ALWAYS STOPPING TO EXPLORE VAGUE MOUNTAIN WAVES OF ADVENTURE BY LETTING THE HORIZON BE WHAT IT IS (BISEXUAL ALPINISM) 0:34 - the weirdness of arriving (on an adventure) 1:24 - exploration as return, as love, as horizon 2:07 - why leave home? type 1 vs. type 2 (fun) 3:50 - 'I wish I was anywhere else' 4:24 - 'are climbers lying to each other?' 5:48 - desire to summit as desire to come down 6:30 - climbing as planetary or wandering movement 7:24 - the call for fun of climbing and beauty of vagueness 8:17 - vagueness and value  9:40 - play as home 10:23 - exploration as inversion of outside and inside 11:23 - etymology of 'exploration' and the call 12:25 - climbing as surfing 13:30 - paradoxes of experience 14:14 - climbing as returning time and mnemonic anagogy 15:28 - opening lines of canto 28 of Dante's Purgatorio 18:30 - the swerve (clinamen), folding of time, resignation 20:18 - Leopardi's poetics of vagueness 21:19 - the onsight 22:43 - 'rather than being brittle, not vague, and kinda fragile' 23:30 - swerve, turbulence, spontaneity, composition 27:50 - crudeness of our analytical self-accounting 28:25 - paying attention to the whim 30:30 - 'we learn despite ourselves' 30:45 - learning as recollection, aphaeresis 32:24 - ascent as reversal of descent 33:00 - climbing as dropping out vs. mainstreamization 35:25 - climbing as reification of exploration, means becoming ends 37:24 - #neverstopexploring, discovering great outdoors of your inbox, mountains of debt 39:55 - boredom and hypocrisy   42:20 - honesty, shame, learning to be a s****y climber 43:50 - blue collar climbing 45:16 - new Gunks guidebook, chasing history 52:00 - 'peak climbing' 55:50 - downclimbing or offwidthly wiggling out of climbing a la The Shining  1:00:00 - climbing and military allure 1:02:00 - exploration as double passage known and unknown 1:03:00 - exploration becomes self-exploration 1:04:00 - varieties of self and what you find honest 1:05:00 - Heidegger on letting the horizon be what it is 1:15:00 - kids teach us how to play Adjacent routes: Serres, Michel. 2018. The birth of physics. LEOPARDI, GIACOMO. 2019. ZIBALDONE: the notebooks of leopardi. Brinkmann, Carolin. (2008). From infinite pleasure to "abyss of indeterminate thoughts". Leopardi's pleasure theory and indefinite poetic. Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift. 58. 419-444.  Harding, Warren, and Beryl Knauth. 2016. Downward bound: a mad! guide to rock climbing. Margret Grebowicz. 2021. Mountains and Desire. Heidegger, Martin. 2000. Discourse on thinking: a translation of Gelassenheit. New York: Harper Perennial. Coccia, Emanuele. 2019. Goods: advertising, urban space, and the moral law of the image. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/climbingtheory/support