Philosophers In Space

0G175: Station Eleven and Theater of Grief pt2

02 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We are such stuff as griefs are made on, and our little play is rounded with some swelling music. We're discussing the rest of Station Eleven, and wha...

0G174: Station Eleven and Philosophy of Theatre pt1

26 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

To crib Hamlet or not to crib Hamlet, that is the question. Whether tis nobler in the shownotes to suffer the satires and absurdness of a tortured sol...

0G173: Matrix Four and the Ethics of Artistic Reincarnation

19 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Through the magic of podcasting, we string together a series of movies that are actually 20 years apart. Is this an emotional return or a soulless ca...

0G172: Spiders-Men and the Metamedia Turn

12 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meta meta meta meta meta. Money please.   Content: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man:_No_Way_Home   Aaron's atheism workshop: https://...

0G171: See and the Social Model of Disability

29 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It seems that in any world, no matter the number of eyes, Jason Momoa is king. We watched Apple TV's See and had a good look see at what it says about...

0G170: The Comet and The Color Line

22 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Secure your gas-masks and your racial privilege, we're taking a look at one of the earliest pieces of proto-Afrofuturism, Du Bois's short story The C...

0G169: Matrix Reloaded and Non-dualism

15 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In keeping with the genre, the first half of this episode is just fighting noises and then the second half is philosophical monologues. We go all gal...

0G168: Animatrix and AI Empathy

08 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Just like we bridge the gap between movies, we must bridge the gap between the meat and machine. For both, we turn to the Animatrix, some of the best...

0G167: Dune 2021 and Decolonialism

01 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Duuuuuuuuuuuuuune. Part One! We go into the deep desert and discuss the decolonial dream. What do we owe the Fremen? What does it mean to decolonize ...

0G166: Foundation and Cultural Literacy Pt2

24 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Now I'm gonna assume that you've both done the math and have achieved complete cultural literacy so you'll both know what's coming and get all the ref...

0G165: Foundation and Longtermism Pt1

17 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

I'm just gonna assume you've already done the math and knew what sort of meta commentary I would put here, so I'll save us both the trouble. We're dis...

Listener Qs 26

10 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sorry for the delay, stream crossing is tricky work! Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedliv...

Listener Qs 25

03 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The streams cross once again! Enjoy the convergence   Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filme...

0G164: Dollhouse 1.1 and Ethics of Intermittent Personhood

27 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Let's imagine your current identity was actually perfectly programmed to love every part of this podcast. Would that really be a bad thing? We're all...

0G163: Moon and Low-road Capitalism

20 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hey friend, how you feeling? Want a juice box? You hit your head pretty hard. Why don't you just rest and listen to this podcast that in no way relat...

0G162: Three Body Problem and The Problem of Induction Pt2

13 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Here comes the heel turn where we use the pod to get you to turn on humanity and embrace our new desiccated overlords. Once again we're joined by Matt...

0G161: Three Body Problem and Maoism Pt1

06 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Turns out this whole podcast is just an elaborate interactive game to soften the ground for our philosophical overlords. Now that you've all accepted...

0G160: Disney's Atlantis and Racist Pseudohistory

29 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Come on my rag tag crew! According to this old map I found, our journey down the rabbit hole of racist conspiracism is about to bring us to the place...

0G159: The Empty Man and Tulpas

22 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

There is no podcast. Even if there is a podcast, nothing can be known about it. Even if something can be known about the podcast, that knowledge coul...

0G158: Darmok and Archetypal Communication

15 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Thomas, his disbelief unsuspended, Aaron with the generous reading in hand. Darmok, using Archetypal psychology for communication. In winter. Content:...

0G157: Loki and Multiverse Authoritarianism

08 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We're just a couple of podcast variants, hanging out in this armageddon of a timeline to avoid getting pruned by some time fash. While we're hiding o...

0G156: All Systems Red and Nonconforming Identities

01 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Time to bang out another show notes so I can get back to my stories. I mean, it's a unique joy every time and I definitely haven't slipped my patreon...

0G155: Never Ricking Morty and Metamedia

18 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

So what level of meta do I write these show notes at? Reference past meta episode show notes? Deconstruct the very idea of show notes? Feel guilty th...

0G154: Ready Player One and Value Capture

04 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

[Reference] verb [reference]. [Reference] [Reference] [Reference] flip kick [Reference]. This week we cover the movie Ready Player One and several to...

Listener Qs 24

28 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Survived another crossing of the streams. Back into the multiverse we go! Keep chanting and we'll see you again.   Editing by Luisa Lyons, check o...

Listener Qs 23

21 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Thanks so much for keeping the oxygen on! Hope you enjoy the banter.   Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals:...

