Filed under: Radio | Tags: Captain Britain, Comic Books, Ethnic Conflict, Ian Paisley, IRA, MI-13, Norman Osborn, Northern Ireland, Politics, Scott Nicolson, Sociopaths, Spiderman, The Green Goblin, Tony Novosel, Torture, UK, Unionists, University of Pittsburgh
Scott, in Avatar Form
University of Pittsburgh offers a class on the politics of Northern Ireland every semester. Tony Novosel teaches it with the intention that it will be the most challenging — and most involving — class the students will ever take.
The veterans of the class — like Scott Nicolson, heard here — leave with an intricate understanding of the Troubles, as well as some insight into the unexpected comic book connections + psychological conditions of the province.
produced for The Politics Show
Filed under: Radio-Video | Tags: Accent, Age, Alcoholism, Art, Belfast, Belfast Wheel, Body, Body Image, Botanic Gardens, Chinese, Drinking, Drunkeness, East Belfast, Education, Family, Feminism, Foreigners, Gender, Generalizations, Hair, Image, Immigration, Independence, Language, Latin Culture, Life, Life Plan, Locals, London, Make-up, Mediterranean Culture, Mockery, Nationalism, Northern Ireland, Perfect Women, QUB, Queen's University Belfast, Relaxation, South Belfast, Spain, Stereotypes, Stress, Students, Superficiality, Teenagers, The Bot, The Eg, The Parlour, Turkmenistan, UK, Ultimate Frisbee, Weather, West Belfast, Women, Work, Working Class
Filed under: Radio-Video | Tags: Alcohol, Arsenal, Belfast, Castle Court, Conformity, Consumerism, Czech Republic, Deeply Divided Societies, Ethnic Minorities, Football, Foreigners, Gentrification, Guyana, Ignorance, India, Mainstream, Manchester United, Northern Ireland, Politics, Racism, Redevelopment, South Belfast Northern Ireland Supporters Club, St. George's Market, Stereotypes, The Arcade, The Troubles, UK
Filed under: Radio, Radio-Video | Tags: Activism, American optimism, Androids, Aristotle, Atheism, Belfast, Britain, Christianity, Conservatives, Creationism, Cults, David Cameron, Debauchery, Democracy, Denmark, Depression, Economists, Education, Egoism, Environmentalism, Epicurius, Eudaimonism, Family, General Well-Being, God, Graeme Watson, Gratitude, Happiness, Hatred of Motherly Virtues, Hedonists, Hippie Lovefest, Humanism, Ibiza, Introversion, Ireland, L. Ron Hubbard, Libertarian Socialism, Lord Richard Laird, Low-grade hedonism, Marriage, Mental Health, Middle Class Lefty Guardian Readers, Narcissism, New age, New Economics Foundation, Northern Ireland, Nutrition, Patriarchy, Pessimism, Philosophy, Physical Education Teachers, Pleasure, Political Theory, Politics, Post-Humans, Prospect Magazine, Public Policy, Queen's University Belfast, Rationalists, Richard Dawkins, Scientology, Secular Society, Social Justice, Social Science, Social Virtues, Socialism, Souls, Sweden, The Enlightenment, Theory of The Good, Tony Blair, Tories, Tragedy, Twee, UK, USA, Utopia, Voting Behavior, Welfare, Well-being, Workplace Democracy
Graeme's Chosen Image of Happiness: Picasso's Joie de Vivre
Episode 27 has Graeme Watson talking about the philosophy of happiness and the politics of well-being. He’s finishing his PhD in political theory at Queen’s, examining different approaches to achieving happiness and how politicians (especially those in the UK) have brought the notion from twee to power.
Graeme discusses the ascendancy of the notion ‘Well-Being’ into a watchword of Tony Blair’s New Labor and David Cameron’s New Tories, as well as predictions that it will be one of the ‘Big Ideas of the 21st Century’. He explains how the personal is being made political and how the consumer industry of happiness is feeding into a new kind of politics — attracting Middle Class Lefty Guardian Readers, among others.
Plus, Graeme offers some visions of our coming post-human future, his low-grade hedonism, some secrets to happiness, and his planned cult.
