Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates? Well, this is not about them! Philosophy Casting Call is where Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril, your friendly neighbourhood philosopher, interviews professors, grad students, and non-academics to find out what philosophy looks like now and try to shine a spotlight on thinkers, topics, and themes that are historically marginalised in academic philosophy. This includes women, LGBTQIA, disabled, and BIPOC people who are out there, getting their philosophy on, and who deserved to be cast as philosophers in our culture.
Sh*tposting and Algorithm Hygiene w/Jess Rauchberg
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/ (https://www.jessrauchberg.com/)
Twitter: @DisabledPhd (https://twitter.com/disabledphd?lang=en)
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” (https://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/mcluhan.mediummessage.pdf), by Marshall McCluhan (PDF)
The work (https://www.concordia.ca/faculty/arseli-dokumaci.html) of Arseli Dokumaci
“‘Feenin’: Posthuman Voices in Contemporary Black Popular Music” (https://read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/article-abstract/20/2%20(71)/21/32621/Feenin-POSTHUMAN-VOICES-IN-CONTEMPORARY-BLACK), by Alexander G. Weheliye (PDF)
“History of Shit” (https://uk.bookshop.org/a/7705/9780262621601), by Dominique Laporte
“No One Is Talking About This” (https://uk.bookshop.org/a/7705/9781526629777), by Patricia Lockwood
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2 Mar 2023
A Critique of Distributive Global Health Justice w/Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra
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 (https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/people/dr-agomoni-ganguli-mitra)
Twitter: @GanguliMitra (https://twitter.com/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 (https://uk.bookshop.org/a/7705/9781529158526), by Jessamine Chan
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Read the full episode transcripts at www.elainagauthiermamaril.com (https://www.elainagauthiermamaril.com/philosophy-casting-call-podcast)
Support the podcast by becoming a monthly donor on Ko-Fi.com (https://ko-fi.com/philoccpod)
Email: philosophycastingcallpod@gmail.com
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23 Feb 2023
The Both/And of AI and Trans Health w/Rebecca Sanaeikia
In this episode, Élaina talks about the ethical challenges of using AI tools in healthcare provision for transgender people with philosopher and bioethicist Rebecca Sanaeikia. They discuss the different versions of “top down” versus “bottom up” ethical strategies and the tension between needing more data on how trans people access healthcare and wanting to keep trans people safe.
How to reach Rebecca
https://beccasanaeikia.weebly.com/ (https://beccasanaeikia.weebly.com/)
Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/logavaguy (https://mobile.twitter.com/logavaguy)
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beccasanaeikia/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/beccasanaeikia/)
And you can email her here: rebecca.sanaeikia@gmail.com (mailto:rebecca.sanaeikia@gmail.com)
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):
This Arab is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Authors (https://uk.bookshop.org/a/7705/9780863564789), ed. Elias Jahshan
Subscribe to Philosophy Casting Call and leave it a 5-star review wherever you can!
Follow Philosophy Casting Call on Twitter and Instagram @philoCCpod
Read the full episode transcripts at www.elainagauthiermamaril.com (https://www.elainagauthiermamaril.com/philosophy-casting-call-podcast)
Support the podcast by becoming a monthly donor on Ko-Fi.com (https://ko-fi.com/philoccpod)
Follow Élaina on Twitter @ElainaGMamaril
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