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philoscifiz

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on-screen sci-fi & philosophy podcast with Matt and Dave. episodes released on Saturdays (UK daytime). three seasons of six episodes a year (spring, summer, autumn) + the odd special!
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best philoscifiz episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to philoscifiz for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite philoscifiz episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

philoscifiz - Sorry to Bother You (2018) [#18 - autumn 2021]
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11/06/21 • 38 min

Never look a gift horse in the mouth? What would you do if offered everything you’ve been told you ever wanted? Matt and Dave check out Boots Riley’s utterly hilarious and deadly serious counter cultural and visually inventive sci-fi dystopia. So, will Cassius Green stick to the later-than-late-capitalism script? Find out in our season finale as the present, past, and future of slavery collide amidst worker unions, big tech, performance art, and Hegel’s dialectic.

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philoscifiz - eXistenZ (1999) [#11 - summer 2021]
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05/29/21 • 28 min

Matt and Dave get trapped in a Cronenberg film! Because – it seems – you have to play the game to find out why you’re playing the game. Follow us as we tumble down a mole hole and enter the world of eXistenZ with the demoness Allegra Geller. Or do we? Technophobia becomes realist terror for the anti-gamer resistance while the film seen through the lens of Zola’s naturalism uses gaming to critique the reality of the real world. Or does it?

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philoscifiz - Ghost in the Shell (1995) [#10 - summer 2021]
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05/22/21 • 30 min

Matt and Dave are dropped head-first into a world where Descartes was right. Yet - proclaims the polyonymous entity from the shadows of this cyberpunk anime - 'neither science nor philosophy can explain what life is'. Set in future Japan, Motoko Kusanagi is a cyborg security agent, pondering such intangibles while fighting terror. From Gilbert Ryle to Samuel Butler’s Erewhon, we explore accounts of the mind-body problem, and the problem of machine reproduction.

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philoscifiz - The Black Hole (1979) [#8 - summer 2021]
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05/08/21 • 34 min

Matt and Dave go to robot heaven in this old-skool sci-fi classic from the late 1970s. On one side, the aphoristic, gung-ho Vincent and the fear and trembling of old Bob; on the other, the martial uniformity of the sentinels, the eerie horror of the cyborgs, and the malign presence and silence of Maximillian. Join us and the crew of the Palomino as we encounter the evil genius of Dr Hans Reinhardt, and the ambiguity of the black hole and the spacetime beyond.

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philoscifiz - The Fifth Element (1997) [#7 - summer 2021]
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05/01/21 • 36 min

Matt and Dave bound into the second season of the podcast with this bright, joyful, and profound multi-perspectival sci-fi movie. A big ball of evil is zooming towards the Earth, with only the elemental Leeloo standing in the way of an extinction event. But is human life worth saving when we do what we do to each other? Or should Leeloo love her fate, as wise-cracking Korben Dallas believes? Questions Nietzsche explored beyond good and evil proliferate!

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philoscifiz - Krull (1983) [#6 - spring 2021]
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03/13/21 • 30 min

To conclude the first season on a high, Matt and Dave explore a box office flop! Why? The film didn’t fail – we, the audience, failed the film. Thusly, it is time to join Prince Colwyn and his disparate companions as they journey through all manner of terrors in this visually stunning film to save Princess Lyssa and their planet from the Beast. Fantasy rises from the foundations of sci-fi as we encounter myth with Joseph Campbell and 'The Hero with a Thousand Faces'.

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philoscifiz - Silent Running (1972) [#5 - spring 2021]
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03/06/21 • 26 min

Matt and Dave feel some droid love with Huey, Dewey, and Louie aboard the Valley Forge at the rings of Saturn. This film explores the environmental fears of our time pushed into the future so we can see them with clarity. But is it really trees vs technology? Is it really Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann vs Adam in Eden? Or something far more complex and ambiguous? What is for sure, is the ecological, social, and personal trauma of Freeman Lowell.

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philoscifiz - Things to Come (1936) [#4 - spring 2021]
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02/27/21 • 34 min

Matt and Dave go back to the early days of sound cinema and one of the first great sci-fi films, scripted by non-other than H. G. Wells. A lavish golden age blockbuster! We follow as the movie explores socialism and technology in the 1940s, 1970s, and 2030s. Along the way we cross paths with the philosophy of Hannah Arendt, Marshall McLuhan, and Karl Marx, as well as the late writing of Wells. At stake are questions of human progress, happiness, and intention.

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philoscifiz - Demolition Man (1993) [#3 - spring 2021]
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02/20/21 • 29 min

Matt and Dave psychoanalyse Lenny Huxley's brave new world of LA 2030 with the rise of uber-criminal Simon Phoenix and return of the indomitable John Spartan. We watch Hollywood burn with the LA Uprisings of the early ‘90s, interrogate a mise en scène of hygiene, and explore the fetishisation of the male body turning to Freud and his topological theory of mind. What transforms a utopia into a dystopia? Or, are they already the same thing?

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Matt and Dave take a deep dive in the further temporal shenanigans of Marty and the Doc. Find out how short shift can be made of the standard paradoxes of time, and what time travel films in general and the ‘Back to the Future’ trilogy in particular seem to explore. Along the way we have a close encounter with Trump, get caught up in family values, and see how the film can be said to affirm multiplicity.

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How many episodes does philoscifiz have?

philoscifiz currently has 19 episodes available.

What topics does philoscifiz cover?

The podcast is about Podcasts and Tv & Film.

What is the most popular episode on philoscifiz?

The episode title 'Sorry to Bother You (2018) [#18 - autumn 2021]' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on philoscifiz?

The average episode length on philoscifiz is 37 minutes.

How often are episodes of philoscifiz released?

Episodes of philoscifiz are typically released every 7 days.

When was the first episode of philoscifiz?

The first episode of philoscifiz was released on Feb 6, 2021.

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