The Stubborn Fellows
The Stubborn Fellows
Stubborn Fellows
"I must have had a feeling since I was a kid about these axial lines which made me want to have my existence on them, and so I have said ‘no’ like a stubborn fellow to all my persuaders, just on the obstinacy of my memory of these lines, never entirely clear.” - from Saul Bellow's 'The Adventures of Augie March'
019: A House of Merchandise
Duncan and Cameron discuss the attention-economy-invaded world in part 1, and read from the Gospel of John ("the bible for half-hearted atheists!") for a Good Friday episode.
Apr 19, 2022
1 hr 43 min
018: Tunneling Out
The boys return after a long winter.
Apr 4, 2022
55 min
017: Findings (w/ Grant)
Friend of the show Grant sits in to discuss some of the terms loosely developed thus far, the powerful implications of reframing our thinking about the information space, and whether the promise of the 60s has truly been lost.
Dec 14, 2021
1 hr 30 min
016: Turtles
How did we get here to this moment? A game of questions gives way to a game of nonsense. The price of milk and climate change are discussed. Discursiveness and recursion abound.
Dec 6, 2021
1 hr 53 min
015: The Zero-th Sense
What is the real prize? What can we feel without knowing? Why does language fail the Big Questions? An episode that hits the ground running and goes places it's hard for even your hosts to keep track of.
Nov 29, 2021
2 hr 16 min
014: Goodness and Badness
A pivotal conclusion about faith is reached. A technology we're in need of. The process of making a piece of visual art begins the discussion.
Nov 22, 2021
1 hr 54 min
013: Information Space
We now live in a way that is completely foreign to the experience of our bodies in contiguous, normal space-time. What does it mean to live in the information space? How is it good and bad? What lays beyond the reductive mindset of thinking of smartphones/the internet as "just a tool"?
Nov 15, 2021
2 hr 16 min
012: The Forensic Now
What's available to you in the moment? What can you see, smell, or touch? What is this math that infects the daily rhythm of our lives, that puts the "me" in meaning all the time? Cameron and Duncan talk recursiveness, a distaste for NFTs and the phrase "time is money," and many things as they end miles away from where they started, without leaving the room.
Nov 8, 2021
2 hr 20 min
011: The Fallen Place
Cameron and Duncan discuss taste, opinion, and perception in regard to the way we go about our lives, and dig deep into their respective tendencies in conversation.
Nov 1, 2021
2 hr 6 min
010: The I and the Me
Cameron calls Duncan in for a midweek episode to discuss the self, or the lack thereof.
Oct 29, 2021
2 hr 8 min
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