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What should the next video be about?

Added 2019-10-07 00:10:36 +0000 UTC

Time for a new poll. Here are the options:

1) 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.

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, or something else? 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 one would be kinda similar to my older video about the problem with equality as a political goal, as it would criticize a very deeply ingrained aspect of liberal politics and theory. I would look at the philosophical origins of the idea, and its problems, like the power imbalances and negative conception of freedom that it presupposes. I'm not completely sure which thinkers I'll make use of, but it might include Marx, Nietzsche, Alisdair MacIntyre, and Raymond Geuss.