The Opposite of Everything is History

The Deeper Thinking Podcast

What remains after structure collapses.

What begins as a system of oppositions—raw and cooked, myth and meaning, structure and freedom—unravels across nine recursive movements. This episode enters the elegant collapse of structuralism, tracing not a theory, but its residue. Through Claude Lévi-Strauss, Gregory Bateson, Jean-Paul Sartre, Gayle Rubin, Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas, Sylvia Wynter, and Édouard Glissant, we follow a shift from form to relation, from certainty to flicker.

This essay does not explain. It listens. It does not resolve. It disturbs. It follows structure until it can no longer hold—and then it asks what flickers after: silence, relation, and the right to opacity.

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