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April 18, 2025
The Myth of Clean Beginnings The Deeper Thinking Podcast We like to believe in clean slates. In fresh starts and unmarked beginnings. But what if the beginning was never clean? What if every attempt at origin is already layered—paint over plaster, gesture over habit, language over silence? This episode explores how beginnings are not ruptures, but rearrangements. It reveals how the past is never fully erased, but sedimented—shaping what follows, quietly and insistently. Origin stories simplify. They conceal the friction beneath—what we thought we had painted over, outgrown, erased. But as Sara Ahmed reminds us, orientations stick not because we choose them, but because spaces are shaped to hold them. And Gloria Anzaldúa teaches us that contradiction is not an error in knowing—it’s a condition of it. There is no pure beginning. There is only rearrangement. As Simone Weil insists, attention is an act of devotion. And to pay attention to what remains—to the unchosen, the unfinished, the inconvenient—is to acknowledge that newness is not clean. It is contingent. In this episode, we ask what it means to begin in a world already built. To inherit structure without pretending we invented it. And to find meaning in what cannot be fully removed. Why Listen? The philosophy of beginning as rearrangement, not rupture How inheritance shapes perception, design, and memory Why origin stories often conceal more than they reveal The ethical and aesthetic stakes of what we try to erase Further Reading As an affiliate, we may earn from qualifying purchases through these links. Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed — How space, repetition, and institutional memory shape our bodies. Amazon link Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil — On the spiritual and structural implications of attention. Amazon link Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa — A foundational text on identity, hybridity, and epistemic rupture. Amazon link Listen On: YouTube Spotify Apple Podcasts Bibliography Ahmed, Sara. *Living a Feminist Life*. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. Weil, Simone. *Gravity and Grace*. Translated by Emma Craufurd. London: Routledge, 2002. Anzaldúa, Gloria. *Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza*. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1987.
April 18, 2025
The Shadow and the Self The Deeper Thinking Podcast This episode explores the shadow not as pathology, but as method—a recursive structure of return that challenges what we know about selfhood, truth, and coherence. What happens when we stop fleeing the parts of ourselves we’ve exiled? When we no longer moralise discomfort, but attend to it? The shadow is not a flaw—it is an epistemic threshold. A way of listening to what the psyche does not yet know how to say. Drawing on thinkers like Carl Jung, Jacques Lacan, and Martha Nussbaum, the episode reframes shadow work as a philosophical commitment to remain—near contradiction, near discomfort, near what cannot be resolved. Through this lens, care becomes structure, silence becomes data, and philosophy returns to its ethical origin: presence. As Gloria Anzaldúa reminds us, contradiction is not a threat to meaning, but its condition. And Judith Butler shows that vulnerability is not the end of thought, but its ground. The essay resists closure, avoids performance, and invites something rarer: to think as an act of fidelity, to feel as a form of recognition, to remain—not to resolve. Why Listen? Philosophy as a practice of shadow integration and self-accountability How repression, projection, and silence shape both personal and political worlds Theorist-led inquiry into ethics, attention, and contradiction A rigorous, lyrical essay format designed for return listening Further Reading As an affiliate, we may earn from qualifying purchases through these links. The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious by Carl Jung — A foundational account of the shadow and its role in psychic integration. Amazon link Giving an Account of Oneself by Judith Butler — On ethics, exposure, and the limits of self-knowledge. Amazon link Upheavals of Thought by Martha Nussbaum — How emotions disclose values and shape moral attention. Amazon link Listen On: YouTube Spotify Apple Podcasts Bibliography Ahmed, Sara. The Cultural Politics of Emotion. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004. Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1987. Arendt, Hannah. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. New York: Viking Press, 1963. Buber, Martin. I and Thou. Translated by Ronald Gregor Smith. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1958. Butler, Judith. Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence. London: Verso, 2004. Cavarero, Adriana. Relating Narratives: Storytelling and Selfhood. Translated by Paul A. Kottman. London: Routledge, 2000. Foucault, Michel. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972–1977. Edited by Colin Gordon. New York: Pantheon Books, 1980. hooks, bell. All About Love: New Visions. New York: William Morrow, 2000. Jung, Carl Gustav. The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. Translated by R.F.C. Hull. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981. Kristeva, Julia. Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. Translated by Leon S. Roudiez. New York: Columbia University Press, 1982. Lacan, Jacques. Écrits: A Selection. Translated by Alan Sheridan. New York: W. W. Norton, 1977. Levinas, Emmanuel. Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority. Translated by Alphonso Lingis. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1969. Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Phenomenology of Perception. Translated by Colin Smith. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962. Nancy, Jean-Luc. Being Singular Plural. Translated by Robert D. Richardson and Anne E. O’Byrne. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. Nussbaum, Martha C. Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Ricoeur, Paul. Oneself as Another. Translated by Kathleen Blamey. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. Weil, Simone. Waiting for God. Translated by Emma Craufurd. New York: Harper Perennial, 2009. West, Cornel. Prophetic Fragments: Illuminations of the Crisis in American Religion and Culture. Grand
April 18, 2025
When Systems Echo Without Meaning The Deeper Thinking Podcast When systems fail, they don’t always stop. Often, they continue—unchanged, unfeeling, echoing protocols long after belief has eroded. This episode explores what it means to remain inside those echoes. Not as a form of resignation, but as a method of listening. Of paying attention to what persists, flickers, distorts. It traces how meaning behaves when its infrastructure collapses, and how rhythm—not resolution—might be what remains. As Maurice Blanchot writes, disaster is not the event of breaking—but the continuation that follows. Byung-Chul Han calls it an era of transparent burnout. In this episode, systems glitch, but don’t stop. Interfaces work. Schedules run. But something is missing. And inside that absence, a new form of attention takes shape. Drawing on the hauntological thinking of Mark Fisher, the recursive performativity of Judith Butler, and the plasticity described by Catherine Malabou, this episode is not about fixing what’s broken. It’s about learning to hear what the breakdown reveals. It’s about dwelling in fragments, returning to motifs that no longer resolve, and understanding the glitch not as failure, but as form. Why Listen? How systems can collapse yet still perform Glitch as method—not interruption, but presence The ethics of listening to systems that echo without meaning Theory woven through texture, rhythm, and recursive thinking Further Reading As an affiliate, we may earn from qualifying purchases through these links. What Is Called Thinking? by Martin Heidegger — On the impossibility and necessity of staying with broken sense. Amazon link Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing by Catherine Malabou — On form that forms, breaks, and reforms. Amazon link Ghosts of My Life by Mark Fisher — On hauntology, cultural memory, and systems that keep going without soul. Amazon link Listen On: YouTube Spotify Apple Podcasts Bibliography Blanchot, Maurice. The Writing of the Disaster. Translated by Ann Smock. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York: Routledge, 1990. Fisher, Mark. Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures. Winchester, UK: Zero Books, 2014. Han, Byung-Chul. The Burnout Society. Translated by Erik Butler. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015. Malabou, Catherine. Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing: Dialectic, Destruction, Deconstruction. Translated by Carolyn Shread. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. Ahmed, Sara. Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. Noë, Alva. Action in Perception. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004. Steyerl, Hito. The Wretched of the Screen. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2012.
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