Join us as we delve into the opening of Judith Butler's recent book on the Pandemic. To us, doing a phenomenology of the pandemic seems to be an inherently triggering project, especially if the questions asked include: what was it like to watch mass death from an Iphone? Or, what was extreme boredom and futility like? However, thankfully, Butler chooses a very different route, focusing instead on the world's interconnectedness and what the pandemic reveals about the world's structure. Enjoy!

This week we read, or, as you will, suffered, through some Edmund Husserl! We talk about his importance to continental theory and his defense of the new field of phenomenology. Enjoy!

Sartre's excited! And so are we! In our season two inaugural episode, we discuss Sartre's little essay on Husserl and his joy in discovering the phenomenological field. We also do some phenomenology ourselves talking about rivers and smiles.

To end our first season we're talking about Arcade Fire's first three albums: Funeral, Neon Bible, and The Suburbs. We cover American extremism, growing up, and, of course, life in suburbia. Enjoy!

This week we finish our discussion of Karl Jasper's Philosophy of Existence. This includes some core existential concepts such as authenticity and we also tackle his categories of truth. Enjoy!

It's time for some existentialism! We discuss the first half of Jasper's lectures on The Philosophy of Existence, covering the difference between existence and his term existenz, and so much more. Enjoy!

Tanizaki's In Praise of Shadows is a classic text. It attempts to explicate a whole nation's aesthetic character...is it successful? And what of Tanizaki's more dated claims? Join us this week as we work through a great and, at times, frustrating work.

Join us this week as we read Roland Barthe's essay Lesson In Writing. We're talking about Bunraku theatre and how the medium highlights an essential difference between Eastern and Western art...and yes, disagreements abound! Enjoy!