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We focus on the final chapters of Dan Dennett's Consciousness Explained, where he confronts various views, figures, and thought experiments that contend that he's failed to explain the essence of consciousness: the "what it's like" element of any conscious experience that is dist ...  Show more

Jacqui rose to fame with the Australian electronic dance band Single Gun Theory (three albums '87-'94), did some one-off collaborations, and released her first solo album in 2008. After an album as CiiVE and some solo singles, she's now released her second solo album, Desiderium. ...  Show more

LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! This week the fellas read through Žižek’s Looking Awry. We’re talking anamorphosis, Shakespeare, Zeno’s Paradoxes and the end of the world. Will is in the woods, Peter is at a gathering and Michael’s cat is out of the bag. Thank you to all our fel ...  Show more

On a past Gist, we gave you drunk Shakespeare. Now, it's time to see how the bard fares when subjected to sober improvisation. (We think it was sober.) Joey Bland, Blaine Swen, and Steve Waltien join us from Chicago's Improvised Shakespeare Company. For the Spiel, WBEZ's Lauren C ...  Show more

we're plogging from our office, as it transforms into the set of the classic Shakespearean play. • Get Access To The TryPod+ on Patreon : https://bit.ly/PaTRYon New Episodes on Fridays! • Listen Everywhere: https://linktr.ee/trypod • Follow Us On Instagram: https://bit.ly/TryGram ...  Show more

In this episode, we discuss Macbeth, a work of Shakespeare’s that Jared had never read. Topic include: political propaganda, the problem of evil characters, Wicked and Darth Vader, the Great Conversation, and the Book of Job. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss thi ...  Show more