Structures of Interaction | Reflexivity

Stephanie Jo Kent

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01/11/2024

Organizing Required

“This is my job. If I’m being asked to do more than my job, I can say no. If they fire me, they’re — that’s like way worse for most employers. So you do have a lot of power as an employee, I think especially if you’re organizing and unionizing and talking with everyone that you’re working with on your … Read more... The post Organizing Required first appeared on Reflexivity.

41 min
10/14/2023

Babel (Part 2): The Necessity of Violence

“Part of what the author has documented scholarly throughout this entire fantasy, historical alternative reading of history is the potential that is unleashed or released when terms from different languages are uttered into a space or are inscribed, and sometimes it’s written, inscribed into a space, presented somehow in space and really importantly in time, more or less simultaneously.” —Stephanie … Read more... The post Babel (Part 2): The Necessity of Violence first appeared on Reflexivity.

27 min
09/15/2023

Babel (Part 1): An Arcane Translators Revolution

“As so often happens in stories like these, the only offensive choice they have in the face of what I’m reading to be an insurmountable enemy, something — the only offensive action they can take is self-destruction, and then that seems to be protecting something because the only way they can protect it from the enemy is to destroy it … Read more... The post Babel (Part 1): An Arcane Translators Revolution first appeared on Reflexivity.

20 min
08/16/2023

Adventures of the Body

“So the priorities are shifting. When you’re younger, your mind and soul feel more important than your body. But now that you as an individual are getting older, your body is making a claim for some priority space in your life.” —Charles Hobby Transcript of the Reading Transcript of the Conversation Show Notes Credits Transcript of the Reading “‘When did … Read more... The post Adventures of the Body first appeared on Reflexivity.

21 min
07/17/2023

Ideology and Imagination

“It’s like it needs to be imaginary before it becomes real. Well, there’s like a cyclical, the chicken and the egg, which was first? I guess reality was probably first, but it can’t — for us to interact with it, we need to imagine something before we can put it into action. —Charles Hobby Transcript of the Reading Transcript of … Read more... The post Ideology and Imagination first appeared on Reflexivity.

28 min
06/01/2023

The Topic of Death

“So he wants to die deliberately and he’s considering who to ask. These, I presume, are people or gods with whom he is close. The choices strike me as having an inherent performative quality. If he’s a god, other people regard him as such and so his death is going to have meaning. Even if he’s not a god, if … Read more... The post The Topic of Death first appeared on Reflexivity.

20 min
05/02/2023

National Insecurity

“…what does classified information do? I think the metaphor that we’re intended to bring to it is war, spying, national secrets, and the vulnerabilities of huge things like infrastructure. I imagine that the individual instances of it are far more idiosyncratic and personal.” —Michael J. DeLuca Transcript of the Reading Transcript of the Conversation Show Notes Credits Transcript of the … Read more... The post National Insecurity first appeared on Reflexivity.

37 min
11/03/2020

“What’s crazier–plants speaking, or humans listening?”

An excerpt from The Overstory by Richard Powers, pp. 318-322, read by Steph. Transcript: “A lot of evidence suggests that group loyalty interferes with reason.” Maidenhair and Watchman trade smirks, like he’s just told them that science has proven that the atmosphere is mostly air. “People make reality. Hydroelectric dams. Undersea tunnels. Supersonic transport. Tough to stand against that.” Watchman … Read more... The post “What’s crazier–plants speaking, or humans listening?” first appeared on Reflexivity.

8 min
11/02/2020

In-group Realignment

An excerpt from The Overstory by Richard Powers, pp. 232-238, read by Steph. Transcript: Four years at Fortuna College come down to one afternoon: Adam in his spot in the front row, Daniels Auditorium. Professor Rubin Rabinowski at the podium—Affect and Cognition. Last lecture before the final exam, and the Rabi-Man is surveying all the experimental evidence that suggests—to the … Read more... The post In-group Realignment first appeared on Reflexivity.

15 min
11/01/2020

Photosynthesis

Transcript: A reading from The Overstory by Richard Powers. 2018, p. 124. It’s a miracle,” she tells her students, photosynthesis: a feat of chemical engineering underpinning creation’s entire cathedral. All the razzmatazz of life on Earth is a free-rider on that mind-boggling magic act. The secret of life: plants eat light and air and water, and the stored energy goes … Read more... The post Photosynthesis first appeared on Reflexivity.

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10 Episodes

snapshots of the moment (a podcast)

Creator

Stephanie Jo Kent
Years Active

2021 - 2024
Episodes

10
Rating

Clean
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© Copyright Stephanie Jo Kent except where noted. This podcast is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 US license.
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Structures of Interaction | Reflexivity