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Award winning podcast about philosophy, psychology, and the human experience. New episode every Tuesday.
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Welcome to 2026
And what we have in store for the podcast
 • David Johnson
46:39
The Vanishing of Vernon Pale
On the ethics of obligation, and what it costs to become no one.
 • David Johnson
42:52
The Secret Lives of Objects
Graham Harman's object-oriented ontology
 • David Johnson
43:46
Chronophobia: Why Modern Life Makes Us Afraid of Time Itself
A journey into the shame, regret, and panic that hides beneath the surface of our relationship with time.
 • David Johnson
52:19
Ethics for the End of Everything
Why meaninglessness and suffering are not the same thing
 • David Johnson
41:53
How Imagination Becomes Reality: Grant Morrison and the Tulpa Effect
On hypersigils, thought forms, and how you might be a character you forgot you were performing
 • David Johnson
42:08
Hyperobjects and Other Nightmares: Timothy Morton and the Ecology of Collapse
On being entangled with your own destruction
 • David Johnson
49:42
The Cartography of Pain: Paul Auster's City of Glass and the Architecture of Identity
Your identity is scaffolding. It's collapsing.
 • David Johnson
51:05
Four Thousand Weeks: A Love Letter to Your Mortality
Why we've been getting productivity totally wrong.
 • David Johnson
The Observing I
The Observing I
Award winning podcast about philosophy, psychology, and the human experience. New episode every Tuesday.
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