Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

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  • Neither/Nor Principles

    Principles of Neither/Nor:

    1. Every idea, concept, philosophy has a history
    2. The two opposed but complementary ways of knowing are intuition and reason
    3. Neither/Nor emphasizes dynamic movement across these two polarities and across all polarities, and opposes static positions
    4. Learning and perception involve experimentation, trial and error, variation and selection
    5. All philosophies and concepts are social
    6. Neither/Nor apprehends processes and relations rather than objects
    7. Everything worthwhile comes from perception or experience
      8. 7 min
    8. Epistolary: Meaningful Living vs Making a Living (Part 5)

      How do you balance your life’s purpose, your creative impulse, or your art, with the realities of life?

      Here are the next seven responses I've received. Thanks to Shannon, Luiz, Matt Sterett, and Yulia Babanova.

      I'm still taking submissions. Please upload your audio response here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bryankam.com/record⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

      Clerestory by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Bryan Kam⁠⁠⁠⁠ • Infrequent updates at ⁠⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠ • All my work plus exclusive content at ⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠

      37 min
    9. Epistolary: Meaningful Living vs Making a Living (Part 4)

      How do you balance your life’s purpose, your creative impulse, or your art, with the realities of life?

      Here are the next seven responses I've received. Thanks to ⁠Patricia⁠, ⁠Liv⁠, ⁠Ben⁠, ⁠Nastasia⁠ (⁠@Gryphire⁠), ⁠Michael⁠, ⁠Maggie⁠ (⁠@Mappletons⁠), and Gloria.

      I'm still taking submissions. Please upload your audio response here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bryankam.com/record⁠⁠⁠⁠.

      I will release episodes from responses I receive, aiming for 45 minute episodes after the initial "pilot."

      57 min
    10. Mental Proliferation, with Isabela Granic

      Part 6 in a series of interviews on the book I'm working on, Neither/Nor. In this episode, ⁠⁠⁠Isabela Granic⁠⁠⁠ asks about the Buddhist term "papança" and how it relates to anxiety and depression.

      Topics discussed:

      • The meaning of papança or ⁠Conceptual proliferation⁠
      • Whether this proliferation is related to rumination, anxiety, and depression
      • Historicization of translations
      • How to deconstruct terms
      • Comparing conceptual evolution with biological evolution
      • Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer on definitions
      • The two directions of dependent origination
      • How and when to do conceptual genealogies like Nietzsche
      • Metaphors as newly coined versus worn-out coins
      • The increasing abstraction of the past few thousand years
      • Mental proliferation within a single mind
      • The resistance to abstraction by those who don't live in the built environment (Luria)
      • Individualism in Montaigne and Fichte
      • The issue of "obviousnesses" in Althusser's Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses

        • Previous episodes:

        • Part 5 of this series: Crises and Revolutions
        • Part 4 of this series: ⁠Language and Experience⁠
        • Part 3 of this series: ⁠⁠AI and Pyrrhonism⁠⁠
        • Part 2 of this series: ⁠⁠⁠A Philosophical Journey⁠⁠
        • Part 1 of this series: ⁠⁠Causality and Conditionality⁠⁠

          • Clerestory by ⁠⁠⁠Bryan Kam⁠⁠⁠ • Infrequent updates at ⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠ • All my work plus exclusive content at ⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠

          Show notes

          1 hr 23 min
        • Epistolary: Joachim Brackx on Beauty

          In this episode I spoke with my dear friend ⁠Joachim Brackx⁠ in a series of voicenotes. We discuss beauty, quality, and aesthetic enjoyment. We recorded the voicenotes over about a month, March–April 2023. We would both love to hear what you think of this experiment!

          This is a follow-up to our original epistolary experiment, on Choice, Desire, and Purpose.

          Subscribe to Joachim's newsletter at ⁠Relating to Self⁠ and hear more on his podcast here.

          Clerestory by ⁠⁠Bryan Kam⁠⁠ • Infrequent updates at ⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠ • All my work plus exclusive content at ⁠⁠Patreon⁠

          47 min
        • Epistolary: Meaningful Living vs Making a Living (Part 3)

          How do you balance your life’s purpose, your creative impulse, or your art, with the realities of life?

          Here are the next five responses I've received. Thanks to Caleb, Delia, Samantha, Carolina, and Jacqueline.

          I'm still taking submissions. Please upload your audio response here: ⁠⁠⁠https://bryankam.com/record⁠⁠⁠.

          I will release episodes from responses I receive, aiming for 45 minute episodes after the initial "pilot."

          57 min
        • Epistolary: Meaningful Living vs Making a Living (Part 2)

          How do you balance your life’s purpose, your creative impulse, or your art, with the realities of life?

          Here are the next four responses I've received. Thanks to Adam, Isabela, ⁠Gareth, and Catherine.

          I'm still taking submissions. Please upload your audio response here: ⁠⁠https://bryankam.com/record⁠⁠.

          I will release episodes from responses I receive, aiming for 30-45 minute episodes after the initial "pilot."

          48 min
        • Epistolary: Meaningful Living vs Making a Living (Part 1)

          How do you balance your life’s purpose, your creative impulse, or your art, with the realities of life?

          Here are the first seven responses I've received. Thanks to Nasos, Romeo, Jay, Khuyen (Kasper), Joachim, Nicole, and Nathan.

          I'm still taking submissions. Please upload your audio response here: ⁠https://bryankam.com/record⁠.

          I will release episodes from responses I receive, aiming for 30-45 minute episodes after the initial "pilot."

          Clerestory by ⁠⁠⁠Bryan Kam⁠⁠⁠ • Infrequent updates at ⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠ • All my work plus exclusive content at ⁠⁠⁠Patreon

          1 hr 8 min
        • Meaningful Living vs Making a Living

          How do you balance your life’s purpose, your creative impulse, or your art, with the realities of life?

          Please upload your audio response here: https://bryankam.com/record.

          I will release episodes from responses I receive, every time I receive 45 minutes.

          Clerestory by ⁠⁠Bryan Kam⁠⁠ • Infrequent updates at ⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠ • All my work plus exclusive content at ⁠⁠Patreon

          7 min
        • Epistolary: Recourse to the Divine, with Eyal Shay

          In this episode I spoke to my friend Eyal Shay in a series of voicenotes, recorded over a period of a few months at the start of this year.

          This episode is an experiment in epistolary podcasting 😊 Over the course of the pandemic I got to know people from the internet quite well through voicenotes. These were sent asynchronously to overcome timezone and calendar fatigue.

          In this episode, Eyal and I alternated messages with different lengths:  1 minute, then 2, 4, and 8 minutes. We sent these through WhatsApp.

          Clerestory by ⁠Bryan Kam⁠ • Infrequent updates at ⁠Substack⁠ • All my work plus exclusive content at ⁠Patreon

          45 min

        About Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

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        A podcast on philosophy. I'm interested in the origins of complexity, suffering, and selfhood. I'm now lucky to have conversations with amazing people, mostly on Eastern/Western philosophy. Early…