SynTalk Podcast
1) #TEST (The Entangled Sweet Tooth) --- SynTalk
How many meals do you have time for? Why do sweets make you happy? Does fruit sugar (fructose) need insulin? Why does sugar spike? Are oranges and grapes differently sweet? Has sugar always been a tra...Show More
2) #TGIP (The Goddesses In Particular) --- SynTalk
#TGIP (The Goddesses In Particular) --- SynTalk by SynTalk
3) #TDAG (The Dead And Gone) --- SynTalk
Do you have neanderthal DNA? Is your body your identity? What makes the knowledge of death possible when no one alive has experienced it first hand? How does dying feel? What are your schemas for unde...Show More
4) #TOOP (The Oxygen Of Publicity) --- SynTalk
Are you a lobby strategist? Do you negotiate with yourself? Which taste group do you belong to? What are you allowed to see? Do you pay to publish? Do the algorithms that serve you change with you? Ho...Show More
5) #TGFF (The Grounds For Flight) --- SynTalk
What do you expect to see on windy islands? Can you soar? Are there a finite number of ways of flying? Did we glide before flying? Do birds & insects fly like planes, & vice versa? How are the lift-of...Show More
6) #TOOI (The Order Of Institutions) --- SynTalk
How do the disposable get marked out? Which institutions have cognitive control over you? How do you develop railways in Argentina? Who changes institutions? Is it always from ‘within’? Do institution...Show More
7) #TPOP (The Production Of Places) --- SynTalk
How ‘deep’ would a 1,000 years be? Is all space place? How do use, identity, value, law, power, or (‘imaginative’) memory hold them together? Do we live in layers? Are all human beings historical? Are...Show More
8) #TSOFF (The Susurrus Of Former Futures) --- SynTalk
What happened in the 6th century BCE? Can a non-human (robot? dog?) have a soul? Does God’s time move from the past to the future? Is the present, in a sense, always avant-garde? How are bureaucratic ...Show More
9) #TPHAL (The Punk Hooligan And Lumpen) --- SynTalk
Who does the kidnapping and raping? Are you a parasite? Is your politics in the service of capital? Do the lumpen form one group/class, or is it a general disposition? Are the punk ‘anti-social’ disru...Show More
10) #TTTC (The Transformations To Complex) --- SynTalk
Is pencil complex? Is computationally hard complex? Is ‘i’ a weird number? Why wasn’t Hamilton able to multiply triples? Are we just a bunch of neurons and connections? Is our ability to think (& do m...Show More