Holiday Special 2015: Mark Lint’s “Songs from the Partially Examined Life” with Many Guest Greetings
Summary: PEL gets nostalgic, playing songs and bringing back guests from yesteryear. Both beloved former guests and some new behind-the-scenes friends of PEL chatted with Mark about what they're up to, and each of them took on a song to try to make sense of.<br> Some of the many projects we discuss include:<br> <br> * <a href="http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/product/pel-2016-calendar/" target="_blank">The 2016 PEL Calendar</a>, with sweet philosophy art by Sterling Bartlett and funny text mostly written by Wes.<br> * The <a href="http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/product/cd-mark-lint-songs-from-pel/" target="_blank">limited-edition Mark Lint CD</a> that contains all the songs you'll hear on this special. You can also get this as mp3s <a href="http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/product/songs-from-the-partially-examined-life-by-mark-lint-mp3s/" target="_blank">from our site</a> (meaning all proceeds go to PEL, and you signal that you appreciate the inclusion of music in the podcast and want there to be more) or from <a href="https://marklint.bandcamp.com/releases" target="_blank">marlint.bandcamp.com</a> as a pay-what-you-want product (which also includes full credits and lyrics, if you're interested. PEL Citizens already have access to the <a href="http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2015/12/10/songs-from-pel-mark-lint/" target="_blank">full album</a>. I've also <a href="https://open.spotify.com/user/1221341339/playlist/7GfeoIjPxtvbtV6C81Olkd" target="_blank">created a playlist on Spotify</a> that includes this whole album plus all my New People songs.<br> * Watch <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yWucHBgsE0" target="_blank">Wes's presentation on the film "Ex Machina" at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis</a> 12/1/15 on YouTube.<br> * Check out Josh Pelton's (guest from <a href="http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2011/05/25/episode-38-bertrand-russell-on-math-and-logic/" target="_blank">Ep. #38</a>) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/THUNKShow" target="_blank">"Thunk" YouTube show</a>.<br> * Read about <a href="http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/nakedrules/" target="_blank">Mark's in-development music podcast</a>, "Nakedly Examined Music": What the format is and how you can get involved.<br> * Update yourself with the current goings-on at <a href="http://www.moderndayphilosophers.net/" target="_blank">Modern Day Philosophers</a> and <a href="http://verybadwizards.com/" target="_blank">Very Bad Wizards</a>.<br> * <a href="http://music.jsegel.com/" target="_blank">Hear the latest from Jonathan Segel</a>, maybe sign up for his subscription service.<br> Witness <a href="http://www.dianaszabo.com/" target="_blank">the art of Diana Szabo</a>, who did the album's cover art or look at <a href="http://www.amirzaki.net/" target="_blank">the work of Amir Zaki</a>, guest on <a href="http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2014/12/19/episode-107-edmund-burke-on-the-sublime/" target="_blank">our ep. 107 on Burke and the sublime</a>.<br> * Read <a href="http://hilariousbookbinder.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">the words of Daniel Coffeen</a> from our <a href="http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2013/05/14/ep76-deleuze/" target="_blank">ep. 76 on Deleuze</a> or what Seth Benzell from <a href="http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2015/09/07/ep123-1-economics/" target="_blank">ep. 123</a> has to say about <a href="http://www.nber.org/papers/w20941" target="_blank">workforce automation</a>.<br> * Revisit some of the episodes that birthed these songs, like our <a href="http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2011/11/30/episode-47-sartre-on-consciousness-and-the-self/" target="_blank">ep. 47 on Sartre</a>, our <a href="http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2013/09/24/ep82-popper/" target="_blank">ep. 82 on Popper</a>, or our <a href="http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2014/09/01/ep101-maimonides/" target="_blank">ep. 101 on Maimonides</a>.<br> * Or listen to one of our audioplays: "<a href="http://partiallyexaminedlife."></a>
