been listening to shelved by genre over the past week, and i'm really enjoying it! definitely planning to check out "homestuck made this world" once i've caught up.
between the discussions you guys have had on there, and some of the themes you've explored through FatT, i'm Dying to hear you talk about philosophy more. i was pursuing a minor in philosophy before i dropped out of college, and since then it's not something i've really gotten to indulge in much. i find that a lot of people tend to either roll their eyes when the subject comes up, or else they're... kinda insufferable to talk to, because they get super condescending about it. i've never felt talked down to when listening to you, though, nor the ranged touch guys.
anyway, i guess my question is, is there anything else you release publicly that's heavy on philosophy? if not, do you think it's something you'd ever consider doing?
while i'm here: thanks for all that you & the Table Friends do! FatT has gotten me through many a soul-sucking retail shift, lol.
We get into some fun pre-socratic stuff in the next Shelved by Genre, and you could go listen to our Andor coverage on A More Civilized Age, and maybe we get into some philosophy and theory stuff in old Waypoint/Be Good and Rewatch It episodes... but by and large, not really!
And frankly, that's probably for the best: My philosophy undergrad degree is from 2007. My MA is from 2011. I left my PhD program to crack jokes about video games at Giant Bomb in 2015. It's been eight years since I was relaly tuned in. "Neuroplasticity" was still hot when I was studying theory (I believe it has faded away in prominence in the near-decade since).
All of which is to say: Friends at the Table really is the best place to hear me talk about philosophy, because it's half-remembered (and sometimes half re-researched) big ideas sharpened by collaborative play. I don't have anything smart to say about the Rhizome, but I do have Spring in Hieron. I don't really think I could put together an academic tier essay about the differences between trans-humanism and post-humanism, but you could listen to The Twilight Mirage. I don't think I've said a novel thing about Capitalism in a decade, but COUNTER/Weight (itself eight years old this year) holds up okay.
