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Want to Know Podcast
by Dr. Cori Wong
Want to Know is an experimental space to develop an epistemology of intimacy. It is a process, a way of knowing by becoming more intimate, and a project of meta philosophical performance art. coriwong.substack.com
Episodes
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Live Weekly Update: Do You Work…Even and Especially in these Conditions
Earlier this month I gave a talk about doing our work, even and especially in these conditions. The phrasing, “even and especially in these conditions” is the tail end of a longer phrase that emerged out of my previous weekly container, Liberation is Local. In that space, the refrain evolved into…
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Live Weekly Update: The Erotic as a Meta Methodology
I had a lot of energy during this particular live update. All that unexpected talk about bodies and pleasures and fisting (yes, you read that right) brought me back to the good old days of graduate school reading Bodies and Pleasures at Webster’s Cafe in State College, PA, blushing and beaming…
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Live Weekly Update: Emotionally Secure Enough for a Relationship with Truth (Past, Present, and Future)
Last week, I was processing time and what possibilities might emerge when we create space to be more honest, to practice telling the truth, even just with ourselves first. Yes, there can be room for more intimacy and connection with self and others. There can be more space for authenticity and...
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Live Weekly Update: Processing Time. It’s All Relational💡
Some of my favorite updates are the ones where I just let it rip. Like this. I know going in I have a lot to share, so I name it, give myself permission to flow through the numerous connections that swirl around, and trust the thread that ties it all together will be and become more apparent....
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Sean Waters and Cori Wong Live: “The Philosopher’s Way”
Hi, there! Cori, here. While this video is one of those special collabs Sean and I do on occasion, it’s just me writing a few notes about our most recent conversation. Let me begin by naming what an absolute treat it is to connect and reconnect on this path as we both continue walking in our…
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Live Weekly Update: Feeling it Out with a Therapist ft. Ry Shavlik
If you’ve been following along, July was a whole month focused on healing. It was at my last event of the month, “The Gadfly,” when I led a room full of strangers in a pizza shop through themes of learning, healing, and liberation. And it was in that space that Ry Shavlik and I met! Talk about a...
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Live Weekly Update: Healing is a Practice of Time Travel
The threads around healing that connected all the weeks in July are still alive. I, however, am battling a rough cold that has drained my energy for nearly a week. Meanwhile, the skies are chronically orange with smokey haze and this string of days has been record-breaking hot. So I’m going to…
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Live Weekly Update: Hi, love. The universe is calling…💕
I am writing this a month after my 40th birthday, and nearly two weeks since recording this live update about the significance of “my relationship with the universe” over the past few years. For the whole month of July, the most prominent themes that swirled in my conversations, community...
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Live Weekly Update: Philosophy Majors and AI Jobs (A Passionate Rant)
Have you seen the uptick in headlines about philosophers getting hired by AI companies? I read a recent one from the New York Times that paints such a plot twist in philosophers’ employability as the “revenge of philosophy majors,” but the whole article made me seethe and itch. That may sound…
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Live Weekly Update: Coming Out is an Invitation
Let’s start here. My 40th birthday celebration—my stand up philosophy special, “The Gay Gadfly”—went really well. I’m so grateful to the 45 people who showed up for it and the five friends who roasted/toasted me afterward. It ended up being exactly what I hoped it would be…once I accepted what I...
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Live Weekly Update: Good luck, babe 💫 (plus, we're learning *together*)
One day, I’ll officially, formally, figure out how and what I want to write about Chani Nicholas and why I love her astrological readings and think they are a force for good in our current conditions. I’m shameless in sharing that I do make some decisions based on Chani’s insights around what’s...
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Live Weekly Update: Decisions, Time, and Translating Nietzsche (...with Patience for Unfolding)
This week I’ve become increasingly convinced that I did jump timelines at some point even though I’m not exactly sure what that means (I’m not well-versed in quantum physics beyond Instagram-level discourse). My best guess is that it probably happened back in March when I gave that sermon at a...
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Live Weekly Update: Insights on Intimacy (WIP)
The work of becoming more intimate gets clearer to me every day. Always already there, I’m fully in it. After weeks thinking about what it could look like to pursue my philosophical project of developing an epistemology of intimacy with someone strange to me (such as a famous celebrity), it was...
