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Rebecca Kukla on Moving through and Responding to the World

Conversations with Tyler

Conversations with Tyler

Society & Culture, Education

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Before she ever studied them as an academic, Rebecca Kukla was fascinated by cities. Growing up in the middle of Toronto, she spent her days walking the city and noticing the way people and place interact. That fascination stayed with her, and motion, embodiment, and place has become a subtle through line in both her professional philosophy and personal interests.

In her conversation with Tyler, Kukla speaks about the impossibility of speaking as a woman, curse words, gender representation and “guru culture” in philosophy departments, what she learned while living in Bogota and Johannesburg, what’s interesting in the works of Hegel, Foucault, and Rousseau, why boxing is good for the mind, how she finds good food, whether polyamory can scale, and much more.

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Recorded November 16th, 2018

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0:00.0

Hello everyone, I'm very excited to announce a forthcoming public event.

0:08.8

This will be a conversation with Sam Altman of Y Combinator.

0:12.8

Yes, the Sam Altman, the great amazing judge of talent.

0:17.2

This will be January 28th, Downtown San Francisco.

0:21.4

For details, please visit ConversationsWithTiler.com.

0:30.7

ConversationsWithTiler is produced by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University,

0:35.8

bridging the gap between academic ideas and real-world problems.

0:40.1

Learn more at mercatis.org.

0:42.6

And for more conversations, including videos, transcripts, and upcoming dates,

0:47.4

visit ConversationsWithTiler.com.

0:50.4

Today I am here with Rebecca Cucla, who is a professor of philosophy and a senior research

1:04.8

scholar in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown.

1:09.1

She has formal academic training not only in philosophy, but also in geography, health

1:13.9

policy, wine, classical ballet, and she competes as a nationally sanctioned, amulet

1:19.4

or in powerlifting and boxing.

1:21.7

Her two main books are, first, Mass hysteria, medicine culture, and mother's bodies, and

1:27.3

second, yo, and lo, the pragmatic topography of the space of reasons co-authored with

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Mark Lance.

1:34.6

She has a forthcoming book, City Living, How Urban Spaces and Urban Dwellers Make One Another,

1:40.3

Coming Out From Oxford University Press.

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And overall, her main areas of research expertise are social epistemology, philosophy of language,

1:49.2

of applied philosophy of science, bioethics, and feminist and anti-appressive thought.

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