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Episode 26 of the Digital Dialogue is a special edition in which Jaimie Oberdick, Associate Editor for Publications at Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) at Penn State, turns the tables on me and interviews me about the way I have used blogs in my Philosophy courses.

The Digital Dialogue podcast itself grew out of my 2009 Summer Faculty Fellowship at TLT on Socratic Politics in Digital Dialogue. This interview is part of an article Jaimie has written and a video TLT is putting together to highlight the way I am using blogs to cultivate community in my classroom.

Digital Dialogue 26: Jaimie Oberdick with Christopher Long: Blogging Philosophy

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Related Links:

• Part I of Jaimie's article on how I use blogging to build community.  This focuses on the pedagogical principles behind my use of technology.
  
• Part II of Jaimie's article, which focuses on how students from BC were brought into the course discussion through digital media.
• When the video is available, I will post it here too.
  

Jeremy Engels, Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences here at Penn State University, joins me for Digital Dialogue, episode 25.

Jeremy's work focuses on the rhetorical foundations of democratic practices. His first book, Enemyship, takes on the difficult question of how talk of "the enemy" functions in political rhetoric and action.

He has written numerous articles in democratic deliberative theory and is working on a new book entitled Dialogue Under Distress which focuses on how our models of democratic deliberation where stretched to the breaking point during the late '60's and early '70's.

Jeremy came to the Digital Dialogue to discuss an article that recently appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Speech entitled, "Uncivil Speech: Invective and the Rhetorics of Democracy in the Early Republic."

Digital Dialogue 25 with Jeremy Engels: Uncivil Speech

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Related Links

• Jeremy's article on Uncivil Speech (pdf)
• Jeremy Engels's faculty page at the Communications Arts and Sciences.
  

Emanuela Bianchi, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte joins me for episode 24 of the Digital Dialogue to discuss her book manuscript with the working title The Feminine Symptom: Aleatory Matter in the Aristotelian Cosmos. We focus much of our discussion of the nature and legacy of Aristotelian teleology and how it functions in Aristotle's thinking and the longer tradition of Western philosophy.

Digital Dialogue 24 with Emanuela Bianchi: Feminine Symptom

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Related Links

• Philosophy at UNCC: http://philosophy.uncc.edu/
• The Philosophy Department at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, where Emma and I received our PhD's.
• The CUNY Greek Institute where Emma and I spent a lot of time rendering on command.
  

Robert Bernasconi, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy, joins me for episode 23 of the Digital Dialogue to discuss his inaugural lecture at Penn State entitled "Nature, Culture, Race: A Phenomenological Perspective on Critical Philosophy of Race."

In the episode we touch on issues related to the critical philosophy of race, phenomenology, the Philosophy Department at Penn State and the recent publication of Emmanuel Faye's book on Heidegger.

Digital Dialogue 23 with Robert Bernasconi: Philosophy and Race

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Articles related to Bernasconi's inaugural lecture:

• The UNESCO statements on Race from The Race Question in Modern Science: Race and Science, New York: Columbia University Press, 1961.
  
• Alain Locke's "The Concept of Race as Applied to Social Culture" reprinted in The Idea of Race, edited by Robert Bernasconi and Tommy L. Lott.
• Culture and Ethnology by Robert H. Lowie, New York, 1917.
  

Recent articles in popular press related to Faye's book, Heidegger: The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy in Light of the Unpublished Seminars of 1933-1935.

• New York Times review by Patricia Cohen: An Ethical Question: Does a Nazi Deserve a Place Among Philosophers
• The Chronicle Review article by Carlin Romano: Heil Heidegger!
• Slate.com article by Ron Rosenbaum about Arendt and Heidegger: The Evil of Banality: Troubling new revelations about Arendt and Heidegger.
• The New Republic article by Damon Linker: Why Read Heidegger.

Scholarly Texts on Heidegger by Christopher Long:

• "Art's Fateful Hour: Benjamin, Heidegger, Art and Politics," New German Critique 83 (2001): 89-115.  Full text available in pdf here.
• "Between Reification and Mystification: Rethinking the Economy of Principles", co-authored with Richard Lee, published in Telos 120 (2001): 92-112.
• "The Ontological Reappropriation of Phronesis," Continental Philosophy Review 35, 1 (2002): 35-60.

