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HORSES is a series of artfully crafted visual & audio essays by Michael Sorensen. Episodes cover a fascinating range of topics rooted in History, Philosophy, and Culture. Captivating and distinctively paced, HORSES offers an oasis of thoughtful storytelling in a chaotic media landscape. More at: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@HorsesOnYT Exclusive videos: www.horses.land Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/horses.ig/
Episodes
July 15, 2025 • 37 mins
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June 27, 2025 • 77 mins
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sources:
Defense of the Absolute Prohibition of Torture, Mayerfeld
Why Torture Doesn't Work, O'Mara
Torturing the Mind, O'Mara
Torture and Democ...
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April 29, 2025 • 61 mins
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sources:
Into the Wild, by John Krakauer
The Journal of Chris McCandless
The Wild Truth, by Carine McCandless
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March 13, 2025 • 57 mins
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sources:
The Effects of Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear War, A Scenario (Annie Jacobsen)
Fredric Solomon - The Medical Implications of Nuclear War (Institute for Medicine, National Academy of Sciences) (1986)
The Next Nuclear War - Kro...
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January 30, 2025 • 57 mins
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Sources:
Paul Barber - Vampires, Burial, and Death_ Folklore and Reality-Yale University Press (2008)
Elizabeth Miller - Dracula (2001)
In Search of Dracula - Raymond T. McNally and Radu Florescu
Nick Groom - The Vampire_ A New History-Yale University Press (2018)
Music via Epidemic...
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December 18, 2024 • 18 mins
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Recommended reading and sources:
"The Palliative Society" by Byung-Chul Han
"On the Heights of Despair" by Emil Cioran
"The Last Messiah" by Zapffe
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December 4, 2024 • 47 mins
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Sources:
Frank McLynn: Genghis Khan
Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Music by Edward Karl Hanson
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November 19, 2024 • 61 mins
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SOURCES:
Scott Fitzgerald's Criticism of America Author(s): Marius Bewley
A Reality Check on the American Dream in The Great Gatsby: A Textual Analysis through Strain Theories Rahul Borah
The Waste Land and the Valley of Ashes: What Remains of the American Dream Alec Leibsohn
American Dreaming: Really Reading The Great Gatsby William E. Cain
The Failure of t...
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October 23, 2024 • 42 mins
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Sources:
A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe, by Mark Dawidziak
A Psycho-Analytical Study of Edgar Allan Poe, Lorine Pruette
Music
Into the Divide - Trevor Kowalski
Stepping on Glass - Eneide
Distressed - Hanna Ekstrom
Into Open Arms - Hanna Ekstrom
Dans Les Penses - Franz Gordon
String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, K. 465 I. Adagio All...
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October 7, 2024 • 30 mins
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Sources:
The Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord
Comments on the Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord
Simulacra and Simulation, Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard in Cyberspace: Internet, Virtuality, and Postmodernity, Mark Nunes
An Illustrated Guide to Guy Debord’s ‘The Society of the Spectacle’, Tiernan Morgan & Lauren Purje
Music:
Into the Night - Fr...
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August 20, 2024 • 36 mins
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Sources:
Overview: What Is Media Literacy, Who Cares, and Why?, Gretchen Schwartz
RISE, DECLINE, AND RE-EMERGENCE OF MEDIA LITERACY EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES: 1960-2000, Ranjit...
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July 25, 2024 • 30 mins
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Sources:
Self Reliance, Emerson
Emerson and Self-reliance, Kateb
Music:
Satie - Gymnopedie No. 1 - Mira Ma
View From an Ocean Window - Staffan Carlen
Raindrop Animation - Eden Avery
Holding on to Hope - Megan Wofford
View of the Park - Roots and Recognition
Slowfly - Martin Landh
When We...
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June 25, 2024 • 40 mins
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Music:
A Way of Life - Christoffer Moe Ditlevesen
Autonomy - Jakob Ahlbom
Desert after Storm - Johan Glossner
Flowers in the Mirror - Sayuri Hayashi Egnell
Holocene - Harbours and Oceans
Bach Cello Suite No. 2 iin D Minor, MWV 1008 II. Allemande - Laura M...
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May 29, 2024 • 27 mins
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Sources:
Buero Vallejo's Interpretation of Goya's "Black Paintings”, John Dowling
The Strange Translation of Goya's 'Black Paintings' , Nigel Glendinning
GOYA: BLACK PAINTINGS, Valeriano Bozal https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/27/ma...
The Mystery of Goya's "Saturn" , Jay Scott Morgan
The Dating and Interpretation of Goya's "Disasters of War”, Jesusa Vega
Goy...
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May 9, 2024 • 37 mins
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April 16, 2024 • 28 mins
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April 2, 2024 • 29 mins
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March 19, 2024 • 36 mins
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March 13, 2024 • 69 mins
Exploring the formation and the evolution of the IRA as both a militant and political organization
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February 15, 2024 • 27 mins
Examining the role of man, nature, and philosophy in Henry David Thoreau's Walden.
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