Cosmopolitan Currents

Hirbod Human

Cosmopolitan Currents is a curated audio archive of lectures, conversations, and critical reflections on culture in its broad global sense. Crossing disciplinary and geographic boundaries, the podcast brings together voices from philosophy, the arts, humanities, and social thought to explore how culture shapes—and is shaped by—our aesthetic, political, ethical, and embodied lives.Produced and directed by Hirbod Human, Cosmopolitan Currents is a project of The Center for Cosmopolitan Culture, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting intercultural understanding, resisting nationalist chauvinism, and contributing to global harmony through critical and creative cultural engagement. The Center was founded by the renowned phil...

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Cosmopolitan Currents

Episodes (6)

Sep 30, 2025 Contested Territories: A Conversation Between Arthur C. Danto, Thierry de Duve, and Richard Shusterman
Sep 30, 2025 Contested Territories: Richard Shusterman - Art, Experience, and the Everyday
Sep 30, 2025 Contested Territories: Thierry de Duve - Kant After Duchamp

Cosmopolitan Currents

Sep 30, 2025
26 minutes
24 MB

In this final episode of the Contested Territories series, Arthur Danto, Thierry de Duve, and Richard Shusterman engage in a spontaneous and often provocative dialogue that moves beyond formal presentations into direct philosophical exchange. Topics range from Pop Art and religious metaphors in aesthetic theory to institutional critique, embodied meaning, and the politics of aesthetic judgment. The conversation—at times humorous, at times deeply reflective—offers rich insight into each thinker’s position, as well as the points of divergence and unexpected overlaps between them. With references to Kant, Duchamp, Warhol, Rap Mu...

Cosmopolitan Currents

Contested Territories: A Conversation Between Arthur C. Danto, Thierry de Duve, and Richard Shusterman

Hirbod Human

00:00 -25:44