tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-334888332024-03-07T02:41:46.121-06:00ReadMoreWriteMoreThinkMoreBeMorepolitics, culture, technology & philosophy... deconstructedDoctor Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189506916480012553noreply@blogger.comBlogger953125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33488833.post-10211014896863150462021-11-06T13:07:00.001-06:002021-11-06T13:07:21.900-06:00Hotel Bar Sessions, Ep 31: Whose History?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis5FrOgNZB-NO9PB-F6Xvh17gHysl1M5Jku6y6vUN0I8quzbZEhnwAR2e-cjSCa786MEu6zmQ23o0u5ZlGfGv-H-eJavK9fOThmPOtPa08GU_PC8ghP_O-1-dDTodsTpOIAhF-/s1800/Norman-Rockwell-The-Problem-We-All-Live-With-1964-56a03c313df78cafdaa099ee.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1111" data-original-width="1800" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis5FrOgNZB-NO9PB-F6Xvh17gHysl1M5Jku6y6vUN0I8quzbZEhnwAR2e-cjSCa786MEu6zmQ23o0u5ZlGfGv-H-eJavK9fOThmPOtPa08GU_PC8ghP_O-1-dDTodsTpOIAhF-/w640-h396/Norman-Rockwell-The-Problem-We-All-Live-With-1964-56a03c313df78cafdaa099ee.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div style="--tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #374151; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The HBS hosts sit down with Dr. Charles McKinney, Jr. to talk about whose history is (and isn't) being taught.<br style="--tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; 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box-sizing: border-box; color: #374151; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Following on the heels of a recent and very contentious <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/02/podcasts/the-daily/critical-race-theory-debate.html?.?mc=aud_dev&ad-keywords=auddevgate&gclid=CjwKCAjwq9mLBhB2EiwAuYdMtT4aqeYqPxgRCZNNx3fU53mRtEWPPDZyWM6pT9_BHb473IXffGtEJRoC6UwQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds" style="--tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-text-opacity: 1; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;">political debate over the teaching of Critical Race Theory in schools</a>, we invited <a href="https://twitter.com/CharlesWMcKinn2?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" style="--tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-text-opacity: 1; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;">Dr. Charles McKinney, Jr.</a> (Neville Frierson Bryan Chair of Africana Studies and Associate Professor of History at <a href="https://www.rhodes.edu/bio/charles-mckinney" style="--tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-text-opacity: 1; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;">Rhodes College</a>) to sit for a few rounds at the hotel bar as we explore the dynamics of power, liberation, and Truth as they play out in the teaching of history.<br style="--tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="--tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Full episode notes available at<a href="http://hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/episode-31-whose-history/" target="_blank"> <span style="--tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-text-opacity: 1; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: inherit;">this link</span></a>. </span></div><div style="--tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #374151; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="--tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #374151; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="color: black;">SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN TO HOTEL BAR PODCAST:<br /></p><ul style="color: black;"><li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/2lVfzRLIhloqbHfgJRN45s" target="_blank">Spotify</a></li><li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/co/podcast/hotel-bar-sessions/id1554109334?l=en" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a></li><li><a href="https://www.audible.com/pd/Hotel-Bar-Sessions-Podcast/B08K5451MK" target="_blank">Audible</a></li><li><a href="https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy50cmFuc2lzdG9yLmZtL2hvdGVsLWJhci1zZXNzaW9ucw?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi62bXV3NHzAhXHbTABHdBoCSsQ9sEGegQIARAF" target="_blank">Google podcasts</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH8qDWEJF3VNjb7GjD_4ROQ" target="_blank">YouTube</a></li><li>(or anywhere else you listen to podcasts!)</li></ul><div style="color: black;">You can also listen to the full version of HBS Episode 30: Robots below.<br /><br /></div></div></div>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4JyBAb9-zbs" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>Doctor Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189506916480012553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33488833.post-72843791805670278342021-10-17T10:55:00.005-05:002021-10-17T10:55:33.634-05:00Hotel Bar Sessions, Season 2 "Afterthoughts"<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDkA88aWZbULy4hF8Pbb7_SRNiNEDPZpquAot5zusCNQjh41Nc5Td8d_apidNQ4fQZxLbZzXGTW3ehVnD4nAAj8LnSF6MX-wB41SV7QW7CvZCCC3WLh8zkhM1ajiE_NsgkmO-h/s2048/webs+hbs.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="2048" height="338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDkA88aWZbULy4hF8Pbb7_SRNiNEDPZpquAot5zusCNQjh41Nc5Td8d_apidNQ4fQZxLbZzXGTW3ehVnD4nAAj8LnSF6MX-wB41SV7QW7CvZCCC3WLh8zkhM1ajiE_NsgkmO-h/w640-h338/webs+hbs.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My <a href="http://hotelbarpodcast.com/" target="_blank">Hotel Bar Sessions podcast</a> cohosts (<a href="http://hotelbarpodcast.com/about-us/" target="_blank">Dr. Charles Peterson</a> and <a href="http://hotelbarpodcast.com/about-us/" target="_blank">Dr. Rick Lee</a>) and I have just wrapped up the second season of the podcast. We'll be taking a short (3-week) break to gather our thoughts before returning with a full slate of new episodes for Season 3 on November 8!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Throughout Season 2, we took a break every 3 episodes to film an "Afterthoughts" episode, which we posted to our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH8qDWEJF3VNjb7GjD_4ROQ" target="_blank">YouTube channel</a>. These were meant to give us a chance to correct or amend anything we said wrongly in an episode, and also to add things that occurred to us <i>after</i> hearing the aired episodes. (Often there are several weeks between when we record an episode and when it airs, so there is planty of time to second-guess ourselves!) The "Afterthoughts" episodes were live, unedited conversations-- which meant that they were a lot of fun-- and they are the only chance for HBS listeners to (fr better or worse) put faces to voices.<br /><br />Anyway, here are the Season 2 "Afterthoughts" episodes, in order:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><p></p>
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<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HIY25GY7v1w" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br /><div></div><p></p>Doctor Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189506916480012553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33488833.post-48472087962371393002021-10-17T10:37:00.004-05:002021-10-17T10:37:37.726-05:00Hotel Bar Sessions, Ep 30: Robots<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs8HSckkOpF9yrn1P3r2ElmjdQXp00P6guVj2gpruFQTHjIMjxYQX16UpZalTIt9fvu-0KYiN14wCI83S5z3B24Sq7VcMFZ375EnwgJn7kkz7x_WQ9AQ0sUVPUjlriyrs-Ytdx/s1200/45850259_10118049890307024_8833444527420211200_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs8HSckkOpF9yrn1P3r2ElmjdQXp00P6guVj2gpruFQTHjIMjxYQX16UpZalTIt9fvu-0KYiN14wCI83S5z3B24Sq7VcMFZ375EnwgJn7kkz7x_WQ9AQ0sUVPUjlriyrs-Ytdx/w640-h480/45850259_10118049890307024_8833444527420211200_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><!-- wp:paragraph -->
<p>The HBS hosts discuss how robots and intelligent machines are upending our social, moral, legal, and philosophical categories.</p>
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<p>For this last episode of Season 2, the HBS hosts interview <a href="https://gunkelweb.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Dr. David Gunkel</a> (author of <em>Robot Rights </em>and <em>How To Survive A Robot Invasio</em>n) about his work on emergent technologies, intelligent machines, and robots. Following the recent announcement by Elson Musk that Tesla is developing a humanoid robot for home use, we ask: what is the real difference between a robot and a toaster? </p>
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<p>Do robots and intelligent machines rise to the level of "persons"? Should we accord them moral consideration or legal rights? Or are those questions just the consequence of our over-anthropomorphizing robots and intelligent machines?</p><p>Full episode notes available at<a href="http://hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/episode-30-robots/" target="_blank"> this link</a>. </p><p>SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN TO HOTEL BAR PODCAST:<br /></p><ul><li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/2lVfzRLIhloqbHfgJRN45s" target="_blank">Spotify</a></li><li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/co/podcast/hotel-bar-sessions/id1554109334?l=en" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a></li><li><a href="https://www.audible.com/pd/Hotel-Bar-Sessions-Podcast/B08K5451MK" target="_blank">Audible</a></li><li><a href="https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy50cmFuc2lzdG9yLmZtL2hvdGVsLWJhci1zZXNzaW9ucw?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi62bXV3NHzAhXHbTABHdBoCSsQ9sEGegQIARAF" target="_blank">Google podcasts</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH8qDWEJF3VNjb7GjD_4ROQ" target="_blank">YouTube</a></li><li>(or anywhere else you listen to podcasts!)</li></ul><div>You can also listen to the full version of HBS Episode 30: Robots below.</div><div><br /></div></div>
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<p>As higher education has become more corporatized and STEM-focused, areas of study are often "pitched" to students on the basis of their future income-earning potential. However, college students now are entering a workforce where more than 30% of available jobs will be automated before those students reach middle age. Today's college students need more than vocational training to prepare them for the future they are entering. </p>
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<p>Most academics can (and do) make the argument for the <em>intrinsic</em> value of the humanities-- that it helps shape us into good citizens and moral agents-- but are there other defenses available? Does a humanities-based education also have instrumental value? How do you get a job with a History or Philosophy or Anthropology degree? Is humanities-based education for everyone, or is it elitist?</p><p>Full episode notes available at<a href="http://hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/episode-29-defending-the-humanities/" target="_blank"> this link</a>. </p><p>SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN TO HOTEL BAR PODCAST:<br /></p><ul><li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/2lVfzRLIhloqbHfgJRN45s" target="_blank">Spotify</a></li><li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/co/podcast/hotel-bar-sessions/id1554109334?l=en" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a></li><li><a href="https://www.audible.com/pd/Hotel-Bar-Sessions-Podcast/B08K5451MK" target="_blank">Audible</a></li><li><a href="https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy50cmFuc2lzdG9yLmZtL2hvdGVsLWJhci1zZXNzaW9ucw?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi62bXV3NHzAhXHbTABHdBoCSsQ9sEGegQIARAF" target="_blank">Google podcasts</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH8qDWEJF3VNjb7GjD_4ROQ" target="_blank">YouTube</a></li><li>(or anywhere else you listen to podcasts!)</li></ul><div>You can also listen to the full version of HBS Episode 28: Defending the Humanities below.<br /><br /></div></div>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MqX8UlTLdzA" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>Doctor Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189506916480012553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33488833.post-4348476754268030792021-10-17T10:29:00.001-05:002021-10-17T10:29:12.924-05:00Hotel Bar Sessions podcast, Ep 28: Generations<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd7A2HASbd30M6qv4ESUQPCrRTFs2OMFWGPF_PlzVsP2cG3FjuN4xvfUS7HQFiWy9GHqYcUtwwZkgttzD3PFHEpAywRkP1L7e3qM0ccJO1Ogb59PcCul7GKPXAAXQSgvsXu4iU/s800/gen2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd7A2HASbd30M6qv4ESUQPCrRTFs2OMFWGPF_PlzVsP2cG3FjuN4xvfUS7HQFiWy9GHqYcUtwwZkgttzD3PFHEpAywRkP1L7e3qM0ccJO1Ogb59PcCul7GKPXAAXQSgvsXu4iU/w640-h360/gen2.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p>The HBS hosts discuss whether or not generational tags-- "Boomer," "GenX," "Millennial," and "Gen Z"-- are useful descriptions or just gerrymandered groups.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><!--wp:paragraph-->
