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!
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.
- Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
- Ásta, Categories We Live By: The Constructions of Sex, Gender, Race, and Other Social Categories We Live By
- Jane Ward, Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men
- Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy (specifically, the sixth Meditation)
- Phil Owen, “Here’s Why ‘Striking Vipers’ Video Game Makes No Sense”