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Live Weekly Update: The Cusp of Magic, How My Pages Got to Mae Martin
This update is to share the story of May 8th, 2026, the day printed copies of my pages remarkably - and hopefully - got to Mae. For several weeks leading up to the late show in Denver for The Possum tour, I saturated my focus and social interactions with all things philosophical project and...
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Live Weekly Update: Philosophical Project Proposals to Mae Martin
“And then? What happens next?” It’s a funny thing going step by step, week by week, in this process of becoming a meta philosophical performance artist. In some very real ways, it really comes down to a simple matter of doing. You have to do the thing. But where this becoming intersects with the...
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Live Weekly Update: Romancing Our Vulnerabilities and Asking Questions We Want to Know
In just a matter of weeks, I’ve been really changing. The main theme continues to be around confronting my vulnerabilities, but I know the most valuable thing about that work is in discovering what happens as a result of the process. Through the weeks of April, while I was creating and compiling...
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Live Weekly Update: Flirting with the Abyss, The Leap Into Faith
Not everything is a performance. Sometimes, we’re just in it, actually showing up and doing the thing. That, I believe, is how we become who we are. Yes, it’s an open-ended process, but it doesn’t have to take forever. As I’ve recently been finding out, marked changes can unfurl in a matter of...
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Live Weekly Update: Radical Ways to Approach Work During Collapse
For the past several years, I’ve become fixated on the nature of work. More and more, I’m basically consumed with ideas around what I can, want, and will do (though that is something I think about for all of us, really). Even this week’s live update was inspired by swirling notions that…
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Live Weekly Update: Vulnerability; How to Become a Meta Philosophical Performance Artist
* …awkward pause… * I was waiting to publish this live weekly update from April 1st, 2026 because it was all about vulnerability and an entire process I went through around sharing the most vulnerable thing for me, which quickly became the anchoring theme of my week. At the end of this 75 minute...
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Live Weekly Update: I wanna make my pages and dream of pdfs!
This, the shortest weekly update (just 20 minutes?!?!), was also the most unhinged. Plus, it features the first cameo of my beloved cat, Perry (a truly majestic beast). Nevertheless, it was, in a pretty straightforward way, also the one where I share something I am most excited about. Maybe even…
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Live Weekly Update: Learning How We Move & Liberatory Leadership
I often think about how so many people report feeling like time shifted in weird ways during 2020 and how, six years later (?!?), we’re all still kind of processing. Did pieces of us get stuck back there? Or, in some strange way, do you also feel like maybe we are returning? I don’t know much…
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Live Weekly Update: Learning is Love in Action
Since 2020, one of my leading questions has been, “What does learning feel like?” How do you know when you’re learning? When we pursue learning as a project of our own will and intention, I think it actually shares a lot of similarities with loving, especially if you, like me, define love as the...
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Live Weekly Update: Parasocial Relationships and Real Deep Connections
I’ll start with the briefest note about this week’s live update: It was just me. No one watched as I talked to a camera by myself for an hour. At first, you can tell my energy is low, which may have had something to do with being alone. About ten minutes in, I begin to warm up a bit. (The way my...
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Live Weekly Update: Remembering Our Knowing Selves; Recovering Pieces of the Past
Everything about this weekly update was unexpected! To be fair, how could one anticipate what one does not remember? After recovering forgotten notebooks and letters, I was genuinely surprised to rediscover familiar parts of myself from 2001, 2007, and 2013. Through reading and writing during…
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Live Weekly Update: Updating these Updates; Reviewing for Renewal into Romancing the Revolution
There are meaningful threads that follow through and wind around again and again and again. You’ll probably recognize some of them here. There are familiar sentiments, repeated names, and call backs to weeks passed. And if you pay close attention to the process, perhaps you’ll also land in a…
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Live Weekly Update: Epistemologies of Intimacy versus Ignorance; Reflections for Moving Through
This week, I intended to go through my five-page packet, “Reflections for Moving Through: Messages and Reminders for Staying Grounded as the World Changes (and You Do, Too!)” I only managed to get through the first page about staying human and not making monsters out of people because, well…
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Live Weekly Update: "Radically Together," and How We Would Meet If We Were Free
Normalize Gathering Community in Radially Strategic, Meaningful, and Fun Ways As an introvert who hates small talk and superficiality, I am very turned off by “typical” ways of socializing. Even a house party among friends of friends is about as appealing to me as a happy hour mixer or networking...
