talkPOPc's Podcast
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.
talkPOPc's Podcast
Episode 134: Claire Hamilton
Timestamps:
- 00:10: Introductions
- 00:30: What do we think about power? Power comes in many forms, but not everyone is interested in it
- 02:40: Power plays a role in social dynamics. Cultivating a sense of power
- 03:50: Power is situational. Perspective drives perceptions of power
- 05:25: Power is a comfortable place to be. Work, family, and power dynamics
- 07:00: Power on the macro scale. Lack of power on an individual level leads us to ignore it
- 09:05: Where do the relations of power come from? A complex network of variables with microscopic influences
- 11:45: 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 us
- 17:00: The Romance/Desperation of rural Saskatchewan
- 19:00: Being able to influence your surroundings and "being in the world.' The human thrill of the new