Let's THINK about it Podcast
1) Pacifism as Pathology
Ryder Richards dives into Ward Churchill’s controversial "Pacifism as Pathology." Churchill argues that nonviolent activism, often celebrated as morally superior, is a delusional and ineffective strat...Show More
2) Rorty’s Ironists vs. Metaphysicians: Navigating Private Doubts and Public Hopes
Ryder Richards continues with Rorty’s "Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity." The liberal ironist, who doubts privately but fights cruelty publicly, does so with ironic (contingent) description, versus ...Show More
3) Rorty’s Cruelty, Solidarity, and Liberal Hope
Dive into the final episode of our Richard Rorty series, "Step 88: Rorty’s Solidarity," exploring Part III of Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity. We unpack how Rorty uses Nabokov’s “tingles” and Orwel...Show More
4) Rorty's Contingency : Tools, Selves, and Communities
Explore how language, self, and community are contingent creations—not eternal truths—using Rorty’s tool analogy. Host Ryder Richards unpacks Part 1 of Richard Rorty’s "Contingency, Irony, and Solidar...Show More
5) The semantic drift of "good"
How did the word "good" change from a symbol of nobility and strength to a function of utility and compliance? In this episode, Ryder Richards explores the historical and philosophical shifts behind m...Show More
6) Language Failure: How Words Shape Our Reality
🚀 Language is failing us. In this episode, we dive deep into how words shape reality—and what happens when they lose their meaning. 🔍 Topics Covered: ✅ How San Francisco’s Potemkin village mirrors ...Show More
7) {AI}ice's Odyssey in DALL-E Land
Ryder Richards talks about his exhibition based on Salvador Dali's (1969) illustrations of "Alice in Wonderland." Considering them un-Dali, he asks DALL-E to draw inspiration from John Tenniel, the or...Show More
8) Art and AI
A lecture diving into the promises and perils of AI in art through artist Ryder Richards' recent museum lecture on technology's impact on creativity, humanity, bias, consciousness, and our shared futu...Show More
9) Kant and the rise of subjective relativism
Ryder Richards discusses how Kant bypasses the conundrum of fate vs. determinism, vouching for the transcendent realm. Kant introduced a philosophy that actually does have a square grid, with the in...Show More
10) Transcendent Escapism
Ryder Richards explores the spectrum between truth and lies, arguing that humanity uses abstraction and catastrophe fantasies to bypass reality and construct dangerous universal rules that validate ou...Show More