Episode 13 - Do we need custodians of knowledge?

11/06/23 • 52 min

After two years, the ToK dynamic duo are back, baby!
Do we need custodians of knowledge?
We have a wide ranging general discussion of the question, focusing on a few AoKs that may connect to it. We get into a few examples that caught our eye.

Some links you might find useful:
Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Imagined-Communities-Reflections-on-the-Origins-and-Spread-of-Nationalism
Duchamp's Fountain:
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/duchamp-fountain-t07573
Public Broadcasting: Its past and its future
https://knightfoundation.org/public-media-white-paper-2017-gardner/
Enjoy - and as always, reach out to us:
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Previous Episode

Episode 12 - Can there be knowledge that is independent of culture?

Can there be knowledge that is independent of culture?
Good question - We have a go at answering it.
We get stuck in to the Voyager spacecraft, music and octaves across cultures, Denis Dutton's The Art Instinct.
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Some links you might find useful:
Denis Dutton's The Art Instinct:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5788390-the-art-instinct
The Voyager Golden Record
https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/golden-record/
Music Across Cultures
https://www.oh-i-see.com/blog/2013/11/24/culture-smart-the-musical-scale-across-cultures/
https://news.mit.edu/2019/perception-musical-pitch-cultures-0919

Next Episode

Episode 14 - Is subjectivity overly celebrated in the arts but unfairly condemned in history?

The Eminem and Dr. Dre of ToK podcasting return with an examination of another Theory of Knowledge essay question.

Some areas we cover you may like to know more about:
Banana on a wall:
https://www.gq.com/story/suddenly-the-koons-is-this-100k-banana
1619 Project
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html
Herodotus, the 'father of history'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A542ixwyBhc&ab_channel=TED-Ed
Enjoy