Philosophers In Space

In the grim dark future, there is only show notes. Are you MAN enough to pick up an absurd set of sentences and hold the line alongside literally overwrought walking metaphors? We're covering Helsreach, a fan made movie in the Warhammer 40k universe, and discussing both the philosophy of Grimdark and the interestingly related philosophy of Gamergate. We discuss why 40k is one of the last major hol...

Well, at last we've come to our not super long or honestly all that taxing journey. We asked some hard questions that we felt no obligation to answer. We banged some hot blacksmiths and blew off our obligations to play with the phytoplankton. If this isn't the good life, there probably isn't one. Enjoy Prayer for the Crown-Shy pt. 2 and consider what real need for meaning still exists. A Prayer fo...

::pocket computer pings:: Greetings siblings! Your favorite It and They are coming back to town and we know what you need. WHOLESOMECORE! We got your quirky robit questions, your quaint little inlets, your wicked hot space blacksmiths. Oh yeah, and we got anarcho-primitivists trying to tell us exactly how much of anything to have. So pull up a cushion, grab your favorite tea, and learn to accept t...

What would you do if a slightly better version of you tried to steal your life, and you were legally allowed to fight them to the death? Can you tell yourself you wouldn't, you'd do something better? You'd let them kill you? Welcome to the world of Dual, where we're gonna talk about what it means to lead a good life in a dehumanizing society, or any society really! What do you owe to your future s...

The only thing we like better than Ws is As. Huge Ships of Theseus full of As just rolling up on your ear holes like they never skipped leg day. Thanks for the support Ferda! Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ih4oa8ZSUaT0Cq Music by Thomas Smith: https://seriouspod.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilo...

QQQQQQQQs! and AAAAAAAAAs! You love to hear it! Thank y'all so much as always for supporting the show. Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ih4oa8ZSUaT0Cq Music by Thomas Smith: https://seriouspod.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questi...

Lets play a game! Lets pretend we're podcasters and you're listeners and we're playing a fun game called "enjoying our show and reading these notes and thinkings this is all deep and insightful and then realizing that this literally how we live our entire lives and now you're free". We can use this cute show Bluey for our building blocks. Ready?! Bluey: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVzLLZkDuFG...

Well, my unconventional conventionalists, I hope it's clear by now why I've assembled you here. Your minds and orifices have all been primed and gooed in anticipation of the main event, the mind fuck du jure, the sparkling diamond of gear strippers. We watch one of the best hours of art ever made and luxuriate in its splendid madness. Give yourself over to the new flesh, become one with the weird....

Brand New Cherry Flavor Episodes 1-4 and Cronenbergian High Weirdness Brand new orifices! All about those orifices! And I guess transformative change and coping with trauma. THROUGH ORIFICES! We're discussing episodes 1-4  Brand New Cherry Flavor: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11343600/ Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ih4oa8ZSUaT0Cq Music by Thomas Smith: https://ser...

Sure it might seem weird to do record a piece of audio content about a color, but trust me when you see this color and start merging with your surroundings you'll thank us! We're covering the recent Nic Cage A Color Out of Space movie and discussing Lovecraftian influences on high weirdness. A Color Out of Space: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5073642/ Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics....

You starting to peak yet? Tracers, maybe some time dilation? Maybe your sense of truth has started to come unraveled and you realize that the frames that society forces you to use to understand reality are actually systems of control meant to keep you from reaching the transcendent state of enlightenment that is your birthright as a child of light? Drugs are wild huh?! We're talking A Scanner Dark...

What is...an object? Are these show notes an object? Is the podcast they fail to describe an object? Is our revulsion at being asked such questions an object? Are we objects? How can persons not be objects? Can we throw objects at philosophers until they stop talking about objects? Find out all this and more! Content: https://www.amazon.com/Psalm-Wild-Built-Monk-Robot/dp/1250236215 Listener Survey...

