Philosophy vs. Improv

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  1. 3 days ago

    Hello from Iran w/ AmirAli Maleki

    AmirAli is a philosophy researcher who runs the Persian-language philosophy blog Praxis Publication and tries to make Islamic philosophy speak to and with the West. In this, his first international podcast appearance, we hear about doing philosophy in the “Islamic Republic of Iran,” life during wartime, the relationship between play and philosophy, Islamic philosophy in Arabic vs. Persian (and Farsi, English, etc.), Amanah (Persian for “sacred trust”), philosophy as empathy, plus the Dream Police and fun with imperialism. Read AmirAli’s posts on the Strait of Hormuz, hermeneutics, tyranny, and understanding the “enemy” during wartime. Hear more PvI. Follow us at patreon.com/philosophyimprov to get an ad-free experience and post-game chatter for many episodes, now absolutely free, or kick in a couple of bucks to get the remaining bonus content including our Redacted episode. Sponsor: Get 15% off OneSkin with the code IMPROV at oneskin.co/IMPROV. Image Note: The painting here was snatched from an article about Iranian children winning an international painting contest. AmirAli no doubt shares the dream of this illustrator that the trees of all different colors join hands, and the animals with the animals, and the people with the people, but that those three groups shall remain ever parallel and unconnected. I’m pretty sure that was Leibniz’s view. You can choose to experience this on video, entirely unedited:

  2. 21 Jul

    Meat Suit Dolls w/ Maddie Mutations

    The LA-based clown, multimedia performance artist, and doll stylist (see maddiemutations.com; she also goes by the name Maddie Forrest) joins Mary and Mark to talk about her Doll Court show, clown types and the role of the fool, failing on stage, cities as women, silly villains, and more. Will Carol overcome her anxiety to go into the big meeting? Will Maddie keep all the nice dolls to herself? What should the demands of the LA doll union be? How edgy can a clown be? We wrap up with an exercise about numeric levels of joy. Follow @maddiemutations. Some things she brought up are the Tiny Baby Talk Show and a Clown class she recommends. Hear more PvI. Follow us at patreon.com/philosophyimprov to get an ad-free experience and post-game chatter for many episodes, now absolutely free, or kick in a couple of bucks to get the remaining bonus content including our Redacted episode. Sponsor: Get 15% off OneSkin with the code IMPROV at oneskin.co/IMPROV. You can choose to watch this as unedited video:

  3. 7 Jul

    Mark and Mary in the Struggle Club

    Your wise and authoritative hosts explore forms of respectful address, what counts as good philosophy, the holodeck full-contact Fantasy Island experience, status in economic transactions, Trek not War, default improv scenarios, fear of playfulness, philosophy or improv as education vs. doing philosophy or improv, and more. The potential future textbook I suggested at the end is Martha Nussbaum’s The Therapy of Desire. Hear more PvI. Follow us at patreon.com/philosophyimprov to get an ad-free experience and post-game chatter for many episodes, now absolutely free, or kick in a couple of bucks to get the remaining bonus content including our Redacted episode. Image note: When I asked Midjourney to simply draw me “struggle club,” it unambiguously interpreted this as involving set-upon African-Americans. So I had to go with simply “child’s drawing of clubhouse,” and eventually got two figures out of it. You can choose to watch this on unedited video:

  4. 16 Jun

    Ms. Philosophy vs. Improv w/ Mary and Jenny

    What would PvI be with zero masculine energy? This episode features your usual co-host Mary Hynes and our frequent guest Jennifer Hansen (philosopher at St. Lawrence University). They have a one-on-one chat about being hot in a hostile world, interacting with AI, fighting with parrots, and they act out scenes involving the f*cks store and the actress who is too perfect. There is a lot of reclaiming one’s power and rejecting negativity and other things perhaps anathema to Mark’s sensibility, but you should tell us what YOU think. Image Note: This was a silly idea of Mark’s prior to the actual recording, which should perhaps better be called “Tall Poppies,” or something like that, but it seems a legit feminist point to make that a la “Ms. Pac-Man,” there’s a weird presumption that non-human cartoon characters are by default male, and that the female product thus must be indicated by the addition of a feminine-coded cosmetic element. Hear more PvI. Follow us at patreon.com/philosophyimprov to get an ad-free experience and post-game chatter for many episodes, now absolute free, or kick in a couple of bucks to get the remaining bonus content including our Redacted episode. You can choose to watch this on YouTube:

