Wednesday, September 30, 2020

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.

Sunday, September 27, 2020

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.)

Friday, September 11, 2020

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...

Tuesday, September 8, 2020

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.

Sunday, September 6, 2020

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?

Saturday, September 5, 2020

Being in the World podcast 019: Dreams

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

Friday, September 4, 2020

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.)

Being in the World podcast now available on Spotify!

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Thursday, September 3, 2020

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.

Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Being in the World 016: Breakups & Breakdowns

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