The Eminem and Dr. Dre of ToK podcasting return with an examination of another Theory of Knowledge essay question. 

Some areas we cover you may like to know more about:

Banana on a wall:
https://www.gq.com/story/suddenly-the-koons-is-this-100k-banana

1619 Project
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html 

Herodotus, the 'father of history'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A542ixwyBhc&ab_channel=TED-Ed 

Enjoy

After two years, the ToK dynamic duo are back, baby! 

Do we need custodians of knowledge? 

We have a wide ranging general discussion of the question, focusing on a few AoKs that may connect to it. We get into a few examples that caught our eye. 

Some links you might find useful:

Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Imagined-Communities-Reflections-on-the-Origins-and-Spread-of-Nationalism

Duchamp's Fountain:
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/duchamp-fountain-t07573

Public Broadcasting: Its past and its future
https://knightfoundation.org/public-media-white-paper-2017-gardner/

Enjoy - and as always, reach out to us:

info@tbdpodcast.org 

Can there be knowledge that is independent of culture?

Good question - We have a go at answering it.

We get stuck in to the Voyager spacecraft, music and octaves across cultures, Denis Dutton's The Art Instinct.

Get in touch:

Email: info@tbdpodcast.org 

Twitter: @tbdpod1 

Some links you might find useful:

Denis Dutton's The Art Instinct:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5788390-the-art-instinct

The Voyager Golden Record
https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/golden-record/

Music Across Cultures
https://www.oh-i-see.com/blog/2013/11/24/culture-smart-the-musical-scale-across-cultures/
https://news.mit.edu/2019/perception-musical-pitch-cultures-0919