web02.fireside.fm Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:43:29 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Outsider Theory - Episodes Tagged with “Myth” https://outsidertheory.fireside.fm/tags/myth Wed, 22 Dec 2021 14:45:00 -0500 Outsider Theory is an interview-based podcast exploring the mutations of theories outside of the authorized spaces of intellectual life as well as theories of that ever-alluring figure, the outsider, and related subjects. en-us episodic Theory on the outside, theory of the outside, outside of the theory Geoff Shullenberger Outsider Theory is an interview-based podcast exploring the mutations of theories outside of the authorized spaces of intellectual life as well as theories of that ever-alluring figure, the outsider, and related subjects. no critical theory, conspiracy theory, outsider intellectuals, outsiders, the outside Geoff Shullenberger gshullenb@gmail.com Plague and Myth with @fitnessfeelingz https://outsidertheory.fireside.fm/plague-and-myth 307313a3-ccbc-4905-ab4b-a41ed61f896a Wed, 22 Dec 2021 14:45:00 -0500 Geoff Shullenberger full Geoff Shullenberger @fitnessfeelingz joins me to explore what René Girard can teach us about the Covid pandemic. 1:57:17 no @fitnessfeelingz posted a recent Twitter thread arguing that Covid is a modern myth: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1465794640481857542.html By this he means not that the pathogen SARS-COV-2 is not real, but that the existence of the pathogen does not account for its manifold social and political impacts. To make sense of these, we turn to René Girard's understanding of myth as a social technology that binds societies together in response to a common enemy. We consider how Covid-19 has come to perform this function, and why its limited efficacy in this regard only spurs more ritualized responses to it. https://outsidertheory.com/girards-revelation/ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/rene-girard-cancel-culture-and-the-logic-of-sacrifice René Girard, scapegoating, sacrifice, Covid-19, coronavirus, myth, ritual, religion, divinity, pharmakos, pharmakon @fitnessfeelingz posted a recent Twitter thread arguing that Covid is a modern myth:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1465794640481857542.html

By this he means not that the pathogen SARS-COV-2 is not real, but that the existence of the pathogen does not account for its manifold social and political impacts. To make sense of these, we turn to René Girard's understanding of myth as a social technology that binds societies together in response to a common enemy. We consider how Covid-19 has come to perform this function, and why its limited efficacy in this regard only spurs more ritualized responses to it.

https://outsidertheory.com/girards-revelation/

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/rene-girard-cancel-culture-and-the-logic-of-sacrifice

]]> @fitnessfeelingz posted a recent Twitter thread arguing that Covid is a modern myth:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1465794640481857542.html

By this he means not that the pathogen SARS-COV-2 is not real, but that the existence of the pathogen does not account for its manifold social and political impacts. To make sense of these, we turn to René Girard's understanding of myth as a social technology that binds societies together in response to a common enemy. We consider how Covid-19 has come to perform this function, and why its limited efficacy in this regard only spurs more ritualized responses to it.

https://outsidertheory.com/girards-revelation/

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/rene-girard-cancel-culture-and-the-logic-of-sacrifice

]]> The Digital Dionysian with Chris Gabriel https://outsidertheory.fireside.fm/digital-dionysian 8c09f457-00ae-4ae0-a3ef-92d485547be6 Tue, 09 Mar 2021 08:00:00 -0500 Geoff Shullenberger full Geoff Shullenberger Chris Gabriel, creator of the MemeAnalysis Youtube channel, on why memes are now the royal road to the collective unconscious. 58:00 no Chris Gabriel, creator of the MemeAnalysis Youtube channel, joins Outsider Theory to discuss why memes are now the royal road to the collective unconscious. We also discuss how the internet traps Dionysian energies in an Apollinian dreamworld; why Burroughs's word virus is a better model than Dawkinsian memetics for understanding the meme form; what the most revealing memetic formations of the present are; and why we need mythmaking more than therapy. MemeAnalysis: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb4pvsyqNrmBIGJFQxEukUA Effluvia: https://goddisk.substack.com/ Meme Intelligence Agency: https://open.spotify.com/show/4GPyOdF5f4Ja02lIq407zl?si=D6ticZDvSdS4Ennv95pNFg Aeonic Comics: https://www.instagram.com/aeoniccomics/ memes, the internet, dionysian, apollinian, myth, collective unconscious, Nietzsche, Jung, Freud, Burroughs Chris Gabriel, creator of the MemeAnalysis Youtube channel, joins Outsider Theory to discuss why memes are now the royal road to the collective unconscious. We also discuss how the internet traps Dionysian energies in an Apollinian dreamworld; why Burroughs's word virus is a better model than Dawkinsian memetics for understanding the meme form; what the most revealing memetic formations of the present are; and why we need mythmaking more than therapy.

MemeAnalysis: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb4pvsyqNrmBIGJFQxEukUA

Effluvia: https://goddisk.substack.com/

Meme Intelligence Agency: https://open.spotify.com/show/4GPyOdF5f4Ja02lIq407zl?si=D6ticZDvSdS4Ennv95pNFg

Aeonic Comics: https://www.instagram.com/aeoniccomics/

]]> Chris Gabriel, creator of the MemeAnalysis Youtube channel, joins Outsider Theory to discuss why memes are now the royal road to the collective unconscious. We also discuss how the internet traps Dionysian energies in an Apollinian dreamworld; why Burroughs's word virus is a better model than Dawkinsian memetics for understanding the meme form; what the most revealing memetic formations of the present are; and why we need mythmaking more than therapy.

MemeAnalysis: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb4pvsyqNrmBIGJFQxEukUA

Effluvia: https://goddisk.substack.com/

Meme Intelligence Agency: https://open.spotify.com/show/4GPyOdF5f4Ja02lIq407zl?si=D6ticZDvSdS4Ennv95pNFg

Aeonic Comics: https://www.instagram.com/aeoniccomics/

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