Diaries with Debby Friday

in order to have taste, you have to know what is Good

talking about how to develop good taste, art, aesthetic discernment, Pierre Bourdieu, Theodor Adorno, attention, capitalism, virtue, Iris Murdoch, Simone Weil, goodness,

talking to Mike Stenbæk about human design

talking about human design, mysteries of the universe, yin and yang, what to do with The Answers, individuality and turning towards the Self, 2027, the Late Bronze Age Co

what is right for us?: on commitment and wholeheartedness

talking about wholeheartedness, commitment, hypocrisy, how to know what is right for you, fetish objects, letting go, Hesse's Siddhartha, oneness, and more. —----------

on self-respect: giving us back to ourselves

talking about self respect, Joan Didion, integrity, ego structures, fall from grace, Theodor Adorno, Zizek, capitalist ideologies, saying yes, saying no, processes of tra

god comes to those who give up: on surrender and emptying out

talking about desire, suffering, tanha, chanda, what is "right" for us, how to get what you want, surrender, emptying out, Wu Wei and gift giving. ---------------- [0

you'll always be famous: on the spectacle of it all

talking about fame and spectacle, Lena Dunham's new memoir "Famesick", Guy Debord, mental health and trauma, virality, narcissism and why everyone wants to be famous.  

body technology: what does it mean to be human in a digital world?

talking about the body and technology, social media, Marshall McLuhan, looksmaxxing, the economy, Toby Shorin's "Body Futurism" essay, and what does it mean to be human i

the artist at the end of the world

talking about art vs entertainment, industry and its economic structures, rupture, Mark Carney, truth, beauty, Hannah Arendt,  Theodor Adorno, why the artist must be a th

void space: logging off and being online

talking about logging off, being online, history of the internet, in-between-ness, TikTok, Solvej Balle's "On The Calculation of Volume I", unreality, social media, time

what's the point?: the work of your life

talking about finding meaning, the development of the soul, potential, unreality, work and labour, David Graeber, financialization, abstraction, the AI economy, Simone We

p is for power: choosing real life over the simulacra

talking about power, fear, eros, Thanathos, that Goon Squad article, the financialization of art, everything being a casino, derivatives, abstraction, knowing thyself, AI

starrr shaped: outsiderness and how to heal the experience of fundamental rejection

talking about being an outsider, social rejection, difference as a gift, Madonna, Carl Jung, Marion Woodman, the parable of the talents, taking responsibility for your li

resist the slop: a spiritual antidote to nihilism

talking about definitions of slop, nihilism, the Charlie Kirk spectacle, internet and technology, Rudolf Steiner, Mark Fisher, complexity, hope frequencies, fear, entropy

pivot points: the art of transformation

talking about pressure, transformation, suffering as fuel, answering The Call, superposition and quantum mechanics, making a choice, Sartre, letting go, and some updates

everything is remix: on stuck culture, feelings, frequency and the future

talking about stuck culture, mimetic madness, human design, the death of monoculture, resonance as the future of the arts, Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, Marshall McLuhan, innovatio

the art of being misunderstood

talking about the fear of perception, the beauty in being misread and how to be true. --------   join the patreon for exclusive content: patreon.com/debbyfriday s