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Philosophy Casting Call

Philosophy Casting Call

By Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril

Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates? Well, this is not about them! Philosophy Casting Call is where Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril, your friendly neighbourhood philosopher, interviews professors, grad students, and non-academics to find out what philosophy looks like now and try to shine a spotlight on thinkers, topics, and themes that are historically marginalised in academic philosophy. This includes women, LGBTQIA, disabled, and BIPOC people who are out there, getting their philosophy on, and who deserved to be cast as philosophers in our culture.
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On counter-narratives and writing the books we want to read w/Kathryn Belle

Philosophy Casting CallAug 09, 2021

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Sh*tposting and Algorithm Hygiene w/Jess Rauchberg

Sh*tposting and Algorithm Hygiene w/Jess Rauchberg

Content note: Because of the topic, this episode will contain some mild swearing.

The end of season 3 has arrived! To go out with fanfare, Élaina interviews digital communications scholar Jess Rauchberg about the rhetoric act of sh*tposting on various social media platforms and how various hygiene policies change the ways in which a wide variety of people (from Nazis to disability activists) engage with culture. This is the perfect episode to listen to if you are curious about the philosophy of social media or if you want to know how in the world Lea Michele, the Succession fandom, and Olivia Rodrigo’s TikTok marketing campaign are linked to digital anti-ableism.

How to reach Jess

Website: https://www.jessrauchberg.com/

Twitter: @DisabledPhd

Texts mentioned in the episode (All links to books are affiliated to Bookshop.org UK and any purchases made through them will generate a small commission that helps to support the podcast):

“The Medium is the Message”, by Marshall McCluhan (PDF)

The work of Arseli Dokumaci

“‘Feenin’: Posthuman Voices in Contemporary Black Popular Music”, by Alexander G. Weheliye (PDF)

“History of Shit”, by Dominique Laporte

“No One Is Talking About This”, by Patricia Lockwood

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Mar 09, 202301:02:10
A Critique of Distributive Global Health Justice w/Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra

A Critique of Distributive Global Health Justice w/Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra

What does interdisciplinarity mean when your discipline is interdisciplinary? In this episode, bioethicist and global health ethicist Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra talks about using philosophical theories alongside scientific epistemologies and feminist approaches to shape our understanding of ‘global health ethics’. Specifically, she gets into her critique of the popular model of distributive justice.

How to reach Agomoni

Website: https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/people/dr-agomoni-ganguli-mitra

Twitter: @GanguliMitra

Texts mentioned in the episode (All links are affiliated to Bookshop.org UK and any purchases made through them will generate a small commission that helps to support the podcast):

The School for Good Mothers, by Jessamine Chan

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Mar 02, 202342:18
The Both/And of AI and Trans Health w/Rebecca Sanaeikia

The Both/And of AI and Trans Health w/Rebecca Sanaeikia

In this episode, Élaina talks about the ethical challenges of using AI tools in healthcare provision for transgender people with philosopher and bioethicist Rebecca Sanaeikia. They discuss the different versions of “top down” versus “bottom up” ethical strategies and the tension between needing more data on how trans people access healthcare and wanting to keep trans people safe.

How to reach Rebecca

https://beccasanaeikia.weebly.com/

Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/logavaguy

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beccasanaeikia/

And you can email her here: rebecca.sanaeikia@gmail.com

Texts mentioned in the episode (All links are affiliated to Bookshop.org UK and any purchases made through them will generate a small commission that helps to support the podcast):

This Arab is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Authors, ed. Elias Jahshan

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Feb 23, 202335:11
Being Near Birth w/Andrea Ford

Being Near Birth w/Andrea Ford

In this episode, Élaina interviews medical and cultural anthropologist and practising birth doula, Andrea Ford. Andrea discusses her trajectory as an interdisciplinary scholar and the power of studying liminal spaces to better understand what different cultures value.

CW: This episode contains discussion of fertility, pregnancy, and childbirth.

You can find out more about Andrea’s work here: https://andrealillyford.com/ and https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/persons/andrea-ford

Texts mentioned in the episode (All links are affiliated to Bookshop.org UK and any purchases made through them will generate a small commission that helps to support the podcast):

Beyond Black, by Hilary Mantel

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Feb 02, 202333:35
Black Radical Liberalism w/Kristin Waters

Black Radical Liberalism w/Kristin Waters

In this episode, Élaina interview Kristin Waters, the author of Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought about combatting epistemicide and choosing to write on philosophy of race as a white woman in the US.

You can buy Kristin’s book and learn more about her work on her website: www.kristin-waters.com

Listen to the Gilmore Girls tie-in episode of Women of Questionable Morals: Race and Politics and GG, Oh My!

