Velvet Philosophy
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Podcast Overview
<p>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.</p>
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Publishing Since
12/2/2025
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April 9, 2026
The myth of the isolated self (On relation as the ground of existence)
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. What if the isolated self was never free? What if it was alw...
February 9, 2026
Despair is intellectually lazy (On remaining alive to possibility when the world asks you to give up)
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, how imagination itself has been colonized, and what intellectua...
January 14, 2026
Being Oracular (Learning to listen when the world is speaking)
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 wisdom can be applied to our modern lives, offering new perspectiv...
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- What is Velvet Philosophy?
<p>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.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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