PEL Presents PMP#1: Pop Culture vs. High Culture

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

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

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

What is pop culture? Does it make sense to distinguish it from high culture, or can something be both?

Welcome to this new pop culture podcast hosted by Mark Linsenmayer, Erica Spyres, and Brian Hirt. This episode also features Tyler Hislop, our editor. For more, see prettymuchpop.com.

Get involved from the start at patreon.com/prettymuchpop. We'll solicit your input for our episodes, release them early for supporters, and provide bonus content with every episode; there's already some waiting for you now.

Presented by openculture.com and the Partially Examined Life podcast network.

End song: "High Rollin' Cult" written by Mark just for this release, featuring Erica. Theme music by Mark and Erica. PMP logo by Ken Gerber.

Transcript

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0:00.0	You are listening to Pretty Much Pop, a culture podcast.
0:11.9	This is our very first attempt at this, focusing on the questions of what pop culture is in
0:15.9	the internet age, and whether a distinguishing pop culture from high culture makes any sense.
0:21.0	I'm Mark Linson-Mirah, you're recovering philosopher for the evening.
0:24.9	I'm Erica Spires, actor, musician, and binge watcher.
0:29.5	I'm Brian Hurt, and I'm a heavy user of science fiction.
0:32.8	Plus, they dabble in a lot of other things.
0:35.0	We are also joined this evening.
0:36.8	We have on hand our engineer Tyler Hisslop.
0:40.3	Hello, hello, I'm Tyler Hisslop.
0:42.2	I engineer a lot of audio and play a lot of video games.
0:46.7	Yes.
0:47.7	So is there popular culture anymore?
0:51.4	We just start with a yes-no question.
0:53.0	Mark, let's just answer this and be done.
0:55.0	What's your answer?
0:56.6	Maybe.
0:58.1	Should I explain why that is a question even?
1:00.4	Sure, why is that even a question?
1:02.5	So I mean, of course, there's things we point to and say this is popular culture.
1:05.3	The point is, you know, there is no single populous.
1:08.8	We've been all connected.
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