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<p>Are you Gen Z, a Boomer, Gen X? We don’t know either but in this episode Dr. Rick Lee leads a discussion to try to figure out whether these generational designations have any stable meaning. Do they make sense as organizational categories. Are they Objective Types, Natural Kind, or Gerrymandered Sets? Do generational markers say more than gender, racial, class, ability in terms of identity? We ask about the dates of generations, the characteristics of generations and generational self-consciousness.</p><p>Full episode notes at <a href="http://hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/episode-28-generations/" target="_blank">this link</a>. </p><p>SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN TO HOTEL BAR PODCAST:<br /></p><ul><li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/2lVfzRLIhloqbHfgJRN45s" target="_blank">Spotify</a></li><li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/co/podcast/hotel-bar-sessions/id1554109334?l=en" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a></li><li><a href="https://www.audible.com/pd/Hotel-Bar-Sessions-Podcast/B08K5451MK" target="_blank">Audible</a></li><li><a href="https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy50cmFuc2lzdG9yLmZtL2hvdGVsLWJhci1zZXNzaW9ucw?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi62bXV3NHzAhXHbTABHdBoCSsQ9sEGegQIARAF" target="_blank">Google podcasts</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH8qDWEJF3VNjb7GjD_4ROQ" target="_blank">YouTube</a></li><li>(or anywhere else you listen to podcasts!)</li></ul><div>You can also listen to the full version of HBS Episode 28: Generations below.<br /><br /></div>
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<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3ZLS84PpX2U" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>Doctor Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189506916480012553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33488833.post-39772610736992043432021-10-17T10:24:00.002-05:002021-10-17T10:24:50.520-05:00Hotel Bar Sessions podcast, Ep 27: The Hustle<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1LYN12sCEWiwwBWbDOETliIj-fptXCc7nbaK-PLa9kPLg6JewLG6Z_l0Oz9NXx12DdJ0I2c4Pi5ziFEAOtEHABN0U_c1lua3TlixNTAeGOSBiBoWT7uRcw9lpIQTbv9A0G3xS/s600/the+hustle.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1LYN12sCEWiwwBWbDOETliIj-fptXCc7nbaK-PLa9kPLg6JewLG6Z_l0Oz9NXx12DdJ0I2c4Pi5ziFEAOtEHABN0U_c1lua3TlixNTAeGOSBiBoWT7uRcw9lpIQTbv9A0G3xS/w400-h400/the+hustle.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p>The HBS hosts discuss scams, cons, gig work, and what drives us to live and work at full speed.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><!--wp:paragraph-->
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<p>In the immortal words of <a href="https://twitter.com/Tip?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Clifford Joseph Harris, Jr.</a> (aka, T.I.) "If you don't respect nothing else, you will respect the hustle." In this episode, Dr. Leigh M. Johnson takes the lead in an analysis of how "the hustle," in all senses of that term, define our lives today. We look at the HBO docuseries<a href="https://www.hbomax.com/series/urn:hbo:series:GYFuzsAQIP73CUAEAAAAd" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank"> <em>Generation Hustle</em></a>-- which tracks the stories of 10 young scammers, con-artists, and/or sociopaths-- before trying to pinpoint the economic and social conditions that make these kinds of hustles so appealing to GenY and GenZ. Then, we turn to the "side-hustle" (gig work), an increasingly necessary hustle in the lives of workers across generations. Finally, we ask: why are we working so hard and in such a hurry all the time?</p><p>Full episode notes available at <a href="http://hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/episode-27-the-hustle/" target="_blank">this link</a>.</p><p>SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN TO HOTEL BAR PODCAST:<br /></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/2lVfzRLIhloqbHfgJRN45s" target="_blank">Spotify</a></li><li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/co/podcast/hotel-bar-sessions/id1554109334?l=en" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a></li><li><a href="https://www.audible.com/pd/Hotel-Bar-Sessions-Podcast/B08K5451MK" target="_blank">Audible</a></li><li><a href="https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy50cmFuc2lzdG9yLmZtL2hvdGVsLWJhci1zZXNzaW9ucw?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi62bXV3NHzAhXHbTABHdBoCSsQ9sEGegQIARAF" target="_blank">Google podcasts</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH8qDWEJF3VNjb7GjD_4ROQ" target="_blank">YouTube</a></li><li>(or anywhere else you listen to podcasts!)</li></ul><div>You can also listen to the full version of HBS Episode 27: The Hustle below.<br /><br /></div></div>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4dJL_ARojVs" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>Doctor Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189506916480012553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33488833.post-24517072711773609202021-10-17T10:13:00.004-05:002021-10-17T10:13:52.173-05:00Hotel Bar Sessions podcast, Ep 26: Music<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9MkGBr42jStaS2Ota5MyOvrQDN2dFtxcTu9UDBciJZdwtc-eY6Z8XUPG3m4yQRBbrJibJHzhGDQfko_CHEILs-NY89bvDUk_Nm4yKJiI3JuoJcEfSyrutxl1MtDESAAzNbrhG/s1080/tumblr_ppwd0maBPc1xnpbgzo2_r1_1280.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9MkGBr42jStaS2Ota5MyOvrQDN2dFtxcTu9UDBciJZdwtc-eY6Z8XUPG3m4yQRBbrJibJHzhGDQfko_CHEILs-NY89bvDUk_Nm4yKJiI3JuoJcEfSyrutxl1MtDESAAzNbrhG/w400-h400/tumblr_ppwd0maBPc1xnpbgzo2_r1_1280.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p>The HBS hosts talk about music, mathematics, groove, and "altar calls."</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><!--wp:paragraph-->
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<p>Dr. Charles Peterson takes the lead in this week's discussion of the power of music in our lives. After a quick run-down of each co-host's own musical likes and dislikes, the HBS gang jumps right into a consideration of the effect that music has on us both as individuals and collectively. Does music give us some singular insight into what it means to be human? What does music evoke within us? How does it seem to have the power to inspire, to sadden, to terrify, and to comfort? How can it be used to manipulate? Is music a key to understanding the order of the Universe? Is it a universal language? And, if music <em>is</em> a common "human" denominator, how do we explain people who have no rhythm, who are "tone-deaf," or why our musical tastes vary so widely?</p>
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<p>Full episode notes available at<a href="http://hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/episode-25-music/" target="_blank"> this link</a>.</p><p>SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN TO HOTEL BAR PODCAST:<br /></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/2lVfzRLIhloqbHfgJRN45s" target="_blank">Spotify</a></li><li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/co/podcast/hotel-bar-sessions/id1554109334?l=en" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a></li><li><a href="https://www.audible.com/pd/Hotel-Bar-Sessions-Podcast/B08K5451MK" target="_blank">Audible</a></li><li><a href="https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy50cmFuc2lzdG9yLmZtL2hvdGVsLWJhci1zZXNzaW9ucw?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi62bXV3NHzAhXHbTABHdBoCSsQ9sEGegQIARAF" target="_blank">Google podcasts</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH8qDWEJF3VNjb7GjD_4ROQ" target="_blank">YouTube</a></li><li>(or anywhere else you listen to podcasts!)</li></ul><div>You can also listen to the full version of HBS Episode 26: Music below</div><div><br /></div></div>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vw7aoZpnDd0" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>Doctor Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189506916480012553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33488833.post-90441189160150268622021-09-21T09:00:00.003-05:002021-09-21T09:00:57.310-05:00Hotel Bar Sessions, Episode 25 Guns<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinrjxNkxtSGb162sbx0YaIooOppvuWDpkQF9E5Y7Lwl3yn-9F8xeQ_jKZMAVAEGBhjJpPTGwA3_mQ4nem8PyiQUYdVt7WRopcJSVWPiXCl6nNn_j5BSvzc-uqwRfyxWzWw2GWh/s1202/ar15.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="1202" height="373" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinrjxNkxtSGb162sbx0YaIooOppvuWDpkQF9E5Y7Lwl3yn-9F8xeQ_jKZMAVAEGBhjJpPTGwA3_mQ4nem8PyiQUYdVt7WRopcJSVWPiXCl6nNn_j5BSvzc-uqwRfyxWzWw2GWh/w640-h373/ar15.png" width="640" /></a><br /><br /></p><p>The HBS hosts try to figure out why there are 150 guns for every 100 Americans. </p><p>In the midst of a pandemic, as COVID-related deaths creep close towards 1 million, it's easy to forget to the <i>other </i>public health epidemic plaguing the United States, namely, gun violence. Nearly 10,000 people have already been killed by gun violence by June of 2021, with no sign of slowing numbers. Schoolchildren regularly practice "active shooter" drills and, in states like Tennessee, gun-control laws have been relaxed so much that they are practically non-existent. A study published earlier this year shows that gun suicides are rising steeply in 2021, including among teenagers and children.<br /></p><p>Between January 1-August 31 of 2021, there were 242 days. A mass shooting occurred in the United States on all but 44 of those days. </p><p>How did we get here and who have we become? Who is suffering the most from gun violence in the United States, and who is most guilty for gun deaths? Is the Second Amendment's gurantee that "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" been interpreted too loosely? Should the Second Amendment be repealed? In this episode, we take a look look at all of those questions, as well as Carol Anderson's new book <i>The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America</i>.</p><p>You can listen to the episode below. Full episode notes at <a href="http://hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/episode-25-guns/" target="_blank">this link.</a></p><p><br /></p>
<iframe frameborder="no" height="180" scrolling="no" seamless="" src="https://share.transistor.fm/e/d93aabf5/dark" width="100%"></iframe>Doctor Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189506916480012553noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33488833.post-42542253290152429242021-08-29T13:57:00.005-05:002021-08-29T13:57:38.977-05:00Hotel Bar Sessions, Episode 24: Specialization<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEHSlBR6U4KQHJehrQ_dVw6dQAphnsFnr288ThETi4_9rNcEgcVG9dhryXoDSiujO6Nsb1kwiybB8CtRxlp_ni2VMpjye6FUmmSQ28i-GzbgJ374MmpkcVQPRk8-GUWgDAdP2y/s699/1520220106942.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="699" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEHSlBR6U4KQHJehrQ_dVw6dQAphnsFnr288ThETi4_9rNcEgcVG9dhryXoDSiujO6Nsb1kwiybB8CtRxlp_ni2VMpjye6FUmmSQ28i-GzbgJ374MmpkcVQPRk8-GUWgDAdP2y/w640-h366/1520220106942.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>The HBS hosts discuss academic specializations and how to make the humanities more inclusive.</p><p></p><p>Over the last several decades, there has been a long-overdue push for professors in the humanities to diversify their curricula to include more women, BIPOC, queer, disabled, and other under-represented thinkers and texts. Yet, theh "add diversity and stir" model for syllabus design in many ways <i>fails</i> to address a lot of the problems that motivated this demand in the first place. It isn't just syllabi in the humanities that have a diversity problem. It's the humanities professoriate itself.</p><p>First, academics from traditionally dominant demographic groups-- white, make, straight, non-disabled, and middle-to-upper class-- ought not presume that their academic training has necessarily equipped them with the knowledge, skills, or understanding to simply "take up" an unfamiliar field of specialization with the same level of knowledge, skill, and understanding as a specialist in that area possesses. Second, pressuring the current professoriate to "add diversity and stir" tends to de-emphasize the need for universities and individual departments to hire faculty from traditionally under-represented demographics with <i>specialized training</i> in the needed areas. BUT... third, we must also be careful not to assume that every person's scholarly specialization mirrors their personal identity.</p><p>How can we think about strategies for diversifying both the curricula and the faculty in humanities fields without reproducing the same prejudices that have made the humanities so <i>non</i>-diverse?</p><p>Full episode notes available at <a href="http://hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/episode-24-specialization/" target="_blank">this link</a>. You can listen to Episode 24 below:</p><iframe frameborder="no" height="180" scrolling="no" seamless="" src="https://share.transistor.fm/e/477e8c71/dark" width="100%"></iframe>Doctor Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189506916480012553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33488833.post-75371581084614449142021-08-29T13:45:00.007-05:002021-08-29T13:47:03.184-05:00Hotel Bar Sessions, Episode 23: Superheroes<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7hP6QNXtKdQvnykF8c7zoIdv0sbSrb7eDdb-kDDSrCAcmvZo253ZNVVFhBK1-zgPEc-rqCqBW-0ZMpLIRiYbdVcNiEU40XhNSnEEeznk6bChfFMaFgjxWKVfjxMGH-5xyc3F6/s640/kapow-1601675_1280.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7hP6QNXtKdQvnykF8c7zoIdv0sbSrb7eDdb-kDDSrCAcmvZo253ZNVVFhBK1-zgPEc-rqCqBW-0ZMpLIRiYbdVcNiEU40XhNSnEEeznk6bChfFMaFgjxWKVfjxMGH-5xyc3F6/w640-h480/kapow-1601675_1280.png" width="640" /></a></p>The HBS hosts discuss the role of superheroes in culture and popular media.