Philosophers In Space
Episodes
Starfleet Academy 1.5 and Purposeful Creation
13 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to woke space school! All the lens flare of a AAA reboot with 20% more queer than a Discovery Lower Deck. We're discussing episode 5 in partic...
Pluribus and the Act/Omission Distinction
27 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Here it is, the smolderiest piece of Sci-Fi this year. Get absolutely absorbed by an all time greatest pilot episode and then settle in for the grindi...
Listener Q and A 42
07 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Truly, these are the best, thank you all so so much! Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure ...
Q and A 42
20 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ugh, this was such a fun one, we've missed these Q and A's bad! Thanks again folks for all your support, hope y'all enjoy the A's as much as we did th...
Harrow the 9th pt.3 and Sacrifice in Relationships
09 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Gideon is back bitches! We finally fucking got there, and all the glorious grab-ass that entails! Truly, we've had a blast working through every mind ...
Harrow the 9th pt. 2 and Ethics with Uncertainty
10 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ah yes, part two, where things really get cooking, as it were. We're back with more Harrows, more confusingly named characters, and some proper sizzle...
Harrowhark the Ninth pt.1 and Unreliable Narrators
21 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We finally made it! Got it in before Alecto comes out, so you gotta give us credit for that! Truly, this is a labor of love. No after dark, just going...
Hazbin Hotel and Critiquing Universalism
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Once again, I want to open with "I'm sorry" for all of this. If you're considering condemning us to content creator hell for our takes, first consider...
Sinners and The Color Line
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hell yeah, been fixing to do cover this new hotness since the moment I saw it. Now that it's widely available we can talk about all the ways it messes...
Death's End and Daoist Ethics Pt.2
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Here we are at the end of our interminable journey! Millions of years in the blink of many hours. Seen some unbelievable stuff (4d space) and some sup...
Death's End and Who Did Nothing Wrong?
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Well friends, all good things must come to an end, including death apparently! We're covering the final installment in the Rememberance of Earths Past...
The Dark Forest and Dark Forest Theory pt.2
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The darker the forest, the brighter the philosophy! Despite all odds, we press on against the horrors of both the fictional and our real universe to t...
The Dark Forest and the Wallfacer Project pt.1
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
More Space Opera! We're back it with the Three Body Problem series, talking about the second book in the series. For part one, we're covering the natu...
Silo and Longterm Paternalism
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Coming out of our Silo and we're not doing fine! The air is still toxic and we're losing our minds! We're back at it with season two of Silo, and we'r...
SOMA and Advanced Problems of Personhood
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Did it work? If you're reading this, it worked! You've been successfully copied as one of the countless persons chosen for our podcast enrichment prog...
Listener Qs 40
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
No joke, we hit listener Qs 40 the week I also turn 40. Weird stuff. Anyway, thanks for keeping us alive over here, even if it's just to extend the to...
Listener Qs 39
15 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As always, it has been an honor and a privilege screwing up your names and worldviews. Enjoy! Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Join ...
Starship Troopers
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's fascism season in America again, so we're celebrating with the fashest satire of all. To help us get in the spirit we're joined by special guest ...
Bobiverse Book Five Pt2 and Advanced AI Alignment
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're doing engineering, what could go wrong?! Thoths! That's what. Or did Thoth go wrong? Maybe all of this is entirely how it should go, maybe Mud i...
Bobiverse Book Five Pt1 and The Seven Stories
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Bobs are back in town! We're back with book five, Not Till We Are Lost, another middle book in the bobiverse series. In this episode we cover all ...
Lower Decks: A Farewell to Farms (5.4)
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Here it is, the culmination of all of Star Trek, after this episode we can hang up our captain's badges and retire to a simple life of bloodworm stomp...
Intacto (Intact) and Superstitious Luck
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The fact that nobody ever asks anybody if they're "feeling lucky" in this movie feels like a mistake worthy of a creepy evil luck hug. I really enjoye...
Scavengers Reign and the Parasite/symbiote Spectrum
16 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Break out your plumbuses folks, it's time for another weird ass trip through some cool ass shit. We're talking about season one of Scavangers Reign, a...
Fraggle Rock 1.6: The Preachification of Convincing John and the Dangers of Paternalism
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you think about it "dance your cares away, worries for another day" has a horrifying ring to it when the cares in question concern the reproduction...
Alien Clay Pt 2
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
::sends show notes psychically through the spore mind:: Alien Clay: https://www.amazon.com/Alien-Clay-Adrian-Tchaikovsky/dp/1035013746 Support us at ...
