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Comradeship in Crisis: Climate Change vs. the Posthuman Threat

October 24, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Artificial Intelligence, Blog2024+, Capitalism, Climate Crisis, Democracy, Emergent Tech, Environmental concerns, Ethics, Philosophy, Politics, Public Philosophy, Technology and Human Values, Trump Comments Off on Comradeship in Crisis: Climate Change vs. the Posthuman Threat

Could the posthuman—rather than climate catastrophe—be the unifying force that calls us to arms?

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Hotel Bar Sessions, Episode 22: White Working Class

August 29, 2021 Leigh M. Johnson Ethics, Hotel Bar Sessions, Marx, podcast, Politics, Public Philosophy, RMWMTMBM Archive, Trump Comments Off on Hotel Bar Sessions, Episode 22: White Working Class

The HBS hosts take a critical look at the white working class and their grievances. Leading up to the 2016 election of President Donald Trump, and even more so afterwards, the U.S. found itself inundated with analyses of the allegedly “overlooked” grievances of the white working class. Were those legitimate grievances that should have been…

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Hotel Bar Sessions Ep 19: Laughter

July 25, 2021 Leigh M. Johnson Aesthetics, Hotel Bar Sessions, humor, Philosophy, podcast, Politics, Public Philosophy, RMWMTMBM Archive, Trump Comments Off on Hotel Bar Sessions Ep 19: Laughter

  In advance of Rick Lee’s forthcoming book, co-hosts Charles and Leigh ask him why he thinks all “theories” of comedy are inadequate. What exactly is the “joke” part of a joke? Why are philosophers not only hostile to comedy, but also categorically unfunny? Is comedy formulaic or does it resist systematic analysis? What is…

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BLACK MIRROR REFLECTOINS podcast, Ep8: “The Waldo Moment” with Jason Read

December 9, 2020 Leigh M. Johnson Black Mirror, Black Mirror Reflections, Blog 2023+, Ethics, Politics, Pop Culture/Film/Literature, RMWMTMBM Archive, Technology, Technology and Human Values, Television, Trump, Women and Gender Issues Comments Off on BLACK MIRROR REFLECTOINS podcast, Ep8: “The Waldo Moment” with Jason Read

For Episode 8 of the BLACK MIRROR REFLECTIONS podcast, I am joined by Dr. Jason Read to talk about “The Waldo Moment” (Season 2, Episode 3 of Black Mirror), which first premiered in 2013 and has been, in retrospect, one of the most unfortunately prescient episodes of the series so far. This was my first…

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