0:00–5:20 – Pedagogical query: “Why can’t white dudes follow simple instructions?”
5:20–18:50 – Intro to the new season; Structure of the book, tone, question of completeness, title: gay, joy, queer?
19:00–34:55 – Philosophy’s blind pursuit of truth, value of the veil with nothing behind it, philosophy and health, the careful art of not knowing – Serena Williams example: the context is not separable from the content – Nate’s angry dissertation
35:00–36:40 – Distance and Superficiality “The Greeks were superficial out of profundity.”
37:50–47:40 – Different kinds of superficiality; Fighting to win? Sisyphus’s new rock.
47:45–1:01:25 – Pedagogy, distance, middle ground. Is this philosophy or art? Bad question. Is teaching a matter of speed and proximity?
1:01:30–1:11:10 – Method for engaging The Gay Science this season. Reading, content, text. Who knows where it will take you? You can’t know – except maybe Hegel, somehow.
