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NEM#223: Dale Crover (Melvins) the Accidentalist
Though Dale is known as the long-time drummer for Washington sludge-metal band Melvins ('88-present), he's also a guitarist and singer who led the ba…
2 years ago
Ep. 350: Rorty on Justification and Essentialism (Part Two)
Concluding on "Universality and Truth" from Richard Rorty's Pragmatism As Anti-Authoritarianism. It it coherent to simply not have a theory of truth?…
2 years ago
Philosophy vs. Improv #82: LIVE in Personability w/ James Whittington
Chicago's iO Theater was graced on August 21 by Mark, Bill, and special guest theater educator James Whittington, who spoke about embodiment (see Mau…
2 years ago
Ep. 350: Rorty on Justification and Essentialism (Part One)
On "Universality and Truth" and "Pan-Relationalism," which are lectures 3-5 in Richard Rorty's Pragmatism As Anti-Authoritarianism.
How do we justify…
2 years, 1 month ago
Pretty Much Pop #181: M. Night Shyamalan's Films Are a Trap
In light of the new film Trap, we look at this writer/director's oeuvre. Was he a bright light (The Sixth Sense) that at one point went out (certainl…
2 years, 1 month ago
NEM#222: Amy Rigby's Nostalgic Simplicity
Amy started out as an NYC punk fan, was in the "cow punk" band Last Roundup with her brother, and then in a vocal trio called The Shams that released…
2 years, 1 month ago
Ep. 349: Rorty's Pluralistic Pragmatism (Part Two)
Continuing on Richard Rorty's Pragmatism As Anti-Authoritarianism, ch. 1, "Pragmatism and Religion" and 2, "Pragmatism as Romantic Polytheism."
Rorty…
2 years, 1 month ago
PREMIUM-Closereads: Merleau-Ponty on the Body
We begin a long series on Maurice Merleau-Ponty's "Phenomenology of Perception" (1945), focusing on Part I, "The Body": "Experience and Objective Tho…
2 years, 1 month ago
Ep. 349: Rorty's Pluralistic Pragmatism (Part One)
On Richard Rorty's Pragmatism As Anti-Authoritarianism (1997), ch. 1-2 about religion. Should democracy be defended on absolutist grounds, e.g. by re…
2 years, 1 month ago
Pretty Much Pop #180: Season Four Wrap: Nostalgia
As Pretty Much Pop ends its 5th year of podcasting, Mark, Lawrence, Sarahlyn and Al break from our usual format to talk in a more free-form way about…
2 years, 1 month ago