<p></p><p>In American graphic fiction and contemporary film, the superhero stands at the center of many popular narratives. Superhero stories published by DC Comics and Marvel are a multi-million dollar <i>per year </i>industry and, in 2019 alone, superhero movies grossed 3.19 <i>billion</i> dollars in revenue. Although it may seem to the novice as if these publishing houses and film studios just recycle the same stories (and sequels) over and over, connoisseurs of the genre know that the figure of the "superhero' has changed and evolved dramatically over the last half-century. What does the figure of the superhero represent? Who does it serve? How has it adapted to reflect broader culteral, political, and social change?</p><p>In this episode, Dr. Charles F. Peterson-- and <i>bona fide</i> connoisseur of comics and superhero films-- schools his novice co-hosts on the nuances of superheroes and their development, as well as the deep and often profound philosophical truths that the figure of the superhero helps to reveal about us ordinary (not super and no heroic) humans. <br /><br />Full episode notes available at <a href="http://hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/episode-23-superheroes/" target="_blank">this link</a>. You can listen to Episode 23 below.</p><p><br /></p><iframe frameborder="no" height="180" scrolling="no" seamless="" src="https://share.transistor.fm/e/e8173d3c/dark" width="100%"></iframe>Doctor Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189506916480012553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33488833.post-75508100877948999452021-08-29T13:36:00.004-05:002021-08-29T13:46:46.383-05:00Hotel Bar Sessions, Episode 22: White Working Class<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUiP2n68ePJMrsts2BB_zcsgzAnlVF1kxuZy3FPObHFUeAr5lX3MqiZReY54ji6o7zkpkzE2o5qrU9nk1kKMHagsKMojHYz2nG_H6KiPXdKVGGxE6eO9q3c6_zpsXgAQROfrS4/s1440/Hard_Hats_AP_img.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="907" data-original-width="1440" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUiP2n68ePJMrsts2BB_zcsgzAnlVF1kxuZy3FPObHFUeAr5lX3MqiZReY54ji6o7zkpkzE2o5qrU9nk1kKMHagsKMojHYz2nG_H6KiPXdKVGGxE6eO9q3c6_zpsXgAQROfrS4/w640-h404/Hard_Hats_AP_img.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>The HBS hosts take a critical look at the white working class and their grievances.<div><br /></div><div>Leading up to the 2016 election of President Donald Trump, and even more so afterwards, the U.S. found itself inundated with analyses of the allegedly "overlooked" grievances of the white working class. Were those legitimate grievances that should have been affirmed and addressed? Who belongs to the WWC in America, anyway? Do they share a "class consciousness" in the traditional Marxian sense, or are they primarily identifiable by their shared Whiteness? Are there multiple iterations of the "white working class"? And, if so, are the many WWC's compatible?</div><div><br /></div><div>Dr. Rick Lee is in the hot seat for this episode's deep dive into the definition, evaluation, and anaysis of the white working class, who are clearly (in Rick's estimation) "lashing out." <br /><br />Full episode notes at<a href="http://hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/episode-22-white-working-class/" target="_blank"> this link</a>. You can listen to Episode 22 below:</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><iframe frameborder="no" height="180" scrolling="no" seamless="" src="https://share.transistor.fm/e/ba541171/dark" width="100%"></iframe>Doctor Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189506916480012553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33488833.post-83830706838118103822021-08-06T13:01:00.000-05:002021-08-06T13:01:01.336-05:00Hotel Bar Sessions, Episode 21: Conspiracy Theories<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkn8WmYcdQnue-QCZtyeKYnS5csRERxVCXoQYDd9DJE9OXUGPWsbgffcqJ_rjPJJwcM82a0yGnDMUyK9sj2N2emIwnC_BRuNKFptQstg3KVOFssMHHtVOnzOxmYn13BrONXaU8/s1146/e08e7a81-2ffa-4858-954c-8b124daeb1e8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="802" data-original-width="1146" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkn8WmYcdQnue-QCZtyeKYnS5csRERxVCXoQYDd9DJE9OXUGPWsbgffcqJ_rjPJJwcM82a0yGnDMUyK9sj2N2emIwnC_BRuNKFptQstg3KVOFssMHHtVOnzOxmYn13BrONXaU8/w400-h280/e08e7a81-2ffa-4858-954c-8b124daeb1e8.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div style="--tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; background-color: white; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #374151; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The HBS hosts discuss conspiracy theories and what motivates people to believe in them. <br style="--tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="--tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div><div style="--tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; background-color: white; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #374151; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The word "conspiracy" derives from the Latin <em style="--tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">con-</em> ("with" or "together") and <em style="--tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">spirare</em> ("to breathe"), and it seems like more and more people are breathing in the thin air of dubious explanations and bonding together over them. From Q-Anon to flat earthers to anti-vaxxers to climate change deniers to people convinced that a pedophilic, blood-drinking, sex-trafficking, deep state cabal is orchestrating our lives, conspiracy theories have captured the hearts and minds of many in the 21st C. United States. Is this new? Should we worry? And what <em style="--tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">really</em> happened to Jeffrey Epstein?</span></div><div style="--tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; background-color: white; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #374151; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="--tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div><div style="--tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; background-color: white; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #374151; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Leigh M. Johnson take the lead in this episode's conversation and, together with co-hosts Rick Lee and Charles Peterson, tries get to the bottom of what motivates people to believe in conspiracy theories. We take a brief tour through the history of conspiracy theories before getting to their benefits (making the world seem to make sense) and harms (too many to list), and then confronting the 800lb internet gorilla: QAnon. We also try to tease out the difference between <em style="--tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">believing in</em> a conspiracy theory and "conspiratorial thinking," and we consider what <a href="https://twitter.com/add_hawk" style="--tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-text-opacity: 1; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;">Thi Nguyen's</a> thoughts on echo chambers and epistemic bubbles might tell us about conspiracy theorists. <br style="--tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="--tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div><div style="--tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; background-color: white; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #374151; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Full episode notes available at <a href="http://hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/episode-21-conspiracy-theories" style="--tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-text-opacity: 1; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;">this llnk</a>. You can listen to the episode below:<br /><br /><br /></span></div></div><br /><p></p>
<iframe width="100%" height="180" frameborder="no" scrolling="no" seamless src="https://share.transistor.fm/e/5bd34748/dark"></iframe>Doctor Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189506916480012553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33488833.post-47390751520328075782021-07-31T16:21:00.002-05:002021-07-31T16:21:13.439-05:00Hotel Bar Sessions, Episode 20: Vulgarity<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBIX1djBGx3L8zPhcVsbMtwRpSI-zQwpi-iF3rOEe-E2cHEXObazFMc8aJm7xykcE3DyQzoEB9OSe5x9LJtMorZVrBfQmnT-SUkOcdDTHF0NTK8FGEti1RZS-TQREOeDtr87p0/s770/obscenity1+%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="668" data-original-width="770" height="556" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBIX1djBGx3L8zPhcVsbMtwRpSI-zQwpi-iF3rOEe-E2cHEXObazFMc8aJm7xykcE3DyQzoEB9OSe5x9LJtMorZVrBfQmnT-SUkOcdDTHF0NTK8FGEti1RZS-TQREOeDtr87p0/w640-h556/obscenity1+%25281%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>The HBS hosts lower themselves into the muck in this NSFW episode!<div><br /></div><div>Dr. Charles F. Peterson is in the hot seat for this discussion of vulgarity. What is the difference between obscenity, profanity, and vulgarity? Who determines what is "appropriate" or "inappropriate" in public (or in private)? Is the very concept of vulgarity elitist?<br /><br />When they go high, we go very, very low! Definitely ask your kids and grandparents to leave the room before listening to this hilarious-- and surprisingly complex-- discussion!<br /><br />Full episode notes available at<a href="http://hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/episode-20-vulgarity/" target="_blank"> this link</a>. You can listen to the episode in its entirety below:</div><div><br /></div>
<iframe frameborder="no" height="180" scrolling="no" seamless="" src="https://share.transistor.fm/e/7e3c5641/dark" width="100%"></iframe>Doctor Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189506916480012553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33488833.post-13772165788993440382021-07-31T16:12:00.002-05:002021-07-31T16:13:10.203-05:00Hotel Bar Sessions "Afterthoughts" (Episodes 16-18)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7AuVI6H-qlX18zFKoOBY6POCcHyo2OvSObRIfpg1RAcjGD7Mx6oEF60VWeCI-8uh2R3NNiGWilfNco-c0TBT1DgMm3SqD1pfAi0zEeNhauRpE7wwTmm_pjOjBky66vdYOAUI4/s1117/209474913_10125775696753974_7427884099905694974_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="619" data-original-width="1117" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7AuVI6H-qlX18zFKoOBY6POCcHyo2OvSObRIfpg1RAcjGD7Mx6oEF60VWeCI-8uh2R3NNiGWilfNco-c0TBT1DgMm3SqD1pfAi0zEeNhauRpE7wwTmm_pjOjBky66vdYOAUI4/w640-h354/209474913_10125775696753974_7427884099905694974_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>For Season 2 of Hotel Bar Sessions, we're recording one "Afterthoughts" episode for every three podcast episodes, which we post to our HBS YouTube channel. The "Afterthoughts" series gives us a chance to say <i>what we wish we would've said</i> during one of the podcasts, or to add something new to the conversation that only occurred to us after the podcast aired. </p><p>"Afterthoughts" also gives HBS listeners a chance to see the real, live, made-for-radio faces of the HBS hosts in action!</p><p>Here's the first "Afterthoughts" of Season 2, in which we talk about Episode 16 ("Private Cities"), Episode 17 ("Citizenship"), and Episode 18 ("Digital Afterlives"). Enjoy!<br /><br /></p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/De_7V4BzSxA" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div>Doctor Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189506916480012553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33488833.post-21747288836065422782021-07-25T10:41:00.000-05:002021-07-25T10:41:01.332-05:00Hotel Bar Sessions Ep 19: Laughter<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZJbrEjIux8nzqYLhKjrs_U2zhLFFiR-McPwyucZwjsGcefIg4yY60j1UMS5J8k1D1E-CKn6rBvNgXJgtI7XXjRQIpnIu_13fS_oaaINKJkvYB81mU8y3Ea9zMQRUlP3iJCFUf/s707/awesome-face-smiley-yellow-laughing-wallpaper-preview+%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="541" data-original-width="707" height="490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZJbrEjIux8nzqYLhKjrs_U2zhLFFiR-McPwyucZwjsGcefIg4yY60j1UMS5J8k1D1E-CKn6rBvNgXJgtI7XXjRQIpnIu_13fS_oaaINKJkvYB81mU8y3Ea9zMQRUlP3iJCFUf/w640-h490/awesome-face-smiley-yellow-laughing-wallpaper-preview+%25281%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>In advance of Rick Lee's forthcoming book, co-hosts Charles and Leigh ask him why he thinks all "theories" of comedy are inadequate. What exactly is the "joke" part of a joke? Why are philosophers not only hostile to comedy, but also categorically unfunny? Is comedy formulaic or does it resist systematic analysis? What is the difference between laughing <i>at</i> and laughing <i>with</i>? What is happening to us when we laugh together-- as the HBS hosts do <i>a lot</i> in this episode!-- and how does laughter connect us to one another?</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chrysostom" target="_blank">John Chrysostom</a> once warned that "laughter often gives birth to foul discourse" and the HBS hosts are determined to prove the archbishop of Constantinople right in this episode. Definitely pour yourself a drink before sitting down to listen to this conversation, because it's a helluva lot of fun!