Velvet Philosophy
Velvet Philosophy is a revolt against the flattened mind. It's an invitation back to the sensuous, the mystical, and the rigorous: where we make the abstract tangible and the intellectual visceral. A sanctuary for those who refuse to be domesticated by the world.
Episodes
This is the first episode of How we stay human, a new thread of Velvet Philosophy where I sit down with people and talk about whatever's alive for them right now with no framework going in, no set of questions to get through, just curiosity and wherever it decides to lead. Being human is layered, textured, contradictory, and there are so many different ways to inhabit it. This series is about that multiplicity, one conversation at ...
We have been told that the self is a bounded, autonomous unit. That standing alone is freedom, that needing anything is weakness, that the work of a life is to become sufficient unto yourself. This is a myth with a genealogy, built carefully out of Descartes' mind / body split, Locke's proprietor of himself, capitalism's daily practice of turning your relationships into investments and your attention into a resource to be optimized...
Despair has become mistaken for intellectual depth. The more informed you are, the more you're supposed to be disillusioned, as if cynicism is the mark of truly seeing how things are. But what if this posture, this retreat into "nothing can be done," is actually a form of intellectual laziness? What if despair does exactly the work that systems of domination need it to do?
In this episode, I work through why despair serves power, ho...
In this episode, I invite you to journey with me into the realm of oracular consciousness. From the smoke-filled chambers of Delphi to the indeterminacy of quantum physics, and what it means to reclaim intuition as a disciplined, rigorous way of knowing.
We'll explore the ancient practice of deep listening and how it transcends the traditional boundaries between mind and body, subject and object, and discover how this timeless wisdo...
What if being “real” isn’t an identity but a process? This episode traces the quiet, difficult, process of unlearning the performances we mistake for identity and listening for the self that lives underneath.
This first episode of Velvet Philosophy follows a deeply personal exploration of authenticity, self-avoidance, and the internalized surveillance that shapes who we allow ourselves to be. It reflects on the...
Trailer: Welcome to Velvet Philosophy, where the abstract becomes tangible and the intellectual turns visceral. A first glimpse into a podcast exploring critical thought that hasn't abandoned enchantment.
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