“What Even Is the ‘Intellectual Dark Web’ Today?” with Dr Jamie Roberts

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Josh Szeps

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🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Vaccine mandates. Wokeness in Hollywood. The female pay gap. Race protests. Diversity programs. Covid lockdowns. #metoo. The so-called intellectual dark web tackled it all. A loose grouping of dissenting intellectuals and commentators, they sought to buck taboos and open minds.

What happened? Who went down the rabbit hole to crazy town, and who maintained thier heads? And where is the space for sane dissent today?

Dr Jamie Roberts is a political philosopher and university lecturer who has ruffled feathers by openly admiring some of what the IDW was trying to do -- and even teaching college classes on it. His new book is "The Way of the Intellectual Dark Web: What Joe Rogan and his associates can teach us about political dialogue". He and Josh perform a real-time post mortem on a still-metastasising movement.

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0:00.0	Hey, humans. Tickets are selling fast to my live shows with Coleman Hughes. I'm bringing
0:04.7	him out to Australia. He and I will share a stage at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas on August 22nd
0:10.6	in Sydney. And then August 25th in Melbourne, our very own show. Uncomfortable conversations
0:15.5	live at the Athenium Theatre. For tickets to Melbourne, go to thejosh. Show. That's the Josh.com. And for the Sydney
0:23.6	Show, just search festival, Dangerous Ideas, Coleman Hughes, Zeps. Make sure you get your tickets
0:28.2	quickly, quickly. It's going to be great. Gahy humans. Welcome to the safe space for
0:34.5	dangerous ideas. And dangerous ideas are what the intellectual
0:39.3	dark web was originally all about. This gaggle of folks, of independent media personalities,
0:45.7	of journalists, of academics, who sort of coalesced, what, about 10 years ago, around
0:51.4	an idea of talking about taboo subjects in a fearless way.
0:55.9	That grouping may have collapsed into ashes and sometimes acrimony, but the phenomenon
1:02.5	warrants some kind of examination, which is what today's guest has done in a new book.
1:07.9	He's an academic himself, Dr. Jamie Roberts, he's a lecturer in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney, a position which is increasingly fraught as he gets censured and sanctioned for trying to wrestle through some of the same sorts of hot-button cultural, culture war issues that the IDW was known for.
1:31.7	His book is called The Way of the Intellectual Dark Web, what Joe Rogan and his associates can teach us about political dialogue.
1:39.5	He's a political philosopher himself, and if you're looking forward to reading the book, you can't because
1:45.3	it's currently embroiled in a controversy about some of the ideas that it contains.
1:49.9	There's been something of a backlash at the publisher who is not selling the book at the moment
1:56.2	and is about to haul him in front of some kind of presumably kangaroo court to try to answer
2:01.9	for the ideas that he is exploring for having the temerity, the audacity to kick the hornet's nest.
2:09.7	I hope you enjoy this conversation with the unique academic Dr. Jamie Roberts.
2:16.8	You went for a run?
2:18.1	Yeah, I was like, well, I do caffeine.
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