{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Episode 43: Fear and Being Interested in Many Different Things (Politics &amp; Poetry) [PATREON PREVIEW]","description":"For a Halloween special, Alec and Nick take up S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard\u2019s frightening text \u201cFear and Trembling\u201d as a starting point to discuss fear as it relates to philosophy, music, film, and life. Discussing the chilling crisis of faith during Abraham\u2019s binding of Isaac and the subsequent \u201cTeleological suspension of the ethical\u201d\u2014the conversation evolves into a broader exploration of universal vs. situational fear, affects of fear vs. the motivations of fear, and the administration and control of fear in everything from the music of Scott Walker, Kubrick\u2019s The Shining, Krzysztof Penderecki, climate protesters actions toward paintings, alien surveillance, Sasquatches on the beach, and more. Ultimately, the discussion arrives at tautologies or \u201cdegree zeros\u201d of existential fear\u2014from John Cage confronting his own circulatory system in an anechoic chamber, to capitalism and environmental collapse in Lars \u201cTCF\u201d Holdus\u2019 new blogpost \u201cUndoing nihilism.\u201d&amp;nbsp; ","author_name":"Flavortone","author_url":"http:\/\/flavortone.libsyn.com\/website","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/24854688\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/ff0000\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/139333419"}