Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

<p>In this podcast, I discuss the draft of the academic paper on Neither/Nor which I wrote about here, with my coauthor, developmental psychologist Dr. Isabela Granic.</p><p>This paper has been a lot of work, and we...

<p>I’m Bryan Kam. I endeavour daily to make philosophy accessible and relevant. To that end I write this newsletter and host a podcast called Clerestory. I’m also writing a book called Neither/Nor and I’m a founding...

<p>My friend ⁠Pen⁠ interviewed me about Type 1 Diabetes, which I've lived with for 38 years. </p> <p>This is the second episode, in which we focus on my current daily experience living with diabetes. We also discuss how...

<p>My friend Pen interviewed me about Type 1 Diabetes, which I've lived with for 38 years. In this podcast we speak about what diabetes is, and what what it's like to live with.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Clerestory by Bryan...

<p>I spoke to director, cinematographer, and my good friend Cécile Embleton (instagram) about her work and influences and her new film ⁠Mother Vera⁠, which is playing at the London Film Festival next month.</p>...

<p>This is a cross-post from my friend David Valerio's new podcast, Discern Earth. In it, we speak about what nature is. </p> <p>Here's David's description:</p> <p>We discuss the etymology of nature and related terms...

<p>Delia and I walked along the ⁠Parkland Walk⁠ in London with Zoom f2 recorders and lapel mics. We cover a bit about ⁠Neither/Nor⁠, as well as existentialism versus essentialism.</p> <p>The biologists I couldn't think...

<p>In this episode I spoke to Dr. Noah Martin, Director of the College of Modern Anxiety.</p> <p>We discussed the relationship between phenomenology and existentialism, and the relationship between subjective and...

<p>I spoke to Kit Tempest-Walters about his new book: Plotinus on Eternity and Time, which includes a translation and commentary of Ennead III.7.</p> <p>We discuss the challenges of translating, philosophical...

<p>It's been nearly a year since our ⁠last episode⁠, in which Maggie Appleton and I discussed why we write.</p> <p>A year is a long time in AI; has it made much progress in how it writes? Possibly not, but it has made...

<p>At the end of 2023, I asked seven people I knew to join me in a WhatsApp group experiment. Read more ⁠here⁠.</p> <p>We set up a schedule by which one of us, each Thursday, would record a (suggested) 5 minute question...

<p>At the end of 2023, I asked seven people I knew to join me in a WhatsApp group experiment. Read more here.</p> <p>We set up a schedule by which one of us, each Thursday, would record a (suggested) 5 minute question...

<p>Part 8 in a series of interviews on the book I'm working on, ⁠⁠Neither/Nor⁠⁠. In this episode, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Isabela Granic⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and I discuss:</p> Julian Jaynes The Aphoristic style of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Jaynes, and...

<p>Part 7 in a series of interviews on the book I'm working on, ⁠Neither/Nor⁠. In this episode, ⁠⁠⁠⁠Isabela Granic⁠⁠⁠⁠ asks about three thinkers that have influenced my thinking: Julian Jaynes (1920–1997), Leo Tolstoy...

<p>How do you balance your life’s purpose, your creative impulse, or your art, with the realities of life?</p> <p>Here are the final four responses I received. Thanks to Peter, Olga Yakimenko, Rainbow, and Kevin...