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🗓️ 22 June 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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The actor/writer/comedian joins us to talk about the philosophy of fashion, from the ancients to the present: Is clothing a mode of self-expression or something more (or less)? What does retro fashion say about the current state of culture? Are philosophers anti-fashion, and is that sexist? What color wedding dress is best for an arranged marriage? Are improv scenes like tissues?
Mark philosophizes at partiallyexaminedlife.com. Bill improvises (and teaches) at chicagoimprovstudio.com.
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0:00.0 | This is Bill Arnet. |
0:04.8 | This is Philosophy versus Improv, where two sages try to teach each other a thing or two, and |
0:09.8 | maybe you, the audience, get something out of it as well. |
0:12.4 | My name is Bill Arnet. the audience get something out of it as well. |
0:12.8 | My name is Bill Arnett, an improv, IT professional, |
0:17.8 | yet a philosophy nube. |
0:19.5 | This is Mark Linsomire. |
0:20.6 | I am a philosophy, I would say, in the HR department and a just kind of |
0:26.8 | skating by pretending to do improv a little bit. We have a very special guest today |
0:31.5 | please introduce yourself. |
0:32.4 | Hello, my name is Shear. We have a very very special guest today. Please introduce yourself. |
0:33.0 | Hello, my name is Sherry Flanders. I guess I'm an improv expert if such thing exists, |
0:40.0 | but I am a philosophy noob because I have a degree in fashion design and I chased after all of the art boys and not the philosophy boys. |
0:48.0 | I don't know anything about that. |
0:51.0 | I think there's a lot philosophical to say about fashion design. I think this, I think you've picked our topic. |
0:55.0 | It actually gets deeper than you would expect. |
1:00.0 | Yeah, I imagine so. I imagine so. Well, I don't know. I sometimes I often ask Mark, as again, I'm kind of new to philosophy as well, what did the ancients say? What did the ancient Greek and Chinese and you know philosophers |
1:15.7 | from all around the world what do they say and being fashion all I'm thinking about |
1:18.8 | now are just togas togas and robes and you know so much yet so they were just like you know tie it on |
1:25.2 | that's what we're done I would say loin cloths when you're really looking at the |
1:30.1 | the real ancients real real ancient stuff, okay. |
1:33.0 | Apparently loin, according to what I see on the screens, |
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