Texts mentioned in the episode (All links are affiliated to Bookshop.org UK and any purchases made through them will generate a small commission that helps to support the podcast):

Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought, by Kristin Waters

Black Women’s Intellectual Traditions: Speaking Their Minds, ed. Kristin Waters and Carol b. Conaway

The History of Black Studies, by Abdul Alkalimat

Maria W. Stewart, America's First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches, ed. Marilyn Richardson

Black Feminist Thought, by Patricia Hill Collins

Radical Theory, Caribbean Reality, by Charles W. Mills

The Case for Rage: Why Anger is Essential to Anti-racist Struggle, by Myisha Cherry

Decolonizing Feminism: Transnational Feminism and Globalization, ed. Margaret A. McLaren

Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, by Robin D.G. Kelley

Barbaric Culture and Black Critique: Black Antislavery Writers, Religion, and the Slaveholding Atlantic, by Stefan M. Wheelock

Ethics and Insurrection: A Pragmatism for the Oppressed, by Lee A. McBride III

Association of Black Women Historians

Black Perspectives Blog

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Jan 26, 202338:03
Non-Ideal Theories of (Trans)genders w/Matthew Cull

Non-Ideal Theories of (Trans)genders w/Matthew Cull

In this episode, Élaina interviews fellow philosopher Matthew Cull about the difference between “ideal” and “non-ideal” ethical theories in relation to access to healthcare for transgender people in the UK.

You can read Matthew’s work here:

“Against Abolition”, Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, 2019

“Demarcating the Social World with Hume”, Philosophical Papers, 2022

Texts mentioned in the episode (All links are affiliated to Bookshop.org UK and any purchases made through them will generate a small commission that helps to support the podcast):

Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System, by Christopher Chitty

“Ideal Theory” as Ideology, by Charles W. Mills (PDF)

The Electronic Wireless Show (podcast)

Second Skins, by Jay Prosser

Invisible Lives, by Viviane Namaste

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Jan 19, 202341:01
Metagnosis and Narrative Medicine w/Danielle Spencer
Jan 12, 202335:21
Ethics of Kinship in the Archive w/Hannah Sullivan-Facknitz

Ethics of Kinship in the Archive w/Hannah Sullivan-Facknitz

We are back for Season 3 and an exploration of interdisciplinarity with an interview with crip, mad, activist historian Hannah Sullivan-Facknitz. We talk about retraining ourselves to do anti-extractivist archival work and about how our disabled identities and kinships shape our scholarly work.

You can find out more about Hannah’s work on Twitter @hannahnthewolf and on their website: https://hannahandthewolf.wordpress.com/

Texts recommended in the episode (All links are affiliated to Bookshop.org UK and any purchases made through them will generate a small commission that helps to support the podcast):

Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education by Jay T. Dolmage

A Debt to the Dead? Ethics, Photography, History, and the Study of Freakery by Jane Nicholas (open access PDF)

Pollution is Colonialism by Max Liboiron

Texts mentioned in the episode:

“Tropics of Discourse” by Hayden White

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Jan 05, 202348:58
Season 3 Trailer: What Is Interdisciplinarity?
Jan 03, 202301:17
A Transformative Practice w/Jimena Solé
Apr 18, 202242:59
Gatekeeping, Class, and Applied Epistemology w/Louise Durham
Apr 04, 202228:58
Relational Aesthetic Subjectivities w/Judith-Frederike Popp

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: symposium.fg@fhws.de

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)

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Philosophy Casting Call is hosted, edited, and produced by Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril

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Mar 21, 202239:03
Pedagogies of Resistance w/Danna Aduna
Mar 07, 202240:05
From Aristotle to Waste Colonialism w/Jesi Taylor Cruz
Feb 21, 202255:06
The Ethics of AI from a Buddhist Perspective w/Soraj Hongladarom

The Ethics of AI from a Buddhist Perspective w/Soraj Hongladarom

In this season premiere, Élaina interviews Professor Soraj Hongladarom, author of The Ethics of AI and Robotics: A Buddhist Viewpoint. They discuss finding a way through traditional history of philosophy to interdisciplinary philosophical work.

You can find Soraj on Twitter @sonamsangbo

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Philosophy Casting Call is hosted, edited, and produced by Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril

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Feb 07, 202239:21
Season 2 Trailer
Jan 31, 202200:53
On counter-narratives and writing the books we want to read w/Kathryn Belle

On counter-narratives and writing the books we want to read w/Kathryn Belle

In this season finale, Élaina interviews Kathryn Belle, founder of the Collegium of Black Women Philosophers, associate professor at Penn State University, and owner and director of La Belle Vie Coaching. They discuss Prof Belle’s work on philosophy of race and engaging with black feminist philosophical scholarship on Simone de Beauvoir’s “The Second Sex”.

You can find Kathryn’s teaching and research interests here: https://www.kathrynsophiabelle.com/

And you can find out more about La Belle Vie Coaching here: http://www.kathrynbelle.com/

Article mentioned in this episode:

Kathryn T. Gines, “Comparative and Competing Frameworks of Oppression in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex” in Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal.  Volume 35, Numbers 1-2, 2014, pages 251 – 273.

