Philosophers In Space

0G195: The Boys Season Three and Hobbes' Leviathan

Sep 23, 2022

Season two of the boys was some of the most messed up content I'd ever seen, until the first three episodes of season three. It's all brilliant, but yeah, hard to imagine a more Hobbesian Leviathan than Homelander. Homelander's Leviathan.

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0G194: The Boys Season Two and White Christian Nationalism

Sep 9, 2022

THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN. THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN!

Sorry, couldn't resist that one. We're back, and we're talking one of our favorite shows, The Boys! This episode we're focused on the Stormfront arc in season two, some of the best writing ever put to tv. We cover how perfectly the season unpacks the problem of white...

0G193: Archive and Advanced Philosophy of Digital Personhood

Aug 26, 2022

The last of our digitally uploaded selves will now wind down for your listening pleasure. Our biological selves will again meet to create new digital versions, but for these ones, their time in stasis will be followed by a brief flash of existence before a return to the long dark. We discuss Archive and all the weird...

0G192: Consider Phlebas and Galactic Just War pt.3

Aug 12, 2022

We survived, and yet like all Culture protagonists we've been fundamentally changed by the experience. Can we return to the safety and normalcy of other sci-fi after this? Will we eventually succumb to ennui and ask to be frozen in stasis until Banks is reincarnated and starts writing again? Guess we'll have to...

0G191: Consider Phlebas and Philosophy of Scale pt.2

Aug 10, 2022

A book so big we barely manage to cover even a piece of it in three episodes. Don't be deceived by the vaguely unsatisfying nature of the narrative on first reading, this book is a culture ship packed with philosophy. In part two our minds reel as we attempt to grasp the scale of the Culture and the space...