All Episodes
talkPOPc's Podcast — 143 episodes
Episode #147: Resident Philosopher Dena Shottenkirk speaks with participant Mal on Art as a Tool of Domination, Sharing Knowledge, and Epistemic Power
Episode #146: Resident Philosopher Lewis Gordon speaks with participant Isaiah on Living Philosophy, Nihilism, Power, and the Nature of Meaning
Episode #145: Resident Philosopher Lewis Gordon speaks with author James Slater Simmons III on Freedom and Power
Episode #144: Resident Philosopher Dena Shottenkirk speaks with Dr. Richmond Kwesi at the University of Ghana on Consensus vs. Listening
Episode #143: Resident Philosopher Dena Shottenkirk speaks with artist Alexander (Zev) on art as a form of power at Stephen Street Gallery
Episode #142: Resident Philosopher Jordan Bridges speaks with Noah Gotlib at carriagetrade Gallery
Episode #141: Resident Philosopher Jordan Bridges speaks with Elise Duryee-Browner at carriagetrade Gallery
Episode #140: Resident Philosopher Dena Shottenkirk speaks with Marketa about the Velvet Revolution at Jilska 14 Gallery in Prague
Episode #139: Resident Philosopher Dena Shottenkirk speaks with Amelie on power and the censorship of Lolita at Jilska 14 Gallery in Prague
Episode #138: Resident Philosopher speaks with William about power as both a mental construct and physical thing @ Stephen Street Gallery
Episode #139: Resident Philosopher Dena Shottenkirk talks with art critic Sean Tatol about power, Wittgenstein, & looking at art
Episode 137: Tsee
Episode 136: Stone
Episode 135: Lucy Gray
Episode 134: Claire Hamilton
Episode #133 R.P. Tyler Olds talks with talkPOPc participant Maggie about philosophy, power, and justice
Episode #132 R.P. Tyler Olds talks with talkPOPc participant Kendall about philosophy, power, and freedom
Episode #131 R.P. Tyler Olds talks with talkPOPc participants Jenn and Katherin about social power, power structures, and relationships
Episode #130 R.P. Tyler Olds talks with talkPOPc participant Christopher about social power, community dynamics, and obligation
Episode #129 R.P. Alex Mendez talks with talkPOPc participant Noor about censorship,free speech, and Gaza conflict
Episode #128 R.P. Alex Mendez talks with talkPOPc participants Javon and Brodin about censorship, free speech and social media
Episode #127 R.P. Alex Mendez talks with talkPOPc participant Noah about censorship, free speech and cancel culture
Episode #126 R.P. Dena talks with talkPOPc participant Emily about censorship, art, and free speech
Episode #125 R.P. Dena talks with talkPOPc participant Joshua about art, expression, and censorship
Episode #124 R.P. Dena talks with talkPOPc participant Malka about censorship and Gaza conflict
Episode #119 Magdeburg Seminar (in German)
Episode #118 R.P. Shottenkirk speak in Prague at Jilska 14 with Victoria about art, peacemaking, and God
Episode #117: Resident Philosopher Vincent Peluce talks with talkPOPc participant Levi about censorship
Episode #116: R.P. Shottenkirk and J. L. Brandl speak at the Galerie 5020 in Salzburg, Austria on art as a tool for individual cognition and social cooperation
Episode #123 Resident Philosopher J. L. Brandl talks with participant Bruendl vegh about philosophy in medicine (auf deutsch)
Episode #122, Resident Philosopher J. L. Brandl and talkPOPc participant Ophia talk about philosophy, art, and sociology
Episode #115: Dena Shottenkirk speaks with Viennese gallerist Christine König about literature and art at Salzburg5020 Gallery
Episode #114 R. P. Sascha Benjamin Fink speaks with several participants in Magdeburg, Germany 2022 (auf deutsch)
Episode #113 R. P. Shottenkirk speaks with Philosopher Christopher Gauker @ 5020 Gallery, Salzburg, Austria
Episode #112: Resident Philosopher Dr. Sascha Benjamin Fink speaks (in German / auf Deutsch!) with Pauline Simon in Magdeburg, Germany
Episode #111 In Magdeburg, Germany: R.P. Fink talks about how cognitive processes of art with Chiara Lindloff & Ioannis Armoutis
Episode #110: In Prague, Alicia speaks about the social, communicative, and spiritual experience of art
Episode #121 R.P. Peluce talks with participant Miriam about censorship, free expression and cultural appropriation
Episode #120 R.P. Peluce and Mia talk about censorship and the self-exploration of one's beliefs
Episode #109 Resident Philosopher Fink speaks with Nele Köhler in Magdeburg, Germany (auf deutsch!)
