Late Capitalism: A Survival Guide, Ep. 6 - Spotify and the Destruction of Culture
Spotify represents a case study in how the logic of Late Capitalism ramifies throughout our lives in ways that destroys fundamental aspects of our culture. Our love of music is leveraged to destroy th...
22 Dec 202551min
Reading Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" - Ep. 5
So much for Free Will. Herein Nietzsche attacks the whole question of Free Will - not taking a side but simply pointing out the meaninglessness of most of the conversations surrounding free will.Sign-...
19 Dec 202530min
Late Capitalism: A Survival Guide, Ep. 5 - We Know the Price of Everything, the Value of Nothing - and the Price of Nothing
In an almost Zen Koan kind of way, Late Capitalism increasingly immerses us in a society where we are simultaneously told money is THE most important value but wherein we are no longer able to even de...
15 Dec 202547min
Reading Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" - Ep. 4
Nietzsche rejects Sensualism, Materialism, Metaphysics and any simple understanding of Science with his core concern - an Ethics built on Joy and Vigour derived from a Will to Power that he sees in al...
12 Dec 202531min
Late Capitalism: A Survival Guide, Ep. 4 - The End of History
One of the social impacts of Late Capitalism is the undermining of our sense of history. Expanding on a pre-existing pattern in American culture, which partly explains why the US is at the forefront o...
8 Dec 202552min
Reading Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" - Ep. 3
Having attacked most western philosophy, Nietzsche presents one of his core arguments - that all these claims to universal truth and discovery are simply a self-serving pose on the part of philosopher...
5 Dec 202526min
Late Capitalism: A Survival Guide, Ep. 3 - The "Logic" of Financialization
The creeping presence of Financialization would not be so upsetting if it weren’t that it represents such an odd/counterintuitive world view. The logic of Late Capitalism is not, for the average perso...
1 Dec 20251h 7min
Reading Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" - Ep. 2
Wow, Nietzsche rolls out all the rhetorical cannons to open Beyond Good and Evil. He attempts to undercut both the history and focus of Western philosophy and introduce a new basis of thinking based o...
28 Nov 202538min
