Philosophy Casting Call

Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril
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Philosophy Casting Call

Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates? Well, this is not about them! Philosophy Casting Call is where Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril, your friendly neighbourhood philosopher, interviews professors, grad students, and non-academics to find out what philosophy looks like now and try to shine a spotlight on thinkers, topics, and themes that are historically marginalised in academic philosophy. This includes women, LGBTQIA, disabled, and BIPOC people who are out there, getting their philosophy on, and who deserved to be cast as philosophers in our culture.

  1. 09/03/2023

    Sh*tposting and Algorithm Hygiene w/Jess Rauchberg

    Content note: Because of the topic, this episode will contain some mild swearing. The end of season 3 has arrived! To go out with fanfare, Élaina interviews digital communications scholar Jess Rauchberg about the rhetoric act of sh*tposting on various social media platforms and how various hygiene policies change the ways in which a wide variety of people (from Nazis to disability activists) engage with culture. This is the perfect episode to listen to if you are curious about the philosophy of social media or if you want to know how in the world Lea Michele, the Succession fandom, and Olivia Rodrigo’s TikTok marketing campaign are linked to digital anti-ableism. How to reach Jess Website: https://www.jessrauchberg.com/ Twitter: @DisabledPhd Texts mentioned in the episode (All links to books are affiliated to Bookshop.org UK and any purchases made through them will generate a small commission that helps to support the podcast): “The Medium is the Message”, by Marshall McCluhan (PDF) The work of Arseli Dokumaci “‘Feenin’: Posthuman Voices in Contemporary Black Popular Music”, by Alexander G. Weheliye (PDF) “History of Shit”, by Dominique Laporte “No One Is Talking About This”, by Patricia Lockwood Subscribe to Philosophy Casting Call and leave it a 5-star review wherever you can! Follow Philosophy Casting Call on Twitter and Instagram @philoCCpod Read the full episode transcripts at www.elainagauthiermamaril.com Support the podcast by becoming a monthly donor on Ko-Fi.com Email: philosophycastingcallpod@gmail.com Follow Élaina on Twitter @ElainaGMamaril

    1h 2m

  2. 02/03/2023

    A Critique of Distributive Global Health Justice w/Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra

    What does interdisciplinarity mean when your discipline is interdisciplinary? In this episode, bioethicist and global health ethicist Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra talks about using philosophical theories alongside scientific epistemologies and feminist approaches to shape our understanding of ‘global health ethics’. Specifically, she gets into her critique of the popular model of distributive justice. How to reach Agomoni Website: https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/people/dr-agomoni-ganguli-mitra Twitter: @GanguliMitra Texts mentioned in the episode (All links are affiliated to Bookshop.org UK and any purchases made through them will generate a small commission that helps to support the podcast): The School for Good Mothers, by Jessamine Chan Subscribe to Philosophy Casting Call and leave it a 5-star review wherever you can! Follow Philosophy Casting Call on Twitter and Instagram @philoCCpod Read the full episode transcripts at www.elainagauthiermamaril.com Support the podcast by becoming a monthly donor on Ko-Fi.com Email: philosophycastingcallpod@gmail.com Follow Élaina on Twitter @ElainaGMamaril

    42 min

  3. 23/02/2023

    The Both/And of AI and Trans Health w/Rebecca Sanaeikia

    In this episode, Élaina talks about the ethical challenges of using AI tools in healthcare provision for transgender people with philosopher and bioethicist Rebecca Sanaeikia. They discuss the different versions of “top down” versus “bottom up” ethical strategies and the tension between needing more data on how trans people access healthcare and wanting to keep trans people safe. How to reach Rebecca https://beccasanaeikia.weebly.com/ Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/logavaguy Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beccasanaeikia/ And you can email her here: rebecca.sanaeikia@gmail.com Texts mentioned in the episode (All links are affiliated to Bookshop.org UK and any purchases made through them will generate a small commission that helps to support the podcast): This Arab is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Authors, ed. Elias Jahshan Subscribe to Philosophy Casting Call and leave it a 5-star review wherever you can! Follow Philosophy Casting Call on Twitter and Instagram @philoCCpod Read the full episode transcripts at www.elainagauthiermamaril.com Support the podcast by becoming a monthly donor on Ko-Fi.com Follow Élaina on Twitter @ElainaGMamaril

    35 min

  4. 02/02/2023

    Being Near Birth w/Andrea Ford

    In this episode, Élaina interviews medical and cultural anthropologist and practising birth doula, Andrea Ford. Andrea discusses her trajectory as an interdisciplinary scholar and the power of studying liminal spaces to better understand what different cultures value. CW: This episode contains discussion of fertility, pregnancy, and childbirth. You can find out more about Andrea’s work here: https://andrealillyford.com/ and https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/persons/andrea-ford Texts mentioned in the episode (All links are affiliated to Bookshop.org UK and any purchases made through them will generate a small commission that helps to support the podcast): Beyond Black, by Hilary Mantel Subscribe to Philosophy Casting Call and leave it a 5-star review wherever you can! Follow Philosophy Casting Call on Twitter and Instagram @philoCCpod Read the full episode transcripts at www.elainagauthiermamaril.com Support the podcast by becoming a monthly donor on Ko-Fi.com Follow Élaina on Twitter @ElainaGMamaril

