Dear, surviving, audient: how is it hanging? We\I sympathize. If you were looking to art as an answer, hoping for some revolutionary frameworks, or just plain ol' solace inside -- -- I'm afraid most of the pod's going to tell you to keep looking. In this one we watched 2 "political" movies released this year: Ari Aster's Eddington and Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another. More generally, the 2 movies raised the question of what it means to ...
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Dear, surviving, audient: how is it hanging? We\I sympathize. If you were looking to art as an answer, hoping for some revolutionary frameworks, or just plain ol' solace inside -- -- I'm afraid most of the pod's going to tell you to keep looking. In this one we watched 2 "political" movies released this year: Ari Aster's Eddington and Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another. More generally, the 2 movies raised the question of what it means to ...
Cultural Appropriation: The Terror and Promise of ALWAYS having to do it
5 Star Tossers
1 hour 33 minutes
1 year ago
Cultural Appropriation: The Terror and Promise of ALWAYS having to do it
In this episode we discuss the absurdity of the taboo against cultural appropriation. Introducing specific examples like which Halloween costumes to wear, or which recipes you can and cannot cook, the Tossers argue that culture is itself appropriation, and thus the taboo attempts to inhibit something that can never be inhibited. To emphasize this universal necessity of cultural appropriation, we introduce theories of language. Jack introduces Wittgenstein's theory of language games and the ...
5 Star Tossers
Dear, surviving, audient: how is it hanging? We\I sympathize. If you were looking to art as an answer, hoping for some revolutionary frameworks, or just plain ol' solace inside -- -- I'm afraid most of the pod's going to tell you to keep looking. In this one we watched 2 "political" movies released this year: Ari Aster's Eddington and Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another. More generally, the 2 movies raised the question of what it means to ...
