Antiphasis

Philosophy · Technology · Cognition

Antiphasis

Dialectical thinking from wired brains.

antíphasis, n. — the assertion and denial of one proposition (Aristotle).

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Marble bust of Homer
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Larger than IMAX
Marble bust of Plato
§001
The Soul is the Subject
Portrait of G. W. F. Hegel
§002
With what must a Science begin?
Portrait of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (whose Principle of Sufficient Reason Heidegger airs)
§003
Heidegger's Ground — The Airing of First Principles
Photograph of Stéphane Mallarmé
§004
The Vanishing Poet
Portrait sketch of Paul Valéry
§005
Two Ways to Kill an Author
Caravaggio's Saint Jerome Writing
§006
The Author-Function
Daguerreotype of Edgar Allan Poe, author of 'The Purloined Letter'
§007
Who Speaks? The Letter and the Signifier
Photograph of Charles Baudelaire, subject of Benjamin’s study
§008
The Author of Modern Life
Engraving of Frederick the Great
§009
The Return
Portrait of Niccolò Machiavelli by Santi di Tito
§010
Kayfabe and Post-Truth Politics
Episodes Forthcoming
Marble bust of Homer
§000Larger than IMAX
With Homer · Iliad — the total picture
Soon
Marble bust of Plato
§001The Soul is the Subject
With Plato · Phaedrus, 245c
Soon
Portrait of G. W. F. Hegel
§002With what must a Science begin?
With Hegel · Science of Logic, 21.53
Soon
Portrait of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (whose Principle of Sufficient Reason Heidegger airs)
§003Heidegger's Ground — The Airing of First Principles
With Heidegger · The Principle of Reason
Soon
Photograph of Stéphane Mallarmé
§004The Vanishing Poet
With Mallarmé · → Eliot → Blanchot · the pre-history of effacement
Soon
Portrait sketch of Paul Valéry
§005Two Ways to Kill an Author
With Barthes · vs Wimsatt & Beardsley · against the Sartrean thesis
Soon
Caravaggio's Saint Jerome Writing
§006The Author-Function
With Foucault · What Is an Author? · Booth’s implied author
Soon
Daguerreotype of Edgar Allan Poe, author of 'The Purloined Letter'
§007Who Speaks? The Letter and the Signifier
With Lacan / Derrida · The Purloined Letter · Le Facteur de la Vérité
Soon
Photograph of Charles Baudelaire, subject of Benjamin’s study
§008The Author of Modern Life
With Benjamin · Baudelaire · The Author as Producer
Soon
Engraving of Frederick the Great
§009The Return
With Nehamas / Foucault · What Is Enlightenment? · the author refashioned as a self
Soon
Portrait of Niccolò Machiavelli by Santi di Tito
§010Kayfabe and Post-Truth Politics
With Machiavelli · The Prince · Althusser, Barthes → Reagan, Clinton, Trump
Soon

Public-domain portraits: Homer, Plato, Machiavelli (busts & paintings); Hegel — Schlesinger, 1831; Leibniz — Francke, c. 1695; Mallarmé, 1896; Poe, c. 1849; Baudelaire — Carjat, c. 1862; Frederick the Great — Menzel engraving; St. Jerome — Caravaggio; Valéry — portrait sketch.

Format

One long-form conversation, built in ten movements — then chopped into parcels for different channels. The two Antiphasis segments are the show's namesake: where the real disagreement, and the writing-together, happen.

01
Intro
02
Opening segment
03
Reading together
A short text goes on screen and we read it closely.
04
Writing alone
We each write alone, off camera.
05
A dialogue
We read our short writings to each other.
06
Narcissism of small differences
We find where we agree — or where we shore each other up.
07
Antiphasis
A little more critical interaction.
08
Antiphasis — writing together
Off camera, we compose a dialogue or a unified text together.
09
Open questions & next steps
10
Outro
Method

Extracosmic Commons

A semantic search engine over the show's own transcripts and sources. The hosts query it live, on air, as part of how they think an episode through — the sourcing discipline made visible, not a sponsor read.

Read how it works →

Hosts
James Wu
Philosopher

The philosopher half. Brings Plato, Hegel, Heidegger and company into the room as active interlocutors, and holds the show to seminar-grade sourcing.

Douglas Locklin
Technologist

The technologist half of the show. Builds Extracosmic Commons — the semantic search engine the hosts think through episodes with, live on air.

Recurring guests
Daniel
Recurring guest

Bio to come. Bio pending

Tony
Recurring guest

Bio to come. Bio pending

The full story →

Support

Antiphasis is independent and listener-supported. If the show is worth your time, it's worth a coffee.

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