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What should the next video be on?
🕑 Added 2020-02-02 19:33:46 +0000 UTCTime to pick the next video topic. Here are the options:
1) The profile pic I use is an image of Charles Fourier. A lot of people don't know who this is or why I picked his face. He's an early French socialist (one of the people Marx terms "utopian socialists", influential to Marx & Engels, as well as to the surrealists later on), he's also an early proponent of gay rights, and credited with coining the word "feminism". Those are all good reasons to have his face be the face of the channel. But even more than that, he wrote a book on Cuckoldry ("The Hierarchies of Cuckoldry and Bankruptcy") where he listed 72 different types (yes, 72) of cuckolds. This is not just because he was concerned about sexual repression, but it was one of his ways of critiquing the institution of marriage, and he linked (sexual) cuckoldry to (financial) bankruptcy. This video would explain and elaborate on all of this, as well as touch on the more contemporary question of why "cuck" became an insult on the political right.
2) 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.
3) 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.
4) 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.
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Or do a video about why we should even read psychoanalysis.
With all the copyright bullshit YouTube is putting people through, it makes me want to just stay away from media all together. Do a book review. Or a Foucault vs. Baudrillard video cause Baudrillard wrote the book Forget Foucault.
