Episode 1: Solitude

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)