I enjoyed having the opportunity to converse with Michael Garfield a couple months back for the Future Fossils Podcast. Here it is:

This week on FUTURE FOSSILS we ask, whom do we serve? Who gives us power, and to whom do we give ours? Where does that power come from? To whom do we sell our stories?

We explore the world behind the world, linking Jamie’s writing and game world-building in the domain he calls myth-punk, and the equally Eldritch complex systems wicked problem of climate action.

Studying that link, we can trace the outlines of emergent 21st Century religions — the reinterpretation of axial traditions suited to the digital era, the metamodern revival of land-based animistic traditions, and even weirder novel forms that arise at the end of one world and the effloresence of many others.

Listen here. Pick your poison:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-vL6vPxXq0

https://michaelgarfield.substack.com/p/230

https://www.patreon.com/posts/116006686

https://open.spotify.com/show/2eCYA4ISHLUWbEFOXJ8C5v?si=512a9aa42c9145ba

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/future-fossils/id1152767505

Chapters:

1. Jamie's Background (0:05:46)

2. Embracing the Unknown and the Role of Artifice (0:11:14)

3. Prometheus, Intentional Mystery, and the Nature of Agency (0:16:21)

4. Introducing the Fallen Cycle and its Mythological Framework (0:21:57)

5. Exploring Thematic Elements: Gods, Myths, and Consumerism (0:27:32)