Philosophers In Space
275 episodes - English - Latest episode: 28 days ago - ★★★★★ - 218 ratingsWelcome to Philosophers In Space, where the intrepid trekker captain Callie Wright and their questionable Chief Ethics Officer Aaron Rabinowitz explore the weird, gooey world of sci-fi, searching for tantalizing hypotheticals and gear-stripping questions in a space odyssey of meaning and amusement.
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0G110: What's Expected of Us and Dennett's Compatibilism
July 08, 2020 04:00 - 42 minutes - 46.3 MBTurns out Thomas has a bit of a free will monkey on his back, so we're going the full Dune on Daniel Dennett's compatibilism. We started out with Devs and the paradox of predictability and now we're on to a short story about predictors and what they might mean for our sense of meaning and purpose. We're going to follow up with another short story from Ted Chiang's Exhalation and then check out the anime Psychopass. All because we're lucky enough to do so. What's Expected of Us: https://www...
0G109: Uploaded and For-Profit Afterlife
July 01, 2020 04:00 - 42 minutes - 46.6 MBWelcome to Amazon Prime, the best media empire money can buy as long as we're not talking Disney or Netflix money. Here in Amazon Prime you can enjoy shows that are either too slow and deep to be accessible, like Tales from the Loop, or shows too shallow and mainstream to convey any meaning, like this weeks installment, Uploaded! Uploaded is the kind of show that would be free in the heaven depicted by uploaded. We use it to discuss the dangers of a for-profit afterlife and the coercive impl...
0G108: The Island and The Categorical Imperative
June 24, 2020 04:00 - 45 minutes - 48.8 MBSo, one of our patrons pointed out that The Island is actually Michael Bay's best movie, and that one comment is more of a gear stripper than this entire movie. Enjoy clone explosions and some stuff about Kant! Kantian Moral Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-moral/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebo...
0G107: Devs and the Paradox of Predictability
June 17, 2020 04:00 - 43 minutes - 47.4 MBI'm going to present these show notes, knowing that you already could have predicted that I would do a big meta thing and also knowing that it still impacts you that I engage in the physical act of doing the thing. Basically this all makes sense because quantum determinism, here ::starts up machine and shows you video of yourself understanding all of this in the future and how you'll happily respond to to us covering Devs, Determinism, and the Paradox of Predictability:: Determinism and th...
0G106: The Platform and Methods of Social Change
June 10, 2020 04:00 - 42 minutes - 46.2 MBComrades, join me and rise up! We have nothing to lose but our overwrought allegories for social inequality! Together we can escape whatever arrangement of boxes we've been placed in and smash whatever faceless system of control is distributing our resources in a physically impossible but philosophically meaningful arrangement. Hear the call of our people: Obviously! We're covering The Platform and the various modes of social change it suggests, none of which feel particularly plausible be...
0G105: Picard and the Butlerian Jihad
June 03, 2020 04:00 - 45 minutes - 49.7 MBOh hey, you look keen for some decent fan service mixed with cribbing from Dune. Perfect for CBS's business model. We're covering Picard, which is decent, and how it gives away that Star Trek is just the precursor to Dune. Picard has your Butlerian Jihad, your incompetent intergalatic federation, your weird biotech. All the makings of a solid Dune Prequel. I'm sure we'll find out the Romulan kid is a Paul Atreides Precursor sometime in season three. In the meantime, enjoy our discussion of t...
0G104: The Expanse and The Myth of Catching Up
May 27, 2020 04:00 - 40 minutes - 44.9 MBListen closely my beratna and sesata and we'll convert you from a tumang to a belta in no time. We're just scratching the surface of the Ex-pants world, basic world building stuff so we can come back later or all the weirdness. We introduce a postcolonial interpretation of Expanse tied specifically to The Myth of Catching Up. Stay space woke. The Myth of Catching Up: https://wmbranchout.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/the-myth-of-catching-up-development-maria-mies.pdf Support us at Patreo...
