Nikita and Boris explore a set of wild ideas and lay out the foundations for a new kosmopolitikal ideology.

This particular conversation was meant to follow an agenda: a reintroduction of Nikita & Boris; some thoughts on what we take Kosmopolitika to be; and explorations of particular ideas that have occupied our attention recently.

We mostly managed to stick to the plan, though there were more than a few tangents.

We returned to our touchstone question: whether ideas can be thought of as alive in their own right, and what it might mean if ideas are not only alive, but are entities that we summon into our everyday world, with all the danger a word like “summon” suggests.

Seeing ideas as peers that we’re in dialogue with also conveniently provided us with a metaphysical justification for all of the tangents we tend to follow in our conversations: following tangents is our way of acknowledging the pull of the ideas themselves.

Finally, we spent time with Nikita’s idea of “alienism”—linking the alienness of UFOs/UAPs, AI, and psychedelics—which Boris glossed as the alienness of the heavens, the alienness of rocks and metals, and the alienness of multicellular life.

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