Vivimancer pt. 1: The Water Carrier (excerpt)
Perpetually replenishing his organs by inducing his cells to behave like those of an early embryo, Arnold continues the 100th year of his podcast. In Fight Like An Animal 2120: Vivimancer, we examine ...
21 Sep 20235min
Seeds of the World Tree: Programs of Revolutionary Biology and Evolutionary Politics
Fight Like An Animal has generated an incredible audience consisting of rigorous thinkers who possess deep empathy. These traits, which are too rarely combined in political movements and institutions,...
22 Aug 202347min
Social Cohesion vs. the Internet vs. the Establishment vs. the Earth
A wide-ranging conversation between Arnold and Daniel of What Is Politics? concerning the prospects for social transformation in this dreamlike age of epistemic fracture. We talk about the impact of d...
19 Aug 20231h 45min
#66: A Saboteur's Moon Sheds No Light (excerpt)
Before this podcast began, a nascent version of Fight Like An Animal 2050 was called A Saboteur's Moon Sheds No Light, broadly following the same narrative trajectory of revolutionary transformation a...
29 Jul 20232min
The Ashes of the World Tree: On Grieving and Fighting
Our worldviews emerge from our psychologies, from embodied states of being. In an effort to describe my framework for understanding social possibility beyond ecological tipping points, I have decided ...
7 Jul 20233h 1min
Metamorphosis pt. 3.1: The Rupture in the Fabric of Reality Model of Human Cognition
We continue to assess our future evolutionary prospects, this time picking up the story of the human journey where Homo sapiens emerges. Anatomically modern humans have existed for ~300 thousand years...
21 Jun 20231h 49min
Metamorphosis pt. 3.2: Integration across Landscapes and Brain Regions
We continue the story of humanity's journey to modern thought and behavior, examining how a mosaic of both cultural and anatomical traits existed throughout Africa for ~200 thousand years. Then, this ...
21 Jun 20231h 12min
Metamorphosis pt. 3.3: Your Body Is a Map of the Sky
We examine the neurobiological changes that brought archaic Homo sapiens into behavioral modernity, despite negligible changes in brain size. We see how complex symbolic capacities are embedded in ana...
21 Jun 20232h 3min
