pa-relevant.: Recent Episodes
Angela Esmeralda
Pa-relevant is a Filipino coined term meaning to be relevant. "Pa-relevant" can connote seeking for relevance both literally (figuring out things with reason) or figuratively (suggesting sarcasm).
Pa-relevant episodes aim to explain (up to certain extent) some things that I have observed.
Pa-relevant episodes are based on empirical arguments thus at some point will be inadequate and/or insufficient.
I do not wish to be derogatory.
Updates will be maybe once a day. It depends. Pa-relevant.
This episode start the Season 2 of the Pa-relevant Podcast.
This focuses on how I think that our society are always at risk. Echoing the theory of Ulrich Beck, let's see how this can also be present in the mundane lives of people.
This podcast aims to explain the using Michel Foucault's theory of "What is an Author?" in understanding art. The podcast gives few points on how one artist may be considered as a system. ideological figure that may vary from one to another. This also gives few stances on what can be an artist's purpose in creating his/her art.
This podcast aims to explain few among the many facets that have to be explored in the issue of Academic Freeze. This podcast gives more of the speakers view rather than theorizing events and circumstances.
This podcast aims to give a short commentary on how people's belief are cultivated by the society's structure, events, practices, and people. This uses the context of Pierre Bourdieu's Habitus in explaining mundane and simple events that we either recognize or otherwise.
This podcast aims to explain the idea of Third Space by Homi Bhabha and its application to real and mundane events.
People are representatives of their cultures, beliefs, ideologies etc. When people meet with each other, they are bound to create a space where new meaning and representation take place. It is important that each culture acknowledge that other culture exists and that all cultures and beliefs must and will always co-exist.
This podcast aims to explain that views, beliefs, and actions of people that are different from each other are based on “signification”. Signification that are based on reason, experiences, and influences.
To avoid being vexed by cultural and individual differences, we need to acknowledge that our beliefs and opinions co-exists and/or must find a common ground and a space for understanding.
*Semiotic Behavior by Yurij Lotman and Boris Uspensky
This episode relates the idea of modern dating to the idea of "market". This uses the context of which we can better understand the ideals of dating using the context of objects, commodification, value, competition etc.
This podcast discusses how it is like to be online.
The aim of this podcast is to look at what are the things that we should look into as we go about online teaching.
If you have co-workers that are willing to help you, thank them - a lot.
So this episode talks about something that is relevant nowadays, the quarantine. I have mentioned a little about Michel Focault's Docile body and David Harvey's creative destruction.
See the beauty of mankind's ability to adapt to changes and to continuously survive.
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This episode explains the podcast title/name "pa-relevant".
I'm not really good with narrating events so pardon because I know I did not give justice to retelling some stories and experiences but nonetheless I hope I have managed to explain properly what's the story behind my podcast.
I dedicate this Episode to my friends, Kim and Allana.
So, this episode was made right after I signed up. No preparations made, only the will to record myself. I did this to keep and preserve the thoughts I have prior to my other episodes.