Unlocked | NM Talkcore: Kevin Munger on Spiraling (2025)

Are we entering a neo-oral age? For centuries, linear, text-based
media has organized human communication, creating a shared reality,
a shared sense of linear time. But as political Scientist Kevin
Munger discusses on this ep of NM Talkcore, that ontological
structure is rapidly coming undone. For more:
https://kevinmunger.com https:// kevinmunger.substack.com Watch:
Kevin Munger on Vilém Flusser’s “Communicology: Mutations in Human
Relations” https://youtu.be/EpVTEoqUCbs?si=e-bh0ewGRsbnzRMq
Keywords: accelerationism, Actionists (Viennese), anti-memetics,
apparatus, artificial intelligence, bios level, cartesian dualism,
chatbots, Communicology, content level, cybernetics, cyberspace,
CyberSyn (project), EA (effective altruism), externalities,
fanficification, feedback loop, 4chan, game theory, generation gap,
large language models (LLMs), Less Wrong, linear media, management
cybernetics, media apparatus, media theory, memes, mimetic,
mnemonic, mukbang, ontological stability, oral society/orality,
platonism, prehension, process philosophy, protocol level,
rationalism, recommendation algorithm, recursion, renaissance
paintings, secondary orality, singularity, social media,
spiral/spiraling, sycophancy, Taylorist management, textual
society, video games, whirlpool, World War III (information
warfare)