4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2020
⏱️ 75 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Mark, Wes, Dylan, and Seth summarize thoughts about our recent series on social construction, gender and sex, and Judith Butler's notion of "grievable lives." Should we stop covering so much contemporary work and/or political topics?
End song: "The Size of Luv" by Mark Lint from Mark Lint's Dry Folk (2018).
Get this and every episode ad-free with a PEL Membership. Please support the podcast!
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
0:00.0 | You're listening to the partially examined life of podcasts by some guys who have one |
0:10.7 | point set on doing philosophy for living with them thought better of it. |
0:13.6 | Our questions for episode 238 are many and various as we paused reflect on our recent |
0:19.0 | series on social construction, talk about future directions, and take listener comments |
0:24.4 | and questions. |
0:25.4 | For more information please visit partiallyexaminedbife.com. |
0:28.6 | This is Mark Lensmeyer enjoying the philosophical literature of the 20th century in Madison |
0:32.6 | Wisconsin. |
0:33.6 | So state your opening position with your... |
0:35.4 | This is Seth Paschkin trying not to be confirmed in his biases in Austin, Texas. |
0:43.3 | This is Wes All on a social construction skeptic in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
0:49.6 | This is Dylan Casey, almost always interpreting everything pragmatically in Madison, Wisconsin. |
0:57.0 | Alright, so we got some opening salvos. |
0:59.0 | We didn't actually have... |
1:00.4 | I put up on Twitter and Facebook that we were doing this just yesterday. |
1:04.1 | And we didn't get that many responses, but we've gotten quite a few over the last weeks, |
1:09.0 | and it's really October's when we started doing this social construction stuff. |
1:12.5 | And so there were at least a few general themes I felt like we should address. |
1:17.2 | Like we didn't really connect the dots. |
1:19.9 | You know, we started. |
1:20.9 | So Wes initiated this series. |
1:23.7 | And for the first one, reading hacking in burger, that was a good kind of survey of the positions. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Mark Linsenmayer, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Mark Linsenmayer and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.