About this podcast
Exploring the underpinnings of Art and Culture.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 23 episodes
- Information Gatherers · 4 min · Season 3 Episode 4On how the category of information denigrates, and threatens to dismiss, all human endeavour.
- The Not Yets · 4 min · Season 3 Episode 3On the willing - although typically unwitting - conflation of 'AI consciousness' being human-based as opposed to alien.
- Inevitable AI? It Strikes a Chord · 5 min · Season 2 Episode 2How the so-called unprecedented situation regarding AI is in fact not so unprecedented as it might seem: the advent of 12-tone music provides a near- perfect parallel.
- From Dawning till Musk · 4 min · Season 3 Episode 1From Dawning till Musk: Dismantling in three stages Musk's argument that one ought not attack AI when it "believes that it has feelings".
- So What's Your Disorder? On the Perils of Modern Psychiatry · 9 min · Season 2 Episode 10So What's Your Disorder? Examining the perilous consequences of modern psychiatry and how it ultimately increases demand for tyrannical dictatorships.
- It's Not About AI · 6 min · Season 2 Episode 9Inquiry into the underlying motivations of proponents of an AI-dominated future.
- No Criticism, No Culture · 4 min · Season 2 Episode 8Brief inquiry into the considerable societal consequences of disallowing free criticism.
- The Endless Square · 4 min · Season 2 Episode 7Furthering the analogy between the Necker cube and Quantum Mechanics via a simple thought experiment involving the collapse of three-dimensioned space.
- Unsettling Cube: Superposition, QM, and the Necker Cube · 3 min · Season 2 Episode 6A short introduction pertaining to Superposition in Quantum Mechanics using the so-called 'Necker' Cube.
- Immunotopia: Picturing Thirty Years On From Covid · 12 min · Season 2 Episode 5Immunotopia: A thought-experiment opting from a thirty-years' perspective on one of the most devastating events in human history: the Covid era.
- Battle Scars: A Reality of Zionism · 4 min · Season 2 Episode 4A brief episode on the inescapable historic reality of Zionism and its ramifications.
- Ragtime S2#3: The Science · 9 min · Season 2 Episode 3Ragtime S2 Episode 3: The Science. A short 9’ episode which examines the true meaning - albeit rarely understood - of moral relativism, leading to an argument featuring a brief…
- Ragtime S2 #2: The Path of Least Resistance: Reflections on the Kristian Winther Interview · 12 min · Season 2 Episode 2A brief, experimental episode which examines and critiques certain points raised in the previous interview with Kristian Winther.
- Ragtime S2 #1: Is a Mushroom Cloud Beautiful II? · 1 h 29 min · Season 2 Episode 1Ragtime Series 2 Episode#1: Is a Mushroom Cloud Beautiful? Featuring virtuoso violinist, deep thinker and maverick artist Kristian Winther. 0:00. Intro: On a mushroom cloud 0:45…
- Ragtime #9: The Language of Violence · 4 min · Season 1 Episode 9Ragtime #9: The Language of Violence. A brief homage to Charlie Kirk, assassinated for opposing cult ideology.
- Ragtime #8: AI - A Necessary Predicament · 3 min · Season 1 Episode 8Ragtime #8: AI - A Necessary Predicament. Examining the shattering relevance of Walter Benjamin's most prescient essay.
- Ragtime #7 - The Mass Man · 3 min · Season 1 Episode 7Ragtime #7 - The Mass Man: outlining the attributes of a most dangerous type of character, the 'mass-man', through the prism of Kierkegaard and Jung.
- Ragtime #6 - Streets of Consciousness · 1 h 28 min · Season 1 Episode 6Ragtime #6 - Streets of Consciousness: Few might imagine that a most celebrated street musician is in fact a brilliant academic intellect, composer, painter, poet, as well as a…
- Ragtime#5 - A Slippery Battlefield · 3 min · Season 1 Episode 5Host Benjamin Martin on how a lack of grassroots artistic initiative results in a vacuum that is filled by a veneer culture.
- Ragtime#4: Loose Canon · 1 h 28 min · Season 1 Episode 4The sprawling, thought-provoking, and highly entertaining fourth episode of Ragtime with the brilliant Peter de Jager and renowned scholar and performer Peter Tregear. 0’00…
