Welcome to Philosophers In Space, where the intrepid trekker captain Callie Wright and their questionable Chief Ethics Officer Aaron Rabinowitz explore the weird, gooey world of sci-fi, searching for tantalizing hypotheticals and gear-stripping questions in a space odyssey of meaning and amusement.
Starship Troopers
Starship Troopers (1997) · Feb 24, 2025
Intacto (Intact) and Superstitious Luck
Intacto (2001) · Dec 3, 2024
Spiderhead (2022) and Emotional Regulation
Spiderhead (2022) · Jul 13, 2024
Downsizing and Altruisms
Downsizing (2017) · May 6, 2024
The Pod Generation and Naturalness
The Pod Generation (2023) · Apr 8, 2024
Dual and Flourishing in a Dehumanizing Society
Dual (2022) · Sep 22, 2023
A Color Out of Space and Lovecraftian High Weirdness
Color Out of Space (2020) · Jul 7, 2023
A Scanner Darkly and PKD High Weirdness pt1
A Scanner Darkly (2006) · Jun 17, 2023
Lawnmower Man and Dis Crit with Elizabeth Barnes
The Lawnmower Man (1992) · May 5, 2023
0G200: Crimes of the Future and Artistic Burnout
Crimes of the Future (2022) · Dec 2, 2022
0G196: Everything Everywhere All at Once pt1
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) · Oct 7, 2022
0G188: Tremors and Doomsday Prepperism
Tremors (1990) · Jun 3, 2022
0G184: The Titan and Posthumanism
The Titan (2018) · May 6, 2022
0G181: Existenz and Transhumanist Alienation
eXistenZ (1999) · Apr 8, 2022
0G180: Naked Lunch and Beat Philosophy
Naked Lunch (1991) · Apr 1, 2022
0G178: Videodrome and Marshall Mcluhan
Videodrome (1983) · Feb 25, 2022
0G168: Animatrix and AI Empathy
The Animatrix (2003) · Dec 8, 2021
0G167: Dune 2021 and Decolonialism
Dune (2021) · Dec 1, 2021
0G161: Three Body Problem and Maoism Pt1
The Three-Body Problem · Oct 6, 2021
0G160: Disney's Atlantis and Racist Pseudohistory
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) · Sep 29, 2021
0G159: The Empty Man and Tulpas
The Empty Man (2020) · Sep 22, 2021
0G157: Loki and Multiverse Authoritarianism
Loki · Sep 8, 2021
0G154: Ready Player One and Value Capture
Ready Player One (2018) · Aug 4, 2021
0G151: Aniara and Pointlessness
Aniara (2019) · Jun 30, 2021
0G149: Sorry to Bother You and the Talented Tenth
Sorry to Bother You (2018) · Jun 16, 2021
0G147: Fantastic Planet and Surrealism
Fantastic Planet (1973) · Jun 2, 2021
0G145: The Thing and Anti-Communism
The Thing (1982) · May 19, 2021
0G144: Godzilla vs. King Kong and Ecoterrorism
Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) · May 12, 2021
0G132: Altered States and Psychonautics
Altered States (1980) · Jan 20, 2021
0G128: Dark City and Conspiracy Theory Logic
Dark City (1998) · Dec 23, 2020
0G122: Robocop and AI Police
RoboCop (1987) · Oct 28, 2020
Rebroadcasting 0G63: Fury Road and Ecofeminism
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) · Sep 9, 2020
Rebroadcasting 0G19: Black Mirror, Hang the DJ, Part 1: Newcomb's Paradox
Hang the DJ (2012) · Sep 2, 2020
0G106: The Platform and Methods of Social Change
The Platform (2019) · Jun 10, 2020
0G100: WWZ and the Human Cost of Ethics, Part 2
World War Z (2013) · Apr 15, 2020
0G96: Serenity and Positive Eugenics
Serenity (2005) · Mar 18, 2020
