Episode Notes Today, we’re talking about isolation, what it means to be isolated, and whether or not isolating is even possible while living in Coronavirus Quarantine.

We discuss:

  • Aristotle's Politics
  • Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
  • Robert Egger's The Lighthouse
  • Social Contract Theory in John Locke and Thomas Hobbes
  • Akiro Kurosawa's Yojimbo
  • Giorgio Agamben's "The State of Exception Provoked by an Unmotivated Emergency"
  • Slavoj Zizek's Response to Agamben
  • Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra
  • Michelle Houllebecq
  • Joan Didion's "Goodbye to All of That"

And even more! Enjoy and feel free to leave us reviews, comments, and questions.

Image: "Solitude" by Kevin Dooley (CC BY 2.0)

Music: "Sans Sans" by Rrrrrose Azerty (CC BY 3.0)