Alex Ebert
Multiplatinum songwriter and Golden Globe-winning film composer turned philosopher based in New Orleans, author of the forthcoming Dead Cool and a featured guest discussing the philosophy of cool.
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Jun 11, 2021 • 1h 59min
Strange Attractor Roundtable Ep 3: The Philosophy of Cool
Thomas Hamelryck, a bioinformatics lecturer with an interest in René Girard, brings academic and mimetic theory angles. Alex Ebert, multiplatinum songwriter turned philosopher, discusses cool as attentional strategy. They debate attention math, occlusion and status, shamanic sovereignty versus individualism, media eternalization, normcore recuperation and how cool survives or collapses over time.
