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22 episodes
2020 to 2021
Average episode: 56 minutes
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Categories: Interview-Style • Popular Culture
Podcaster's summary: Thinking through the technology, philosophy, morality, and politics of Black Mirror
| Episodes |
| 2021-Mar-05 • 56 minutes "Smithereens" (with special guest, James Buchanan "Bru" Wallace) Full episode notes at this link. | | ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ | |
| 2021-Feb-28 • 50 minutes "Hang the DJ" (with special guest, John Torrey) Full episode notes at this link. | | ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ | |
| 2021-Feb-19 • 51 minutes "Bandersnatch" (with special guest, Eric Steinhart) Full episode notes at this link. | | ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ | |
| 2021-Feb-12 • 48 minutes "Metalhead" (with special guest, Roman V. Yampolskiy) Full episode notes available here. | | ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ | |
| 2021-Feb-05 • 53 minutes "Rachel, Jack, and Ashley Too" (with special guest, Karen Tongson) Check our the full episode notes here. | | ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ | |
| 2021-Jan-29 • 74 minutes "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 j... |
| 2021-Jan-22 • 52 minutes "Arkangel" (with special guest, Shannon M. Mussett) Check out the full episode notes here. | | ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ | |
| 2021-Jan-15 • 55 minutes "Men Against Fire" (with special guest, Charles W. McKinney, Jr.) Full episode notes available here. | | ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ | |
| 2021-Jan-15 • 67 minutes "Hated in the Nation" (with special guest, Ammon Allred) Full episode notes here. | | ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ | |
| 2021-Jan-08 • 56 minutes "Be Right Back" (with special guest, Samir Chopra) Check out the full episode notes here. | | ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ | |
| 2020-Dec-31 • 67 minutes "Black Museum" (with special guest, Zandria F. Robinson) Check out the full episode notes here. | | ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ | |
| 2020-Dec-24 • 56 minutes "USS Callister" (with special guest, David Gunkel) Check out the full episode notes here. | | ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ | |
| 2020-Dec-18 • 53 minutes "Nosedive" (with special guest, John Danaher) Check out the full episode notes here. | | ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ | |
| 2020-Dec-11 • 58 minutes "Shut Up and Dance" (with special guest, Rick Lee) Check out the full episode notes here. | | ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ | |
| 2020-Dec-09 • 59 minutes "The Waldo Moment" (with special guest, Jason Read) Check out the full episode notes here. | | ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ | |
| 2020-Dec-04 • 63 minutes "Playtest" (with special guest, C. Thi Nguyen) Read the full episode notes here. | | ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ | |
| 2020-Dec-04 • 49 minutes "The Entire History of You" (with special guest, John Cerrito) You can read the full episode notes for this podcast here. | | ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ | |
| 2020-Nov-27 • 55 minutes "San Junipero" (with special guest, Michael Norton) Full episode notes here. | | ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ | |
| 2020-Nov-26 • 42 minutes "Striking Vipers" (with special guest, Adriel M. Trott) In this episode, Adriel Trott and Dr. J discuss the ways in which VR complicates not only our conventional understandings of the distinction between the "real" and the "simulated," but also our conventional understandings of sex, gender, sexuality, and desire.Check out the full episode notes and links to further readings here. | | ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ | |
| 2020-Nov-25 • 53 minutes "The National Anthem" (with special guest, Ammon Allred) "The National Anthem" premiered as the inaugural episode of Black Mirror in 2011. Despite the fact that it does not include any futuristic technologies, it set the scene for the series and remains one of the most controversial and riveting episodes. Should the Prime Minister have done it? Why do so many people find this spectacle fascinating? What, if any, moral judgments can (or should) we make about works of art? Does the development of deepfake technology over the last several years change how we view th... |
| 2020-Nov-24 • 65 minutes '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." |
| 2020-Nov-22 • 45 minutes "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." |