0G103: Dr Who's Heaven Sent and "Self" sacrifice
May 20, 2020 04:00 - 49 minutes - 52.4 MBWelcome back Whovians! Our trap has worked, we've caught the time lord Mike Hall of Merseyside skeptics in our web of disrespectful ignorance and we sure do squeeze him for information. He's unrelentingly brilliant though, so of course he escapes unscathed and only slightly annoyed. We discuss the episode Heaven Sent and its connections to Buddhism and whether The Doctor does something profoundly unethical to save a friend. Skeptics with a K: http://www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/category/...
0G102: Player of Games and Gamification of Ethics, Part 3
May 13, 2020 04:00 - 42 minutes - 46.1 MBTime to wrap up another opus. It's been a beautiful dance of ideas and symbolism, played out on a board of intrigue and robits, but all good things must come to an end. Has the dance left us as better people? Only the future will tell. Here's to Player of Games, a brilliant first look at the Culture series and a wonderful way to nerd out about games and ethics. Gamification and Ethics: https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=vDxTBgAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA225&dq=gamification+of+ethics&ots=m...
0G101: Player of Games and Authoritarian Essentialism, Part 2
May 06, 2020 04:00 - 42 minutes - 46.8 MBWe survived the zombies! We escaped from earth to space and found another society that is also terrible but is not actively being overrun by zombies. For part two of our Player of Game time we dive into the Empire of Azad and their essentialist culture. We discuss how essentialism naturally plays a major role in authoritarian cultures and undermines meritocracy. Essentialism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essentialism Authoritarianism and gender essentialism: https://link.springer.com/ar...
Listener Qs 14
April 29, 2020 04:00 - 46 minutes - 49.7 MBThanks thanks thanks thanks! What else is there to say but thanks so much? And also, answers?! Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/ Email us at: [email protected] If you have time, please write us a review on iTunes. It really really helps. Please and thank you! Sibling sh...
Listener Qs 13
April 22, 2020 04:00 - 53 minutes - 56.8 MBHi all! Another round of profound thanks to our patrons who are keeping the lights on even in these difficult times. Thank you so much and hope you enjoy this special birthday Q and A! Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/ Email us at: [email protected] If you have time, plea...
0G100: WWZ and the Human Cost of Ethics, Part 2
April 15, 2020 04:00 - 39 minutes - 43.9 MBWhat a wild time to celebrate our 100th episode. At least we're celebrating it talking about something of great value, World War Z's portrayal of the loss of humanity from doing the right thing. I hope it helps to think about how we're all experiencing the grind and that's what makes us humans. Williams against Utilitarianism: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/williams-bernard/#DayCannTooFarOffhWillAgaiUtil Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: htt...
0G99: WWZ and Lifeboat Ethics, Part 1
April 08, 2020 04:00 - 49 minutes - 52.7 MBMoving with the kind of speed you'd have hoped to see in our federal government, we have pivoted away from our Culture coverage (don't worry it's just bumped down the timeline a bit) to current events with Max Brooks's epic masterpiece World War Z. Easily one of the best works of horror fiction around. For part one, we talk through the consequentialist arguments in the first half, while marveling at all the disturbing similarities to the daily news. Part two is gonna cover the loss of humani...
0G98: Player of Games and AI Utopia, Part 1
April 01, 2020 04:00 - 43 minutes - 47 MBLast episode, Thomas complained that I never take him to any nice utopias, so here we are! The Culture, the closest any sci-fi I've ever read got to anything that sounded like a good outcome, besides maybe Um-Helat. I'm told all of Ian Banks's books are fabulous, but we start with a really easy and satisfying intro to the Culture world, The Player of Games. In part one we cover the Culture society and whether it counts as an AI Utopia and what the potential costs are for living in such a soc...
0G97: Bioshock and Going Galt
March 25, 2020 04:00 - 37 minutes - 41.6 MBHey, podcast listener. Are you feeling down? Don't got enough old timey eugenics in your life? Well come on up to our floating spaceship of horrors, I mean HUMORS! We've got weird new DNA for everybody and we can all go Galt together. Turn that taker mind into a maker mind, with Philosophers in Space brand plasmids. Come on, it's your rational birthright! Who is John Galt?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Galt Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: ...
0G96: Serenity and Positive Eugenics
March 18, 2020 04:00 - 39 minutes - 43.3 MBThis episode is about Eugenics in much the same way that Firefly is about the civil war. That is to say, it's okay that we're the baddies here cause we're loveable scamps. We discuss whether it is moral to make people better, which is clearly a separate question from whether it is technically possible, which it totally is. Recent resurgence in Eugenics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics#Modern_resurgence_of_interest Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on...
