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Award winning podcast about philosophy, psychology, and the human experience. New episode every Sunday
Hyperobjects and Other Nightmares: Timothy Morton and the Ecology of Collapse
On being entangled with your own destruction
Nov 2 • 
David Johnson
42:08
The Cartography of Pain: Paul Auster's City of Glass and the Architecture of Identity
Your identity is scaffolding. It's collapsing.
Oct 26 • 
David Johnson
49:42
Four Thousand Weeks: A Love Letter to Your Mortality
Why we've been getting productivity totally wrong.
Oct 19 • 
David Johnson
51:05
Peter Putnam's Cosmos: The Functionalist Demolition of Self
Skepticism is the only freedom
Oct 12 • 
David Johnson
41:50
The Philosopher’s Cage: Why Every Age Builds Its Own Prison
From Socrates’ death to the rise of surveillance capitalism, philosophy has always been less about truth and more about who gets to define it.
Sep 28 • 
David Johnson
44:49
Heidegger and the Horror of Existence
Living as Being-Toward-Death
Sep 14 • 
David Johnson
45:36
The Pendulum of Suffering: Schopenhauer’s Dark Philosophy
Listen now (49 mins) | Why happiness is a lie, and suffering is the only truth.
Sep 7 • 
David Johnson
48:56
The Observing I
The Observing I
Award winning podcast about philosophy, psychology, and the human experience. New episode every Sunday
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