Content note: Because of the topic, this episode will contain some mild swearing. The end of season 3 has arrived! To go out with fanfare, Élaina interviews digital communications scholar Jess Rauchberg about the rhetoric act of sh*tposting on various social media platforms and how various hygiene policies change the ways in which a wide variety of people (from Nazis to disability activists) engage with culture. This is the perfect episode to listen to if you are curious about the philosophy of social media or if you want to know how in the world Lea Michele, the Succession fandom, and Olivia Rodrigo’s TikTok marketing campaign are linked to digital anti-ableism. How to reach Jess Website: https://www.jessrauchberg.com/ Twitter: @DisabledPhd Texts mentioned in the episode (All links to books are affiliated to Bookshop.org UK and any purchases made through them will generate a small commission that helps to support the podcast): “The Medium is the Message”, by Marshall McCluhan (PDF) The work of Arseli Dokumaci “‘Feenin’: Posthuman Voices in Contemporary Black Popular Music”, by Alexander G. Weheliye (PDF) “History of Shit”, by Dominique Laporte “No One Is Talking About This”, by Patricia Lockwood Subscribe to Philosophy Casting Call and leave it a 5-star review wherever you can! Follow Philosophy Casting Call on Twitter and Instagram @philoCCpod Read the full episode transcripts at www.elainagauthiermamaril.com Support the podcast by becoming a monthly donor on Ko-Fi.com Email: philosophycastingcallpod@gmail.com Follow Élaina on Twitter @ElainaGMamaril

What does interdisciplinarity mean when your discipline is interdisciplinary? In this episode, bioethicist and global health ethicist Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra talks about using philosophical theories alongside scientific epistemologies and feminist approaches to shape our understanding of ‘global health ethics’. Specifically, she gets into her critique of the popular model of distributive justice. How to reach Agomoni Website: https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/people/dr-agomoni-ganguli-mitra Twitter: @GanguliMitra Texts mentioned in the episode (All links are affiliated to Bookshop.org UK and any purchases made through them will generate a small commission that helps to support the podcast): The School for Good Mothers, by Jessamine Chan Subscribe to Philosophy Casting Call and leave it a 5-star review wherever you can! Follow Philosophy Casting Call on Twitter and Instagram @philoCCpod Read the full episode transcripts at www.elainagauthiermamaril.com Support the podcast by becoming a monthly donor on Ko-Fi.com Email: philosophycastingcallpod@gmail.com Follow Élaina on Twitter @ElainaGMamaril

In this episode, Élaina talks about the ethical challenges of using AI tools in healthcare provision for transgender people with philosopher and bioethicist Rebecca Sanaeikia. They discuss the different versions of “top down” versus “bottom up” ethical strategies and the tension between needing more data on how trans people access healthcare and wanting to keep trans people safe. How to reach Rebecca https://beccasanaeikia.weebly.com/ Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/logavaguy Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beccasanaeikia/ And you can email her here: rebecca.sanaeikia@gmail.com Texts mentioned in the episode (All links are affiliated to Bookshop.org UK and any purchases made through them will generate a small commission that helps to support the podcast): This Arab is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Authors, ed. Elias Jahshan Subscribe to Philosophy Casting Call and leave it a 5-star review wherever you can! Follow Philosophy Casting Call on Twitter and Instagram @philoCCpod Read the full episode transcripts at www.elainagauthiermamaril.com Support the podcast by becoming a monthly donor on Ko-Fi.com Follow Élaina on Twitter @ElainaGMamaril

In this episode, Élaina interviews medical and cultural anthropologist and practising birth doula, Andrea Ford. Andrea discusses her trajectory as an interdisciplinary scholar and the power of studying liminal spaces to better understand what different cultures value. CW: This episode contains discussion of fertility, pregnancy, and childbirth. You can find out more about Andrea’s work here: https://andrealillyford.com/ and https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/persons/andrea-ford Texts mentioned in the episode (All links are affiliated to Bookshop.org UK and any purchases made through them will generate a small commission that helps to support the podcast): Beyond Black, by Hilary Mantel Subscribe to Philosophy Casting Call and leave it a 5-star review wherever you can! Follow Philosophy Casting Call on Twitter and Instagram @philoCCpod Read the full episode transcripts at www.elainagauthiermamaril.com Support the podcast by becoming a monthly donor on Ko-Fi.com Follow Élaina on Twitter @ElainaGMamaril

