22: Ways of Knowing Redux

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In this 22nd episode, KMO questions former Lafayette, Colorado back-up associate judge, Leonard Frieling about his decision to resign his post rather than participate in a policy that would have drastically increased the penalties for minor marijuana possession or paraphernalia charges. After that we “conclude” the conversation with Margaret Wortheim about our changing conceptions of space and knowledge.

Psychonautica:

I’m now doing a fortnightly podcast for the Dopefiend.co.uk Podcast Network called Psychonaughtica. This podcast, while largely my own creation, can also be considered a fulfillment of the long-standing promise for a Max Freakout psychedelics podcast. Max is my co-host and primary interview subject. For a thorough-going preview of the show, have a listen to Dopecast Episode 63.

link: http://www.dopecast.co.uk/

Guests:

Leonard Freiling: Lenny is a former back-up judge in Lafayette, Colorado. He resigned in protest over a proposed drastic increase in legal penalties for marijuana possession in his municipality. You can read the full story here or hear it on episode 64 of the Dopecast.

Margaret Wertheim: [cribbed from her Wikipedia entry]

Margaret Wertheim (born 1958, Brisbane, Australia) is a science writer and the author of several books on the cultural history of physics.

These books include Pythagoras’ Trousers: God, Physics, and the Gender Wars, a history of the relationship between physics and religion in Western culture, and The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet. From 2001-2005 Wertheim wrote the Quark Soup column for the LA Weekly and is currently a contributor to the New York Times and Los Angeles Times as well as a contributing editor to Cosmos, the Australian-based literary science magazine, and Cabinet magazine, the international arts and cutlure quarterly. In 2004 she was the National Science Foundation visiting journalist to Antarctica, and in 2006 her writing on the Antarctic was awarded the print journalism prize from the American Institute of Biological Sciences. In 2003, she founded the Institute For Figuring, an organization based in Los Angeles that promotes the public understanding of the poetic and aesthetic dimensions of science and mathematics. Through her work with the IFF she has curated exhibitions at galleries and museums, including Apexart, Machine Project, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Art Center College of Design, and forthcoming at the Museum of Jurassic Technology.

Books

I didn’t read excerpts from any books this week. I did read an excerpt from “The Age of Batshit Crazy Machines” by Ran Prieur, which you can find here:

http://www.ranprieur.com/essays/machines.html

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Music

Maybe you noticed… maybe not, but I did not put any music behind the interviews this week. The only music I used is the unofficial C-Realm Podcast theme, Somptin Happnin’ which you can download for free at the Promonet/IODAlliance website.

Download “Somptin Happnin’” (mp3)
from “Polymorphic Convolutions”
by Various Artists
Electronic Soundscapes