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Think of the hero in your favorite action film. Now ask yourself: would it make sense for them to die and remain dead? Or! Is the hero strangely safe...join us as we explore the hero as the guise of his majesty the Ego in this week's episode on Freud's Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming. Photo by Unseen Studio on Unsplash

Join us this week as we explore Harry G. Frankfurt's definition of "Bullshit," what separates it from lying, and its relationship to the truth! Photo by charlesdeluvio on Unsplash

Fairy tales! This week we're excited to talk about storytelling which, for us, means talking about a lot of Disney movies. Enjoy! Photo by Birmingham Museums Trust on Unsplash

Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling straddles the worlds of existentialism and Christianity, producing a brilliant and infuriating text...at least to Preston and I. Enjoy! Photo by Birmingham Museums Trust on Unsplash

This week we try...to...slooooooow down, smell the roses, and all that good stuff. Join us as we read The Big Rush, which is found in Byung-Chul Han's book Capitalism and the Death Drive. Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash

Sure we all (hopefully) have a place to rest our heads at the end of the day, but can we say that we're always dwelling in our spaces? Join us this week to discuss Heidegger's Building, Dwelling, Thinking. Or! As Heidegger would say it: join us this week in the pursuit of a gathering that engenders that which points towards the gathering that gathers. Photo by m c on Unsplash

What is a nondiscreet ontology of being? Find out in this week's podcast! Enjoy! Photo by Giammarco Boscaro on Unsplash

This week we take a gander at Richard Rorty's book Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity , focusing primarily on chapter 4. We discuss his concept of a "final vocabulary" as well as his distinction between the ironist and the metaphysician. Enjoy! Photo by Genessa Panainte on Unsplash

Let's not confuse "I" with " I "... and just how many eyes are there? This week we discuss Lacan's famous mirror stage focusing on the implications of our split subjectivity. We also talk about other less successful attempts to explain this essay. Enjoy! Photo by Edurne Tx on Unsplash

Relationships between specifically gay men are the focus of Foucault's delightful interview titled Friendship as a Way of Life. Join us as we talk about ways of maximizing pleasure instead of focusing on the quote "secret of one's desire". Photo by Shakib Uzzaman on Unsplash

Join us as this week we read V.F. (Viola) Cordova's essay Time, Culture, and Self which was published in the first issue of the American Philosophical Association's Newsletter on American Indians in Philosophy (link below). Enjoy! https://www.apaonline.org/page/native_american_apastudies Photo by Nickolas Kissam on Unsplash

While kids are certainly aware of the existence of their present (or absent) father, kids are also aware that their Dad may not actually be the head of the company. This week we look at Guattari's essay on schizoanalysis, shifting the focus from the neurotic to the psychotic. Photo by Jennie Razumnaya on Unsplash

In this week's podcast, we look at Žižek's compelling (at times) and disturbing (at those same times) reflections on 9/11. Photo by Till Kraus on Unsplash

In The Prospects of Radical Politics Today many threads of Zizek's thought come to the fore. We can boil these down to the good, the bad, and the oh so ugly... Photo by Andrew Valdivia on Unsplash

Join us for our first foray into the world of Gilles Deleuze. This week we address the difference between the smooth and the striated as it relates to music of the 20th century. Photo by Sufyan on Unsplash

This week we read Sigmund Freud's essay on The Uncanny. Enjoy! Photo by Febe Vanermen on Unsplash

Beware the stones that don't look like stones! The colour beyond description! This week we discuss the thinking and fiction of H.P. Lovecraft, focusing on the threads that tie all of his work together. Photo by Maurice Nguyen on Unsplash

On this episode we finish our reading of Julia Kristeva's Powers of Horror and cover such lovely topics as incest, sin, and corpse viewing. Fun for the whole family! Photo by Francesco Ungaro on Unsplash

Spoiled milk? Corpses? We continue our dive into the philosophy of horror with Kristeva's seminal text on abjection. Photo by silvia trigo on Unsplash

"Oh, you say you like feet? Well, I have a story to tell you!" So 'says' Freud on this week's episode where we discuss his seminal (and deeply problematic) essay Fetishism.

This is NOT a podcast. This week we're reading Foucault's essay This is Not a Pipe and attempting to describe the work of Magritte in words alone.

The Blob! Abjection! We begin our dive into the philosophy of horror with Carrow Narby's essay "Indescribable". In the future we'll be continuing with H.P. Lovecraft, Julia Kristeva, and many others! Photo by Ramez E. Nassif on Unsplash

This week we delve into one of our favorite scraps from Nietzche

This week we look at Mark Fisher's thoughts on the constant flow of low-level stimuli and the lost art of being bored. Photo by Yeshi Kangrang on Unsplash

Today we discuss composer and thinker John Cage, evading the question, and how to (not) be a teacher. Photo by Inu Etc on Unsplash