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 135: Lucy Gray
Timestamps:
- 00:10: Introductions
- 00:40: Power is and has been based on violence
- 02:15: How do we define violence as it relates to power? Is it purely physical?
- 03:10: Power as better or worse, not necessarily good
- 04:40: The Philosopher King in the structure of power
- 06:00: Can power manifest in a non-violent form?
- 08:30: January 6th and the role of violence to change power structures
- 10:00: The maintenance of power utilizes violence
- 12:20: 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 power
- 21:10: Why do the little things matter for "big" people? When power scales, you can't take actions with impunity
- 25:00: When violence goes away, are we bound to the structures of power? What are the checks to power?