Philosophy After Hours

In this episode we discuss marginalia. How does marginalia open onto a community of interpreters? Who has the authority to speak in the margins? Anyone? Or only those with the proper "credentials" to interpret? What pleasures are afforded in finding marginalia in used books? When (if ever) is marginalia defacement? Hear what we think.

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Text:

Emmanuel Levinas, On Escape, trans. Bettina Bergo (Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 2003), 50.

In this episode we were supposed to discuss "fitness," but things got a little off-track. We had more pressing things on our mind this evening, it seems. Listen to our meandering discussion as we explore Sophocles' Antigone, a critique of liberal capitalism, frustrations with Obama, and celebrate an anniversary. Hear what we think.

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Text: Sophocles, Antigone, trans. Robert Fagles (London: Penguin Classics, 1984), 115.

In this episode we discuss the concept of health and its relation to the idea of the Good. Has health become synonymous with the Good? If so, does that overly constrain our conceptions of the good life to what the medical community (as experts on health) recommends? Does this have any undesirable consequences? Hear what we think.

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Text:

J. Kenji López-Alt, The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science (New York: Norton, 2015), 580-581.

In this episode we discuss the phenomenon of "reaction videos". What is the psychology behind their immense popularity? Are they a modern form of the 'laugh track'? Are they a unique response to 21st century isolation and alienation? Hear what we think.

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Text:

"Daydream delusion," from the movie Before Sunrise, written by Richard Linklater and Kim Krizan, 1995.

Here we are again to shoot the shit. In this episode we discuss our fear of advertising the podcast on social media, and the likely narcissism that goes along with that; we grumble about the recent U.S. elections; finally, we end with a sober reflection on our deadened spirits during the COVID-19 pandemic. Hear what we think.

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Text:

Meister Eckhart, Selected Writings, trans. Oliver Davis (London: Penguin Classics, 1994), 14.

In this episode we discuss the aesthetic significance of "mumble rap". Is the genre simply about having fun? Is it an artistic revolt against the "old heads"? Does the genre need to further mature or "come into its own" before it can be appreciated in a richer sense (whatever that means)? Hear what we think.

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Text:

Emmanuel Levinas, On Escape, trans. Bettina Bergo (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003), 55.

In this episode we discuss the possible virtue of idleness. Are work, labor, and productivity the only measures of human value? What if you just sit around and binge watch a Netflix series? Can there be any value in that? And must the value of our activities always be determined in terms of its measurable accomplishments? Hear what we think?

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Text:

Confucius, Analects, trans. D.C. Lau (London: Penguin Classics, 1979), 115 (Book 5, Verse 19).

In this episode we interrogate the metaphor of depth as it relates to human understanding. We often say a remark was "deep," that analysis has "depth," or maybe that we wish to make a "deeper" point. But what is signified in that "depth"? And is that spatial metaphor a felicitous one? Hear what we think.

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In this episode we discussion renunciation. What does it mean to renounce something or someone? When and why should you do it? Should you renounce family and friends to pursue a path of religious purity? Should you renounce alcohol because "once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic"? Hear what we think?

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Text:

Yoshido Kenko, Essay in Idleness, trans. Meredith McKinney (London: Penguin Classics, 2013), 26.

In this episode we stumble onto a discussion about the sacred, the profane, and what each of them mean for us. Hear what we think.

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Text:

Izumi Shikibu, "Come Quickly," in Love Poems, ed. Peter Washington (New York: Knopf, 1993), 43.