History of Philosophy Audio Archive

#178a David Foster Wallace: The Complete Audio Archive of Interviews, Speeches, and Public Appearances (Winter Solstice Special - Part 1 of 2)

Support this work on Patreon [https://patreon.com/c/hemlockpatreon] Read the full write-up on this archive on William Engels's Substack, Hemlock. [https://williamengels.substack.com/] Part 1 of 2: We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter singularity: that we are the only one in the house who ever fills the ice-cube tray, who unloads the clean dishwasher, who occasionally pees in the shower, whose eyelid twitches on first dates; that only we take casualness terribly seriously; that only we fashion supplication into courtesy; that only we hear the whiny pathos in a dog's yawn, the timeless sigh in the opening of the hermetically-sealed jar, the splattered laugh in the frying egg, the minor-D lament in the vacuum's scream; that only we feel the panic at sunset the rookie kindergartner feels at his mother's retreat. That only we love the only-we. That only we need the only-we. Solipsism binds us together, J.D. knows. That we feel lonely in a crowd; stop not to dwell on what's brought the crowd into being. That we are, always, faces in a crowd." -Westward The Course Of Empire Takes Its Way", Girl With Curious Hair In an act of desperate folly, I have collated (by my count, which could be wrong) twenty-nine different recordings of DFW, (29!) - and placed them in as strict a chronological order as the otherwise-degraded catalogues of 90s and 00s public radio metadata will allow. There are various (much older) DFW audio archive projects - which I have used to make this - but they are half the size/accuracy/detail of THIS behemoth. May its 14 hour bulk guide you through the 14-hour night of the Winter Solstice. Depending on latitude. If you listen to this, you are empowered to say with a straight face that you have heard every interview that David Foster Wallace ever gave. This is my holiday gift to all of you, and my sign-off for the year, as I head home for Christmas. Enjoy. Music Credits: Creative Commons: Chopin, Raindrop Prelude Op 28 No 15, CC-0 performed by Rousseau (YouTube [https://youtu.be/HVau-JRGirg])

#178b David Foster Wallace: The Complete Audio Archive of Interviews, Speeches, and Public Appearances (Winter Solstice Special - Part 2 of 2)

Support this work on Patreon⁠ [https://patreon.com/c/hemlockpatreon] ⁠Read the full write-up on this archive on William Engels's Substack, Hemlock.⁠ [https://williamengels.substack.com/] Part 2 of 2: We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter singularity: that we are the only one in the house who ever fills the ice-cube tray, who unloads the clean dishwasher, who occasionally pees in the shower, whose eyelid twitches on first dates; that only we take casualness terribly seriously; that only we fashion supplication into courtesy; that only we hear the whiny pathos in a dog's yawn, the timeless sigh in the opening of the hermetically-sealed jar, the splattered laugh in the frying egg, the minor-D lament in the vacuum's scream; that only we feel the panic at sunset the rookie kindergartner feels at his mother's retreat. That only we love the only-we. That only we need the only-we. Solipsism binds us together, J.D. knows. That we feel lonely in a crowd; stop not to dwell on what's brought the crowd into being. That we are, always, faces in a crowd." -Westward The Course Of Empire Takes Its Way", Girl With Curious Hair In an act of desperate folly, I have collated (by my count, which could be wrong) twenty-nine different recordings of DFW, (29!) - and placed them in as strict a chronological order as the otherwise-degraded catalogues of 90s and 00s public radio metadata will allow. There are various (much older) DFW audio archive projects - which I have used to make this - but they are half the size/accuracy/detail of THIS behemoth. May its 14 hour bulk guide you through the 14-hour night of the Winter Solstice. Depending on latitude. If you listen to this, you are empowered to say with a straight face that you have heard every interview that David Foster Wallace ever gave. This is my holiday gift to all of you, and my sign-off for the year, as I head home for Christmas. Enjoy. Music Credits: Creative Commons: Chopin, Raindrop Prelude Op 28 No 15, CC-0 performed by Rousseau (⁠YouTube⁠ [https://youtu.be/HVau-JRGirg])

SAURON, INCORPORATED: A Corporate History of Palantir - Part 2: CEO Alex Karp, or Evil Genius Adult-Baby Demands New Cold War

SOCIALS Will’s Patreon - patreon.com/c/hemlockpatreon [https://patreon.com/c/hemlockpatreon] Will’s Substack (Hemlock) - williamengels.substack.com [https://williamengels.substack.com/] Bad Role Models on YouTube: youtube.com/@hemlock-yt [youtube.com/@hemlock-yt] The Big BRM Playlist on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5grdHKy2j8Q&list=PLquDkMe1Ccq_oJxn1kPxkFuLenhQL1Fta] Bad Role Models is a co-production of Richard Sinex, Thomas Vanek, and William Engels. ERRATA: I said "Nicholas Drake" when I meant "Thomas A. Drake" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_A._Drake] the pre-Snowden NSA whistleblower who condemned Stellar Winds [https://legalclarity.org/the-stellar-wind-program-and-domestic-surveillance/] (I said "Solar Winds") and the Trailblazer Project [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trailblazer_Project] as unconstitutional. REFERENCES * The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West by Nicholas W. Zamiska and Alexander C. Karp * The Philosopher in the Valley: Alex Karp, Palantir, and the Rise of the Surveillance State by Michael Steinberger * The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power by Max Chafkin * Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice by Virginia Roberts Giuffre * The Collapse of Complex Societies: New Studies in Archaeology by Joseph A. Tainter * Total Information Awareness (US Domestic Surveillance Proposal) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Information_Awareness] * Machines of Loving Grace [https://open.spotify.com/episode/0lv2cv334iCOEA3K4ozS96?si=2cd5ba024ef64940] (Hemlock Podcast Episode)

SAURON INCORPORATED: A Corporate History of Palantir (feat. the Bad Role Models) Part 1: Peter Thiel Crawls Out of an Apartheid-Era Uranium Mine and into the White House

SOUND CREDIT: The Chamber Stage (YouTube) [https://youtu.be/nwbkNz_lOHo] Support the boys (Thomas Vanek & Richard Sinex) and I on Patreon and YouTube: https://patreon.com/c/hemlockpatreon [https://patreon.com/c/hemlockpatreon] https://www.youtube.com/@hemlock-yt [https://www.youtube.com/@hemlock-yt] Because someone will ask: the Nixon tape is from Feb 1st 1972 and features the Reverend Billy Graham giving his fascinating interpretation of the Jewish Question in the Oval Office. Nixon concludes (its' a little garbled on the tape) by saying "I believe it. I can't say it but I believe it." https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/662/conversation-662-004 [https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/662/conversation-662-004] The books in question are "The Contrarian" by Max Chafkin (the better book, for the record) and "The Philosopher in the Valley" by Michael Steinberger.

Escape from the TechnoSphere feat. Jacob Ward: Sam Altman, AI Girlfriends, Karp and Thiel, the Dubious Hobbits of Palantir, Jevon's Paradox, and The Unstoppable Onslaught of Clanker-Made Slop

Looks like we're stuck with the Bad Elves, Frodo. You can find Jake’s work on his website [https://www.theripcurrent.com/], (The Rip Current) and you can find his podcast (same name) on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube. His 2022 book The Loop: How Technology is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back is available on Amazon [https://a.co/d/g6vJ2DP]. He also writes under The Rip Current on Substack: https://theripcurrent.substack.com/ [https://theripcurrent.substack.com/] Support my work and keep this channel alive on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/HemlockPatreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/HemlockPatreon]