05 August 2016
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Is ALL culture appropriation? Shawn Brackett joins Kevin and Stephen to unpack this and other juicy questions… from Canada!
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America, beliefs, Calgary, Canada, Colonialism, cultural appropriation, cycles, empathy, Hamilton, history, identity, intentionality, John Travolta, Kevin, kilts, language, loops, mental decolonization, Monica Lewinsky, Mr Personality, neoliberalism, nuance, power, racism, reality TV, Scotland, Shawn, Stephen, subjugation, Texas, textbooks, the 90’s, The People vs. OJ Simpson, tradition, United States
24 January 2016
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast, Weekly Why
Local poet Marc Powell joins Stephen for some high-frequency riffing on world systems, philosophy …and each other
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activism, Adam Smith, addiction, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Anarcho-Syndicalism, art, Austin, Beehive Collective, beer, bees, Capital Factory, capitalism, cartoons, celebrity, communication, conservative fusionism, culture, David Holmgren, death, EFF-Austin, environmentalism, Facebook, FarmVille, flooding, food, gentrification, Heidegger, hubris, humility, Iain McGilchrist, IMF, intellectualism, Ivan Illich, John Michael Greer, Jon Lebkowsky, language, Marc Powell, Masanobu Fukuoka, meta, mythology, Neal Postman, Neil Degrasse-Tyson, permaculture, poetry, politics, privilege, progress, reality, religion, Richard Dawkins, Roland Barthes, San Francisco, science, Silicon Valley, Socrates, somatic experience, Stephen, stereo, Taoism, technology, The Holy Mountain, The Internet, The Peripheral, The Singularity, Tony Robbins, TV, Wendell Berry, William Gibson, World Bank
09 August 2015
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Fan Fiction, cultural appropriation, and deep geekery with guest expert Katherine
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50 Shades of Grey, Barbie Life in the Dreamhouse, BDSM, Big Bang Theory, Cards Against Humanity, China Miéville, Colonialism, cultural appropriation, Dead Poet’s Society, Doctor Who, erotica, fan fiction, FanFiction.net, fiction, gender, gender bias, Ghost, Hannibal, Harry Potter, He-man, head cannon, historiography, Katherine, Kevin, language, Leonard Nemoy, Les Miserables, My Immortal, My Little Pony, Neil Gaiman, romance novels, Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes, smut, social justice, Star Trek, Stephen, Steven Universe, supernatural, The Highlander, The Tomorrow People, Twilight, writing
03 November 2014
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast, Rule Set Update
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
17 January 2012
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Synecdoche: New York punches Stephen and Kevin in the brain, sending them into passionate elucidations on this strange and wonderful world
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4chan, blank slate, brain, Charlie Kaufman, death, deconstruction, Derrida, empiricism, epistemology, evolution, evolutionary psychology, gender feminism, Godel's Incompleteness Theorem, history, Inception, Kevin, language, life, love, mathematics, meta, mind, Monty Python, noble savage, numbers, perception, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Platonic ideal, post-modernism, post-structuralism, recursion, Robot 9000, Stephen, Stephen Pinker, Synecdoche, Synecdoche New York, taxonomy, theatre, truth, XKCD
