Stories and ideas about philosophy, writing, and lived experience.
I publish videos and writing about meaning-making, the writing life, and the experiences that shaped my work.
Philosophy
Philosophy & Ideas
I talk about life’s big questions culture, art, meaning, morality, and the forces that shape us not as abstractions, but from lived experience. On my YouTube channel and live streams I unpack literature, psychology, current affairs, and life’s contradictions with curiosity, honesty, and a wry eye for the absurd.
Writing
Writing and Story Telling
Writing has been at the heart of what I do for decades from my first novel Tired, etc. to the stories and essays I publish on Substack. I mix memoir, philosophy, culture, and craft in ways that tease out the humour and humanity in experience. My work isn’t just about telling stories, it’s about the act of thinking and feeling through them.
Earlier life & work
Born in Dartford, Kent, I studied contemporary art, music and later Marxism, psychoanalysis and French post-structural thought before carving my own path as a performer and writer. After years on the stand-up circuit and a long-running podcast, I now focus on writing, live conversation and cultural critique, weaving my experiences from comedy stages to global life abroad into the work I publish today.
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The Uncaring of Arguemena Interferon
Grass and vines consumed the shed. Timbers blackened with age and rain and the slow rot of years chewed away as it squatted in Racheal’s garden like a fat old wooden toad without memory of where it was going. Next to a shopping trolley with a carrier-bag of damp rags like abandoned smiles and a car battery with chalky blue terminals blind eyes and the weathered brand a mouth rubbed dumb by rain. It looked like it had died thinking.
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About
I’m Chris Dangerfield, a writer and YouTuber. I’m interested in the overlap between philosophy and the practical business of living: how we make meaning, how stories shape us, and how work gets made.
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