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PEL Presents PvI#50: Pro Tips w/ Marla Cáceres
Marla is an improviser from the Whirled News Tonight iO Theater show. We talk about obeying proper forms of behavior and drawing improv inspiration f…
3 years ago
PREMIUM-Ep. 313: Mozi's Political Ethics (Part Three)
We get into quotes from Mozi about his arguments against fatalism and Confucianism, support for meritocracy and identifying with superiors, and descr…
3 years ago
PMP#147: Nostalgic Mysteries (Knives Out, Poker Face) from Rian Johnson
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3 years ago
Ep. 313: Mozi's Political Ethics (Part Two)
Continuing on the central Mohist text, with guest Tzuchien Tho.
We talk about Mozi's ideas about encouraging morality, preventing war, restricting mu…
3 years ago
PEL Presents NEM#192: Guitarist Ivan Julian Serves the Song
Ivan was a founding member of Richard Hell and the Voidoids in 1977, fronted The Outsets in the '80s, and has put out two solo albums while playing w…
3 years, 1 month ago
Announcement: PEL Live April 15 in NYC, Streamed Worldwide
Folks should join us on at the Caveat in Lower Manhattan on Saturday, 4/15/23 at 7pm ET. You can also stream the even either at the time or afterward…
3 years, 1 month ago
Ep. 313: Mozi's Political Ethics (Part One)
On selections of the central Mohist text, from ca. 430 B.C.E., with guest Tzuchien Tho.
Mozi claims that we should regard everyone on the same level …
3 years, 1 month ago
PEL Presents PvI#49: Ferrets in Uniform with Cole Nasrallah
On this episode of Philosophy vs. Improv, we talk transcendental idealism and Schopenhauer with Cole, who teaches philosophy at the College of Southe…
3 years, 1 month ago
PREMIUM-PEL Nightcap Late March 2023
Mark, Seth, and Dylan talk about what makes for a fitting tribute for those departed, mourning customs, how Daoism has personally affected us, and mo…
3 years, 1 month ago
Ep. 312: The Dao De Jing on Virtue (Part Two)
Concluding our discussion of the Daodejing with guest Theo Brooks. We cover some more ambiguous cosmological passages and return to political philoso…
3 years, 1 month ago