</p><p>Full episode notes available on the Hotel Bar Sessions website at <a href="http://hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/episode-19-laughter/" target="_blank">this link</a>. Listen to the episode below:</p><iframe frameborder="no" height="180" scrolling="no" seamless="" src="https://share.transistor.fm/e/e48d445a/dark" width="100%"></iframe>Doctor Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189506916480012553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33488833.post-8437951184372677612021-07-23T17:13:00.001-05:002021-07-23T17:13:21.186-05:00Hotel Bar Sessions Ep 18: Digital Afterlives<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiYl8VLSwEDleH9yH2IxIEcCfi1Yn2uGnCVi3tKCUoa1PVjgoUBOWhRYU0L6l86yLoi1h4sNYZlNCglmqb1fm-TT3IW2ld554PTJthQ50TVYDNm0rWCPrOFpA0N1St68S1cPDl/s960/digitalafterlife+%25281%2529.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="960" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiYl8VLSwEDleH9yH2IxIEcCfi1Yn2uGnCVi3tKCUoa1PVjgoUBOWhRYU0L6l86yLoi1h4sNYZlNCglmqb1fm-TT3IW2ld554PTJthQ50TVYDNm0rWCPrOFpA0N1St68S1cPDl/w640-h426/digitalafterlife+%25281%2529.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /> Co-host Leigh M. Johnson is in the hot seat for this episode's discussion of "digital afterlives." If we consider the digital, i.e., information-based, self to be distinguishable from the living and breathing meatspace self, we should ask" how long can the Digital Me live on after the Meatspace Me dies? Technology already enables us to "re-animate" archives of digital information in many ways, and some futurists believe that we may someday be able to upload our consciounesses to the cloud. Who owns that information? What are they currently allowed (or not allowed) to do with it? What would happen if we insisted that all of our information be "deleted" after we (physically) die?<p></p><p>Whether or not you believe in a Heaven or Hell, all of us need to think more seriously about our digital afterlives. Charles, Rick, and Leigh work through some of that thinking-- and much more-- at the hotel bar in this episode. <br /><br />Check out the full episode notes at <a href="http://hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/episode-18-digital-afterlives/" target="_blank">this link</a>. Listen to the episode below:<br /><br /></p><iframe width="100%" height="180" frameborder="no" scrolling="no" seamless src="https://share.transistor.fm/e/3cd2ffe1/dark"></iframe>Doctor Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189506916480012553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33488833.post-33297595241466490352021-07-23T16:58:00.005-05:002021-07-23T16:58:48.356-05:00Hotel Bar Sessions Ep17: Citizenship<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbw7RmwWvuXC2doKHfmnFrgptWbsFFjeWRb1bVefBT38hVs-b7socMaqAtPDXw18bQTHWmDXuEfCgMxcZvydqeaMWAyJQcw1LSak8Jc_1iDMieI57y4ev6HQCNn3Lk6YVXvRXu/s718/12328532-3x2-xlarge-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="571" data-original-width="718" height="508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbw7RmwWvuXC2doKHfmnFrgptWbsFFjeWRb1bVefBT38hVs-b7socMaqAtPDXw18bQTHWmDXuEfCgMxcZvydqeaMWAyJQcw1LSak8Jc_1iDMieI57y4ev6HQCNn3Lk6YVXvRXu/w640-h508/12328532-3x2-xlarge-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>This episode explores the political and ethical dimensions of the category of the "citizen." In anticipation of his soon-to-be-released book <i>Beyond Civil Disobedience: Social Nullification and Black Citizenship</i> (August 2021!), Charles Peterson takes the "captain's seat" for this episode's discussion of the limits of citizenship, the failure of the state, and the construction of new categories of social, political, and civic identity. Millions of people have taken to the streets in protest over the last decade. What are the questions those citizens are asking about the failures of their government? What do these protests say about how we think about the relationship between individuals and their communities, and the relationship of those communities to the State? How can we develop a more robust conception of engaged, healthy, responsible, and critical citizenship?</p><p>Check out the full episode notes on the Hotel Bar Sessions website <a href="http://hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/episode-17-citizenship/" target="_blank">here</a>. Listen to the episode below:</p><iframe width="100%" height="180" frameborder="no" scrolling="no" seamless src="https://share.transistor.fm/e/693a2743/dark"></iframe>Doctor Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189506916480012553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33488833.post-78063876887004109492021-07-23T16:48:00.004-05:002021-07-23T17:00:21.223-05:00Hotel Bar Sessions Ep16: Private Cities<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaAFuR_BXwwZPDpRBt30pNYhPaPK20DlhR-xlNkIbl1A_Tove7IciHt74_KWQ-gEA4r51-Ezf9G_FyQQuPYyVd9KBx6cJn-mRffiSS4PAEhtGYv4iI4k0k0vdqKlrlMZ2w4nf_/s717/0511_zuccotti.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="478" data-original-width="717" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaAFuR_BXwwZPDpRBt30pNYhPaPK20DlhR-xlNkIbl1A_Tove7IciHt74_KWQ-gEA4r51-Ezf9G_FyQQuPYyVd9KBx6cJn-mRffiSS4PAEhtGYv4iI4k0k0vdqKlrlMZ2w4nf_/w640-h426/0511_zuccotti.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>The HBS hosts discuss how cities, once considered hubs of public life and interaction, have become increasingly segregated, partitioned, disconnected, and privatized. <br /><br />Drawing on his experience using the city of Chigoe as a classroom, Rick Lee asks: can we identify the material markers of "privatization" in contemporary cities? How do we know which parts of the city are for "us," which parts of the city are for <i>everyone</i>, and which parts aren't? Is there anything like a "public commons" anymore and, if so, where is it? What can we learn from the fact that even park benches and bus stops are physically-engineered to prevent the unhoused from being able to find rest or shelter? How might we <i>build</i> a more just city? <br /><br />Check out the full episode notes on the Hotel Bar Sessions website <a href="http://hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/episode-16-private-cities/" target="_blank">here</a>. Listen to the episode below:<br /><br /></p><p></p><iframe frameborder="no" height="180" scrolling="no" seamless="" src="https://share.transistor.fm/e/647c3a5f/dark" width="100%"></iframe>Doctor Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189506916480012553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33488833.post-11179412327368385252021-07-23T16:25:00.004-05:002021-07-23T16:25:53.730-05:00Hotel Bar Sessions podcast: A brief history<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7sBVWmXubqsWLQwxEbF63wC1VMV397F5eY8LwdDvHIunV3rfJegLLdx_sEzFRVijuo2BvMQhbSSIomBfv9rFFFuQm9t23CaeKBavxOcNmrwfTL6W6vA-MxJNT9tIzKRT2CqYq/s2048/webs+hbs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="2048" height="338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7sBVWmXubqsWLQwxEbF63wC1VMV397F5eY8LwdDvHIunV3rfJegLLdx_sEzFRVijuo2BvMQhbSSIomBfv9rFFFuQm9t23CaeKBavxOcNmrwfTL6W6vA-MxJNT9tIzKRT2CqYq/w640-h338/webs+hbs.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>I can't be sure who's still regularly checking in on this blog, but those of you who are have surely noticed that I've shifted my energies from blogging to podcasting over the last year. Beginning in November 2020, I did a 22-episode run of my first podcast <a href="http://www.readmorewritemorethinkmorebemore.com/p/podcast.html" target="_blank">BLACK MIRROR REFLECTIONS</a><i>, </i>in which I interviewed philosophers, filmmakers, and tech-savvy intellectuals about the technology, philosophy, morality, and politics of the Netflix series <i><a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/70264888" target="_blank">Black Mirror</a>. </i>Each episode of BMR was dedicated to parsing through one episode of <i>Black Mirror</i>, and I think we ended up with a lot of smart and interesting conversations when the series finally concluded. (It only concluded because we ran out of <i>Black Mirror </i>episodes to talk about!) I more or less "hosted" the <i>Black Mirror Reflections</i> podcast on this blog, so you can find all of the episodes in this blog's feed, or by clicking the "Black Mirror Reflections" tab in the top menu, or at <a href="http://www.readmorewritemorethinkmorebemore.com/p/podcast.html" target="_blank">this link</a>. </p><p>BLACK MIRROR REFLECTIONS was a real lifesaver last year. It provided me an opportunity to reach out to other philosophers and to have engaging, smart, and provocative conversations about things that I was interested in at a time when I felt thoroughly trapped and completely isolated in my pandemic bubble. Even though I did all of the BMR interviews and recorded all of the episodes via Zoom, there was a world of difference between sitting in an hour-long Zoom session with one of my BMR guests and the 30 other hours a week I was Zooming for classes, committee meetings, and whatever those lame "virtual happy hours" were supposed to be. In the end, I was really happy with the BMR podcast in terms of its final content but, on reflection, I realized it was a <i>very </i>amateur podcast in terms of audio production and distribution. After it concluded, though, I had definitely caught the podcasting bug, so I committed myself to creating another podcast... but not without learning the (technical) ropes first!</p><p>[Insert a couple of months of audio engineering autodidactism, way too much money spent on hardware and software, and many long hours of annoying my partner with conversations about potential podcast ideas!]</p><p>Here's what I knew for sure in terms of what I wanted to do next: I definitely wanted to do a "philosophy" podcast, but I didn't want it to be too inside-baseball. That is to say, I wanted to cover topics that were philosophically interesting, but maybe not so obviously capital-P Philosophy in the way that academics might reckon it. I didn't want listeners to feel like they were required to have a deep familiarity with academic Philosophy to "get" what was going on in the conversation, and I definitely didn't want to require listeners to do homework in advance just to understand why what we were talking about was important or interesting. </p><p>I also didn't want to do a podcast where I just blathered on in front of a mic, alone. So I knew I was going to need co-hosts, but I also knew I needed co-hosts that could talk about philosophically interesting topics in a not-too-inside-baseball way, and who were open-minded enough to have an expansive and non-prejudicial sense of what was "philosophically interesting." <br /><br />Was this even possible?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq1OTKq1l3xm9hMjMdPOGFAVmVr4KEbx-c4BCLsLrjarFMoK3rMLKNUiFi4YqlBv1wt9rF2oltu93R-SmHcmVlmHicGdjzWmYZvCDPiZcA2oFK65GIjDAPhFMbLfDwyqGe4Y2m/s500/original_203995161.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq1OTKq1l3xm9hMjMdPOGFAVmVr4KEbx-c4BCLsLrjarFMoK3rMLKNUiFi4YqlBv1wt9rF2oltu93R-SmHcmVlmHicGdjzWmYZvCDPiZcA2oFK65GIjDAPhFMbLfDwyqGe4Y2m/s320/original_203995161.gif" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It was possible, but it 100% did NOT just 'work itself out naturally.' Well, the <i>idea</i> of it did work itself out naturally-- in fact, over a few margaritas with my partner one night!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">After recruiting my Season 1 co-hosts, <a href="https://twitter.com/ideasmanphd" target="_blank">Ammon Allred</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/lovelyblueness" target="_blank">Shannon M. Mussett</a>, who were absolutely perfect for this experiment in every way, we still needed a podcast title and "concept." Then, one night, after several margaritas, I was telling my girlfriend about the kinds of conversations that philosophers have when they go to a conference and then meet up at the hotel bar at the end of the day to shoot the shit. I told her I wanted the podcast to capture those exact kinds of conversations, where everyone orders a drink, cuts loose a little, realizes they're in the one space that they can be in-- maybe only once or twice a year-- where (in my experience) the <i>real </i>philosophy happens. She turned to me and said, "That's what you should call the podcast: Hotel Bar Sessions."<br /><br />And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how HBS got its name. (Thanks, <a href="https://www.klinejewelers.com/" target="_blank">Kassandra Line</a>!) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The rest of HBS did not work itself out so easily. There was a lot still to learn about the limits of Zoom recordings-- remember that we were still trying to co-host a podcast with three remote hosts during a pandemic-- and none of us had any idea, really, how much work it was going to take to set up all of the infrastructure (website, SM feeds, YouTube channel, monetization options) necessary for properly "launching" a new podcast. That was a LOT of work. And it was a lot of work that we were doing remotely, while some of the co-hosts were managing families and all of us were managing our psychological health one full year into a pandemic lockdown and with no vaccine in sight.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">But we did it. We put out 15 super high-quality content episodes-- covering everything from nostalgia to metrics to the Philosophical Canon to freedom-- in <a href="http://hotelbarpodcast.com/episodes-list/" target="_blank">Season 1 of Hotel Bar Sessions</a>. And I am very proud of the work we did.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Unfortunately, at the end of Season 1, the original HBS team's scheduling got too difficult to coordinate and I had to find new co-hosts... but, fortunately, when I started digging around for replacements, I hit the GOLDMINE!