Alien Clay and Low-Road Capitalism pt.1
20 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Awwww yeah, we're back in the Tchaikovskyverse doing a hecking socialism crossbred with philosophy of mind. Most importantly, there's tentacles! Alien...
Star Trek: The Next Generation, The High Ground and ethical terrorism
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's topic is a super easy one, when is terrorism ethical! We're talking political violence in the past, present, and gloriously unified Irish futu...
Listener Q and As 38
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Omg, next set of listener Q and As is gonna get us to the big 40. Love you listeners! Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G Join our Face...
Listener Qs 37
13 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Yussssss! Y'all went hard on us this time that's what we's appreciates about you. Thanks so much for all the support! Listener Survey: https://rutger...
Spiderhead (2022) and Emotional Regulation
13 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If there's two words you'd associate with our show, I hope they would be spider and head. We're doing a 2/3rds excellent 1/3rd deeply flawed movie tha...
Highlander and Male Meaning-Making
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One pod. One post. One shtick. One hole. One golden take on masculinity. (it's a kind of madness) One shaft shaped sword that shows the way. No moral ...
Men and Schrodinger's Rapist
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What is there to say about Men? A movie so pregnant with ideas it's practically bursting at the orifices with symbols coated in fresh nightmare fuel. ...
Fallout and Laboratories of Democracy
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Void Vault, the best of all possible vaults! You're so lucky you were born into this vault, especially because you can't leave. But why...
Downsizing and Altruisms
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you think about it, on the downsizing principles this is like a years worth of content, and two sentences is endless show notes. Or something, I du...
Dune pt 2
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Once again, IT IS THE LEGEND! We return to the desert planet to train another faithful, and we're not stopping till we've made everyone super depresse...
The Pod Generation and Naturalness
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear listeners, there are few joys as wonderful as providing y'all with unknown little gems filled with quirky body horror and a deep commitment to th...
Monolith and Viral Memetics
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Listeners, have we got a story for you. Two Lovecraftian podcasters so far up their own allegorical asses they do a podcast about a movie about a podc...
Sense8 and TERFs
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're keeping the theme going from Barbie with some weird mind connection gender stuff! We discuss the first two episodes of Sense8 and what they show...
Barbie
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is Barbie really a Barbie girl? And in what way is this really a Barbie world? How do we assess whether life in plastic really is fantastic, not to me...
Children of Memory and Objective Personhood pt.1
02 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're childish, we sorta have memories. What more do you need?! This book, you need this book. Holy birdbrains, a beautiful third installment in easil...
Listener Qs 36
13 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We diiiiiiid it! I knew we could do it. And y'all made it possible. So thanks again, and see you back in the abnormal show! Listener Survey: https://r...
Q and A 35
05 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You Q'd, we A'd. The pact is renewed for another cycle. May the void have mercy on all our nonexistent souls. Thanks for your sacrifice! Listener Surv...
Silo and Conspiracy
29 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Apple TV Silo! Why are we trapped in this strange and artificially limited space? Why can't anyone learn about the before times or open...
Gideon Pt 3 and Anti-Meritocratic Pedagogy
16 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Part three of our trip to BONE TOWN! Time for all our hot space lesbians to come together and learn that teamwork makes the dream work. We're discussi...
Gideon Pt 2 and Meritocratic Pedagogy
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Part two of space nun boogaloo! It's the first day of elite necromancer school and the mean girls are immortal litches who are THERE for the drama. Wh...
Gideon pt1 and Queer Theory
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Fuck yes mother fuckers, grab your girly mags and hide your corpse brides, it's fucking Gideon time people. You know that that means? Fucking boning! ...
Helsreach and Grimdark Gamergate
05 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the grim dark future, there is only show notes. Are you MAN enough to pick up an absurd set of sentences and hold the line alongside literally over...
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy and Meaningful Needs pt. 2
20 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Well, at last we've come to our not super long or honestly all that taxing journey. We asked some hard questions that we felt no obligation to answer....
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy and Anarcho-Primitivism pt.1
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
::pocket computer pings:: Greetings siblings! Your favorite It and They are coming back to town and we know what you need. WHOLESOMECORE! We got your ...
Dual and Flourishing in a Dehumanizing Society
22 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What would you do if a slightly better version of you tried to steal your life, and you were legally allowed to fight them to the death? Can you tell ...
Listener Qs 34
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The only thing we like better than Ws is As. Huge Ships of Theseus full of As just rolling up on your ear holes like they never skipped leg day. Thank...
