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Episode 169: On Free Expression

Episode 169: On Free Expression

FromWeird Studies


Episode 169: On Free Expression

FromWeird Studies

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Length:
97 minutes
Released:
May 15, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

The ongoing crackdown on protests at many American universities prompts a discussion on the politics, ethics, and metaphysics of free expression.
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Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780156787338)
Federico Campagna, Technic and Magic (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781350044029)
George Orwell, The Prevention of Literature (https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/the-prevention-of-literature/)
George Orwell, Inside the Whale (https://orwell.ru/library/essays/whale/english/e_itw)
New York Times, “At Indiana University, Protests Only Add to a Full Year of Conflicts (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/us/indiana-university-protest-encampment.html)
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780521379175)
Indiana Daily Student, “Provost Addresses Controversy” (https://www.idsnews.com/article/2024/01/provost-addresses-controversy-suspension-palestinian-artist-bfc)
Official government page for the Proposed Bill to address Online (https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/online-harms.html) Harms in Canada.
Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781515436874)
GK Chesterton, Orthodoxy (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781511903608)
Daryl Davis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Davis), American musician and activist
DavidFoster Wallace, Just Asking (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/11/just-asking/306288/)
Released:
May 15, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Professor Phil Ford and writer J. F. Martel host a series of conversations on art and philosophy, dwelling on ideas that are hard to think and art that opens up rifts in what we are pleased to call "reality."