web02.fireside.fm Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:18:15 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Outsider Theory - Episodes Tagged with “The Internet” https://outsidertheory.fireside.fm/tags/the%20internet Mon, 18 Jul 2022 12:00:00 -0400 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 RIP Reality with Jon Askonas https://outsidertheory.fireside.fm/rip-reality 850f5686-0dda-4a33-a557-048995b306ce Mon, 18 Jul 2022 12:00:00 -0400 Geoff Shullenberger full Geoff Shullenberger Jon Askonas joins me to discuss his ongoing series of essays, "Reality: A Post-Mortem." 1:35:46 no Jon Askonas joins me to discuss his ongoing series of essays in The New Atlantis, "Reality: A Post-Mortem." Read the series here: https://www.thenewatlantis.com/collections/reality-a-post-mortem reality, consensus reality, television, the internet, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, fake news, adbusters, Kalle Lasn, Marshall McLuhan, media theory Jon Askonas joins me to discuss his ongoing series of essays in The New Atlantis, "Reality: A Post-Mortem."

Read the series here:

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/collections/reality-a-post-mortem

]]> Jon Askonas joins me to discuss his ongoing series of essays in The New Atlantis, "Reality: A Post-Mortem."

Read the series here:

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/collections/reality-a-post-mortem

]]> Deep Internet History with Default Friend https://outsidertheory.fireside.fm/deep-internet-history 9dc5d4d6-22d3-4220-9538-a02930b8fa93 Wed, 24 Nov 2021 14:00:00 -0500 Geoff Shullenberger full Geoff Shullenberger Default Friend joins me to discuss Sherry Turkle's early sociological studies of the effects of the internet on identity, community, and the popularization of theory. 1:26:22 no Default Friend is a writer investigating the deep history of the internet on her substack, Default Wisdom. She joins me to discuss one of our mutual interests: the work of the sociologist Sherry Turkle, and the light her pioneering 1995 study Life on the Screen sheds on the early history of the internet and the way the 90s internet anticipated present realities. We also explore the implications of Turkle's argument that the internet rendered concrete the abstractions of postmodern theory, as well as Default Friend's own work on fandom, Tumblr and other facets of "the millennial internet." https://defaultfriend.substack.com/ http://www.mit.edu/people/sturkle/Life-on-the-Screen.html Sherry Turkle, the internet, Multi-User Domains, fandom, Tumblr, identity, theory, postmodernism Default Friend is a writer investigating the deep history of the internet on her substack, Default Wisdom. She joins me to discuss one of our mutual interests: the work of the sociologist Sherry Turkle, and the light her pioneering 1995 study Life on the Screen sheds on the early history of the internet and the way the 90s internet anticipated present realities. We also explore the implications of Turkle's argument that the internet rendered concrete the abstractions of postmodern theory, as well as Default Friend's own work on fandom, Tumblr and other facets of "the millennial internet."

https://defaultfriend.substack.com/

http://www.mit.edu/people/sturkle/Life-on-the-Screen.html

]]> Default Friend is a writer investigating the deep history of the internet on her substack, Default Wisdom. She joins me to discuss one of our mutual interests: the work of the sociologist Sherry Turkle, and the light her pioneering 1995 study Life on the Screen sheds on the early history of the internet and the way the 90s internet anticipated present realities. We also explore the implications of Turkle's argument that the internet rendered concrete the abstractions of postmodern theory, as well as Default Friend's own work on fandom, Tumblr and other facets of "the millennial internet."

https://defaultfriend.substack.com/

http://www.mit.edu/people/sturkle/Life-on-the-Screen.html

]]> 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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