Margin for Thought

(Preview) 4. The Question Concerning Technology

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 McLuhanThe Silent Language by Edward T. HallBasic 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

(Preview) 3. God Is Not Cast Down w/ Hudson Parris

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 JaynesThe Westminster Confession of Faith and CatechismsGeneral Introduction to a Pure Phenomenology by Edmund HusserlLacan’s “objet (petit) a” (link)“How to Understand Lacan's Theory of the Four Discourses (feat. Samuel McCormick)” (link)Monadology by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

2. On Redeeming Time

In their second episode, Ethan and Gabriel discuss a new theory of originality which takes into account Kojève’s conception of history and his theory of subjectivity in representational art (covered in detail in their first episode). They also cover reading, the effects of digital media, depression and melancholia, and philosophy of history.
References:
Thomas Köner – TeimoElizabeth Colour Wheel – NoceboEssays and Aphorisms by Arthur SchopenhauerMadness and Civilization by Michel FoucaultEcclesiastes 1:9 - “That which has been is what will be, that which is done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.”“Archive Fever w/ Ruby Justice Thelot” by Contain Podcast (link)Green Morning | Eli Keszler | live @Le Guess Who? 2024 | Vrije Geluiden (link)The Count of Monte Cristo dir. Kevin Reynolds (2002)Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit by Alexandre Kojève
Thumbnail artwork by Ethan Isaac.

1. Amazon and Representational Art

In their inaugural episode, Ethan and Gabriel discuss Amazon: its economic role and developmental trajectory, along with its reciprocal involvement in the cultivation of Western consumerism. They also talk about Alexandre Kojève’s theory of representational art and subjectivity.References:Bitter Water Opera by Nicolette PolekUnderoath – Define the Great Line (2006)The Principles of Scientific Management by Frederick Winslow TaylorThe Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man by Marshall McLuhanPsychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul Han“A History of Volcanoes: J.M.W. Turner, Theory of Color, Starting Over” by Contain Podcast (link)Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit by Alexandre Kojève
Thumbnail artwork by Ethan Isaac.