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5Pt1VmhxoHtqtPQXhhGOk6MOgPblaezXhs3QXc5DKPJ3QxOaNzilplAgywwILN5kNa1hUyjQ5Rx6fMCyFU713_HhwMqzFz9zPws-YxvLdoDxCdjrDLXnHIhXo_fQKFqrWg2To/s500/c13629797876df67c9286b2683b42760.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="239" data-original-width="500" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5Pt1VmhxoHtqtPQXhhGOk6MOgPblaezXhs3QXc5DKPJ3QxOaNzilplAgywwILN5kNa1hUyjQ5Rx6fMCyFU713_HhwMqzFz9zPws-YxvLdoDxCdjrDLXnHIhXo_fQKFqrWg2To/w640-h306/c13629797876df67c9286b2683b42760.gif" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Season 2 of Hotel Bar Sessions launched four weeks ago, and we're going strong. My new co-hosts are <a href="https://www.oberlin.edu/charles-peterson" target="_blank">Dr. Charles F. Peterson</a> (Associate Professor and Chair of Africana Studies and Director of the Gertrude B. Lemie Teaching and Learning Center, Oberlin College) and <a href="https://las.depaul.edu/academics/philosophy/faculty/Pages/richard-lee.aspx" target="_blank">Dr. Rick Lee</a> (Professor of Philosophy, DePaul University). You can read their own account of themselves on the HBS Co-hosts page<a href="http://hotelbarpodcast.com/about-us/" target="_blank"> here</a>. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Rick and Charles tick all the boxes: they're insanely smart, they're broad-minded, they're amazingly generous interlocutors, and they are both flat-out hilarious. Season 2 of HBS is more raucous (and raunchy, at times) than Season 1, but it's also better produced, since we switched to a triple-ender recording format. We've updated and streamlined our <a href="http://hotelbarpodcast.com/" target="_blank">website</a>, we've maintained the same <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hotelbarsessionspodcast" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/hotelbarpodcast" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH8qDWEJF3VNjb7GjD_4ROQ" target="_blank">YouTube</a> profiles, and we've still got the same <a href="mailto:hotelbarpodcast@gmail.com">Gmail address</a>, so definitely like, follow, subscribe, and email us whenever you want!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A few things have changed in Season 2, other than the co-hosts. We now have a regularly-occurring segment of "Rando Facts" in each episode (which we provide, or so we claim, as a "public service to our listeners" to help them spice up their cocktail party conversations!). Also, the Season 2 episodes are, by and large, NSFW. (We cuss like sailors!) And, because our areas of philosophical expertise don't overlap completely, I think you'll find that there is a lot more genuine engagement and friendly disagreement between the co-hosts in Season 2.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">HBS Season 2, like HBS Season 1, is scheduled to run for 15 episodes, and we've got a great line-up of conversations coming over the next few months. I don't anticipate another change in co-hosts at the end of this season-- then again, I didn't anticipate it at the end of Season 1, either!-- but let's keep our fingers crossed that Frangelica, our Season 2 bartender, keeps heavy-pouring the drinks and Rick and Charles remain their coarse and chatty selves!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgup08mX7-ESz2W5-naBYEgjV94TudvVWFYhxFpv2BRy6dI_OgDQ0Y2PE4xf8pof8fEsaxVDrT0ji86-Q0iIlObiDIDO_lX5vK8tqyDadk93WQmZHpOkLO8Bk4eWq_3bwUe0ZmW/s690/5hflyr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="362" data-original-width="690" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgup08mX7-ESz2W5-naBYEgjV94TudvVWFYhxFpv2BRy6dI_OgDQ0Y2PE4xf8pof8fEsaxVDrT0ji86-Q0iIlObiDIDO_lX5vK8tqyDadk93WQmZHpOkLO8Bk4eWq_3bwUe0ZmW/w640-h336/5hflyr.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />FWIW, there are a lot of great philosophy podcasts out there <i>doing real philosophy</i>. (I'm a big fan of <a href="https://partiallyexaminedlife.com/" target="_blank">The Partially Examined Life</a>, <a href="https://www.patreon.com/leftofphilosophy" target="_blank">What's Left of Philosophy?</a>, and <a href="https://unmutetalk.podbean.com/" target="_blank">The UnMute Podcast</a>, but you should find your own!) I've always been a champion of public-facing philosophy, and I think that philosophy podcasts are the best thing public philosophers have going (other than op-eds). But we've got to find the signal in the noise-- YES I'M LOOKING AT YOU, NOISY-ASS BLATHERER, JORDAN PETERSON!-- and the only way to drown out the noise is to SUBSRIBE, SHARE, PROMOTE, and DONATE to philosophy podcasters who you think are doing good work.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I hope you'll give Hotel Bar Sessions a listen and I hope you'll <a href="https://hotelbarpodcast.com/" target="_blank">subscribe</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/home" target="_blank">follow</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hotelbarsessionspodcast" target="_blank">like/share</a>, promote, and <a href="https://account.venmo.com/u/Leigh-Johnson-5" target="_blank">donate </a>to us... but, even if HBS is not your jam, take a minute to check out the <a href="https://dailynous.com/2020/11/23/big-list-philosophy-podcasts/" target="_blank">long list of philosophy podcasters</a> who are out there doing good work. <br /><br />Going forward, I'll be posting new HBS episodes to this blog, so you can listen to us here, too. </div>Doctor Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189506916480012553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33488833.post-6447770298911329972021-03-05T06:00:00.001-06:002021-03-05T06:00:05.543-06:00BLACK MIRROR REFLECTIONS, Ep 22: "Smithereens" with James Buchanan Wallace<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0q8fy0H1pmcfkEpIv5xqpSNk4JhV6U08tsCW6h509OMFLl_gAwk9ZjA-5HIEerdFKnfb9gm8ZWz58xrOOzMEzv0T1lMO2AsCtQlzRfvqrJ-Qt04e876MAZZ8TxlswpWt2cspz/s660/black-mirror-smithereens.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="371" data-original-width="660" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0q8fy0H1pmcfkEpIv5xqpSNk4JhV6U08tsCW6h509OMFLl_gAwk9ZjA-5HIEerdFKnfb9gm8ZWz58xrOOzMEzv0T1lMO2AsCtQlzRfvqrJ-Qt04e876MAZZ8TxlswpWt2cspz/w640-h360/black-mirror-smithereens.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>For Episode 22 (our last episode!), I am joined by Dr. James Buchanan "Bru" Wallace to talk about religion, techniques of the self, guilt, the imperative to look up from your screen and <i>really see</i> others, and "Smithereens" (Season 5, Episode 2 of <i>Black Mirror</i>), which first premiered in 2019.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8RO4oj-EZ6m2fikObc5Sxw2eayFZfTu41FRlI_G1zssrjQfGuKd3HXZn2Jt4v8UBTIsbJje4qe8Y9ntxjhhiwyCDYjjpEVdfg01lmKuJQYUSu5ItpEg4ZK5h2v9mmpgDzL6dF/s1944/64530955_467702403963821_7089501030001410048_o.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1458" data-original-width="1944" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8RO4oj-EZ6m2fikObc5Sxw2eayFZfTu41FRlI_G1zssrjQfGuKd3HXZn2Jt4v8UBTIsbJje4qe8Y9ntxjhhiwyCDYjjpEVdfg01lmKuJQYUSu5ItpEg4ZK5h2v9mmpgDzL6dF/s320/64530955_467702403963821_7089501030001410048_o.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Dr. <a href="https://www.cbu.edu/directory/faculty/james-buchanan-wallace/" target="_blank">James Buchanan Wallace</a>, known to friends and colleagues by his nickname “Bru,” is Professor of Religion at Christian Brothers University, where he also chairs the <a href="https://www.cbu.edu/academics/undergraduate-programs/religion-philosophy/" target="_blank">Department of Religion and Philosophy</a>. He has taught at Christian Brothers University since 2008, the year he received his Ph.D. in Religion from Emory University. He is the author of <i><a href="https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110247855/html" target="_blank">Snatched into Paradise (2 Cor 12:1-10): Paul’s Heavenly Journey in the Context of Early Christian Experience</a></i> (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2011), and co-editor, with Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr and Predrag Dragutinović, of the volume, <i><a href="https://www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/the-holy-spirit-and-the-church-according-to-the-new-testament-9783161535079" target="_blank">The Holy Spirit and the Church According to the New Testament</a></i> (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2016). With Athanasios Despotis, Bru is co-founder and co-chair of “Biblical Exegesis from Eastern Orthodox Perspectives,” a program unit of the <a href="https://www.sbl-site.org/" target="_blank">Society of Biblical Literature</a>. His research interests include the Greco-Roman and Jewish religious contexts of the New Testament and the history of the interpretation of New Testament writings, especially the letters of Paul, in the eastern Church Fathers. Most recently, he has been writing about and assessing modern Eastern Orthodox (Christian) biblical scholarship.<p></p><div>You can listen to our conversation in its entirety here:<br /><br /></div><iframe frameborder="no" height="180" scrolling="no" seamless="" src="https://share.transistor.fm/e/dff6b803/dark" width="100%"></iframe><div><br /></div><div>Here at BLACK MIRROR REFLECTIONS, we assume that everyone is already committed to read more, write more, think more, and be more... so here's a helpful list of links to thinkers, technologies, books, and articles referenced in this episode:</div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://www.self.com/story/best-meditation-apps" target="_blank">"The 15 Best Meditation Apps According to People Who Actually Meditate" </a></li><li><a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/2/27/17053758/phone-addictive-design-google-apple" target="_blank">"It's not you. Phones are designed to be addictive"</a> (<i>Vox</i>, 2018)</li><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/12/facebook-told-grant-grieving-mother-access-daughters-account" target="_blank">"Facebook told to grant grieving mother access to daughter's account"</a> (<i>The Guardian</i>, 2018)</li><li><a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2018/08/22/how-teens-and-parents-navigate-screen-time-and-device-distractions/pi_2018-08-22_teens-screentime_0-01/" target="_blank">Research on smartphone addiction</a> (Pew Research Center, 2018)</li><li><br /></li></ul></div>Doctor Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189506916480012553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33488833.post-50877827913094149182021-02-28T14:12:00.000-06:002021-02-28T14:12:27.526-06:00BLACK MIRROR REFLECTIONS, Ep 21: "Hang the DJ" with John Torrey<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPvQ1WRswbnw3CG5NeZtBHwpDZICxeGnvhSlRZKvS68h5el1Hkp0Y-bHde3dUkvnyYBCIIloEaxDgXkMbsUmUdAPzweAQenbYy0_xedMDEvqcj_nAGk-CKGfvQrdIE7MRzQwhi/s1280/3343981-08.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPvQ1WRswbnw3CG5NeZtBHwpDZICxeGnvhSlRZKvS68h5el1Hkp0Y-bHde3dUkvnyYBCIIloEaxDgXkMbsUmUdAPzweAQenbYy0_xedMDEvqcj_nAGk-CKGfvQrdIE7MRzQwhi/w640-h360/3343981-08.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>For Episode 21, I am joined by Dr. John Torrey to talk about whether or not we each have (and can find) "The One," dating apps, the freedom to make bad choices, simulated relationships, and "Hang the DJ" (Season 4, Episode 4 of <i>Black Mirror</i>), which first premiered in 2017.</p><p>This is the penultimate episode of BLACK MIRROR REFLECTIONS, as we have only one more episode of <i>Black Mirror</i> to discuss after this one! I have learned so much and had so much fun on this podcast that I am very sorry to end it, but I promise that if another season of <i>Black Mirror</i> is ever released, I will start it back up again!</p><p>In the interim, however, I want to encourage listeners/readers to please go ahead and subscribe to HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, which will be my next adventure in podcasting! I am really fortunate to have two amazing co-hosts for the new podcast, Ammon Allred and Shannon Mussett, and I am very much looking forward to the conversations we will have together. HOTEL BAR SESSIONS will release a new episode every Friday, just like BLACK MIRROR REFLECTIONS, and HBS will launch on March 12, the Friday after BMR ends (March 5). </p><p>You can learn more about the new podcast at our <a href="http://www.hotelbarpodcast.com/" target="_blank">HOTEL BAR SESSIONS website</a> or follow our updates on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/hotelbarpodcast" target="_blank">@hotelbarpodcast</a> and here's a trailer to whet your interest:<br /><br /></p>
