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The Last Archive

The Word For Man Is Ishi

The Last Archive

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, History

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In 1911, a Native American man, the only member of his community to survive a genocide, encountered the new Anthropology department at The University of California, Berkeley. What happened next helped to define the ethical quandaries of the field and, in a strange turn, the history of science fiction. This episode: That story and the moral stakes of imagining the past and the future.

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0:32.8

Okay, thanks for listening.

0:41.4

The last archive, a history of truth.

0:47.6

When I was a kid, there were a few books and movies that we watched all the time because

0:51.8

my dad taught them every year.

0:55.8

He's a professor of business ethics, just not the way you'd think.

0:59.5

Instead of case studies about business, he teaches stories about everything.

1:04.1

In our house, a story was never just about what he thought it was about.

1:07.5

It was about something else entirely.

1:10.5

For instance, if you asked most people to describe the film Blade Runner, nine times out

1:14.9

of ten, they're going to tell you it's a movie about Harrison Ford hunting robots.

1:18.9

They might mention he's struggling with the possibility that he is also a robot, but if

1:23.3

you asked my dad, he'd say no.

1:25.6

What we have here is a film about the unethical Tyrell Corporation, the company that makes

1:30.3

the robots.

1:32.0

Same goes for writing giants, a film some might say is about surfing without realizing

1:36.0

it's actually about leadership.

1:38.1

And don't get me started about the country bunny and the little gold shoes.

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