A Mysterious Pleasure

Why Everything Is More Than It Seems and Connected to Everything Else (Featuring Paci! Proust! Heidegger! Husserl! Whitehead! Merleau-Ponty! Munari!)

Jul 29 • Lauren Hall

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June 2026

Feast: 04

On Living, Purple Noon, and the Cheese and Pen That Will Change Your Life

Jun 19

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Forget Everything You Know

A Case for Knowing Less in an Age of Intelligence (Featuring: Faust! Marlowe! Goethe! Rousseau! Heidegger! Keats! Rilke!)

Jun 11 • Lauren Hall

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May 2026

Being Alive

A Phenomenological Path to Erotic Aliveness (Featuring Enzo Paci! Edmund Husserl! Maurice Merleau-Ponty! Esther Perel!)

May 13 • Lauren Hall

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Private Parts

Secrecy, Nakedness, and Why Not Everything Has to Be Seen & Known (Featuring Derrida! Humboldt! Simmel! Han! Berger! Glissant! Nietzsche! Augustine!)

May 1 • Lauren Hall

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April 2026

Escaping the Bare Life

Why the Ordinary Is the Only Place Anything Happens and How to Pursue the Inefficient Life (Featuring Barthes! Aristotle! Foucault! Arendt! Heidegger…

Apr 14 • Lauren Hall

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March 2026

The Erotics of Anxiety

On the Necessity of Anxiety and Why It Sits at the Threshold of Good and Pleasurable Things (Featuring Freud! Lacan! Kierkegaard! Anaïs Nin!)

Mar 20 • Lauren Hall

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November 2025

Solvitur Ambulando: It Is Solved by Walking

“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk" (Featuring: Zeno of Elea! Diogenes! Saint Augustine! Sir Leslie Stephens! Aristotle! Kierkegaard…

Nov 14, 2025 • Lauren Hall

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August 2025

To Love a Changing Thing

On Desire and Knowledge (Featuring Proteus! Eros! Psyche! Audre Lorde! Jean-Luc Marion!)

Aug 22, 2025 • Lauren Hall

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April 2025

On What Lingers: Hauntology and Memory

(Featuring: Jacques Derrida! William Shakespeare! Søren Kierkegaard! Henri Bergson! Gilles Deleuze! Friedrich Nietzsche! Marcel Proust! Sophie Calle! My…

Apr 11, 2025 • Lauren Hall

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January 2025

Where Does the Time Go?

The Epidemic of Dyschronicity and the Meaning of Time (Featuring: Nietzche! Heidegger! Lewis Mumford! And some various thoughts on some Greek and German…

Jan 27, 2025 • Lauren Hall

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October 2024

Desire is Dead

How Modern Love Is Preventing Us from Experiencing Eros (Featuring Anne Carson! Emmanuel Levinas! Byung-Chul Han! Roland Barthes! Sheila Heti…

Oct 31, 2024 • Lauren Hall

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