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<div><br /></div><div>Now on to the episode notes for BMR 21!</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCpFS_x5zCQFpJIoZ-z8YzHIbFAsKyqZcSKQk5Tadx3ZDQp6uFXip9gCYILs_kp6-z6vbG_h2ij4izFurZQDrQxREaBSZmfL1qKGZXFPYs5i9Ofb6pdKdsscwFyfdxL_E5x6gO/s960/12003925_10109452967419404_6138479374323292900_n.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCpFS_x5zCQFpJIoZ-z8YzHIbFAsKyqZcSKQk5Tadx3ZDQp6uFXip9gCYILs_kp6-z6vbG_h2ij4izFurZQDrQxREaBSZmfL1qKGZXFPYs5i9Ofb6pdKdsscwFyfdxL_E5x6gO/s320/12003925_10109452967419404_6138479374323292900_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Dr. John Torrey is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and a contributing professor in the Africana Studies unit at SUNY Buffalo State. He holds a BA in Philosophy and Spanish from Morehouse College and an MA and Ph. D in Philosophy from the University of Memphis. His research interests are in the intersection of social and political philosophy and African-American philosophy, specifically how social recognition affects moral and political deliberations regarding calls for Black reparations in America; applied ethics, and pre-college philosophy. He has published on the theoretical underpinnings of Black Lives Matter and on doing precollege philosophy, and was featured on the UnMute Podcast (<a href="https://unmutetalk.podbean.com/e/episode-052-john-torrey-on-reparations/" target="_blank">Episode 52</a>) in 2020. He also has developed <a href="https://www.memphis.edu/philosophy/research/horizons.php" target="_blank">precollege philosophy programs</a> since 2010, including the July 2019 <a href="https://www.buffstatelyceum.com/?fbclid=IwAR3kTd1mfbk8-TJfxlxQHa4WSsnz2C8BmeYIU7HRsd77vGtiLy9mqPX3Bbk" target="_blank">Buffalo State Lyceum</a>, currently serves on the board of PLATO (<a href="https://www.plato-philosophy.org/" target="_blank">Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization</a>), and was recently appointed to Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown's <a href="https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/buffalo/public-safety/2020/09/18/commission-to-recommend-buffalo-police-policy--social-change-strategy-" target="_blank">Commission to Recommend Police Policy and Advance Social Reconstruction</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div>You can listen to our conversation about "Hang the DJ" in its entirety here:<br /><br /></div>
<iframe frameborder="no" height="180" scrolling="no" seamless="" src="https://share.transistor.fm/e/c8eeb251/dark" width="100%"></iframe> <div> Here at BLACK MIRROR REFLECTIONS, we assume that everyone is already committed to read more, write more, think more, and be more... so here's a helpful list of links to thinkers, technologies, books, and articles referenced in this episode:</div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://www.memphis.edu/philosophy/research/horizons.php" target="_blank">Philosophical Horizons</a> (University of Memphis)</li><li><a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/2/14/21137096/how-tinder-matches-work-algorithm-grindr-bumble-hinge-algorithms" target="_blank">How dating apps use your data</a> (<i>Vox</i>, 2020)</li><li><a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191112-how-dating-app-algorithms-predict-romantic-desire" target="_blank">How dating apps predict "matches"</a> (BBC, 2019)</li><li><a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2020/02/06/the-virtues-and-downsides-of-online-dating/" target="_blank">"The Virtues and Downsides of Online Dating"</a> (Pew Research, 2020)</li><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jan/24/lost-touch-how-a-year-without-hugs-affects-our-mental-health" target="_blank">The dangers of physical distancing (no hugs!) during COVID</a> (<i>The Guardian</i>, 2021)</li><li><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-we-live-in-a-simulation-chances-are-about-50-50/" target="_blank">Are we living in a simulation? </a>(<i>Scientific American</i>, 2020)</li></ul></div>Doctor Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189506916480012553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33488833.post-49287112768255662732021-02-19T06:00:00.004-06:002021-02-19T06:00:04.453-06:00BLACK MIRROR REFLECTIONS, Ep. 20: "Bandersnatch" with Eric Steinhart<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLZz0eR4ymgHtfzWmmINeauMIHzCEOqxIema9jKlNl-XGfBT33UwhazO6gFVW83FeK5neDtide2x6_1WY0bYbMyhj9xkBT63sdNNlkPzpzJYdm1fzZpenfhZ1l4glKFLwh65sj/s1200/Bandersnatch_Netflix_Ringer.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="628" data-original-width="1200" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLZz0eR4ymgHtfzWmmINeauMIHzCEOqxIema9jKlNl-XGfBT33UwhazO6gFVW83FeK5neDtide2x6_1WY0bYbMyhj9xkBT63sdNNlkPzpzJYdm1fzZpenfhZ1l4glKFLwh65sj/w640-h334/Bandersnatch_Netflix_Ringer.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>For Episode 20, I am joined by Dr. Eric Steinhart to talk about navigating compossible worlds and timelines, tech gods (and monsters), mental illness, books that (maybe) shouldn't be read, and <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9495224/" target="_blank">"Bandersnatch" </a>(the stand-alone, interactive <i>Black Mirror </i>episode), which first premiered in 2018.</p><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blackmirrorreflections.transistor.fm/episodes" target="_blank">Listen/Download</a> BLACK MIRROR REFLECTIONS podcast episodes </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blackmirrorreflections.transistor.fm/subscribe" target="_blank">Subscribe</a> to BLACK MIRROR REFLECTIONS podcast</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">Before jumping into the (very interesting) episode notes for this conversation with Dr. Steinhart, I want to make a couple of important announcements:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">First, BLACK MIRROR REFLECTIONS is, unfortunately, nearing its end. BMR was always designed to be a limited-series podcast that dedicated one podcast episode to each of the 22 <i>Black Mirror </i>episodes, and we've almost run our course now. You'll still be able to listen to BMR-- and to recommend it to your friends!-- but Episode 22 (to be released on March 5, 2021) will be our last episode. [sad face emoji]</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Second, I'm really excited to announce that my next podcast <a href="https://twitter.com/hotelbarpodcast" target="_blank"><b>HOTEL BAR SESSIONS</b></a> will be launching on March 12, 2021 (the Friday following BMR's final episode)! I'll have two co-hosts for HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, <a href="https://twitter.com/ideasmanphd" target="_blank">Ammon Allred</a> (who you will remember as a guest on BMR <a href="http://www.readmorewritemorethinkmorebemore.com/2020/11/black-mirror-reflections-ep3-national.html" target="_blank">Episode 3</a> and <a href="http://www.readmorewritemorethinkmorebemore.com/2021/01/black-mirror-reflections-ep-15-hated-in.html">Episode 15</a>) and <a href="https://twitter.com/lovelyblueness" target="_blank">Shannon M. Mussett</a> (who you will remember as a guest on BMR <a href="http://www.readmorewritemorethinkmorebemore.com/2020/11/black-mirror-reflections-ep1-15-million.html">Episode 1</a> and <a href="http://www.readmorewritemorethinkmorebemore.com/2021/01/black-mirror-reflections-ep-16-arkangel.html">Episode 16</a>). HOTEL BAR SESSIONS aims to capture the spontaneity, intellectual dexterity, genuine curiosity, and good-spirited antagonism that characterize conversations academics tend to have at the hotel bar when they go to conferences. Here's a trailer for the new podcast:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='324' height='268' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dz4dyJdKkTpBNxHwEuedZxnxd0Id9-KeA0UIB6vNNBh-hLxbyQ0p9qrbN2W-QntcWMcY4q8djOre7A' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'll be posting more information about HOTEL BAR SESSIONS over the next couple of weeks, so stay tuned!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Now, back to Episode 20, "Bandersnatch":</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtUwfBwZ-m4z_Yf0OZhhuVqdT9GluwplFW7CB0Sd8Ryc-bGGXvGnlLV8ITwLCRVPk0iKDiWpcjkftzjrFUwSmNPskPK2iapQV1UPNO8_46DJZpDrJSBtPzs4bMW_wTQDvesNfb/s1089/13323620_10210388506048045_540854228278755206_o.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1089" data-original-width="1089" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtUwfBwZ-m4z_Yf0OZhhuVqdT9GluwplFW7CB0Sd8Ryc-bGGXvGnlLV8ITwLCRVPk0iKDiWpcjkftzjrFUwSmNPskPK2iapQV1UPNO8_46DJZpDrJSBtPzs4bMW_wTQDvesNfb/s320/13323620_10210388506048045_540854228278755206_o.jpg" /></a></div><br /><a href="http://ericsteinhart.com/index.html" target="_blank">Dr. Eric Steinhart</a> is Professor of Philosophy at William Paterson University. He works primarily on metaphysics using contemporary analytical and logical methods and tools. He is also interested in historical metaphysical systems (particularly Plotinus, Neoplatonism, and Leibniz). Steinhart <a href="http://ericsteinhart.com/portraits.html" target="_blank">grew up on a farm</a>. He was originally trained as a computer scientist and mathematician, and worked as a software designer for several years. Some of his algorithms have been patented. His past work has concerned Nietzsche as well as metaphor (analyzed using possible worlds semantics), and he has written extensively on the metaphysics and computation. He is featured in the film <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0310890/" target="_blank">Chronotrip</a>, a documentary about time travel. He is increasingly interested in the philosophy of religion, focusing on the intersection of the formal sciences and theology. He is especially interested in alternatives to Abrahamic religion. He affirms the existence of transfinitely endless hierarchies of sets, computers, languages, games, strategies, and minds. He believes in the existence of more things than you do. He also likes New York City, New England, mountain hiking, all sorts of biking, chess, microscopy, and <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/esteinhart" target="_blank">photography</a>. Steimhart is the author of several books, including <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/3030430510/" target="_blank">Believing in Dawkins: The New Spiritual Atheism</a></i> (2020), <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1137363851" target="_blank">Your Digital Afterlives: Computational Theories of Life after Death</a> </i>(2014), <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/More-Precisely-Math-Philosophy-Second/dp/155481345X/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=eric+steinhart&qid=1613697289&s=books&sr=1-2" target="_blank">More Precisely: The Math You Need To Do Philosophy</a></i> (2017), and <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Nietzsche-Wadsworth-Philosophers-Eric-Steinhart/dp/B009NGF066/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=eric+steinhart&qid=1613697333&s=books&sr=1-4" target="_blank">On Nietzsche: The Man and his Philosophy</a> </i>(1999).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">You can listen to our full conversation on "Bandersnatch" here:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div>
<iframe frameborder="no" height="180" scrolling="no" seamless="" src="https://share.transistor.fm/e/cb42fca1" width="100%"></iframe><div><br /></div><div>Here at BLACK MIRROR REFLECTIONS, we assume that everyone is already committed to read more, write more, think more, and be more... so here's a helpful list of links to thinkers, technologies, books, and articles referenced in this episode:</div><div><br /></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Jorge Luis Borges, <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Garden-Forking-Paths-Jorge-Borges/dp/0241339057" target="_blank">The Garden of Forking Paths</a></i></li><li>H.P. Lovecraft, <i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1335019.Necronomicon" target="_blank">The Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales</a></i></li><li>Philip K. Dick, <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ubik-Philip-K-Dick/dp/0547572298" target="_blank">Ubik</a></i></li><li><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/07/20/1005454/openai-machine-learning-language-generator-gpt-3-nlp/" target="_blank">Open AI's GPT-3</a></li><li><a href="https://www.thoughtco.com/crime-of-hubris-in-greek-tragedy-118996#:~:text=Hubris%20is%20excessive%20pride%20(or,need%20the%20help%20of%20Zeus." target="_blank"><i>Hubris</i> in Greek tragedy and law</a></li></ul></div>Doctor Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189506916480012553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33488833.post-89720118496484197222021-02-12T06:00:00.009-06:002021-02-12T19:48:11.452-06:00BLACK MIRROR REFLECTIONS, Ep 19: "Metalhead" with Roman V. Yampolskiy<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4pZdjahxiHjb3Jx54B90Qj2mDpHrL7ik_offkmdkJlsiylZeWS3awcCIImFx3qPnCmZESlbMBIeDmSxFuBiEHp-uEHYdbeK7MO1_IQkt4UdtFmBXtd0Vktxp4zE1CC990dhPU/s2000/metalhead-2000.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1333" data-original-width="2000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4pZdjahxiHjb3Jx54B90Qj2mDpHrL7ik_offkmdkJlsiylZeWS3awcCIImFx3qPnCmZESlbMBIeDmSxFuBiEHp-uEHYdbeK7MO1_IQkt4UdtFmBXtd0Vktxp4zE1CC990dhPU/w640-h426/metalhead-2000.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">For Episode 19, I am joined by Dr. Roman V. Yampolskiy to talk about killer robot dogs, poker playing AIs, the control problem, how long we have left before the rise of the machines, what it would be like to be a superintelligence's pet, and "Metalhead" (Season 4, Episode 5 of <i>Black Mirror</i>), which first premiered in 2018. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blackmirrorreflections.transistor.fm/episodes" target="_blank">Listen/Download</a> BLACK MIRROR REFLECTIONS podcast episodes </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blackmirrorreflections.transistor.fm/subscribe" target="_blank">Subscribe</a> to BLACK MIRROR REFLECTIONS podcast</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK8Fs263vgjYB-BDyarkDaTtP2LBXicuo-hCUJsQ3ECR3-cQYQ1JNglG990wDnJh1oigjYxAUTncLsBJij6TmqfwU16BtTZacdJrl1rMuAGf7mr90ioLTpqYvvdDWuI1Bq2e5b/s600/Yampolskiy-cover-600x400.