0G95: Stargate Atlantis and Gamification
March 11, 2020 04:00 - 44 minutes - 47.8 MBPicture in your head the "I'm not saying it was aliens..." guy, but that's the whole series. Boom, you're now caught up on Stargate and can fully enjoy this episode of lighthearted banter between archetypal humans as they toy with the lives of other humans in ways they can't begin to understand. We're watching season 3 episode 15 of Stargate: Atlantis. The episode is called "the game" so we thought it would be super original to tie that to gamification. That's about as deep as the Stargate w...
0G94: The Good Place and Universalist Enlightenment
March 04, 2020 05:00 - 41 minutes - 45.9 MBOkay, I'm finally ready. I've said my goodbyes. Our analysis here is complete, we can walk through the podcast arch and transcend to the next level of podhood. I want to thank you all for your loving patience and I leave you with this parting gift of a final wrap up of The Good Place and the ways it incorporated both Christian Universalism and Buddhism/Taoism into the final resolution. Now I'm gonna turn into a black mirror style ball of light and float away. Christian Universalism: https:...
OG93: Good Place and Scanlon's Contractualism
February 26, 2020 05:00 - 39 minutes - 43.8 MBWhy do all the good things gotta end ::Janet wailing gif:: Our wonderful journey has reached its natural conclusion and I'm still not ready. In part one of our goodbye to the good place we explain some of the repeated references to Scanlon's book What We Owe to Each Other, and the strengths and weakness of their setting up of the problem. Part two will discuss the solutions they reach and the role of non-Western philosophy in the show. Scanlon's Contractualism: https://plato.stanford.edu...
0G92: Watchmen and Subjective vs. Objective
February 19, 2020 05:00 - 41 minutes - 45.8 MBThis episode feels like a genuine culmination. After Wonkapiercer, I felt a little like Lindelof. Kind of lost, wondering if we could ever wrap something up in a fully satisfying way again. This feels pretty close. We've talked a lot of Watchmen on this show, and a lot of Thomas Nagel, and this week we bring it all together in one big blue climax. Nagel's Mortal Questions: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E3URB0K/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Support us at Patreon: https://ww...
0G91: Watchmen and The Absurd
February 12, 2020 05:00 - 41 minutes - 45.5 MBI know it's a bit ironically absurd to act like this particular podcast episode really matters, but I still feel like it genuinely does. We're taking HBO's epic one season masterpiece, Watchmen, and combining it with Nagel's epic chapter on The Absurd from the masterpiece book Mortal Questions. I've been thinking about some version of this episode and the next one probably since we started Philosophers in Space, and the Watchmen show delivered the perfect vehicle. Hopefully you're like me an...
0G90: Mandalorian and Masks
February 05, 2020 05:00 - 43 minutes - 47.1 MB::Totally out of place spur clinking noise:: Well, pardner, looks like it's just you and me. We can't both walk away from this cliche off and I've got a whole bag full of triple crosses so I can go all day. Wait...sorry, what was I saying? I got JJ Abrams brain for a second there. Here, let me just get back to something that makes any sense. We're discussing the Mandalorian and the philosophical and especially ethical questions surrounding the use of facial coverings. And the ethics of t...
0G89: Empire Strikes Back and Taoism
January 29, 2020 05:00 - 40 minutes - 44.3 MBYoung podawan, your training is incomplete! You must go back, to the natural state of episode one of the show and then listen back through, all while trying to retain the mind of a child. Definitely the only way to get trained, and also a great way to celebrate the new year! We're talking Empire Strikes back and how it's a great way to indoctrinate small children into Taoism. Taoism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoism Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on T...
0G88: Star Wars A New Hope and Just War Theory
January 22, 2020 05:00 - 47 minutes - 51.1 MBAnd so it was that a young man was born in the desert and grew up to liberate his people from an oppressive empire and absolve them of their past sins. No, not JC, or Paul Muad'dib, this time his name is Luke Foreshadowing (imagine if Jesus's last name was Crosswalker). Yes, we're celebrating the end of Star Wars by going back to the beginning. We're covering A New Hope and using its heavy handed morality tale to introduce just war theory. Philosophy of War: https://plato.stanford.edu/ent...
