In Part 1 (see below), I proffer the conditions of the contemporary moment, what I'm calling the Age of the Argument. There is no clear source of truth, no ground of certainty: all there are are arguments. It's not that some are false and some

Witnessing Others, or Soft Eyes

May 19th, 2020 18m 50s

Seeing is not neutral or natural: it is taught. As John Berger argued in his incredible, Ways of Seeing, men have a tendency to gaze at women, at life, with a certain will to penetrate, dominate, and such — the so-called 'male gaze.' To see is

The Age of the Argument

May 19th, 2020 42m 53s

This is part of one of a longer essay entitled, "Making Sense with Pleasure in the Age of the Argument." This part focuses on establishing what I mean by the Age of the Argument—and what I mean by an argument.An argument is not based on proof.

Love is a Practice

Sep 8th, 2019 34m 55s

Inspired by this great Erich Fromm quote, “Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice," I riff on taking acid, being in a r

How "The Great Hack" Totally Missed the Point

Jul 31st, 2019 28m 34s

Not surprisingly, this documentary perpetuates the very problems it thinks its revealing.

On Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" & the Performative Nature of Language & Participating in the Divine in the Very Act of Reading It

Mar 31st, 2019 39m 19s

Towards a Politics of the Ecstatic

Mar 17th, 2019 34m 43s

Rather than a government and public discourse that navigate and legislate the good or profit, I want to imagine a government and public discourse dedicated to facilitating Nietzsche's great Yes — facilitating the ecstatic.

Why a machine? Or any concept, for that matter?

Sep 5th, 2018 42m 25s

Often, when I get excited about an idea — Nietzsche's amor fati, Kierkegaard's knight of faith, Deleuze's fold, and now Guattari's machine — I am often met with a certain confusion by those around me. Their instinct is that whatever I'm saying

The Art Machine

Aug 30th, 2018 22m 50s

Inspired by reading Félix Guattari, here I am trying to explain what an art machine is as distinct from Foucault's discourse, Marx's means of production, and Althusser's ideological hailing.

Deleuze & Guattari's Body without Organs (BwO), Yoga, S&M, Drugs, and a Morass of More!

May 13th, 2018 39m 58s

I try to bring Deleuze and Guattari's figure of the Body without Organs to life and discuss different modes of access — different drugs, S&M, and mostly yoga. And I play some Boredoms! Fun for the whole family.

Horizons

Jan 17th, 2018 34m 37s

The Word Made Flesh: On Language, Rhetoric, Performativity, and Jesus

Dec 21st, 2017 30m 54s

There is no word, no thing, that is not always already being expressed. In the common view, we imagine words are these conveyors of preformed meaning that we hurl across the abyss separating me from you. But the expressive field is dense, satur

What is Rhetoric? (Take 1)

Nov 19th, 2017 27m 23s

Reading the Way of Spaces

Jun 28th, 2017 34m 16s

How do different spaces distribute bodies? What things are asked of us? What energy is necessary to find our ease in a bar, a restaurant, a park, a clothing-optional spa?This is where power, place, and identity intersect in a collaborative even

On Solitude: Balancing the Human & Inhuman

Dec 28th, 2016 26m 52s

This is a more personal podcast in which I try to reckon the romance of the solitary man — focusing on Kierkegaard's reading of Abraham and Issac in "Fear and Trembling" — with the very real tugs the human social — affection, grief, kindness.I

Reading the Way of The Way

Dec 20th, 2016 29m 28s

This is the second part of a series in which I read the title of my new book, Reading the Way of Things. In this episode, I focus on how the phrase "The Way" functions.A way is an action, a trajectory, a mode of going. It is limited and yet eme

Reading Reading

Dec 15th, 2016 19m 35s

I discuss why use the word "reading" in the title of my book (Reading the Way of Things). I reference the implications for writing and teaching writing; Deleuze's readings of things; the pleasure and power of reading as distinct from what we co

Multiplicity

May 13th, 2016 20m 51s

As far as I can tell, everything is multiple — which shifts the demands of life. For if everything is in fact multiple, how do we articulate it? How do we seek it? Amplify it? The will to multiplicity is different than the will to the definitiv

The Technology of Sense

May 10th, 2016 24m 26s

(Thoughts on my soon to be released book on Zero Books)Before we're even born, we are taught how to process the world. After all, we are prefigured in the womb as a baby soon to arrive as a child, as male or female, as having a name and parents

The Worldly Experience of Thought

Apr 24th, 2016 21m 35s

The Relationshop Between Theory & Art

Apr 19th, 2016 15m 18s

Theory doesn't explain art; theory is art.

The Infinite Richness of the Inbetween

Apr 11th, 2016 15m 52s

Some thoughts on the plenum and how the space between things is full, filled to the brim with forces that are social, local, global, cosmic all at once. With reference to Merleau-Ponty and online dating.

Diet, Knowledge, Time

Mar 3rd, 2016 16m 40s

The Graduate, Age, Time, and Irony

Feb 21st, 2016 22m 12s

Watching The Graduate again recently, I was struck by the hilarity of youth thinking it understands life when it knows, we all know, our perspectives, feelings, horizon changes, relentlessly and necessarily — with some references to Gadamer and

On Sense

Feb 10th, 2016 13m 12s

Sense is the way bodies cohere, or don't, in a perceptive field.Sense is not the meaning of an experience; sense is the meaning + the immediate affect + temperature + speed + intensity + color + shape and the diverse terms in which different b