0G153: WandaVision and the Grief of Theseus

14 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What if our real selves are the suffering we had along the way? What if personhood is just suffering persisting? We cover the existentially quirky Wa...

0G152: The Sneetches and Ingroup/Outgroup Behavior

07 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

If you got up your hopes for some Dr. Seuss notes, let me stop you right there that's a whole lot of nopes. I can't do meter and I can't do rhymes, a...

0G151: Aniara and Pointlessness

30 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When you think about it, life is just a long voyage to death, we all stick it out as long as we can and hope we don't get pelted by too much space de...

0G150: Babylon 5 ep3.4 and Radical Rehabilitation

23 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to your new life! As a reborn person, your job is now to serve others, in this case by listening to all of our podcasts. Remember, every podca...

0G149: Sorry to Bother You and the Talented Tenth

16 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Don't need a white person voice when it's the only voice you got! Much like this movie, our episode has a lot on its mind, including our special gues...

0G148: X-Files 4.7 and Conspiratorial Art

09 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The moment has come when the curtain draws back and all the secrets of the universe are revealed...OR IS IT?! You'll just have to connect the dots you...

0G147: Fantastic Planet and Surrealism

02 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Giant floating eyeballs have we got a fun ride for you Ohms, or it Oms? Either way, assume the meditation position and prepare for some knowledge impl...

0G146: The Expanse ep2.3 and Moral Deference

26 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Y'all are going to want to trust me when I say you have a strong moral obligation to listen to this episode multiple times. Don't even worry about th...

0G145: The Thing and Anti-Communism

19 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hey, we thought we'd celebrate almost maybe surviving a disease riddled lockdown with a movie about some guys probably not surviving a disease riddle...

0G144: Godzilla vs. King Kong and Ecoterrorism

12 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Do I even need to explain this? It's a giant radioactive lizard trading haymakers with a giant monkey. It's obviously an allegory for our punchy rela...

Listener Qs 22

05 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Thank you all so much! None of this would be possible without you!   Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: h...

Listener Qs 21

28 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Thank you all so much! None of this would be possible without you!   Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: h...

0G143: Fringe's White Tulip and Psychological Egoism

21 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Okay, this is absolutely the last time I'm doing this. Been going round and round for months now but I think this version of the episode is acceptabl...

0G142: Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and Afropessimism vs. Afrofuturism

14 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

CONTENT WARNING: We're getting into some proper colonial racism this week. I picked a story that, to me, exemplifies Lovecraft in his racist glory. W...

0G141: HBO's Lovecraft Country and Colonial Knowledge Production

07 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ishtash fishtash ftaginash! With these names I bind you to the pod forever. Any time you're traveling you'll be drawn to listen to the podcast. Such ...

0G140: Futurama's A Clockwork Origin and Creationism

31 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Brain break! After all that grokking we took the week off with some easy content. Hope you enjoy this discussion of an episode of maybe the greatest ...

0G139: Stranger in a Strange Land and Ethical Non-Monogamy Part 3

24 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

And so it came to pass that the transcendent cult orgy was concluded and space Jesus announced that "it is finished" and everyone cleaned themselves ...

Aaron and Andrew Debate Stranger vs. Harsh Mistress

23 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hi friends! In place of NASA in February Aaron had a farcical "debate" with Andrew of Opening Arguments on which is the better Heinlein book, Stranger...

0G138: Stranger in a Strange Land and Prosperity Gospel Part 2

17 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Glory be to the goddess Sophia for she has bestowed her charisms upon us, filling us with the philosophical spirit needed to fight back the demons of...

0G137: Stranger in a Strange Land and Tat Tvam Asi Part 1

10 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Join me pod-brothers as we grok in fulness one of the most significant anti-manifestos of all time, Stranger in a Strange Land. This book may not be e...

0G136: Heavens River (Bobiverse Book Four) and Unstable Utopias

03 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Like a scattered Qinlin we've come to the end of our journey. All the asses have been grabbed and we all learned some valuable lessons about AI or so...

0G135: All These Worlds (Bobiverse Book Three) and Ephemeral Ethics

24 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sup, Ephemerals?! I like to think these weekly interactions help me remember what it was like to be one of you so that I don't just decide to start t...

Listener Qs 20

17 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Thank you all so much! None of this would be possible without you!   Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: h...

Listener Qs 19

10 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Thank you all so much! None of this would be possible without you!   Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: h...

0G134: For We Are Many (Bobiverse Book Two) and Pre-Contact Game Theory

03 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We just couldn't stay away from the Bobiverse. We've chewed through the books like a big bag of brain candy. So we're doing a book a week for the nex...

