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Agents of Philosophical Propaganda
EMILIANO AGUILAR got his MA from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (Argentina). He has published chapters in books such as Orphan Black and Philosophy: Grand Theft DNA (2016) and Mr. Robot and Philosophy: Beyond Good and Evil Corp (2017). He likes to watch little windows showing alternate realities slightly different from ours. People call them “movies in Blu-ray.”
There is surely a possible world where ANANYA CHATTORAJ fulfills her dream of being a professional knitter, binge TV watcher, and cat cuddler. In her actual world, she settles for studying philosophy of science in her PhD program.
MACIEJ CISOWSKI holds an MA in Philosophy, though he’s not actually sure if it has wu. He spends his time writing ethically questionable code for the Tyrell Corporation. In an alternate timeline he would surely be less prone to discussing skeptical paradoxes and parallel universes. In an alternate timeline he would surely be more prone to discussing skeptical paradoxes and parallel universes.
MARC W. COLE is a PhD candidate at the University of Leeds, who works on Aristotle’s metaphysics of mind. When not busy with this, Marc likes to think about the role of law in politics. In his free time, he does martial arts of all sorts. Armed with philosophical knowledge and sweet kicks, Marc resists the Nazis permanently.
BRETT COPPENGER fears the rise of the Nazi regime in all possible worlds. To assuage his fears, he keeps himself busy by teaching philosophy. He is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Tuskegee University. His research and teaching interests are in epistemology, philosophy of science, and philosophy of religion. He previously contributed to Arrested Development and Philosophy.
SAM DIRECTOR is a PhD student in the Philosophy Department at the University of Colorado—Boulder. His research focuses on issues in both applied ethics and political philosophy. Specifically, he is interested in investigating the nature of rights, consent, and autonomy, with the goal of applying them to issues in ethics and political philosophy. He is rarely not doing philosophy. But, when he takes a break from philosophy, he enjoys talking about movies and literature.
VERENA EHRNBERGER currently works as a legal expert in the corporate world, which sometimes reminds her a lot of The Man in the High Castle universe. Nonetheless she is convinced that in some parallel universe everything is just fine. Verena studies philosophy and psychotherapy at the University of Vienna and is determined to do something with these skills in the future, because humankind has too much potential to just accept the status quo. Just like Juliana, she always bets on the best in people. She also blogs for TEDxVienna on a regular basis.
BENJAMIN EVANS hails from the alternative reality called Canada. A not-so-secret member of the Resistance, Evans has earned four graduate degrees in philosophy, humanities, and fine arts, most recently a PhD from the New School for Social Research in New York City. When he’s not plotting revolution or writing about aesthetic theory, he likes to track down strange movies of unknown origin.
JOSHUA HETER received his PhD in philosophy from Saint Louis University and has contributed to both Orphan Black and Philosophy: Grand Theft DNA and The Princess Bride and Philosophy: Inconceivable! When he’s not teaching philosophy at Iowa Western Community College, he spends his time contemplating whether (given the technology and opportunity) he would be morally justified in traveling back in time to assassinate the young Adolf Hitler.
COREY HORN is finishing his undergraduate degree in Philosophy at Eastern Washington University. His main area of focus is within the realm of political theory and cosmopolitan idealism, but in his spare time you will find him with his friends at the bar, contemplating the ethics of Nazis, villains, and whether or not pineapples belong on pizza (the answer is they do).
TIMOTHY HSIAO teaches philosophy at Florida Gulf Coast University and Florida South Western State College. His research focuses on applied ethics, where he plans to Make Natural Law Theory Great Again. His articles have appeared in journals such as Public Affairs Quarterly, Philosophia, and the Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. His website is timhsiao.org. He welcomes correspondence (and hate mail from vegans).
TIM JONES received his PhD from the School of Literature, Drama, and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. He has published several essays in the Popular Culture and Philosophy series, including “Mulder and Scully, You’re Late!” in The X-Files and Philosophy: The Truth Is In Here.
JOHN V. KARAVITIS was compelled to write his chapter for this book. There was no way out for him. And, as always, he was compelled to follow the dictates of his own personal oracle, his overworked and underappreciated Magic 8-BallTM. Did we say “dictates”? We meant “thoughtful suggestions and constructive criticism.” Especially given that the oracle kept giving John the same reply to every one of his questions: “Concentrate and ask again.” (Wait, what?)
CHRISTOPHER KETCHAM earned his doctorate at the University of Texas at Austin. He teaches business and ethics for the University of Houston Downtown. His research interests are risk management, applied ethics, social justice, and East-West comparative philosophy. He has done recent work in the philosophical ideas of forgiveness, Emmanuel Levinas’s responsibility, and Gabriel Marcel’s spirit of abstraction, after which, thank heaven he did not catch the disease of intelligence.
