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"Smithereens" (with special guest, James Buchanan "Bru" Wallace)
Mar 5, 2021
55m 34s
"Hang the DJ" (with special guest, John Torrey)
Feb 28, 2021
49m 33s
"Bandersnatch" (with special guest, Eric Steinhart)
Feb 19, 2021
50m 51s
"Metalhead" (with special guest, Roman V. Yampolskiy)
Feb 12, 2021
48m 12s
"Rachel, Jack, and Ashley Too" (with special guest, Karen Tongson)
Feb 5, 2021
53m 01s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 3/5/21 |  "Smithereens" (with special guest, James Buchanan "Bru" Wallace) | Dr. James Buchanan ("Bru") Wallace joins Dr. J to talk about religion, techniques of the self, guilt, the imperative to look up from your screen and see others, and "Smithereens." | 55m 34s | ||||||
| 2/28/21 |  "Hang the DJ" (with special guest, John Torrey) | Dr. John Torrey joins Dr. J to talk about whether or not we each have (and can find) "The One," dating apps, the freedom to make bad choices, simulated relationships, and "Hang the DJ." | 49m 33s | ||||||
| 2/19/21 |  "Bandersnatch" (with special guest, Eric Steinhart) | Dr. Eric Steinhart joins Dr. J to talk about navigating compossible worlds and timelines, tech gods (and monsters), mental illness, books that (maybe) shouldn't be read, and "Bandersnatch." | 50m 51s | ||||||
| 2/12/21 |  "Metalhead" (with special guest, Roman V. Yampolskiy) | Dr. Roman V. Yampolyskiy joins Dr. J to talk about robot dogs, poker playing AIs, the control problem, how long we have left before the rise of the machines, what it would be like to be a superintelligence's pet, and "Metalhead." | 48m 12s | ||||||
| 2/5/21 |  "Rachel, Jack, and Ashley Too" (with special guest, Karen Tongson) | Dr. Karen Tongson joins Dr. J to talk about celebrity, what makes pop music "popular," karaoke queerness, our digital afterlives, and "Rachel, Jack, and Ashley Too." | 53m 01s | ||||||
| 1/29/21 |  "White Bear" (with special guest, Charles W. Mills) | For Episode 17, I am joined by Dr. Charles Mills to talk about punishment, non-ideal theories of justice, why philosophers love science fiction, and "White Bear" (Season 2, Episode 2 of Black Mirror), which first premiered in 2013.Dr. Charles W. Mills is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at The Graduate Center, CUNY. He works in the general area of social and political philosophy, particularly in oppositional political theory as centered on class, gender, and race. He is the author of over a hundred journal articles, book chapters, comments and replies, and six books. His first book, The Racial Contract (Cornell UP, 1997), won a Myers Outstanding Book Award for the study of bigotry and human rights in America. His second book, Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race (Cornell UP, 1998), was a finalist for the award for the most important North American work in social philosophy of that year. Other books are: From Class to Race: Essays in White Marxism and Black Radicalism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), Contract and Domination (co-authored with Carole Pateman) (Polity, 2007), which brings the sexual and racial contracts together, and Radical Theory, Caribbean Reality (University of the West Indies Press, 2010). His most recent book is Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism (Oxford UP, 2017). Here at BLACK MIRROR REFLECTIONS, we assume that everyone is already committed to read more, write more, think more, and be more... so here's a helpful list of links to thinkers, technologies, books, and articles referenced in this episode:Lex talionis and retribution (an animated explanation, with Kant!)Susan Schneider, Science Fiction and Philosophy: From Time Travel to Superintelligence (2009)John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (1971)John Rawls, Justice as Fairness: A Restatement (2001)Charles Mills, "Ideal Theory as Ideology" (Hypatia, 2005)Retributive Justice (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)Amy Louise Wood, Lynching as Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 Ellen E. Jones, "From mammy to Ma; Hollywood's favourite racist stereotype" (BBC, 2019)Layla Eplett, "Not Gone With The Wind: The Perpetuation of the Mammy Stereotype" (Scientific American, 2015)Elizabeth Perez, "Black Mirrors: Reimagining Race, Technology, and Justice" Ruja Benjamin, Race after Technology: Abolitionist Codes for the New Jim Crow (2019) ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ | 1h 13m 52s | ||||||
