About this episode

Philip McKenzie discusses culture and the marketing landscape with guest Peter Spear.

Philip welcomes. Peter Spear, host and curator of the newsletter and podcast That Business of Meaning to the show. In their conversation, they discuss all things culture and how the current marketing and media landscape make sense of the world around it. The Drop – The segment of the show where Philip and his guest share tasty morsels of intellectual goodness and creative musings. Philip’s Drop: Vox – Christine Dalcher Primal (HBO Max) Peter’s Drop: Stephen Asma on Imagination Stephen Asma on Monsters & Imagination Book: The Evolution of Imagination Article Imaginology: Towards a New Study of Imagination Stephen Asma on the Strange & Unusual YouTube Professor Asma’s Guide to Unusual Knowledge Spotify Chinwag with Paul Giamatti Ursula LeGuin "Listening is Telling” Jeffrey Kripal Jeffrey Kripal on Humanities & the Impossible Books The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief and Everything Else.

People in this episode

Host: Philip McKenzie

Guest: Peter Spear

Topics covered

• business
• culture
• marketing
• media
• imagination

Keywords

• business of meaning
• culture
• marketing
• media
• imagination

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Primal, The Evolution of Imagination, Imaginology: Towards a New Study of Imagination, The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge, How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief and Everything Else

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