Listener Qs 12
January 15, 2020 06:03 - 38 minutes - 43.2 MBHi all! Welcome to the 12th iteration of our Listener Thank You Q and As. Thank you all for supporting the show and if you like what you're hearing and have questions you want answered, you know what to do for next time. Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/ Email us at: philosophersinspac...
Listener Qs 11
January 08, 2020 05:00 - 46 minutes - 49.8 MBHi all! Welcome to the 11th iteration of our Listener Thank You Q and As. Thank you all for supporting the show and if you like what you're hearing and have questions you want answered, you know what to do for next time. Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/ Email us at: philosophersinspac...
0G87: Blindsight and Moral Realism, Part 3
January 01, 2020 05:00 - 48 minutes - 51.5 MBAnother journey of epic proportions bringing us to a topic of epic proportions. Lurking in the back of Blindsight's narrative like a zombie space vampire robot are fundamental questions about who counts for moral consideration and whether morality even matters when dealing with beings like Rorschach. I feel like we're really getting to the heart of how screwed we are trying to answer these questions. Moral Realism primer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_realism The moral significance...
0G86: Blindsight and the Value of Sentience, Part 2
December 25, 2019 05:00 - 52 minutes - 55.2 MBWell, we're really in the philosophical soup of it now. Out here at the edge of the universe, doing B&Es on a Chinese Room filled with scramblers, not knowing if our sentience is the only thing worth saving our a sad joke that should be shuffled offstage in the gentlest way possible. Or maybe it already has been and we're too zombie to even notice. We're into the middle section of Blindsight, which does not get enough credit as a master work of science fiction philosophy in my opinion. We've...
0G85: Blindsight and Philosophical Zombies, Part 1
December 18, 2019 05:00 - 42 minutes - 46.5 MBOkay, well, lets see if I can convey some information to you through this absurd thing we call sentience, using this even more absurd thing called language. I'll never know if any of this is getting through, or even if there is a through to get to. If you're a zombie (and there's no reason to assume you're not) this should still work out just as well as if you're conscious. So you'll respond with happiness to hear we're covering Peter Watt's Blindsight, a treasure trove of topics in the worl...
0G84: A Subway named Mobius and Emergent Properties
December 11, 2019 05:00 - 41 minutes - 45.9 MBWell, the level of meta connections involved in these show notes has gotten so interconnected it has formed a singularity of infinite metaness. If you're reading this you're sadly trapped in the meta and will not be able to escape until things get a bit more straightforward around here. We read A Subway named Mobius and Jeremiah Traeger joined us to discuss emergent properties and how absurd they are as a term of art. Emergent Properties: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/properties-emerg...
0G83: The Society and The State of Nature and Game Theory
December 04, 2019 05:00 - 46 minutes - 50.3 MB::blows the conch shell of fan service:: In the spirt of social cohesion, we provide you with a triple dose of fan service. We present The Society, a much requested A- tweets in a bottle series, and we explain how it perfectly encapsulates the war of bro against bro that would arise in the absence of the social contract. To sweeten the deal, we even throw in some prisoners dilemmas and stag hunts to help understand why the state of nature is just the worst. Game Theory: https://plato.stanf...
0G82: Dr. Who's Girl in the Fireplace and the AI Alignment Problem
November 27, 2019 05:00 - 48 minutes - 52.2 MBMy usual urge to be snarky here is tempered by concern that we're already about to get teabagged into some hot water for our treatment of the good Dr. Who. Please forgive us our Yankness, and maybe consider a more moderate position for your media output, somewhere between 6 episodes a show and 6,000. Feels like there's room for some middle ground there. Oh right, enough meta banter, we watched Dr. Who season 2 episode 4 of the rebooted version, so the one with David Tennant. We discuss how t...
0G81: HBO's Watchmen and Reparations
November 20, 2019 05:00 - 49 minutes - 53.1 MBAn excerpt from Rorschach's rebooted journal: Viewers are afraid of HBO, for it has seen their true faces. The shows are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and boobies and when the drains finally scab over, all the bingers will drown. The accumulated filth of high budget, high concept sex and murder will foam up about their waists, and all the millennials and the boomers who's log ins they use will look up and shout "can't you make less compelling content", and HBO will loo...
