Philosophers In Space

Ishtash fishtash ftaginash! With these names I bind you to the pod forever. Any time you're traveling you'll be drawn to listen to the podcast. Such is the power of my knowledge of naming and geography and stolen magic and whatnot. I got it from rewatching HBO's Lovecraft Country and you should too. We're talking Post-Colonialism and colonial knowledge production as a precursor to analyzing the di...

Brain break! After all that grokking we took the week off with some easy content. Hope you enjoy this discussion of an episode of maybe the greatest philosophy cartoon show ever made, and also our discussion of some weak arguments and the theists who love them.   Content: Futurama A clockwork Origin 7.9   Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmed...

And so it came to pass that the transcendent cult orgy was concluded and space Jesus announced that "it is finished" and everyone cleaned themselves up and continued with their lives, perhaps a bit changed by their brush with ethical non-monogamy. Perhaps they grokked the reality of their own and others sexualities a little bit more. If not, waiting will fill.   Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out h...

Hi friends! In place of NASA in February Aaron had a farcical "debate" with Andrew of Opening Arguments on which is the better Heinlein book, Stranger in a Strange Land or The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Mostly an excuse to discuss books we love, but we hope you enjoy the back and forth and then take sides and fight endlessly about it online. Cheers! Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing pod...

Glory be to the goddess Sophia for she has bestowed her charisms upon us, filling us with the philosophical spirit needed to fight back the demons of capitalist Christianity. Come together listeners and send your prayers and bankable donations so we can continue to fight this good fight. Hallelujah!   Prosperity Gospel: https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/9/1/15951874/prosperity-gospel-explained-w...

Join me pod-brothers as we grok in fulness one of the most significant anti-manifestos of all time, Stranger in a Strange Land. This book may not be everyone's water of life, but it's definitely one of mine. I hope we can all grow closer in shared understanding of its beauty and flaws. We begin with understanding Martian Mindfulness through the concept Tat Tvam Asi, "Thou art god". The Great Sayin...

Like a scattered Qinlin we've come to the end of our journey. All the asses have been grabbed and we all learned some valuable lessons about AI or something. Now that we've binged through bob we're understanding unstable utopias!   Heavens River (Bobiverse Book Four): https://www.amazon.com/Heavens-River-Dennis-Taylor-ebook/dp/B08P3NTSSR   Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Film...

Sup, Ephemerals?! I like to think these weekly interactions help me remember what it was like to be one of you so that I don't just decide to start throwing planets at all of you. Cause that's a thing we could very much do if I as a super powerful space hive.   All These Worlds (Bobiverse Book Three): https://www.amazon.com/All-These-Worlds-Bobiverse-Book-ebook/dp/B0736185ZL   Editing by Luisa Lyo...

Thank you all so much! None of this would be possible without you!   Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/   Support us at Patreon: h t t p s : / / w w w . p a t r e o n . c o m / 0 G   Follow us on Twitter: h t t p s : / / t w i t t e r . c o m / 0 g P h i l o s o p h y   Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answ...

Thank you all so much! None of this would be possible without you!   Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.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 questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/grou...

We just couldn't stay away from the Bobiverse. We've chewed through the books like a big bag of brain candy. So we're doing a book a week for the next three weeks. This week is book two, we'll be discussing The Others and how we may already be losing the most important game there is.   For We Are Many (Bobiverse Book Two): https://www.amazon.com/We-Are-Many-Bobiverse-Book-ebook/dp/B01MZI77C0   Dar...

Welcome to the Ridley Scott appreciation hour, where the colors are desaturated but the allegories are dense AF. I'll be your creepy robomilk mother and Thomas will be your very nonthreatening and bland milk father. We're going to help you understand why not believing in magical ideas like Ridley Scott knowing how humans feel will help you survive in this harsh, pointlessly hole filled universe.  ...

Time to turn on, tune in, and pod out! Can't stop here, this is pod country! Y'all mind if I do a pod? And other such drug culture humor. We're doing the classic Altered States and discussing the philosophy of the psychonauts. Lets get wild!   Content: Altered States https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080360/   Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filme...

Today we sit in judgment of the greatest of all Star Trek captains for the least coherent of all possible moral choices. In the case of Janeway v. Tuvix, we rule summarily against Janeway and then do our best to pretend like it's an open question.   Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/   Support us at Patreon: h t t p s : /...

SCUT is up and running, we're cosmically interfaced now. Here's the Bobiverse schedule:   9am: Weird personal projects 10am-1pm: Save the universe 2pm-4pm: Softball 4pm-5pm: Small group discussions 5pm: Drinks!   Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/ Support us at Patreon: h t t p s : / / w w w . p a t r e o n . c o m / 0 G F...

Welcome to the Bobnet, your one stop shop for all things bobiverse related. Here you'll find access to the latest in bobiverse content at faster than light speed. We've got the origin story of Bob-1 and the salvation of Earth from getting a wicked Brazilian. We've got a deep dive into the ethics of raising a replicant and next week we'll be discussing releasing it out into the universe. Enjoy the...

There's no time to actually explain, so pretend all this information is being stabbed into your face brain. We're covering the cult classic Dark City and discussing why it contains not just all past and future sci fi but also every conspiracy theory ever. To help us squeeze all that madness into your brain we've brought in the expert, Michael Marshall (@MrMMarsh). Enjoy your fake memories! Merseys...

Just when you thought we were done with Anathem, get ready for some shameless fanservice/host indulgence. Really though, adding this to our earlier coverage of Anathem feels like the completing of a personal project of worth. Hope it does something for anyone else too!   Read Beyond Critique's chapter on Foucault   Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://...

And so we reach another end, which is really just one kind of change. Hopefully some of you will find some value in our analysis of the Book of the Living and these ideas of positive obsession and kindness through change.   The Book of the Living: godischange.org/the-book-of-the-living/   Process Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/process-philosophy/   Process Theology: https://plato.s...

Thank you all so much! None of this would be possible without you! Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.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 questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/98582...

Thank you all so much! None of this would be possible without you!   Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/   Support us at Patreon: h t t p s : / / w w w . p a t r e o n . c o m / 0 G   Follow us on Twitter: h t t p s : / / t w i t t e r . c o m / 0 g P h i l o s o p h y   Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answ...

God, and I cannot stress this enough, is Change. Shape, please please please shape God. In honor of Butler's original artistic vision, this material will be forever attached to the 2020 presidential election. We'll try to talk about process philosophy and process theology as well, but I hope we all get what this about. Good luck out there. Stay safe and sane. Process Philosophy: https://plato.stan...

Election season is upon us! Will we end up with the needlessly rapey "Make America Great Again" demagogue? How many people of color will experience some form of genocide? Will the Pox ever end? While we wait to see, we start our coverage with the background from Parable of the Sower, the first book in the series that is recapped at the start of Parable of the Talents. We provide a crash course on...

WE ARE THE PODLEKS. WE WILL TURN THE WHOLE UNIVERSE INTO PODCAST. IF YOU ARE A PACIFIST WE WILL MAKE YOU A PODCAST. PODCASTINATE! PODCASTINATE! PODCASTINATE   The Failure of Pacifism and the Success of Nonviolence: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/43280797.pdf   Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/   Support us at Patreon: h...

Finally, a break from all the depressing social commentary for a lighthearted 80's romp through scenic Detroit. This movie has so much 80's it's legally the equivalent of doing coke off a sex worker. We discuss the less heavily covered topic of replacing police offices with robots, and do our best to try to pretend like this isn't a solved question. Don't forget to start reading Parable of the Tal...