Mental Proliferation, with Isabela Granic

Part 6 in a series of interviews on the book I'm working on, Neither/Nor. In this episode, ⁠⁠⁠Isabela Granic⁠⁠⁠ asks about the Buddhist term "papança" and how it relates to anxiety and depression. Topics discussed: The meaning of papança or ⁠Conceptual proliferation⁠ Whether this proliferation is related to rumination, anxiety, and depression Historicization of translations How to deconstruct terms Comparing conceptual evolution with biological evolution Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer on definitions The two directions of dependent origination How and when to do conceptual genealogies like Nietzsche Metaphors as newly coined versus worn-out coins The increasing abstraction of the past few thousand years Mental proliferation within a single mind The resistance to abstraction by those who don't live in the built environment (Luria) Individualism in Montaigne and Fichte The issue of "obviousnesses" in Althusser's Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses Previous episodes: Part 5 of this series: Crises and Revolutions Part 4 of this series: ⁠Language and Experience⁠ Part 3 of this series: ⁠⁠AI and Pyrrhonism⁠⁠ Part 2 of this series: ⁠⁠⁠A Philosophical Journey⁠⁠ Part 1 of this series: ⁠⁠Causality and Conditionality⁠⁠ Clerestory by ⁠⁠⁠Bryan Kam⁠⁠⁠ • Infrequent updates at ⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠ • All my work plus exclusive content at ⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠ Show notes

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