Rejecting both the empty promise of a future of magically sustainable resource extraction and a return to what has already been, Dr. Shane Simonsen examines possibilities for social and ecological complexity based only on biology and the human imagination. In his Zero Input Agriculture blog, Going to Seed podcast, and Our Vitreous Womb fiction series, Dr. Simonsen explores a set of themes strongly overlapping with those of Fight Like An Animal. He imagines futures in which the human evolutionary trend toward diminished reactive aggression has resulted in a nearly complete loss of the fear of death, hybridizes plants on his experimental farm in an effort to develop subsistence ecologies which will thrive after the age of machines, and looks for ways to condense the bewilderingly complexity of current scientific knowledge into fables or other narratives that can be concisely transmitted when we return to telling stories around fires. In this episode, we talk about the long decline we are currently witnessing as an epoch of amazing opportunity for shaping the trajectory of the future; examine the frontiers of biological innovation, including his incredibly low-cost and low-tech methods of transgenic experimentation; evaluate evolution's propensity for hybridization between totally unrelated species; and much more.
Sub-Self, Meet Meta-Self: Notes on The Emerging World Mind
Jesus of Nazareth and the Biology of Defeat
The Biological Singularity Is Near pt. 1
Metanoia: How Worldviews Change
Vivimancer pt. 1: The Water Carrier (excerpt)
Seeds of the World Tree: Programs of Revolutionary Biology and Evolutionary Politics
Social Cohesion vs. the Internet vs. the Establishment vs. the Earth
#66: A Saboteur's Moon Sheds No Light (excerpt)
The Ashes of the World Tree: On Grieving and Fighting
Metamorphosis pt. 3.3: Your Body Is a Map of the Sky
Metamorphosis pt. 3.2: Integration across Landscapes and Brain Regions
Metamorphosis pt. 3.1: The Rupture in the Fabric of Reality Model of Human Cognition
Metamorphosis pt. 2: The Cognitive Evolutionary Avant-Garde
Metamorphosis pt. 1: The Age of Mutual Incomprehension
The Incompetent Authoritarianism of Vladimir Lenin
Revolutionary Biology pt. 2: The Development and Evolution of Sasquatch
Revolutionary Biology pt. 1: Nature vs. Nurture vs. Synthesis
The Raven Politics of Terra Incognita
Narcissists, Strongmen, and Technocrats pt. 2
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