BLACK MIRROR REFLECTIONS, Ep4: “Striking Vipers” with Adriel M. Trott

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Black Mirror, Black Mirror Reflections, Blog, Blog 2023+, Ethics, Philosophy, Politics, Public Philosophy, Race and Racism, RMWMTMBM Archive, Technology, Technology and Human Values, Television, Women and Gender Issues 0 Comments

 

In Episode 4 of BLACK MIRROR REFLECTIONS, I am joined by Dr. Adriel M. Trott to discuss the first episode from the latest Season of Black Mirror, “Striking Vipers” released in 2019. Please make sure that you watch (or re-watch) “Striking Vipers” before you listen to our conversation, because all of the BLACK MIRROR REFLECTIONS podcast episodes include spoilers!

Because I haven’t mentioned it yet in these BMR episode releases so far, I should probably note now something that you’ve probably already noticed, which is that we are not recording the BLACK MIRROR REFLECTIONS episodes in the same order as Black Mirror television episodes. Over the coming months, we’ll be jumping from season to season (and year to year) of Black Mirror, so that gives you plenty of time to start now from the beginning of the Black Mirror series episodes and then listen to our BLACK MIRROR REFLECTIONS episodes in whatever order you want!

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My special guest for Episode 3 is Dr. Adriel M. Trott (@AdriellTrott on Twitter), Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wabash College and the sole author of one of my favorite blogs, The Trott Line.  Adriel’s specializes in ancient, continental and political philosophy, and her work focuses on how ancient philosophy can be a resource both for diagnosing contemporary conceptions of political life, of being human, of nature and of gender and for presenting alternatives to these accounts. 

Adriel is the author of Aristotle on the Nature of Community and Aristotle on the Matter of Form: A Feminist Metaphysics of Generation. She is currently part of a GLCA-funded project on transnational feminism in collaboration with Denison University, and she recently completed a Mellon-funded project developing processes and procedures to improve ethics in publishing in philosophy. Trott teaches courses that engage students from classics, gender studies, Black studies and PPE. She is the Editor of the Women in Philosophy series at the American Philosophical Association (APA) Blog. You can check out her Wabash College “Chapel Talks” here and here.
Those are her bona fides, but I was Adriel’s roommate in grad school, so if you ever want to know the real dirt… DON’T ASK ME ‘CAUSE I DON’T SNITCH. 
In all seriousness, Adriel and I have been friends for almost 20 years and she was one of the very first people I asked to be a guest when I thought about hosting this podcast. As you will hear below, she did not disappoint!
You can listen to our discussion of “Striking Vipers” in its entirety here:


 

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:

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