Diaries with Debby Friday

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An experimental podcast by esoteric superstarrr DEBBY FRIDAY where she explores different topics in philosophy, spirituality, history, culture and technology. ⭐️📕🫀🪽 join the patreon for exclusive content: patreon.com/debbyfriday substack: debbyfriday.substack.com/ instagram: instagram.com/debbydiaries000/ | instagram.com/debbyfriday/

  1. Jul 12

    on self-respect: giving us back to ourselves

    talking about self respect, Joan Didion, integrity, ego structures, fall from grace, Theodor Adorno, Zizek, capitalist ideologies, saying yes, saying no, processes of transformation and more. ----------------- [00:00:00] - Introduction [00:01:39] - Falls from Grace [00:08:25] - Capitalism + Learned Helplessness [00:09:44] - Joan Didion on Character and Responsibility [00:10:16] - Integrity as the Foundation of Self-Respect [00:14:09] - The Power of Saying No [00:23:34] - Rejection, Self Work & Togetherness -------------- Music: Symphony No. 3 in A minor, MOVEMENT III, Op. 56 - Felix Mendelssohn   On Self Respect by Joan Didion https://sites.gatech.edu/alexburgin/on-self-respect-by-joan-didion/   The Culture Industry - Theodor Adorno https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85812.Dialectic_of_Enlightenment   Julian de Medeiros Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@julianphilosophy   the artist at the end of the world https://youtu.be/zVfTPjCpfuw?si=aQQ1ybxguIqBb6LZ   starrr shaped: outsiderness and how to heal the experience of fundamental rejection https://youtu.be/8igZKf1Iww4?si=8j5oxqhMkgCR17hH --------------- join the patreon for exclusive content: patreon.com/debbyfriday substack: https://debbyfriday.substack.com/ instagram: @debbydiaries000 | @debbyfriday goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/182402410-debby-friday spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2kpYnGmXmvv45isRxb9HAP?si=082c0f566e1e46f5

  2. Jun 14

    god comes to those who give up: on surrender and emptying out

    talking about desire, suffering, tanha, chanda, what is "right" for us, how to get what you want, surrender, emptying out, Wu Wei and gift giving. ---------------- [00:00:00] Introduction [00:01:10] Desire as a part of life [00:04:09] On right living [00:06:12] Letting go of the imaginary [00:15:06] Effortless action and the Wu Wei principle [00:18:38] Closing thoughts ---------------- Music: Litvinovsky - Tales of the Magic Tree: IV. Spider Knows His Craft   I and Thou by Martin Buber https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/551866.I_and_Thou   Rudolf Steiner - Art As A Bridge Between The Sensible And The Supersensible https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA190/English/Singles/19190330p01.html   Waiting For God by Simone Weil https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88329.Waiting_for_God?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=rhhJMqKSX7&rank=1   Love in The Void by Simone Weil https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36095488-love-in-the-void?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=hXwuyZ4PDq&rank=1   The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property by Lewis Hyde https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56472.The_Gift?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=SzRVH8edsG&rank=1 ----------------- join the patreon for exclusive content: patreon.com/debbyfriday substack: https://debbyfriday.substack.com/ instagram: @debbydiaries000 | @debbyfriday  goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/182402410-debby-friday spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2kpYnGmXmvv45isRxb9HAP?si=082c0f566e1e46f5

  3. May 4

    you'll always be famous: on the spectacle of it all

    talking about fame and spectacle, Lena Dunham's new memoir "Famesick", Guy Debord, mental health and trauma, virality, narcissism and why everyone wants to be famous.  ------------- [00:00:00] Introduction [00:01:30] Lena Dunham's memoir, "Famesick" [00:04:31] Fame in History and Modernity [00:14:21] The democratization of fame and The Society of The Spectacle [00:20:53] Why Does Everyone Want to be Famous? [00:32:38] Parasocial relationships and digital reality [00:38:15] Closing thoughts -------------   Music: Dvořák's String Quartet No. 12 (American), Mov. III, Op. 96   The Society of The Spectacle by Guy Debord https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/381440.The_Society_of_the_Spectacle   Famesick by Lena Dunham https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52545816-famesick?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_8 —---------------  join the patreon for exclusive content: patreon.com/debbyfriday substack: https://debbyfriday.substack.com/ instagram: @debbydiaries000 | @debbyfriday  goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/182402410-debby-friday spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2kpYnGmXmvv45isRxb9HAP?si=082c0f566e1e46f5

  4. Mar 31

    body technology: what does it mean to be human in a digital world?