Episode #108 Resident Philosopher Sascha Benjamin Fink speaks (auf deutsch!) in Magdeburg, Germany, with the scholar of philosophical anthropology Prof. Antonio Roselli
Episode #107: Hendrix speaks with R.P. Shottenkirk about how art can make the viewer feel as though they are being seen
Episode #106: Danielle - Art, Fiction & Truth
Episode #105 Magdeburg Paula Kaskel and Nele Köhler (in German)
Episode #104 Three Universität Otto von Guericke students (including Ioannis Armoutis) discuss ontology, cognition, and art
Episode #103 R.P. Sascha Benjamin Fink speaks in Magdeburg, Germany with students Bosse Schäfer, etc.
Episode #102: Estafania Soto Reyes and the Theatre of the Oppressed
Episode #101: Arliss speaks with Resident Philosopher Shottenkirk (his mother!) about 20th Century nihilism, God, and the role of art
Episode #100: talkPOPc at galerie Jilská14: Philosophers Dena Shottenkirk and Martin Nitsche: the Bridge between Continental and Analytic Philosophy
Episode #99 R.P. Shottenkirk speaks in Prague at Jilska 14 gallery with William about art as paying attention
Episode #98: Darell: "The Nugget of Fun" entertainment that is at the core of all art
Episode #97: Edward - empathy, psychedelics, theatre and "Art as a Vitamin of Consciousness"
Episode #96: Hazel - The Connection Between Love and Art
Episode #95: Elizabeth - the non-commodity, transcendent power of art
Episode #94: George Menz on art that is narcissistic or art that is ego-shattering
Episode #93: Amanda - How art creates a physical/psychic space
Episode #92: Aharon - Individual PoV and how consensus is reached
Episode #91: Thelonious Moree speaks about stories, utopias.
Episode #90: Anastasia - Fiction and its power to teach you about yourself
Episode #89: Ehime Ora speaks with Dr. Carolina Flores about fashion, African fabrics, and political messaging
Episode #88: Jesi Taylor speaks about poetry and Sam Gilliam's work
Episode #87: Will - Russia and the plight of art under totalitarianism
Episode #86: Levi - How understanding art is social and cognitive
Episode #85: Johny - The aesthetics of anime: classical art, expression and anime's sophisticated narratives
Episode #84: The talkPOPc Summary Episode - everything you ever wanted to know about the Philosophers' Ontological Party club
Episode #83: talkPOPc on Montez Press Radio featuring Resident Philosophers Nicholas Whittaker, Carolina Flores and Dr. Dena Shottenkirk in conversation: "Philosophy as conversation", "Art as conversation" & "talkPOPc as thought-building and love"
Episode #82: talkPOPc Resident Philosophers Ian Olasov & Carolina Flores discuss narratives of group-identity, beliefs, racism, colonization, and how to restructure the future
Episode #81: Resident Philosopher Anatoly Nichvoloda in conversation with talkPOPc founder and Resident Philosopher Dr. Shottenkirk on art's basis in science
Episode #80: Andrey - "From Recording to Speaking"
Episode #79: Taylor - Dreams, Sisyphus and meaning
Episode #78: Morgan -"Philosophy tells us how to think, not what to think" - in conversation with talkPOPc Resident Philosopher Carolina Flores
Episode #77: Laura - "Art as non-linguistic, Unconscious Thought"
Episode #76: Resident Philosopher Nicholas Whittaker in conversation with an Anonymous Passerby on talkPOPc Topic #3 Art as Cognition - "Art is Taking a Break from Thinking"
Episode #75: Sam - Humor, Emotions, & Art
Episode 74: Marta. "Higher and Lower Order" in the Cognitive Function of Art
Episode #73: Frank - "French Stucturalist Philosophers, Ancient Asian Philosophy, & Compassion"
Episode 72: Kyle speaks to R.P. Whittaker about thinking like an artist
Episode #71: Meg asks Resident Philosopher Nick Whittaker about human vs. animal aesthetic experience
Episode #70: Oralie - Biology and the limits of Observation, Meaning-making
Episode #69: Alex & Resident Philosopher Whittaker: cognition is a form of art
Episode #68: RP Whittaker with Sasha and Glen: Art, history, authenticity - art a kind of legitimated, time-stamping of history
Episode #67: Hyppolite, Substance Abuse Counselor, talks with RP Whittaker about art, catharsis, and living.