Dear friends, please pull up a cushion and enjoy a cup of warm herbal tea, freshly picked from the nearby forrest just this morning. Share your troubles with us and we'll lighten them with a story of monk and robit, their journey through the wilds, and there attempts to unravel what humans really need. We start with some delicious worldbuilding and show how that worldbuilding exemplifies the solar...

Years of careful planning all leading to this, my chance to torture an actual expert philosopher with one of the most important and absurd movies ever made. We're covering Lawnmower Man and philosophy of disability professor Elizabeth Barnes has made the crossover from the void to join us and discuss whether this movie is a hate crime, a perfect critique of our approaches to disability, or both? C...

Mushrooooooms! Mushroom mushroom! I'm in the mood to bend space and time with my mind, lets do this! We're talking about the first 5 episodes of Discovery and the joy of a fungus based universe. We also discuss this as one approach to panpsychism, and refresh on that view vs. other theories of consciousness. Content: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Discovery Listener Survey: https://rutge...

Since we couldn't get enough bug love we've awakened the master from his hypersleep so that we can go straight to the source! We've got Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Children of Time series and other amazing scifi on to discuss The Things by Peter Watts, a piece that relates strongly to Children of Memory while giving us a nice chance to distinguish between assimilationist and non-assimilation...

Curled up in a ball shaking and crying muttering to myself "there are no ends, there is always another adventure. There's always more novelty out there." Seriously, what a ride, loved all of this and hope y'all do to. We're wrapping up Children of Ruin and discussing how it's nice to come together, but not too much together. Content: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Ruin Listener Survey:...

Everybody get loose and do the excited Paul dance, cause it's OCTO TIME! We got a tiny taste of the tentacles in pt1 but this ep is all about our favorite squishy little escape bois. We discuss their beautiful weirdness and introduce the also truly wonderful Creature from Nod, and explore how these entities push the boundaries of our ability to comprehend forms of distributed cognition radically d...

Yesssssss, we're out of the Q and A wormhole and back into the Childrenverse, where the humans are terrible, the world building is amazing, and all the uplifted critters can totally give consent. We are starting our three part adventure through book two of the Children of Time series. PLEASE READ CHILDREN OF TIME FIRST! And ideally go back and listen to our episodes on it, cause Adrian is the mast...

Hi friends, sorry for the slightly late post. Been a busy week for ethics. Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ih4oa8ZSUaT0Cq Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ Music by Thomas Smith, check out his amazing podcast with Lindsey Osterman: https://seriouspod.com/ Support us at Patreon: https://www....

Thank you all for the wonderful questions and your continued support. We're so excited for what's to come!   Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ih4oa8ZSUaT0Cq   Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/   Music by Thomas Smith, check out his amazing podcast with Lindsey Osterman: h t t p s : / / s e r...

NO YOU'RE CRYING! We're coping with the emotional abuse that is the second half of Andor and talking about the flip side of the fash coin, your anarchisms and what not. I'm gonna go sit in the dark and think about the monologues from episode 12 and wonder what's a functional version of bricking a fash.   Content: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9253284/   Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtric...

Hey friends! To properly kick off our patron pledge drive, we've put together a little pylon promo audio. Hope y'all are enjoying all the changes and we really appreciate your continued listenership as we retrofit the show for season two goodness. If you feel like you could join our community for as little as $2 a month, we'd love to have you on board! https://www.patreon.com/0G Cheers, Aaron and...

Hey, you look like a down-on-your-luck subject of a harmful government, could I interest you in a fun little heist story? We'll talk a bit about all the kinds of overbearing governments and I promise this totally won't end in you signing up for a revolution or anything.  Content: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9253284/ Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ih4oa8ZSUaT0Cq Ed...

Writing show notes is the one true godlike power. The ability to shape the experiences of others, to craft a world that they run headlong into. It's pure strange energies. This week we're taking our first dip into Lower Decks, arguably the best of all Star Trek shows. we're covering season 2, episode 1, "Strange Energies", and exploring the humanist roots of Trek. Embrace the words of the show not...