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Tenacity and the Self-Preservation Four
The Enneagram SP 4 as described by Claudio Naranjo and Cristina Nadal
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Nick Barr
1:11:36
Rivalry and the Sexual Four
Part of a series of translations and close readings of Claudio Naranjo's seminal work on the Enneagram, 27 Personajes en Busca del Ser.
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Nick Barr
1:17:32
Abasement and the Social Four
Watch now | Part of a series of translations and close readings of Claudio Naranjo's seminal work on the Enneagram, 27 Personajes en Busca del Ser.
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Nick Barr
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51:07

June 2024

Dearly Missed: Envy and the Enneagram Four
Watch now | Part 1 of a close reading of Claudio Naranjo
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Nick Barr
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45:43
Unknown knowns
I encountered (through Timothy Morton’s new book Hell) this incredible passage from Slavoj Žižek about “unknown knowns”:
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Nick Barr

May 2024

Four intellectual pitfalls of understanding the real
In his critique of string theory, Graham Harman names its four mistakes, or intellectual pitfalls. They are: physicalism, smallism, anti-fictionalism…
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Nick Barr
Leave your troubles at the door
My parents are renting a flat nearby, and I guess the owner is Jewish because there’s a mezuzah on the door. Wikipedia calls the mezuzah an “apotropaic…
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Nick Barr
The Helping Relationship and its possibility of formalization
Any AI system that seriously aspires to help a client grow, learn, heal, or transform must construct some model of the client – who they are, what they…
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Nick Barr

April 2024

October 2023

July 2023

The Barrcast #55: Responding to pmarca's vision of infinitely compassionate machines
Did you know The Barrcast is also on YouTube?
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Nick Barr
23:17

May 2023

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