Theory for the internet’s unsettled edge.
The gist
Other Life moves between long-form interviews, solo reflections, and close readings of difficult texts. Its center of gravity is where political theory, internet culture, crypto infrastructure, classical philosophy, and personal ambition start to blur together.
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About Other Life
Other Life is a wide-ranging intellectual podcast about humanities, social theory, technology, and the pressure of living online. Its episodes feel less like polished media packages than extended attempts to think a problem through. That can mean an interview about Jacob Siegel’s The Information State and the shift of power into digital systems. It can also mean a direct solo reflection on fatherhood, stalled creative output, or the work of coming back after falling off. The show is comfortable with tension. It puts political sovereignty, social media, government power, family life, and markets into the same analytic frame. One week may center on Urbit, Nockchain, NFTs, Ethereum-based identity, and the psychology of crypto markets. Another may linger over Plato’s Symposium, Socrates, Aristophanes, Alcibiades, love, ambition, and philosophical danger. Its register is casual but not lightweight. The speaker can move from internet drama to Marx, capitalism, China, and Nick Land without treating those jumps as unusual. Interviews often focus on how intellectual work gets made outside standard institutions. Johnathan Bi’s appearance, for example, turns production quality and patronage networks into a serious question about public philosophy. Alex Priou’s appearance gives Plato the texture of a living argument rather than a museum piece. The show also carries a creator’s diary inside the theory. It admits inconsistency, distraction, family obligations, and the difficult economics of independent work. That frankness keeps the abstraction from floating away. Other Life is not tidy. It is dense, opinionated, sometimes abrasive, and often personal. Its best moments come when an intellectual system is tested against practical life. The result is a show for listeners who want philosophy, internet culture, crypto sovereignty, and modern politics treated as one unstable field.
Made for: Other Life is for listeners drawn to philosophy, political theory, crypto infrastructure, online intellectual culture, and independent scholarship. It especially suits people who like rigorous ideas delivered through informal, candid conversation.
What sets it apart: The show’s edge is its mix of high-theory reading, technology analysis, and personal creator-world candor. It treats Urbit, Plato, fatherhood, Nick Land, patronage, and the information state as connected pressures on modern life.
In their own words
Adventures in the humanities and social sciences.
Why you'd press play
Plato's dinner party sits beside embryo selection, and Justin Murphy expects you to keep up.
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- Plato's Symposium made urgent enough to test your ideas about love, ambition, and wisdom
- political power traced through digital protocols and the sovereignty you casually hand away
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Episodes
- 1
Alex Lee Moyer's War with Filmmaker Alex Lee Moyer
·52m - 2
"Neo-China Arrives From the Future:" On Nick Land's Sino-Futurism (The Meltdown Lectures)
·24m - 3
Ezra Pound: The Curse of Genius
·13m - 4
Software as Soulcraft and the Metaphysics of Engineering with Neal Davis
·1h 14m - 5
The Bull Case for Milady: Evaluating NFTs and Debunking the Miya FUD with Vers la Lune
·1h 15m - 6
Launching the Mars Review of Books with Noah Kumin
·40m - 7
Montaigne, IVF & Embryo Selection, Q&A
·52m - 8
I Fell Off (It's So Over)
·37m - 9
Urbit, Nockchain, and the Current State of Sovereignty Technology
·49m - 10
Soft-Engineering, Transversality, Human Security System (Nick Land, Meltdown, Sentences 7-8)
·17m - 11
Markets Learn to Manufacture Intelligence and Politics Modernizes (Nick Land, Meltdown, Sentence 3)
·20m - 12
Intoxicated by Truth: Plato's Symposium with Alex Priou
·1h 18m - 13
From Tech to Public Philosophy: Johnathan Bi on Production Quality and Patronage Networks
·55m - 14
Plato's Republic with Nina Power and DC Miller: Philosophy, Repression, Madness, and Courage
·1h 22m - 15
Write for Yourself and Yourself Alone
·10m - 16
The Truth Will Set You Free: Nietzsche vs. St. John
·48m - 17
Don't Be a Slave: Nietzsche on Philosophy and Slavery
·9m - 18
We're Back: On how I fixed the company (a big lesson for independent scholars)
·20m - 19
we almost just died (and it was great, I think?)