In this episode, Élaina interview Kristin Waters, the author of Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought about combatting epistemicide and choosing to write on philosophy of race as a white woman in the US. You can buy Kristin’s book and learn more about her work on her website: www.kristin-waters.com Listen to the Gilmore Girls tie-in episode of Women of Questionable Morals: Race and Politics and GG, Oh My! Texts mentioned in the episode (All links are affiliated to Bookshop.org UK and any purchases made through them will generate a small commission that helps to support the podcast): Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought, by Kristin Waters Black Women’s Intellectual Traditions: Speaking Their Minds, ed. Kristin Waters and Carol b. Conaway The History of Black Studies, by Abdul Alkalimat Maria W. Stewart, America's First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches, ed. Marilyn Richardson Black Feminist Thought, by Patricia Hill Collins Radical Theory, Caribbean Reality, by Charles W. Mills The Case for Rage: Why Anger is Essential to Anti-racist Struggle, by Myisha Cherry Decolonizing Feminism: Transnational Feminism and Globalization, ed. Margaret A. McLaren Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, by Robin D.G. Kelley Barbaric Culture and Black Critique: Black Antislavery Writers, Religion, and the Slaveholding Atlantic, by Stefan M. Wheelock Ethics and Insurrection: A Pragmatism for the Oppressed, by Lee A. McBride III Association of Black Women Historians Black Perspectives Blog Subscribe to Philosophy Casting Call and leave it a 5-star review wherever you can! Follow Philosophy Casting Call on Twitter and Instagram @philoCCpod Read the full episode transcripts at www.elainagauthiermamaril.com Support the podcast by becoming a monthly donor on Ko-Fi.com Follow Élaina on Twitter @ElainaGMamaril

In this episode, Élaina interviews fellow philosopher Matthew Cull about the difference between “ideal” and “non-ideal” ethical theories in relation to access to healthcare for transgender people in the UK. You can read Matthew’s work here: “Against Abolition”, Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, 2019 “Demarcating the Social World with Hume”, Philosophical Papers, 2022 Texts mentioned in the episode (All links are affiliated to Bookshop.org UK and any purchases made through them will generate a small commission that helps to support the podcast): Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System, by Christopher Chitty “Ideal Theory” as Ideology, by Charles W. Mills (PDF) The Electronic Wireless Show (podcast) Second Skins, by Jay Prosser Invisible Lives, by Viviane Namaste Subscribe to Philosophy Casting Call and leave it a 5-star review wherever you can! Follow Philosophy Casting Call on Twitter and Instagram @philoCCpod Read the full episode transcripts at www.elainagauthiermamaril.com Support the podcast by becoming a monthly donor on Ko-Fi.com Follow Élaina on Twitter @ElainaGMamaril

In this episode, Élaina interviews Danielle Spencer, the author of “Metagnosis: Revelatory Narratives of Health and Identity”. Danielle explains what she means by “narrative medicine” and what the COVID-19 pandemic and the genre of physician memoirs can tell us about what still needs to happen before we can achieve more holistic healthcare. You can reach Danielle and find her work on her website: https://www.daniellespencer.com/ You can read my review of “Metagnosis” here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DtWQScs-arO8Hd3T8BNVDpxFFEHgNjh4/view?usp=sharing Texts mentioned in the episode (All links are affiliated to Bookshop.org UK and any purchases made through them will generate a small commission that helps to support the podcast): Metagnosis: Revelatory Narratives of Health and Identity, by Danielle Spencer Phenomenology of Illness, by Havi Carel Recognitions, by Terence Cave The Cancer Journals, by Audre Lorde The Undying: A Meditation on Modern Illness, by Anne Boyer Illness as Metaphor, by Sunsan Sontag Subscribe to Philosophy Casting Call and leave it a 5-star review wherever you can! Follow Philosophy Casting Call on Twitter and Instagram @philoCCpod Read the full episode transcripts at www.elainagauthiermamaril.com Support the podcast by becoming a monthly donor on Ko-Fi.com Follow Élaina on Twitter @ElainaGMamaril

