Jul 26, 2024
Media theorist and internet legend Douglas Rushkoff joins the show this week.
We explore:
- Is there even such a thing as 'media' anymore?
- The promises and (many) failings of the tech world.
- UBIs, digital utopias and dystopias.
- Where we look for hope and optimism now.
- Where magic sits in our shared realities.
An amazing...
Jul 25, 2024
Two contemporary deck creators, Balthazar Blacke and Natalia Lee, join the show this week for a round table on fortune telling and the role oracle cards specifically should have in your cartomantic practice.
We explore:
- The things oracle cards can do that tarot cannot. (And vice versa!)
- Which situations call for which...
Jul 19, 2024
Legendary cultural curator, media theorist and provocateur Richard Metzger joins the show this week.
Richard, of course, co-founded The Disinformation Company, founded Dangerous Minds and has spent decades observing and participating in the changing media landscape.
He is with us now to talk about his latest project,...
Jul 12, 2024
This week's solo show forms part of a collection of observations lining us up for the beginning of the five-month, gargantuan Time Magic course we're starting in August.
Here, we explore the quiet politics of magical thinking:
- The origin of the term.
- How it sort of is and sort of isn't like magical realism.
- Examples of...
Jul 2, 2024
Chance Gardner and Vanese McNeil, producers of the legendary documentary series Magical Egypt, join the show this week.
We discuss
- Getting history right and wrong.
- The legacy of John Anthony West and R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz.
- Materialism and its impact on studying history.
- The latest series of Magical Egypt -which...