While producing the podcast and creating bizarre philosophy-themed YouTube videos over the past months, Dave has also been working on three books in progress–“Animality and Finitude,” “On the Kanthropocene,” and “A Bipolar Manifesto.”

Parts of each book have been released on a rolling basis on the Deadbeat Philosophy homepage (deadbeatphilosophy.substack.com), and episodes 20, 21, and 22 of the podcast will feature readings of available sections of each.

In this episode, Dave reads the first six parts of “Animality and Finitude”:

1. Life is a Journey. Death is Where that Journey Ends

2. On the Animality of Cookie Monster, Grover, Elmo, and Oscar the Grouch

3. On the Question of Ethical Eating

4. Against Sustainability: Six Theses

5. The Paradox of the Easter Bunny

6. A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Paradoxical Medicine Go Down

With this episode, the Deadbeat Philosophy Podcast will shift to an every other week format–at least until the end of summer and the conclusion of all inglorious summer-related travel.

Thanks for tuning in, and until soon.

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