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Live Weekly Update: Like We Love Heated Rivalry (or, How to Be Part of The Movement)
Heated Rivalry is giving a whole new way to think about Romancing the Revolution! My goal here is to take what we can learn from the experience of being part of an inspired fandom and use all that creative power and enthusiasm to build power for our collective movements. If the passionate…
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Live Weekly Update: Something is (already) Happening; Art, Truth, Politics, and Heated Rivalry
This week’s live was rife with technical difficulties. As I write this now, I’m realizing that there were even more than I was initially aware of, and then even more on top of that. It just keeps getting more odd. You don’t need to know this, but here’s some of what happened and why the things I...
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Live Weekly Update: How Liberation is Local Came to Be (an emergent study) & What Will Still Be True
On our 86th Sunday, I decided it is time to take a pause from Liberation is Local. We met every week to learn together, in community, about liberation. It’s what inspired my pages to morph three times over into what I’ve been sharing since August in the chat (and so much more). Personally, it was...
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Live Weekly Update: "Fully, Not Forever" into 2026 with Big Philosophical Projects
Friends! This one was a full near-90-minute download of my thoughts and process over the past two weeks. A heart-full share-out fit to close out such a massive year. After technical difficulties that prevented me from sharing last week’s update, my gears finally started clicking in better…
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Live Weekly Update: For the Love of Strangers Finale, Being With Others, Beginnings
This week was a big one! “For the Love of Strangers” materialized from an idea into a public community experience that ran for 11 months! I share more about the finale in particular, which was THE MOST META OF THEM ALL, and themed “Love, an Artist.” I also go over the page from this week’s...
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Live Weekly Update: Building Culture for Working Relationships
Working Relationships, yes, but starting with some mentions of Brené Brown, Marina Abramovic, and Maria Bamford. Also touching on vulnerability, performance art, what’s in store around an epistemology of intimacy, and the interconnected themes of what’s personally, politically, professionally…
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Live Weekly Update: Building into 2026 and Working Relationships
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Live Weekly Update: Power is as Power Does
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Live Weekly Update: Responsibility, Failure, and Trusting the Process
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Live Weekly Update: On Craft and Creativity with Nick Holland
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Live Weekly Update: Magic Seeds and Attempting the Abyss with a Leap of Faith
Some good news (!!) after creating a page last week in a dark place, which led me back to the basics of faith. Here's a walk through of my page about magic seeds and the excessiveness of oak trees' acorns. Plus, a little teaser about how much I want to get in touch with Chani Nicholas. Get full...
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Live Weekly Update: Ethics, Rule-Breaking, Stand-Up Philosophy (and More Projects!)
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LIVE! Positive Philosophy, Nietzsche, and Substack w/ Cori Wong
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Live Updates: This Week’s Reflections (and My Website!)
Thank you to everyone who tuned into my live video about my new website and the post I just published, “What’s in a Website??” I didn’t expect tangents on parasocial relationships or fundamentals of an industrial complex, but that’s what happens when we process out loud in real time. My main...
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First Wednesday Live with Dr. Cori Wong
Thank you to everyone who tuned into my live video! The technical challenges and surprises are real and it being imperfect in our attempts doesn’t really matter all that much in the end. :) Join me for my next live video in the app, whenever that may be. Probably on some Wednesdays if people…
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"Embrace the Madness"
This is a reading of a short talk I was invited to give in March 2025. The community event, “Brain Change” was also a fundraiser for the Alliance for Suicide Prevention of Larimer County. I’m collaborating with the Alliance again to offer another special experience for our community. The...
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Want to Know is an experimental space to develop an epistemology of intimacy. It is a process, a way of knowing by becoming more intimate, and a project of meta philosophical performance art.
coriwong.substack.com
HOSTED BY
Dr. Cori Wong
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