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What should the next video be?
🕑 Added 2020-03-18 20:41:27 +0000 UTCTime to pick a new video topic! Here are the options:
1) There’s a popular scene in Toy Story 3 where Mr. Potato Head is assembled using a tortilla instead of a potato, but still retains his consciousness and personal identity. So the question arises: where does Potato Head’s personal identity reside? Is it in the sum of his parts, or their particular combination? Similar questions can be asked about humans as well. I will explore anti-essentialist views on personal identity by utilizing David Hume, and possibly Nietzsche/Deleuze.
2) This would be about the 1990 movie Total Recall (and potentially Blade Runner), prosthetic memory, and the relations between memory, identity, and authenticity. I would draw mostly on an essay on the topic by Alison Landsberg, but might also use Derrida's ideas on teletechnology. I’d talk about Total Recall as a postmodern take on memory and identity, as it problematizes the connection between them and authenticity.
3) Some people think I should do less media analysis and focus more on thinkers and ideas as such. The most explicit way of doing this would be to do a book summary - this would either be one long video, or several videos, explaining the central concepts of a given book, in a way that even people who haven't read it could understand. If this option gets picked, I will make another poll to decide which book I'll summarize. Right now I'm thinking of Geuss' "Philosophy and Real Politics", Bataille's "Accursed Share", and Schopenhauer's "World as Will and Representation". This option will be in the next poll too if it doesn't get picked for now.
4) I'd be a bit nervous doing this one because it's something a lot of my subscribers might disagree with (particularly Marxists-Leninists). This would be a video going into how Marx understood the state, what he thought of it, and how he understood its relation to socialism. I'd be going against some common views held by both Marxists and anti-Marxists, particularly the view that Marx saw socialism as involving nationalization or centralized enforcement.
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Cuck Philosophy
Thank you!
I'm sure I'm too late to add anything here but I am a Marxist-Leninist and although I understand your hesitancy to possibly cause controversy and division in your audience, I personally would be very interested in hearing what you have to say about the Marxist analysis of the state.
Someday, I hope you do the Total Recall topic. :-)
