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!

Think of the hero in your favorite action film. Now ask yourself: would it make sense for them to die and remain dead? Or! Is the hero strangely safe...join us as we explore the hero as the guise of his majesty the Ego in this week's episode on Freud's Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming.

Join us this week as we explore Harry G. Frankfurt's definition of "Bullshit," what separates it from lying, and its relationship to the truth!

Fairy tales! This week we're excited to talk about storytelling which, for us, means talking about a lot of Disney movies. Enjoy!

Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling straddles the worlds of existentialism and Christianity, producing a brilliant and infuriating text...at least to Preston and I. Enjoy!

This week we try...to...slooooooow down, smell the roses, and all that good stuff. Join us as we read The Big Rush, which is found in Byung-Chul Han's book Capitalism and the Death Drive.

Sure we all (hopefully) have a place to rest our heads at the end of the day, but can we say that we're always dwelling in our spaces? Join us this week to discuss Heidegger's Building, Dwelling, Thinking. Or! As Heidegger would say it: join us this week in the pursuit of a gathering that engenders that which points towards the gathering that gathers.

What is a nondiscreet ontology of being? Find out in this week's podcast! Enjoy!

This week we take a gander at Richard Rorty's book Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity, focusing primarily on chapter 4. We discuss his concept of a "final vocabulary" as well as his distinction between the ironist and the metaphysician. Enjoy!