ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
EssayCast is a podcast dedicated to critical essays which I've written. I will read them, talk about them, and discuss them with others. I am a physicist, composer, and author interested in looking at the narrative of the history of ideas on our planet. I encourage commentary, critique, and collaboration.
Update frequency:
every 9 days
Average audio length:
35 minutes
English
United States
21 episodes
since Nov. 12, 2019
episodic
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When Benjamin Franklin wrote his autobiography, he made the interesting choice to include a graph that detailed his weekly schedule. In giving himself the solitude to work, he accomplished much. As we have grown accustomed to having fewer and weaker boundaries, interiority has declined. In this tim…
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Typically, people view altruism as the opposite of selfishness. If we reimagine our notions of self and other and imagine that one's sense of self is developmentally dynamic, altruism is simply as state of self so large that it encompasses more than the physical being possessed of consciousness. Wi…
For a long while, it seemed that there were two categories of homemade videos; cute videos of cats and babies and those that appeal to schadenfreude where bears fall from trees or people are hit by cars. The documentary, once marginal, has become the great usurper. Serial programming must now vie f…
Public art, specifically street music, is an often under appreciated component of a rich urban culture. As many people are forced into a shelter-in-place lifestyles with the outbreak of COVID-19, busking has disappeared. However, in New York City, where the state's governor has implemented a more s…
Non-Playing Characters, or, NPC's are a feature of video games. I suggest that there exist human NPC's who follow protocol rather than think for themselves. Here I discuss the what it is to live under the yoke of technology.
Compartmentalization resulting from parsing public and private leads to a form a social bondage. Transparency becomes anathema as people ceaselessly monitor their public image. Interiority does not emerge as expression, but is locked in secret sadness.
A sport that merely requires a ball and a field may still be beyond the reach of many children too poor to afford food. Dropping footballs from drones to people all over the world may do great good for the disenfranchised. Further, these parcels from the air might be used to disseminate queues to t…
With no moderation, the Twitter channel allows the president of the United States to command the attention of billions without filter. Never before has the unilateral dissemination of words been so extreme and so quick. The office of the POTUS would be far less effective in its destructive power wi…
With the fading of understanding in science in the past decades, many have turned to systems of belief which contradict facts and reason. Today's essay explores the narative of surrounding enlightened periods of time. Sonja Teszler is my special guest as we discuss the decline of civilization.
Starting with the putative notion that animals don't interrogate, but rather express or plea, I look at the spectrum between meditative interiority and frantic banter. I argue that our culture demands tempo above truth and comfort over truth. I finally suggest that the pauses in dialog are the key …
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