Listen to the full episode here https://www.patreon.com/posts/28563776/ “The human being is actually this kaleidoscope of different ways to relate to time and space. And to be present with it all, to be awake with it all, is what we’re doing.” Jean Gebser mapped the mutating structures of human consciousness, the topology of mind from archaic to magic to mythic to mental to integral. His work inspired generations of inquiry by authors like William Irwin Thompson and Ken Wilber. Now Jeremy Johnson’s latest book for Revelore Press expands into the truly visionary and unique “amensional” reality that Gebser posits as the next mutation for our planetary culture.   “We’re not just going to have an ‘archaic revival’ and dump what we’ve been doing with the nightmare of history. There’s something that’s been achieved in this kind of coalescing of the self and the emergence of spatial linear time that’s true, as well.” “The endgame of perspectivalism and the mental world…is eventually breaking down to the point where everyone has their own little perspectival ‘reality tunnel,’ where nobody’s able to talk to one another and everybody’s in this sense of cultural warfare and fragmentation and social isolation.” “You should know by now that things are ever-present.” Jeremy’s Book: https://revelore.press/product/seeing-through-the-world/ Jeremy’s Podcast: http://www.jeremydanieljohnson.com/mutations Discussed: James Joyce Marshall McLuhan Martin Heidegger Sri Aurobindo Grant Morrison Timothy Morton Doug Rushkoff Eugene Thacker Graham Harman Support the show on Patreon for an avalanche of secret episodes, writing, art, music, and the Future Fossils Book Club: https://patreon.com/michaelgarfield ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn3yfxizSYo

Listen to the full episode here https://www.patreon.com/posts/24320155/ This week it's a deep dive into futurist Stowe Boyd's research on Social Scaling, Boundless Curiosity, Deep Generalists, Emergent Leadership, and other major features in the metamorphic landscape of the 21st Century workplace. We live in an age when our human cognitive limits are being tested against a proliferation of possibilities in the digital space – and we zealously rush into always-on internet work, open office co-working spaces, enormous distributed online collaborations, and other novelties that seem to be more about the infinite capacity of our electronic tools than the finite reality of our minds and bodies. Stowe Boyd has been studying and reporting on the future of work for over a decade, and his blog Work Futures is one of my cherished news sources for understanding how “we shape our tools and then our tools shape us.” Talking with him is a blast of cool reason and warm humor about the insanity of the modern work environment and the impossible demands that it makes on us – pointing toward more lucid, grounded, manageable, and yes productive new modes of labor in the dizzying technological milieus to come. Learn More: StoweBoyd.com WorkFutures.org Check out a recent edition of his Work Futures newsletter: https://workfutures.substack.com/p/work-futures-daily-the-human-spring Support Future Fossils on Patreon and get access to secret episodes, our sci fi book club, and more: https://patreon.com/michaelgarfield We Discuss: Invented the term “social tools” and founded the Work Futures blog. How do we live in an unstable landscape in which new platforms are constantly replacing the ones where we’ve established merit and earned currencies? The return of publishing to human scale as a response to ubiquitous weaponized advertising. Book: Douglas Rushkoff, Present Shock The modern era of social networking isn’t about social concerns but business concerns…human curation returns to the fore in its primacy: newsletters, list management, etc. Why is it that certain tools and practices “work” for work, and some don’t? How certain ill-conceived collaboration software recreates the scaling problems of cruiseship tourism’s effects on local economies. Anywhere-ism and “The horrible sameness of the places we’re working these days” The paradox of blocking out open-office distractions with recordings of people talking in cafés. “If you want to be creative, turn the lights down. You are more creative if you have high ceilings and dark. So if you take all that away, which is usually what they do in open offices…” Ten Work Skills for the Post-Normal ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzqCwcIOFXI