Shows
Clerestory (Bryan Kam)The Long Now in East London, with Christopher DanielOn Thursday 7th August, I walked around Bethnal Green with Christopher Daniel, who organises Long Now London.We walked through East London, discussing architecture, philosophy, and the importance of long-term thinking. We explored the evolution of our own projects, especially Long Now London and Bryan's discussion group Through a Glass Darkly. We delved into broader themes like societal change, the impact of technology, and embodied experience versus conceptual abstraction. We wandered the streets, thinking about history, our own personal stories, and how to create meaningful and sustainable communities.The Bertrand Russell quote I butchered:“Work is...
2025-08-241h 43
Interintellect HostcastBryan Kam - Philosophy, Conversation and UncertaintyPhilosopher and Interintellect host Bryan Kam joins us to preview his upcoming salon, Buddha, Socrates, and Us: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Uncertainties. Drawing on Stephen Batchelor’s work, he explores how these two ancient thinkers embraced uncertainty, humility, and ethical living. Not only that but also how their insights can guide us through today’s personal and planetary crises. In this conversation, Bryan shares his approach to hosting salons that blend intellectual depth with lived experience, inviting participants to treat uncertainty not as a threat, but as a practice.You can sign up for t...
2025-08-121h 02
Clerestory (Bryan Kam)Neither/Nor Paper DiscussionIn this podcast, I discuss the draft of the academic paper on Neither/Nor which I wrote about here, with my coauthor, developmental psychologist Dr. Isabela Granic.This paper has been a lot of work, and we discussed the writing right after finishing a major draft. In the paper and in our discussion, we emphasise the six principles of Neither/Nor. The article currently has an editor at Nature assessing the submission.Two Modes of Knowing: The first principle identifies the two distinct ways we learn about life — through concepts and experiences. These modes are co...
2025-06-241h 05
Clerestory (Bryan Kam)Abstraction and its discontents, with Haneen KhanI’m Bryan Kam. I endeavour daily to make philosophy accessible and relevant. To that end I write this newsletter and host a podcast called Clerestory. I’m also writing a book called Neither/Nor and I’m a founding member of Liminal Learning. In London, I host a book club, a writing group, and other events. My work looks at how abstract concepts relate to embodied life, and how to use this understanding to transform experience.Recently, I had a conversation with Haneen Khan, a sex coach and fellow thinker, about the relationship between abstract thinking and em...
2025-05-051h 02
Life Moves Pretty Fast"The Witch" with Kam RyanBryan is joined by culture critic and podcaster Kam Ryan to discuss Robert Eggers' "The Witch" from 2016. Other topics of discussion include the desire of more genre coming-of-ages, the brilliant debut work of Eggers & Anya Taylor-Joy and how it's a feminist film in disguise.Follow our guest online: Kam Ryan on Letterboxd, Twitter, Instagram, Empty Theater Club and The Rolling Tape.Follow our host online: Bryan Sudfield on Letterboxd, Twitter, and Instagram. Follow our show online: Life Moves Pretty Fast on Twitter and Instagram. Credits:Theme music by Dustin GrossmanArtwork by Alley Paige CooperEdited by Bryan Sudfield
2025-03-051h 37Clerestory (Bryan Kam)Type 1 Diabetes, Part 2: Bridging the GapMy friend Pen interviewed me about Type 1 Diabetes, which I've lived with for 38 years.
This is the second episode, in which we focus on my current daily experience living with diabetes. We also discuss how the intensity of managing diabetes relates to the book I'm writing, Neither/Nor, which explores the nuances between conceptual understanding and lived experience. I emphasize the need for a balance between experiential and conceptual knowledge, drawing from my own life to illustrate how these realms relate.
The first episode, in which we covered early diagnosis, is available here.
Cler...
2025-01-081h 22Clerestory (Bryan Kam)Type 1 Diabetes, Part 1: A Walk in the WoodsMy friend Pen interviewed me about Type 1 Diabetes, which I've lived with for 38 years. In this podcast we speak about what diabetes is, and what what it's like to live with.
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2024-12-1047 min
Growing Up with Delia BurgessEp. 131 - Bryan Kam: Daoism, hedonism & perception vs. reasonBryan is writing a book called Neither/Nor, which is about two ways of knowing the world: through language, and through experience, and how learning to navigate these sometimes opposing ways of learning can reduce individual and social suffering.
www.bryankam.com
(Listen to Bryan's Growing Up episode at Ep. 2)
2024-12-061h 11
Alles gesagt?Bryan Ferry, what is the secret to being cool?Er gilt als der "Gentleman of Pop" und "King of Cool". Die britische Königin ernannte ihn zum Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, mit seiner Band Roxy Music wurde er 2019 in die Rock & Roll Hall of Fame aufgenommen: Jetzt ist der Sänger, Songwriter und Produzent Bryan Ferry zu Gast beim unendlichen Podcast.(Diese Version des Podcasts ist das englische Original. Wir veröffentlichen parallel dazu auch eine mit einer KI-Software übersetzte deutsche Version.)Im Gespräch erinnert er sich an seine Kindheit im Norden Englands und an seine erste Reise...
2024-10-171h 55
Alles gesagt?Deutsche KI-Übersetzung: Bryan Ferry, wie geht Coolness?Er gilt als der "Gentleman of Pop" und "King of Cool". Die britische Königin ernannte ihn zum Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, und mit seiner Band Roxy Music wurde er 2019 in die Rock & Roll Hall of Fame aufgenommen: Jetzt ist der Sänger, Songwriter und Produzent Bryan Ferry zu Gast beim unendlichen Podcast.Diese Version des Podcasts ist nicht das englische Original – sondern eine mit einer KI-Software weitgehend automatisiert übersetzte Variante. Auch die Stimmen von Bryan Ferry, Christoph Amend und Jochen Wegner sind nicht echt. Bryan Ferry hat unserem kleinen Experiment zuges...
2024-10-171h 37
The Honkytonk Jukebox ShowThe Honkytonk Jukebox Show #133Johnny Horton - Let's Take The Long Way Home ( Columbia )Tommy Collins - A 100 Years From Now ( Capitol )Sandy Lee Fields - Slippin Out ( Longhorn )Orville Couch - Did I Miss You ( Vee Jay )Sue Thompson - You Two Timed Me One Time Too Often ( Hickory )Johnny Selph - My Gal's Outa Her Tree Again ( KAM )Green Gray - Welcome To The Club ( DaralinaRay Hawthorne - Cowboys Love The Honky Tonks ( Armadillo )Cal Langford - Heartbreaker Of The Year...
