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FUTURE FOSSILS

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by Michael Garfield

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Join artist and philosopher Michael Garfield for bold, transdisciplinary explorations at the edge of the knowable — deep-cut dialogues on the future of science, art, and political economy, agency in the age of automation, and the psychedelic horizons of human-technology co-evolution. Building on over twenty years of independent research and Michael's stints in major zones of scenius (including at The Santa Fe Institute, The Long Now Foundation, and The Mozilla Internet Ecosystem), Humans On The Loop will help you ask better questions, shift your view of the possible, and cultivate the curiosity and play you need to navigate our age of accelerating weirdness. Dive into extensive show notes, read mind-expanding essays, and join the members community at https://michaelgarfield.substack.com <br/><br/><a href="https://michaelgarfield.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">michaelgarfield.substack.com</a>

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June 16, 2026

Rewilding Collective Attention: Bioregional Design for Life Online with Andrea Farias

Host Michael Garfield interviews researcher Andrea Farias about bioregional design for a regenerative online civilization, exploring how to rewild collective attention and create healthier digital ecosystems.

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May 26, 2026

Games & Metrics: Agency as Art & Artifice with C. Thi Nguyen

Host Michael Garfield interviews philosopher C. Thi Nguyen about how societal metrics shape our agency and how games offer a path to reclaiming our values.

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April 27, 2026

Collective Futurecrafting: Play, Trauma, and The Duty of Care with Mathew Mytka

<p>✨ <strong>Like/Subscribe/Comment where you listen! </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/7bklhpI7BQs"><strong>YouTube</strong></a><strong> • </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://open.spotify.com/show/2eCYA4ISHLUWbEFOXJ8C5v?si=512a9aa42c9145ba"><strong>Spotify</strong></a><strong> • </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/future-fossils/id1152767505"><strong>Apple Podcasts</strong></a></p><p>✨<strong> </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://michaelgarfield.substack.com/p/subscribe"><strong>Become a member</strong></a><strong> for our reading group, community calls, and years of members-only recordings — including the excellent raps we had recently on </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://michaelgarfield.substack.com/p/douglas-and-berry"><strong>Alexander Douglas and Wendell Berry</strong></a><strong>. Our next call is this weekend, May 2, at 2 pm MDT!</strong></p><p>This week I decant a conversation with the brilliant Mathew Mytka (<a target="_blank" href="https://www.m3data.me/">Website</a> | <a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathewmytka/">LinkedIn</a>) — a self-described “Earthian living on and learning from the Country of the Bidjigal, Gweagal and Kamay clans of the Dharawal Nation, in Sydney, Australia.”</p><p>Mat is a moral imagineer, social entrepreneur, UX designer, educator, artist, and public policy advocate. Cofounder (with Alja Isakovic) of the the inquiry-driven social venture <a target="_blank" href="https://tethix.co/">Tethix</a> and mission steward (with Gemma Palmer) of <a target="_blank" href="https://collectivefuturecrafting.net/">Collective Futurecrafting</a>, Mat has over twenty years’ of product, project, and program management experience, designing and running real-world relational experiments everywhere from startups to federal government initiatives, Fortune 500 tech companies, and grassroots communities. He also makes delightfully weird code-as-art projects like <a target="_blank" href="https://m3data.github.io/Ministry-of-Futility-Game/game-intro.html">The Ministry of Futility</a>, a bureaucratic adventure game where players navigate a maze of pointless decisions.</p><p>In short, he’s precisely the kind of incompressible generalist I look to as a model for how to live wisely in our age of accelerating weirdness.</p><p>Mat and I met in 2024 in the group chat that spawned the <a target="_blank" href="https://discord.gg/Vg2QjFDgyh">Wisdom x Technology Discord Server</a> and immediately realized a common thread ran through both our lives: a commitment to fostering our collective imagination aimed at ecologically-grounded, mutualistic, more-than-human futures.</p><p>In today’s episode we riff on themes from the Tethix blog and podcast, including:</p><p>• <a target="_blank" href="https://tethix.substack.com/p/how-do-we-embrace-the-lunacy-of-tech">How do we embrace the lunacy of tech?</a>• <a target="_blank" href="https://tethix.substack.com/p/what-should-we-do-with-the-time-that">What should we do with the time that new technologies save?</a> (if they even do) and• <a target="_blank" href="https://tethix.substack.com/p/how-do-we-nurture-weird-online-communal">How do we nuture weird online communal gardens where we can play together?</a></p><p>We also draw from the Tethix <a target="_blank" href="https://ethos.tethix.co/seed-catalog/tethix-codesign-principles/">codesign principles</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://tethix.co/product-ethos/">product ethos</a>, and <a target="_blank" href="https://tethix.co/elemental-ethics/">elemental ethics</a> <a target="_blank" href="https://tethix.co/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Tethix-ETHOS-Pitch-Q1-2_24.pdf">documents</a>.</p><p>Along the way we explore the fundamental problems of scale and institutional misalignment, the value of ritual, and the return to embodiment.</p><p>✨<strong> </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://michaelgarfield.substack.com/p/trove"><strong>Become a founding member</strong></a><strong> to access my online courses, including </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://michaelgarfield.substack.com/p/jurassic-worlding-lectures"><strong>Jurassic Worlding</strong></a><strong> and </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://michaelgarfield.substack.com/p/mg1101"><strong>How To Live In The Future</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p><p><strong>✨ </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/shop/futurefossils"><strong>Browse and buy all of the books we discuss on the show</strong></a><strong> at Bookshop.org</strong></p><p><strong>✨ Music: “</strong><a target="_blank" href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/track/scalar-reconfigurations"><strong>Scalar Reconfigurations</strong></a><strong>”</strong></p><p><strong>Chapters</strong></p><p>00:00 Intro</p><p>06:02 Starting Over With Play</p><p>08:05 Mat’s Origin Story</p><p>13:56 Online Performance and Anxiety</p><p>18:24 How Tethix Began</p><p>40:07 Teaching The State about The Duty of Care</p><p>46:26 Collective Futurecrafting from Circles to Bioregions</p><p>47:05 Start With What Exists</p><p>48:34 Pivot Beyond Tech Ethics</p><p>50:08 Weird Gardens for Online Community</p><p>57:42 Composting The Leviathan</p><p>01:01:48 Trauma, Empathy, Care</p><p>01:13:11 Agency Rituals and Closing</p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://michaelgarfield.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">michaelgarfield.substack.com/subscribe</a>

268 total episodes available with 21 transcripts

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What is FUTURE FOSSILS?

Join artist and philosopher Michael Garfield for bold, transdisciplinary explorations at the edge of the knowable — deep-cut dialogues on the future of science, art, and political economy, agency in the age of automation, and the psychedelic horizons of human-technology co-evolution.

Building on over twenty years of independent research and Michael's stints in major zones of scenius (including at The Santa Fe Institute, The Long Now Foundation, and The Mozilla Internet Ecosystem), Humans On The Loop will help you ask better questions, shift your view of the possible, and cultivate the curiosity and play you need to navigate our age of accelerating weirdness.

Dive into extensive show notes, read mind-expanding essays, and join the members community at https://michaelgarfield.substack.com <br/><br/><a href="https://michaelgarfield.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">michaelgarfield.substack.com</a>

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