Bad Philosophy

The future is a funny thing. We’ve talked on the show before about the many theories that abound about how we’ll evolve as a species and a society. Especially since the introduction of Google Glasses the future (or a future) feels closer than ever. This episode Kevin and I discuss the many ways that a continuous, […]

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Aaron Franklin, advertising, Android, Anthony Bourdain, art, Atari, car names, cell phones, computers, Deep Space Nine, droid, Franklin Barbecue, gift economy, Google, Google Glasses, guilt, IBM, identity, journalism, Kevin, Motorola, No Reservations, Oscars, PC, perception, Personal Computer, post-structuralism, Project Glass, RAZR, Ready Player One, Rudy Rucker, singularity, social networking, society, Stephen, Texas Instruments, Zoolander

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

Recently the wild and brilliant imagination of Christopher Nolan brought forth a true gem of a movie, Inception. It’s been making good money and getting rave reviews all around, and for good reason. It’s a heady and philosophical and hence right up our rabbit trail. This time Kevin Saunders and Kiki Canon joined me to […]

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Alamo Drafthouse, allegory of the cave, Batman Begins, Brick, CGI, Christopher Nolan, consequentialism, David Fincher, dreams, emotion, epistemology, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, ethics, Fight Club, Groundhog Day, happiness, Hollywood, ideas, Inception, Insomnia, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kevin, Kiki, Leonardo DiCaprio, LOST, lucid dreams, M. Night Shyamalan, Memento, movie pickles, movies, perception, phenomenology, Plato, reality, Rifftrax, Spiderman, Stephen, The Dark Knight, The Matrix, The Prestige, The Sixth Sense, The Social Network, US Postal Service, zombies, zombocalypse

This week we convened over Skype to discuss the American shopping ritual known as Black Friday, as well as a healthy dose of memetics and other such jazz. We apologize for the audio quality (I mean… it is Skype after all), but we did manage to give you the treat of hearing our voices in stereo for the first time ever. We promise to get back on civilized audio hardware for the next episode. Grin and bear with us, we actually had some good stuff to say…

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4chan, All Your Base, American Sign Language, Austin, Barnes and Noble, Best Buy, biology, Black Friday, Blockbuster, calculus, Canada, Care Bears, cats, Chipotle, chocolate rain, Cory Doctorow, Domo, Dr. Who, duck rolling, duckrolling, Eastern Standard Tribe, ESPN, Europe, Finland, fiscal year, Fry's Electronics, genes, genetics, James Madison, KB Toys, Kevin, knitting, lolcatz, Macy's, Matt, memes, memetics, meta, Napster, Nintendo Wii, Norway, perception, piracy, Portal, pwned, radio, RadioShack, retail, Rick Astley, rickrolling, Scandinavia, shopping, Skype, sneezing panda, sociology, Stephen, Still Alive, supply and demand, Sweden, Target, Thanksgiving, The Internet, Toys R' Us, trends, TV, Wal-Mart, Xbox 360, YouTube