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  • The Wind: A Monologue

    The Wind: A Monologue
    2025/05/08
    A monologue in which our host, Professor Robert Harrison, gets swept up by the spirit of the wind and carried toward some indeterminate destination. Songs in this episode: “The Chain” by Fleetwood Mac, “Annabelle Lee” by Glass Wave, and “The Wind Cries Mary” by Jimi Hendrix.
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    28 分
  • World War I, Modernism, David Jones with Tim Noakes

    World War I, Modernism, David Jones with Tim Noakes
    2025/04/15
    A conversation about David Jones’ “In Parenthesis” with Tim Noakes, Head of Public Services, Special Collections at Stanford University. Songs in this episode: “A Fool No More” by Peter Green, and “Machine Gun” by Jimi Hendrix.
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    52 分
  • Cyber-Intimacy with Jeanne Proust

    Cyber-Intimacy with Jeanne Proust
    2025/03/26
    A conversation about sex, intimacy, and human relations in the era of AI with Jeanne Proust, Vice President of the Public Philosophy Network. Songs in this episode: “Reckoner” by Radiohead, and “She’s Not There” by The Zombies.
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    45 分
  • The Destructive Character: A Cover

    The Destructive Character: A Cover
    2025/02/20
    A monologue in which our host, Professor Robert Harrison, performs a “cover” of Walter Benjamin’s essay titled “The Destructive Character,” first published in 1931.
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    6 分
  • Carl Jung with Laura Wittman

    Carl Jung with Laura Wittman
    2025/02/11
    A conversation about Carl Jung, the Red Book, and Jung’s descent into the unconscious with Laura Wittman, Associate Professor of French and Italian at Stanford University. Songs in this episode: “Into the Night” by Julee Cruise, and “End of the Night” by The Doors.
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    48 分
  • What is the Virtual? with Jan Söffner

    What is the Virtual? with Jan Söffner
    2024/12/12
    A conversation about the real, the actual, and the virtual with Jan Söffner, Visiting Professor in German Studies at Stanford University and Chair of Cultural Theory and Cultural Analysis at Zeppelin University. Songs in this episode: “Echo” by Glass Wave, and “Compared to What” by Ray Charles.
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    46 分
  • Language, Music, and Meaning with Julie Sedivy

    Language, Music, and Meaning with Julie Sedivy
    2024/11/12
    A conversation about the origins of language and everything in between with Julie Sedivy, a psycholinguist and author of Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love. Songs in this episode: “From the Beginning” by Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and “Belly Button Window” by Jimi Hendrix.
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    38 分
  • Rainer Maria Rilke with Alexander Sorenson

    Rainer Maria Rilke with Alexander Sorenson
    2024/10/17
    A conversation about the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke with Alexander Sorenson, Assistant Professor of German Studies at Binghamton University and author of The Waiting Water: Order, Sacrifice and Submergence in German Realism. Songs in this episode: “The Trampled Rose” by Alison Krauss and Robert Plant, and “New Age of the Earth” by Ash-Ra Temple.
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    54 分