*Quarantine episode #6 -- Broadcast from home via Instagram Live*Don't you find it thrilling to do a thing you don't understand? To not be able to quickly answer the question "what am I doing right now?" Today guest Lev Abramoc joins the show

*Q#5* Am I just a bloviator, or is this a babble of agency?

Apr 18th, 2020 1h 2m

*Quarantine episode #5 -- Broadcast from home via Instagram Live*Wouldn't you prefer things to be infinitely deep? Not knowable and known? Can you create order from chaos without thinking no other order could have been? Something about concl

*Q#4* Guest: Paul Carter -- John Cage wants full unemployment, what about King Tubby?

Apr 14th, 2020 1h 21m

*Quarantine episode #4 -- Broadcast from home via Instagram Live*Do you find yourself asking yourself: "If I'm a doctor, can I know anything about health?" Or, "if I'm not Miles Davis is it even worth playing music?" Well we can't all be ball

*Q#3* Do Joe Exotic and Peter Ivers have anything in common?

Apr 9th, 2020 59m 11s

*Quarantine episode #3 -- Broadcast from home via Instagram Live* What do Joe Exotic's GW Zoo, and Peter Ivers' New Wave Theater have in common? Lofty ideals! Why stop thinking when you could start thinking? What starts you thinking? There'

*Q#2* Cleaning is as creative as anything, ever heard of erasure??

Mar 30th, 2020 1h 2m

*Quarantine episode #2 -- Broadcast from home via Instagram Live* When you cook, do you clean as you go? If you do, have you ever regretted it? If you don't, have you ever resented being asked if you do? This got me thinking about ecosystems

*Q#1* There're more unknowns than knowns, aren't there?

Mar 22nd, 2020 1h 1m

*Quarantine episode #1 -- Broadcast from home via Instagram Live*A part of a thing is never the whole of the thing. That's easy enough to get behind, just don't forget that anything constructed is necessarily partial. So you can spend your ti

Guest: Eric Shevrin -- How can politics not only be discouraging?

Mar 12th, 2020 1h 29m

Politics!! Am I right? So easy to fall into nihilistic despair, to feel futile in an echo chamber, praching to the choir... Don't let hastily applied cliches deter you! A choir needs music to sing, right? A choir is powerful, music is powerf

Guest: Jason Meadows -- When are decisions best made?

Mar 8th, 2020 1h 5m

How is your decision making informed by your sense of justice? Are you the arbiter of justice, or do you defer to something beyond yourself? That is to say, how useful is it to acknowledge your finitude? Guest Jason Meadows joins us today. O

Guest: Aris -- Is it me, or am I it?

Mar 1st, 2020 1h 7m

How can we look at what is? Thinking about people can be sticky, but what if we think about objects, what's that open up? Can it be empowering? Like if I'm an egg, will I be more understood? Guest Aris is here to ehlp us ponder this. Origin

Guest: Pauline -- What's going on when bad people make good music?

Feb 28th, 2020 1h

What information should be on the show flyer? That the members of the band are good people? And what's going on when bad people make good art? Do you want to like people, or do you want to like watching them? What makes a community, what ma

Confronting things > Dominating things

Feb 16th, 2020 1h 3m

Confronting things is the new dominating things. Sure, time and progress isn't linear, but I do think we're better communicators now than say, 100 years ago. Tho maybe not better than 3000 years ago. "There's no thinking in parrhesia, it's b

Guest: JD -- Are we looking through or at stained glass?

Feb 11th, 2020 59m 50s

Attention is a big theme of this show, y'know, it can really reveal a lot to yourself and others: there's an infinite amount of things you could pay attention to, so that which grabs you really says something about your priorities, conscious o

Guest: Eric -- We should use physics metaphors, right?

Feb 5th, 2020 1h 8m

"Interested in infinity?""Intermittently""In time I'll tell you about intelligent intervals influencing intangible influxes"In for a ride, today you are. Guest Eric shares his thoughts on infinity, while Sun Ra's Astro Infinity Arkestra plays.

Guest: Michelle -- Do we have more to say about acting?

Feb 2nd, 2020 1h 7m

Today we continue to discuss acting. Why? Well think about Hollywood's global cultural hegemony! Actors are a huge thing, and we're trying to understand the billions here, what unites the people? Is it the stories or, is it the performing?

Guest: Katherine -- Why is acting such a highly valued thing?

Jan 31st, 2020 1h 7m

Acting and acting and action--to act is to take action, but it's also to pretend? And is pretending in context lying? Or is it actually parrhesiastic honestly--a vulnerable show of how you believe emotions to look? What's going on here--Why

Guest: Lucy -- Do I even want to be enlightened?

Jan 30th, 2020 1h 11m

Are new age thinkers like Eckhart Tolle, to an extent, asking you to be unconcerned with the issues concerning the fabric you're apart of? Is turning inward a turning off to what's around you? Is it all yin and no yang? Guest Lucy is here to

Guest: Alejandra -- What to do with the pain of being misunderstood?

Jan 29th, 2020 1h 3m

What to do with the pain of being misunderstood? Or, even worse, when the other party is willfully avoiding understanding, imposing their own narrative on you? What recourse do you have? Could parrhesia help? Guest Alejandra is here to expl

Guest: Phoebe -- How do we feel about the path of least resistance?

Jan 27th, 2020 1h 4m

What's easy, what's hard? What's plastic, what's concrete? What's soft, what's stiff? What won't hurt, what will? Let's face the voice today with guest Phoebe. Originally broadcast and recorded 12/4/2019

Guest: Amelia -- How open mouthed are you?

Jan 26th, 2020 1h 15m

I can be anything I can eat, but what can I chew? And you might think of yourself as open minded, but, how open mouthed are you? Guest Amelia joins us today to talk about food. Originally aired and recorded 11/27/2019

Guest: Dominique -- What does singing give?

Jan 25th, 2020 1h

So you wanna sing -- think you've got what it takes? What does it give? Let's focus on the giving, and let's focus on the focus, because that's really what any discipline is about: a focusing of attention. Vocalist Dominique joins us!Origina

Was William Wordsworth pro-proletariat?

Jan 7th, 2020 59m 52s

What did it mean to be a radical artist int he early 19th century? For William Wordsworth, to rethink the ode was a big ol' deal met with much resistance. No more sycophantic salutes to state power, let us praise the leech collector down by t

What's this show going on about?

Jan 5th, 2020 1h 6m

Well folks, it's feeling a godo time to take stock of what we are feeling ok with not knowing. I want to make sure we're not in a mad dash to accumulate knowledge, but instead feeling around for resonances. Books are not for teaching how to t

Can Husserl help us with time?

Jan 5th, 2020 1h 13m

We've talekd about time before, and we have definitelyu talked about space, but let's get into some calculations, like, what exists over time? As in ____/Time. Feel me? Husserl might help. Oh and some gestated thoughts on morality. Original

What's morality good for?

Jan 5th, 2020 1h 3m

Meta-ethics, let's get into it. What's morality good for if we can't agree what's moral? Credit & culpability are ego shit, only reality-implications matter. Originally broadcast and recorded 1/31/2018

Guest: Miles -- Erich Fromm and Paul Thomas Anderson

Jan 4th, 2020 1h 5m

How can freedom lead to fascism,to a desire to be controlled? Erich Fromm has a book on this I only jhust started, but then I went to see Phantom Thread, and it totally relates. Let's see if guest Miles agrees, let's see what can be seen. Ori