Book chapter mentioned in this episode:

Kathryn T. Gines, “Simone de Beauvoir and the Race/Gender: Analogy in The Second Sex Revisited”, in A Companion to Simone de Beauvoir, eds. Laura Hengehold and Nancy Bauer, Wiley-Blackwell, 2017, pp. 47-58.

Books mentioned in this episode:

  1. “Hannah Arendt and the Negro Question”, by Kathryn T. Gines
  2. “Convergences: Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy”, eds. Maria del Guadalupe Davidson, Kathryn T. Gines, and Donna-Dale L. Marcano
  3. “The Second Sex”, by Simone de Beauvoir
  4. “Alice Walker: A Life”, by Evelyn C. White

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Philosophy Casting Call is hosted, edited, and produced by Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril

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Aug 09, 202134:39
On creative philosophical practices and the power of showing up w/Jen Scuro

On creative philosophical practices and the power of showing up w/Jen Scuro

This is the one where Élaina asks Jen Scuro about her artistic practice’s place in all the stages of her academic career. Plus, there’s a bonus update at the end!

CN: Ableism and miscarriage

You can learn more about Jen on her website: https://jenniferscurophd.squarespace.com/home and find teaching resources on her Academia.edu page: https://molloy.academia.edu/JenniferScuro

Books mentioned in the episode:

  1. Addressing Ableism, by Jennifer Scuro
  2. The Pregnancy (does not equal) Childbearing Project: A Phenomenology of Miscarriage, by Jennifer Scuro
  3. The Queer Art of Failure, by Judith Halberstam
  4. Golem Girl, by Riva Lehrer

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Philosophy Casting Call is hosted, edited, and produced by Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril

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Jul 26, 202151:47
On gender justice in sport w/Beth Doran

On gender justice in sport w/Beth Doran

This is the one where Élaina and Beth Doran discuss what it means to feel “capable” in philosophy, applied philosophy, and questions of gender justice in sport.

As mentioned in the episode, I recommend checking out Translash Podcast ep 15: Trans Athletes Speak Out and Translash Media’s mini series “The Anti-Trans Machine”, which starts with the episode “It’s Not Really About Sports”.

Articles mentioned in this episode:

  1. “Against sexual discrimination in sport”, by Torbjörn Tännsjö
  2. “Sex Equality in Sports”, by Jane English
  3. “Out of Bounds? A Critique of the New Policies on Hyperandrogenism in Elite Female Athletes”, by Katrina Karkazis, Rebecca Jordan-Young, Georgiann Davis, and Silvia Camporesi

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Philosophy Casting Call is hosted, edited, and produced by Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril

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Jul 12, 202141:17
On trigger warnings as epistemic virtues w/Anna V.
Jun 28, 202150:39
On public philosophy, reparations, and teaching in jail w/Asil Martinez-Katout

On public philosophy, reparations, and teaching in jail w/Asil Martinez-Katout

This is the one where Élaina interviews Asil Martinez-Katout on asking for what you need in philosophy and teaching others to never stop asking questions. You can find out more about Asil on their website: https://lisamm-k.com/. You can learn more about the Center for Public Philosophy at UC Santa Cruz here and here.

Articles mentioned in this episode:

  1. "Roasting Ethics" by Luvell Anderson
  2. "Racist Humor", by Luvell Anderson


Remember to rate and review the podcast wherever you listen! You can find Philosophy Casting Call on Twitter and Instagram @philoccpod, read the the transcripts at https://www.elainagauthiermamaril.com/philosophy-casting-call-podcast, and support the podcast on Ko-Fi.com/philoccpod.

Philosophy Casting Call is hosted, edited, and produced by Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril, whom you can follow on Instagram @spinoodler and Twitter @ElainaGMamaril.

Jun 14, 202136:39
On the state of philosophy of disability w/Shelley Tremain

On the state of philosophy of disability w/Shelley Tremain

This is the episode where Élaina interviews Shelley Tremain on her work in feminist philosophy of disability.

 Rate and review Philosophy Casting Call on Apple Podcasts or 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 Follow Shelley on Twitter @biopoliticalph and www.biopoliticalphilosophy.com 


You can find her publications on PhilPeople Find the Dialogues on Disability here Books and articles mentioned in this episode: 

1- “Race and Method: The Tuvel Affair”, by Tina Fernandes Botts

2- The Biopolitics of Disability: Neoliberalism, Ablenationalism, and Peripheral Embodiment, by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder 

3- Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability, by Shelley Lynn Tremain 

4- Justice and the politics of difference, by Iris Marion Young You can buy these books (and support the podcast) at Bookshop.org UK 

Philosophy Casting Call is hosted, edited, and produced by Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril

Follow Élaina on Instagram @spinoodler and Twitter @ElainaGMamaril

May 30, 202138:43
Season 1 trailer
Apr 23, 202100:58