2024-09-2457 minClerestory (Bryan Kam)From Literature to Lens, with Cécile EmbletonI spoke to director, cinematographer, and my good friend Cécile Embleton (instagram) about her work and influences and her new film Mother Vera, which is playing at the London Film Festival next month.
This is a feature documentary about the life of a young orthodox nun from Belarus, I have seen it, and it is spectacular. Cécile and I discuss literature, her influences, and the challenges and joys of making arthouse cinema.
It is also playing at Camden International Film Festival, in Camden, Maine, on Friday 13th Septemb...
2024-09-1137 minClerestory (Bryan Kam)What is Nature? with David ValerioThis is a cross-post from my friend David Valerio's new podcast, Discern Earth. In it, we speak about what nature is.
Here's David's description:
We discuss the etymology of nature and related terms, whether there is a hard distinction between man and nature,
hypostatization and reification, the Christian roots of theories about the inherent value of nature, and the role of embodied experience in facilitating ecological regeneration.
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2024-08-0849 min
Discern EarthBryan Kam on What Nature IsIn this episode I speak with Bryan Kam, a philosopher based in London and author of the forthcoming book Neither/Nor. We explore the fundamental question of what nature is and discuss:• How ancient Greek concepts of phusis (nature) and nomos (human law) shape our understanding of the natural world.• The tension between static and dynamic views of nature, from Parmenides to Heraclitus.• Scientific materialism's struggle to establish nature's inherent value without religious frameworks.• The Industrial Revolution's transformation of our relationship with nature.• The challenge of preserving "wilderness" in a human-sh...
2024-07-3049 minClerestory (Bryan Kam)A Walk with Delia BurgessDelia and I walked along the Parkland Walk in London with Zoom f2 recorders and lapel mics. We cover a bit about Neither/Nor, as well as existentialism versus essentialism.
The biologists I couldn't think of at the end was ecologist Robert MacArthur; see r/K selection theory.
Listen to Delia's podcast, Growing Up with Delia Burgess.
Recorded in June 2024.
2024-07-261h 01Clerestory (Bryan Kam)Husserliana with Noah MartinIn this episode I spoke to Dr. Noah Martin, Director of the College of Modern Anxiety.
We discussed the relationship between phenomenology and existentialism, and the relationship between subjective and objective understanding in philosophy. We cover thinkers like Edmund Husserl, Donna Haraway, Sartre, and de Beauvoir.
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2024-06-1155 minClerestory (Bryan Kam)Eternity and Time with Kit Tempest-WaltersI spoke to Kit Tempest-Walters about his new book: Plotinus on Eternity and Time, which includes a translation and commentary of Ennead III.7.
We discuss the challenges of translating, philosophical perspectives on the self, consciousness, and mysticism.
We also talked about some of my perspectives from the book I'm writing, Neither/Nor, including the differences in the organizing assumptions of Eastern and Western approaches to philosophy.
Clerestory by Bryan Kam • Infrequent updates at Substack • All my work plus exclusive content at Patreon
2024-05-071h 00
Challenged: A Podcast About The Challenge on CBS, MTV, and Paramount+All Stars 4: Reach for the Stars / Car SickWe cover the introduction of the cast members for The Challenge: All Stars 4. We talk about the nostalgia-inducing intro, the camaraderie among the cast, and the dynamics between Leroy and Kam. We talk about the return of familiar faces like Flora, Kefla, Rachel, and Cara. We're excited for the All Stars seasons and the overall positive vibe of the show. We also touch on the individual format and the potential for a big final. The conversation concludes with discussions about Tyri's name change and Jay's lack of preparation. In this part of the conversation, the hosts discuss the challenge and...
2024-04-131h 44Clerestory (Bryan Kam)Writing and AI with Maggie AppletonIt's been nearly a year since our last episode, in which Maggie Appleton and I discussed why we write.
A year is a long time in AI; has it made much progress in how it writes? Possibly not, but it has made some progress in search.
Discussed:
Search engines Perplexity and Exa
Excellent IFS therapy app Refract.space
Philosophy Discord: The Speculative Discord
Philosophy Telegram channel: The Underground University
2024-04-121h 04Clerestory (Bryan Kam)Creative Quandary Clinic, Part 2At the end of 2023, I asked seven people I knew to join me in a WhatsApp group experiment. Read more here.
We set up a schedule by which one of us, each Thursday, would record a (suggested) 5 minute question on a creative or existential quandary we were facing.
The other seven members had committed to responding with a (suggested) 10 minute response, meaning that one person would ask a question, and receive over an hour of perspectives.
Over two months this WhatsApp group supported each other through the trials and tribulations of the holiday peri...
2024-04-061h 09Clerestory (Bryan Kam)Creative Quandary Clinic, Part 1At the end of 2023, I asked seven people I knew to join me in a WhatsApp group experiment. Read more here.
We set up a schedule by which one of us, each Thursday, would record a (suggested) 5 minute question on a creative or existential quandary we were facing.
The other seven members had committed to responding with a (suggested) 10 minute response, meaning that one person would ask a question, and receive over an hour of perspectives.
Over two months this WhatsApp group supported each other through the trials and tribulations of the holiday...
2024-03-311h 29Clerestory (Bryan Kam)Has the Human Experience Changed? with Isabela GranicPart 8 in a series of interviews on the book I'm working on, Neither/Nor. In this episode, Isabela Granic and I discuss:
Julian Jaynes
The Aphoristic style of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Jaynes, and others
The Axial Age and whether it changed human cognition ad experience
Obviousnesses and ideology, from Althusser's "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" (1975)
A review of Kuhn's Last Writings in the LRB.
Previous episodes:
Part 7 of this series: Jaynes, Tolstoy, Zhuangzi
Part 6 of this series: Mental Proliferation
Part 5 of this series: Crises and Revolutions
Part 4 of this series: Language and Experience
Part 3 of this series: AI and Pyrrhonism
Part 2 of this series: A Philos...
2024-03-191h 11
Relating to SelfJoachim answers Bryan Kam's questions {turning the tables}In this episode of Relating to Self, recorded on 25 September 2023, the amazing Bryan Kam (S03:E03) comes back to ask me questions about how I relate to myself.Topics mentioned in the episode:How I relate to myself now, as opposed to a year agoThe power of collective practicesThe shift from the mind to the body when it comes to the question "what am I?"Doing relating to self work in held spaces for other practicesBeing a fully empowered being with agencySex-positive events - consent culture - not judging my own desiresWhat "spirituality" means to meLetting...
2024-02-141h 02Clerestory (Bryan Kam)Jaynes, Tolstoy, and Zhuangzi, with Isabela GranicPart 7 in a series of interviews on the book I'm working on, Neither/Nor. In this episode, Isabela Granic asks about three thinkers that have influenced my thinking: Julian Jaynes (1920–1997), Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910), and Zhuangzi (369–286 BC) sometimes written Zhuang Zhou or Chuang-tzǔ).
Previous episodes:
Part 6 of this series: Mental Proliferation
Part 5 of this series: Crises and Revolutions
Part 4 of this series: Language and Experience
Part 3 of this series: AI and Pyrrhonism
Part 2 of this series: A Philosophical Journey
Part 1 of this series: Causality and Conditionality
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Show notes
2024-02-021h 02Clerestory (Bryan Kam)Epistolary: Meaningful Living vs Making a Living (Part 6)How do you balance your life’s purpose, your creative impulse, or your art, with the realities of life?
Here are the final four responses I received. Thanks to Peter, Olga Yakimenko, Rainbow, and Kevin Bowers.
Clerestory by Bryan Kam • Infrequent updates at Substack • All my work plus exclusive content at Patreon
2024-01-2550 minClerestory (Bryan Kam)Neither/Nor PrinciplesPrinciples of Neither/Nor:
Every idea, concept, philosophy has a history
The two opposed but complementary ways of knowing are intuition and reason
Neither/Nor emphasizes dynamic movement across these two polarities and across all polarities, and opposes static positions
Learning and perception involve experimentation, trial and error, variation and selection
All philosophies and concepts are social
Neither/Nor apprehends processes and relations rather than objects
Everything worthwhile comes from perception or experience
2023-10-2506 min
Relating to SelfTolerating high uncertainty {with Bryan Kam}In this episode of Relating to Self, I have a conversation with Bryan Kam.Bryan is a philosopher and writer, exploring the history of ideas, amongst other things. He has a podcast called Clerestory, works for the British Library, and is an InterIntellect Fellow. You can also follow him on Twitter/X. Topics, resources, and useful links mentioned in the episode:Relating to Self, the mundane, and identityThe role of the observer and the inner voicesMeditation and the concentration states called "Jhanas"The influence of meditation on Bryan's relating to selfNoting p...
2023-09-2654 min
The Great Michigan WeekendBryan Guldi ~ The Great Michigan WeekendAugust 18, 2023 ~ Ford Motor Company's Branded Activation Manager Bryan Guldi speaks with Jim and Kam about what Ford is doing at the Woodward Dream Cruise. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com
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2023-08-1910 minClerestory (Bryan Kam)Epistolary: Meaningful Living vs Making a Living (Part 5)How do you balance your life’s purpose, your creative impulse, or your art, with the realities of life?
Here are the next seven responses I've received. Thanks to Shannon, Luiz, Matt Sterett, and Yulia Babanova.
I'm still taking submissions. Please upload your audio response here: https://bryankam.com/record.
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2023-07-1936 minClerestory (Bryan Kam)Epistolary: Meaningful Living vs Making a Living (Part 4)How do you balance your life’s purpose, your creative impulse, or your art, with the realities of life?
Here are the next seven responses I've received. Thanks to Patricia, Liv, Ben, Nastasia (@Gryphire), Michael, Maggie (@Mappletons), and Gloria.
I'm still taking submissions. Please upload your audio response here: https://bryankam.com/record.
I will release episodes from responses I receive, aiming for 45 minute episodes after the initial "pilot."
2023-06-1256 minClerestory (Bryan Kam)Mental Proliferation, with Isabela GranicPart 6 in a series of interviews on the book I'm working on, Neither/Nor. In this episode, Isabela Granic asks about the Buddhist term "papança" and how it relates to anxiety and depression.
Topics discussed:
The meaning of papança or Conceptual proliferation
Whether this proliferation is related to rumination, anxiety, and depression
Historicization of translations
How to deconstruct terms
Comparing conceptual evolution with biological evolution
Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer on definitions
The two directions of dependent origination
How and when to do conceptual genealogies like Nietzsche
Metaphors as newly coined versus worn-out coins
The increasing abstrac...
2023-06-021h 22Clerestory (Bryan Kam)Epistolary: Joachim Brackx on BeautyIn this episode I spoke with my dear friend Joachim Brackx in a series of voicenotes. We discuss beauty, quality, and aesthetic enjoyment. We recorded the voicenotes over about a month, March–April 2023. We would both love to hear what you think of this experiment!
This is a follow-up to our original epistolary experiment, on Choice, Desire, and Purpose.
Subscribe to Joachim's newsletter at Relating to Self and hear more on his podcast here.
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2023-05-3046 min
Relating to SelfOn Beauty - an epistolary podcast experiment {with Bryan Kam}This is a bonus episode that is not really about Relating to Self.My friend Bryan Kam and I have been experimenting with a new podcast format.An epistolary of sorts, in which we send each other voice notes.In this episode, we explore beauty, quality, and esthetic enjoyment.Sit back and relax while listening to Bryan and me exploring our thoughts on the subject.This bonus episode is the second epistolary we have published.You can find the first one on Bryan's podcast Clerestory:Joachim & Bryan on choice...
2023-05-3046 minClerestory (Bryan Kam)Epistolary: Meaningful Living vs Making a Living (Part 3)How do you balance your life’s purpose, your creative impulse, or your art, with the realities of life?
Here are the next five responses I've received. Thanks to Caleb, Delia, Samantha, Carolina, and Jacqueline.
I'm still taking submissions. Please upload your audio response here: https://bryankam.com/record.
I will release episodes from responses I receive, aiming for 45 minute episodes after the initial "pilot."
2023-05-2256 minClerestory (Bryan Kam)Epistolary: Meaningful Living vs Making a Living (Part 2)How do you balance your life’s purpose, your creative impulse, or your art, with the realities of life?
Here are the next four responses I've received. Thanks to Adam, Isabela, Gareth, and Catherine.
I'm still taking submissions. Please upload your audio response here: https://bryankam.com/record.
I will release episodes from responses I receive, aiming for 30-45 minute episodes after the initial "pilot."
2023-05-0847 minGrowing Up with Delia BurgessEp. 50 - Delia Burgess: growing up, banking, breakups, depression etcBryan Kam interviews me... terrifying! Now I know how all my guests feel. (Also will get speech lessons asap for you guys...)
Also for anyone following that closely... I completely messed up the years. 2021 = 2019 and 2022 = 2020...
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2023-05-021h 41Clerestory (Bryan Kam)Epistolary: Meaningful Living vs Making a Living (Part 1)How do you balance your life’s purpose, your creative impulse, or your art, with the realities of life?
Here are the first seven responses I've received. Thanks to Nasos, Romeo, Jay, Khuyen (Kasper), Joachim, Nicole, and Nathan.
I'm still taking submissions. Please upload your audio response here: https://bryankam.com/record.