    talking about the body and technology, social media, Marshall McLuhan, looksmaxxing, the economy, Toby Shorin's "Body Futurism" essay, and what does it mean to be human in an electric world? ----------------------------   [00:00:00] Introduction [00:03:00] Marshall McLuhan and "The Medium is the Message" [00:06:12] What does the medium of social media produce in us?     [00:07:40] Pillar 1: Attention as the central economic unit     [00:09:09] Pillar 2: Collapse of context via endless scroll     [00:11:40] Pillar 3: Dominance of the image over experience     [00:14:05] Pillar 4: Identity as a modular and public [00:15:46] Technology as an extension of the body [00:19:48] Toby Shorin's "Body Futurism" and the new body economy [00:27:07] The "looksmaxxing" industrial complex [00:38:02] Finding hope in the return to the body ------------------------------------------------- Music: Danse Macabre - Camille Saint-Saëns The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25955.The_Medium_is_the_Massage   Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126274.Understanding_Media   "Body Futurism" by Toby Shorin https://writing.tobyshorin.com/body-futurism/   A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6748.A_Supposedly_Fun_Thing_I_ll_Never_Do_Again?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_12 —--------------- join the patreon for exclusive content: patreon.com/debbyfriday substack: https://debbyfriday.substack.com/ instagram: @debbydiaries000 | @debbyfriday  goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/182402410-debby-friday spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2kpYnGmXmvv45isRxb9HAP?si=082c0f566e1e46f5

  5. Feb 13

    the artist at the end of the world

    talking about art vs entertainment, industry and its economic structures, rupture, Mark Carney, truth, beauty, Hannah Arendt,  Theodor Adorno, why the artist must be a thinker, Simone Weil, and moreeee. --------------------------- Cover Image: Dallas, Texas, USA, 1981 (photography by Alex Webb) Intro Music By: Por Una Cabeza - 4Cellists Mark Carney Davos Speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFBkNX1-cbg Between Past and Future by Hannah Arendt https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/127226.Between_Past_and_Future Theodor Adorno, The Culture Industry https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85812.Dialectic_of_Enlightenment FKA twigs on falling in love with techno and the pressures of performing https://youtu.be/HqK6tW_KGws?si=z5rVp-kRQIzxoQD2 Love in The Void: Where God Finds Us by Simone Weil https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36095488-love-in-the-void ---------------------------------- join the patreon for exclusive content: patreon.com/debbyfriday substack: https://debbyfriday.substack.com/ instagram: @debbydiaries000 | @debbyfriday  goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/182402410-debby-friday spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2kpYnGmXmvv45isRxb9HAP?si=082c0f566e1e46f5

  6. Jan 19

    void space: logging off and being online

    talking about logging off, being online, history of the internet, in-between-ness, TikTok, Solvej Balle's "On The Calculation of Volume I", unreality, social media, time loops and moreeeee. ------------------------------- Cover Photo: https://pin.it/5rYiwdhyD Music: Lady Macbeth - Justin Allan Arnold Alex Beightol (on Tik Tok) https://www.tiktok.com/@abaetol On The Calculation Of Volume I by Solvej Balle https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/208511270-on-the-calculation-of-volume-i ---------------------------- join the patreon for exclusive content: patreon.com/debbyfriday substack: https://debbyfriday.substack.com/ instagram: @debbydiaries000 | @debbyfriday goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/182402410-debby-friday spotify playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2kpYnGmXmvv45isRxb9HAP?si=082c0f566e1e46f5

  7. 12/29/2025

    what's the point?: the work of your life

    talking about finding meaning, the development of the soul, potential, unreality, work and labour, David Graeber, financialization, abstraction, the AI economy, Simone Weil, and how to make your work the work of your life, etc. ------- Music: The Marriage of Figaro - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Artwork: https://ca.pinterest.com/pin/25614291624353854/   Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6617037-debt   Something Ominous Is Happening In The AI Economy, written by Rogé Karma https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/2025/12/nvidia-ai-financing-deals/685197/   -------- join the patreon for exclusive content: patreon.com/debbyfriday substack: https://debbyfriday.substack.com/ instagram: @debbydiaries000 | @debbyfriday goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/182402410-debby-friday spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2kpYnGmXmvv45isRxb9HAP?si=082c0f566e1e46f5

  8. 12/28/2025

    p is for power: choosing real life over the simulacra

    talking about power, fear, eros, Thanathos, that Goon Squad article, the financialization of art, everything being a casino, derivatives, abstraction, knowing thyself, AI, Marion Woodman's Addiction to Perfection, ego death, simulacra and simulation, goodness, concretizing, hope frequencies, etc. ----- texts mentioned in this episode: Addiction To Perfection: The Still Unravished Bride by Marion Woodman: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/703515.Addiction_to_Perfection "The Goon Squad" by Daniel Kolitz for Harper's Magazine: https://harpers.org/archive/2025/11/the-goon-squad-daniel-kolitz-porn-masturbation-loneliness/ "The Same Stream Twice" by Rob Arcand for N+1 Magazine: https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-same-stream-twice/ Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22613.Simulacra_and_Simulation Teal Swan, "How To Get Over The Fear Of Responsibility": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmI6ubZEB9U ----- join the patreon for exclusive content: patreon.com/debbyfriday substack: https://debbyfriday.substack.com/ instagram: @debbydiaries000 | @debbyfriday goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/182402410-debby-friday spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2kpYnGmXmvv45isRxb9HAP?si=082c0f566e1e46f5

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An experimental podcast by esoteric superstarrr DEBBY FRIDAY where she explores different topics in philosophy, spirituality, history, culture and technology. ⭐️📕🫀🪽 join the patreon for exclusive content: patreon.com/debbyfriday substack: debbyfriday.substack.com/ instagram: instagram.com/debbydiaries000/ | instagram.com/debbyfriday/

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