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Hemlock #16: Gaia Wakes 2: Topher McDougal on Planetary Consciousness, AI Personhood and Risk, Economies of Predation and Production, Abolitionism for Sentience, and the Light at the End of the Tunnel
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10 months ago
#166 - War: Chris Hedges on the Permanent Psychosis of War, Covering the Middle East for the New York Times, Gaza, Kosovo, the Plague of Violence, Corporate Totalitarianism, Propaganda, and Revolution
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Original Video:
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Summary:
In this powerful 2014 speech, journalist …
10 months, 1 week ago
#165 - Breaking the Myth: Vintage Chomsky on Neoliberalism, US Economic Hegemony, Bretton Woods Corporate Power, the Contradictions of Capitalism, and the End of the Cold War
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10 months, 1 week ago
#164 - The Future of Faith: Huston Smith on Comparative Religion, Tibetan Buddhism, Scientism versus Science, the Fairness Revolution, Darwinian Reduction, and Why Religion Matters in the 21st Century
Modernity has forced the human spirit into a tunnel - is the light at the end the way back to Paradise, or an unstoppable train coming to end the hum…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Consolatio #4 - The Crystal Fount: Boethius on True and False Happiness, the Unity of Goodness, the Two Binding Threads, the Myth of Orpheus, and Those Darknesses which Bring Ruin to the Souls of Men
Book 3 of Boethius' 6th century masterpiece De consolatione philosophiae
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11 months ago
Hemlock #15 - Confronting the Bomb: Franco Castro Escobar on the History of Nuclear Weapons in Japan, Antiwar Movements, World Federation, Hibakusha, Youth Antinuclear Organizations, and Fallout
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https://www.keele.ac.uk/socialsciences/staff/francocastroescobar/
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11 months, 1 week ago
#163 - May, 1968: An Intellectual and Political History of the Paris Student Revolt, Sexual Liberation, Street Philosophy, Alain Badiou, Feminism, Simon Critchley, Sartre, Foucault, Derrida, and Zizek
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11 months, 1 week ago
#162 - The Thousand-Year Legacy of Ibn Sina: Roy Casagranda on Arab Philosophy, Medieval Medicine, the Baghdad House of Wisdom, and the Origins of Scholasticism in the Arab World
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11 months, 2 weeks ago
#160b - The Meaning of History (2 of 2): Darren Staloff on Arnold Toynbee, R. G. Collingwood, Positivism, Arthur Danto, Fernand Braudel, Poststructuralism, and William McNeill's “Plagues and People”
PART 1 (HoPAA #160a):
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Hemlock #14 - Secrets of the Killing State: Corinna Barrett Lain on Lethal Injection, the Ethics of the Death Penalty, Prison Reform, Televised Executions, and What the State Does at its Most Powerful
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11 months, 2 weeks ago