Listener Qs 33
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
QQQQQQQQs! and AAAAAAAAAs! You love to hear it! Thank y'all so much as always for supporting the show. Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics....
Bluey "Rug Island" 2.10 and "Camping" 1.43 and Play
11 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lets play a game! Lets pretend we're podcasters and you're listeners and we're playing a fun game called "enjoying our show and reading these notes an...
Cabinet of Curiosities ep7: The Viewing and Intersectional High Weirdness
01 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Well, my unconventional conventionalists, I hope it's clear by now why I've assembled you here. Your minds and orifices have all been primed and gooed...
Brand New Cherry Flavor Episodes 1-4 and Cronenbergian High Weirdness
14 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Brand New Cherry Flavor Episodes 1-4 and Cronenbergian High Weirdness Brand new orifices! All about those orifices! And I guess transformative c...
A Color Out of Space and Lovecraftian High Weirdness
07 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sure it might seem weird to do record a piece of audio content about a color, but trust me when you see this color and start merging with your surroun...
A Scanner Darkly and PKD High Weirdness pt1
17 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
You starting to peak yet? Tracers, maybe some time dilation? Maybe your sense of truth has started to come unraveled and you realize that the frames t...
A Psalm for the Wild-Built and Objects pt2
02 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is...an object? Are these show notes an object? Is the podcast they fail to describe an object? Is our revulsion at being asked such questions a...
A Psalm for the Wild-Built and Solarpunk pt1
19 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dear friends, please pull up a cushion and enjoy a cup of warm herbal tea, freshly picked from the nearby forrest just this morning. Share your troubl...
Lawnmower Man and Dis Crit with Elizabeth Barnes
05 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Years of careful planning all leading to this, my chance to torture an actual expert philosopher with one of the most important and absurd movies ever...
Star Trek: Discovery and Panpsychism
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mushrooooooms! Mushroom mushroom! I'm in the mood to bend space and time with my mind, lets do this! We're talking about the first 5 episodes of Disco...
The Things and Varieties of Uplifting
07 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Since we couldn't get enough bug love we've awakened the master from his hypersleep so that we can go straight to the source! We've got Adrian Tchaiko...
Children of Ruin pt3 and The Problem of Unity
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Curled up in a ball shaking and crying muttering to myself "there are no ends, there is always another adventure. There's always more novelty out ther...
Children of Ruin pt2 and Radically Distributed Cognition
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Everybody get loose and do the excited Paul dance, cause it's OCTO TIME! We got a tiny taste of the tentacles in pt1 but this ep is all about our favo...
Children of Ruin pt1 and What It's Like to be a Portid
24 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Yesssssss, we're out of the Q and A wormhole and back into the Childrenverse, where the humans are terrible, the world building is amazing, and all th...
Listener Qs 32
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hi friends, sorry for the slightly late post. Been a busy week for ethics. Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ih4oa8ZSUaT...
Listener Qs 31
20 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Thank you all for the wonderful questions and your continued support. We're so excited for what's to come! Listener Survey: https://rutgers.ca1...
Andor ep7-12 and the Flavors of Anti-fash
13 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NO YOU'RE CRYING! We're coping with the emotional abuse that is the second half of Andor and talking about the flip side of the fash coin, your anarc...
Pylon Pledge Drive!
05 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hey friends! To properly kick off our patron pledge drive, we've put together a little pylon promo audio. Hope y'all are enjoying all the changes and ...
Andor ep1-6 and the Flavors of Fash
30 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hey, you look like a down-on-your-luck subject of a harmful government, could I interest you in a fun little heist story? We'll talk a bit about all t...
Lower Decks: Strange Energies and Humanism
16 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Writing show notes is the one true godlike power. The ability to shape the experiences of others, to craft a world that they run headlong into. It's ...
0G200: Crimes of the Future and Artistic Burnout
02 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Just wild that this show has reached 200 episodes. 200 episodes worth of boxes and bug anuses. We've had a great run, hopefully folks will be happy wi...
0G199: Orville: New Horizons episode 8 and Culture War Child Soldiers
19 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From the personal to the political, we discuss the moral ups and downs of New Horizons' take on the culture wars. Are child soldiers good as long as t...
0G198: Orville: New Horizons episode 5 and childhood gender autonomy
04 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you had told me 10 years ago that we'd be having this level of Star Trek adjacent content AND it would be getting super serious into issues of gend...
0G197: Everything Everywhere All at Once and Modal Luck pt 2
21 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bringing it all together, and putting it on breakfast carbs! Alphaverse Jess is back to get us through the second half of the story, with all its wei...
