History of Philosophy Audio Archive

SOCIALSWill’s Patreon - patreon.com/c/hemlockpatreonWill’s Substack (Hemlock) - williamengels.substack.comBad Role Models on YouTube: youtube.com/@hemlock-ytThe Big BRM Playlist on YouTubeBad Role Models is a co-production of Richard Sinex, Thomas Vanek, and William Engels.ERRATA:I said "Nicholas Drake" when I meant "Thomas A. Drake" the pre-Snowden NSA whistleblower who condemned Stellar Winds (I said "Solar Winds") and the Trailblazer Project as unconstitutional.REFERENCESThe Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West by Nicholas W. Zamiska and Alexander C. KarpThe Philosopher in the Valley: Alex Karp, Palantir, and the Rise of the Surveillance State by Michael SteinbergerThe Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power by Max ChafkinNobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice by Virginia Roberts GiuffreThe Collapse of Complex Societies: New Studies in Archaeology by Joseph A. TainterTotal Information Awareness (US Domestic Surveillance Proposal)Machines of Loving Grace (Hemlock Podcast Episode)

SOUND CREDIT: The Chamber Stage (YouTube)Support the boys (Thomas Vanek & Richard Sinex) and I on Patreon and YouTube:https://patreon.com/c/hemlockpatreonhttps://www.youtube.com/@hemlock-ytBecause someone will ask: the Nixon tape is from Feb 1st 1972 and features the Reverend Billy Graham giving his fascinating interpretation of the Jewish Question in the Oval Office. Nixon concludes (its' a little garbled on the tape) by saying "I believe it. I can't say it but I believe it."https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/662/conversation-662-004The books in question are "The Contrarian" by Max Chafkin (the better book, for the record) and "The Philosopher in the Valley" by Michael Steinberger.

Looks like we're stuck with the Bad Elves, Frodo.You can find Jake’s work on his website, (The Rip Current) and you can find his podcast (same name) on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube. His 2022 book The Loop: How Technology is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back is available on Amazon. He also writes under The Rip Current on Substack: https://theripcurrent.substack.com/Support my work and keep this channel alive on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/c/HemlockPatreon

Hemlock #39Nuclear war, and nuclear risk, are still just as real and just as close as they have been during the tensest eras of the Cold War. I had questions about where suspected nuclear flashpoints were forming - in South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Japan, and Iran - and wanted to review Trump's record of militarizing outer space, resuming nuclear testing, pre-emptively attacking Iran's nuclear reactor sites, and spending billions in a never-ending American quest for "Star Wars" or missile defense (in this latest iteration: not Reagan's SDI, but rather The Golden Dome). Which is why I invited Jack on the show.Jack Kennedy is the nuclear risk editorial fellow for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. He is a doctoral candidate and research associate at the Centre for International Security at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. His research focuses include strategic stability under conditions of multipolarity, extended deterrence, and coercive diplomacy. He previously worked at the European Peacebuilding Liaison Office, and as a journalist. He holds a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. You can read Jack's very insightful article Washington's neglect of South Korea's security concerns is a proliferation problem here. We had a wide-ranging and largely in-tune conversation about horizontal proliferation, nuclear latency, real policy wonk shit like specific treaties, and dug into the nuclear histories of the US, Iraq, Pakistan, South Africa, and North Korea.All this to say: this is how you don't blow up the world.References:1981 Iraqi Osirak Reactor Bombing (Operation Opera)Seymour Hersh Article about Iran's Nuclear Reactor Strike:I sort-of misremembered this article - estimates vary on how much the US strike set back the program. I said 'sixty days' which I heard somewhere but can't recall. Sy Hersh suggests 'years' but others imagine less, given that the centrifuges were likely not destroyed but merely buried. The size of the setback is ultimately immaterial to the point being made, a question of tactics. The principle of the strike itself was what made the situation dangerous and destabilizing and ultimately unworkable.https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/was-it-obliteration?utm_source=publication-search

Buy Graham's book on Terence on Amazon!Graham's website: https://www.edgecentral.net/Reputable information about psilocybin and harm reduction:https://www.erowid.org/plants/mushrooms/mushrooms.shtmlJames Fadiman's book/manual: https://www.psychedelicexplorersguide.com/"We are the inheritors of one million years of striving for the unspeakable"-Terence McKennaMore on Patreon:https://patreon.com/c/hemlockpatreon

A Creative Commons Zero "No Rights Reserved" free, open-source audiobook, narrated by William Engels. This is from Part 1, titled "The Window," Chapters 1-5.One of the most beautifully written and mind-expanding works of modernist literature, Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse (1927) has recently entered the public domain. I wanted to celebrate by performing my way though the many "head-hops", metaphysical digressions, synesthetic collages, and iridescently shimmering prose passages that make up this short but potent work. Enjoy.Support this work on Patreon

History of Philosophy Audio Archive, Episode #177I have always loved Michael Sugrue, and I will never stop posting his talks. RIP to a legend (1957-2024). Always been curious about Goethe’s Faust (Parts I and II) and thought this was serve a good introduction. If looking for a physical copy, I have heard that the scholarly, complete, Princeton edition is really good.Hear all the updates on where the channel is going on my (free!) Patreon (Link to Hemlock Patreon).

Follow Dr. Roy on Social Media:Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTubeReferencesStephen Skowronek // "The Politics Presidents Make" (1993)Rational Choice Theory (1955) "A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice" by Herbert A. SimonThe Nixon movie I couldn't remember was "Secret Honor" (Robert Altman, 1984)Abramowitz et. al study of Southern Republicans https://journals.shareok.org/arp/article/view/366Goldsboro Nuclear Disaster (1961)Palomares Nuclear Incident (1966)Notable Esoteric Platonists: Leo Strauss and Allan BloomAspasia and Pericles the YoungerGroup 40/Project 40 and Richard NixonOtto Ambros (Third Reich Scientist/Operation Paperclip)Dialogues by Plato:Meno (Knowledge, geometry, 'rememberance')Republic (Justice, the Noble Lie)Laches (Instruction in courage)Symposium (Love, homosexuality, Diotima)Crito (Fidelity to the state, homeliness)Seventh Letter / Seventh Epistle (Esoteric Platonism)GAZA LINKS:Oxfam - https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/emergencies/gaza-and-israel-emergency-appeal/MSF (Doctors Without Borders) - https://www.msf.org/gaza-israel-warPalestinian Youth Movement - https://www.palestinianyouthmovement.com/

Support this work and unlock more of it (for free!) on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/c/hemlockpatreonThis is from Hubert Dreyfus' 2008 Berkeley undergraduate course Philosophy 7 "Existentialism in Literature and Film"https://archive.org/details/ucberkeley_webcast_itunesu_461120622\Course Description: The course will be organized around various attempts to reinterpret the Judeo/Christian God, and to determine in what sense, if at all, such a God is still a living God. We will study Dostoyevsky's and Kierkegaard's attempts to preserve a non-theological version of the God of Christianity, as well as Nietzsche's attempt to save us from belief in any version of God offered by our tradition. We will view and discuss three films that deal with related issues.Those films are, for the record:Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959)The Third Man (Orson Welles, 1949)Breathless, French: "À bout de souffle" (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)The books being read are:Fear and Trembling & The Sickness Unto Death (Kierkegaard)The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky)Twilight of the Idols & The Gay Science (Nietzsche)Cover art is Caspar David Friedrich, "Monk by the Sea"

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