We are back for Season 3 and an exploration of interdisciplinarity with an interview with crip, mad, activist historian Hannah Sullivan-Facknitz. We talk about retraining ourselves to do anti-extractivist archival work and about how our disabled identities and kinships shape our scholarly work. You can find out more about Hannah’s work on Twitter @hannahnthewolf and on their website: https://hannahandthewolf.wordpress.com/ Texts recommended in the episode (All links are affiliated to Bookshop.org UK and any purchases made through them will generate a small commission that helps to support the podcast): Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education by Jay T. Dolmage A Debt to the Dead? Ethics, Photography, History, and the Study of Freakery by Jane Nicholas (open access PDF) Pollution is Colonialism by Max Liboiron Texts mentioned in the episode: “Tropics of Discourse” by Hayden White Subscribe to Philosophy Casting Call and leave it a 5-star review wherever you can! Follow Philosophy Casting Call on Twitter and Instagram @philoCCpod Read the full episode transcripts at www.elainagauthiermamaril.com Support the podcast by becoming a monthly donor on Ko-Fi.com Follow Élaina on Twitter @ElainaGMamaril

Philosophy Casting Call is back with a brand new season! For season 3, I, Élaina, your favourite philosophy podcast host, am exploring the meaning of interdisciplinarity. Is it just a buzzword? Is it the future of scholarship? Have we been doing it all along? To help me answer these metaphysical questions I opened the casting call to non-philosophers who use philosophical concepts or methodologies. So prepare yourself to experience the talents of historians, anthropologists, medical humanists, and new media scholars in addition to “official” philosophers. I also got a sponsor! Thanks to the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society season 3 of Philosophy Casting Call will be weekly for the first time, so subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts! All transcripts will continue to be available at www.elainagauthiermamaril.com. Subscribe to Philosophy Casting Call and leave it a 5-star review wherever you can! Follow Philosophy Casting Call on Twitter and Instagram @philoCCpod Read the full episode transcripts at www.elainagauthiermamaril.com Support the podcast by becoming a monthly donor on Ko-Fi.com Follow Élaina on Twitter @ElainaGMamaril

In this season finale, Élaina interviews Jimena Solé, a professor of philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires. Jimena talks about her dislike of school growing up, her discovery of Spinoza, and why she believes that philosophising in Argentina and South America can be a transformative decolonial practice. The first half of the episode focuses on Jimena’s personal link to philosophy and the second half covers her work on the reception of European theories in Argentina. Read Jimena’s academic work: https://uba.academia.edu/MariaJimenaSole Read the open access journal Ideas: http://revistaideas.com.ar/ Contact Jimena Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Jimena.Sole Instagram: @m.jimena.sole Book mentioned in this episode: “Parmenides”, by César Aira Rate and review the podcast wherever you listen! Find Philosophy Casting Call on Twitter and Instagram @philoccpod Find the transcripts at https://www.elainagauthiermamaril.com/philosophy-casting-call-podcast You can support the podcast on Ko-Fi.com/philoccpod Philosophy Casting Call is hosted, edited, and produced by Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril Follow Élaina on Instagram @spinoodler and Twitter @ElainaGMamaril

In this episode, Élaina interviews Dr Judith-Frederike Popp, a post-doctoral researcher in philosophical aesthetics at the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt’s Faculty of Design. They address, among other things,  topics of theory-practice interdisciplinarity, what it means to be a relation subject, and the aesthetic agency of online influencers. You can register for “Taking Sides: Design and art between autonomy and intervention”, an interdisciplinary hybrid symposium held in Würzburg and online on the 20th and 21st of May 2022. You can register by emailing this address: symposium.fg@fhws.de Or by visiting this website starting in April: https://fg.fhws.de/taking-sides You can find Dr Popp’s academic and literary work at the following links: Website: https://fg.fhws.de/personen/dr-judith-frederike-popp/ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3711-3637 Academia.edu: https://fhws.academia.edu/FrederikePopp And you can follow her on Instagram @judith_gayk and on Twitter @FrederikePopp Books mentioned in this episode: “Critical Zones: The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth”, eds. Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel “What About Activism?”, ed. Steven Henry Madoff Movies mentioned in this episode: 2001 Space Odyssey Aniara (2018) Rate and review the podcast wherever you listen! Find Philosophy Casting Call on Twitter and Instagram @philoccpod Find the transcripts at https://www.elainagauthiermamaril.com/philosophy-casting-call-podcast You can support the podcast on Ko-Fi.com/philoccpod Philosophy Casting Call is hosted, edited, and produced by Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril Follow Élaina on Instagram @spinoodler and Twitter @ElainaGMamaril