·18m - 20
The Rigor of Angels: Kant, Borges, & Heisenberg with William Egginton
·52m - 21
Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano
·1h 24m - 22
Literary Outlaw: The Life of William S. Burroughs
·1h 23m - 23
John Kennedy Toole and A Confederacy of Dunces With Dan Baltic
·1h 14m - 24
AI for Writers: Striking a Balance Between Automation and Humanity
·11m - 25
Vanishing Virility: Understanding the Modern Testosterone Crisis
·12m - 26
Dr. Samuel Johnson: Hustler, Savage, Grifter, Great
·20m - 27
Plato Uncovered: Building Influence in the Ancient and Modern World
·1h 41m - 28
Oscar Wilde and J.R.R. Tolkien with Paul Fortunato
·1h - 29
YouTube Radicalization is a Myth with Mark Ledwich
·45m - 30
Virtue and Excellence: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics with Colin Redemer
·1h 26m - 31
The Violent Focus of Francis Bacon
·15m - 32
Writing in the Age of Machine Intelligence
·23m - 33
Young Balzac: Disordered Knowledge, Strange Student
·12m - 34
From PhD to LandChad: Digital Sovereignty, Christianity, and IRLmaxxing with Luke Smith (Live at Mansion #3)
·1h 24m - 35
"360 Degree Conviction:" 10 Years of Counterculture with Asher Penn of Sex Magazine
·54m - 36
Bad CEX: On FTX and SBF (with The Network Age podcast)
·1h 28m - 37
On Fatherhood (Reply to Matt Walsh, TMZ, etc.)
·1h 7m - 38
Ye the Holy Fool; Nick Land Dead?; Sam Kriss on the Internet
·32m - 39
Deregulation and the State Arms-Race Into Cyberspace
·21m - 40
How the "Intellectual Dark Web" Ended with David Fuller
·1h - 41
The World's Best Crypto Investor Invested in Urbit with Joey Krug of Pantera Capital
·53m - 42
Insanely Bullish on Urbit With Uqbar Founder ~timluc-miptev
·1h 42m - 43
The ESG Scam: Bitcoin, Indie Media, and Natural Gas with Marty Bent
·1h 9m - 44
The Harvard Finance Bro Building an Urbit Network State in El Salvador
·1h 32m - 45
Charles Taylor and Paperclip Maximizers with Ellie Haine and Joe Edelman
·39m - 46
Logistically Accelerating Techno-Economic Interactivity Crumbles Social Order
·9m - 47
How Chris Williamson Grew Modern Wisdom From Zero to 450k Subscribers
·1h 22m - 48
Curtis Yarvin on Crypto: Bitcoin, DAOs, Inflation, and Government Crackdowns
·1h 11m - 49
Flannery O'Connor and the Mysterious Secrets of Writing
·4m - 50
"The story goes like this: Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity..."
