Timestamps:00:10: Introductions00:45: Where there is power, there's abuse. 03:05: Imbalance of power is inevitable. If we don't share power, we hoard it04:05: Can power ever be positive? To take action, we need power. It has the capacity to create good, but without any checks and balances, it goes too far06:45: Institutional power as a result of individual power. We willingly give up power to the institution09:05: How do we get the power back? Only collectively, large scale efforts can shift the power balance12:00: January 6th as a display of power, even if it's misguided14:30: How can we utilize power to make positive strides of change?17:15: Power-seekers aren't those who should have it. Perverse incentives20:30: Randomization as a potential solution to power hoarding21:15: How do we account for lack of knowledge in the randomization scenario? Town halls, bureaucracy, and trial and error24:00: Advisors as the lynchpins of powerSupport the showTwitter: @talkpopc Instagram: @talkpopc
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Episode 136: Stone
Timestamps:00:10: Introductions00:35: Organizing people and how it relates to power02:05: How do we apply knowledge of Foucault to the real world?03:55: Are people hesitant or afraid to use their power? 05:10: There's something in the air, people are aware of power07:20: Personal, individualized power. Being an actor in the world10:00: Cynicism on the rise. When promises aren't kept, people burn out11:30: The pursuit of self-interest, computer science vs. building a new disruptive route14:30: One slip and you're done, losing purpose and stability. What is there to lose vs. cynical depression16:45: The state form of power. Capitalizing on people's fears20:00: The experiences of protesting, solidarity vs. winning22:30: MLK as good, Malcolm X as bad. The idolization of peaceful protest25:45: To change power structures, we organize and develop leadership, the only way to build something big is to start one-on-oneSupport the showTwitter: @talkpopc Instagram: @talkpopc
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Episode 135: Lucy Gray
Timestamps:00:10: Introductions00:40: Power is and has been based on violence02:15: How do we define violence as it relates to power? Is it purely physical?03:10: Power as better or worse, not necessarily good04:40: The Philosopher King in the structure of power06:00: Can power manifest in a non-violent form?08:30: January 6th and the role of violence to change power structures10:00: The maintenance of power utilizes violence12:20: Is it always bad to utilize the threat of violence to maintain power?16:00: Power structures give groups greater freedom. The capacity to act is tied to power21:10: Why do the little things matter for "big" people? When power scales, you can't take actions with impunity25:00: When violence goes away, are we bound to the structures of power? What are the checks to power?Support the showTwitter: @talkpopc Instagram: @talkpopc
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Episode 134: Claire Hamilton
Timestamps:00:10: Introductions00:30: What do we think about power? Power comes in many forms, but not everyone is interested in it02:40: Power plays a role in social dynamics. Cultivating a sense of power03:50: Power is situational. Perspective drives perceptions of power05:25: Power is a comfortable place to be. Work, family, and power dynamics07:00: Power on the macro scale. Lack of power on an individual level leads us to ignore it09:05: Where do the relations of power come from? A complex network of variables with microscopic influences11:45: Overwhelmed by powers we cannot control. What can we do in light of that?15:10: The minor things matter. How we treat people becomes practice and changes us17:00: The Romance/Desperation of rural Saskatchewan19:00: Being able to influence your surroundings and "being in the world.' The human thrill of the newSupport the showTwitter: @talkpopc Instagram: @talkpopc
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Episode #133 R.P. Tyler Olds talks with talkPOPc participant Maggie about philosophy, power, and justice
Timestamps:Â 00:10 Introductions01:00 Thoughts on Philosophy, ethics as a branch of Philosophy02:05 Concern over monetary power, the world our children will inherit03:05 Meritocracy, intelligence, and kindness. The Republic and the philosopher kings and access to virtuous rearing04:15 Exploring old ideas, but leaving room for criticism. We don't live in Ancient Greece05:30 What happens to those without power? In an ideal society, we don't have folks without power06:15 Defining power, thinking about money and the physical world // UBI, housing as a basic right and the power to live freely08:25 Access to new technologies for a just society, but how do we enforce equity we write into law? A central court system?09:35 Suspicion of life-time appointments. Engaged citizenry requires the free-time and space to own our citizenship11:40 Strengthening power by taking it from others. Is power an infinite resource, or is it a zero-sum game?14:30 Elie Wiesel and refusal. We can refuse to grant power to others17:50 Willpower as an internally derived force vs social powerSupport the showTwitter: @talkpopc Instagram: @talkpopc
talkPOPc (Philosophers' Ontological Party club), is public philosophy + cognitively-engaged art nonprofit founded by Dr. Dena Shottenkirk, who is both a philosopher and an artist. As a topic-based project (we are now on our fourth) talkPOPc sponsors one-to-one conversations between a participant and a philosopher (who always dons our amazing gold African king hat, along with our mascot Puppet!) These conversations are consensus-building conversations and feed back into Shottenkirk's related artworks and published philosophy. The conversations become collaborative acts of making both philosophy and art. Thus, each topic - #1. nominalism, #2. censorship, #3. art as cognition, and #4 power - has three "pillars" the associated artworks, the published philosophy book, and podcast conversations. Various philosophers participate (see our website talkpopc.org for the list of philosophers) and these conversations happen in various places. For example, we go into bars and have one-to-one conversations. We sit down next to the deli counter and hold a conversation with someone who has walked in to get a ham sandwich and walked out knowing so much more about their own thoughts. We go into the MDC prison in Brooklyn and have conversations. We set up in galleries where the artworks and the philosophy are also displayed. And we listen. Here are some of those conversations.Change happens when people talk.
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