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Jun 20, 2026 41 min

S3. Episode 7: Making up people

from The Memory Hole Podcast Hosted by Jena Martin

For complete show notes, visit https://jenamartin.substack.com/s/the-memory-hole-podcast Referenced: Philosopher Ian Hacking https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ian-Hacking Social constructionism definition https://as.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu-as/philosophy/documents/faculty-documents/boghossian/Boghossian_Social-Construction.pdf?challenge=d06e90d7-4d8f-4b88-9d8c-10b73beb60f1 Ian Hacking: Making up People. London Review of Books 2006 https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v28/n16/ian-hacking/making-up-people Ian Hacking: Kinds of People, Moving Targets 2006 https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/2043/pba151p285.pdf Guests: Professor Jonathan Tsou, the Marvin and Kathleen Stone Distinguished Professor of Humanities in Medicine and Science and Director of the Center for Values in Medicine, Science and Technology at the University of Texas at Dallas. https://profiles.utdallas.edu/jonathan.tsou Senior Lecturer, Edmund King Acting Under New Descriptions https://paroxysms.substack.com/p/acting-under-new-descriptions https://profiles.open.ac.uk/edmund-king This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jenamartin.substack.com

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