0G92: Watchmen and Subjective vs. Objective
Watchmen (2009) · Feb 19, 2020
0G89: Empire Strikes Back and Taoism
The Empire Strikes Back (1980) · Jan 29, 2020
0G80: Primer and the Ethics of Time Travel
Primer (2004) · Nov 13, 2019
0G75: Repo Men and Organ Markets
Repo Men (2010) · Oct 9, 2019
0G73: Snowpiercer and Social Contract Theory, Part 2
Snowpiercer (2013) · Sep 25, 2019
0G72: Snowpiercer and Environmental Injustice, Part 1
Snowpiercer (2013) · Sep 18, 2019
0G70: The Power and Cyborg Feminism, Part 2
The Power (2021) · Aug 21, 2019
0G68: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Grief
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) · Aug 7, 2019
0G67: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Grief
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) · Jul 31, 2019
0G64: I Am Mother and Care Ethics
I Am Mother (2019) · Jul 10, 2019
0G63: Fury Road and Ecofeminism
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) · Jul 3, 2019
0G55: Cube and Kafkaesque
Cube (1998) · May 1, 2019
0G54: The Fifth Element and Manacheanism
The Fifth Element (1997) · Apr 24, 2019
0G52: Infinity Wars and Overpopulation
Infinity Wars (2018) · Apr 10, 2019
0G48: Groundhog Day and Buddhist Virtue Theory
Groundhog Day (1993) · Mar 13, 2019
0G47: Annihilation and Deep Ecology, Part 2
Annihilation (2018) · Mar 6, 2019
0G46: Annihilation and Catastrophic Destruction, Part 1
Annihilation (2018) · Feb 27, 2019
0G41: A Christmas Carol and Moral Motivation
A Christmas Carol (1984) · Jan 23, 2019
NASA1: Battlefield Earth
Battlefield Earth (2000) · Jan 21, 2019
0G36: The Matrix and Skepticism, Part 2
The Matrix (1999) · Dec 19, 2018
OG35: The Matrix and Skepticism, Part 1
The Matrix (1999) · Dec 12, 2018
0G33: Aliens and The Second Sex
Aliens (1986) · Nov 28, 2018
0G32: Alien and The Corporation as Sociopath
Alien (1979) · Nov 21, 2018
0G29: Ex Machina and the AI Box Problem, Part 2
Ex Machina (2015) · Oct 31, 2018
0G28: Ex Machina and Mary the Color Scientist, Part 1
Ex Machina (2015) · Oct 23, 2018
0G27: Galaxy Quest and Toxic Fandom, Part 2
Galaxy Quest (1999) · Oct 17, 2018
0G25: Minority Report and Time Paradoxes
Minority Report (2002) · Oct 3, 2018
0G24: Minority Report and Prescient Utilitarianism
Minority Report (2002) · Sep 26, 2018
0G23: Harrison Bergeron and Equality of Outcome
Harrison Bergeron (1995) · Sep 19, 2018
0G22: Gattaca and Genetic Determinism
Gattaca (1997) · Sep 12, 2018
0G20: Black Mirror, Hang the DJ, Part 2: Predicting Compatibility
Black Mirror (2011) · Aug 29, 2018
0G20: Black Mirror, Hang the DJ, Part 2: Predicting Compatibility
Hang the DJ (2012) · Aug 29, 2018
0G18: Dune Part Three, The Cycle of Politics
Dune: Part Three (2026) · Aug 15, 2018
OG17: Dune Part Two, Kwisatz Haderach and Self-Perfection
Dune: Part Two (2024) · Aug 8, 2018
0G13: Westworld and Virtue Theory, Part 2 - with Eli Bosnick!
Westworld (1973) · Jul 4, 2018
0G12: Westworld and Morality Simulators, Part 1 - with Eli Bosnick!
Westworld (1973) · Jun 27, 2018
0G10: Brave New world and Genetic Engineering, Part 2
Brave New World (1998) · May 30, 2018
0G6: Arrival and Sapir-Whorf
Arrival (2016) · Apr 4, 2018