·9m - 51
The Hyperreal Plague: How Girard & Baudrillard Explain the Pandemic with Geoffrey Shullenberger
·1h 13m - 52
Zero-Knowledge Crypto-Anarchy with Rachel-Rose O'Leary from DarkFi
·1h 17m - 53
Be Not Afraid with James Ellis from Hermitix
·1h 5m - 54
The Bitcoin Whitepaper, Nick Land, and Kant
·23m - 55
The Metaphysical Desires of René Girard with Johnathan Bi
·1h 18m - 56
What's Going on With Milady Maker? How to Think About Decentralized and Controversial Art
·1h 6m - 57
The Pathless Path with Indie Consultant Paul Millerd
·1h 30m - 58
Coffee With Hitler: Writing Poetry and Novels with Steff and Autumn
·1h 21m - 59
Only God Can Cancel Us: On Immanent Cyberculture with Endproject
·1h 10m - 60
Personal Knowledge Management is Bull5h1† — Other Life
·35m - 61
Web3 Gaming is Mostly a Scam with Charlie Smith, Co-Founder of Nifty Island
·55m - 62
Exit, Voice, and Loyalty by Albert Hirschman (Lecture)
·43m - 63
Alt-Lit and Indie Sleaze Redux with DefaultFriend
·1h 18m - 64
Building DAOs on Urbit with Holium & The Combine
·1h 12m - 65
Human Forever with James Poulos
·1h 17m - 66
Riva Tez on Epistemological Freedom: Feyerabend, Science Funding, and How to Do Whatever You Want
·1h 13m - 67
The Improvement Illusion and the Dying NYRB
·29m - 68
Milady, Angelicism, and the Imperceptible Country
·1h - 69
Quantum Computing and Anarcho-Communist Swarm Intelligence with Jonathan Paprocki | The Urbit Series
·1h 13m - 70
Demystifying the Politics of Urbit Governance with Anthony Arroyo of The Combine | The Urbit Series
·1h 20m - 71
Alien Invasions From the Future with Sam Frank, Writer and Galaxy Owner | The Urbit Series
·1h 16m - 72
How the CCRU Predicted Crypto and DeFi
·57m - 73
Urbit, Blockchains, and the Next Billion Users with Ted Blackman, Engineer at Tlon | The Urbit Series
·58m - 74
Materials for a Theory of the E-Girl with Soph and **** of Remilia Collective | The Urbit Series
·55m - 75
The Most Correct Computer (How Urbit Wins) with Philip Monk, CTO of Tlon | The Urbit Series
·1h 6m - 76
Building Web3 Products on Urbit with Nico Arqueros of dcSpark | The Urbit Series
·54m - 77
"Rationalists Are a Bunch of Queers" with Wet Brain | The Urbit Series
·1h 8m - 78
The 100-Year Computer with Galen Wolfe-Pauly | The Urbit Series
·1h 10m - 79
The Only Dignified Computer with Tirrel Corporation | The Urbit Series
·1h 6m - 80
The Most Beautiful Computer with Édouard Urcades | The Urbit Series
·1h 9m - 81
Chivalry, Christian Vitalism, and Building a Theory Brand on Twitter with Parker from Chivalry Guild
·55m - 82
Truth Machines Against the Gerontocracy with Richard Craib of Numerai
·1h 12m - 83
The Internet is a Schizophrenia Simulator with Paul Town
·1h 22m - 84
Get jacked, build a cult, and get $$$ with Gritcult
·1h 13m - 85
The Future of Social Businesses with Mark Beylin of Myco
·1h 1m - 86
The Crypto Reformation with Josh Rosenthal
·2h 1m - 87
The Art of Violence with Girardian Stuntman Eric Jacobus
·1h 22m - 88
Pseudonymous Decentralization with Indian Bronson
·1h 1m - 89
How the Metaverse Takes Over National Economies with Gabby Dizon of Yield Guild Games
·55m - 90
From Frogtwitter to Crypto Millionaire with Path
·54m - 91
ȘȈǤƝȘ 63: Reality Splitters (Based Mansion 2)
·23m - 92
Bataille, NFTs, and Crypto-Sovereignty with Mónica Belevan
·1h 6m - 93
Crowdfunding an Urbit Galaxy?
·1h 14m - 94
The Psychedelic Century with Brom Rector
·1h 18m - 95
The Psychedelic Century with Brom Rector
·1h 18m - 96
DIY Gene Hacking, Genetic Bioweapons, and Crushing It on Substack with Razib Khan
·1h 35m - 97
DIY Gene Hacking, Genetic Bioweapons, and Crushing It on Substack with Razib Khan
·1h 12m - 98
The Testament of Ivan Illich with Biographer David Cayley
·1h 3m - 99
Building a Village DAO with Andrew Hitchcock of Montanoso
Justin Murphy interviews Andrew Hitchcock about building a Village DAO, discussing NFTs as bearer assets for rental properties and the m'lady NFT thesis.
