PAGES the Reading Group presents:

In this episode of PAGES Pod, we present the live audio from a talk delivered as part of the San José State University Philosophy Department’s Invited Speaker Series. The talk, titled “What’s Wrong with Intimacy Confining Restraints,?” is delivered by Justin Clardy, PhD—founder of PAGES TRG and Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Santa Clara University.

In the talk, Prof. Clardy examines how dominant ideals of intimacy can function as restrictive frameworks, shaping our relationships in ways that often go unquestioned. Drawing on philosophy of love, social norms, and relational ethics, the talk invites listeners to rethink what intimacy asks of us—and at what cost.

The full visual recording of the talk, including the Q&A session, is available on YouTube. We encourage you to check that out as well for the complete experience.

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This commemorative episode of the PAGES POD marks the one-year anniversary of our Fireside Chat at Santa Clara University and features a conversation on Black suffering, Afropessimism, and public emotion. The episode features Prof. Frank Wilderson III, Chancellor’s Professor of African American Studies at University of California, Irvine, in dialogue with Assistant Professor of Philosophy Prof. Justin Clardy (SCU) and doctoral candidate Kevin Morris (UMass).

The conversation examines civic indifference and the grammar of Black suffering.

This is also a moment of reflection and return. Whether you joined us live or are encountering the conversation for the first time, this episode invites you to sit with the questions that remain with us long after the conversation was had.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Civic Indifference and Black Suffering (Youtube Episode)
• Engendering Blackness: Slavery and the Ontology of Sexual Violence - Patrice Douglass
• Scenes of Subjection - Saidiya Hartman
• Black Skin White Masks - Frantz Fanon
• The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon

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PAGES the Reading Group presents Volume XXIIII:

In this Volume, we explore the 'imagination' across a wide range of contexts—how it takes shape in childhood, fuels fantasy, and orients us toward possible futures. In this episode, we consider the ethical dimensions of imagining: how our inner worlds shape our values, inform our actions, and raise difficult questions about responsibility. Can we be held accountable for what we imagine? What do our imaginings reveal about who we are and the worlds we hope for—or fear? This conversation invites listeners to think carefully about the power and consequences of the imagination in everyday life.

Mentioned in this Episode:

• Barney's Imagination Song
• "Imagining in Oppressive Contexts" - Robin Zheng
• The Color of Kink - Ariane Cruz
• "When a Man Cries" - Leon Bridges
• The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
• Other Life (Film)

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