Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

This is a live conversation I recorded on Twitter Spaces on 11 January 2022, between me ( Bryan Kam ), Isabela Granic , Athenian Stranger , and others. We discuss abstraction and perfection, including Spinoza's Ethics , Charles Sanders Peirce, the medieval scholastics, as well as Ancient Chinese, and Greek philosophy. I edited out the very beginning, when we were getting set up, but otherwise it i...

This episode is about the universal versus the particular, in film, poetry and prose. There's a new thing, which is that you can now read this episode's transcript ! In this episode, I discuss the Wenders film Wings of Desire ( Der Himmel über Berlin , 1987). (Wenders' Q&A should be posted on the BFI YouTube channel .) I also consider the relationship of the universal to the particular; see th...

From the blog: What I'm up to now . Listen to my first conversation with Achim Rothe (2022-06-16). Listen to my second conversation with Achim Rothe (2022-06-22). Read my announcement for my discussion with Sam Biagetti . Listen to my conversation with Sam Biagetti (2022-07-02). Please schedule a conversation with me (limited time only!). Or consider recording a clip to send to this podcast (click...

Mermillod et al.: The Stability-Plasticity Dilemma (2013) Erik Hoel: The overfitted brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization (2021) Carhart-Harris et al.: The Entropic Brain (2014) Von Neumann: The Computer and the Brain (1957) Shakespeare: Sonnet 122

R. J. Hollingdale's 1994 translation of Nietzsche's Human, All Too Human (1878) My piece on the avant-garde Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Boyce: Why Some Children Are Orchids and Others Are Dandelions (2019) A. C. Graham: Disputers of the Tao (1989) Quanta: Out-of-Sync ‘Loners’ May Secretly Protect Orderly Swarms (2020) Shakespeare: Sonnet 95

In this episode I give Kuhn's 1973 lecture "Objectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice" (1973). There is a PDF of the lecture here . The book he discusses is The Structure of Scientific Revolutions . I found the clip of Kuhn speaking on a closely related topic in this clip from 1995.

W. B. Yeats: All Things Can Tempt Me . Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962 book). Thomas Kuhn: "Objectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice" (1973 lecture) PDF .

Viktor Shklovsky and Russian Formalism (wikipedia), and Defamiliarization/ ostrananie . My Twitter thread on Shklovsky. Alexandra Berlina's Viktor Shklovsky: A Reader . LA Review of Books: Both a Fish and an Ichthyologist . Professor Caryl Emerson . "Art as Device" (1917/1919. Sometimes translated as "Art as Technique"): PDF, including commentary on translation . T. S. Eliot: "Little Gidding" (194...

Norbert Elias: The Civilizing Process (1939). Richard Wrangham: Two types of aggression in human evolution (2018). Louis Althusser: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1970). My thread on Thomas Kuhn . Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962). Stanford Encyclopedia: Scientific Revolutions (2017). Thomas Hardy: At Castle Boterel (1913).

The Tao Te Ching, translated by Derek Lin and Stephen Addiss/Stanley Lombardo A. C. Graham: Chuang-tzǔ: The Inner Chapters Harold D. Roth: A Companion to Angus C. Graham's Chuang Tzu John Keats: "When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be"

John McPhee: Annals of the Former World (1998). Emma Darwin: This is Not a Book About Charles Darwin (2019). Indrė Žliobaitė: On the nature of time information in the fossil record (2020). Charles Darwin: The Origin of Species (2nd edition, 1859). Hart Crane: The Air Plant (1932). Thomas Hardy: Beeny Cliff (1913). I host salons at The Interintellect ; my next one will be on collaboration and netwo...