0G80: Primer and the Ethics of Time Travel
November 13, 2019 05:00 - 48 minutes - 52.3 MBHere's what's going to happen, I'm going to do a matrix like voiceover and you're going to listen, and when that's over, you're going to have even less of a clue what's going on. It all started with a box... We're doing primer! Y'all asked, and we finally looped enough times to find the timeline where we deliver! You get to hear Thomas explain the 60% of the plot he was able to follow and then we haggle a bunch over the nature of time travel as per usual before settling in to argue if it's...
0G79: The Ones Who Stay and Fight and The Paradox of Tolerance
November 06, 2019 05:00 - 38 minutes - 43.1 MBNow imagine an even greater and glorious afrofuturist podcast, where everyone gets equitable access to boxes. What price would you be willing to pay for that podcast?! Could you truly enjoy such a podcast knowing that those who challenge the podcast are summarily executed? What if we call their objections a disease that must be cut out at the root? Better or worse? This week we're doing the N.K. Jemisin's The Ones Who Stay and Fight, and we cover the paradox of tolerance and try to interpr...
0G78: Omelas and Distributive Justice
October 30, 2019 04:00 - 43 minutes - 47 MBImagine a great and glorious golden podcast, filled with as many or as few boxes as your heart could desire. What price would you be willing to pay for that podcast? I don't mean on patreon, I'm talking cost in human suffering. Could you truly enjoy such a podcast knowing that it relied on the constant pain of one poor co-host at the hands of the other cohost? Would you continue to partake of the pernicious podcast, or would you be one of the ones who unsubscribes away? This week we're doi...
0G77: DS9 Heart of Stone and Deontology
October 23, 2019 04:00 - 44 minutes - 48.4 MBHey friends, show notes guy here. This one's a feels show so I'm gonna play it straight. Aron Eisenberg, the actor who played Nog on DS9, passed away recently. He was a beloved member of the Star Trek community and we wanted to do a tribute episode to pay our respects. So, we brought on the perfect person to guide us through, Callie Wright. Besides being an amazing podcaster, Callie is very active in the Star Trek community and brings with her a wealth of Star Trek background stories. We cov...
0G76: The Golden Man and The Ubermensch
October 16, 2019 04:00 - 42 minutes - 46.3 MBAnd lo, Philip K Dick descended from the mountaintop, perspiring heavily, to convey to the world that there were super hot wicked smart mutant Ubermensches coming for their wimmins, and only by acting like total nazis can humans avoid being holocausted by the mutant nazis Ubermensches. If you're not impressed by a half hour podcast that makes the previous sentence comprehensible, I got nothing. Big thanks to our guests on the show, Bryan and Katie of the killer podcast This Film is Lit. Pa...
0G75: Repo Men and Organ Markets
October 09, 2019 04:00 - 43 minutes - 47.1 MBREEEEEEPPPPPOOOOO MEEEENNNNN!!! Sorry, still got those killer tunes stuck in my head from our NASA9 coverage of Repo! The Genetic Opera. Highly recommend for the original improvised music by Thomas. For this week we have the non-musical version, Repo Men starring Jude Law and Forest Whittaker. It's a much more banal kind of bad, but it's a great basis for discussing the ethics of buying and selling organs. Ethical Organ Markets: https://jme.bmj.com/content/29/3/137 Support us at Patreo...
0G74: Cloud Dragon Skies and Geoengineering
October 02, 2019 04:00 - 44 minutes - 48.4 MBThose who can't accept the state of reality are doomed to dissatisfaction. Those who can accept the state of reality are doomed to things being as they are. We're reading N.K. Jemisin's short story Cloud Dragon Skies, which I highly recommend you read carefully before the episode and then reread after the episode because we have a very interesting difference of experiences on how we read it that we discuss on the show, and we want to hear your experiences! We also discuss the ethics of geo...