·51m - 100
10% More Psycho: On Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Christ with Mike Elias of IdeaMarket.io
Justin Murphy and Mike Elias discuss Tolstoy, Gandhi, Christ, and the Enneagram personality system.
·1h 20m - 101
The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control with Jacob Siegel
Justin Murphy interviews Jacob Siegel, author of The Information State, about whether contemporary American power is a coherent information state or an ineffective governing class using digital systems.
Apr 17, 2026·1h·4 clips - 102
On Fatherhood (Reply to Matt Walsh, TMZ, etc.)
Justin Murphy reads the X reflection that followed four years of fatherhood, including his estimate that he wants only 70 to 140 minutes of weekly play with his children despite loving them.
Jan 16, 2026·1h 7m·4 clips - 103
"Neo-China Arrives From the Future:" On Nick Land's Sino-Futurism (The Meltdown Lectures)
Hidden gemOther Life analyzes Nick Land's 1994 essay Meltdown through the phrase “Neo-China arrives from the future” and its connection to Sino-futurism.
Oct 13, 2025·24m·1 clip - 104
Montaigne, IVF & Embryo Selection, Q&A
Hidden gemOther Life host discusses Montaigne through Philippe Desan’s biography, arguing that private, non-institutional writing can generate wider intellectual influence.
Sep 20, 2025·52m·3 clips - 105
I Fell Off (It's So Over)
A creator confesses to losing relevance and consistency over two years, then discusses the experience and path to recovery.
Sep 19, 2025·37m - 106
Urbit, Nockchain, and the Current State of Sovereignty Technology
Hidden gemJustin Murphy revisits Urbit, a project intended to create a new internet, after its startup ecosystem and address-space market experienced major setbacks.
May 21, 2025·49m·3 clips - 107
Soft-Engineering, Transversality, Human Security System (Nick Land, Meltdown, Sentences 7-8)
May 14, 2025·17m - 108
Markets Learn to Manufacture Intelligence and Politics Modernizes (Nick Land, Meltdown, Sentence 3)
May 9, 2025·20m - 109
Intoxicated by Truth: Plato's Symposium with Alex Priou
Hidden gemJustin Murphy and Alex Priou examine Plato's Symposium, a dialogue written around 370 BC about Socrates, Agathon, Aristophanes, and speeches on Eros at a dinner party.
Apr 3, 2025·1h 18m·5 clips - 110
From Tech to Public Philosophy: Johnathan Bi on Production Quality and Patronage Networks
Jonathan Bi describes Great Books of the West, a lecture-and-interview project covering works such as Nietzsche's Genealogy, Rousseau's First and Second Discourse, and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Mar 3, 2025·55m·3 clips - 111
Plato's Republic with Nina Power and DC Miller: Philosophy, Repression, Madness, and Courage
Nov 26, 2024·1h 22m - 112
The Truth Will Set You Free: Nietzsche vs. St. John
Nov 13, 2024·48m - 113
Don't Be a Slave: Nietzsche on Philosophy and Slavery
Mar 4, 2024·9m - 114
We're Back: On how I fixed the company (a big lesson for independent scholars)
Feb 17, 2024·20m - 115
we almost just died (and it was great, I think?)
Nov 30, 2023·18m - 116
The Rigor of Angels: Kant, Borges, & Heisenberg with William Egginton
Sep 14, 2023·52m - 117
Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano
Aug 1, 2023·1h 24m - 118
Literary Outlaw: The Life of William S. Burroughs
Jul 12, 2023·1h 23m - 119
John Kennedy Toole and A Confederacy of Dunces With Dan Baltic
Hidden gemDan Baltic describes publishing as a game of patience, not a single rejection from Robert Gottlieb.
