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Rahul Samaranayake

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01:08:21

Julia Keller on Quitting and the Myth of Perseverance...

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2023/08/28

Julia Keller is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, novelist, playwright, and teacher. She earned a Ph.D. at Ohio State University. She has taught at Princeton University, The University of Chicago, and the University of Notre Dame and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. She's the author of 'Quitting: A Life Strategy: The Myth of Perseverance―and How the New Science of Giving Up Can Set You Free.' In this episode, we discuss burnout and the sociology of quitting in a Neoliberal

01:58:11

Treydon Lunot on Orthodox Christianity and Baptising...

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2023/08/25

Treydon Lunot is an Orthodox Christian, theologian, philosopher, creator of Telosbound and the author of 'Aphesis: The Impossibility of Subjectivity.' In this episode, we discuss Theosis, baptising philosophy and what Slavoj Žižek gets wrong about Christianity. Trey's book: Aphesis: The Impossibility of Subjectivity Trey's

01:23:36

Jessica Taylor on AI Alignment and the Philosophy of...

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2023/08/24

Jessica Taylor is an AI & Cognitive science-influenced philosopher working on a range of areas like social epistemology, decision theory, and philosophy of mind, to name a few. She is currently a researcher at the Median Group on technology forecasting along with the prior mentioned fields. In this episode, we discuss AI alignment, the foundations of cognitive science, linguistics, desire formation, psychoanalysis and Kantian philosophy. Jessica's

01:32:46

Hunter Coates on Conspiracy Theories and Lacanian...

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2023/07/28

Amidst the UFO Congressional hearing in the United States, the topic of conspiracy theories has recently gained unprecedented public attention. In this episode, I discuss conspiracies from a Lacanian perspective with Hunter Coates, a philosophy and history undergrad at Georgia College & State University interested in German Idealism, Lacanian Psychoanalysis, and Eastern Orthodox Christian theology. In February 2023, Hunter published his first full-length text titled 'Conspiracy and the

01:08:00

Bros Discuss... Techno-Optimism (w/ Euwyn Goh)

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2023/07/06

Euwyn and I critique tech bros and techo-optimism. We also discuss 'The Question Concerning Technology' by Martin Heidegger. Connect with Euwyn at:

00:46:42

Dr Grace Tarpey on Lacan's Psychoanalytic Way of Love...

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2023/06/29

Dr Grace Tarpey is a Psychoanalyst and Philosophy Academic with significant years of experience in Psychoanalytic clinical private practice, Psychotherapy and Counselling. Her PhD thesis is on the topic of 'self-Other relations for an ethics-of-love' in the context of contemporary postmodern culture. She's also currently writing a book on 'The Ethics of Love.' In this episode, we discuss Jacques Lacan, Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Marion. Lacan's Psychoanalytic Way of

01:36:27

Bros Discuss... Why Get Married? (w/ Euwyn Goh)

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2023/05/04

Euwyn and I discuss marriage, love and modernity. Connect with Euwyn at: https://twitter.com/euwyngoh https://memoirworthwriting.substack.com https://www.instagram.com/euwyngoh --------------------------------------- {Podcast} Spotify: ⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le⁠⁠ Anchor: ⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake⁠⁠ YouTube: ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/c/RahulSam⁠⁠ Substack: https://rsampod.substack.com/ Website} https://rahulsam.me/ {Social

02:05:17

Hunter Coates On Kant, Hegel & Lacan | RSam Pod #20

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2023/04/07

Hunter Coates is an undergraduate student and aspiring academic. Currently, he is pursuing a philosophy and history double B.A. at Georgia College and State University. After graduation, he plans to work towards a PhD in philosophy. In February 2023, Hunter published his first full-length text titled “Conspiracy and the Subject: A Lacanian Enterprise.”: https://www.amazon.com.au/Conspiracy-Subject-Enterprise-Hunter-Coates/dp/B0BW267JC5 Hunter's YouTube channel:

01:07:14

Mettalia Tanjaya on Why Theology Matters | RSam Pod #19

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2023/03/12

Mettalia Tanjaya is an artist and philosopher. She studied for a Bachelor of Animation and Interactive Media in the past year, followed by a Diploma in Theological Studies for a year. She is now doing her Master of Teaching (Early Childhood and Primary). The working title for her dissertation is “Why Theology Matters”, where she will discuss the components of Theological studies and analyse how it is relevant to modern philosophy and science. I discuss Christianity, morality and Kant with

01:26:03

Who is Christ to you? (Twitter Space with Euwyn Goh)

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2023/03/05

Euwyn and I discuss Christ, faith, existentialism and Christian phenomenology. Please consider checking out his Substack: https://memoirworthwriting.substack.com/ Euwyn's Twitter: https://twitter.com/euwyngoh --------------------------------------- {Podcast} Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RahulSam {Social

02:02:20

Is Jordan Peterson a Fascist? (Vaush and PF Jung's...

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2023/02/20

My conversation with Paul (PF Jung) on his follow-up thoughts after his Vaush debate. And we discuss if Jordan Peterson is a fascist―viewing Peterson through Umberto Eco's and Hannah Arendt's social theories. Paul's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@PFJung Paul's debate with Vaush: https://youtu.be/hHn9WMSQyyk --------------------------------------- {Podcast} Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake YouTube:

00:20:32

Masculinity and Nothingness

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2023/02/19

Recently the topic of masculinity has been discussed contentiously in our culture with the rise of controversial figures like Andrew Tate. Original piece: https://theunhappyman.substack.com/p/masculinity-and-nothingness --------------------------------------- {Podcast} Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RahulSam {Social

01:26:21

Slavoj Žižek - Only a Suffering God Can Save Us

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2023/02/19

My reading of both sections 1: Hegel and 2: Kierkegaard of Slavoj Žižek's Only a Suffering God Can Save Us: https://www.lacan.com/zizshadowplay.html --------------------------------------- {Podcast} Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RahulSam {Social

02:09:16

Jacob Bell on Heidegger, Phenomenology and Structures...

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2022/12/29

Jacob Bell is a philosopher and writer. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from American Public University and is doing his Master of Research in Philosophy at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. The working title for his dissertation is “A Phenomenological Analysis of the Structures of Meaningfulness.” Jacob’s primary academic interests include phenomenology & existentialism, which we discuss in this episode. Connect with Jacob at https://twitter.com/jacoba_bell or

00:13:27

Create Through Love (Guiding Axiom 7/7) | IR #16

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2022/12/12

“I was always disgusted with this notion of “I love the world” universal love. I don’t like the world. I don’t know how… Basically, I’m somewhere in between “I hate the world” or “I’m indifferent towards it.” But the whole of reality, it’s just it. It’s stupid. It is out there. I don’t care about it. Love, for me, is an extremely violent act. Love is not “I love you all.” Love means I pick out something, and it’s, again, this structure of imbalance. Even if this something is just a small detail… a

00:13:26

Embody Humility Without Vanity (Guiding Axiom 6/7) |...

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2022/11/19

“Our honesty, we free spirits—let us be careful lest it become our vanity, our ornament and ostentation, our limitation, our stupidity! Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; ‘stupid to the point of sanctity,’ they say in Russia,—let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores!” ― Friedrich Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil, A. 227) Original piece:

00:18:53

Never Fall In Love With Suffering (Guiding Axiom 5/7)...

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2022/11/05

“My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.” ― Søren Kierkegaard Orginal piece: https://theunhappyman.substack.com/p/never-fall-in-love-with-suffering --------------------------------------- {Podcast} Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RahulSam {Social

00:26:34

On Writing Without Lies, Machinations And Bullshit...

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2022/11/05

“Christianity protests against every form of objectivity; it desires that the subject should be infinitely concerned about himself. It is with subjectivity that Christianity is concerned, and it is only in subjectivity that its truth exists, if it exists at all. Objectively, Christianity has absolutely no existence. If the truth happens to be only in a single subject it exists in him alone; and there is greater Christian joy in heaven over this one individual than over universal history or the

00:12:43

Never Mistake Cynicism For Wisdom (Guiding Axiom 3/7)...

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2022/11/05

“But the new rebel is a Sceptic, and will not entirely trust anything. He has no loyalty; therefore he can never be really a revolutionist. And the fact that he doubts everything really gets in his way when he wants to denounce anything. For all denunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind; and the modern revolutionist doubts not only the institution he denounces, but the doctrine by which he denounces it. [...] By rebelling against everything he has lost his right to rebel against anything.”

00:10:50

Only God Can Patronise (Guiding Axiom 2/7) | IR #11

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2022/09/21

“The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky Original piece: https://theunhappyman.substack.com/p/only-god-can-patronise --------------------------------------- {Podcast} Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RahulSam {Social

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