Show Notes
Today we’re talking about isolation, what it means to be isolated, and whether or not isolating is even possible while living in Coronavirus Quarantine.
We discuss:
- Aristotle, Politics
- Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
- Robert Eggers, The Lighthouse (2019)
- Social contract theory in John Locke and Thomas Hobbes
- Akira Kurosawa, Yojimbo (1961)
- Giorgio Agamben, “The State of Exception Provoked by an Unmotivated Emergency”
- Slavoj Zizek, Response to Agamben
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- Michelle Houellebecq
- Joan Didion, “Goodbye to All of That”
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Image: “Solitude” by Kevin Dooley (CC BY 2.0)
Music: “Sans Sans” by Rrrrrose Azerty (CC BY 3.0)