    34 min

  5. 26/01/2023

    Black Radical Liberalism w/Kristin Waters

    In this episode, Élaina interview Kristin Waters, the author of Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought about combatting epistemicide and choosing to write on philosophy of race as a white woman in the US. You can buy Kristin’s book and learn more about her work on her website: www.kristin-waters.com Listen to the Gilmore Girls tie-in episode of Women of Questionable Morals: Race and Politics and GG, Oh My! Texts mentioned in the episode (All links are affiliated to Bookshop.org UK and any purchases made through them will generate a small commission that helps to support the podcast): Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought, by Kristin Waters Black Women’s Intellectual Traditions: Speaking Their Minds, ed. Kristin Waters and Carol b. Conaway The History of Black Studies, by Abdul Alkalimat Maria W. Stewart, America's First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches, ed. Marilyn Richardson Black Feminist Thought, by Patricia Hill Collins Radical Theory, Caribbean Reality, by Charles W. Mills The Case for Rage: Why Anger is Essential to Anti-racist Struggle, by Myisha Cherry Decolonizing Feminism: Transnational Feminism and Globalization, ed. Margaret A. McLaren Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, by Robin D.G. Kelley Barbaric Culture and Black Critique: Black Antislavery Writers, Religion, and the Slaveholding Atlantic, by Stefan M. Wheelock Ethics and Insurrection: A Pragmatism for the Oppressed, by Lee A. McBride III Association of Black Women Historians Black Perspectives Blog Subscribe to Philosophy Casting Call and leave it a 5-star review wherever you can! Follow Philosophy Casting Call on Twitter and Instagram @philoCCpod Read the full episode transcripts at www.elainagauthiermamaril.com Support the podcast by becoming a monthly donor on Ko-Fi.com Follow Élaina on Twitter @ElainaGMamaril

    38 min

  6. 19/01/2023

    Non-Ideal Theories of (Trans)genders w/Matthew Cull

    In this episode, Élaina interviews fellow philosopher Matthew Cull about the difference between “ideal” and “non-ideal” ethical theories in relation to access to healthcare for transgender people in the UK. You can read Matthew’s work here: “Against Abolition”, Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, 2019 “Demarcating the Social World with Hume”, Philosophical Papers, 2022 Texts mentioned in the episode (All links are affiliated to Bookshop.org UK and any purchases made through them will generate a small commission that helps to support the podcast): Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System, by Christopher Chitty “Ideal Theory” as Ideology, by Charles W. Mills (PDF) The Electronic Wireless Show (podcast) Second Skins, by Jay Prosser Invisible Lives, by Viviane Namaste Subscribe to Philosophy Casting Call and leave it a 5-star review wherever you can! Follow Philosophy Casting Call on Twitter and Instagram @philoCCpod Read the full episode transcripts at www.elainagauthiermamaril.com Support the podcast by becoming a monthly donor on Ko-Fi.com Follow Élaina on Twitter @ElainaGMamaril

    41 min

  7. 12/01/2023

    Metagnosis and Narrative Medicine w/Danielle Spencer

    In this episode, Élaina interviews Danielle Spencer, the author of “Metagnosis: Revelatory Narratives of Health and Identity”. Danielle explains what she means by “narrative medicine” and what the COVID-19 pandemic and the genre of physician memoirs can tell us about what still needs to happen before we can achieve more holistic healthcare. You can reach Danielle and find her work on her website: https://www.daniellespencer.com/ You can read my review of “Metagnosis” here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DtWQScs-arO8Hd3T8BNVDpxFFEHgNjh4/view?usp=sharing Texts mentioned in the episode (All links are affiliated to Bookshop.org UK and any purchases made through them will generate a small commission that helps to support the podcast): Metagnosis: Revelatory Narratives of Health and Identity, by Danielle Spencer Phenomenology of Illness, by Havi Carel Recognitions, by Terence Cave The Cancer Journals, by Audre Lorde The Undying: A Meditation on Modern Illness, by Anne Boyer Illness as Metaphor, by Sunsan Sontag Subscribe to Philosophy Casting Call and leave it a 5-star review wherever you can! Follow Philosophy Casting Call on Twitter and Instagram @philoCCpod Read the full episode transcripts at www.elainagauthiermamaril.com Support the podcast by becoming a monthly donor on Ko-Fi.com Follow Élaina on Twitter @ElainaGMamaril

    35 min

  8. 05/01/2023

    Ethics of Kinship in the Archive w/Hannah Sullivan-Facknitz

    We are back for Season 3 and an exploration of interdisciplinarity with an interview with crip, mad, activist historian Hannah Sullivan-Facknitz. We talk about retraining ourselves to do anti-extractivist archival work and about how our disabled identities and kinships shape our scholarly work. You can find out more about Hannah’s work on Twitter @hannahnthewolf and on their website: https://hannahandthewolf.wordpress.com/ Texts recommended in the episode (All links are affiliated to Bookshop.org UK and any purchases made through them will generate a small commission that helps to support the podcast): Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education by Jay T. Dolmage A Debt to the Dead? Ethics, Photography, History, and the Study of Freakery by Jane Nicholas (open access PDF) Pollution is Colonialism by Max Liboiron Texts mentioned in the episode: “Tropics of Discourse” by Hayden White Subscribe to Philosophy Casting Call and leave it a 5-star review wherever you can! Follow Philosophy Casting Call on Twitter and Instagram @philoCCpod Read the full episode transcripts at www.elainagauthiermamaril.com Support the podcast by becoming a monthly donor on Ko-Fi.com Follow Élaina on Twitter @ElainaGMamaril

    49 min
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Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates? Well, this is not about them! Philosophy Casting Call is where Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril, your friendly neighbourhood philosopher, interviews professors, grad students, and non-academics to find out what philosophy looks like now and try to shine a spotlight on thinkers, topics, and themes that are historically marginalised in academic philosophy. This includes women, LGBTQIA, disabled, and BIPOC people who are out there, getting their philosophy on, and who deserved to be cast as philosophers in our culture.

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  • Creator
    Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2023
  • Episodes
    23
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    Explicit
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    © Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril
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    Philosophy Casting Call

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