Podcast Episodes

Episode 205: Suicide with Dr. Drew (Durkheim et al) (Part One)

We are rejoined by Drew Pinsky to discuss philosophical and psychological readings by Seneca, Arthur Schopenhauer, Sigmund Freud, Emile Durkheim, Alb…

7 years, 9 months ago

Episode 204: The Bhagavad Gita's Hindu Theology (Part Two)

More on this classic text by (perhaps) Vyasa, with guest Shaan Amin. Should we acquire good karma or behave "beyond good and evil"? How can everythin…

7 years, 10 months ago

Episode 204: The Bhagavad Gita's Hindu Theology (Part One)

On the classic Hindu text (ca. the 3rd century B.C.E.), part of the Indian Epic poem Mahabharata, attributed to Vyasa, using Keya Maitra's 2018 trans…

7 years, 10 months ago

Episode 203: Kristeva vs. Lovecraft on Horror and Abjection (Part Two)

Concluding on Julia Kristeva's Powers of Horror (1980) and focusing on H.P. Lovecraft's "The Call of Cthulhu" (1928). Does Lovecraft's presentation o…

7 years, 10 months ago

Episode 203: Kristeva vs. Lovecraft on Horror and Abjection (Part One)

More on Julia Kristeva's Powers of Horror (1980) plus H.P. Lovecraft's "The Call of Cthulhu" (1928).

What is the object of fear? Mark, Seth, and Dyla…

7 years, 10 months ago

PREMIUM-Ep 202 Follow-Up: Close Reading of Kristeva's "Approaching Abjection"

Mark takes a very close look at pages 1–4 of the first chapter of On Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (1980) as a supplement to episode 202.

G…

7 years, 10 months ago

Episode 202: Julia Kristeva on Disgust, Fear and the Self (Part Two)

Continuing on Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, ch. 1 and 2. We try to get clearer on Kristeva's talk of "object," the relationship between la…

7 years, 10 months ago

Episode 202: Julia Kristeva on Disgust, Fear and the Self (Part One)

On Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (1980), ch. 1 and 2.

Kristeva writes about "abjection," where we violently reject things like corpses, bod…

7 years, 11 months ago

PREMIUM-Ep 201 Marcus Aurelius's "Meditations" (Part Three)

Mark and Seth get further into the specifics of Marcus's metaphysics and how this is supposed to relate to behavior. Can his directives really come s…

7 years, 11 months ago

Episode 201: Marcus Aurelius's Stoicism with Ryan Holiday (Part Two)

More on The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (ca. 180 CE) plus Ryan's The Daily Stoic (2016).

We talk Stoicism as "pre-mourning," love of fate, the div…

7 years, 11 months ago