Podcast Episodes

Ep. 389: Hegel on Wealth and Power (Part Two)

Concluding on "Culture and its Realm of Actuality," in Hegel's Phenomenology via sections 519-526.

We get into some of the ironic psychology here: In…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

PEL Presents PvI#116: Full Bird Mode w/ BJ Lange

BJ is an LA improviser/actor/TV host (who teaches wounded warriors among others), and he chats with Mark and Mary about migratory patterns, TV shows …

5 months, 2 weeks ago

PEL Presents PMP#219: Weir-ed Sci Fi: Hail Mary and The Martian

We discuss the hard sci-fi film Project Hail Mary, which along with The Martian (2015) was based on a novel by Andy Weir and adapted by Drew Goddard.…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Ep. 389: Hegel on Wealth and Power (Part One)

Continuing on Hegel's Phenomenology, "Spirit" chapter, now up to sections 511-526, which finishes off the sub-section of "Self-Alienated Spirit" call…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

PEL Presents NEM#250: Bill Pritchard the Tourist

Bill is a singer/songwriter who recorded five albums of catchy tunes between 1989 and 1991, then retired but came back a vengeance in 2014. He's now …

5 months, 3 weeks ago

PEL Presents Closereads: Kierkegaard on Subjective Knowledge

On an excerpt from Soren Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript (1846) that critiques Hegel's idea of logic (dialectic) and then argues for…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

Ep. 388: Hegel on Culture (Part Two)

Continuing on the "Spirit" chapter (more specifically. "Culture and its realm of actuality") in Hegel's Phenomenology, now covering sec. 490-510. How…

5 months, 4 weeks ago

PEL Presents PvI#115: Mary and Mark Astro-Logically

In this pitched, high-stakes battle, your hosts have it out about astrological biases, doing offensive accents, letting go of control in an improv sc…

5 months, 4 weeks ago

Ep. 388: Hegel on Culture (Part One)

Continuing on Hegel's Phenomenology, "Spirit" chapter, now up to sections 484-510, which is the first part of "Self-Alienated Spirit. Culture."

In He…

6 months ago

PEL Presents NEM#249: Kavus Torabi Now Leads Gong

Kavus began in dual-guitar London math-rock bands in the '90s, joined The Cardiacs for their final lineup. His band Knifeworld released the first of …

6 months, 1 week ago