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Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

Bryan Kam

A podcast on philosophy. I'm interested in the origins of complexity, suffering, and selfhood. I'm now lucky to have conversations with amazing people, mostly on Eastern/Western philosophy. Early episodes are my monologues (with prose followed by poetry).

48 - Eternity and Time with Kit Tempest-Walters
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  • 48 - Eternity and Time with Kit Tempest-Walters

    I 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 discuss some of my perspectives from the book I'm writing, Neither/Nor, including the differences in perspectives between Eastern and Western approaches to philosophy.

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    Tue, 07 May 2024 - 1h 00min
  • 47 - Writing and AI with Maggie Appleton

    It'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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message
    Fri, 12 Apr 2024 - 1h 04min
  • 46 - Creative Quandary Clinic, Part 2

    At 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 period, finishing a documentary film, the meaning of intuition, seasonality, the struggle to re-engage with work, and more.

    This episode of Clerestory contains an audio call with seven of the eight participants.

    Clerestory by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bryan Kam⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ • Infrequent updates at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ • All my work plus exclusive content at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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    Sat, 06 Apr 2024 - 1h 09min
  • 45 - Creative Quandary Clinic, Part 1

    At 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 period, finishing a documentary film, the meaning of intuition, seasonality, the struggle to re-engage with work, and more.

    This episode of Clerestory contains asynchronous voicenote reflections from seven of the eight participants on how the experience went.

    Stay tuned for an article describing how to set up such a group for yourself, and another synchronous conversation from the participants.

    Clerestory by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bryan Kam⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ • Infrequent updates at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ • All my work plus exclusive content at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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    Sun, 31 Mar 2024 - 1h 29min
  • 44 - Has the Human Experience Changed? with Isabela Granic

    Part 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 Philosophical Journey⁠⁠⁠⁠ Part 1 of this series: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Causality and Conditionality⁠⁠⁠⁠

    Clerestory by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bryan Kam⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ • Infrequent updates at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ • All my work plus exclusive content at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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    Tue, 19 Mar 2024 - 1h 11min
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