Edge of Reason

Humanism: the value and agency of human beings while recognizing the relationship between the human experience, evolution, and extinction. In this episode, artist Nicolas Party and researcher Thomas Moynihan explore their mutual interest in human agency, the arbitrary circumstances of planetary civilization—and dinosaurs!Image Credit: Nicolas Party, Portrait with a Donkey (detail), 2023 © Nicolas Party. Courtesy the artist & Hauser & Wirth.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guests Allison Katz and Nuar Alsadir discuss the uses and limitations of rational thought, the intersection of poetry and psychoanalysis, the importance of non-verbal communication in psychoanalysis, the role of laughter in challenging authority, and the significance of allowing the logic of painting to unfold.