BRUCE KRAJEWSKI is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at the University of Texas at Arlington. He has written about fascism in The New York Times, and published a few bits about philosophy and esotericism. He wonders whether Maurice Blanchot is correct in his famous essay on science fiction when Blanchot writes, “No one is interested in the existence of a completely different time of a completely different world.”
DONALD MCCARTHY is an adjunct professor at SUNY Old Westbury and a graduate of the City College of New York�
��s MFA program. He’s published both fiction and non-fiction at venues such as Salon, Paste Magazine, Alternet, Plots with Guns, and more. He has yet to visit an alternate universe, but his desire to do so grows with every passing day.
LUKASZ MUNIOWSKI is a doctoral student at the Faculty of Neophilology at Warsaw University. He’s working on a thesis entitled “Tools of the Weak: The Transgressive Art of Hubert Selby, Jr.” In addition to a publication about Last Exit to Brooklyn, he also has a piece in Acta Philologica on Michael Jordan as a mythical figure.
FERNANDO GABRIEL PAGNONI BERNS (PhD student) works at Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) as Professor in “Literatura de las Artes Combinadas II.” He teaches seminars on international horror film and has published chapters in books such as Peanuts and Philosophy: You’re a Wise Man Charlie Brown! (2017) and Horrors of War: The Undead on the Battlefield (2015). He lives in an alternate universe where TV reality stars become presidents and people in the Oscars can’t keep straight who’s won the prize. How very self-indulgent of him.
MIGUEL PALEY is a pataphysicist, head coach of The New School Men’s Basketball team (The Narwhals), and a PhD candidate in philosophy at The New School for Social Research. When not screaming at his team to play defense, Miguel writes on Bergson’s philosophy of mind and its influence on the work of Emmanuel Levinas, Alfred Whitehead, and Hans Jonas. He also deeply admires the names of Üexkull and Hundertwasser. Gabriel Garcia Marquez once made him gross lemonade.
FRANKLIN PERKINS is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, a position he came to through a number of factors, including a middle-school decision to study martial arts, an encounter with Leibniz’s writings on China, and Allied victory in World War II. In The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, he is most likely a carpenter. In this reality, instead, he is editor of the journal Philosophy East and West and author of Heaven and Earth Are not Humane: The Problem of Evil in Classical Chinese Philosophy, Leibniz: A Guide for the Perplexed, and Leibniz and China: A Commerce of Light.
ELIZABETH RARD is currently working on her PhD in philosophy at UC Davis in California. Neighbors describe her as perfectly pleasant, but with a rather distorted memory of history. She will regularly stare blankly while famous historical events are discussed, and will sometimes reference wars that no one else seems to remember, all while drinking her five-cent instant tea, admiring her marigolds dreamily, and enjoying a suspicious looking smoke from a packet marked “Land-o-Smiles.”
DENNIS WEISS is a fan of all-things televisual and when he’s not watching television he is Professor of Philosophy at York College of Pennsylvania where he regularly teaches courses on the intersections of philosophy, technology, popular culture, and science fiction. He’s authored articles exploring the philosophical implications of Buffy, Data, Dick, and Sarah (a certain clone) and is the editor of Interpreting Man (2003) and Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman (2014). He is currently at work on a project examining the rise of the posthuman in twenty-first century television.
M. BLAKE WILSON is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at California State University, Stanislaus. Before that, he was a graduate student working on political philosophy. Before that, he was a criminal defense lawyer. Before that, he was a law student tracking down Philip K. Dick books at a time when most of them were out of print. He contributed a chapter to The Who and Philosophy (2016) by pretending to understand Nietzsche, tragedy, and Pete Townshend.
As a PhD student in Environmental Psychology at the University of Gröningen, STEPHANIE J. ZAWADZKI spends most of her time in awe of humanity’s ability to create problems (and how consistently it outshines our ability to solve them). She seeks spiritual clarity on her yoga mat and through soul-searching conversations with her cats. Together with the alphabetically inferior T.J. Zawadzki, Steph rails against the forces of space-time in their fight to occupy the same reality.
