Me, Myself, and Zoom

Overthink

Ellie Anderson, Ph.D. and David Peña-Guzmán, Ph.D.

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Education

4.7 • 550 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

On episode 11 of Overthink, Ellie and David discuss the ways in which Zoom has impacted our perception of the self and others. They begin by exploring the blurred lines of privacy that Zoom offers (who among us hasn’t cut their video feed to do a load of laundry?). Next, the two jump into the impact self-view has had on all of us now that we are able to see ourselves conduct our normal lives, tying it to Lacan’s mirror stage. Plus, they discuss disability theorists and the potential benefits that Zoom has for inclusion and accessibility.

Interested In the works discussed?

Paul Virilio, Open Sky
Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
Ellie Anderson, “You’re Not Staring at Yourself on Zoom, You’re Judging Yourself”
Jacques Lacan, "The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function"
Céline LeBoeuf, "Anatomy of the Thigh Gap"
Iris Marion Young, "Throwing Like a Girl"
Zoe Beery “When the World Shut Down, They Saw it Open”
danah boyd, "Profiles as Conversation: Networked Identity Performance on Friendster"

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Ellie Anderson.
0:09.2	And I'm David Pena Guzman.
0:11.0	Welcome to Overthink.
0:12.6	The podcast, we're two friends who are also professors.
0:16.3	Put philosophy and dialogue with the everyday.
0:18.8	Because big ideas are within everyone's reach.
0:21.6	Happy New Year, David. How's it going?
0:32.6	I'm doing great, just getting in that mental space of going back to work after the holidays.
0:39.7	Yes, which for us does not mean going back to the office, but going back on Zoom.
0:45.6	Sweet Zoom. It looks like 2021 is going to be another Zoom year for us, at least for the foreseeable
0:51.8	future, and I think that's the case for many. Yeah. And my university
0:55.1	sent us an official email saying that we should plan to go back in person in the fall of 2021,
1:02.1	but that we should also plan to be on Zoom, not just for the spring, but also for the totality of the
1:07.0	summer. Wow. Yeah. So we're looking at a return of late August. Okay. Yeah, I think a lot of us
1:14.6	are using Zoom, not just for things like that, you know, like classes, you and I are teaching on Zoom,
1:19.2	but pretty much for everything else, right? We've got Zoom happy hours, or at least we did
1:23.7	early in the pandemic, and then people decided that Zoom happy hours weren't particularly fun,
1:27.8	and we just retreated to our own living rooms. I have not decided that. I'm still living for the
1:32.7	happy hours on Zoom. Oh my God, invite me. I might have completely petered out. I said happy hours.
1:41.4	No, but I mean, for pretty much anything, for chatting with my family at Zoom, for talking to my
1:46.8	colleagues at Zoom, for collaborations at Zoom. So I feel like I'm a breathing and eating Zoom.
1:54.0	Like, I'm a Zoom subject now.
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