Philosophy Casting Call – Details, episodes & analysis

Content note: Because of the topic, this episode will contain some mild swearing.

The end of season 3 has arrived! To go out with fanfare, Élaina interviews digital communications scholar Jess Rauchberg about the rhetoric act of sh*tposting on various social media platforms and how various hygiene policies change the ways in which a wide variety of people (from Nazis to disability activists) engage with culture. This is the perfect episode to listen to if you are curious about the philosophy of social media or if you want to know how in the world Lea Michele, the Succession fandom, and Olivia Rodrigo’s TikTok marketing campaign are linked to digital anti-ableism.

How to reach Jess

Website: https://www.jessrauchberg.com/

Twitter: @DisabledPhd

Texts mentioned in the episode (All links to books are affiliated to Bookshop.org UK and any purchases made through them will generate a small commission that helps to support the podcast):

“The Medium is the Message”, by Marshall McCluhan (PDF)

The work of Arseli Dokumaci

“‘Feenin’: Posthuman Voices in Contemporary Black Popular Music”, by Alexander G. Weheliye (PDF)

“History of Shit”, by Dominique Laporte

“No One Is Talking About This”, by Patricia Lockwood

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What does interdisciplinarity mean when your discipline is interdisciplinary? In this episode, bioethicist and global health ethicist Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra talks about using philosophical theories alongside scientific epistemologies and feminist approaches to shape our understanding of ‘global health ethics’. Specifically, she gets into her critique of the popular model of distributive justice.

How to reach Agomoni

Website: https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/people/dr-agomoni-ganguli-mitra

Twitter: @GanguliMitra

Texts mentioned in the episode (All links are affiliated to Bookshop.org UK and any purchases made through them will generate a small commission that helps to support the podcast):

The School for Good Mothers, by Jessamine Chan

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In this episode, Élaina interviews Louise Durham, a PhD student in philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. Louise talks about the three “lightbulb moments” that motivated her decision to pursue academic philosophy. This episode is for all those who have been told to give up and who kept going mostly out of spite. It’s also for everyone who ever failed a logic class. You’re in good company.

You can follow Louise Durham on Twitter @louderlh and out Instagram @philosophyreads.

Book mentioned in this episode:

“Miseducation: Inequality, Education & the Working Classes”, by Diane Reay

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In this episode, Élaina interviews Dr Judith-Frederike Popp, a post-doctoral researcher in philosophical aesthetics at the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt’s Faculty of Design. They address, among other things,  topics of theory-practice interdisciplinarity, what it means to be a relation subject, and the aesthetic agency of online influencers.

You can register for “Taking Sides: Design and art between autonomy and intervention”, an interdisciplinary hybrid symposium held in Würzburg and online on the 20th and 21st of May 2022.

You can register by emailing this address: symposium.fg@fhws.de

Or by visiting this website starting in April: https://fg.fhws.de/taking-sides

You can find Dr Popp’s academic and literary work at the following links:

Website: https://fg.fhws.de/personen/dr-judith-frederike-popp/

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3711-3637

Academia.edu: https://fhws.academia.edu/FrederikePopp

And you can follow her on Instagram @judith_gayk and on Twitter @FrederikePopp

Books mentioned in this episode:

“Critical Zones: The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth”, eds. Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel

“What About Activism?”, ed. Steven Henry Madoff

Movies mentioned in this episode:

2001 Space Odyssey

Aniara (2018)

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In this episode, Danna Aduna, assistant professor of philosophy at the University of the Philippines: Baguio, tells Élaina why she no longer wants to teach male philosophers and how she gets creative with assigned syllabi by experimenting with different ways of running her classrooms.

Content note: This episode contains non-graphic discussions of sexual harassment, sexual violence, and misogyny.

You can follow Danna’s activism on https://timesupateneo.org/ and on Twitter @TimesUpAteneo and @WomenDoingPhilo.

Books mentioned in this episode:

Living The Feminist Life, by Sara Ahmed

Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing

Miranda Fricker

Experience, Identity & Epistemic Injustice within Ireland's Magdalene Laundries, by Chloe K. Gott

Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, by Kate Manne

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Please enjoy my conversation with Black Jewish philosopher Jesi Taylor Cruz on waste colonialism, flourishing, and anti-colonial philosophy. You might notice the sounds of life, aka seagulls on my side and the hustle and bustle of New York and the coos of a small human on Jesi’s side. I hope this only adds to your enjoyment.

Content note: There is some swearing in this episode as well as discussions of colonial violence, ableism and racism.

Jesi mentions the works of Max Liboiron and you can find a list of their articles here:

https://maxliboiron.com/publications/

And you can buy a copy of Liboiron’s book “Pollution is Colonialism” on Bookshop.org.uk

You can follow Jesi Taylor Cruz on Twitter @moontwerk and find their work at https://commongroundcompost.com/

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In this season premiere, Élaina interviews Professor Soraj Hongladarom, author of The Ethics of AI and Robotics: A Buddhist Viewpoint. They discuss finding a way through traditional history of philosophy to interdisciplinary philosophical work.

You can find Soraj on Twitter @sonamsangbo

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Philosophy Casting Call is back for season 2! I’m Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril, your host and resident casting director. This season, I took a trip around the world and interviewed underrepresented philosophers who live and work in 6 different countries.

Join me as I ask professors, postdocs, and graduate students how they got into the ethics of AI, decolonial environmentalism, social epistemology, and much more. Make sure you follow Philosophy Casting Call on your favourite podcatcher and you won’t miss the season 2 premiere on the 7th of February!

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In this season finale, Élaina interviews Kathryn Belle, founder of the Collegium of Black Women Philosophers, associate professor at Penn State University, and owner and director of La Belle Vie Coaching. They discuss Prof Belle’s work on philosophy of race and engaging with black feminist philosophical scholarship on Simone de Beauvoir’s “The Second Sex”.

You can find Kathryn’s teaching and research interests here: https://www.kathrynsophiabelle.com/

And you can find out more about La Belle Vie Coaching here: http://www.kathrynbelle.com/

Article mentioned in this episode:

Kathryn T. Gines, “Comparative and Competing Frameworks of Oppression in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex” in Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal.  Volume 35, Numbers 1-2, 2014, pages 251 – 273.

Book chapter mentioned in this episode:

Kathryn T. Gines, “Simone de Beauvoir and the Race/Gender: Analogy in The Second Sex Revisited”, in A Companion to Simone de Beauvoir, eds. Laura Hengehold and Nancy Bauer, Wiley-Blackwell, 2017, pp. 47-58.

Books mentioned in this episode:

1. “Hannah Arendt and the Negro Question”, by Kathryn T. Gines
   
2. “Convergences: Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy”, eds. Maria del Guadalupe Davidson, Kathryn T. Gines, and Donna-Dale L. Marcano
   
3. “The Second Sex”, by Simone de Beauvoir
   
4. “Alice Walker: A Life”, by Evelyn C. White
   

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This is the one where Élaina asks Jen Scuro about her artistic practice’s place in all the stages of her academic career. Plus, there’s a bonus update at the end!

CN: Ableism and miscarriage

You can learn more about Jen on her website: https://jenniferscurophd.squarespace.com/home and find teaching resources on her Academia.edu page: https://molloy.academia.edu/JenniferScuro

Books mentioned in the episode:

1. Addressing Ableism, by Jennifer Scuro
   
2. The Pregnancy (does not equal) Childbearing Project: A Phenomenology of Miscarriage, by Jennifer Scuro
   
3. The Queer Art of Failure, by Judith Halberstam
   
4. Golem Girl, by Riva Lehrer
   

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