Echoes Underground
Echoes Underground
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About This Podcast
Do you ever look up from your desk and wonder what is going on? Do you yearn to pierce the veil but find yourself trapped by the mundane? You are not alone. Join our hosts (two respectable professionals) as they leave the banal light of the everyday to poke around under the bonnet.
We talk of philosophy and history, narrative and consciousness, and what we did last week and why it was actually pretty strange when you think about it. And when we’ve finished arguing about evolutionary psychology and pretending to know more about physics than we do, we sometimes - sometimes - unearth something worthwhile. For the truth is not to be found above, it is to be found below.
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New episode every time the muse descends (every couple of weeks)
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S1E45 On God
Within the frame of materialism, God does not exist, and if you remain within that frame (as our co-host did until the age of 26) then New Atheism is a compelling and comfortable philosophy. If…
S1E44 On Kitesurfing in the Western Sahara
Our co-host finds himself in the Western Sahara, the disputed and very deserty region to the South of Morocco. He’s there to kitesurf; conditions in Dakhla are perfect. The water’s flat, the wind is…
S1E43 Notes on Attending a Football Match
Our intrepid correspondent attended a football match for the first time, and discovered within himself a surprising affinity for hooliganism. It was a women’s football match, the quarter final of the…
S1E42 On Ibiza (more or less)
Ibiza is well-placed to set the stage for an Dionysian experience. It’s laced with history and mythology - there’s a Phonecian necropolis, a cave temple to moon goddess Tanit, and 500 year old forts…
S1E41 On Shamanism
Shamanism has been lurking in the background of our discussions since day one, and our “jingle” is just one of us playing a shaman drum. It was high time we had an episode on it. What is a shaman? We…
S1E40 On Berlin: Ultimate Defeat
Our co-host just got back from a work trip to Berlin, and his overwhelming impression was one of shiny scar tissue. All the buildings are new and glass and steel and modern, but the city lacks that…
S1E39 Life is Damage
In the last episode we posited that in order to achieve self actualisation, purpose, or peak experience, you have to risk your more basic needs - food, shelter, safety. We further posited that living…
S1E38 On Maslow's Hierarchy of (French) Needs
Our co-host’s eye was drawn to a weathered tome in an antiquarian bookshop: The White Monk of Timbuctoo, by William Seabrook. It promised (and delivered) the life story of a French defrocked priest…
S1E37 What do we mean by "Natural"?
One of us thought we were going to talk about the nature of nature - what is it we’re thinking about when we think about nature? The other thought we were going to talk about barefoot shoes for…
S1E36 Terry Pratchett 4: Mort (On Death and Personification)
We return to our occasional series on Terry Pratchett’s work, but with a difference. The fourth Discworld book, Mort, focuses on a personification of death. We therefore use it as a jumping off point…
S1E35 On Museums
What do we learn from a museum? What knowledge is conveyed when you look at an object? Put a bunch of school children in the Egypt room at the British Museum… are they gaining any propositional…
S1E34 Meditations on Violence
We read Meditations on Violence by Sgt Rory Miller, a US corrections officer and martial artist, discovered in some Reddit argument on martial arts. We absolutely tore through it, sub 24 hours, on a…
S1E33 On Heidegger and Modernity
Artem, guest extraordinaire, is back. He made us read Martin Heidegger’s essay The Age of the World Picture, and in this episode he achieves the impossible. Under his patient tutelage what had…
S1E32 On Opera and High Culture
Is opera the pinnacle of high culture, or a boring anachronism? One of us has enjoyed some excellent recent operas at Covent Garden, the other’s exposure to the artform was a single regrettable…
S1E31 On Bird Watching
Our co-host has experienced the first stirrings of a desire to become a bird watcher. How did this happen? He looked out of the window, and saw what he now knows to be pied wagtails. They were…
S1E30 On Competing
Why are neither of us particularly interested in competitive sport? We’re both keen if beginner jiu jitsu white belts, and the sport spends a lot of time pushing you to compete - but neither of us is…
S1E29 On Pontius Pilate
Why is Pilate the only normal human being to be mentioned in the Nicean Creed? It’s an interesting selection of detail in a short and technical statement of theological belief to focus on the…
S1E28 In Praise of Shadows
In Praise of Shadows is an essay on aesthetics by a Japanese man of letters, Junichiro Tanizaki. This was written in 1933 between the Meiji Revolution and the Second World War - the old Japan is…
S1E27 On Sacrifice
What was it like to live in a culture where blood sacrifice was a part of everyday life? Sacrifice was ubiquitous across all human cultures until very recently, but we have lost that visceral…
S1E26 On Self-Promotion
This is our 26th episode, and we have not taken a single step to promote this podcast. These things are quite a lot of effort to record, edit and release to the public, we created an entire website…
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Echoes Underground has published 45 episodes since September 2024, covering topics in History, Philosophy.
Echoes Underground is currently active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 58m.
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