272 episodes

Welcome to Philosophers In Space, where the intrepid trekker captain Callie Wright and their questionable Chief Ethics Officer Aaron Rabinowitz explore the weird, gooey world of sci-fi, searching for tantalizing hypotheticals and gear-stripping questions in a space odyssey of meaning and amusement.

Philosophers In Space Aaron Rabinowitz and Callie Wright

    • Society & Culture
    • 4.8 • 216 Ratings

Welcome to Philosophers In Space, where the intrepid trekker captain Callie Wright and their questionable Chief Ethics Officer Aaron Rabinowitz explore the weird, gooey world of sci-fi, searching for tantalizing hypotheticals and gear-stripping questions in a space odyssey of meaning and amusement.

    Downsizing and Altruisms

    Downsizing and Altruisms

    If you think about it, on the downsizing principles this is like a years worth of content, and two sentences is endless show notes. Or something, I dunno, the scaling doesn't really make any sense, much like the conceptual map surrounding altruism. Enjoy!
    Downsizing: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1389072/
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    Sibling shows:
    Queersplaining: https://www.queersplaining.com/
    Embrace the Void: https://voidpod.com/
    Recent appearances:
    We haven't been anywhere recently and we want to be so if you know any good shows you think we should guest on him them up with the suggestion!
    Content Preview: Fallout and Laboratories for Democracy

    • 1 hr 41 min
    Dune pt 2

    Dune pt 2

    Once again, IT IS THE LEGEND! We return to the desert planet to train another faithful, and we're not stopping till we've made everyone super depressed again about the horrors of colonialism but also the horrors of de-colonialism. It's horrors all the way down folks! Enjoy, and stay tuned for Dune Messiah!
    Dune Two: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DunePartTwo
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    Music by Thomas Smith: https://seriouspod.com/
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    Sibling shows:
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    Embrace the Void: https://voidpod.com/
    Recent appearances:
    We haven't been anywhere recently and we want to be so if you know any good shows you think we should guest on him them up with the suggestion!
    Content Preview: Downsizing

    • 1 hr 25 min
    The Pod Generation and Naturalness

    The Pod Generation and Naturalness

    Dear listeners, there are few joys as wonderful as providing y'all with unknown little gems filled with quirky body horror and a deep commitment to the bit. This movie made my transhumanist orifices quiver with joy. Enjoy our discussion of the extremely mid concept that is "naturalness".
    The Pod Generation: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15768848/
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    Sibling shows:
    Queersplaining: https://www.queersplaining.com/
    Embrace the Void: https://voidpod.com/
    Recent appearances:
    We haven't been anywhere recently and we want to be so if you know any good shows you think we should guest on him them up with the suggestion!
    Content Preview: Dune 2 and Feminist Decolonialism

    • 1 hr 34 min
    Monolith and Viral Memetics

    Monolith and Viral Memetics

    Listeners, have we got a story for you. Two Lovecraftian podcasters so far up their own allegorical asses they do a podcast about a movie about a podcaster doing a Lovecraft. It's meta all the way down folks, so naturally we're talking memetics and the ethics of content creation. Enjoy!
    Monolith: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolith_(2022_film)
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    Sibling shows:
    Queersplaining: https://www.queersplaining.com/
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    Recent appearances:
    We haven't been anywhere recently and we want to be so if you know any good shows you think we should guest on him them up with the suggestion!
    Content Preview: The Pod Generation and Naturalness

    • 1 hr 42 min
    Sense8 and TERFs

    Sense8 and TERFs

    We're keeping the theme going from Barbie with some weird mind connection gender stuff! We discuss the first two episodes of Sense8 and what they show us about the philosophy of TERFs, how that might be different from gender critical, and what the future is that TERFs seem to want. Enjoy!
    Sense8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense8 
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    Music by Thomas Smith: https://seriouspod.com/
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    Email us at: philosophersinspace@gmail.com
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    Sibling shows:
    Queersplaining: https://www.queersplaining.com/
    Embrace the Void: https://voidpod.com/
    Recent appearances:
    We haven't been anywhere recently and we want to be so if you know any good shows you think we should guest on him them up with the suggestion!
    Content Preview: Monolith and Viral Memetics

    • 1 hr 34 min
    Barbie

    Barbie

    Is Barbie really a Barbie girl? And in what way is this really a Barbie world? How do we assess whether life in plastic really is fantastic, not to mention the questionable principles of consent inherent in the idea that you can undress her everywhere. Most importantly, is Barbie feminist, and if so, what kind of feminist? These earworm questions and more on this weeks instalment of Alienating your Audience! Enjoy!
    Children of Memory: https://www.amazon.com/Children-Memory-Adrian-Tchaikovsky/dp/0316466409
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    Music by Thomas Smith: https://seriouspod.com/
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    Email us at: philosophersinspace@gmail.com
    If you have time, please write us a review on iTunes. It really really helps. Please and thank you!
    Sibling shows:
    Queersplaining: https://www.queersplaining.com/
    Embrace the Void: https://voidpod.com/
    Recent appearances:
    We haven't been anywhere recently and we want to be so if you know any good shows you think we should guest on him them up with the suggestion!
    Content Preview: Sense Eight Episode 1

    • 1 hr 34 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
216 Ratings

216 Ratings

Improbability_42 ,

Sci-fi comfort food

This is intelligent, thoughtful and joyful coverage of some of the best (and worst) in sci-fi media. I’ve discovered material I’d never heard of. I’ve learned some philosophy. The current hosts are a great pairing, with passion for the content and clearly having a lot of fun with the show. It’s one of my favorite feeds.

FloraSara ,

Just the BEST

This is an amazing podcast, and this episode is just
the best

Scarletminded ,

I haven’t listened for awhile, takes 40 minutes to get to the fun philosophy part nowadays

So, the hosts act like Richard Stanley hasn’t done much, yet he has made Hardware, Dust Devil and amazing docs. Then, the hosts put down Wicca when a quick Google search would show the LBRP that Lavinia is doing. I haven’t listened for awhile, has the quality gone down? Plus, there’s more than two POC the film. Podcast needs to fact check. I miss Thomas on here. He was the glue that kept this from off roading too much, IMHO. It takes 40 minutes of ok joking to get to any philosophy and by then, I check out mentally. I barely hung on to the BNCF episode. :(

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