Invasive Thoughts

Nicholas Bellinson and Khafiz Kerimov
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Let our thoughts invade yours. Khafiz and Nicholas teach at St. John's College, Annapolis. Follow us on Instagram: @invasive_thoughts

  1. 2 jul

    Rosanna Warren (GUEST): Sacred Cannibalism

    Join us as we ask distinguished poet, critic, and translator Rosanna Warren about her literary autobiography, the state of literary criticism, and the role of the poet-critic. Rosanna discusses her literary and painterly childhood in France and her unusual path through the academy; the capaciousness of English in particular; past literary movements like deconstruction and New Criticism, as well as the eclecticism of our current moment; and the "sacred cannibalism" of literary influence. Rosanna concludes by reading her poem "A New Year" (a "train poem", as she explains).

    Rosanna Warren (GUEST): Sacred Cannibalism

  2. 15 mei

    Miguel de Beistegui (GUEST): The Crisis of Crises

    In this episode of Invasive Thoughts, we speak with Miguel de Beistegui (ICREA Research Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra) about crisis as one of the basic conditions of contemporary life. Our present is labelled with crises of almost every kind: financial, ecological, democratic, geopolitical, migratory, public-health, economic, and technological. Moving from the financial crisis of 2008 and the COVID pandemic of 2020 to Heidegger, Mallarmé, neoliberalism, and non-Western thought, we ask what these crises reveal about the world we inhabit and the forms of thinking still prevalent among us. Beistegui invites us to think more deeply about what it means to live and act when the shared and fragile ground of our lives—the Earth itself, or Gaia—has entered into crisis.

    Miguel de Beistegui (GUEST): The Crisis of Crises

  3. 6 apr

    Emily Riehl (GUEST): Metamathematics and Infinity Category Theory

    Emily Riehl (Johns Hopkins, Mathematics) joins us to discuss the power of abstraction in mathematics. Is category theory the mathematics of mathematics? What is infinity category theory? How has the form of a mathematical proof changed over time? Can AI execute mathematical proofs? Check out Emily's game, Reintroduction to Proofs: https://adam.math.hhu.de/#/g/emilyriehl/reintroductiontoproofs

    Emily Riehl (GUEST): Metamathematics and Infinity Category Theory

  4. 10 mrt

    Peter Fenves (GUEST): Kant's Rational Delusions

    Peter Fenves (Northwestern) poses some unexpected questions relating to Immanuel Kant’s thought. How does politics emerge from a shortage of space? Should we understand humans as two-dimensional rather than three-dimensional creatures? Why do we so often desire to fly? Is the moral destiny of humanity to give way to a new species of rational beings on Earth? Is Nicholas delusional? (Listen at minute 53.) Finally, we consider what disappointed Walter Benjamin in Kant’s writings on history and how Benjamin’s critique reframes the Enlightenment conception of science.

    Peter Fenves (GUEST): Kant's Rational Delusions

  5. 8 feb

    Sean Kirkland (GUEST): Nietzsche and Heidegger at the End of Metaphysics

    Is Nietzsche a philosopher or an anti-philosopher? Is Western philosophical thought one monolithic tradition? Sean Kirkland (DePaul Philosophy) joins us to discuss the position of such "threshold" thinkers as Plato and Aristotle on one hand and Heidegger and Nietzsche on the other. He also relates what he learned by translating Nietzsche for the new Stanford translation of the Complete Works. (This includes Nietzsche's punctuation habits: Sean counts 13 colons in one sentence from Nietzsche's drafts and 91 exclamation marks in The Birth of Tragedy.) Along the way, we return to the Greeks and the tragic vision of the world captured in Aristotle’s philosophy.

    Sean Kirkland (GUEST): Nietzsche and Heidegger at the End of Metaphysics

  6. 27 jan

    Jon Cogburn (GUEST): Bridging the Continental-Analytic Divide; Paradoxico-Metaphysics; and, Panpsychism, or, are all things Mind?

    In this episode of Invasive Thoughts, we’re joined by Jon Cogburn, Chair of Philosophy at Louisiana State University. Jon sketches a history of the Continental–Analytic divide in American philosophy and suggests what it might take to bridge it today. Jon explains how more than one metaphysics could be true at the same time, and how even a self-contradictory metaphysics could be true. We go on to discuss contemporary philosophy’s attraction to set theory; the flat ontologies of Graham Harman and Tristan Garcia; ancient and contemporary forms of panpsychism; and, along the way, why philosophers so often find themselves at odds with administrators. We talk about the religion of Silicon Valley, philosophy’s relationship to popular culture (Jon has co-authored a book on philosophy and Dungeons & Dragons), and finally Jon’s Buddhism and how it informs his philosophical outlook.

  7. 20 jan

    David Wellbery (GUEST): Goethe, the Age of Goethe, and World Literature

    David Wellbery (UChicago German, Social Thought) joins us to discuss Goethe's work, life, and milieu. He describes Goethe's position at the center of an intellectual and artistic world which included Schiller, Hölderlin, Fichte, Hegel, Schelling, the Schlegels, the Humboldts, and many other intellectual and scientific figures of the period. He also explains some of Goethe's administrative responsibilities, carried out with incredible energy and efficiency: from the oversight of the University of Jena to the directorship of a mining operation in Weimar. This episode will give listeners a sense of Goethe's astonishingly various achievements in literature and natural philosophy. David also describes his own hopes for the humanities via an idea of world literature.

    David Wellbery (GUEST): Goethe, the Age of Goethe, and World Literature

  8. 14 jan

    Richard Strier (GUEST): Shakespeare, Herbert, Jarrell, Dylan

    Richard Strier (UChicago English, emeritus) recites the poem that changed his career, explains why formalism and historicism should be friends, offers us a way of reading George Herbert’s “Love” (III) and lets us in on a current argument with a friend about a Bob Dylan song.

    Richard Strier (GUEST): Shakespeare, Herbert, Jarrell, Dylan
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Let our thoughts invade yours. Khafiz and Nicholas teach at St. John's College, Annapolis. Follow us on Instagram: @invasive_thoughts

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  • Maker
    Nicholas Bellinson and Khafiz Kerimov
  • Jaren actief
    2025 - 2026
  • Afleveringen
    17
  • Beoordeling
    Veilig
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    © Nicholas Bellinson and Khafiz Kerimov
  • Website van aflevering
    Invasive Thoughts

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