I will release episodes from responses I receive, aiming for 30-45 minute episodes after the initial "pilot."
Clerestory by Bryan Kam • Infrequent updates at Substack • All my work plus exclusive content at Patreon
2023-04-281h 07Clerestory (Bryan Kam)Meaningful Living vs Making a LivingHow do you balance your life’s purpose, your creative impulse, or your art, with the realities of life?
Please upload your audio response here: https://bryankam.com/record.
I will release episodes from responses I receive, every time I receive 45 minutes.
Clerestory by Bryan Kam • Infrequent updates at Substack • All my work plus exclusive content at Patreon
2023-04-2206 minClerestory (Bryan Kam)Epistolary: Recourse to the Divine, with Eyal ShayIn this episode I spoke to my friend Eyal Shay in a series of voicenotes, recorded over a period of a few months at the start of this year.
This episode is an experiment in epistolary podcasting 😊 Over the course of the pandemic I got to know people from the internet quite well through voicenotes. These were sent asynchronously to overcome timezone and calendar fatigue.
In this episode, Eyal and I alternated messages with different lengths: 1 minute, then 2, 4, and 8 minutes. We sent these through WhatsApp.
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2023-04-1144 minClerestory (Bryan Kam)Why We Write and Language Models with Maggie AppletonThis is a continuation of the conversation I had with Maggie previously: "The Dark Forest and Generative AI." We discuss why we write, versus why to use AI and LLMs to produce writing, and what effects that loss is likely to have.
Discussed in this episode:
Why do humans write?
Writing is around 5,000 years old
We mention a note-taking system called a "Zettelkasten" which I wrote about here
Writing to our future selves
How do we read?
Science and philosophy as conversations
On getting up to speed in conversation
How much to read before we should...
2023-04-061h 18Clerestory (Bryan Kam)Crises and revolutions, with Isabela GranicPart 5 in a series of interviews on the book I'm working on, Neither/Nor. In this episode, Isabela Granic begin the discussion with Whitehead and his assertion that philosophy must be in conversation with the sciences.
Topics discussed:
My enormous Kuhn thread
Are we in a scientific crisis?
My recording of Kuhn's lecture: "Objectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice" (1973)
Kuhn's relationship to the Buddha
The Buddha's relationship to Darwin
Schopenhauer and his case for using intuition versus rational reasoning
Buddha’s dependent origination and how “backward causality” is precisely the process that Schopenhauer espouses in his writing about...
2023-04-0254 minClerestory (Bryan Kam)Language and Experience, with Isabela GranicPart 4 in a series of interviews on the book I'm working on, Neither/Nor. In this episode, Isabela Granic and I discuss how AI technologies like ChatGPT relate to experience. We move into Schopenhauer's distinction between rationality and the intuition in The World as Will and Representation.
Topics discussed:
Previous podcast episode: The AI and Dark Forest, with Maggie Appleton
The explicit versus implicit in text
Philosophy is about changing your mind and life
Opportunity costs of reading
Brian Magee article on clarity in philosophical texts: Sense and Nonsense
My thread on Shklovsky and defamiliarization
Tolstoy's Hadji Mu...
2023-03-261h 03
Interintellect HostcastSpecial Episode! A Conversation with Interintellect Fellows Bryan Kam, Mary Bajorek, and Linus LuIn this special episode, we have a three-way conversation with the first three recipients of the inaugural Interintellect Public Minds fellowship: Bryan Kam, Mary Bajorek, and Linus Lu. The Interintellect fellowship was created to support Interintellect members for 6 months on a focused project, and enable the sharing of their ideas both on and off the Interintellect platform. And in this episode, the fellows share the inspirations for their respective work and their mutual curiosities about each other’s projects.
More about the Interintellect fellowship and the recipient projects: https://interintellect.substack.com/p/interintellect-fellowship-awardees?publication_id=860330&post_id...
2023-03-2254 minClerestory (Bryan Kam)AI and Pyrrhonism, with Isabela GranicPart 3 in a series of interviews on the book I'm working on, Neither/Nor. In this episode, Isabela Granic and I discuss how AI technologies like ChatGPT relate to living textual traditions. We then move into Socrates vs Zhuangzi, and the Pyrrhonist "middle way" between dogmatism and nihilism.
Topics discussed:
Previous podcast episode: The AI and Dark Forest, with Maggie Appleton
The relationship of textual traditions to their oral traditions and central texts
The Socratic method versus Zhuangzi's "illumination"
Pyrrho of Elis and Sextus Empiricus
Part 2 of this series: A Philosophical Journey, with Isabela Granic
...
2023-03-0959 minClerestory (Bryan Kam)Epistolary: Joachim Brackx on Choice, desire, and purposeIn this episode I spoke to my friend Joachim Brackx in a series of voicenotes, recorded over a period of a few weeks at the end of last year.
See more about Joachim (and hear his mellifluous podcast!) at Relating to Self.
This episode is an experiment in epistolary podcasting 😊 Over the course of the pandemic I got to know people from the internet quite well through voicenotes. These were sent asynchronously to overcome timezone and calendar fatigue. In this episode, Joachim and I alternated messages with different lengths: 1 minute, then 2, 4, and 8 minutes.
Cler...
2023-03-0730 minClerestory (Bryan Kam)Meditation paths, with Rob KnightIn this episode I speak to Rob Knight about approaches to meditation. We discuss the Buddhist traditions, how dependent origination relates to emptiness, cognitive science, and the problem of universals in philosophy. I speak about the ideas in Neither/Nor, the book I'm writing, and the two complimentary modes required to understand and interact with the world.
My website. Occasional updates on my Substack. Frequent updates on my Patreon. See also the InterIntellect for events.
2023-03-022h 12Clerestory (Bryan Kam)A philosophical journey, with Isabela GranicPart 2 in a series of interviews on the book I'm working on, Neither/Nor. Isabela Granic and I recap dependent origination and discuss how I encountered philosophy through Russian literature, Taoism, and eventually got interested in Western philosophy.
My article: "Dependent Origination without any Pali"
"The Disarticulation of the Self in Nietzsche" (1981) by J. Hillis Miller PDF
Brian Magee article on philosophy: "Sense and nonsense" (2000)
Our earlier episode: Experimental and Historical Sciences
Article by Deborah Casewell: "Karl Jaspers: The forgotten father of existentialism" (2023)
My website. Occasional updates on my Substack. Frequent updates on my Patreon. See also...
2023-03-011h 15Growing Up with Delia BurgessEp. 41 - Bryan Kam: how not having opinions makes you happierBryan teaches me about Pyrrhonian scepticism.
(Pyrrhonism is an Ancient Greek school of philosophical scepticism which rejects dogma.)
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Bryan Kam writes on the origins of complexity, selfhood, and suffering, philosophy of science, punctuated equilibrium, literature, film.
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2023-02-261h 36Clerestory (Bryan Kam)InterIntellect Fellowship and What I'm ReadingI was awarded an InterIntellect fellowship! See the announcement here.
In this episode, I speak in the Wood about what I'm interested in and why. This includes Pyrrhonism, Buddhism, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Hume, Peirce, Kuhn, Jaynes, McGilchrist, and more.
I will post the Rob Knight podcast soon! I mentioned my friend's podcast: Growing Up with Delia Burgess.
Occasional updates on my Substack. Frequent updates on my Patreon. See also the InterIntellect for events.
2023-02-1331 minClerestory (Bryan Kam)History versus Physics, with Isabela Granic and Sam BiagettiI'm joined by developmental psychologist Isabela Granic and historian Sam Biagetti to discuss the differences between how reasoning is used in experimental sciences versus historical sciences. How do we get certainty from physics experiments? How do we get certainty about what caused the extinction of the dinosaurs? What do "nomothetic" and "idiographic" mean?
We continue on from the discussion in Causality and Conditionality. We also make reference to an earlier discussion ("There's only two disciplines: history and physics") I had with Sam on this podcast.
We rely on two papers by Carol Cleland:
The...
2023-02-091h 33Clerestory (Bryan Kam)The Dark Forest and Generative AI with Maggie AppletonWe discuss Maggie's recent article The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI, and other issues related to generative models, machine learning, ChatGPT, and more!
Also mentioned: AI: Markets for Lemons, and the Great Logging Off.
Please consider supporting my ongoing work on Patreon.
2023-02-041h 17Clerestory (Bryan Kam)Truth and Emptiness with Jake OrthweinI loved having this conversation with Jake. In it, we discuss Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism, Pyrrhonism, pragmatism, and different theories of truth. Stay tuned for more!
Read Jake's thread on Darwin's new type of scientific theory.
Follow @JakeOrthwein or @bryankam on Twitter, or follow me on Mastodon: @bryankam@writing.exchange.
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2023-01-301h 52Clerestory (Bryan Kam)Causality and Conditionality with Isabela GranicPart 1 in a series of interviews on the book I'm working on, Neither/Nor. In this episode, Isabela Granic, professor of developmental psychology, interviews me on the question of causality.
We discuss the difference between causality and the Buddhist understanding of conditionality, which I wrote about in my article "Dependent origination without any Pali." This is practical technique for ending suffering in every day life, but I will argue that it has consequences for scientific insights as well. In this episode we also cover mental proliferation, rumination, anxiety and depression, as well as the question of whether...
2023-01-121h 15Clerestory (Bryan Kam)A Discussion of MetaphorA discussion of metaphor, compression, and perception, with my friend Olga. We recorded this on Twitter spaces, on 28 August 2022. People discussed: Marshall McLuhan, Julian Jaynes, Iain McGilchrist, Douglas Hofstadter, Heidegger, Barbara Ehrenreich, Freud, Nietzsche, Ivan Bilibin, Andrei Tarkovsky, Emile Durkheim, Thomas Kuhn, Lera Boroditsky, and of course Mark Johnson and George Lakoff.
2023-01-071h 10Clerestory (Bryan Kam)A Conversation with David ValerioDavid and I spoke on Twitter Spaces in July 2022. We discussed Eastern Catholic theology and its parallels with Buddhism. We discuss the origin of the word physis (from which "physics"), as well as the history of geology and anthropology, the conversion of the Roman Empire to Christianity, catastrophism vs uniformitarianism, and other topics in complexity.
Also mentioned: Darwin, Lyell, Spinoza, Geertz, Tolstoy, Orwell, Shakespeare, Tanya Luhrmann, David Graeber, Jacques Elull, Viktor Shklovsky, Draper & White, Thomas Kuhn, John McPhee, Andrea Wulf, Daniel Kehlmann, William Whewell, and Lev Shestov 😅
Learn more about David here.
Please con...
2022-12-231h 54Clerestory (Bryan Kam)Film, beauty, and iridescenceWe discuss Powell & Pressburger films, Wings of Desire which I recorded an episode on, Tolstoy, beauty, iridescence, philosophy, and more.
2022-12-071h 01Growing Up with Delia BurgessEp. 20 - Bryan Kam: how to stop sufferingBryan Kam writes on the origins of complexity, selfhood, and suffering, philosophy of science, punctuated equilibrium, literature, film.
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2022-11-291h 17
The Modern Golden Age PodcastThe Modern Golden Age Podcast #16 - Bryan KamThis week, I show you my conversation with Bryan, a philosopher, writer, and researcher.
He's a very thoughtful individual, with a fascinating mind. We talked about his work, writing, music, and much more.
Timestamps for the episode:
- 00:00 ~ Introduction
- 01:10 ~ Thomas Khun
- 05:55 ~ Bryan's relationship with ideas
- 11:02 ~ Note-taking
- 17:20 ~ Health model of Inquiry
- 20:41 ~ Bryan's current questions
- 26:00 ~ Meditation
- 33:00 ~ Change and Modern Golden Age
- 42:15 ~ Speaking, writing and thinking
- 50:43 ~ Original Sources and...
2022-11-271h 24Clerestory (Bryan Kam)Meditation, Attention, and Intentionality with Malcolm OceanI had a great conversation with Malcolm Ocean, founder of Complice, an intentionality app that I have used fruitfully since early 2018.
Mentioned in this podcast: Malcolm's thread on "intentionality, not productivity" and this post on the same topic. My article "Dependent Origination without any Pali."
Also mentioned: Joanna Macy: Mutual Causality in Buddihism and General Systems Theory, Peter M. Senge: The Fifth Discipline, Donella Meadows: Thinking in Systems.
Recorded 2022-11-17.
2022-11-171h 02Clerestory (Bryan Kam)Dichotomies and Taoism, with Isabela GranicThis is a discussion from 3 July 2022, with Isabela Granic. We discuss GEMH Lab, dichotomies, Chinese brushpainting, uncertainty and Keats' negative capability, Per Bak, and theory versus practice.
I'm @bryankam on Twitter. Click here to schedule a discussion with me.
2022-11-071h 28
Lets Get It Podcast#32 - Malaysia's Queen of Comedy Ft. Joanne KamLets Get It Podcast #32 - Malaysia's Queen of Comedy Ft. Joanne Kam Malaysia's very own Queen of Comedy Joanne Kam is a 20 year veteran of stand-up comedy. Your parents favorite comedian, one of the pioneers of comedy in Malaysia. She made her start alongside the likes of Gurmit Singh and Kumar Drag Queen performing at the once very popular Boom Boom Room nightclub in Singapore and in Kuala Lumpur, a definitely comedy gem and it was an honor to have her on our show. Apshy is the host of Yuzu Media's The Woke Up Show. Check out t...
