Bad Philosophy

Kevin and Stephen riff on absurdism, Too Many Cooks, and the fuzzy lines between postmodernism and poststructuralism (if they exist at all)

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A Bit of Fry and Laurie, absurdism, Adult Swim, Christopher Nolan, context, Dada, David Letterman, Doctor Who, film, Internet, Interstellar, Iron Man 3, meaning, Memento, Net Neutrality, Network culture, PBS Idea Channel, postmodernism, poststructuralism, Samuel Beckett, Star Wars, Theatre of the Absurd, Too Many Cooks, Transformers, Under Construction, virality, Waiting for Godot

Kevin and Stephen reflect on episodes 154, 155, and 156, and refresh the rule framework of BF with a change, removal, and addition.

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atemporality, cultural appropriation, ebola, James Bridle, language, privilege, science fiction, structure, The New Aesthetic, The Onion, William Gibson

Kevin and Stephen discuss privilege, prompted by a recent controversy over Stephen’s ASL music videos.

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Al Jolson, American Sign Language, art, ASL, audism, Blackfinn Ameripub, Book of Mormon, CaptainValor, cultural appropriation, danah boyd, Daniel Tosh, Deaf culture, gender, Kevin, Louis CK, Macklemore, Marlee Matlin, Miley Cyrus, oppression, oralism, parenting, Patreon, power, privacy, privilege, racism, South Park, spoilers, Stephen, Taylor Swift, Transparent, Warner Brothers

Does the “Right to be Forgotten” entail censorship? What is public or private anymore? Can PHP save us? Kevin and Stephen dive into all this and more.

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Anil Dash, Banksy, big data, Canada, censorship, Chelsea Manning, Cory Doctorow, Dan Geer, defamation, Edward Snowden, encryption, EU, European Court of Justice, Facebook, Figure8 Coffee Purveyors, Glenn Beck, Google, human rights, Justin Carter, Kate Crawford, Kevin, libel, Linguistic Labyrinth, Mario Consteja Gonzales, metadata, NSA, privacy, public, security, Stephen, Streisand Effect, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, The Right to Be Forgotten, Tor, trust