Margin for Thought

Margin for Thought

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Margin for Thought episodes

  • (Preview) 5. Life and Death

    In their fifth episode, Ethan and Gabriel take a close look at Byung-Chul Han’s 2019 book The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present. They survey the communion of pedagogy (Simone Weil), writing methodology, Protestantism and Christian hermeneutics, worship & prayer (Kierkegaard), communication vs. community, politeness, the relationship between work and rest (Hegel & Kojève), endless conjunction vs. lingering & site (Deleuze), psychology, sovereign suicide (Schroeter & Foucault), pornography, and more.

    The full 3 hour and 45 minute episode is available on Patreon for a small monthly fee. Please consider subscribing to help us continue producing high quality work. https://www.patreon.com/MarginforThought

    Gabriel Hollis – “Genesis” (https://tactileinput.bandcamp.com/track/genesis)

    Thumbnail artwork by Ethan Isaac.

    1 hr 57 min
  • (Preview) 4. The Question Concerning Technology

    In their fourth episode, Ethan and Gabriel analyze Martin Heidegger’s 1954 essay “The Question Concerning Technology.”

    The full 2 hour episode is available on Patreon for a small monthly fee. Please consider subscribing to help us continue producing high quality work. https://www.patreon.com/c/MarginforThought

    The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man by Marshall McLuhan

    The Silent Language by Edward T. Hall
    Basic Writings: Martin Heidegger edited by David Farrell Krell
    “The Good Citizen: Kojève and the Founding Fathers” by Gabriel Hollis (link)
    “Romantic bureaucracy: Alexander Kojève’s post-historical wisdom” by Boris Groys (link)
    Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

    1 hr 13 min
  • (Preview) 3. God Is Not Cast Down w/ Hudson Parris

    In their third episode, Ethan and Gabriel are joined by Hudson Parris, a painter, architect, and history devotee. They begin by covering Kazimir Severinovich Malevich: his paintings, his involvement in the Russian Suprematist movement, and the impact of his ideas upon the trajectory of architectural design. They proceed to examine Malevich’s stunning 1920 essay “God Is Not Cast Down: Art, Church, and Factory,” discussing its engagement with phenomenology, sin and the Fall, metaphysics, the purpose of man, psychoanalysis, etc.

    The full 2 hour and 30 minute episode is available on Patreon for a small monthly fee. Please consider subscribing to help us continue producing high quality work. https://www.patreon.com/MarginforThought

    Malevich - Black Square (link)

    Malevich - Arkhitektons (link)
    “In Search of 0,10 – The Last Futurist Exhibition of Painting” exhibition (link)
    Zvyano Association: Kazimir Malevich’s book (link)
    The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
    The Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms
    General Introduction to a Pure Phenomenology by Edmund Husserl
    Lacan’s “objet (petit) a” (link)
    “How to Understand Lacan's Theory of the Four Discourses (feat. Samuel McCormick)” (link)
    Monadology by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

    1 hr 26 min
  • 2. On Redeeming Time

    In their second episode, Ethan and Gabriel discuss a new theory of originality which takes into account Kojève’s conception of history and his theory of subjectivity in representational art (covered in detail in their first episode). They also cover reading, the effects of digital media, depression and melancholia, and philosophy of history.

    References:

    Thomas Köner – Teimo

    Elizabeth Colour Wheel – Nocebo
    Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer
    Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault
    Ecclesiastes 1:9 - “That which has been is what will be, that which is done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.”
    “Archive Fever w/ Ruby Justice Thelot” by Contain Podcast (link)
    Green Morning | Eli Keszler | live @Le Guess Who? 2024 | Vrije Geluiden (link)
    The Count of Monte Cristo dir. Kevin Reynolds (2002)
    Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit by Alexandre Kojève

    Thumbnail artwork by Ethan Isaac.

    1 hr 10 min
  • 1. Amazon and Representational Art

    In their inaugural episode, Ethan and Gabriel discuss Amazon: its economic role and developmental trajectory, along with its reciprocal involvement in the cultivation of Western consumerism. They also talk about Alexandre Kojève’s theory of representational art and subjectivity.


    References:

    Bitter Water Opera by Nicolette Polek
    Underoath – Define the Great Line (2006)
    The Principles of Scientific Management by Frederick Winslow Taylor
    The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man by Marshall McLuhan
    Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul Han
    “A History of Volcanoes: J.M.W. Turner, Theory of Color, Starting Over” by Contain Podcast (link)
    Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit by Alexandre Kojève

    Thumbnail artwork by Ethan Isaac.

    1 hr 8 min

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