| 1/22/21 |  "Arkangel" (with special guest, Shannon M. Mussett) | Dr. Shannon Mussett talks to Dr. J about surveillance technologies, helicopter parenting, the differences between Gen X and Gen Z childhoods, how we might avoid raising a generation of sociopaths, and "Arkangel." | 52m 09s | ||||||
| 1/15/21 |  "Men Against Fire" (with special guest, Charles W. McKinney, Jr.) | Dr. Charles McKinney joins Dr. J to talk about dehumanization techniques, the importance of race-conscious thinking, the dangerous logic of eugenics, whether an anti-racist technology is possible (or desirable), and "Men Against Fire." | 54m 38s | ||||||
| 1/15/21 |  "Hated in the Nation" (with special guest, Ammon Allred) | Dr. Ammon Allred joins Dr. J to talk about social media cesspools, climate change, the unwritten rules of hashtags, so-called "cancel culture," the Capitol insurrection, and "Hated in the Nation." | 1h 06m 30s | ||||||
| 1/8/21 |  "Be Right Back" (with special guest, Samir Chopra) | Dr. Samir Chopra joins Dr. J to talk about intelligent robots, personhood, the complicated machinations of human grief, and "Be Right Back." | 56m 00s | ||||||
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| 12/31/20 |  "Black Museum" (with special guest, Zandria F. Robinson) | Dr. Zandria F. Robinson joins Dr. J to talk about whose bodies get sacrificed in the name of scientific advancement, the contours of consciousness, suffering as spectacle, ancestral ghosts, and "Black Museum." | 1h 06m 31s | ||||||
| 12/24/20 |  "USS Callister" (with special guest, David Gunkel) | Dr. David Gunkel joins Dr. J to talk about the possibility of virtual moral agents, the seriousness of online games, science fiction's bad politics, and "USS Callister." | 56m 29s | ||||||
| 12/18/20 |  "Nosedive" (with special guest, John Danaher) | Dr. John Danaher and Dr. J talk about social credit systems, the ubiquity of ranking metrics, whether or not its possible to go "off the grid," and "Nosedive." | 53m 22s | ||||||
| 12/11/20 |  "Shut Up and Dance" (with special guest, Rick Lee) | Dr. Richard A. Lee joins Dr. J. to talk about surveillance, trolling, absolution, and "Shut Up and Dance." | 58m 07s | ||||||
| 12/9/20 |  "The Waldo Moment" (with special guest, Jason Read) | Dr. Jason Read joins Dr. J to talk about politics, celebrity, toxic masculinity, Trump, and "The Waldo Moment." | 58m 58s | ||||||
| 12/4/20 |  "Playtest" (with special guest, C. Thi Nguyen) | Dr. C. Thi Nguyen joins Dr. J to talk about games, the technological singularity, Alzheimer's, and "Playtest." | 1h 02m 59s | ||||||
| 12/4/20 |  "The Entire History of You" (with special guest, John Cerrito) | Filmmaker John Cerrito joins Dr. J in this episode to talk about memory, jealousy, objectivity, and "The Entire History of You." | 48m 46s | ||||||
| 11/27/20 |  "San Junipero" (with special guest, Michael Norton) | Dr. Michael Norton joins Dr. J in this episode to discuss the pros and cons of a digital afterlife, as it is presented in "San Junipero." | 55m 07s | ||||||
| 11/27/20 |  "Striking Vipers" (with special guest, Adriel M. Trott) | We are joined by Adriel Trott (Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wabash College) to discuss "Striking Vipers" (Season 5, Episode 1). | 42m 23s | ||||||
| 11/26/20 |  "The National Anthem" (with special guest, Ammon Allred) | We are joined by Ammon Allred (Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Toledo) to discuss "The National Anthem" (Season 1, Episode 1). | 53m 24s | ||||||
| 11/24/20 |  'White Christmas" (with special guest, Chris Gilliard) | Dr. Chris Gilliard joins Dr. J in this episode to discuss "digital redlining," incarceration and e-carceration, the ethics of "blocking," and whether not it may be okay to torture or coerce digital copies of human consciousnesses... all in the context of Black Mirror's first special holiday episode, "White Christmas." | 1h 04m 59s | ||||||
| 11/22/20 |  "15 Million Merits" (with special guest, Shannon Mussett) | Dr. Shannon Mussett (Professor of Philosophy, Utah Valley University) joins Dr. J in this episode to discuss authenticity, performance, her concerns about the encroachment of screens in our lives, and what we all probably missed when we watched "15 Million Merits." | 45m 03s | ||||||
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2 placements across 2 markets.
Chart Positions
2 placements across 2 markets.