Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

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Clerestory (Bryan Kam) episodes

  • Against Teleology and Abstraction

    This is a live conversation I recorded on Twitter Spaces on 11 January 2022, between me (Bryan Kam), Isabela Granic, Athenian Stranger, and others. We discuss abstraction and perfection, including Spinoza's Ethics, Charles Sanders Peirce, the medieval scholastics, as well as Ancient Chinese, and Greek philosophy. I edited out the very beginning, when we were getting set up, but otherwise it includes the entire conversation.

    If you would like to schedule a conversation with me like this, please click here.

    2 hr 3 min
  • Wings of Desire/Love Constant Beyond Death
    • This episode is about the universal versus the particular, in film, poetry and prose.
    • There's a new thing, which is that you can now read this episode's transcript!
    • In this episode, I discuss the Wenders film Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin, 1987).
    • (Wenders' Q&A should be posted on the BFI YouTube channel.)
    • I also consider the relationship of the universal to the particular; see this Twitter thread.
    • I refer to The Master & His Emissary, by Iain McGilchrist (2009), as well as The Problem of Knowledge, by Ernst Cassirer (1950), Conversations with Goethe (1836–1848).
    • I also refer to Being You, by Anil Seth (2021).
    • At the end, I read "Love Constant Beyond Death" (1648), by Francisco de Quevado, translated by Margaret Jull Costa.
    • Historiansplaining podcast and the upcoming Twitter Space I'm holding with Sam Biagetti.
      • 30 min
    • Intention to resume
      • From the blog: What I'm up to now.
      • Listen to my first conversation with Achim Rothe (2022-06-16).
      • Listen to my second conversation with Achim Rothe (2022-06-22).
      • Read my announcement for my discussion with Sam Biagetti.
      • Listen to my conversation with Sam Biagetti (2022-07-02).
      • Please schedule a conversation with me (limited time only!).
      • Or consider recording a clip to send to this podcast (click the +Message button).
        • 7 min
      • The Stability-Plasticity Dilemma/Sonnet 122
        • Mermillod et al.: The Stability-Plasticity Dilemma (2013)
        • Erik Hoel: The overfitted brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization (2021)
        • Carhart-Harris et al.: The Entropic Brain (2014)
        • Von Neumann: The Computer and the Brain (1957)
        • Shakespeare: Sonnet 122
          • 20 min
        • Nietzsche's Human, All Too Human, Kuhn, A. C. Graham/Sonnet 95
          • R. J. Hollingdale's 1994 translation of Nietzsche's Human, All Too Human (1878)
          • My piece on the avant-garde
          • Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
          • Boyce: Why Some Children Are Orchids and Others Are Dandelions (2019)
          • A. C. Graham: Disputers of the Tao (1989)
          • Quanta: Out-of-Sync ‘Loners’ May Secretly Protect Orderly Swarms (2020)
          • Shakespeare: Sonnet 95
            • 1 hr 3 min
          • Shklovsky/Little Gidding
            • Viktor Shklovsky and Russian Formalism (wikipedia), and Defamiliarization/ostrananie.
            • My Twitter thread on Shklovsky.
            • Alexandra Berlina's Viktor Shklovsky: A Reader.
            • LA Review of Books: Both a Fish and an Ichthyologist.
            • Professor Caryl Emerson.
            • "Art as Device" (1917/1919. Sometimes translated as "Art as Technique"): PDF, including commentary on translation.
            • T. S. Eliot: "Little Gidding" (1942).
              • 20 min
            • Althusser/Hardy's At Castle Boterel
              • Norbert Elias: The Civilizing Process (1939).
              • Richard Wrangham: Two types of aggression in human evolution (2018).
              • Louis Althusser: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1970).
              • My thread on Thomas Kuhn.
              • Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962).
              • Stanford Encyclopedia: Scientific Revolutions (2017).
              • Thomas Hardy: At Castle Boterel (1913).
                • 29 min
              • Tao Te Ching/Chuang Tzu/Keats
                • The Tao Te Ching, translated by Derek Lin and Stephen Addiss/Stanley Lombardo
                • A. C. Graham: Chuang-tzǔ: The Inner Chapters
                • Harold D. Roth: A Companion to Angus C. Graham's Chuang Tzu
                • John Keats: "When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be"
                  • 29 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…