“The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there,” Harold Pinter once wrote, and Niven’s memoir is a very glossy ethnography of the Golden Age of Hollywood. My cousin (incidental...
2018-01-14 10:16:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello lovely Patrons! Here's a brand new series about reason and rationality. This part 1 deals with what your motivations are, i.e. reasons internalism Vs reasons externalism! Enjoy!
2018-01-12 19:04:10 +0000 UTC View PostThis book was a recommendation from a friend of mine who runs a robotics company, and it’s a bit of a mixed bag. The hook is that people apparently tend to interact with computers in much the same w...
2018-01-09 14:18:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello lovely patrons! Here's the first video of the New Year - it's me going over your comments from December and looking ahead to what comes next! Enjoy!
2018-01-05 19:01:23 +0000 UTC View Post<CW for all kinds of horror associated with Witch Hunts>
Holy crap this book is excellent. It’s about the Witch Hunts of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries in Europe and the Ame...
2018-01-03 09:19:51 +0000 UTC View PostDear Lovely Patrons,
As 2017 shuffles offstage in ignominy I wanted to say thank you for your support, especially this December. It has been a very difficult month for me. You already know or can gu...
2017-12-31 19:29:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello lovely patrons! Here's a new video talking about Benedict Anderson and imagined communities, as applied to YouTube! Enjoy!
2017-12-29 19:11:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello lovely patrons! Here's a new video - it's about access to knowledge and what that might mean for our moral responsibilities! Enjoy!
2017-12-22 21:49:07 +0000 UTC View PostI had the pleasure of meeting political activist Ashton Applewhite not too long ago, the even greater pleasure of receiving a signed copy of her book, and the even greater pleasure ...
2017-12-15 21:42:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello lovely Patrons! Here's my latest book haul, loosely grouped around a theme of 'Ideas and How They're Transmitted' - hope you enjoy!
2017-12-15 19:14:30 +0000 UTC View PostHello lovely Patrons! If you missed the Patreon debacle of the last week then lucky you - it's all over now, so don't worry! No need to read any more, except that I am supremely grateful to all of you...
2017-12-13 21:48:56 +0000 UTC View PostI’m not too proud to open by admitting that there were chunks of this book that I didn’t understand because it is a tough read - especially if you haven’t read already the core texts it’s disc...
2017-12-13 10:54:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello lovely Patrons! Here's something I'm super excited to tell you about, it's very different and a bit special... I was invited to a conference in Madrid to meet academics, activists, CEOs - all so...
2017-12-08 22:23:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello lovely patrons! Here it is, the enormous project finally completed! The Philosophy of Antifa! I hope you like it!
Next series - something not political!
Hello you fantastic patrons! Here's me looking at your comments from the last month. Those of you pledging $20 or more will also find your names in this month's credits!
2017-11-24 19:08:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello lovely Patrons! Here's the second in my Philosophy of YouTube series, talking about artistic creation and communication Vs artistic expression! I think it's a distinction that has some pretty bi...
2017-11-17 19:39:13 +0000 UTC View PostThis book is great. It’s about the concept of race and how it’s used in medicine, pharmacology, and surveillance. It reminded me a lot of Falguni Sheth’s Toward A Political Philosop...
2017-11-17 12:26:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello lovely Patrons! As prior reading to my video on the philosophy of Antifa, which I'm writing, here's me discussing Mark Bray's new book! Hope you like it!
2017-11-10 19:02:36 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s amazing how thorough Said is. He seems to have read just about everybody, which has its positives and negatives for readers of this classic survey of Western attitudes towards the East. He goes...
2017-11-08 12:26:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello lovely Patrons! Here's the pilot of a new series - the Philosophy of YouTube, applying philosophical ideas to YouTube itself. I hope you like it - let me know what you think!
2017-11-03 21:50:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello lovely patrons! Here are the last few books I've been reading, including Mary Shelley, Sara Ahmed, and Noam Chomsky! Enjoy!
2017-10-28 08:11:59 +0000 UTC View PostHello lovely Patrons! As a great man once said, "Here's an Idea!" - Philosophy Tube merch.
I've been thinking for a while about the possibility of getting some, designed by a p...
Hello lovely Patrons! I promised a while ago I would update you all on my financial situation once I graduated from drama school, so here we go!
For the uninitiated: I am an actor renting and workin...
2017-10-16 10:54:26 +0000 UTC View Post[CW for discussion of rape, murder, and police violence - no graphic details]
I read this book for the first time years ago and only now revisited it with fresh eyes. Before reading it the first tim...
2017-10-14 07:22:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello lovely Patrons! Here is the fourth and final part in the 'What Was Liberalism?' series. I hope you like it - this series has been fun for me!
2017-10-14 07:16:17 +0000 UTC View PostCritchley’s goal in this book is to put forward an entirely new view of meta-ethics and then apply it to both theology and politics. Easy Peasy! The meta-ethics bits are actually quite good - he has...
2017-10-12 13:33:51 +0000 UTC View PostHorkheimer was part of the Frankfurt School, who you may have heard alluded to in dark tones by raving swivel-eyed racists, because the School features at the centre of the legendarily batshit ...
2017-10-09 19:59:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello lovely Patrons! Here's Part 3 of my 'What Was Liberalism?' series, talking about the ideology of Thatcher and Reagan. Enjoy!
2017-10-07 07:43:48 +0000 UTC View PostThis book is written around a really interesting concept: rather than a history of feminism and feminist progress it’s a history of the steps backwards taken as a result of misogynist ...
2017-10-03 08:23:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello lovely Patrons! Here's Part 2 in my 'What Was Liberalism?' series, talking about the invention of capitalism and the English Civil War leading to John Locke. Enjoy!
2017-09-30 13:49:06 +0000 UTC View Post