either/or

Join us for an episode on Franz Kafka. We talk about The Departure, The Trial, The Castle and An Imperial Message among others and also discuss women in Kafka, the political and social realities of the late Habsburg monarchy, bureaucracy, freedom, messages with no content, guilt over nothing, shame, and the mystery of enjoyment. The book mentioned by Enzo at an hour and 13 minutes into the podcast is Kafka’s Other Trial by Elias Canetti.Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/either_or_pod/

Join Aidan and Helena for an episode on a contemporary philosophical problem: artificial intelligence. We talk about mathematics, descriptions of reality, whether AI can discover reality, reasoning with vs. reasoning from, AI as supplementing a missing link in our own knowledge, the problem with AI doomsday scenarios, and how we could build a world for the brain.We have sadly had some audio issues while recording this episode. We hope you can still enjoy it! Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/either_or_pod/The cover art for this episode is a stylization of Nicolas P. Rougier's rendering of the human brain licensed under GNU GPL v3.0.

"What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know." - Søren KierkegaardJoin us for our inaugural episode as we discuss the 19th-century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard and what his texts have to say about God, faith, love, irony, the ethical vs. the aesthetic life, anxiety, freedom and choice.Follow us: https://www.instagram.com/either_or_pod/The cover art for this episode is a stylization of the cover of Princeton University Press's 2013 edition of Either/Or by Søren Kierkegaard.