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Stone, bronze, iron... glass? In his recent thought and writing, transdisciplinary artist and thinker Michael Garfield defines modernity as an age of glass, arguing that the entire ethos of our era inheres in the transformative enchantments of this amorphous solid. No one would deny that glass plays a central role in our lives, although glass does have a knack for disappearing into the background, at least until the beakers or screens crack and shatter. Glass is weird, and like a lot of weird things, it can serve as a lens (so to speak!) for observing our world from strange new angles. In this episode, Michael joins Phil and JF to talk through the origins, the significance, and the fate of the Glass Age.

Michael Garfield is a musician, live painter, and futurist. He is the host of the brilliant Future Fossils Podcast.

REFERENCES

Michael Garfield's website + Patreon + Medium + Bandcamp
\nMichael Garfield, "The Future is Indistinguishable from Magic" (This is the essay we discuss that was unpublished at the time of the recording)
\nMichael Garfield, "The Future Acts Like You"
\nMichael Garfield, "The Evolution of Surveillance Part 3: Living in the Belly of the Beast"

Artist David Titterington's Patreon page
\nRichard Doyle, On Beyond Living: Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences
\nCorning, "The Glass Age" (corporate video)
\nJean-Paul Sartre, Baudelaire
\nJohn David Ebert, "On Hypermodernity"
\nJohn C. Wright, The Golden Age
\nJ.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
\nTimothy Morton, Hyperobjects
\nChristopher Knight and Alan Butler, Who Built the Moon?
\nPink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon
\nMarshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy
\nMarshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage
\nSpinoza, Ethics
\nCharles Taylor, The Malaise of Modernity
\nMartine Rothblatt, Virtually Human: The Promise and the Peril of Digital Immortality
\nJohn Crowley, Little, Big
\nJose Arguelles, Dreamspell Calendar
\nWilliam Irwin Thompson, Lindisfarne Tapes
\nJonathan Sterne, The Audible Past
\nKarl Schroeder, \u201cDegrees of Freedom,\u201d in Heiroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future
\nMichael Garfield, \u201cBeing Every Drone\u201d
\nHenri Bergson, Creative Evolution

Special Guest: Michael Garfield.