Episode 94

The second episode in a series with Gyrus which sprawls across a variety of topics in anthropology, cosmology, cognitive science and recent political developments. Gyrus continues to explain his motivation behind his mid-late-90's journal Towards 2012, and how this led on to the journal and blog Dreamflesh. We then move on to some anthropological ideas as discussed in one of his Dreamflesh essays, these concerning seemingly egalitarian hunter-gatherers and the invisible "political" structures in which they may exist which also include various non-human "persons" (spirits, ancestors, etc.).

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• Towards 2012
• Revolutionary Communist Party (UK)
• Living Marxism
• Spiked (online magazine)
• the left and environmentalism
• The RCP's Towards 2000
• Terence McKenna
• Dreamflesh blog
• Dreamflesh one-off print journal
• Gyrus, North: The rise & fall of polar cosmology (Strange Attractor Press, 2014)
• Marshall Sahlins
• hunter-gatherers
• SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies, London)
• David Graeber
• Debt: The first 5000 years (Melville House, 2011)
• Occupy Wall Street
• D. Graeber and M. Sahlins, On Kings (University of Chicago Press, 2016)
• "The Original Political Society" (Gyrus' 2016 essay on Sahlins, Graeber, etc.)
• Mbuti pygmies
• Yukaghir people
• Étienne de la Boétie
• Pierre Clastres
• Rane Willerslev
• mirror spider (Thwaitesia argentiopunctata)