In their fifth episode, Ethan and Gabriel take a close look at Byung-Chul Han’s 2019 book The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present. They survey the communion of pedagogy (Simone Weil), writing methodology, Protestantism and Christian hermeneutics, worship & prayer (Kierkegaard), communication vs. community, politeness, the relationship between work and rest (Hegel & Kojève), endless conjunction vs. lingering & site (Deleuze), psychology, sovereign suicide (Schroeter & Foucault), pornography, and more.

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Gabriel Hollis – “Genesis” (https://tactileinput.bandcamp.com/track/genesis)

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In their fourth episode, Ethan and Gabriel analyze Martin Heidegger’s 1954 essay “The Question Concerning Technology.”

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The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man by Marshall McLuhan The Silent Language by Edward T. Hall Basic Writings: Martin Heidegger edited by David Farrell Krell “The Good Citizen: Kojève and the Founding Fathers” by Gabriel Hollis (link) “Romantic bureaucracy: Alexander Kojève’s post-historical wisdom” by Boris Groys (link) Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

In their third episode, Ethan and Gabriel are joined by Hudson Parris, a painter, architect, and history devotee. They begin by covering Kazimir Severinovich Malevich: his paintings, his involvement in the Russian Suprematist movement, and the impact of his ideas upon the trajectory of architectural design. They proceed to examine Malevich’s stunning 1920 essay “God Is Not Cast Down: Art, Church, and Factory,” discussing its engagement with phenomenology, sin and the Fall, metaphysics, the purpose of man, psychoanalysis, etc.

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Malevich - Black Square (link) Malevich - Arkhitektons (link) “In Search of 0,10 – The Last Futurist Exhibition of Painting” exhibition (link) Zvyano Association: Kazimir Malevich’s book (link) The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes The Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms General Introduction to a Pure Phenomenology by Edmund Husserl Lacan’s “objet (petit) a” (link) “How to Understand Lacan's Theory of the Four Discourses (feat. Samuel McCormick)” (link) Monadology by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz