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PEL Presents PMP#215: Hamnet Dramatizes Shakespeare
When we don't know much about some genius playwright's life, why not make up some things based on the contents of his plays? Maybe put Shakespearean …
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Ep. 385: Guest Graham Harman on Object vs. Continuum (Part One)
An interview with Graham in light of his new book, Waves and Stones: On the Ultimate Nature of Reality, which elaborates and adds to issues that the …
7 months, 2 weeks ago
PEL Presents NEM#246: Robert Deeble in His Talking Voice
Folky singer/songwriter and psychotherapist Robert started in the '80s but considers 1994 his professional debut and has now released his seventh alb…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Ep. 384: Graham Harman's Object-Oriented Ontology (Part Three)
We consider chapter 2, "Aesthetics Is the Root of All Philosophy," where Harman describes how art can help us see behind the veil to things-in-themse…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
PEL Presents PvI#111: God Smites Elijah Dann
Vancouver philosophy prof Elijah was an evangelical Christian who turned liberal and then atheistic, and his latest book, "Unbelieving God: A Skeptic…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
PEL Presents PMP#214: South Park Resurgence
We're discussing Trey Parker and Matt Stone's Comedy Central show that premiered in 1997 and has just finished its politically relevant 28th season, …
8 months ago
Ep. 384: Graham Harman's Object-Oriented Ontology (Part Two)
Continuing on Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything (2018), finishing up ch. 1 (discussing what's so bad about reductionism) and movin…
8 months ago
PEL Presents Closereads: Hegel's "Unhappy Consciousness"
We're within the Self-Consciousness chapter of The Phenomenology of Spirit, specifically starting at sec. 206 on the Unhappy Consciousness. This come…
8 months ago
Ep. 384: Graham Harman's Object-Oriented Ontology (Part One)
On Harman's Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything (2018). What counts as an entity in the world? Harman includes not just physical obj…
8 months, 1 week ago
PEL Presents PvI#110: Memories of 2026 w/ Mark and Mary
To kick off 2026, Mark and Mary talk about memory: memory care for the elderly, the relation between things and memories, what professional activitie…
8 months, 1 week ago