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The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Ep. 248: Racism and Policing (Al-Saji, Merleau-Ponty, et al) (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Casey, Paskin, Philosophy, Linsenmayer, Society & Culture, Alwan

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

On Alia Al-Saji’s “A Phenomenology of Hesitation” (2014), bits of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception (1945), and Linda Martín Alcoff’s Visible Identities (2006), plus Alex Vitale's The End of Policing (2017).

Is there sub-conscious racism, and how might we root it out and fix our policing problems? Ex-cop Phil Hopkins joins to look at how phenomenology can help.

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You are listening to the Partially examined life, a podcast by some guys who are at one point

0:19.6

sit on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it.

0:22.1

Our question for episode 248 is, is there such a thing as subconscious racism?

0:27.8

And if so, how could we possibly root it out and fix our policing problems?

0:31.4

Our readings today were chapter one of the end of policing by Alex Fatale from 2017.

0:36.6

And our philosophical treatment is centered around Alia Alsaji's,

0:39.8

a phenomenology of hesitation interrupting racializing habits of seeing from 2014.

0:44.9

To the sources Alsaji draws on for that account that we also looked at are

0:48.6

Maurice Merleponte's phenomenology perception from 1945, specifically the section,

0:53.5

the spatiality of one's own body and motility, and then Linda Martijn Alkov's

0:58.2

visible identities race, gender and self from 2006, specifically the sections,

1:02.8

identity as visible and embodied and perception.

1:05.9

For more information, please see partiallyexaminedlife.com.

1:09.6

This is Mark Linton-Meier, whose poor performance in sports as a child is explained

1:13.3

by my movement being in fact thought about movement in Madison, Gonson.

1:17.2

This is delicacy embodied yet not reduced to my physical determination,

1:21.2

imagined as existing outside my place in culture and history in Madison, Gonson.

1:26.0

And this is Seth Paschinen Austin, Texas.

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