Popcorn Hermeneutics

About Popcorn Hermeneutics

Join two philosophy students in their search for meaning as they interpret their way through films and series of all kind, the good, the bad, and the great. Each episode is an exploration of modern culture and what it says to us about being human.

Publisher

Ramón Rodriguez & Emmanuel Flores

Category

tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

21 Dec 2020

Latest episode

6 Mar 2021

Latest episodes

8 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Mar 2021

   Episode 7 - The Sound of Metal or No Sound At All: Silence and Identity in a Drummer's Deafness

   In this episode, Emmanuel and Ramón review Amazon Prime's Sound of Metal and give their own experiences of how silence has shaped their own experience and identity. (May contain spoilers.)

2. 

   28 Feb 2021

   Episode 6 - The Unexamined Rick is Not Worth Mortying: Rick and Morty as Socratic Satire

   Wubba Lubba Dub Dub! In this episode, Emmanuel and Ramón talk the hit show Rick and Morty, bash its toxic fans, and ask what Rick Sanchez, as Socrates, might have to say about science, transhumanism, and meaning. (May contain spoilers.)

3. 

   19 Feb 2021

   Episode 5 - When Life Gives You La La Land (or, Combating the Joint Forces of Disney and a Millennial Worldview) (feat. Riley Connors)

   Popcorn Hermeneutics is back! Ramón and Emmanuel welcome their second guest Riley Connors to the show to talk about decision-making and meaning-finding in Damien Chazelle's 2016 hit La La Land. (May contain spoilers.)

4. 

   22 Jan 2021

   Episode 4 - Raised by Wolves: Nature vs. Nurture and the Anthropological Meaning of Flying Snake Babies

   What about us is culturally determined? What comes from our nature? What is human nature, anyways? In today's episode, Emmanuel and Ramón look for the answers of these questions in HBO's fantastic sci-fi series Raised by Wolves. (May contain spoilers.)

5. 

   14 Jan 2021

   Episode 3 - Pulp Fiction and the Axiological Non-Significance of the Royale with Cheese (feat. Brian Flanagan)

   It's Throwback Thursday! Ramón and Emmanuel are joined by Brian Flanagan, seminarian, cinephile and fellow philosophy student to unpack the themes of nihilism, pop culture, and transcendence in the classic Pulp Fiction.

6. 

   8 Jan 2021

   Episode 2 - Spike Jonze's Her and the Algorithm of Love (or, Downloadable Romance vs. Dead Cats)

   In this episode, Emmanuel and Ramón discuss the ins and out of a technophile's love life in this gorgeous film where Siri meets Scarlet Johansson. (May contain spoilers.)

7. 

   7 Jan 2021

   Episode 1 - I'm Thinking of Ending Things (or, Why Weird is Good)

   In this episode, Emmanuel and Ramón dig into Charlie Kaufman's latest Netflix film I'm Thinking of Ending Things, and why sometimes the strangest films are the ones that have the most to tell us.

8. 

   21 Dec 2020

   Episode 0 - Trust Us, We've Studied the Arts

   In this first episode, Emmanuel and Ramón talk the why of the podcast, their motivations for making it, and where they hope to take it in the coming months.

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