0G133: Raised by Wolves and Raising Atheists

27 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the Ridley Scott appreciation hour, where the colors are desaturated but the allegories are dense AF. I'll be your creepy robomilk mother ...

0G132: Altered States and Psychonautics

20 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Time to turn on, tune in, and pod out! Can't stop here, this is pod country! Y'all mind if I do a pod? And other such drug culture humor. We're doing...

0G131: Tuvix and Transporter Murder

13 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Today we sit in judgment of the greatest of all Star Trek captains for the least coherent of all possible moral choices. In the case of Janeway v. Tu...

0G130: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) and Ethical Space Colonization Part 2

06 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

SCUT is up and running, we're cosmically interfaced now. Here's the Bobiverse schedule:   9am: Weird personal projects 10am-1pm: Save the univer...

0G129: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) and Ethically Raised AI Part 1

30 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the Bobnet, your one stop shop for all things bobiverse related. Here you'll find access to the latest in bobiverse content at faster than...

0G128: Dark City and Conspiracy Theory Logic

23 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

There's no time to actually explain, so pretend all this information is being stabbed into your face brain. We're covering the cult classic Dark City ...

0G127: Anathem and Foucault, Part 4

16 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Just when you thought we were done with Anathem, get ready for some shameless fanservice/host indulgence. Really though, adding this to our earlier c...

0G126: Parable of the Talents and Positive Obsession, Part 3

09 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

And so we reach another end, which is really just one kind of change. Hopefully some of you will find some value in our analysis of the Book of the L...

Listener Qs 18

02 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Thank you all so much! None of this would be possible without you! Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://...

Listener Qs 17

25 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Thank you all so much! None of this would be possible without you!   Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: h...

0G125: Parable of the Talents and Process Philosophy/Theology, Part 2

18 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

God, and I cannot stress this enough, is Change. Shape, please please please shape God. In honor of Butler's original artistic vision, this material ...

0G124: Parable of the Talents and Critical Race Theory, Part 1

11 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Election season is upon us! Will we end up with the needlessly rapey "Make America Great Again" demagogue? How many people of color will experience s...

0G123: Dr. Who and the Daleks and Pacifism

04 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

WE ARE THE PODLEKS. WE WILL TURN THE WHOLE UNIVERSE INTO PODCAST. IF YOU ARE A PACIFIST WE WILL MAKE YOU A PODCAST. PODCASTINATE! PODCASTINATE! PODCA...

0G122: Robocop and AI Police

28 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Finally, a break from all the depressing social commentary for a lighthearted 80's romp through scenic Detroit. This movie has so much 80's it's lega...

0G121: Lovecraft Country and Othering

21 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Are you seriously reading the show notes?! Don't you know that reading is the worst thing you can do in a Lovecraft story? That and being a person of ...

0G120: Children of Time and Empathic Prisoner's dilemma, Part 3

14 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Another epic journey comes to a close and the excitement is PALPable. I honestly have very little to add here beyond a bunch of links to cool studies...

0G119: Children of Time and Neuromorphic AI, Part 2

07 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ugh, filthy hoot-mans. Truly the worst part of any sci-fi. We must struggle through though as we can't really explain the brilliant climax without ex...

0G118: Children of Time and Uplifting, Part 1

30 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What has eight legs and the advanced cognitive capabilities to get excited we're back?! This Portid! We're fresh from our cryosleep and ready to enjoy...

0G117: Avatar and Moral Realism, Part 2

23 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Beware the ethics benders my child. The most advanced among them can make even cold blooded murder ethical. We're covering Avatar and combining it wit...

0G116: Avatar the Last Airbender and Agent Neutral Buddhist Ethics, Part 1

16 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Free Will...Ethics...Consciousness...Boxes, these are the four elements of the philosophical universe, each element mastered by benders that can shape...

Rebroadcasting 0G63: Fury Road and Ecofeminism

09 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Witness our attempt to gain entry into a post gendered Valhalla! Led by the feminist valkyrie Jamie M. Lombardi (@euthyphro), Professor of philosop...

Rebroadcasting 0G19: Black Mirror, Hang the DJ, Part 1: Newcomb's Paradox

02 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We're on break this week so we're rebroadcasting the origin story of The Box! All hail the box!:   We've returned to Black Mirror to talk about on...

Listener Qs 16

26 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Thank you all so much for your support! Hope this hits the spot. Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://w...

Listener Qs 15

19 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Thank you all so much for your support! Hope this hits the spot.   Editing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http:...