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="600" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK8Fs263vgjYB-BDyarkDaTtP2LBXicuo-hCUJsQ3ECR3-cQYQ1JNglG990wDnJh1oigjYxAUTncLsBJij6TmqfwU16BtTZacdJrl1rMuAGf7mr90ioLTpqYvvdDWuI1Bq2e5b/w400-h266/Yampolskiy-cover-600x400.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dr. Roman V. Yampolskiy is Associate Professor in the Department of <a href="https://engineering.louisville.edu/academics/departments/computer/" target="_blank">Computer Engineering and Computer Science</a> at the <a href="https://engineering.louisville.edu/" target="_blank">Speed School of Engineering, University of Louisville</a>. </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span pbzloc="24" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">He is the founding and current director of the <a href="http://cecs.louisville.edu/security/" style="color: #4a9900; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Cyber Security Lab</span></span></a> and an author of many books including <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Superintelligence-Futuristic-Roman-Yampolskiy/dp/1482234432" style="color: #4a9900; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span pbzloc="21" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Artificial Superintelligence: a Futuristic Approach</span></span></a>. During his tenure at UofL, Dr. Yampolskiy has been recognized as: </span><span pbzloc="15" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://louisville.edu/speed/news/DistinguishedFacultyAward-2015" style="color: #4a9900; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Distinguished Teaching Professor</span></a></span><span pbzloc="3" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">, <a href="http://cecs.louisville.edu/ry/awards.htm" style="color: #4a9900; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Professor of the Year</span></span></a>, <a href="http://louisville.edu/delphi/awards/facultyfavorites/faculty-favorites-2011-2012" style="color: #4a9900; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span pbzloc="9" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Faculty Favorite</span></span></a>, <a href="http://louisville.edu/uofltoday/campus-news/top-4-faculty-favorites-lauded" style="color: #4a9900; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Top 4 Faculty</span></span></a>, <a href="https://www.asee.org/member-resources/resources/leaders-in-engineering-education/roman-yampolskiy" style="color: #4a9900; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Leader in Engineering Education</span></span></a>, <a href="http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/2013-online-college-professor-of-the-year-contest-information-and-nominees/" style="color: #4a9900; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Top 10 of Online College Professor of the Year</span></span></a>, and <a href="http://kyacademyofscience.net/kas/members/awards.php?year=2013&page=superlative&submit=Display" style="color: #4a9900; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span pbzloc="2" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Outstanding Early Career in Education award</span></span></a> winner among many other <a href="http://cecs.louisville.edu/ry/awards.htm" style="color: #4a9900; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">honors and distinctions</span></span></a>. Yampolskiy is a <a href="http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/senior/index.html" style="color: #4a9900; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Senior member</span></span></a> of <a href="https://www.ieee.org/" style="color: #4a9900; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">IEEE</span></span></a> and <a href="http://www.agi-society.org/" style="color: #4a9900; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">AGI</span></span></a>; Member of <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span pbzloc="1" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Kentucky Academy of Science</span></span>, and Research Advisor for <a href="https://intelligence.org/team/" style="color: #4a9900; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">MIRI</span></span></a> and Associate of <a href="http://gcrinstitute.org/people/" style="color: #4a9900; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">GCRI</span></span></a>.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span pbzloc="3" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">Dr. Yampolskiy’s main areas of interest are AI Safety, Artificial Intelligence, Behavioral Biometrics, Cybersecurity, Digital Forensics, Games, Genetic Algorithms, and Pattern Recognition. Dr. Yampolskiy is the author of <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Superintelligence-Futuristic-Roman-Yampolskiy-ebook/dp/B010ACWEG0/ref=sr_1_4?crid=C4ZG1AJG8V6H&dchild=1&keywords=roman+yampolskiy&qid=1613098560&sprefix=roman+yampol%2Cprime-instant-video%2C171&sr=8-4" target="_blank">Artificial Intelligence: A Futuristic Approach</a> </i>(Chapman and Hall, 2015), the Editor of <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Intelligence-Security-Chapman-Robotics/dp/0815369824/ref=sr_1_2?crid=C4ZG1AJG8V6H&dchild=1&keywords=roman+yampolskiy&qid=1613098620&sprefix=roman+yampol%2Cprime-instant-video%2C171&sr=8-2" target="_blank">Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security</a> </i>(Chapman and Hall, 2018), and he has published numerous journal articles. His research has been cited by 1000+ scientists and profiled in popular magazines both American and foreign (<i>New Scientist</i>, <i>Poker Magazine</i>, <i>Science World Magazine</i>), dozens of websites (BBC, MSNBC, Yahoo! News), on radio (German National Radio, Swedish National Radio) and TV. Dr. Yampolskiy’s research has been featured 250+ times in numerous media reports in 22 languages.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">You can listen to our conversation in its entirety here:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>
<iframe width="100%" height="180" frameborder="no" scrolling="no" seamless src="https://share.transistor.fm/e/4b4d7142/dark"></iframe><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Here at BLACK MIRROR REFLECTIONS, we assume that everyone is already committed to read more, write more, think more, and be more... so here's a helpful list of links to thinkers, technologies, books, and articles referenced in this episode:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Roman V. Yampolskiy, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sdOjd0M44U" target="_blank">"Rise of the Machines"</a> (YouTube) </li><li>Boston Dynamics' robots: <a href="https://www.bostondynamics.com/spot" target="_blank">Spot</a>, <a href="https://www.bostondynamics.com/handle" target="_blank">Handle</a>, <a href="https://www.bostondynamics.com/pick" target="_blank">Pick</a>, <a href="https://www.bostondynamics.com/atlas" target="_blank">Atlas</a>, <a href="https://www.bostondynamics.com/legacy" target="_blank">Legacy Robots</a></li><li>Roman V. Yampolskiy, <a href="https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1502/1502.06512.pdf" target="_blank">"From Seed to AI to Technological Singularity via Recursively Self-Improving Software" </a> (<i>arXiv, </i>2015)</li><li>What is <a href="https://www.biocatch.com/blog/what-is-behavioral-biometrics" target="_blank">behavioral biometrics</a>?</li><li>Cade Metz, <a href="https://www.wired.com/2017/02/libratus/" target="_blank">"Inside Libratus, the Poker AI That Out-Bluffed the Best Poker Players" </a>(<i>Wired</i>, 2017)</li><li>Valerie Cross, <a href="https://www.pokernews.com/news/2019/07/pluribus-first-ai-to-beat-humans-in-multiplayer-no-limit-34910.htm" target="_blank">"Poker Bot Pluribus First AI to Beat Humans in Multi-Player NL Hold-Em"</a> (<i>Poker News</i>, 2019)</li><li>Leigh M. Johnson, "Why You Should Care That Artificial Intelligence Can Lie" <a href="http://www.readmorewritemorethinkmorebemore.com/2020/01/why-you-should-care-that-artificial.html" target="_blank">Part 1</a> and <a href="http://www.readmorewritemorethinkmorebemore.com/2020/01/why-you-should-care-that-artificial_21.html" target="_blank">Part 2</a> (January 2020)</li><li>Roman V. Yampolskiy, <a href="https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2007/2007.07710.pdf" target="_blank">"Human ≠ AGI"</a> (<i>arXiv, </i>2020)</li><li>Roman V. Yampolskiy, <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343812745_Uncontrollability_of_AI" target="_blank">"Uncontrollability of AI"</a> (2020)</li></ul></div></div>Doctor Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189506916480012553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33488833.post-77051710753789314092021-02-05T05:00:00.148-06:002021-02-05T11:00:45.577-06:00BLACK MIRROR REFLECTIONS, Ep. 18: "Rachel, Jack, and Ashley Too" with Karen Tongson<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAKWTpOzg1WtiaxGpTXlNxOIkcTT28HZktIhuSal18IvPRXJPQWl-cOTs-hw7KV8NWfH0nr1IRfzNFLWAfKuclar9qdLOFP26LHrZOdIXIyQpUSLv9qSL1VPyoLrfgpfkreIiN/s1562/blackmirror-5.34-1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="719" data-original-width="1562" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAKWTpOzg1WtiaxGpTXlNxOIkcTT28HZktIhuSal18IvPRXJPQWl-cOTs-hw7KV8NWfH0nr1IRfzNFLWAfKuclar9qdLOFP26LHrZOdIXIyQpUSLv9qSL1VPyoLrfgpfkreIiN/w640-h294/blackmirror-5.34-1.png" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><div><br /></div>For Episode 18, I am joined by cultural critic and superstar podcaster Karen Tongson to talk about teenage angst, celebrity, what makes pop music "popular," and "Rachel, Jack, and Ashley Too" (Episode 2, Season 5 of <i>Black Mirror</i>), which first premiered in 2019.<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blackmirrorreflections.transistor.fm/episodes" target="_blank">Listen/Download</a> BLACK MIRROR REFLECTIONS podcast episodes </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blackmirrorreflections.transistor.fm/subscribe" target="_blank">Subscribe</a> to BLACK MIRROR REFLECTIONS podcast</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">I have always found it strange that "Rachel, Jack, and Ashley Too" is one of the lowest-rated episodes of <i>Black Mirror</i>, because it is one of my favorites of the "aimed-at-Americans-era" BM episodes. I think a lot of the prejudice against this episode can be tied to people's general reluctance to consider how complex popular music, popular culture, </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHdubKSaMb-UHpSUp7oD_fRr0ahxwb6JMIWeR1FgXe2qUKAibtp4bHC2q1VHdb4nYdIUL5oOBcD9VxCRWPhYLKizic89MAGehappm9jEggT1HYqXlTXsXur1RvbrVDnYyV7AnB/s1792/Karen_Tongson_2019_Texas_Book_Festival.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1792" data-original-width="1195" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHdubKSaMb-UHpSUp7oD_fRr0ahxwb6JMIWeR1FgXe2qUKAibtp4bHC2q1VHdb4nYdIUL5oOBcD9VxCRWPhYLKizic89MAGehappm9jEggT1HYqXlTXsXur1RvbrVDnYyV7AnB/s320/Karen_Tongson_2019_Texas_Book_Festival.jpg" /></a></div><br />Dr. <a href="https://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/faculty-and-staff/faculty.cfm?pid=1008230" target="_blank">Karen Tongson</a> is Professor of English, Gender & Sexuality Studies, and American Studies & Ethnicity, and Chair of the Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies at the University of Southern California. She is the 2019 recipient of the <a href="https://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/special-awards/#:~:text=Lambda%20Literary's%20Jeanne%20C%C3%B3rdova%20Prize,gender%20non%2Dconforming%20nonfiction%20authors." target="_blank">Lambda Literary Jeanne Córdova Award </a>for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction, and the author of two books: <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Why-Karen-Carpenter-Matters-Music/dp/1477318844" target="_blank">Why Karen Carpenter Matters</a></i> (2019; nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Nonfiction; Best Music Books of 2019, Pitchfork; longlisted for The Believer Book Award, 2020), and <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Relocations-Suburban-Imaginaries-Sexual-Cultures/dp/0814783104" target="_blank">Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries</a></i> (2011). Her writing and cultural commentary have appeared in <i>NPR</i>, <i>Los Angeles Review of Books </i>(LARB), <i>L.A. Weekly</i>, <i>BuzzFeed Reader</i>, <i>The Los Angeles Times</i>, <i>The Washington Post</i>, and <i>Public Books</i>, as well as in other scholarly and public forums. She has two books in progress: <i>Empty Orchestra: Karaoke, Queer Performance, Queer Theory</i> (Duke University Press), and <i>NORMPORN: Television and the Spectacle of Normalcy</i> (NYU Press). <a href="https://nyupress.org/search-results/?series=postmillennial-pop/" target="_blank">Postmillennial Pop</a>, the award-winning book series she co-edits with Henry Jenkins at NYU Press, has published over twenty titles. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Previously a panelist on MaximumFun.org’s <a href="https://maximumfun.org/podcasts/pop-rocket/" target="_blank">Pop Rocket Podcast</a>, she now cohosts the GenX-themed podcast, <a href="https://waitingtoxhale.libsyn.com/" target="_blank">Waiting to X-hale</a>, with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/checkpoint/challengesV2/AQFUsw6RDv7lLQAAAXc7SXgI7u41ZecRFFDuxGzJMpL9xAEaJX6PsgqqdhEgoa82G6ykZJqJwnH9vReyzPke1MOcwaRmV8z7sg?original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F" target="_blank">Wynter Mitchell-Rohrbaugh</a>.
