Ep.48: Warning - These Ideas Will Eat Your Pets!

This episode focuses on ideas about critical thinking in systems of power. Topics include critical pedagogy, critical consciousness, belief, agnotology (study of ignorance), and aesthetics as ethics. Concepts mentioned include the banality of evil and the illusory effect with pop culture references to the films Don’t Look Up and The Lorax as well as the TV Series Barbaren (Barbarians). The reflection shared draws on historical perspectives and contexts to thoughtful questioning and remembering.   References mentioned include: Agustín Fuentes - Why We Believe, 2019. Lewis R. Gordon, Fear of Black consciousness, 2022. Simon Frith, Music and Identity, 1996. George Gmelch, Baseball Magic, 1971. Robert N. Proctor and Londa Schiebinger, Agnotology: The making and unmaking of ignorance, 2008. Adrienne Mayor, Suppression of Indigenous Fossil Knowledge, 2008. Ania Loomba, Colonialism/Postcolonialism, 2002. John Trudell, Trudell (2005); DNA:Descendant Now Ancestor (2001). Ty Kāwika Tengan, (En)gendering Colonialism: Masculinities in Hawai‘i and Aotearoa, 2002. Paulo Freire, Education for Critical Consciousness, 2005. Henry Giroux, On Critical Pedagogy, 2011. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951. Elizabeth Ellsworth, Why Doesn’t This Feel Empowering? Working Through the Repressive Myths of Critical Pedagogy, 1989. Alison Jones, The Limits of Cross-Cultural Dialogue: Pedagogy, Desire, and Absolution in the Classroom, 1999.