Antiphasis
Episodes Forthcoming

Episodes

The season, §000 through §010 — each in dialogue with a thinker who got there first. New episodes arrive as the show records.

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.