An anti-ideological guide to modern life created and hosted by Casey Franco. Each episode focuses on a phenomenon of modern life and attempts to explain it using philosophy, psychology, sociology, or semiotics so you never have to feel like you're at the mercy of gods, masters, or clout.
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The METAfesto: A Plea for Digital Dialecticism
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During my foray into grad school, one of my favorite professors asked me to write my own manifesto as an assignment. His only instructions were to include a call to action and to "be bombastic." This is a reading of said assignment. My goal here was to put forward the idea that virtual worlds like the Metaverse are not only unnecessary but actively…
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Occupy WallStreetBets: Digital Revolutions and Technological Constructivism
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Since it's probably going to take another year for me to finish the second episode of the "Fear Inoculant" series, I'm going to repurpose some papers I wrote in grad school into a few bonus episodes of the next month or so. This episode focuses on the Wall Street Bets / GameStop "revolution" of January 2021 and its implications on the politics of t…
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Fear Inoculant 1 - Events, Reality, Freedom, and Revolution
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Many things in modern life make us fearful. The Fear Inoculant series will explore ways to be less fearful and live a more authentic life. In this, the first of three episodes, we cover a host of philosophical concepts aimed at demystifying reality in order to lay the groundwork for examining social movements in the next episode. We start with expl…
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The Philosophy of Persuasion and The Anti-Salesman
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In this episode: Aristotle’s Rhetorical Triangle, how I escaped a cult, why we must care about others, and how it can all be applied to persuasion, art creation, ideology, and modern life. We delve into some of the philosophical reasons behind what makes one “good” at rhetoric. I talk about how some of Lacan’s, Freud’s, and Jung’s psychological wri…
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