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The Great Political Fictions: HHhH 17.06.2026 ↓

Our final great political fiction (for now!) is a meta-fiction and auto-fiction that is als...

Kate Mossman has strong feelings about rock stars past their prime 16.06.2026 ↓

Kate’s an old pal of ours from Word magazine who writes scintillating columns and profiles for the N...

George Saunders 28.05.2026 ↓

The Booker Prize winning American author George Saunders talks to John Wilson about his cultural inf...

Episode #237 ... The Stoics Are Wrong - Nietzsche, Schopenhauer 30.09.2025 ↓

Today we talk about two famous critiques of Stoicism. One by Friedrich Nietzsche who thought the Sto...

Episode #231 ... The Late Work of Wittgenstein - Language Games 28.06.2025 ↓

Today we talk about the late work of Wittgenstein in Philosophical Investigations. We talk about the...

Episode #214 ... Framing our Being in a completely different way. (Heidegger) 21.10.2024 ↓

Today we look at Heidegger's critique of metaphysics and the traditional subject-object framing in p...

Episode #212 ... Nietzsche and Critchley on the tragic perspective. (Amor Fati pt. 2) 30.09.2024 ↓

Today we begin by talking about Nietzsche's concept of life-affirmation. Contrasting it with the ren...

Episode #203 ... Why the future is being slowly cancelled. - Postmodernism (Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism) 17.06.2024 ↓

Today we continue developing our understanding of the ideas that have led to what Mark Fisher calls ...

Martin Amis talking with Philip Dodd in 2014 21.05.2023 ↓

Martin Amis, whose death has been announced at the age of 73, was noted for his writing style and li...