Being in the World Podcast 033: On Beauty, part 1

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli discuss Roger Scruton's documentary, Why Beauty Matters, platonic ideals of beauty, and why they may be misguided; also celebrity, beauty as a commodity, and more.

Being in the World Podcast 032: On Privilege, Responsibility, & Free Will

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli take a philosophical, social and scientific approach to issues surrounding freedom of choice, morality, privilege, and lack thereof.

Being in the World Podcast 031: On Criticism

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli undertake a critique of pure criticism...what is the role of criticism in art, culture and psychology? When are and aren't critics useful?

Being in the World Podcast 030: On Psychedelics

Lucy in the Studio with Diamonds

Being in the World Podcast 029: Lucy Walker

Dr. Patrick House and Tao Ruspoli spend an hour chatting to Lucy Walker, an English film director. She has directed the documentaries Devil's Playground (2002), Blindsight (2006), Waste Land (2010), Countdown to Zero (2010), and The Crash Reel (2013). She has also directed the short films The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom (2011) and The Lion's Mouth Opens (2014) and fifteen episodes of Nickelodeon's Blue's Clues, for which she was nominated for two Daytime Emmys for Outstanding Directing.

Being in the World Podcast 028: On Boundaries

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli discuss boundaries...in science, in relationships, and in the world at large.

Being in the World Podcast 027: On Consciousness

Dr. Patrick House and Tao Ruspoli discuss consciousness: is it fundamental? how mysterious is it? Is it useful to think of it as a "dimension"?

Being in the World Podcast 026 On Social Media & Addiction

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli discuss our complex relationship to behaviors that have the potential for abuse and addiction, from sex to drugs to social media.

Being in the World Podcast 025: on Polyamory

Nastasia Celeste joins Dr. Patrick house and Tao Ruspoli (her primary partner,) in a frank, fun, and intimate discussion of the ups and downs of polyamory.

Being in the World Podcast 024: Coming Home, part 1

 

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli discuss what home means (plus beards, discipline, fire, destruction, rebirth, and more.)

Being in the World Podcast 023: On Darkness and Britney

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli discuss Britney Spears, mental health and how it is weaponized against women, death, darkness, Prince, Schopenhauer, pessimism, boredom, the need for an audience (or lack thereof,) and Viking funerals.

Being in the World Podcast 022: On Narcissism & Seduction

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli discuss mirrors, disfluencies, narcissism, seduction, Instagram, Tinder, "textual chemistry", and violations of expectati...

Being in the World Podcast 021: On Hierarchy

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli discuss violence, the importance of hierarchy in different domains, from creativity to health care to politics, & in different species, repressed homosexuality, breaking down boundaries, Bernardo Bertollucci, Bertrand Russell, fighting, and a host of other topics in this rather packed hour.

Being in the World Podcast 020: On Meaning & Perception

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli discuss whether music, color, or gut feelings happen to you or because of you. Is there such a thing as raw sensory data without interpretation and learning?

Being in the World podcast 019: Dreams

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli discuss dreams and the possibility of rationally interpreting them.

Being in the World podcast 018: Miscellanea

 

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli discuss Leonard Cohen, eloquence, language as a musical instrument, what can we learn about an artist from their artistic output, what it means to have a style, drawings from patients in 19th century insane asylums, simulation theory, neurons as puppet strings, and how the fire of the mind agitates the atmosphere (among other things.)

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Being in the World Podcast 017: Good Mourning

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli discuss politics, polytheism, pain, progress, polarization, morning, mourning, heartbreak, death, and rebirth.

Being in the World 016: Breakups & Breakdowns

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli discuss breaks, brakes, boats, rivers, metaphors, rituals, relationships, and radiators.

Being in the World Podcast 015: The Story of the I

Dr. Patrick House and Tao Ruspoli discuss narrative, truth, pornography, perception, editing, temporality, Sisyphus, The Decameron, the Bubonic Plague, and...you'll see:

Being in the World Podcast 014: On Translation

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli discuss the issue of translation...would the world be a better place if there were only one language?

Being in The World Podcast 013: On Superstition

Dr. Patrick House and Tao Ruspoli discuss superstition, fate, and our need for connectivity, causality and narrative.

Being in the World Podcast 011: Meredith Winner

On public art and The Bombay Beach Biennale

Being in the World Podcast 010: On The Musically Beautiful

It turns out Dr. Patrick House understands everything except music...(on Flamenco, Neapolitan folk music, perception of sight and sound, and more.)

Being in the World Podcast 009: On Elegance

Dr. Patrick House and Tao Ruspoli debate the concepts of social class, hierarchy, imitation and "elegance".

Being in the World Podcast 008: Rules of the Game

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli discuss the rules of the game (and what brains and cultures have to do with them.)

Being in the World Podcast 007: Daddies

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli discuss absent/mythologized fathers, daddy issues, ecstatic truths, and the male gaze. (oh, and Tao's own father's surreal orgies with Salvador Dali.)

Being in the World Podcast 006: The Sisters

Jenna and Jordan talk sibling rivalry (or lack thereof,) metal organic frameworks, breakups, and what not to do on a first date.

Being in the World Podcast 005: On Authenticity

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli on ritual, addiction, tools, forgery, & the roles we play.

Being in the World Podcast 004: On Attention

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli discuss the tension of attention.

Being in the World Podcast 003: Melody Sample

A frank and intimate discussion about Japanese rope bondage, BDSM, kink, polyamory, and a surprising new triad. 

Being in the World Podcast 002: Janie Cowan

Bassist Janie Cowan discusses her 97 year old grandfather's attempt at assisted suicide.

Being in the World Podcast 001: Beginnings

Tao & Patrick discuss origin stories, swimming with Hubert Dreyfus, and the concept of Being In The (podcast) World.