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Four Thousand Weeks: A Love Letter to Your Mortality
Why we've been getting productivity totally wrong.
Oct 19
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David Johnson
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51:05
Peter Putnam's Cosmos: The Functionalist Demolition of Self
Skepticism is the only freedom
Oct 12
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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
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David Johnson
44:49
Heidegger and the Horror of Existence
Living as Being-Toward-Death
Sep 14
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David Johnson
1
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
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David Johnson
48:56
121 In the Province of the Mind: The work of John C. Lilly
Explore John C. Lilly’s isolation tank experiments, dolphin research, and psychedelic visions in this deep dive into the province of the mind.
Aug 31
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David Johnson
44:59
120 Attention is the Last Frontier: Bernard Stiegler and the Age of Distraction
Listen now | Bernard Stiegler warned that technology steals our attention and erodes care. This episode explores his life, philosophy, and urgent…
Aug 24
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David Johnson
1
52:20
119 Laughing at the End of the World: The Philosophy of Slavoj Žižek
Why we laugh at ideology, fantasize about the apocalypse, and keep buying shit anyway
Aug 17
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David Johnson
1
48:16
118 The Middle Path of the Mind
Buddhism Through the Lens of Psychology
Aug 10
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David Johnson
48:00
117 Antonin Artaud and the Theatre of Cruelty
Madness as Method
Jul 6
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David Johnson
1
50:07
116 Georges Bataille, The Philosopher of Holy Filth
In the Name of Waste, Death, and Ecstasy
Jun 29
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David Johnson
1
40:36
115 The Death of Deep Time
Bergson, Blindness, and the Future We're Forgetting
Jun 22
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David Johnson
1
47:24
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