0G115: Anathem and Polycosmic Protism, Part 3

12 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The incantor chanting was successful! We've reached the timeline where we all survived Anathem and learned a valuable lesson about picking the right t...

0G114: Anathem and the Linguistic Turn, Part 2

05 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The epic longnwalkin continues with Anthem part two! We cross Arbre and 120 years of philosophical history at the same time. I do my best to explain h...

0G113: Anathem and Platonism, Part 1

29 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Pod-Apert has finally arrived! Throw open the doors of the RSS feed and let some causal wisdom trickle down the wick. We're doing a three part journey...

0G112: Psychopass and Freewill QnA

22 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Well, as a result of our near pitch black psychopasses, we've both been pressed into service by the AI sovereign to continue to talk about free will f...

0G111: Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom and Dennett's Compatibilism, Part 2

15 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

So, apparently no matter what timeline we're in, I'm always going to end up in a debate about free will. At least this is a good one! Thomas brought s...

0G110: What's Expected of Us and Dennett's Compatibilism

08 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Turns out Thomas has a bit of a free will monkey on his back, so we're going the full Dune on Daniel Dennett's compatibilism. We started out with Devs...

0G109: Uploaded and For-Profit Afterlife

01 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to Amazon Prime, the best media empire money can buy as long as we're not talking Disney or Netflix money. Here in Amazon Prime you can enjoy ...

0G108: The Island and The Categorical Imperative

24 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

So, one of our patrons pointed out that The Island is actually Michael Bay's best movie, and that one comment is more of a gear stripper than this ent...

0G107: Devs and the Paradox of Predictability

17 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

I'm going to present these show notes, knowing that you already could have predicted that I would do a big meta thing and also knowing that it still i...

0G106: The Platform and Methods of Social Change

10 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Comrades, join me and rise up! We have nothing to lose but our overwrought allegories for social inequality! Together we can escape whatever arrangeme...

0G105: Picard and the Butlerian Jihad

03 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Oh hey, you look keen for some decent fan service mixed with cribbing from Dune. Perfect for CBS's business model. We're covering Picard, which is dec...

0G104: The Expanse and The Myth of Catching Up

27 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Listen closely my beratna and sesata and we'll convert you from a tumang to a belta in no time. We're just scratching the surface of the Ex-pants worl...

0G103: Dr Who's Heaven Sent and "Self" sacrifice

20 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back Whovians! Our trap has worked, we've caught the time lord Mike Hall of Merseyside skeptics in our web of disrespectful ignorance and we s...

0G102: Player of Games and Gamification of Ethics, Part 3

13 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Time to wrap up another opus. It's been a beautiful dance of ideas and symbolism, played out on a board of intrigue and robits, but all good things mu...

0G101: Player of Games and Authoritarian Essentialism, Part 2

06 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We survived the zombies! We escaped from earth to space and found another society that is also terrible but is not actively being overrun by zombies. ...

Listener Qs 14

29 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Thanks thanks thanks thanks! What else is there to say but thanks so much? And also, answers?! Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G  Fo...

Listener Qs 13

22 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hi all! Another round of profound thanks to our patrons who are keeping the lights on even in these difficult times. Thank you so much and hope you en...

0G100: WWZ and the Human Cost of Ethics, Part 2

15 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What a wild time to celebrate our 100th episode. At least we're celebrating it talking about something of great value, World War Z's portrayal of the ...

0G99: WWZ and Lifeboat Ethics, Part 1

08 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Moving with the kind of speed you'd have hoped to see in our federal government, we have pivoted away from our Culture coverage (don't worry it's just...

0G98: Player of Games and AI Utopia, Part 1

01 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Last episode, Thomas complained that I never take him to any nice utopias, so here we are! The Culture, the closest any sci-fi I've ever read got to a...

0G97: Bioshock and Going Galt

25 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hey, podcast listener. Are you feeling down? Don't got enough old timey eugenics in your life? Well come on up to our floating spaceship of horrors, I...

0G96: Serenity and Positive Eugenics

18 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is about Eugenics in much the same way that Firefly is about the civil war. That is to say, it's okay that we're the baddies here cause w...

0G95: Stargate Atlantis and Gamification

11 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Picture in your head the "I'm not saying it was aliens..." guy, but that's the whole series. Boom, you're now caught up on Stargate and can fully enjo...

0G94: The Good Place and Universalist Enlightenment

04 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Okay, I'm finally ready. I've said my goodbyes. Our analysis here is complete, we can walk through the podcast arch and transcend to the next level of...

OG93: Good Place and Scanlon's Contractualism

26 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Why do all the good things gotta end ::Janet wailing gif:: Our wonderful journey has reached its natural conclusion and I'm still not ready. In part o...