In this episode, Danna Aduna, assistant professor of philosophy at the University of the Philippines: Baguio, tells Élaina why she no longer wants to teach male philosophers and how she gets creative with assigned syllabi by experimenting with different ways of running her classrooms. Content note: This episode contains non-graphic discussions of sexual harassment, sexual violence, and misogyny. You can follow Danna’s activism on https://timesupateneo.org/ and on Twitter @TimesUpAteneo and @WomenDoingPhilo. Books mentioned in this episode: Living The Feminist Life, by Sara Ahmed Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing Miranda Fricker Experience, Identity & Epistemic Injustice within Ireland's Magdalene Laundries, by Chloe K. Gott Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, by Kate Manne Rate and review the podcast wherever you listen! Find Philosophy Casting Call on Twitter and Instagram @philoccpod Find the transcripts at https://www.elainagauthiermamaril.com/philosophy-casting-call-podcast You can support the podcast on Ko-Fi.com/philoccpod

Please enjoy my conversation with Black Jewish philosopher Jesi Taylor Cruz on waste colonialism, flourishing, and anti-colonial philosophy. You might notice the sounds of life, aka seagulls on my side and the hustle and bustle of New York and the coos of a small human on Jesi’s side. I hope this only adds to your enjoyment. Content note: There is some swearing in this episode as well as discussions of colonial violence, ableism and racism. Jesi mentions the works of Max Liboiron and you can find a list of their articles here: https://maxliboiron.com/publications/ And you can buy a copy of Liboiron’s book “Pollution is Colonialism” on Bookshop.org.uk You can follow Jesi Taylor Cruz on Twitter @moontwerk and find their work at https://commongroundcompost.com/ Rate and review the podcast wherever you listen! Find Philosophy Casting Call on Twitter and Instagram @philoccpod Find the transcripts at https://www.elainagauthiermamaril.com/philosophy-casting-call-podcast You can support the podcast on Ko-Fi.com/philoccpod Philosophy Casting Call is hosted, edited, and produced by Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril Follow Élaina on Instagram @spinoodler and Twitter @ElainaGMamaril

In this season premiere, Élaina interviews Professor Soraj Hongladarom, author of The Ethics of AI and Robotics: A Buddhist Viewpoint. They discuss finding a way through traditional history of philosophy to interdisciplinary philosophical work. You can find Soraj on Twitter @sonamsangbo Rate and review the podcast wherever you listen! Find Philosophy Casting Call on Twitter and Instagram @philoccpod Find the transcripts at https://www.elainagauthiermamaril.com/philosophy-casting-call-podcast You can support the podcast on Ko-Fi.com/philoccpod Philosophy Casting Call is hosted, edited, and produced by Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril Follow Élaina on Instagram @spinoodler and Twitter @ElainaGMamaril

Philosophy Casting Call is back for season 2! I’m Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril, your host and resident casting director. This season, I took a trip around the world and interviewed underrepresented philosophers who live and work in 6 different countries. Join me as I ask professors, postdocs, and graduate students how they got into the ethics of AI, decolonial environmentalism, social epistemology, and much more. Make sure you follow Philosophy Casting Call on your favourite podcatcher and you won’t miss the season 2 premiere on the 7th of February! Rate and review the podcast wherever you listen! Find Philosophy Casting Call on Twitter and Instagram @philoccpod Find the transcripts at https://www.elainagauthiermamaril.com/philosophy-casting-call-podcast You can support the podcast on Ko-Fi.com/philoccpod Philosophy Casting Call is hosted, edited, and produced by Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril Follow Élaina on Instagram @spinoodler and Twitter @ElainaGMamaril

In this season finale, Élaina interviews Kathryn Belle, founder of the Collegium of Black Women Philosophers, associate professor at Penn State University, and owner and director of La Belle Vie Coaching. They discuss Prof Belle’s work on philosophy of race and engaging with black feminist philosophical scholarship on Simone de Beauvoir’s “The Second Sex”. You can find Kathryn’s teaching and research interests here: https://www.kathrynsophiabelle.com/ And you can find out more about La Belle Vie Coaching here: http://www.kathrynbelle.com/ Article mentioned in this episode: Kathryn T. Gines, “Comparative and Competing Frameworks of Oppression in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex” in Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal.  Volume 35, Numbers 1-2, 2014, pages 251 – 273. Book chapter mentioned in this episode: Kathryn T. Gines, “Simone de Beauvoir and the Race/Gender: Analogy in The Second Sex Revisited”, in A Companion to Simone de Beauvoir, eds. Laura Hengehold and Nancy Bauer, Wiley-Blackwell, 2017, pp. 47-58. Books mentioned in this episode: “Hannah Arendt and the Negro Question”, by Kathryn T. Gines “Convergences: Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy”, eds. Maria del Guadalupe Davidson, Kathryn T. Gines, and Donna-Dale L. Marcano “The Second Sex”, by Simone de Beauvoir “Alice Walker: A Life”, by Evelyn C. White These are affiliate links that generate a small commission. Rate and review the podcast wherever you listen! A special shout-out to jpopblast for their 5 star review! Find Philosophy Casting Call on Twitter and Instagram @philoccpod Find the transcripts at https://www.elainagauthiermamaril.com/philosophy-casting-call-podcast You can support the podcast on Ko-Fi.com/philoccpod Philosophy Casting Call is hosted, edited, and produced by Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril Follow Élaina on Instagram @spinoodler and Twitter @ElainaGMamaril

