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
04 October 2014
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
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
17 April 2014
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Is consumer capitalism played-out? Why is Roberto Unger so angry? And could cats save us all? Kevin and I ponder these questions and more.
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activism, Alton Brown, Android, anger, Barack Obama, breast cancer, capitalism, CCC, charity, Civil Rights Movement, consequentialism, Cory Doctorow, CSR, deontology, extrinsic value, FDR, Godel's Incompleteness Theorem, Google, Great Depression, healthcare, idealism, Infinite Cat Project, intrinsic value, Kevin, Marxism, minimum income, PBS Idea Channel, pessimism, Philosophy Bites, Planet Money, podcasts, power, protest, RadioLab, realism, Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Rosa Parks, RSA, schizophrenia, slacktivism, socialism, Spider Robinson, Stephen, The Cold Equations, Theodore Sturgeon, Tumblr, United States, WPA, Zoom
28 June 2012
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Stephen and Kevin tackle a fan’s Formspring suggestion, the frickin’ Moderny film “The Sunset Limited,” starring two stereotypes having a conversation about suicide. Hooray!
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Alien, Christianity, Cormac McCarthy, epistemology, existentialism, faith, film, God, Michael Fassbender, modernism, nihilism, No Country for Old Men, power, Prometheus, race, realism, religion, Rifftrax, Samuel L. Jackson, Star Wars, statism, stereotypes, suicide, The Sunset Limited, theatre, Tommy Lee Jones, TV Tropes
06 May 2012
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Kevin and Stephen attempt to construct a solid introduction to post-structuralism and deconstruction… in STEREO.
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C. S. Lewis, class, consequentialism, deconstruction, deontology, Derrida, epistemology, games, gender, government, hope, identity, Imperialism, Judith Butler, Kevin, Lacan, Marxism, mathematics, meaning, metaphysics, Plato, postmodernism, poststructuralism, power, race, Saussure, science, society, soul, spiritualism, Stephen, structuralism, subjectivism, value, Wittgenstein