Scholarly Books on Heidegger by Robert Bernasconi:

• Heidegger in Question: The Art of Existing, Humanities Books, 1996.
• The Question of Language in Heidegger's History of Being, Humanity Books, 1985.

A group of students from my Philosophy 200, Ancient Greek Philosophy, course join me for episode 22 of the Digital Dialogue.

Drew Bullard, Jordan Sanford, Cody Yashinsky, Anthony Zirpoli, Tony Arnold, Pam Doran and Joni Noggle discuss some of the themes that have emerged over the course of this semester as we investigated the nature of Socratic Politics by reading four Platonic dialogues: Protagoras, Gorgias, Phaedrus and Symposium.

Digital Dialogue 22 with Students from PHIL200: Transformative Dialogue

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This episode of the digital dialogue is particularly important to me because it grew organically out of the work the students and I did together this semester. It was initiated by Cody Yashinsky who thought it would be nice to do a semester round-up podcast as way to highlight a number of themes that have emerged on the blog and in the course of our weekly round-up podcasts.

What we have done together this semester in the classroom, on the blog and through podcast is a testimony to the transformative power of digital dialogue.

Axelle Karera, graduate student in Philosophy at Penn State, and Nicolas Parra, who is a visiting student at Penn State as he completes his M.A. degree from Universidad de los Andes in Bogata, Columbia, join me for episode 21 of the Digital Dialogue.

The impetus for this episode was a brief exchange between Axelle and Nicolas on the blog entitled: Gorgias and Socrates: The Feast of Friendship.  I thought it would be excellent to invite them to the Digital Dialogue to discuss the issues they raised there about the possibility of a noble kind of rhetoric, one that would not necessitate a polemical relationship between rhetoric and philosophy.

Digital Dialogue 21 with Axelle Karera and Nicolas Parra: Rhetoric and Philosophy

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There were a number of passages to which Nicolas and Axelle appealed in the course of the discussion.  Nicolas referred to these:

1. (455d7-456c5) where Gorgias uncovers to Socrates the power of rhetoric and tells his story with the sick person and his brother, the physician.
2. (497b5-11) Gorgias' first intervention in the conversation of Socrates with Callicles.
3. (506a10-506b3) Gorgias' second intervention in the conversation of Socrates with Callicles.
   
4. (521d7-522a8) Socrates' statement that he is the one who practices the true political art and where he compares himself with a doctor.
5. (503b1-2) Socrates' allusion to a rhetoric aiming towards the just that has not yet been seen. (504d6-504e2) Socrates ilustrates what would it mean to be a good rhetor.

Axelle reports the following:

I referred specifically to the analogies in the Protogoras. The relevant passages are: 329c-333c.

The crucial debate between Protagoras and Socrates about the unity of virtue (argued by using the analogies) is found from 349b-360d.

Knowledge - referred to here as the "measuring know" - is found from 356d-e.

Finally, Socrates recognizes that he seems to have finished the conversation by endorsing Protagoras' position (which was contrary to his at the beginning), and vice versa for Protagoras, is found on 361a-362a.

In the spirit of the last Digital Dialogue, I have tried to add a picture to give a sense of interlocutors and of the context of the discussion.

Michael Shaw, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Honors Program at Utah Valley University, and Marina McCoy, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston College join me for episode 20 of the Digital Dialogue.

This podcast was recorded at Sundance, UT, where we gathered at the invitation of Mike Shaw just after Marina and I participated in a symposium on Sophocles for the Honors program at UVU.

The symposium included two excellent student papers: Kristin Argyle's paper on Sophocles and Freud: The Tragedy of Mind offered a very sophisticated reading of Oedipus the King from the perspective Freudian psychology. Kelsea Park developed an original reading of the Antigone in her paper Feminine Humanity in which she demonstrated a very detailed and thoughtful engagement with the text. Both papers were beautifully written and professionally delivered.

In this episode, Mike Shaw talks about the excellent work being done by the Honors students at UVU.  We then enter into a broader more philosophical discussion of the theme of vulnerability in Sophocles, the relationship between the use of sight, hearing and touch as metaphors for specific ways of knowing and the larger question of the political implications of the Oedipus stories.

