Season 1 Episode 1: On Unlearning
Manage episode 442829761 series 3601724
Podcast Available On: Apple Spotify
Featuring:
Dr. Tammy Birk
Topics:
- Backstory
- Challenging Disinformation
- Learning How to Unlearn
- Working Against Ignorance and Powerlessness
Show Notes:
This episode explores two ideas that deserve our early attention: unlearning and ignorance. Unlearning is crucial if we are to evolve our thinking, but we may need to learn how to unlearn. Ignorance has many motives, but I am most concerned about the ways that power benefits from our ignorance. Let’s understand how that happens.
Texts and artifacts mentioned in this podcast:
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body | Roxane Gay
Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law | Catherine Mackinnon
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