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December 17, 2025 67 mins

In their inaugural episode, Ethan and Gabriel discuss Amazon: its economic role and developmental trajectory, along with its reciprocal involvement in the cultivation of Western consumerism. They also talk about Alexandre Kojève’s theory of representational art and subjectivity. References: Bitter Water Opera by Nicolette Polek Underoath – Define the Great Line (2006) The Principles of Scientific Management by Frederick Winslow Taylor The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man by Marshall McLuhan Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul Han “A History of Volcanoes: J.M.W. Turner, Theory of Color, Starting Over” by Contain Podcast (link) Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit by Alexandre Kojève

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