Hacking State
by Alex Murshak
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60 - Garrett Dailey: A Neighborhood Where All Your Friends Live
60 - Garrett Dailey: A Neighborhood Where All Your Friends Live
About this podcast
Exploring how technology changes our relationship to power, each other, and ourselves.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 58 episodes
- 60 - Garrett Dailey: A Neighborhood Where All Your Friends Live · 1 h 9 min · Episode 60Garrett Dailey is a designer and brand consultant, and the founder of Lucid, a consultancy that helps startups simplify their pitches and messaging. He is a former philosophy…
- 59 - Tom Mullaney: How We Disappear — The Art of Being Forgotten · 1 h 31 min · Episode 59I sit down with Thomas S. Mullaney — professor of modern Chinese history and the history of technology at Stanford, Guggenheim Fellow, and director of Stanford's Program in…
- 58 - Aidan Beshoff: Below the Surface of the Mind · 1 h 0 min · Episode 58I sit down with Aidan Beshoff, a qualified hypnotist, certified practitioner of clinical hypnotherapy, past life regression, QHHT, and ceremonial magick, and the founder of…
- 57 - Rambo Van Halen Reports The Death of Hollywood · 1 h 36 min · Episode 57I sit down with Rambo Van Halen to discuss his new book, Hollywood Samizdat, released through Passage Press, which serves as a personal account of his experiences in the film…
- 56 - The Machine that Makes the Machine with Matt Parlmer · 2 h 4 min · Episode 56Matt Parlmer is the founder and CEO of General Fabrication Company, a self-reproducing factory company. We cover the origins of Gen Fab in the realization that we now have the…
- 55 - Aneil Mallavarapu: Why AI Cannot Have Consciousness · 1 h 51 min · Episode 55Aneil Mallavarapu is a biochemist, award winning computer scientist, and Managing Partner at Humain Ventures; investing in early stage life science and health tech startups. We…
- 54 - Kyle Housley: The Right to Bear Arms and the Wrong Way to Think About Love · 1 h 4 min · Episode 54Kyle Housley is a writer and co-host of a new podcast, Horizons Review, with longtime friend of the show, Cody Moser, exploring neglected intellectual texts and thinkers. We…
- 53 - Charles Herrman: Duties of Honor vs. Rights of Dignity · 60 min · Episode 53In this episode, I have the pleasure of speaking with Charles Herman, a philosopher and senior research fellow at the American Institute for Philosophical and Cultural Thought…
- 52 - Uberboyo: Christ vs. Nietzsche - The West's Moral Revolutionaries · 1 h 15 min · Episode 52In this episode, I sit down with Uberboyo, a prominent YouTuber and Nietzschean thinker, to explore the complex relationship between Christianity and Nietzscheanism. Our…
- 51 - Patrick Casey: The New New Right · 56 min · Episode 51I sit down with Patrick Casey — political commentator, writer, and creator of Restoring Order — for a deep-dive interview on the state of right-wing politics in America. We…
- 50 - Arcadius Strauss: A Techno-Nationalist Future · 1 h 4 min · Episode 50In this episode of Hacking State I discuss "Techno-Nationalism for Building Western Civilization 4.0" with Arcadius Strauss. We examine the un-sustainability of our current…
- 49 - Alex Petkas: Greco-Futurism and the Return of Zeal · 1 h 9 min · Episode 49Alex Petkas is host of Cost of Glory podcast. He holds a PhD in Classics from Princeton, and teaches on persuasion, heroes, and Plutarch’s "Parallel Lives." We talk about the…
- 48 - Raw Egg Nationalist: Health, Hormones, and Social Control · 58 min · Episode 48I am joined by Raw Egg Nationalist, creator and publisher of Man’s World Magazine, co-founder of Kindred Harvest, and author of "The Eggs Benedict Option." We discuss the…
- 47 - Alex Priou: From Plato to Palantir - Philosophy's Place in Technological Society · 1 h 9 min · Episode 47Alex Priou is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy and Interim Dean of the Center for Intellectual Foundations at University of Austin, as well as co-host of The New…
- 46 - ARX-Han: The Shape of Meaning | Shame, Masculinity, Nihilism, and Agency · 1 h 6 min · Episode 46ARX-Han is a novelist and publisher of the Decentralized Fiction Substack. He joins me to discuss cultural accelerationism, shame and masculinity, nihilism and the crisis of…
- 45 - Edward Luttwak: The Vitality of War · 1 h 0 min · Episode 45Edward Luttwak is a legendary military historian and grand strategist, known for his books “Coup d’Etat: A Practical Handbook,” “Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace,” and “The…
- 44 - Daniel Hess: Fixing the Fertility Crisis · 1 h 18 min · Episode 44Daniel Hess is the writer behind More Births, ideas for reversing the collapse in global fertility. MoreBirths is a data-driven resource dedicated to helping humanity to…
- 43 - Jonathan Scharf: The Future of Energy | Nuclear, AI, and Renewables · 57 min · Episode 43Jonathan Scharf is a PhD energy consultant specializing in renewable energy. They discuss Jonathan's eclectic background, his transition from academia to industry, and the…
- 42 - Daniel Schwarzhoff: Meditations on Emotional Resilience in Politics · 1 h 4 min · Episode 42In this conversation, Alex Murshak speaks with Schwarzhoff Jr., co-founder of the See meditation app, about the importance of emotional regulation in today's political climate…
- 41 - Thom Ivy: The State of Persuasion · 1 h 26 min · Episode 41The enlightening Thom Ivy joins me to discuss pheromones, bioenergetics and Peating, state management, hypnosis, and propaganda. Thom Ivy on X: https://x.com/thom_ivy_1 If you…







