
Clerestory (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).
Latest episodes

May 7, 2021 • 19min
Shklovsky/Little Gidding
Viktor Shklovsky and Russian Formalism (wikipedia), and Defamiliarization/ostrananie.
My Twitter thread on Shklovsky.
Alexandra Berlina's Viktor Shklovsky: A Reader.
LA Review of Books: Both a Fish and an Ichthyologist.
Professor Caryl Emerson.
"Art as Device" (1917/1919. Sometimes translated as "Art as Technique"): PDF, including commentary on translation.
T. S. Eliot: "Little Gidding" (1942).

Apr 27, 2021 • 28min
Althusser/Hardy's At Castle Boterel
Norbert Elias: The Civilizing Process (1939).
Richard Wrangham: Two types of aggression in human evolution (2018).
Louis Althusser: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1970).
My thread on Thomas Kuhn.
Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962).
Stanford Encyclopedia: Scientific Revolutions (2017).
Thomas Hardy: At Castle Boterel (1913).

Apr 20, 2021 • 28min
Tao Te Ching/Chuang Tzu/Keats
The Tao Te Ching, translated by Derek Lin and Stephen Addiss/Stanley Lombardo
A. C. Graham: Chuang-tzǔ: The Inner Chapters
Harold D. Roth: A Companion to Angus C. Graham's Chuang Tzu
John Keats: "When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be"

Apr 13, 2021 • 31min
Basin & Range/The Air Plant
John McPhee: Annals of the Former World (1998).
Emma Darwin: This is Not a Book About Charles Darwin (2019).
Indrė Žliobaitė: On the nature of time information in the fossil record (2020).
Charles Darwin: The Origin of Species (2nd edition, 1859).
Hart Crane: The Air Plant (1932).
Thomas Hardy: Beeny Cliff (1913).
I host salons at The Interintellect; my next one will be on collaboration and networked thought on 2021-04-28.
Thanks for listening and I'd love to hear from you. You can find me on twitter, on clubhouse, or at my website. My blog is here.
Thanks again to Patricia, Isabela, and JP :)
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