  5. 5 Jun

    Aphoristically w/ Andrea Roccella

    Mark and Mary are joined by Andrea, an Italian teacher with a broad performing background who’s written a book of philosophical, poetic aphorisms called Think Town: self-help reflections and directives about fear, ego, happiness, etc. There’s a long history of aphorisms in philosophy (Nietzsche, Heraclitus, Confucius, Laozi), and philosophy invented the self-help genre (the Stoics among others), but how does philosophy work given the lack of argumentation? We explore the monster under the bed, AI agents, making philosophy personally applicable, being receptive, DOT ego secretions, and more. Image Note: This is one of the options that MidJourney gave me given the directive to represent the concept of aphorisms. I was picturing, what, little dialogue bubbles with nonsense text in them? AI is clearly a bit disturbed here, and my demonstrating this is a good use of Tennessee lakes. You can choose to watch this on YouTube: Hear more PvI. Follow us at patreon.com/philosophyimprov to get an ad-free experience and post-game chatter for many episodes, now absolute free, or kick in a couple of bucks to get the remaining bonus content including our Redacted episode.

  6. 19 May

    Mark and Mary in the Triboobal Aftermath

    We are REELING from our REDACTED episode, and so we talk about the lessons we learned from that and start thinking about what it is to be out of one’s comfort zone: How do fear and ego issues interact? Is playfulness a lack of professionalism? Are both arrogance and humility products of fear? Plus, cutting-edge surgery reality shows, Schrödinger’s hostile cat and Dr. Brenda’s sentient food samples, Bishop Jim vs. Trudy the Innocent, and more! Image note: The prompt for MidJourney was “a three-breasted angry cat, as if drawn by a child.” This was the only one of eight options that gave me three of anything. Clearly MidJourney is not down with three-boob fetishism. You can choose to watch this unedited on YouTube: Hear more PvI. Support the podcast to get an ad-free experience and all our bonus content, which including the Redacted episode and (for most episodes) post-game chatter.

  7. 1 May

    PREVIEW-BONUS EPISODE: Redacted Acting Coach

    Every PvI recording is an experiment, and in this case, our guest (a bigwig acting coach in NYC whom I went to high school with) didn’t feel great about the episode, so I offered to paywall it. Here you get to hear what you’re missing, along with a little pitch about why you should support the show. To respond affirmatively to this pitch and hear (and see!) the whole episode, visit patreon.com/philosophyimprov. The episode was a great learning experience, and our next Mark & Mary episode will spend time talking about it, so any true PvI fan will want to hear it.

  8. 22 Apr

    Full Bird Mode w/ BJ Lange

    BJ is an LA improviser/actor/TV host (who teaches wounded warriors among others), and he chats with Mark and Mary about migratory patterns, TV shows that date you, how to draw in students, the realness of birds, and playing unsafe characters. Scenes include a forced-Fargo college experience, improv class on the roof, spying on birds, and keyboard warriors. Plus Marge and Larry. Why did Mary have a 3am call time for some theater thing? You will not know. Watch this episode (without the post-game) on unedited video: Follow him at @bjcomedy. Image note: The children’s pictures of birds were swiped from here. Hear more PvI. Support the podcast to get all the post-game chatter and an ad-free experience.

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Philosophy vs. Improv

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  • Channel
    Mark Lintertainment
  • Creator
    Mark Linsenmayer
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    149
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Copyright Mark Linsenmayer, all rights reserved
  • Show Website
    Philosophy vs. Improv
  • Provider
    The Partially Examined Life Podcast Network

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