All Episodes
let's THiNK about it — 89 episodes
Pacifism as Pathology
Rorty’s Ironists vs. Metaphysicians: Navigating Private Doubts and Public Hopes
Rorty’s Cruelty, Solidarity, and Liberal Hope
Rorty's Contingency : Tools, Selves, and Communities
The semantic drift of "good"
Language Failure: How Words Shape Our Reality
{AI}ice's Odyssey in DALL-E Land
Art and AI
Kant and the rise of subjective relativism
Transcendent Escapism
Skipping Reality
The Parallax View
Perspective Framing
Concrete Universal (trash and art)
holy to holy s***
Symbolic Victory
Camouflage (sex and trust)
Camouflage (and Art)
The Costume & Inscribed Violence
Scapegoating & Sacrifice
Mimetic Desire
Malign Velocities (Accelerationism)
Accelerationism & Futurism
Cybernetics & Capitalism
The Path of Opposition (Failure as Transcendence)
Artificial Negativity & Repressive Tolerance
The One-Dimensional Man
The Double Bind
Escape from Freedom (pt 2)
Escape from Freedom (pt 1)
Gambling, the Death Drive, & Libertarian Neutrality
Identity and Violence
Design facilitates Agency
Integrating Embodied Perception
Cultural Jigs
The World Beyond Your Head (pt 2)
The World Beyond Your Head (pt 1)
Best of 2021 (book review)
Ambiguity (self-optimization pt. 4)
The Hero Trendency
Atomic Habits (optimization pt 2)
Self-Optimization Lure (part 1)
Sacred Economics (pt 2)
Sacred Economics (pt 1)
Free Guy
Step 44: Fart Art
The Depression Relief Playbook, Zack Rutledge
China Unraveled, Jason Szeftel
Step 41: Utopia for Realists, pt 2
Step 40: Utopia for Realists, Bregman (pt1)
After the Orgy, Baudrillard
Simulacra and Simulation, Baudrillard
Step 37: Trump's Second Term, Tom Fischgrund
Step 36: Yes, Men are Apes, as are Women; Rebecca Coffey
Step 35: Global Citizenship, Zackary Sietz
Gold Plating (The Culture of the New Capitalism pt. 3)
The Specter of Uselessness (Culture of the New Capitalism part 2)
Culture of the New Capitalism (pt 1)
Punisher (Symbols)
Pragmatism (with Mister Lisa)
Truth (William James)
Our Malady (Lessons in Liberty)
Moral Mazes (part 2)
Moral Mazes (Part 1)
Step 25: Addicted to Thinking
Xmas Decorations and Musings on Neighbors
The Dangers of Common Sense
Guilt, Shame and Groupthink
Tyranny of Merit (pt 2: education)
Tyranny of Merit (pt.1)
Breakdown of Will
Time travel, Fate & Will
Stochastic Arts: The Cure for Narcissism
Madness and Oscillations
Surveillance Capitalism
The Post-Panopticon
The Panopticon
The Social Sphere and Communicative Action
Social Contract: Freedom To, Freedom From
Economy or Life?
The Passive Life
Vita Activa
Tom Sawyer & Learning
Tom Sawyer & Chores
Inferiority as Power
Ukraine/Maidon
Doubling
Pliers
Home Depot Orange