2022-10-271h 28Clerestory (Bryan Kam)Interview with Sam Biagetti of HistoriansplainingOn 2 July 2022, I hosted this conversation with Sam Biagetti of the excellent Historiansplaining podcast. We discussed Sam's interest in geography and history, his process for his rapid pace of putting out podcasts, the tremendous demand for learning on the internet, the magic of film, Nietzsche, Judaism, and Orientalism.
I have some audio issues at the start but they clear up as the podcast continues.
I'm @bryankam on Twitter. Click here to schedule a discussion with me.
2022-10-202h 09Growing Up with Delia BurgessEp. 6 - Bryan Kam: does faith make you happier?We were meant to be talking about the positive effects faith can have on one's life (data driven vibes not preachy vibes) and Buddhism (also not preachy vibes - in fact I wanted to ask Bryan about thinking about Buddhism as an ideology not a religion. Otherwise you'd have to call Communism a religion too (it's an argument Yuval makes in Sapiens...I'll ask him another time). Anyway somehow we ended up talking about the Unabomber's manifesto and a range of other prickly topics. We did eventually get onto some of the things we were going to talk about...
2022-10-111h 55
7 Tage 1 Song#134 Luke Bryan - Drink A BeerIm Song zu dieser Folge sitzt der amerikanische Country Star Luke Bryan an einem Pier und trinkt ein Bier und denkt dabei an seine zwei verstorbenen Geschwister. Als er die Nachricht erhielt ging er spazieren, um seine Gedanken zu ordnen und landete irgendwie an dem Pier, wo er oft mit seinen Geschwistern gesessen hatte. Es war für ihn wie mit ihnen zusammen an diesem Ort dieses Bier zu trinken.
Zusammen ein Bier trinken oder auch für sich ein Bier trinken. Einfach mal aussteigen.
Es gibt so „Prost Gott“ Momente, da sitze ich und trinke...
2022-10-0408 minClerestory (Bryan Kam)Linking Knowledge, with Achim RotheThis is a conversation about personal knowledge management that I had with Achim Rothe on 22 June, 2022. We discuss tags, folders, and searching. Schedule a Twitter space with me!
2022-09-291h 00
Podcast Editors MastermindChoosing the Right Conferencing Tool for Podcast EditorsAs podcast editors, most of us work remotely and have use some kind of software solution for calls and meetings. But how happy are you with the tool you're using? Is it the right one for you?When it comes to choosing a conferencing tool for podcasting purposes, there are many factors to consider. The most important factors are usually ease of use, cost, and (probably) how good the conferencing tool looks. Listen today and also join the conversation to share your thoughts and ask your questions.[ 🗨️ Join the Conversation ]Listen to Dis...
2022-09-2950 minGrowing Up with Delia BurgessEp. 2 - Bryan Kam: homeschool to PrincetonBryan Kam is an absolute legend.
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2022-09-271h 21Clerestory (Bryan Kam)Why We Take Notes, with Achim RotheThis is a live conversation I recorded on Twitter Spaces on 16 June 2022, between me (Bryan Kam) and Achim Rothe. We discuss our history of note-taking, our usage of personal knowledge management, and tools for thought. Achim discusses how he came to build Trickle.app, and I discuss how David Allen's Getting Things Done and Sönke Ahrens' How to Take Smart Notes led me to build my own knowledge management system, an implementation of Zettelkasten. We also discuss how software development relates to knowledge usage, metasystems, pragmatism, the problem of never revisiting notes, and how to decide what to r...
2022-09-151h 22Clerestory (Bryan Kam)Against Teleology and AbstractionThis is a live conversation I recorded on Twitter Spaces on 11 January 2022, between me (Bryan Kam), Isabela Granic, Athenian Stranger, and others. We discuss abstraction and perfection, including Spinoza's Ethics, Charles Sanders Peirce, the medieval scholastics, as well as Ancient Chinese, and Greek philosophy. I edited out the very beginning, when we were getting set up, but otherwise it includes the entire conversation.
If you would like to schedule a conversation with me like this, please click here.
2022-09-012h 02
Deep DivePhilosophical Fiction (w/ Bryan Kam)Bryan is one avid reader. At some point, he noticed that studying philosophy formally, can be inferior to reading an excellent work of fiction. This discussion is about how great novels can teach us important things of about what Living Well means and some of the skills needed in that pursuit. We mention Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and other literary paragons, crediting them with being philosophers. Fun! Follow Bryan on Twitter: @bryankam | Website: bit.ly/bryan_kamFollow me on Twitter: @Deep_Dive_Pod | @EyalShay2 This is a public e...
2022-08-181h 12Podcast Editors MastermindHow to Take Podcast File Sharing and Collaboration to the Next LevelAre you looking for a better way to collaborate on your podcasting team or clients?Notetracks might just be that solution for you. Listen to hear Kam Lal share how you can use Notetracks to easily share projects and collect feedback, in real time or asynchronously, by simply sharing a link. You'll get comments with precise timing, replies, and tags pinned to the timeline to make communicating simple and fun. Who knows? You might even be able to get some idea of what's to come.[ 🗨️ Join the Conversation - What three apps wo...
2022-08-1855 min
Clerestory (Bryan Kam)Wings of Desire/Love Constant Beyond Death
This episode is about the universal versus the particular, in film, poetry and prose.
There's a new thing, which is that you can now read this episode's transcript!
In this episode, I discuss the Wenders film Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin, 1987).
(Wenders' Q&A should be posted on the BFI YouTube channel.)
I also consider the relationship of the universal to the particular; see this Twitter thread.
I refer to The Master & His Emissary, by Iain McGilchrist (2009), as well as The Problem of Knowledge, by Ernst Cassirer (1950), Conversations with Goethe (1836–1848).
I also refer to Being You, by Anil Set...
2022-06-3029 minClerestory (Bryan Kam)Intention to resume
From the blog: What I'm up to now.
Listen to my first conversation with Achim Rothe (2022-06-16).
Listen to my second conversation with Achim Rothe (2022-06-22).
Read my announcement for my discussion with Sam Biagetti.
Listen to my conversation with Sam Biagetti (2022-07-02).
Please schedule a conversation with me (limited time only!).
Or consider recording a clip to send to this podcast (click the +Message button).