Episode #66: "art stops us in our tracks": Rony Ortiz speaks with Philosopher Whittaker
Episode 61: Jay Ortiz Bryant Park
Episode #60: Complex Systems & The Social Construction of Meaning in Art: Ben Porter with Resident Philosopher Whittaker @ Bryant Park
Episode #59: Expression in Art, Hegel & Billie Eilish: Sebastian speaks with Philosopher Nicholas Whittaker
Episode #58: Cognition, Humans, Animals, and Art: Participant Elaine Angelopoulos with Resident Philosopher Nicholas Whittaker @Bryant Park
Episode #57: Gist, Art, and Personal Interactions: Resident Philosopher Shottenkirk speaks with student Jacob Sabu
Episode #56 Software Design, Bodies, Virtual Reality and Affordances: John Palmer talks with talkPOPc Resident Philosopher Shottenkirk
Episode #55 Meditation, Art, & Cognition: Resident Philosopher Carolina Flores talks with talkPOPc participant Nicholas Ligotino
Episode 54: Fashion: "Buying a piece of clothing is buying someone's mind", Resident Philosopher Shottenkirk with talkPOPc participant Nicola Johnson
Episode 53: Attention, Education, and "Can art change your attitude to the world?" Resident Philosopher with talkPOPc participant Mark Friedman
Episode 52: The Stoics, the Bible, Artists, Eating People, NFT's, and Your First Period: talkPOPc Resident Philosopher Olasov speaks to talkPOPc Participant Alex
Episode 51: Music - Socializing, and Thinking: talkPOPc Resident Philosopher Ian Olasov & talkPOPc Guest Participant Eva Pilay on Art as Cognition
Episode 50: Mereology, Subjectivity, and Movies & Novels: talkPOPc Resident Philosophers Carolina Flores & Martina Botti discuss Art as Cognition
Episode 49: Resident Philosopher Ian Olasov and talkPOPc Guest Participant Nayanci Lopez "Why Do We Make Art?"
Episode 48: talkPOPc Resident Philosopher Ian Olasov & talkPOPc Guest Participant Joshua Rosenberg converse about art as a medium for philosophy and vice versa, using Picasso's Guernica as an example and how the medium of photography can be philosophical
Episode 47: "Art is Verb Not a Noun": Resident Philosopher Carolina Flores talks with talkPOPc participant Shannon Rousseau
Episode 46: Gaston speaks of artists' suffering during covid
Episode 45: Marjorie Sweeney on why America needs Group Dancing
Episode 44: Joan talks about Medieval art & the political role of art
Episode 43: Justin Freeman: Art, Basketball and being Black
Episode 42: Aaron Eastburn: Art as Communicative Language and Empathy-Generator
Episode 40: Stephen Hanson: Galleries, Museums, and Embodied Experience
Episode 39: Hoover Chung: Fashion, Gender, and Art versus Design Debate
Episode 38: Arion Toles: Power, Identity and the Art of Being "Unresolved"
Episode 37: Bogyi Banovich: Body/Mind - Art Makes Our Minds Manifest
Episode 36: Kaya Simmons: Acting, Vulnerability, and Truth
Episode 32: Beth: Covid, BLM protests, and Reclaiming Urban Places
Episode 33: Will Smith: What Both Country and Rap Can Do for You
Episode 34: Charles: Animals, Evolution, and the Naturalness of Aesthetics
Episode 35: Steven: Theatre, Empathy, and Knowledge
Episode 31: Richard: Art, Civil War Monuments, and the Collective Thought
Episode 30: Robert & The Sensory Pleasure of Art
Episode 29: George: architecture and social usage
Episode 28: Ulysses Pizarro: Unmediated, Direct Gaze
Episode 27: Dan Durso talks about art, evolution, and social bonding.
Episode 26: Jeremy. A critic's POV. Interrogating yourself to learn, think and communicate.
Episode 25: Beth. Art in the environment. A reconfiguration of thought
Episode 24: John. A photographer's gaze. Mechanical over artistic.
Episode 23: Caron. Spirituality of art. Nigunim and the levels of music.
Episode 22: Jesi. Who is art for? Creating to create, or creating for an audience?
Episode 21: Nicholas. Art's duality. When you create, you don't think. When you consume, you contemplate.
Episode 20: João, Art as a system of signs. A language of exception.
Episode 19: Keith: Is Art Defined by Our Reaction?
Episode 18: Gilles: Art is What Art Does
Episode 17: Patrice, Choreography and World-Building
Episode 16: Raffle-winner Destin: It Moves Us. We Call it "Art"
Episode 15: Boredom, Anxiety, and Being an Artist
Episode 14: Dr. Sascha Benjamin Fink + talkPOPc Resident Philosopher Andrew Rubner explore Topic #3 "Art as Cognition"
Episode 13: Crystal: Feeling/Meaning in Art
Episode 12: Jasmine & The Butterfly
Episode 11: Mr. Walcott and Landscaping
Episode 10: Erline and the Purpose of Uniform. Expression and Meaning Through Clothing
Episode 9: Flora, Art History and Voyeurism
Episode 8: Mark's Math and Surrealism
Episode 7: Charlexia's City Murals & City Parks
Episode 6: Angelie: Science, Creativity, and Getting it Right
Episode 5: Jake: The Soteriological Role of Art
Episode 4: Marina and the Stained Glass Experience
Episode 3: Tom and Art as Education for Children
Episode 2: Marcus on Rasta, Music, and Being Happy
Episode 1: Pessy and Ultra Orthodox Upbringing