Episode Notes

Today, we’re talking about isolation, what it means to be isolated, and whether or not isolating is even possible while living in Coronavirus Quarantine.

We discuss:

• Aristotle's Politics


• Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot


• Robert Egger's The Lighthouse


• Social Contract Theory in John Locke and Thomas Hobbes


• Akiro Kurosawa's Yojimbo


• Giorgio Agamben's "The State of Exception Provoked by an Unmotivated Emergency"


• Slavoj Zizek's Response to Agamben


• Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra


• Michelle Houllebecq


• Joan Didion's "Goodbye to All of That"

And even more! Enjoy and feel free to leave us reviews, comments, and questions.

Image: "Solitude" by Kevin Dooley (CC BY 2.0)

Music: "Sans Sans" by Rrrrrose Azerty (CC BY 3.0)