The title of this episode draws inspiration from Nina Simone’s song, “Mississippi, Goddamn!”, the fire of which fuels Priya and Will as they think about intersections of grief, race, gender, oppression, and joy.
Read MoreChristen Rinaldi of Insight-Owl Counseling and Wellness discusses the fusion of Reiki and clinical mental health practice.
Read MoreAsh Canty of Sovereign Spirit Death Care talks with will about his/their calling as a Death Walker, the bigness of the One, and the beauty of all the things we can barely understand.
Read MoreKicking off Season 2, Will thinks with highly decorated poet, performer, and sound artist Dr. Jonah Mixon-Webster
Read MoreA thinking sessions for all the scholars out there. Will talks with theatre historiographer Pannill Camp about the intellectual underpinnings of his current book project.A thinking sessions for all the scholars out there. Will talks with theatre historiographer Pannill Camp about the intellectual underpinnings of his current book project.
Read MoreAn amazing linking-together of scholarly texts, close-readings of The Sopranos, and visions of a Chicago-based work of street theatre that centers the day-to-day experience of Palestinian Americans.
Read MoreHow can we get to a place where we feel sadness each time another person is hurt (regardless of that person’s race, class, or cultural background)? Listen to Greg and Will think through this question together.
Read MoreAligned with the international organization Performance Philosophy, Will helps explain the upcoming conference’s key theme: Problems. A problem is not something to be solved. Rather, it is something like the generative matrix that continues to inform all scholarly thought and/or artistic expression.
Read MoreIt is getting harder and harder to have productive, critical conversations with people who occupy different ideological stances than our own. What are we going to do about this? How can we meaningful talk with others?
Read MoreWhy are art and trauma often linked together?
Read MoreEpisode 3 of “Thinking Will”: Have you thought about how plants “perform”? If you have, have you considered not using the performance when doing your thinking? This and other ethical questions arise while thinking through the “performativity of plants.”
Read MoreA convergence of Will’s grief work and theatre scholarship. Why don’t we attend to death onstage with the same sensitivity as we attend to the death of a loved one?
Read MoreWhat will make a difference in this world so full of ignorance? Thinking Will.
Episode 1 ponders the link between pharmaceuticals, the philosophical notion of the pharmakon, and conspiracy theories.
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