Currents 032: Tyson Yunkaporta on Spirits, GameB & Protopias

The Jim Rutt Show

Tyson Yunkaporta joins Jim for another wide-ranging yarn that covers DMT & machine elves, survivance, ego death, selling souls, and much more... Tyson Yunkaporta joins Jim for another wide-ranging yarn that starts off with DMT & machine elves. They cover Jim's misspent youth, police violence, nuance vs Occam's razor, Tyson's impressions of GameB & the sensemakers, Tyson's unpublished Survivance essay, Jim's recent emu encounter & live intentional ego death, utilizing drugs, selling our souls to social media, debt jubilee & the road to GameB, ProtoBs as a dynamic exploration, utopia vs protopia, the value of cognitive dissonance, and much more. Episode Transcript Tyson's Podcast, The Other Others Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World JRS: Currents 010: Tyson Yunkaporta on Humans As Custodial Species JRS: EP66 Tyson Yunkaporta on Indigenous Knowledge JRS: EP65 Tyson Yunkaporta on Indigenous Complexity The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy JRS: Currents 030: Daniel Schmachtenberger on The Consilience Project JRS: EP123 Jamie Wheal on Recapturing the Rapture EmancipationParty.org Tyson Yunkaporta is an academic, an arts critic, and a researcher who is a member of the Apalech Clan in far north Queensland. He carves traditional tools and weapons and also works as a senior lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges at Deakin University in Melbourne. He lives in Melbourne and is the author of Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World.