Notations

Part I: 00:00:00 – (Music: “Stillwell Ave.” by El Diablo Robotico)

00:00:27 – Welcome and Happy New Year!

00:02:41 – On Vernacular Phrases and Geography

“Wrap it up” vs. “Bag it up”

00:03:24 – On Shadow of the Colossus 

Shadow of the Colossus (by Team Ico) originally released 2005, remastered 2011
Fumito Ueda
Orpheus and Eurydice 

00:06:15 – SPOILERS (from here till end Part I) On Shadow of the Colossus, Gameplay, Ethics, and Morals

Grand Theft Auto 3 (by Rockstar)
Dionysus 
Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics
Plato. Euthyphro
Immanuel Kant. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

00:19:31 – On Gaming, Choice, Freedom, Interactivity, and Criticism

Portal (by Valve)
Ibn Rushd (Averroes). On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy
Sonic the Hedgehog (by Sega)
Sim City (by Maxis)
Flower (by Thatgamecompany)
Minecraft (by Mojang)
Tautology 

00:36:35 – On Communities, Authors, and Audiences

Communitas
Auteur Theory
Joss Whedon
J.J. Abrams
Paul Ford. “The Web is a Customer Service Medium” (aka “Why Wasn’t I Consulted?”)

00:41:16 – BREAK! (Music: “Sign of the Colossus” composed by Kow Otani)

00:41:55 – Part II: On Plato and Poetry

Plato. The Republic
Our Upcoming Course: Politics of the City: Plato and Aristotle
Homer. The Illiad
Homer. The Odyssey
Sigmund Freud. “The Ego and the Id”
Mimesis 
Akrasia (weakness of will)

00:58:39 – On Plato, the Social, and the Good

01:02:03 – On Plato, Literature, Philosophy and the Contemporary World

Oliver Sacks. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Editor’s note: I completely misidentified this as a work by Jeffrey Sachs. Pardon!)
Erich Auerbach. Mimesis
Cervantes. Don Quioxte
Gustav Flaubert. Madame Bovary
Samuel Richardson. Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady
Immanuel Kant. Critique of Judgement

1:22:57 – On Plato, Poetry and Corruption

More on Tipper Gore and the Parents’ Music Resource Center
Martha Nussbaum. Cultivating Humanity
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Technical Details: Recorded on a Samson CO1U into an msi PC running the beta version of the freeware program Audacity 1.3.13 while consuming enjoyable, yet moderate, amounts of Buffalo Trace and Bulliet bourbon, Sixpoint Sweet Action beer, and Twinings Earl Grey tea.