This is the one where Élaina asks Jen Scuro about her artistic practice’s place in all the stages of her academic career. Plus, there’s a bonus update at the end! CN: Ableism and miscarriage You can learn more about Jen on her website: https://jenniferscurophd.squarespace.com/home and find teaching resources on her Academia.edu page: https://molloy.academia.edu/JenniferScuro Books mentioned in the episode: Addressing Ableism, by Jennifer Scuro The Pregnancy (does not equal) Childbearing Project: A Phenomenology of Miscarriage, by Jennifer Scuro The Queer Art of Failure, by Judith Halberstam Golem Girl, by Riva Lehrer These are affiliate links that generate a small commission. Rate and review the podcast wherever you listen! Find Philosophy Casting Call on Twitter and Instagram @philoccpod Find the transcripts at https://www.elainagauthiermamaril.com/philosophy-casting-call-podcast You can support the podcast on Ko-Fi.com/philoccpod Philosophy Casting Call is hosted, edited, and produced by Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril Follow Élaina on Instagram @spinoodler and Twitter @ElainaGMamaril

This is the one where Élaina and Beth Doran discuss what it means to feel “capable” in philosophy, applied philosophy, and questions of gender justice in sport. As mentioned in the episode, I recommend checking out Translash Podcast ep 15: Trans Athletes Speak Out and Translash Media’s mini series “The Anti-Trans Machine”, which starts with the episode “It’s Not Really About Sports”. Articles mentioned in this episode: “Against sexual discrimination in sport”, by Torbjörn Tännsjö “Sex Equality in Sports”, by Jane English “Out of Bounds? A Critique of the New Policies on Hyperandrogenism in Elite Female Athletes”, by Katrina Karkazis, Rebecca Jordan-Young, Georgiann Davis, and Silvia Camporesi Rate and review the podcast wherever you listen! Find Philosophy Casting Call on Twitter and Instagram @philoccpod Find the transcripts at https://www.elainagauthiermamaril.com/philosophy-casting-call-podcast You can support the podcast on Ko-Fi.com/philoccpod Philosophy Casting Call is hosted, edited, and produced by Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril Follow Élaina on Instagram @spinoodler and Twitter @ElainaGMamaril

This is the one where Élaina interviews Anna V. about loving theory, feminist philosophy of language, and the importance of trigger warnings for epistemic quality. You can follow Anna on Twitter @a_nonamename where they post about their research and new publications. Books mentioned in this episode: “The Coddling of the American Mind”, by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt “Re-Enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons”, by Silvia Federici “The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence”, by Erica R. Meiners and Judith Levine Article mentioned in this episode: “Speech Acts and Unspeakable Acts”, by Rae Langton Rate and review the podcast wherever you listen to it! Find Philosophy Casting Call on Twitter and Instagram @philoccpod. Find the transcripts at https://www.elainagauthiermamaril.com/philosophy-casting-call-podcast. You can support the podcast on Ko-Fi.com/philoccpod. Philosophy Casting Call is hosted, edited, and produced by Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril Follow Élaina on Instagram @spinoodler and Twitter @ElainaGMamaril.

This is the one where Élaina interviews Asil Martinez-Katout on asking for what you need in philosophy and teaching others to never stop asking questions. You can find out more about Asil on their website: https://lisamm-k.com/. You can learn more about the Center for Public Philosophy at UC Santa Cruz here and here. Articles mentioned in this episode: "Roasting Ethics" by Luvell Anderson "Racist Humor", by Luvell Anderson Remember to rate and review the podcast wherever you listen! You can find Philosophy Casting Call on Twitter and Instagram @philoccpod, read the the transcripts at https://www.elainagauthiermamaril.com/philosophy-casting-call-podcast, and support the podcast on Ko-Fi.com/philoccpod. Philosophy Casting Call is hosted, edited, and produced by Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril, whom you can follow on Instagram @spinoodler and Twitter @ElainaGMamaril.