Episode #243 ... Hamlet - William Shakespeare

“All many people ever do in practice is just act, then come up with a good moral reason for why they had to do the thing, and then sit around basking in some illusion about how absolved they are of any of the true complexity and fallout of what they did.”

“What if surveillance is actually a structural condition of the play itself? Something crucial to be able to understand how everything in it comes to pass?”

“her madness and her death become a kind of heroic truth in the play because they expose what the world has worked so hard to produce her to to this point, nothing.”