Sean Trainor (@ess_trainor) is an historian, educator, writer, and podcaster. Sean has written for The Atlantic, TIME, Salon, and many other venues popular and academic. He is a professor at the University of Florida, where he is currently writing a book about beards in the nineteenth century. Sean co-hosts his own podcast, Impolitic. You can find more about Sean's work at his website, seantrainor.org. Sean is a socialist activist so we had some interesting debates about the prospects for activism today, and we covered just about all of the hot-button, culture-war topics of the moment: campus politics, trigger warnings, free speech, etc., including many observations from our personal experiences moving through left-wing circles and academia. We also talked about some more obscure topics such as Catholic anti-capitalism, the pleasures and pains of our respective podcasts, and why beards became so fashionable among men in the nineteenth century. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0E5UhPwEQ8

Alex Lee Moyer is the director of TFW NO GF and most recently Alex's War. We discuss Alex's perspective on filmmaking, Hollywood, independent vs. institutional pathways, and why it's worthwhile to produce politically difficult work. This was recorded at Urbit Assembly 2022. Alex Lee Moyer ✦ Watch Moyer's new documentary on Alex Jones: https://www.alexswar.com/ Other Life ✦ Subscribe to the coolest newsletter in the world https://OtherLife.co ✦ Get a free Urbit ship at https://imperceptible.computer IndieThinkers.org ✦ If you're working on independent intellectual work, join the next cohort of https://IndieThinkers.org 0:00 Intro 0:27 Why making contraversial films? 7:19 Making contraversial films 9:27 Convincing high-profile individuals to do documentaries 11:07 Current landscape for ambitious filmmakers 15:56 Advice for provocative artists 25:30 Authentic documentaries 33:15 Over-/underrated documentarians 36:21 Learning from Altman 38:54 Thoughts on Hollywood & future horizons 41:12 Alex Jones surprises 42:53 Reception of Alex's War 44:50 Risks making the documentary 51:42 Closing words ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_aR7IRe5Tw

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What is Decelerationism (#dec)? Is it fascist? What is eco-fascism? what is the difference between Left Decelerationism and Right Decelerationism? Was Kaczynski right about the Industrial System? Is the Archdruid John Michael Greer right? Was Linkola right? Wait, who even is Linkola? And who are all these people with trees in their Twitter names? I don't know the answers to any of these questions, but this guy Storm King seems to know a thing or two about such matters. He's got a tree in his Twitter name. So he's agreed to join me for a conversation about the Industrial System and its future, what he thinks is the correct political response, the ideological dimensions of #dec, and other things... Storm King makes music he describes as "Antimodern, antiliberal, dystopian synthwave... for the aspiring modern mystic." https://www.patreon.com/jmrphy ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHEVr3cfmKE