In this episode, we begin our new series on modernity with a discussion of Marshall Berman’s 1982 book All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity. Some of the questions we will tackle in this series will address the substance of modernity, whether modernity is singular or multiple, the relationship of art to modernization, and whether mode ... Show More
Jun 10
136 TEASER | What’s the Point of Equality? Meditations on Post-Socialist Analytical Philosophy
In this episode, we talk about the relational paradigm in political philosophy. Made famous by Iris Marion Young, developed later by Elizabeth Anderson, this view of what equality is all about presents a puzzle for the class conscious. It says that the point of equality is to liv ... Show More
9m 17s
Oct 2019
#170 — The Great Uncoupling
Sam Harris speaks with Andrew McAfee about the history of human progress and the modern uncoupling of our prosperity from resource consumption. They discuss the pitfalls and hidden virtues of capitalism, technological progress, environmental policy, the future of the developing w ... Show More
48m 1s
Apr 2020
TEJU ADISA-FARRAR on Remapping Our World /177
On this week’s episode, we explore the importance of place and placemaking with guest Teju Adisa-Farrar. We discuss how gentrification originates through the calculated and supremacist devaluation of place, its environmental impacts, and urbanization and urban futures in response ... Show More
1h 16m