Episode Notes

Today, we’re talking about isolation, what it means to be isolated, and whether or not isolating is even possible while living in Coronavirus Quarantine.

We discuss:

• Aristotle's Politics
• Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
• Robert Egger's The Lighthouse
• Social Contract Theory in John Locke and Thomas Hobbes
• Akiro Kurosawa's Yojimbo
• Giorgio Agamben's "The State of Exception Provoked by an Unmotivated Emergency"
• Slavoj Zizek's Response to Agamben
• Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra
• Michelle Houllebecq
• Joan Didion's "Goodbye to All of That"

And even more! Enjoy and feel free to leave us reviews, comments, and questions.

Image: "Solitude" by Kevin Dooley (CC BY 2.0)

Music: "Sans Sans" by Rrrrrose Azerty (CC BY 3.0)