Episode 133: Air

In episode 133 of Overthink, Ellie and David close out their four-part series on the elements with air. They consider Anaximenes of Miletus’s claim that all things are made of air, why Luce Irigaray believes air has a connection to femininity, and how the invitation of air as a weapon of battle forever changed warfare. What can The Last of Us tell us about the inescapability of air? Why might some philosophers think the soul is made of air? How does air allow itself to be forgotten?