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Back to SearchEpisode 279: The Greenhouses We Burned Along the Way (Lee Chang-dong's "Burning" Pt. 2)
Episode 279
David and Tamler conclude their discussion of Lee Chang-dong's "Burning" – we talk about the hunger dance at twilight, Ben's greenhouse burning habit…
2 years ago
Episode 278: Schrödinger's Everything (Lee Chang-dong's "Burning" Pt. 1)
Episode 278
David and Tamler fall under the spell of Lee Chang-dong's 2018 masterpiece Burning, a movie where nothing is what it seems, or maybe it is. An aliena…
2 years, 1 month ago
Episode 277: The Merits of Buggery (Nagel's "Sexual Perversion")
David and Tamler play the old hits – Thomas Nagel and sex robots. In the main segment we talk about Nagel's essay "Sexual Perversion", a surprising e…
2 years, 1 month ago
Episode 276: Attention Please
Episode 276
David and Tamler are back for the new year and one of our resolutions was to do more episodes on William James. Today we talk about his account of 'A…
2 years, 2 months ago
Episode 275: The Ineffable Center (Borges' "The Aleph")
Episode 275
An episode interesting from every point of view, we train our eyes on Jorge Luis Borges' "The Aleph." The first segment wins the kudos of the learned…
2 years, 2 months ago
Episode 274: Can I Get a Kidney Voucher? (with Vlad Chituc)
Episode 274
RETURNING guest Vlad Chituc joins us for a wide-ranging discussion about donating his kidney to a stranger, the effective altruism movement, and his …
2 years, 3 months ago
Episode 273: Ah. Ah. (Miyazaki's "Spirited Away")
Episode 273
David and Tamler board the train for Hayao Miyazaki's mystical dreamy coming of age masterpiece Spirited Away. This is a true VBW deep dive. Plus a s…
2 years, 3 months ago
Episode 272: Neigh Means Yay
The morality of zoophilia has received shockingly little attention in contemporary ethical discourse…until now. David and Tamler break down the paper…
2 years, 4 months ago
Episode 271: Concept-Con 2023
Episode 271
It's the first annual "Concept-Con" – a not at all cringe episode where David and Tamler apply the methods and rigor of analytic philosophy to dissec…
2 years, 4 months ago
Episode 270: Take Me to the River (Blood Meridian, Pt. 3)
David and Tamler conclude their three-part discussion of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. We talk about the Judge's coin trick by the fire and the q…
2 years, 5 months ago