2022-06-2106 min
Miis ZüriMit Bryan AdamsBryan Adams kam Anfang Februar für zwei Konzerte in die Schweiz. Geplant war ein Zoom-Interview mit ihm. Wegen eines Fehlers seines Managements, wartete Bryan vergeblich darauf, dass Sharon seinen Zoom-Call annahm. Das Gespräch kam zum Glück am nächsten Tag per Telefon doch noch zustande. Bryan Adams beweist im Podcast viel Humor und macht sich über Sharons Anruf-Abnahme-Unfähigkeit lustig. Ausserdem spricht er über sein Album «So Happy It Hurts», das am 11. März rauskommt, wie sensibel er ist und wen er gerne einmal in den Hintern treten würde.
2022-03-0115 min
Und dann kam PunkFerienprogramm #1: Hörer*innen haben was zu sagen - Und dann kam PunkKo-Host Benni Krasemann (GLASSES) - mit Stippvisite von Sam Muljat (GLASSES) und Melanie
Wir reden mit: Christophers Nichte Hannah, Björn Fink, Anna Richter, Manu Schaper; Annka Mogge, Hendrik Funke & Markus Cloudmaker
Wir reden über: Bennis „Eiersucht“ in Japan, Tonträger Neuigkeiten von Glasses, Electric Chair, Cage Kicker, MøRbø - Cintas Pepe Records, Full Of Hell, Napalm Death, [die Band deren Namen man nicht nennen darf]
Wir erinnern uns an Basti (Golgatha, Iron Sky) sowie Bryan (HUM).
HANNAH OENNING: die spannende Vielseitigkeit von Punk und das Aufräumen von Vorurteilen, WAS IST OA...
2021-07-133h 12
Und dann kam PunkFerienprogramm #1: Hörer*innen haben was zu sagen - Und dann kam PunkKo-Host Benni Krasemann (GLASSES) - mit Stippvisite von Sam Muljat (GLASSES) und Melanie
Wir reden mit: Christophers Nichte Hannah, Björn Fink, Anna Richter, Manu Schaper; Annka Mogge, Hendrik Funke & Markus Cloudmaker
Wir reden über: Bennis „Eiersucht“ in Japan, Tonträger Neuigkeiten von Glasses, Electric Chair, Cage Kicker, MøRbø - Cintas Pepe Records, Full Of Hell, Napalm Death, [die Band deren Namen man nicht nennen darf]
Wir erinnern uns an Basti (Golgatha, Iron Sky) sowie Bryan (HUM).
HANNAH OENNING: die spannende Vielseitigkeit von Punk und das Aufräumen von Vorurteilen, WAS IST OASIS?
BJÖRN FINK: Aufwachsen in der Schwäbische...
2021-07-133h 12
Built In The BluegrassBryan Eble of Canton CooperageFor all things Built In The Bluegrass click HEREI want to take a moment to thank our partner – the Kentucky Association of Manufacturers. For over 100 years, KAM has served our state’s manufacturing industry through advocacy, workforce development, education and training, as well as cost-saving benefits for members. Fighting for manufacturers is what KAM does best, representing the industry in both Frankfort and Washington, D.C. Whether it’s advocacy, offering shipping discounts, or group health insurance, KAM has its members covered. Learn more and become a member by visiting www.kam.us.com
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2021-07-0635 minClerestory (Bryan Kam)The Stability-Plasticity Dilemma/Sonnet 122
Mermillod et al.: The Stability-Plasticity Dilemma (2013)
Erik Hoel: The overfitted brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization (2021)
Carhart-Harris et al.: The Entropic Brain (2014)
Von Neumann: The Computer and the Brain (1957)
Shakespeare: Sonnet 122
2021-06-2919 min
ClerestoryThe Stability-Plasticity Dilemma/Sonnet 122 Mermillod et al.: The Stability-Plasticity Dilemma (2013) Erik Hoel: The overfitted brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization (2021) Carhart-Harris et al.: The Entropic Brain (2014) Von Neumann: The Computer and the Brain (1957) Shakespeare: Sonnet 122--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bkam/message Get full access to Clerestory at bryankam.substack.com/subscribe
2021-06-2919 minClerestory (Bryan Kam)Nietzsche's Human, All Too Human, Kuhn, A. C. Graham/Sonnet 95
R. J. Hollingdale's 1994 translation of Nietzsche's Human, All Too Human (1878)
My piece on the avant-garde
Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Boyce: Why Some Children Are Orchids and Others Are Dandelions (2019)
A. C. Graham: Disputers of the Tao (1989)
Quanta: Out-of-Sync ‘Loners’ May Secretly Protect Orderly Swarms (2020)
Shakespeare: Sonnet 95
2021-06-171h 03
ClerestoryNietzsche's Human, All Too Human, Kuhn, A. C. Graham/Sonnet 95 R. J. Hollingdale's 1994 translation of Nietzsche's Human, All Too Human (1878) My piece on the avant-garde Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Boyce: Why Some Children Are Orchids and Others Are Dandelions (2019) A. C. Graham: Disputers of the Tao (1989) Quanta: Out-of-Sync ‘Loners’ May Secretly Protect Orderly Swarms (2020) Shakespeare: Sonnet 95--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bkam/message Get full access to Clerestory at bryankam.substack.com/subscribe
2021-06-171h 03Clerestory (Bryan Kam)Thomas Kuhn Lecture: Objectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice (1973)In this episode I give Kuhn's 1973 lecture "Objectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice" (1973). There is a PDF of the lecture here. The book he discusses is The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. I found the clip of Kuhn speaking on a closely related topic in this clip from 1995.
2021-06-0158 min
ClerestoryThomas Kuhn Lecture: Objectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice (1973)In this episode I give Kuhn's 1973 lecture "Objectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice" (1973). There is a PDF of the lecture here. The book he discusses is The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. I found the clip of Kuhn speaking on a closely related topic in this clip from 1995.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bkam/message Get full access to Clerestory at bryankam.substack.com/subscribe
2021-06-0158 minClerestory (Bryan Kam)Kuhn interstitial/Yeats' All Things Can Tempt Me
W. B. Yeats: All Things Can Tempt Me.
Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962 book).
Thomas Kuhn: "Objectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice" (1973 lecture) PDF.