T.J. ZAWADZKI -(STOP)- TRIPLE ACADEMIC AGENT UNDERCOVER AS INTERDISCIPLINARY PHD STUDENT -(STOP)- TRAINED IN APPLIED AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY BUT MAINTAINED STRONG TIES WITH GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES -(STOP)- NOW DEFECTED TO DEPARTMENT OF ALTERNATE HISTORY AT UNIVERSITY OF EXETER -(STOP)- APPEALS TO ORACLE AKA ADVISORS TO HELP WRITE NEW HISTORY OF SEXOLOGY IN POLAND -(STOP)- TRUE ALLEGIANCE TO STEPHANIE J. ZAWADZKI AND HER CATS -(STOP)- ESCAPE TO HOLLAND VIA HOUSEBOAT IMMINENT
Index
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Abendsen, Hawthorne
Abendsen, Caroline
abstraction
Adorno, Theodor
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
aesthetics
Africans
Allies, Allied Forces
Allyson, June
Amazon (Prime)
architecture
Arendt, Hannah
assassination
Augustine, Saint
Aurelius, Marcus
Axis powers
baseball
Becker, Randall
Beneš, Edvard
Benjamin, Walter
Berlant, Lauren
Berlin
Blade Runner
Blake, Joe
Brown, Henry Billings
Burdekin, Katharine
Burke, Edmund
Bush, George
Canon City
capitalism
Casablanca
castle
Cermak, Anton
Chase, David
Chew-Z
Childan, Robert
Cinnadella, Joe
Clinton, Hillary
Colbert, Stephen
communism
conspiracy
counterfactual
Crain, Juliana
Crary, Jonathan
Crothers, Lauren
De Blasio, Bill
D’Holbach, Baron
Dejerine-Roussy syndrome
Denton, Sally
Dick, Philip K.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Dragnet
dualism, duality
Du Bois, W.E.B.
eagle
“Edelweiss”
Eichmann, Adolf
“End of the World” (episode)
Epictetus
Epicurus
epistemology
esoteric, esotericism
eugenics
evil
“Fallout” (episode)
fascism
fate
FBI
Festinger, Leon
freedom
free will
Frink, Frank
Frink, Laura
Führer
Gallagher, Caitlin
Germany, Germans
Gettier, Edmund
Gingrich, Newt
Goebbels, Joseph
Goldman, Alvin
The Grasshopper Lies Heavy
Habermas, Jürgen
Hammerstein, Oscar
happiness
Heisenberg, Werner
Heston, Charlton
Heydrich, Reinhard
Himmler, Heinrich
Hitler, Adolf
Hobbes, Thomas
Hollywood
Hudson, Rock
I Ching (Yijing, Book of Changes)
Ihde, Don
“The Illustrated Woman” (episode)
Iowa Western Community College
Jackson, Robert H.
Japan, Japanese
Jaspers, Karl
jazz
Jesus
Jews, Jewish
Kasoura, Paul and Betty
Kattago, Siobhan
Kempeitai
Kido, Takeshi (Inspector Kido)
“Kindness” (episode)
King, Martin Luther
King, Stephen
Kotomichi
Kubrick, Stanley
Lamont, Corliss
Landgraf, John
&nb
sp; Laplace, Pierre-Simon
“The Late Show,”
“Leave It to Beaver,”
Lefebvre, Henri
Lewis, C.S.
Lewis, David
Lewis, Sinclair
libertarianism, liberty
Libet, Benjamin
Life
Lincoln, Abraham
Locke, John
Lolita
Loetze, Alex
love
luck
Lynch, David
McCarthy, Ed
McLuhan, Marshall
The Man in the High Castle (novel)
Marcel, Gabriel
Mars
Marx, Karl H., Marxism
Mason, Timothy
The Medium Is the Massage
metaphysics
Meyrowitz, Joshua
Minority Report
Mount Rushmore
Musil, Robert
Mussolini, Benito
myth(s)
Nagel, Thomas
natural law
nature
Nazis (National Socialists)
Neutral Zone
Newton, Isaac
“The New World” (episode)
New York City
Niebuhr, Reinhold
Nineteen Eighty-Four
No Sense of Place
Nozick, Robert
Nuremberg Trials
Obama, Barack,
obedience, disobedience
Olsson, Jeanette
paranoia
Paskin, Willa
Paul, Saint
Pearce, Rita
Percival, Daniel
photographs
Piketty, Thomas
Plato
Plessy, Homer
Portmore, Douglas
possible worlds
Postman, Neil
Postphenomenology
The Punch Party
In Pursuit of Valis
Radio Free Albemuth
Rand, Ayn
Reagan, Ronald
reality
Reisch, George A.
The Resistance
Rickman, Gregg
Riefenstahl, Leni
Rockwell, Norman
Rogers, Richard
Romanticism
Romney, Mitt
Roosevelt, Franklin
Russell, Bertrand
Sampson, Mark