0G196: Everything Everywhere All at Once pt1
07 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This ones a lot, it really is everything all at once, so we brought in some help. From the Alpha verse, the multidimensional paterfamilias Jesse Rabin...
0G195: The Boys Season Three and Hobbes' Leviathan
23 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Season two of the boys was some of the most messed up content I'd ever seen, until the first three episodes of season three. It's all brilliant, but y...
0G194: The Boys Season Two and White Christian Nationalism
09 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN. THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN! Sorry, couldn't resist that one. We're back, and we're talking one of our favorite shows, The Bo...
0G193: Archive and Advanced Philosophy of Digital Personhood
26 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The last of our digitally uploaded selves will now wind down for your listening pleasure. Our biological selves will again meet to create new digital...
0G192: Consider Phlebas and Galactic Just War pt.3
12 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We survived, and yet like all Culture protagonists we've been fundamentally changed by the experience. Can we return to the safety and normalcy of oth...
0G191: Consider Phlebas and Philosophy of Scale pt.2
10 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A book so big we barely manage to cover even a piece of it in three episodes. Don't be deceived by the vaguely unsatisfying nature of the narrati...
0G190: Consider Phlebas and Critiquing the Culture pt.1
22 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A book so big we barely manage to cover even a piece of it in three episodes. Don't be deceived by the vaguely unsatisfying nature of the narrative o...
0G189: Three Robots Exit Strategies and Billionaire Preppers
08 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Congrats, you've been selected to be a servant in my billionaire bunker. You'll be required to get an implant that will explode if you try to hurt me,...
Listener Qs 30
24 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Thank you all for the wonderful questions and your continued support. We're still having fun so glad y'all are too! Editing by Luisa Lyons, chec...
Listener Qs 29
10 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Thank you all for the wonderful questions and your continued support. We're still having fun so glad y'all are too! Congrats, you've been selected ...
0G188: Tremors and Doomsday Prepperism
03 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alright you mother humpers! Time to dip into the modern classics archive and talk about a movie that was "formative" for lots of us if lots of ways. F...
0G187: Severance and Corporate Culture Alienation
27 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In order to get to the show notes you'll first need to walk through an endless series of boring halls very slowly. At which point you'll get a tiny gl...
0G186: Beforeigners and Transtemporalism Pt.2
20 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
They don't cover it in the show, but what happens with folks who genuinely feel they were meant to be born in the future. I identify as a member of th...
0G185: Beforeigners and Immigration Pt.1
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Okay, imagine if we had to care about people who weren't born at the right time, within the right borders, or to someone who was? Out of this world en...
0G184: The Titan and Posthumanism
06 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Break time! Psychologically speaking. No hard symbolism, no strong emotions. Just two hosts being deeply confused about an aggressively pointless movi...
0G183: SCP and Antimemetics
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Not long before the meds wear off so gotta be quick. We're covering the SCP antimemetics hub. Your mission is to start at the top of the page and fami...
0G182: John and Sun-Hee and End of Life Ethics
22 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
So, this wasn't exactly a light and breezy episode, content warning for getting really earnest about end of life stuff. But it felt valuable so hopefu...
0G181: Existenz and Transhumanist Alienation
08 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Well, we've come to the end of our very strange journey...or have we? Maybe there is no end to this bug anus journey and we'll just be finding new lev...
0G180: Naked Lunch and Beat Philosophy
01 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We've reached the peak of bug anus mountain! The greatest Cronenberg movie there ever was, the driving force behind all his weirdness. Now, finally, w...
Unlocked 0G179: The Fly and Transhumanism
18 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The new flesh journey continues! We've gone through the tubes, we're purified and perfected and seeking to be our best transhuman selves. Content: h...
Listener Qs 28
11 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks folks for another wonderful round of Qs. We humbly submit our As. Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: h...
Listener Qs 27
04 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks folks for another wonderful round of Qs. We humbly submit our As. Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Music...
0G178: Videodrome and Marshall Mcluhan
25 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Feel that itch, that strange rash that seems to be pulsing in weird ways? Don't worry, it's just the new flesh finding fertile soil. By the end of thi...
0G177: The Endless and Eternal Return
18 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Okay, sorry we're a bit late on this loop, I promise next loop we'll be back on track and hopefully we can manage for the next several hundred loops. ...
0G176: The Eternals and Space Baby Antinatalism
09 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Honestly, after 2.5 hours of this movie I was hoping the awakening really would happen and suck me into the middle of the planet. We discuss the cold ...