Humans On The Loop: Wisdom for an Age of Magical Technologies
Michael Garfield
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Visionary Ventures & The AI-Native Avant-Garde with William Morgan of Restless Egg
Today’s guest is William Morgan, the co-founder of Restless Egg, a London-based incubator and accelerator designed specifically for a new class of “artist-founders” whose work synthesizes art, technology, and commercial product design. His thesis: The tech sector’s obsession with optimization can’t help us discover the genuinely novel forms of human experience that this intelligent substrate makes possible. If we want something truly better, we need to cultivate the taste and discernment to know which futures are worth living in — and radically expand our imagination regarding what human-machine relationships can actually look like. ✨ Become a founding member to access my online courses, including Jurassic Worlding and How To Live In The Future ✨ Browse and buy the books we mention on the show at Bookshop.org ✨ Stream and download my music at artist-owned (!) Subvert.fm ✨ Learn about Atlas Research Group, my new team building sovereign infrastructure for social coherence and collective intelligence. Chapters 00:00 Teaser: Taste & Sovereign Choice 02:46 Intro 06:41 Meet William Morgan 08:05 The Origins of The Avant-Garde 10:09 Taste and Abundance 12:12 Luxury Tech and Experience 15:57 Why Experiment? 20:21 Venture Models and Niches 25:20 The Sense Organs of Society 30:51 Rethinking Venture Incentives 38:54 Slop and Subculture Rebellion 47:13 Beyond “In” or “Out” 50:51 Founder Experiments Showcase 57:03 Scenius is Real Value Mentioned Restless Egg’s Half Dozen Newsletter Art Is Everything You Don’t Have To Do by Cory Doctorow The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge by Abraham Flexner This collective is radically rethinking what it means to make art by Thom Waite at Dazed Digital The Dimensions of Experience by Andrew P. Smith Mount Analogue by René Daumal The Nerves of Government by Karl Deutsch Why Software is Eating The World by Marc Andreessen Y Combinator’s Simple Agreement for Future Equity Common As Airby Lewis Hyde Standing by Wordsby Wendell Berry Right Story, Wrong Storyby Tyson Yunkaporta Fall by Neal Stephenson The Politics of Visionby Lydia Nochlin The Key to Science Fictionby Damien Walter Flora Weil Antithykera CCRU Luciana Parisi George Bataille Matthew David Segall This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit michaelgarfield.substack.com/subscribe
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