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PEL Presents NEM#197: Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah's African Head Charge
Bonjo started in the '70s as a session hand percussionist, played for a few years with Creation Rebel, and became a band leader in 1980, first record…
3 years, 3 months ago
PREMIUM-Ep. 319: Schiller on Experiencing Beauty (Part Three)
We complete our treatment of On the Aesthetic Education of Man by considering its final letters in more detail.
Does Reason really make us more moral…
3 years, 3 months ago
Ep. 319: Schiller on Experiencing Beauty (Part Two)
Starting with letter 20 in On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1795), we tell more of the story of how art is supposed to get us from sensation to thi…
3 years, 3 months ago
PEL Presents PvI#54: Do You Want to Be Here? w/ Brain in a Vat
Mark Oppenheimer and Jason Werbeloff of the Brain in a Vat podcast join Bill and Mark L. (aka Alf) to talk about rationality, broadly construed, whil…
3 years, 3 months ago
Ep. 319: Schiller on Experiencing Beauty (Part One)
On the second half of Friedrich Schiller's On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1795), getting into the mechanics of how aesthetic experience work in g…
3 years, 3 months ago
PEL Presents PMP#151: Everybody's Talkin' 'Bout "Succession"
The regular gang (Mark, Lawrence, Sarahlyn, and Al) address Jesse Armstrong's prestige HBO dramedy that premiered in 2018 and has just wrapped up. Wh…
3 years, 3 months ago
PEL Presents NEM#196: Michael Gira (Swans) Is Not Done
Swans started in the early '80s with a brutal sound gradually became more subtle and textured. The band broke up in 1995 after ten albums (and three …
3 years, 3 months ago
PREMIUM-Ep. 318: Friedrich Schiller on the Civilizing Potential of Art (Part Three)
Mark and Wes dive deeper into the text of the first several letters of On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1795).
Are verbal descriptions of art desti…
3 years, 3 months ago
Ep. 318: Friedrich Schiller on the Civilizing Potential of Art (Part Two)
We continue working through letters 1-15 of On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1795), helped by Markus Reuter.
We get clearer on what Schiller means …
3 years, 3 months ago
PEL Presents PMP#150: Dark Shadows w/ Kathryn Leigh Scott
Mark, Lawrence, and Sean Michael Cooney discuss the gothic romance vampire soap opera from 1966-1971 plus the spin-off movies and reboots. We intervi…
3 years, 4 months ago