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 Polek
Underoath – Define the Great Line (2006)
The Principles of Scientific Management by Frederick Winslow Taylor
The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man by Marshall McLuhan
Psychopolitics: 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.