Gatekeeping, Class, and Applied Epistemology w/Louise Durham
04/04/22 • 28 min
In this episode, Élaina interviews Louise Durham, a PhD student in philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. Louise talks about the three “lightbulb moments” that motivated her decision to pursue academic philosophy. This episode is for all those who have been told to give up and who kept going mostly out of spite. It’s also for everyone who ever failed a logic class. You’re in good company.
You can follow Louise Durham on Twitter @louderlh and out Instagram @philosophyreads.
Book mentioned in this episode:
“Miseducation: Inequality, Education & the Working Classes”, by Diane Reay
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Find the transcripts at https://www.elainagauthiermamaril.com/philosophy-casting-call-podcast
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Philosophy Casting Call is hosted, edited, and produced by Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril
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In this episode, Élaina interviews Louise Durham, a PhD student in philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. Louise talks about the three “lightbulb moments” that motivated her decision to pursue academic philosophy. This episode is for all those who have been told to give up and who kept going mostly out of spite. It’s also for everyone who ever failed a logic class. You’re in good company.
You can follow Louise Durham on Twitter @louderlh and out Instagram @philosophyreads.
Book mentioned in this episode:
“Miseducation: Inequality, Education & the Working Classes”, by Diane Reay
Buying the book from this link will generate a small percentage to support the podcast.
Rate and review the podcast wherever you listen!
Find Philosophy Casting Call on Twitter and Instagram @philoccpod
Find the transcripts at https://www.elainagauthiermamaril.com/philosophy-casting-call-podcast
You can support the podcast on Ko-Fi.com/philoccpod
Philosophy Casting Call is hosted, edited, and produced by Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril
Follow Élaina on Instagram @spinoodler and Twitter @ElainaGMamaril
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Relational Aesthetic Subjectivities w/Judith-Frederike Popp
In this episode, Élaina interviews Dr Judith-Frederike Popp, a post-doctoral researcher in philosophical aesthetics at the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt’s Faculty of Design. They address, among other things, topics of theory-practice interdisciplinarity, what it means to be a relation subject, and the aesthetic agency of online influencers.
You can register for “Taking Sides: Design and art between autonomy and intervention”, an interdisciplinary hybrid symposium held in Würzburg and online on the 20th and 21st of May 2022.
You can register by emailing this address: [email protected]
Or by visiting this website starting in April: https://fg.fhws.de/taking-sides
You can find Dr Popp’s academic and literary work at the following links:
Website: https://fg.fhws.de/personen/dr-judith-frederike-popp/
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3711-3637
Academia.edu: https://fhws.academia.edu/FrederikePopp
And you can follow her on Instagram @judith_gayk and on Twitter @FrederikePopp
Books mentioned in this episode:
“Critical Zones: The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth”, eds. Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel
“What About Activism?”, ed. Steven Henry Madoff
Movies mentioned in this episode:
2001 Space Odyssey
Aniara (2018)
Rate and review the podcast wherever you listen!
Find Philosophy Casting Call on Twitter and Instagram @philoccpod
Find the transcripts at https://www.elainagauthiermamaril.com/philosophy-casting-call-podcast
You can support the podcast on Ko-Fi.com/philoccpod
Philosophy Casting Call is hosted, edited, and produced by Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril
Follow Élaina on Instagram @spinoodler and Twitter @ElainaGMamaril
Next Episode
A Transformative Practice w/Jimena Solé
In this season finale, Élaina interviews Jimena Solé, a professor of philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires. Jimena talks about her dislike of school growing up, her discovery of Spinoza, and why she believes that philosophising in Argentina and South America can be a transformative decolonial practice.
The first half of the episode focuses on Jimena’s personal link to philosophy and the second half covers her work on the reception of European theories in Argentina.
Read Jimena’s academic work: https://uba.academia.edu/MariaJimenaSole
Read the open access journal Ideas: http://revistaideas.com.ar/
Contact Jimena
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Jimena.Sole
Instagram: @m.jimena.sole
Book mentioned in this episode:
“Parmenides”, by César Aira
Rate and review the podcast wherever you listen!
Find Philosophy Casting Call on Twitter and Instagram @philoccpod
Find the transcripts at https://www.elainagauthiermamaril.com/philosophy-casting-call-podcast
You can support the podcast on Ko-Fi.com/philoccpod
Philosophy Casting Call is hosted, edited, and produced by Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril
Follow Élaina on Instagram @spinoodler and Twitter @ElainaGMamaril
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