Jun 21, 2023·1h 14m·2 clips - 120
AI for Writers: Striking a Balance Between Automation and Humanity
Jun 13, 2023·11m - 121
Ezra Pound: The Curse of Genius
Jun 9, 2023·13m - 122
Write for Yourself and Yourself Alone
Jun 2, 2023·10m - 123
Vanishing Virility: Understanding the Modern Testosterone Crisis
May 15, 2023·12m - 124
Dr. Samuel Johnson: Hustler, Savage, Grifter, Great
May 10, 2023·20m - 125
Plato Uncovered: Building Influence in the Ancient and Modern World
May 2, 2023·1h 41m - 126
Oscar Wilde and J.R.R. Tolkien with Paul Fortunato
Mar 2, 2023·1h - 127
YouTube Radicalization is a Myth with Mark Ledwich
Feb 24, 2023·45m - 128
Virtue and Excellence: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics with Colin Redemer
Feb 4, 2023·1h 26m - 129
The Violent Focus of Francis Bacon
Jan 22, 2023·15m - 130
Writing in the Age of Machine Intelligence
Jan 12, 2023·23m - 131
Young Balzac: Disordered Knowledge, Strange Student
Jan 6, 2023·12m - 132
From PhD to LandChad: Digital Sovereignty, Christianity, and IRLmaxxing with Luke Smith (Live at Mansion #3)
Dec 9, 2022·1h 24m - 133
"360 Degree Conviction:" 10 Years of Counterculture with Asher Penn of Sex Magazine
Asher Penn discusses the founding of Sex Magazine, driven by the inability to publish interviews elsewhere, starting with a piece on underground artist Danny McDonald.
Nov 25, 2022·54m - 134
Bad CEX: On FTX and SBF (with The Network Age podcast)
Nov 15, 2022·1h 28m - 135
Alex Lee Moyer's War with Filmmaker Alex Lee Moyer
Filmmaker Alex Lee Moyer discusses the challenges of making controversial independent films like TFW No GF and her motivation to continue despite difficulties.
Nov 4, 2022·52m - 136
Ye the Holy Fool; Nick Land Dead?; Sam Kriss on the Internet
Oct 29, 2022·32m - 137
Deregulation and the State Arms-Race Into Cyberspace
Oct 10, 2022·21m - 138
How the "Intellectual Dark Web" Ended with David Fuller
Sep 30, 2022·1h - 139
The World's Best Crypto Investor Invested in Urbit with Joey Krug of Pantera Capital
Sep 21, 2022·53m - 140
Insanely Bullish on Urbit With Uqbar Founder ~timluc-miptev
Sep 14, 2022·1h 42m - 141
The ESG Scam: Bitcoin, Indie Media, and Natural Gas with Marty Bent
Sep 8, 2022·1h 9m - 142
The Harvard Finance Bro Building an Urbit Network State in El Salvador
Aug 26, 2022·1h 32m - 143
Charles Taylor and Paperclip Maximizers with Ellie Haine and Joe Edelman
Aug 19, 2022·39m - 144
Logistically Accelerating Techno-Economic Interactivity Crumbles Social Order
Aug 18, 2022·9m - 145
How Chris Williamson Grew Modern Wisdom From Zero to 450k Subscribers
Aug 11, 2022·1h 22m - 146
Curtis Yarvin on Crypto: Bitcoin, DAOs, Inflation, and Government Crackdowns
Aug 2, 2022·1h 11m - 147
Flannery O'Connor and the Mysterious Secrets of Writing
Jul 29, 2022·4m - 148
"The story goes like this: Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity..."
Jul 19, 2022·9m - 149
The Hyperreal Plague: How Girard & Baudrillard Explain the Pandemic with Geoffrey Shullenberger
Justin Murphy and Geoffrey Shullenberger discuss how Girard and Baudrillard's theories explain the pandemic and the ritualistic expulsion of Trump.
Jul 13, 2022·1h 13m - 150
Zero-Knowledge Crypto-Anarchy with Rachel-Rose O'Leary from DarkFi
Jul 6, 2022·1h 17m