Solomon & Smith
Solomon & Smith discuss literature, philosophy, history, film, and the meaning of the universe.
Episodes
* Sam's full list pasted below *
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1800s - Shank's Mare - Ikku Jippensha
1810s - Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
1820s - Ballads and Romances - Adam Mickiewicz
1830s - Eugene Onegin.- Alexander Pushkin
1840s - Courtesans and Opium - The Ignoramus of Yangzhou
1850s - Moby Dick - Hermann Melvill...
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00:00 Intro
03:52 What is Canon?
05:38 Canon debates in Abrahamic Religions
08:50 How this maps onto Star Wars (in depth)
17:41 Lore, Doctrine, and Talmudic gloss
19:06 Why does Canon matter so much? Ancient Greece
24:17 The obsession with continuity and internal errors
28:47 Pirate edi...
Theo Rollason joins Milo and Jack to discuss Queer Edward II, their new film built from thirty hours of unseen footage shot during the making of Derek Jarman’s Edward II, and to trace Jarman’s film back through Christopher Marlowe to the medieval king himself. Along the way: Jarman turns Renaissance history into Thatcher-era queer politics, Marlowe makes class more scandalous than homosexuality, Tilda Swinton transforms...
00:00 Introduction
04:38 Lolita Summary
10:50 Did Epstein actually read/like Lolita?
14:32 Epstein's upbringing - boomer sexuality
19:51 Did male boomers create modern sexuality?
24:21 Differences between Epstein and Humbert
28:29 Do we all want to be children forever?
30:35 Our desires have been created for us
32:27 The modelling industry
34:55 Creation: of oneself, of others
36:30 Britney Spears, Olivia Rodrigo, Sabrina...
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Richard Barakat's *Faust the Magician* is available here: https://shorturl.at/CDWx0
See also the below discussions:
Richard Barakat: The Literary Collective (Spring 2025): https://youtu.be/rwecUdt0p28
Richard Barakat: Philosophic Dialogues from La Frontera (Spring 2024): https://youtu.be/...
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00:00:00 Intro
00:05:30 Ramon arrives - poetic epigraph
00:06:30 What does it mean for God to Speak?
00:09:47 Is Arabic Special? Is it older than Nature?
00:12:04 Is the Quran translated into Arabic from Transcendent Speech?
00:14:11 Could putting God's words in a human language degrade th...
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00:00:00 Intro
00:07:38 Why Does Consciousness Break Science
00:10:40 Is Life Special? Biophychism: Is Life Consciousness?
00:14:40 Are Observations (Quantum Physics) Dependent on Consciousness?
00:18:10 A Unique Element of Consciousness, distinguishing it from Life
00:21:25 Why is Conscio...
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Taylor returns to take Milo and Jack through ten great works of American "Gnostic" literature, beginning with Emerson’s Nature and ending, exactly a century later, with Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! Along the way: Jones Very believes himself to be Christ, Hawthorne discovers the stai...
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Solomon & Smith on Apple:
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On Spotify:
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On Amazon:
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On iHeart...
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What is a view? What is attention? Does a number become more real if it is larger? Are advertisers being ushered into a hall of mirrors? And if every video, every creator, every athlete, every billionaire, and every man on earth can be given a bigger number, have we made the world better — or simply made...
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Thinkers mentioned: Richard Dawkins, Noam Chomsky, Jerry Fodor, Charles Darwin, Paul Grice, Fred Dretske, Gottlob Frege, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Saul Kripke, Richard Montague, Iain McGilchrist, Alfred Tarski
00:00:00 Introduction
00:04:49 Knife Throwing, Other Athletic Activities
00:11:57 Poetic Epigraph
00:...
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Kirwin's article on mathematics is available here: https://kirwinhampshire.substack.com/p/the-dark-night-of-mathematics
In this episode of Solomon and Smith, Jack and Milo speak with Kirwin Hampshire, mathematics PhD and author of the Substack Ossuray Lost at Sea.
Is mathematics discovered or invented? Is ...
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1710s - Robinson Crusoe: Daniel Defoe
1720s - Roxana: Daniel Defoe
1730s - Manon Lescaut: Abbé Prévost
1740s - Pamela: Samuel Richardson
1750s - The Female Quixote: Charlotte Lennox
1760s - ...
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You can buy Igor's books directly from his publishing house here: https://songpublishing.org/?v=b6bb43df4525
In this wide-ranging conversation, artist and spiritual teacher Igor Kufayev talks with Jack and Milo about consciousness, meditation, Kashmir Shaivism (Trika Shaivism), aesthetics, creativity and the relat...
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Check out Cecily's Substack here: https://cecilycarver.substack.com/
Tremolo expertly demonstrated by Edson Lopes, who can be heard here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTBiNRT3GPM
1800s
The Earthquake in Chile - Heinrich von Kleist
1810s
Persuasion - Jane ...
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Karen Kilby is the Bede Professor of Catholic Theology at Durham University, and one of the most interesting contemporary thinkers on the Trinity, apophatic theology, and the limits of theological understanding.
In this conversation, Jack and Milo talk to Karen about whether Christians should expect to make ...
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00:00:00 Introduction
00:05:34 Jeff arrives
00:11:09 Footballers are the most complete human beings
0013:57 Do Aliens have human aesthetics? Evolution.
00:17:56 Poetic Epigraph - Goethean Darwinism
00:22:04 What is a Mind?
00:27:27 Hypnotism - Milton Erickson
00:33:34 Dreams and Time, Lucid Dreaming
00:44:50...
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In this video Adam discusses his favourite works of fiction decade by decade, starting in 1800 and going 200 years, decade by decade, until they reach the borders of our present century. If you would like to be interviewed by us about your favourite books, please send...
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Elaine Hobby is one of the foremost experts in the work of Aphra Behn: the greatest playwright of the Restoration, and one of the greatest woman writers of all.
In this conversation, Jack and Milo talk to Elaine specifically about Aphra Behn's theatre: how did it differ from her contemporaries; what made it ...
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- Our full lists are pasted below -
1970-1974
Jack's Pick: Amarcord, dir. Federico Fellini
Milo's Pick: Aguirre, the Wrath of God, dir. Werner Herzog
1975-1979
Jack's Pick: Monty Python's Life of Brian, dir. Terry Jones
Milo's Pick: All That Jazz, dir. Bob Fosse
1980-1984
Jack's Pick: Koyaanisqat...
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