Episode 177 ... Susan Sontag - Do you speak the language of pictures and videos? 

This is revolutionary perspective to modern life...i wish more people could see through the spectacle...

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It's not just commemoration tho...being able to look back on your memories is powerful. Knowing your timeline can give you valuable information about yourself. Help with you self identity...

Thanks for commentating on some philosophers who were women.

This is absolutely brilliant. (well, they all are)

Can you PLEASE give the references or main article you used for that video? Can anyone refer to the papers used in this video? Thank you!

Why don't you do more episodes on Indian Philosophy?

I only speak the language of the gods.

Blame Photoshop I guess

A picture paints a thousand words! But there’s another million left out. Next time use a wide angle lens. That should solve the problem. Great podcast as always💫👍 sign me up for the sponge bath.

Is the inherent bias and manipulation a problem of images or communication in general. Words are necessarily curated summaries too. Maps and portraits have been assumed real long before photographs.

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On commemoration- Seeing people with their phones recording concerts. Bless them for preserving the event for people who couldn't attend or otherwise never had exposure, but you are at once there and apart from the event.

Idea: splice some of the most outrageous soundbites from every episode and post them as RU-vid shorts.. love your work

voting and protests don't work. pictures and videos are all that are left in the usa these days. (more memes please)

I went on a trip to South America for 3 months. Didn't take a phone or camera. Best decision. I think the mania for documenting one's life is a way of making it real to themselves. If it's not mediated by media, it's not real. Sad. I work around celebrities, and the hunger people have to see--and take pics--is really disturbing. It's like they want at least a little piece of the 'real' people in the media.

Amazing. Thank you so much.

Thanks Mr West 🗿

Can't wait for the Wise Crack colab

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I get what Sontag is exploring and I understand the problems of hyper-reality, but I also can step back to recognize that children, even younger than Sontag in her story, are entirely capable of the worst horrors. There's a story in my family that when my older sister was brought in to see me shortly after I was born, that she acted as if she was innocently and curiously touching my hand, yet when my mother looked away, she was caught pinching my hand (perhaps out of jealousy for the attention to a new member of the home). Or a time when I was maybe 6 or 7 years old and my friend was playing four square with some older kids. One got upset because of some perceived slight, so he took my friend, who was much smaller, and slammed his face down on the ground several times until my friend's lower teeth came out. These were not "rough kids" this was at the best private school in our area. Past generations' kids saw war and famine, many abuses or, simply, the killing of a few chickens for dinner - at very young ages. It's important to remember violence and horrible things are in the capacity of most everyone, even the sweetest children. Pictures and videos provide a surrogate experience of this, though, perhaps just as psychically damaging. Antifa and BLM are allowed to wreak havoc just as the KKK or similar were allowed in the past.

uhm ackshully... the senses that get delivered to your brain are abstractions of a more complex reality as well... the funny images I look at on Instagram are just as trustworthy as the actual visual feedback I am currently receiving from my eyes.... soo ......