8 episodes
Suffer Map Suffer Map
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- Society & Culture
To map our suffering with thought and laughter -- this is the task we have set before ourselves. With these tools, we resist the darkness, and declare war on despair, the only true absurdity. "All things will be made new." Amen, and at each moment they are.
In this podcast, two old friends Tyler and Matthew chart the wastelands together. Their conversations move from deadly serious to absurdly funny and back again. Matthew and Tyler challenge conventional ways of thinking with philosophy, theology, and psychology, which they combine with their experience in technology and business.
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Episode 8: On the Legibility of Things
Tyler brings his reflections from James C. Scott’s Seeing like a State, and sparks a conversation about the problems inherent to making things “legible.” The notion of legibility takes the dialogue beyond the production of governmental policy, and ultimately into the very structures of language and knowledge themselves.
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Episode 7: Expertise and the Crisis of Trust
This week we discuss how the debates about expertise and fake news indicate a deeper crisis of trust in our society and its institutions.
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Episode 6: Thinking Sociologically - Outcomes Without Agents
This week we talk about how the need to assign blame obstructs our ability to think sociologically, that is, to analyze and critique societal systems. We explore how the Right particularly falls prey to the logic of blame.
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Episode 5: Knowledge and Jealousy, A Conversation with Nathaniel Perrin (PART 2)
This week we continue our conversation with Nathaniel Perrin. In part 2, we explore the need to constantly self-narrate, and its connection to pain and reconciliation.
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Episode 4: Knowledge and Jealousy, A Conversation with Nathaniel Perrin (PART 1)
Join us for a conversation with our guest Nathaniel Perrin as we discuss his work on jealousy and knowledge. Live from Sweden!
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Episode 3: Encountering Otherness
In this episode, we explore how the encounter with others is fraught with danger and anxiety, tempting us to flee the demands that the existence of other people places upon us.