the
World
Federalist Association (WFA),
and Stacie Oliver, Youth Director of
the WFA, about opportunities for strengthening world law in the current
crisis.
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| 10/27/2001 |
Wars
and the Left
Dr. J. talks with Jim Chapin, political historian, Vice Chair of the Democratic
Socialists of America, and political correspondent for the United
Press International,
about the history and future of the Left in times
of war.
Dr. J. also chats with Gayle
Madwin, founder and director of Queer
by Choice, and group arguing that same-sex love can be conscious
choice.
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| 10/20/2001 |
The
Truth About Islam
Dr. J. talks with Armen
Saginian, Iranian dissident and director of the New
Horizons project to promote the secularization of Iran |
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| 10/13/2001
5pm |
Neuroanarchy:
From Cognitive Ecology to Social Ecology
A talk by activist Harry Halpin, recorded at the Renewing the
Anarchist
Tradition Summer Conference 2001 |
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The
Society of Mind by Marvin L. Minsky |
| 10/13/2001
5:30pm
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Save
James Swayze - Freeze Him!
James Swayze is a quadriplegic, a transhumanist, and he would really
like to get frozen so he could be fixed in the future. The founder of
the cryonics movement, Robert
Ettinger, has started a fund to make that possible. Dr. J. talks
with Swayze and Ettinger about cryonics and the Swayze fund. |
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| 10/6/2001 |
Cyberterrorism
vs. Cyberfreedom
Dr. J. talks with
Dorothy
Denning, author of Information
Warfare and Security, and Peter
Ludlow, editor of Crypto
Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias, about
terrorist uses of information technology and proposed crackdowns on
cyberanarchy. |
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| 9/22/2001 |
Lurking
Terror:
H.P. Lovecraft’s Socialism
Dr. J. talks with S.T.
Joshi, author of numerous
works on H. P. Lovecraft, and
editor of Atheism,
and the journal Necrofile: The Review of Horror Fiction. |
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| 9/15/2001 |
Auroville
and Spiritual Post-Humanism
Dr. J. talks with Wim
Aspleslagh,
a socially engaged educator living at and leading
student study visits to the Indian utopian community Auroville.
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The
Religious, the Spiritual, and the Secular : Auroville and Secular India
by Robert Neil Minor |
| 9/8/2001 |
Between Libertaria and
Socialism
Dr. J. talks with Ken
MacLeod, author of SF novels infused with savvy explorations
of socialist and anarcho-capitalist utopian ideas, such as The
Cassini
Division
and The
Stone Canal. |
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| 9/1/2001 |
Getting
High Safely
Dr. J. talks with Gene
Tinelli, MD, Ph.D. an addiction psychiatrist, former Commander in the
U.S. Navy Medical Corps, and advocate of a European-style harm reduction
approach to drugs. |
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| 8/25/2001 |
The
Seduction of Integrity
Dr. J. talks with Extropian musician and cryonics promoter E.
Shaun Russell about music, transhumanism and cryonics. |
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| 8/18/2001 |
Cyborg
Women
Dr. J. talks with Anne
Balsamo, author of Technologies
of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women. |
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| 7/21/2001 |
All
Hail the Clitoris
Dr. J. talks with Shere Hite,
feminist author of The Hite Report, and nine other books on the
sexual satisfaction of women. |
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| 7/14/2001 |
Folkways of the
Cyborgs
Dr. J. talks with
Steve
Mizrach, pioneer of cyberanthropology.
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| 7/7/2001 |
Extraterrestrial
Capitalism
Dr. J. talks with Jim
Benson, CEO of SpaceDev, the
first commercial space development company. |
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| 6/30/2001 |
The
Future of Comic Art
Dr. J. talks with comics
scholar
Charles Hatfield Ph.D.
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| 6/23/2001 |
Cyborg Babies: Brave New Reproduction
Dr. J. talks with
Robbie Davis-Floyd, an anthropologist and author
specializing in the technologizing or "cyborgization"
of birth. |
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| 6/16/2001 |
21st
Century Space Exploration
Dr. J. talks with Richard
Wagner, co-author of Designs
on Space: Blueprints for 21st Century Space Exploration and The
Case for Mars. |
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| 6/9/2001 |
Abolish All Work and Authority!
Dr. J. talks with anarchist
theorist Bob Black on technophilia,
"libertarians," anarchism and the end of work.
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Rants
and Incendiary Tracts
Friendly
Fire
Beneath
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| 6/2/2001 |
The Physics of Time Travel
Dr. J. talks with
Ronald
L. Mallett,
Professor of Physics at the University of Connecticut,
who is experimenting with
the
manipulation of time,
opening
the
theoretical possibility of a time machine.
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| 5/26/2001
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The Social Construction of
Sexuality
Dr. J. talks with Richard
Cohen, a "reparative
therapist," founder of
the International Healing
Foundation, helping
gay people turn straight.
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| 5/19/2001
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This is Your Brain on God
Dr. J. talks with
Andrew
Newberg M.D.,
director of the
Institute
for the Scientific Study of Meditation,
and author of
The
Mystical Mind
and
Why
God Won't Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief.
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| 5/12/2001
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Train Your Brain:
Neurofeedback and its
Applications
Dr. J. talks with
Rob
Kall,
president of
FutureHealth,
organizer of world's largest meeting on neurofeedback, and public
information officer for the
Association
for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback.
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| 5/5/2001
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Good Globalization
Dr. J. speaks with
Sarah
Anderson,
a research fellow at the
Institute
of Policy Studies
and author of
Field
Guide to the Global Economy,
about the
"Alternatives
for the Americas"
plan offered by the
Peoples
Summit
in Quebec City. The Alternatives document is a detailed
plan for trade and investment liberalization that protects democracy,
human rights, and the environment. |
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| 4/21/2001
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The
Internationale
Dr.
J. speaks with progressive filmmaker Peter Miller, co-producer
of
Ken
Burns' Jazz series,
about his new documentary on the socialist
anthem,
The
Internationale.
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| 4/14/2001
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TechnoPolitics
Dr. J. speaks with
Langdon
Winner,
political scientist, rock critic, and author of widely
influential works on the politics of technology, including
The
Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High
Technology and Autonomous Technology
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| 4/7/2001
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News of the Future
Dr. J. comments on the news items you missed and tried valiantly to
avoid. |
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| 3/31/2001
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Hunters Trapped in
a World Screwed Up by Farmers
Dr. J. talked to
Thom Hartmann,
author of numerous
books
on attention deficit disorder (ADD),
about his provocative
Hunter/Farmer
theory of ADD,
and about his manifesto for cultural revolution,
The
Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Waking Up to Personal and Global
Transformation.
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| 3/17/2001 |
Tracy
Quan:
Diarist of a Manhattan Call Girl
Dr. J. speaks with TRACY
QUAN,
former sex worker, and author of
"Nancy
Chan: Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl", serialized
in Salon.com,
and forthcoming in book form as Diary
of a Manhattan Call Girl.
A member of the Network
of Sex Work Projects, Ms. Quan also writes a wide diversity
of topics, including artificial
intelligence
and the
perils of premature puberty.
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| 3/10/2001 |
Bestiality,
Brains and Rhetorical Technology
Dr. J. reviews News of the
Future about cognition, animal love and golden rice.
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| 3/3/01 |
Better Thinking Through Chemistry
Dr. J. speaks with Steven
Fowkes, Director of the Cognitive
Enhancement Research Institute, about the growing evidence that
nootropic drugs or "smart drugs" and nutrients can improve
our memory and intelligence, and fend-off aging-related cognitive
decline. |
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| 2/24/01 |
Love Makes a Family
Dr. J. speaks with Ann
Stanbeck, chair of Connecticut Love
Makes a Family, about the struggle for legal recognition of GLBT
couples. See also Gay and lesbian
Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) and Lambda
Legal Defense and Education Fund. |
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| 2/17/01 |
Stop the Prison-Industrial
Complex!
Dr. J. interviews Kevin Pranis, chair of the Prison
Moratorium Project (PMP), a youth-led grassroots organization
dedicated to halting prison expansion, empowering youth and other
constituencies affected by prison expansion, and advocating for a
fair, effective and humane criminal justice system. |
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| 2/9/01 |
Bastards of
the
Great Space Jizz Shot
Interview with Brig Klyce,
evangelist for the theory of strong panspermia
- that all life on Earth, and most subsequent genetic modifications,
originated in extraterrestrial viruses, microorganisms, and DNA.
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| 2/2/01 |
Class
Warfare in the Information Age
Michael
Perelman, author of Class
Warfare in the Information Age and The
Invention of Capitalism: The Secret History of Primitive Accumulation (Duke
U.P. July 2000). |
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| 1/27/01 |
End the War!
Legalize 'em!
Dr. J. will be interviewing
Clifford W.
Thornton, Jr.,
co-founder of
EFFICACY,
a drug law reform lobby in Connecticut, and board member of the
National Organization for Marijuana Legalization
(NORML).
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| 1/20/01 |
Zia: Space Activist Grrrl Band
An interview with Elaine
Walker, founder of Zia,
a space activist grrrl band, designer of microtonal electronic
instruments, and organizer for the National
Space Society. |
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| 1/6/01 |
David
Brin:
Writing for the Future
Dr. J. talks with David Brin,
self-styled "cheerful libertarian" and author of the provocative
novels Earth
and the Uplift series. His book The
Transparent Society argues that absolute privacy may be
undesirable. Brin co-founded the Reading
for the Future organization. |
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