Becoming Hyperhuman with Carl Hayden Smith

About this episode

The episode features a discussion with Carl Hayden Smith on the intersection of technology and hyperhumanism.

This week we come at technology sideways with help from hyperspace explorer Carl Hayden Smith, Associate Professor of Media at the University of East London ( Talks & Papers ), Founder of The Museum of Consciousness at New College, University of Oxford , co-founder of the Cyberdelic Nexus , Director at Noonautics and head of Context Engineering at Eleusis . ✨ Carl is currently teaching a course on Apocalyptic Hyperhumanism with Layman Pascal at Cadell Last’s Philosophy Portal! More info and enrollment here . ✨ Our next Humans On The Loop members hangout is this Sunday January 18th at 10:00 am Mountain Time! Calendar invite coming soon for subscribers. ✨ All of the unedited, unreleased episodes are available to founding members here . ✨ Show Links • Dig into nine years of mind-expanding conversations • Browse the books we discuss on the show at Bookshop.org• Learn more about the Humans On The Loop project and its goals• Explore the Google Notebook for How To Live In The Future, my five-week science and philosophy course at Weirdosphere• Contact me if you have burning questions ✨ Mentions Max CooperHunter S. Thompson Doug Rushkoff Friedrich NietzscheAndrew GallimoreJohn Vervaeke K…

People in this episode

Host: Michael Garfield

Guest: Carl Hayden Smith

Topics covered

• technology
• hyperhumanism
• media
• philosophy
• consciousness

Keywords

• hyperhumanism
• technology
• consciousness
• media
• philosophy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of East London, The Museum of Consciousness, New College, University of Oxford, Cyberdelic Nexus, Noonautics, Eleusis

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