Light On Light Through

You'll hear a little of this and lot of that on Light On Light Through - my reviews of great television series and movies, my interviews with authors and creative media people and their interviews of me, my media theory and political commentary, thoughts about my favorite cars and food and space travel, discussions of my music, and a few of my readings from my science fiction stories. In the first years, starting in 2006, I put up a new episode at least once a month. More recently, it became more or less often than once a month, usually less often. But in the Summer of 2020, I began getting more in the mood to podcast, and on 17 October 2023, I began publishing a new episode of the podcast every Tuesday at 12:01 pm -- a minute after Noon (New York time). - Paul Levinson

24 October 2021: Interview about Light On Light Through podcast

26 December 2023: Chuck Todd interviews Paul Levinson about Alternate Realities on The Chuck Toddcast

Paul Levinson interviews Bob Hutchins: An Optimistic Discussion of AI

Oct 6, 2024

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 396, in which I interview Bob Hutchins about AI. My guess is you'll find this discussion much more optimistic about AI than what you'll usually hear.

Discussed or mentioned in this interview:

"On Behalf of Humanity: The Technological Edge" my 1996 article
The Media...

Paul Levinson interviews Dan Abella about The Mind Revolution Experience

Mar 5, 2024

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 376, in which I interview Dan Abella in George's Cafe in Manhattan about The Mind Revolution Experience (March 14, 7-9pm at The Producer's Club, 358 W. 44th Street, NYC) and the upcoming Philip K. Dick Film Festival (April 4-7, Musuem of the Moving Image, and other places...

Tetrads for History and Alternate History

Jan 9, 2024

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 368, which I devote to consideration of tetrads for history and alternate history. Don't know what tetrads are? They're explained in the first few minutes of the podcast.

Read about Tetrads for History and Alternate History here.

Further reading on Tetrads: Laws of the...

Foundation, COVID, Afghanistan

Aug 26, 2021

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 188, in which Captain Phil on WUSB-FM Radio (Stony Brook, New York) interviews me about the Foundation series, how it relates to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the news that just broke this morning about the bombings in Afghanistan. (Note: recorded before the news of the US...

Survival of the Media Fit

Jul 23, 2020

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 130, in which I talk about one of the bedrocks of my "anthropotropic" theory of media evolution -- why some media, such as sight-only silent movies, are obliterated by the advent of newer media like "talkies" (sight and sound), in contrast to other media, such as sound-only...