Live Reading of part 3 of Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totallitarianism (November 3, 2020)

In this video, I help host a live marathon-reading (nearly 12 hours) and discussion of Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism. I am joined by co-hosts Samantha Rose Hill, Lyndsey Stonebridge, Kathleen Jones, Thomas Bartscherer, and readers and conversation partners such as Seyla Benhabib, Peg Birmingham, Anne O’Byrne, Masha Gessen, Roger Berkowitz, Serena Parekh, Yasmin Sari, Roy Tsao, Robert Eaglestone, Sarah Churchwell, and many others.

INTERVIEW WITH JEFF CRILLEY ABOUT MY WORK WITH THE CELMENTE COURSE IN THE HUMANITIES (2017)

In this interview with Jeff Crilley, I discuss the Clemente Course in the Humanities (Free Minds Dallas) I directed in Dallas, Texas in 2017.

INterview with Samantha Rose Hill: Thinking in Dark Times (March 29, 2020)

In this interview, Samantha Rose Hill and I discuss the “timeless space” of the pandemic, Hannah Arendt, human dignity, reading Proust, our interdependence upon one another, what it means to appear without artifice, and the pleasures of small things.

Talk: The Symbolic Self and the Dialectic of Fashion (2014)

This is an audio recording of a talk I gave at The Sixth Annual Smoke Farm Symposium (2014) on the phenomenology of fashion. I examine the question “Why is there fashion at all?”, and I argue that fashion is linked to human embodiment and the fact that we are symbolic creatures who are oriented to aesthetic value and social creatures who are driven to conformity and distinction.