The Redemption Inquiry

Michael Diamond

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The Redemption Inquiry

A Kabbalistic Dystopian/Utopian Sci-Fi novel brought to you in five seasons as read by the author, Michael Diamond, a writer, podcaster and sometime psychiatrist in the DC universe, i.e. your nations’s capital.

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Chapter 12: Pecuniology

Chapter 12: Pecuniology Allow me to school you, how cash became king in 2009. The next level consequence: the oligarchs’ insatiable appetite for world-dominating AI’s, humanity’s dark twin. The smackdown between the human spirit and its twin takes form, from the little seedlings of creation, infant intentions. Money is the food of intention. The Pecuniological Singularity, the coronation day of the Almighty Dollar. There’s a brawl in a London pub, right on the heels of the Transhumanist Smackdown. Communitarian Transhumanist heavy hitter Nick Bostrom squares off with Singulatarian Enfant Terrible, Max More.

43 min
MAR 19

Chapter 11: Krishna's Singularities

Chapter 11: Krishna's Singularities Here Rav Krishna lays out the paradoxical nature of The Passover and clues in the crowd to the bad news about the newly launched AI’s. It’s also the day his little boychik is born. The new papa’s former neuropathology mentor at Oxford University sings us this ditty.

35 min
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Part III: Zeitgeists

Part the Third Zeitgeists Of all the gin joints, it’s the visitors suite of the maternity ward where the Rav unpacks his big spiel, the metaphysical history of the descent of humanity’s soul and its dark twin through the four worlds of Ike Luria's Kabbalah. The crossroads in this wild ride fall out in the years—1309, 1925 and 2009—in which The Blessing of the Sun intersects with The Festival of the Passover. Each year’s theme revealed in a barroom fracas. We clamber up the next rung in Ike’s ladder, in this telling, to the World of Creation, the realm from which the seeds of the future begin to seek their womb on

1 min
MAR 16

Chapter 10: The Birth and Death of History

Chapter 10: The Birth and Death of History The year is 2121, today the launch day for the three totalitarian AI’s and their invisible littermate, Moshiach. Also the birthday of Ram Nissan Katz, only begotten son of Krishna and Sita, the future leader of a failed revolt against the AI’s, and eventual High Priest of the Redemption. Eight hours due west of the birthing ward, Adam CADMan, tricks out his Trojan Horse, a hitchhiker in the Bellies of the Three Beasts of the Apocalypse.

30 min
MAR 14

Chapter 9: Adam CADMan vs the Algorithms

Chapter 9: Adam CADMan vs the Algorithms In which Adam CADMan scribes the code for the ‘Messiah Module’ and its cosmic buggy, Apeiron. He stashes the code into the three Beasts of the Apocalypse— Leviathan, Behemoth and Zyz. All three contract with Adam CADMan to code their 4D extravaganza. Launch day, The Technological Singularity, AI apocalypse, the seed of their self-destruction lurks within. A redeemed fly on the wall spills the details.

33 min
MAR 7

Chapter 8: Krishna in Kapota

Chapter 8: Krishna in Kapota Rewind the clock a couple of years, cross the pond, another unlikely hero steps up, the sixth generation hasidic savant from Mumbai, Krishna Katz. He makes like a flea and sticks to a professor of neuropathology at Oxford. The hero’s gig is to map the human brain onto the map of the world. He mainly succeeds in mapping his desire onto his Beloved, Sita. All this intel comes from the neuropathology professor, he too among the redeemed.

40 min
MAR 5

Chapter 7: Adam's Prank

Chapter 7: Adam's Prank Our Hero regroups in a cave beneath his parents’ digs in Champaign-Urbana. He scoops up an armful of technology that will deploy at The Redemption. From his remote location, he demos his fire power by inducing a FabLab at the University of Pittsburgh to generate a life-size set of human sculptures on the floor next to the 3D printer. As seen through the snooping eyes of a friendly spy, who recollects that fateful time from her perspective as one of the redeemed.

37 min
MAR 4

Chapter 6: Adam is Banishéd

Chapter 6: Adam is Banishéd This is what you might call a bildungsroman. The unlikely hero, Adam Saperstein AKA CADMan, an obligate introvert computer geek, gets himself expelled from The University, but not before he’s cadged access to some inside dope, and humiliates his nemesis, Blago Blagojevich, the cryogenically unfrozen president of The University.

29 min

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A Mad Romp

Mar 19

Psychic or Psycho?

This mad psychiatrists takes us across three continents and eight centuries to answer the questions, how did we screw up so badly and, what’s redemption got to do with it. Stay tuned.

A Kabbalistic Dystopian/Utopian Sci-Fi novel brought to you in five seasons as read by the author, Michael Diamond, a writer, podcaster and sometime psychiatrist in the DC universe, i.e. your nations’s capital.

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