Digital Dialogue 20 with Michael Shaw and Marina McCoy: Sophocles in Utah

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Below are a few pictures, on the right is a picture of Kristin Argyle and Kelsea Park responding to questions from the audience in response to their papers, with Mike Shaw moderating.  On the left is a picture of the recording of the digital dialogue we did at Sundance just after the panel.







Related Links

• Blog post on my Digital Vita related to the Sophocles panel
• Engaged Learning with Technology: A presentation I gave on using social media technology to engage students in communities of learning.
  

Adriel Trott, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas, Pan American joins me for episode 19 of the Digital Dialogue. Adriel received her PhD in Philosophy from Villanova University in 2008 with a dissertation entitled "The Challenge of Physis: Reconciling Nature and Reason in Aristotle's Politics."

Her areas of specialization are Ancient Greek Thought and Social and Political Philosophy. Her work is informed by the continental and feminist traditions. She has come to the Digital Dialogue to talk about the recent paper she delivered at SPEP entitled: "The Wrongs of Rights: The Onto-Political Logic of Human Rights from Arendt to Badiou."

Digital Dialogue 19 with Adriel Trott: Politics After Rights

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Noëlle McAfee, Research Professor at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, joins me for episode 18 of the Digital Dialogue which is another special SPEP edition. 

Noëlle has numerous publications in the area of democratic political theory, social/political philosophy, feminist theory and American pragmatism including three books, Habermas, Kristeva, and Citizenship by Cornell University Press, 2000, Julia Kristeva, publish by Routledge in 2003, and a text that Shannon Sullivan and I discussed in episode 8 of the Digital Dialogue entitled Democracy and the Political Unconsious. She is here today to talk further about her book and to explore the transformative possibilities digital media opens for politics.

This year at SPEP, there was an excellent book panel on Noëlle's book in which Shannon Sullivan, of Penn State University and Robyn Marasco, of Hunter College, commented and Noëlle responded. A number of issues that grow out of that conversation frame some of our discussion on this episode of the Digital Dialogue.


Digital Dialogue 18 with Noëlle McAfee: Political Unconscious

Rose Cherubin, Associate Professor of Philosophy at George Mason University, joins me and a special panel of colleagues from the Ancient Philosophy Society for a special SPEP edition of the Digital Dialogue. We gathered together in Arlington, VA to discuss the paper Rose Cherubin gave at the APS panel at SPEP entitled "Parmenides: Another Way."

Rose specializes in Ancient Greek Philosophy, particularly the thinking of Parmenides, and metaphysics. She has published numerous articles in Ancient Greek Philosophy and she is currently working on a book related to the thinking of Parmenides with the working title: Justice, Knowledge and Inquiry. My other two panelists are previous interlocutors on the Digital Dialogue, Sara Brill, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fairfield University, who joined me for Digital Dialogue episode 13 on Psychology and Politics, and Jill Gordan, the Charles A. Dana Professor of Philosophy at Colby College, who joined me for Digital Dialogue episode 9 on Erotic Politics.

Digital Dialogue 17 with Rose Cherubin, Jill Gordon and Sara Brill: Parmenides

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Resources

• Austin, Scott. Parmenides and the History of Dialectic. Las Vegas: Parmenides Publishing, 2007.
  
• Cassin, Barbara. "Who's Afraid of the Sophists? Against Ethical Correctness." Trans. Charles T. Wolfe. Hypatia 15.4 (2000): 102-120. (Available online via JSTOR.)
• Cherubin, Rose. "Legein, Noein, and To Eon in Parmenides."  Ancient Philosophy 21_ (2001): 277-303.
• ________, "Alētheia from Poetry into Philosophy: Homer to Parmenides." In Logos and Muthos, edited by William Wians. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2009.
  
• Hermann, Arnold. To Think Like God. Las Vegas: Parmenides Publishing, 2004.
  
• Miller, Mitchell. "Ambiguity and Transport: Reflections on the Proem to Parmenides' Poem." Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 30 (2006): 1-47.
  
• Robbiano, Chiara. Becoming Being. International Pre-Platonic Studies 5. Sankt Augustin: Academia, 2006.
  
• Tarán, Leonardo. Parmenides. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1965.