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Chromatic Thought Episode 1: Finding Freedom while Working for the Knife Show Notes Have you ever noticed how music can set forth this glorious feeling of freedom inside yourself? Have you ever pondered how philosophically-geared your favorite artists write their music? In this podcast episode, I analyze the singer-songwriter, Mitski’s, latest song, “Working for the… Continue reading Final Project: Chromatic Thought, the podcast

Greetings, and welcome to another installation of “making the most out of life through meals” with me, Simone de Beauvoir. A few of you have left me comments asking why I choose to bake extravagant goods every week when thinking, lecturing, and book-writing are my bread and butter. Cooking and baking are not only delicious ways to express myself, but a wonderful reminder of the philosophy we can find in… Continue reading Protocol #10: Supper with Simone, a food blog post

Contemplating life is a lot of work, and existentialism can get pretty heavy sometimes. But you know what makes everything better? Ice cream! You can learn a lot about someone by their go-to flavor.   At over 50 offerings, Ben & Jerry’s array of ice cream is bound to satisfy even the pickiest of eaters. Here’s my take on how each of Simone de Beauvoir’s existential characters would be represented by Ben… Continue reading Protocol #9: Existential Characters as Ice Cream

You know the phrase “dance like nobody’s watching”? According to the philosopher Sartre, that’s easier said than done. In his piece The Look, he describes that when we perceive someone to be looking at us, we suddenly become self-conscious of our own behaviors.  Usually, each person is in a non-thetic state of self-awareness, meaning we are aware of our consciousness, but not… Continue reading Protocol #8: Dance Like No One’s Watching

Click the expand arrows in the top left corner to view the full video in the whole browser! With the release of the IPCC report at the end of the summer came a lot of worry about our future. I’ve noticed many connections between climate anxiety, social responsibility, and philosophy since beginning to study existentialism—particularly in the readings of Jean Paul Sartre.  In thinking about nothingness and… Continue reading Climate Anguish: Protocol #7

Welcome to Nietzsche’s House of Aphorisms—let’s take a journey into the realm of existential spooks and scares you never realized you needed. It’s getting close to Halloween, and you’ve heard lore of the zany old philosopher that lives in the decrepit house down the street. This year’s the one you’ll face your fear and check it out. You climb through a… Continue reading Nietzsche’s Haunted House of Aphorisms: Protocol #5

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Alrighty, these blog posts are starting to turn into “the relationship between theatre and existentialism,” which is fun. I really enjoyed reading Camus’s passages on the actor relative to the absurd, because I had many moments of whoa connecting to my understanding of performance and creation of art. The view that acting can be a way of… Continue reading Protocol #2: The Absurd Through Theatre