Notes

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  1. The Crowd, the Child, and the They-Self

    The watching crowd as Heidegger's they-self, and the child who says what everyone sees.

    An empty crowned royal robe leads a procession while a child looks on
  2. Peep Show and the Comedy of Bad Faith

    The show's first-person camera as phenomenology, and Mark and Jeremy as Sartrean conflict and Beauvoirian reciprocity.

    First-person view of two pairs of feet in a flat beneath fractured profiles
  3. Bad Faith and the Stories We Tell Ourselves

    Brad Stand's Shania Twain story as bad faith, and what is left when it stops working.

    A faceless businessman seated beside an empty chair and a sandwich
  4. The Failure of Divided Reason

    Why Kant's split between public and private reason leaves the Enlightenment open to the power it questions.

    Dark geometric blocks facing a bright abstract cityscape