talkPOPc's Podcast
211 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago -talkPOPc or the Philosophers' Ontological Party club, is a public philosophy + socially engaged art practice non-profit founded by Dr. Dena Shottenkirk, who is both a philosopher and an artist. talkPOPc sponsors one-to-one conversations between a participant and a philosopher (who always dons our amazing gold African king hat!) Various philosophers participate and these conversations happen in various places. For example, we go into bars and have one-to-one conversations. Various bars, both dives and fancy. We go to Grand Central Station in New York City. We set up shop on the sidewalk outside of City Hall in Philly. We go into bodegas all over Brooklyn. We sit down next to the deli counter and hold a conversation with someone who has walked in to get a ham sandwich and walked out knowing so much more about their own thoughts. We go into city parks or down dead end streets and set up the talkPOPc's tent. We listen. Here are some of those conversations.
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Episode 8: Mark's Math and Surrealism
November 24, 2019 18:00 - 13 minutes - 9.32 MBMark, an investment banker (and wanderer through Lincoln Terrace Park, where this talkPOPc was held), knows about math, and he knows about the aesthetic qualities in a well-formed formula. And he likes surrealism particularly the oddity of puzzle-teasing in surrealism: what is this thing I’m looking at? For him, art is personal kind of time-travel, where someone from before is now whispering in your ear (or eye, as the case may be). And meanings shift with time. Support the Show. Twitter:...
Episode 7: Charlexia
November 17, 2019 18:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBCharlexia connects the amazement she feels in nature – parks – and the emotion that she experiences when in front of a street mural. Nature is in her view something that allows us the freedom to let our minds wander, not going in a particular direction. It is meditation through that freedom. It can be anything you want it to be, and yet it directs you in no direction at all. In her words it is “grand and encompassing and vague”. You feel enveloped by it. She contrasts that with the “strategi...
Episode 7: Charlexia's City Murals & City Parks
November 17, 2019 18:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBCharlexia connects the amazement she feels in nature – parks – and the emotion that she experiences when in front of a street mural. Nature is in her view something that allows us the freedom to let our minds wander, not going in a particular direction. It is meditation through that freedom. It can be anything you want it to be, and yet it directs you in no direction at all. In her words it is “grand and encompassing and vague”. You feel enveloped by it. She contrasts that with the “strategi...
Episode 6: Angelie
November 16, 2019 18:00 - 30 minutes - 20.7 MBThis conversation started out as a query about art and turned into a conversation about decision theory. Or more specifically about how creativity is just decision-making, much like science is. Angelie, an epidemiologist, begins with a quote from Nietzsche – that art is just leaving your mark. She talks about how children naturally want to do this. This conversation started out as a query about art and turned into a conversation about decision theory. Or more specifically about how creativit...
Episode 6: Angelie: Science, Creativity, and Getting it Right
November 16, 2019 18:00 - 30 minutes - 20.7 MBThis conversation started out as a query about art and turned into a conversation about decision theory. Or more specifically about how creativity is just decision-making, much like science is. Angelie, an epidemiologist, begins with a quote from Nietzsche – that art is just leaving your mark. She talks about how children naturally want to do this. This conversation started out as a query about art and turned into a conversation about decision theory. Or more specifically about how creativit...
Episode 5: Jake
November 16, 2019 01:00 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MBThis conversation tackles head-on what art is meant to do. Jake takes issue with the recent 75 years or so of visual art, particularly since Conceptual art of the 60s or 70s. Traditionally art is, according to Jake’s view, soteriological. Now, literally, this means to give us comfort, to make us feel better. One often thinks of this in traditional kinds of religion, particularly ancient Hindu or Buddhism. The release from pain, release from anxiety, release from the wheel of life. The probl...
Episode 5: Jake: The Soteriological Role of Art
November 16, 2019 01:00 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MBThis conversation tackles head-on what art is meant to do. Jake takes issue with the recent 75 years or so of visual art, particularly since Conceptual art of the 60s or 70s. Traditionally art is, according to Jake’s view, soteriological. Now, literally, this means to give us comfort, to make us feel better. One often thinks of this in traditional kinds of religion, particularly ancient Hindu or Buddhism. The release from pain, release from anxiety, release from the wheel of life. The probl...
Episode 2: Marcus on Rasta, Music, and Being Happy
August 11, 2019 20:00 - 12 minutes - 8.47 MBThis is part of talkPOPc's #3 project: Art as Cognition Marcus speaks about his love of diverse kinds of music- Indian, Chinese, Sukka. This is interesting because he has looked for a common thread in music and he sees it in certain kinds as a force for good and in other kinds of music as a force for bad. This bad kind he calls "Poisoning for the mind." Support the Show. Twitter: @talkpopc Instagram: @talkpopc
Episode 4: Marina and the Stained Glass Experience
August 11, 2019 20:00 - 12 minutes - 8.67 MBThis is part of talkPOPc's #3 project: Art as Cognition Marina has deep feelings about the kind of visual art she encounters in churches, particularly stained glass. She seems to have a dislike for the experience involved in perspectival vision where one separates the object from the background. It is an experience of the whole of the scene as a whole, and not a systematic identification of object-recognition. It is the experience of the gist. Support the Show. Twitter: @talkpopc Instagr...
Episode 3: Tom and Art as Education for Children
August 11, 2019 20:00 - 17 minutes - 12.3 MBThis is part of talkPOPc's #3 project: Art as Cognition As a kindergarten teacher, Tom, in his conversation with Resident Philosopher Agule, is giving his experimental account of incorporating art into the education of children. The conversation yields a point: Art meets people where you are, instead of -- like testing -- meeting you where you should be. Support the Show. Twitter: @talkpopc Instagram: @talkpopc
Episode 1: Pessy and Ultra Orthodox Upbringing
August 11, 2019 19:00 - 22 minutes - 15.7 MBThis is part of talkPOPc's #2 project: Censorship Pessy is a woman who broke out from a religious fundamentalist community, and she insisted on her right to gain her own education. She had the bravery to look back on that fundamentalist world, and analyze the censorship within that world. Support the Show. Twitter: @talkpopc Instagram: @talkpopc