2021-05-2212 min
ClerestoryKuhn interstitial/Yeats' All Things Can Tempt Me W. B. Yeats: All Things Can Tempt Me. Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962 book). Thomas Kuhn: "Objectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice" (1973 lecture) PDF.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bkam/message Get full access to Clerestory at bryankam.substack.com/subscribe
2021-05-2212 min
ClerestoryShklovsky/Little Gidding Viktor Shklovsky and Russian Formalism (wikipedia), and Defamiliarization/ostrananie. My Twitter thread on Shklovsky. Alexandra Berlina's Viktor Shklovsky: A Reader. LA Review of Books: Both a Fish and an Ichthyologist. Professor Caryl Emerson. "Art as Device" (1917/1919. Sometimes translated as "Art as Technique"): PDF, including commentary on translation. T. S. Eliot: "Little Gidding" (1942).--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bkam/message Get full access to Clerestory at bryankam.substack.com/subscribe
2021-05-0719 minClerestory (Bryan Kam)Shklovsky/Little Gidding
Viktor Shklovsky and Russian Formalism (wikipedia), and Defamiliarization/ostrananie.
My Twitter thread on Shklovsky.
Alexandra Berlina's Viktor Shklovsky: A Reader.
LA Review of Books: Both a Fish and an Ichthyologist.
Professor Caryl Emerson.
"Art as Device" (1917/1919. Sometimes translated as "Art as Technique"): PDF, including commentary on translation.
T. S. Eliot: "Little Gidding" (1942).
2021-05-0719 min
ClerestoryAlthusser/Hardy's At Castle Boterel Norbert Elias: The Civilizing Process (1939). Richard Wrangham: Two types of aggression in human evolution (2018). Louis Althusser: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1970). My thread on Thomas Kuhn. Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962). Stanford Encyclopedia: Scientific Revolutions (2017). Thomas Hardy: At Castle Boterel (1913).--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bkam/message Get full access to Clerestory at bryankam.substack.com/subscribe
2021-04-2728 minClerestory (Bryan Kam)Althusser/Hardy's At Castle Boterel
Norbert Elias: The Civilizing Process (1939).
Richard Wrangham: Two types of aggression in human evolution (2018).
Louis Althusser: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1970).
My thread on Thomas Kuhn.
Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962).
Stanford Encyclopedia: Scientific Revolutions (2017).
Thomas Hardy: At Castle Boterel (1913).
2021-04-2728 min
ClerestoryTao Te Ching/Chuang Tzu/Keats The Tao Te Ching, translated by Derek Lin and Stephen Addiss/Stanley Lombardo A. C. Graham: Chuang-tzǔ: The Inner Chapters Harold D. Roth: A Companion to Angus C. Graham's Chuang Tzu John Keats: "When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be"--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bkam/message Get full access to Clerestory at bryankam.substack.com/subscribe
2021-04-2028 minClerestory (Bryan Kam)Tao Te Ching/Chuang Tzu/Keats
The Tao Te Ching, translated by Derek Lin and Stephen Addiss/Stanley Lombardo
A. C. Graham: Chuang-tzǔ: The Inner Chapters
Harold D. Roth: A Companion to Angus C. Graham's Chuang Tzu
John Keats: "When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be"
2021-04-2028 minClerestory (Bryan Kam)Basin & Range/The Air Plant
John McPhee: Annals of the Former World (1998).
Emma Darwin: This is Not a Book About Charles Darwin (2019).
Indrė Žliobaitė: On the nature of time information in the fossil record (2020).
Charles Darwin: The Origin of Species (2nd edition, 1859).
Hart Crane: The Air Plant (1932).
Thomas Hardy: Beeny Cliff (1913).
I host salons at The Interintellect; my next one will be on collaboration and networked thought on 2021-04-28.
Thanks for listening and I'd love to hear from you. You can find me on twitter, on clubhouse, or at my website. My blog is here.
Thanks again to Patricia, Isa...
2021-04-1331 min
ClerestoryBasin & Range/The Air Plant John McPhee: Annals of the Former World (1998). Emma Darwin: This is Not a Book About Charles Darwin (2019). Indrė Žliobaitė: On the nature of time information in the fossil record (2020). Charles Darwin: The Origin of Species (2nd edition, 1859). Hart Crane: The Air Plant (1932). Thomas Hardy: Beeny Cliff (1913).I host salons at The Interintellect; my next one will be on collaboration and networked thought on 2021-04-28.Thanks for listening and I'd love to hear from you. You can find me on twitter, on clubhouse, or at my website. My blo...
2021-04-1331 minChallenged: A Podcast About The Challenge on CBS, MTV, and Paramount+Double Agents: License To Killer KamThe Challenge is back and so are we! It's the first Challenge, vote, and elimination for this season of the Challenge. Will a strategy to get rid of any former champs work? Find out.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/challenged-a-podcast-about-the-challenge-on-cbs-mtv-and-paramount--3392015/support.
2020-12-101h 15
Interintellect HostcastBryan Kam: Hosting Salons as a Form of Consciousness - ii Hostcast Episode 2Interintellect's Evaric Weicksel talks with popular ii Salon Host and leading community member Bryan Kam about the nature of consciousness, the narratives that define us, balancing asceticism and hedonism, pursuing eudaimonia, living with practical philosophy, delineating depression, and fasting in all its forms.
Check out all Interintellect events: interintellect.com
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Bryan: twitter.com/bryankam
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The ii: twitter.com/interintellect_
Come to Bryan's next Salon:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hedonism-ingress-to-inspiration-or-road-to-ruin-interintellect-salon-tickets-129755437005
Read about Bryan’s five-day fast:
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2020-11-1652 minChallenged: A Podcast About The Challenge on CBS, MTV, and Paramount+Final Reckoning: Big Little LiesKiller Queen Kam is the lady with the plan in this episode, but c'mon MTV, are you ever gonna send anyone home? We see the Challengers dig out of a mine, a relationship between Tori and Derrick comes to a head, and Brad finally blinks. All this and more on this wonderful edition of Challenged.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/challenged-a-podcast-about-the-challenge-on-cbs-mtv-and-paramount--3392015/support.
2018-08-231h 08Challenged: A Podcast About The Challenge on CBS, MTV, and Paramount+Vendettas: Baskets of DeplorablesWe know Marie went in last week, but who is she going up against? Kam is a traitor and not good at this game, and you can feel free to tweet hatred at us for that comment. The rest of the crew plays some soccer wearing stilts and zorbs, and we see a classic vendetta come to a head. Why you gettin' so upset? We're down a podcast host and note taker, but we try our hardest. Cut us some slack.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/challenged-a-podcast-about-the-challenge-on-cbs-mtv-and-paramount--3392015/support.
2018-03-011h 06Challenged: A Podcast About The Challenge on CBS, MTV, and Paramount+Vendettas: Mercenaries of MayhemThe mercenaries come in to wreak havoc on our poor Challengers while Kam does her best Fire Marshall Bill impression. A new challenge proves very difficult for everyone, with broken glass and stitches and ambulance rides galore.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/challenged-a-podcast-about-the-challenge-on-cbs-mtv-and-paramount--3392015/support.
2018-02-221h 09