Bryan Kam

@bryankam@writing.exchange
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Writing on the origins of complexity, selfhood, modern cognition and suffering, philosophy, history of science, literature, film.
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From Zhuangzi’s Outer Chapters, written sometime in the 4th to 2nd century BC China, making a very similar argument to what I’m saying about love in Socrates:
https://www.bryankam.com/p/love-abstractedly

#philosophy #Socrates #Zhuangzi #language

Love, Abstractedly

An abstract argument against abstract arguments about love

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Love, Abstractedly

An abstract argument against abstract arguments about love

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The Birth of Logic

Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Durkheim

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The mic drop moment in Althusser's "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" (1970) #philosophy

Alexander Luria on the contingency of consciousness in Cognitive Development (1936) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Luria

#philosophy #psychology #consciousness

Alexander Luria - Wikipedia

The Buddha in The Water-snake Simile, MN 22: "What I teach is suffering and the cessation of suffering." See also Bhikkhu Bodhi (translator of this passage) on why the Buddha doesn't *only* teach suffering and the end of suffering
https://tricycle.org/magazine/i-teach-only-suffering-and-end-suffering/
I Teach Only Suffering and the End of Suffering

"Nope, I didn't (quite) say that" —The Buddha

Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
Transcript of my conversation with Cécile Embleton, my friend and co-director of Mother Vera (2024), a documentary #film about a Belarusian nun. The film is in competition at the London Film Festival next month. https://open.substack.com/pub/bryankam/p/a-conversation-with-cecile-embleton?r=447n8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
A Conversation with Cécile Embleton

Co-director and cinematographer of Mother Vera (2024) | Listen now

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I had a conversation with Cécile Embleton, co-director and cinematographer for the feature documentary Mother Vera, which is showing in Camden, Maine, and London, England at #film festivals:

- My podcast: https://pod.fo/e/26820f
- Cécile's instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cecile.embleton
- Cécile's website: https://cecileembleton.com/
- Film: https://www.motherverafilm.co.uk/
- Camden International Film Festival tickets: https://camdeniff.eventive.org/films/66bce7ae557b5c0087613443#
- London Film Festival Tickets: https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=mother-vera-lff24

Clerestory (Bryan Kam): From Literature to Lens, with Cécile Embleton

I spoke to director, cinematographer, and my good friend Cécile Embleton (instagram) about her new film ⁠Mother Vera⁠, which is playing at the London Film Festival next month.This is a feature...

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More on #Schopenhauer’s view of how #art suspends the will, which I wrote about here https://www.bryankam.com/p/dichotomies-iii #philosophy
Dichotomies III

Reality and Appearance

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