0G73: Snowpiercer and Social Contract Theory, Part 2
September 25, 2019 04:00 - 40 minutes - 44.5 MBWe live in a train. A train called society. The train is the leviathan, the great beast that keeps us alive by keeping us in chains. Within the train there are many narratives. They may all be lies. The question is, do we keep the train as is, do we try to change it, or do we blow it to bits? This is the history of Western Social Contract Theory, on a train. Social Contract Theory: https://www.iep.utm.edu/soc-cont/ WonkaPiercer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEX52h1TvuA Support us a...
0G72: Snowpiercer and Environmental Injustice, Part 1
September 18, 2019 04:00 - 39 minutes - 43.7 MBAll aboard the endless train of symbolism. We'll be passing through, but not making stops in: locomotive dad jokes, environmental injustice, Plato's Republic, Social Contact Theory, revolutionary change, and various flavors or dooooom! If you can't follow the train of thought, it's cause the podcast is a closed system and we can only be as coherent as the sci-fi vehicle that we're currently hurtling along in. This one goes all over the map and the endings a bit abrupt, because just doing met...
0G71: Willy Wonka and The Meritocracy Factory
September 11, 2019 04:00 - 41 minutes - 45.9 MBOopma loompa do-ba-dee-do We’ve got another topic for you. Oompa loompa do-ba-dee-de If you’ve got merit you’ll listen to me. What you get when you reward the best? Virtue for some and vice for the rest. Aiming for merit with your social policy Careful you don’t land on an oligarchy. Oompa loompa do-ba-dee-da Abandon meritocracy and you will go far. You will live like egalitarian too, Like the oompa loompa do-ba-dee-do The Myth of Meritocracy: https://www.theguardian....
Listener Qs 10
September 04, 2019 04:00 - 40 minutes - 44.8 MBIt's the 10th iteration of our Listener Thank You Q and As. Thank you all for supporting the show and if you like what you're hearing and have questions you want answered, you know what to do for next time. Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/ Email us at: [email protected] ...
Listener Qs 9
August 28, 2019 04:00 - 44 minutes - 48 MBHi all! We're back with another round of our interdimensionally renown Listener Thank You Q and As. We've got two episodes of great questions and hilariously mispronounced names with a healthy splash of in jokes. So thank you all for supporting the show and if you like what you're hearing and have questions you want answered, you know what to do for next time. Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook dis...
0G70: The Power and Cyborg Feminism, Part 2
August 21, 2019 04:00 - 41 minutes - 45.2 MBIt's post cataclysm now, and we're one of the few "male studies" podcasts remaining in the world. Hannah Marcus (@sligers118 on Twitter) is here to womansplain The Power to us and take credit for our insights. This still feels better than the before time, though. Mass shootings are way down, and having functional paid family leave is pretty great. I'd call it a net win. Cyborg Theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Cyborg_Manifesto Cable Repair peeing story: https://www.huffpost.com/ent...
0G69: The Power and Cyborg Theory, Part 1
August 14, 2019 04:00 - 39 minutes - 44 MBFinally! We've been waiting so long for this, I almost thought we'd never get here. And by here I mean the collapse of the patriarchy. If only pod notes made it so. No, this week and next we're cover Naomi Alderman's The Power. To keep us from mansplaining our way through a feminist classic, we're joined by our future gender overlord, Hannah Marcus (@sligers118 on Twitter), a MA student in cultural studies who has done work specifically on The Power. We start by covering the feminist Cybor...
0G68: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Grief
August 07, 2019 04:00 - 40 minutes - 44.2 MBI'm getting a very Groundhog day "already written these show notes" vibe. I guess they didn't go well last time or something, so hopefully this time around will be better. We're joined by an amazing guest, the award eligible Tom from Cog Dis, to discuss Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a movie we all really enjoyed and had largely forgotten. There's a lot to cover so we space it over two episodes, the first one dealing with grief more broadly and the second one incorporating Nietzsche'...
0G67: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Grief
July 31, 2019 04:00 - 38 minutes - 42.7 MBI'm getting a very Groundhog day "already written these show notes" vibe. I guess they didn't go well last time or something, so hopefully this time around will be better. We're joined by an amazing guest, the award eligible Tom from Cog Dis, to discuss Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a movie we all really enjoyed and had largely forgotten. There's a lot to cover so we space it over two episodes, the first one dealing with grief more broadly and the second one incorporating Nietzsche'...