Tongson is currently the director of a faculty-led initiative called the Consortium for Gender, Sexuality, Race and Popular Culture--a start-up podcast network housed in the Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies, and comprised of faculty across <a href="https://dornsife.usc.edu/dornsife" target="_blank">Dornsife </a>and other schools committed to transposing scholarly research on popular culture to broader publics. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">You can listen to our "Rachel, Jack, and Ashley Too" conversation in its entirety here:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Here at BLACK MIRROR REFLECTIONS, we assume that everyone is already committed to read more, write more, think more, and be more... so here's a helpful list of links to thinkers, technologies, books, and articles referenced in this episode:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j09Jzm05lRI" target="_blank">Full soundtrack of "Rachel, Jack, and Ashley Too"</a></li><li>What is a <a href="https://grammarist.com/new-words/momager/#:~:text=A%20momager%20is%20a%20mother,the%20words%20mom%20and%20manager." target="_blank">"momager"</a>?</li><li>Abolfazi Alipour, <a href="https://blogs.iu.edu/sciu/2019/12/28/brain-tech-black-mirror-3/" target="_blank">"Brain technology in <i>Black Mirror</i>: Technological Myths or Real Technology?"</a> (<i>Conversations in Science at Indiana University</i>, 2019)</li><li><a href="https://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2018/2/3/16967496/super-bowl-prince-hologram-justin-timberlake-halftime-show" target="_blank">Holographic "Prince" at the 2018 Super Bowl</a></li><li>Leigh M. Johnson, <a href="http://www.readmorewritemorethinkmorebemore.com/2015/03/blurred-lines-pop-music-pirates-and.html" target="_blank">"On Blurred Lines, Pop Music, and Memphis' 'Mustang Sally'"</a> (2015)</li><li>Nine Inch Nails, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao-Sahfy7Hg" target="_blank">"Head Like a Hole"</a> </li><li>Nine Inch Nails, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-jZHMX-CJ0" target="_blank">"Right Where It Belongs"</a></li><li>Carpenters, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFx-5PGLgb4" target="_blank">"Close to You"</a></li><li>Dionne Warwick, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNZJMYYaVE0" target="_blank">"Close to You"</a></li><li>Barry Manilow,<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHIdHIWfnl4" target="_blank"> "I Write the Songs"</a></li><li>Judith Butler, <i><a href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/lesbian-phallus-morphological-imaginary-judith-butler/10.4324/9780203828274-9" target="_blank">The Lesbian Phallus and The Morphological Imaginary</a> </i>(2011)</li><li>Jordana Rosenberg, <a href="https://read.dukeupress.edu/glq/article-abstract/9/3/393/66431/BUTLER-S-LESBIAN-PHALLUS-OR-WHAT-CAN" target="_blank">"Butler's 'Lesbian Phallus'; or, What Can Deconstruction Feel?" </a>(<i>Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies</i>, 2003) </li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbP6h0dtcQw" target="_blank">"The Maths Behind Music"</a> (University of Surrey, 2012)</li><li>Nadine Gaab and Jennifer Zuk, <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-there-a-link-between-music-and-math/" target="_blank">"Is there a Link Between Music and Math?"</a> (<i>Scientific American</i>, 2017)</li><li>Josh Duboff, <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/11/pop-music-late-90s-nostalgia-halsey-troye-sivan-charli-xcx" target="_blank">"Why Is Pop Music Suddenly Obsessed with the Late 90's?" </a>(<i>Vanity Fair</i>, 2018)</li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOlDewpCfZQ" target="_blank">"The Axis of Awesome"</a> (the I/V/vi chord progression in pop songs, mashed up)</li><li>Live version of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I" target="_blank">"The Axis of Awesome" </a></li><li>TikTok pop song mashups: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhIte8t6BEg" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEcXShl9MbQ" target="_blank">here</a>,<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x549tzlKgqw" target="_blank"> here</a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkk3IYHgNEs" target="_blank">here</a></li><li>Leigh M. Johnson, <a href="http://www.readmorewritemorethinkmorebemore.com/2010/05/why-exile-on-main-street-gets-my-rocks.html" target="_blank">"Why 'Exile On Main Street Gets My Rocks Off" </a></li><li>Alexander Cheves, <a href="https://www.them.us/story/what-does-queer-mean" target="_blank">"What Does 'Queer' Mean? 9 LGBTQ People Explain How They Love, Hate, and Understand the Word Queer"</a> (2019)</li><li><a href="https://nocturnehalifax.bandcamp.com/album/whale-song-a-workshop" target="_blank">Whale Song: A Workshop</a> (Daniela Gesundheit & Sarah Kessler)</li><li>HBO series <a href="https://www.hbo.com/years-and-years" target="_blank">Years and Years</a></li></ul><div>Comment section open below!</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Doctor Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189506916480012553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33488833.post-66910990249287754392021-01-29T05:00:00.003-06:002021-09-21T11:25:42.185-05:00BLACK MIRROR REFLECTIONS, Ep 17: "White Bear" with Charles Mills<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheZTFVvbg1vW4pDgVmS5yD2oiXLWK5M6Z0OGXVYCL1ifHdosyFBVBlMZRyTd3WCEx-XKtbyhQSFz2GITgwXwYGWPnCC601-saBuFKtq0RfqS78wDTuyTPGPZQiy7X8Om_Q1H4_/s1440/BurkeLectureMills1440.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1440" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheZTFVvbg1vW4pDgVmS5yD2oiXLWK5M6Z0OGXVYCL1ifHdosyFBVBlMZRyTd3WCEx-XKtbyhQSFz2GITgwXwYGWPnCC601-saBuFKtq0RfqS78wDTuyTPGPZQiy7X8Om_Q1H4_/w640-h426/BurkeLectureMills1440.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>For Episode 17, I am joined by Dr. Charles Mills to talk about punishment, non-ideal theories of justice, why philosophers love science fiction, and "White Bear" (Season 2, Episode 2 of <i>Black Mirror</i>), which first premiered in 2013.</p><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blackmirrorreflections.transistor.fm/episodes" target="_blank">Listen/Download</a> BLACK MIRROR REFLECTIONS podcast episodes </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blackmirrorreflections.transistor.fm/subscribe" target="_blank">Subscribe</a> to BLACK MIRROR REFLECTIONS podcast</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/blackmirrorreflections?fan_landing=true" target="_blank">Support/Donate</a> to BLACK MIRROR REFLECTIONS podcast</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">I've been teaching "White Bear" in my courses for more the last 6 years or so, and I count it among the Top 5 Most Interesting <i>Black Mirror </i>episodes, in no small part because there are so many interesting philosophical questions that the episode both depicts and inspires. I thought long and hard about who I wanted to invite to talk about "White Bear" for <i>Black Mirror Reflections</i>-- because, let's be honest, there are SO MANY different approaches one could take to deciphering what goes on in it-- but Charles Mills ended up in the Number 1 spot of every list of possible guests I made. I could not possibly exaggerate how much of an influence he has had on my own development as a philosopher, and I am so glad he agreed to this conversation!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_HFsTlCRVfq5zCiUewDtroqD-UsZIGpBJEvZeZUV-hLY6KGW17hFXqi3ZO9FO1SEdy0v3l4FBnCCv1U_yoUz5rjsZFm-EmuBLQpnNDLDzTWteTEPxXFHaIX_wQvz-6tqFAYWN/s334/Charles-Mills.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="334" data-original-width="250" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_HFsTlCRVfq5zCiUewDtroqD-UsZIGpBJEvZeZUV-hLY6KGW17hFXqi3ZO9FO1SEdy0v3l4FBnCCv1U_yoUz5rjsZFm-EmuBLQpnNDLDzTWteTEPxXFHaIX_wQvz-6tqFAYWN/s320/Charles-Mills.jpg" /></a></div><br />Dr. <a href="https://www.gc.cuny.edu/Faculty/Core-Bios/Charles-W-Mills" target="_blank">Charles W. Mills</a> is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at The Graduate Center, CUNY. He works in the general area of social and political philosophy, particularly in oppositional political theory as centered on class, gender, and race. He is the author of over a hundred journal articles, book chapters, comments and replies, and six books. His first book, <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Racial-Contract-Charles-W-Mills/dp/0801484634/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+racial+contract&qid=1611602196&s=books&sr=1-1" target="_blank">The Racial Contract</a></i> (Cornell UP, 1997), won a Myers Outstanding Book Award for the study of bigotry and human rights in America. His second book,<i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Blackness-Visible-Philosophy-Cornell-Paperbacks/dp/0801484715/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1JO2NBKB61HAV&dchild=1&keywords=blackness+visible&qid=1611602255&s=books&sprefix=blackness+vis%2Cstripbooks%2C160&sr=1-1" target="_blank"> Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race </a></i>(Cornell UP, 1998), was a finalist for the award for the most important North American work in social philosophy of that year.
Other books are: <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Class-Race-Marxism-Radicalism-Critical/dp/0742513025/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3EVB0STKWJ28V&dchild=1&keywords=from+class+to+race+essays+in+white+marxism+and+black+radicalism&qid=1611602459&sprefix=from+race+to+class%2Caps%2C193&sr=8-1" target="_blank">From Class to Race: Essays in White Marxism and Black Radicalism</a></i> (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Contract-Domination-Prof-Carole-Pateman/dp/0745640044/ref=sr_1_2?crid=12J3V5WVB5VZH&dchild=1&keywords=contract+and+domination&qid=1611602487&sprefix=contract+and+dom%2Caps%2C166&sr=8-2" target="_blank"><i>Contract and Domination</i></a> (co-authored with Carole Pateman) (Polity, 2007), which brings the sexual and racial contracts together, and <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Theory-Caribbean-Reality-Domination/dp/9766402272/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1B8Q19K6QY646&dchild=1&keywords=radical+theory+of+carribean+reality&qid=1611602525&sprefix=radical+theor%2Caps%2C170&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Radical Theory, Caribbean Reality</a></i> (University of the West Indies Press, 2010). His most recent book is<i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Black-Rights-White-Wrongs-Transgressing/dp/0190245425/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1XDW2L87BSB59&dchild=1&keywords=black+rights+white+wrongs&qid=1611602557&sprefix=black+rights+whi%2Caps%2C280&sr=8-1" target="_blank"> Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism</a></i> (Oxford UP, 2017). </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">You can listen to our conversation in its entirety here:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Here at BLACK MIRROR REFLECTIONS, we assume that everyone is already committed to read more, write more, think more, and be more... so here's a helpful list of links to thinkers, technologies, books, and articles referenced in this episode:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/culture/philosophy/lex-talionis-and-retribution" target="_blank"><i>Lex talionis </i>and retribution</a> (an animated explanation, with Kant!)</li><li>Susan Schneider, <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Science-Fiction-Philosophy-Travel-Superintelligence/dp/1405149078" target="_blank">Science Fiction and Philosophy: From Time Travel to Superintelligence</a></i> (2009)</li><li>John Rawls, <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Theory-Justice-John-Rawls/dp/0674000781" target="_blank">A Theory of Justice</a> </i>(1971)</li><li>John Rawls, <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Justice-Fairness-Restatement-John-Rawls/dp/0674005112" target="_blank">Justice as Fairness: A Restatement</a></i> (2001)</li><li>Charles Mills, <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/3811121?seq=1" target="_blank">"Ideal Theory as Ideology"</a> (<i>Hypatia</i>, 2005)</li><li><a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice-retributive/" target="_blank">Retributive Justice</a> (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)</li><li>Amy Louise Wood, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lynching-Spectacle-Witnessing-1890-1940-Directions/dp/0807871974" target="_blank"><i>Lynching as Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940</i> </a></li><li>Ellen E. Jones, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190530-rom-mammy-to-ma-hollywoods-favourite-racist-stereotype" target="_blank">"From mammy to Ma; Hollywood's favourite racist stereotype" </a>(<i>BBC</i>, 2019)</li><li>Layla Eplett, <a href="https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/food-matters/not-gone-with-the-wind-the-perpetuation-of-the-mammy-stereotype/" target="_blank">"Not Gone With The Wind: The Perpetuation of the Mammy Stereotype"</a> (<i>Scientific American</i>, 2015)</li><li>Elizabeth Perez, <a href="http://sfpc.io/code-societies/blog/2020-black-mirrors-reimagining-race-technology-and-justice.html" target="_blank">"Black Mirrors: Reimagining Race, Technology, and Justice"</a> </li><li>Ruja Benjamin, <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Race-After-Technology-Abolitionist-Tools/dp/1509526404" target="_blank">Race after Technology: Abolitionist Codes for the New Jim Crow</a></i> (2019)</li></ul></div><div style="text-align: left;">Comment section open below!</div>Doctor Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189506916480012553noreply@blogger.com1