Podcasts by Pan-Optic Podcast
Pan-Optic is a podcast featuring conversations between a critical theorist and a management consultant, cohosts (and longtime friends) Juan Pablo Melo and Jason Margaritis respectively.
They met during a monotonous work assignment at a Washington-based government contractor in 2013. Jason and Juan Pablo sought refuge in daily extended work breaks musing about the limits of knowledge, the organizations of power, the regrets of Thrasymachus, and so on.
Later, Jason received his MA in Government and MBA from Johns Hopkins University. Today, he works as a management consultant specializing in strategic communications and org change. Jason is particularly interested in affecting stakeholder beliefs, behaviors, and culture.
Juan Pablo is a doctoral candidate at Stanford University's Program in Modern Thought and Literature. His research interests span media theory, literature, architecture, art history, urban theory, and science and technology studies.
"We made this podcast to continue exploring the intersections of our respective disciplines, in a way that others might find useful. Pan-Optic relates theories of communication, power, and technology to practical institutional issues, and everyday life."
Become a part of the conversation at www.panopticpod.com.
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#18 - Reinventing Capitalism—Really? Hayek’s Theory of Prices, Technology, and the Yelp Mafia from 2020-10-25T20:10:10
Today, Jason and Juan Pablo discuss political theorist Evgeny Morozov’s article, “Digital Socialism? The Calculation Debate in the Age of Big Data” (NLR, 2019, https://newleftreview.org/issues/II11...
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#17 - Radicalization + Ideology (P3) - Notions of the Good & Strategic Communications from 2020-09-02T12:00:07
Pan-Optic is pleased to present part three of our three-part series on radicalization and ideology. In today’s episode, we address: individuation and socialization; a critique of generalizable inte...
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The Protestant Ethic, Instrumentalizing Everything, and Devotion to Work from 2020-08-11T12:00:22
Today’s episode is Pan-Optic’s first ever "personal case study" response, where we react to listener Sep’s account of working in big tech and grappling with feeling intellectually and morally limit...
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#16 - Radicalization + Ideology (P2) - Values, Discrimination, & Reliably Identifying Ideology from 2020-07-30T02:48:52
Pan-Optic is pleased to present part two of our three-part series on radicalization and ideology. In today’s episode, we address: the moral and legal implications of ideological discrimination; the...
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#15 - Radicalization + Ideology (P1) - How to Recruit Pawns & Influence Behavior from 2020-07-08T12:00:01
Pan-Optic is pleased to present our three-part series on radicalization and ideology. In the knowledge age and especially in the COVID world, institutions are pressured to change the way they opera...
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#14 - Philosophers in Firms P.2 - Information Ethics & Philosophically Grounding Change Management from 2020-06-17T11:50:04
Today’s episode starts off with a 30-minute, ad hoc discussion surrounding the recent murder of George Floyd and the ensuing national campaign against police racism. Please refer to Pan-Optic’s web...
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#13 - Philosophers in Firms P.1 - The Organizational Statement of Ethics & Thought Leadership from 2020-05-27T15:07:04
During Pan-Optic’s two-part series “Philosophers in Firms,” Jason and Juan Pablo investigate the mystery of why Google hired a philosopher and what this individual does. Along the way, we address t...
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#12 - A Prescient Account of Big Data: Democracy and Control from 2020-05-02T18:25:02
Our Foundations Crossover P.3 — In light of the ongoing COVID-19 situation, today’s segment (part three of our three-part crossover with Our Foundations podcast) couldn’t be more apropos. What happ...
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#11 - Communications and Law: Why Did We Outsource War Fighting to Corporations After 9/11? from 2020-04-09T02:14:44
Our Foundations Crossover P.2 — In theory, public discourses should influence law creation in a democracy. But has big advertising undermined the legal objectives of communicative action? After 9/1...
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#10 - Transformation of the Public Sphere from 2020-03-15T00:00
Our Foundations Crossover P.1 — What happens when you arm strategic actors with big data and predictive analytical power? Juan Pablo and Jason are pleased to present Pan-Optic's collaboration with ...
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#9 - A Critical Perspective on Automation in the Growth Economy P.2 from 2020-02-26T02:53:35
Episode 9 is part two of our exploration of Aaron Benanav’s critique of the so-called “automation discourse.” We further probe the hypothesis that system overcapacity caused the collapse of manufac...
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#8 - A Critical Perspective on Automation in the Growth Economy P.1 from 2020-02-06T04:44:47
Episode 8 is part one of our exploration of Aaron Benanav’s critique of the so-called “automation discourse.” But first, let’s recap: in Episode 7, Jason broke down local political discourses on au...
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Rambling Politics New Year 2020 from 2020-01-18T00:00
Welcome to Pan-Optic’s third “Reflections” episode featuring our most reactionary, stream of consciousness rambling yet. Jason and Juan Pablo relate current, salient political headlines to core Pan...
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#7 - Does Automation Kill Jobs? from 2020-01-05T00:00
To kickoff the New Year, Pan-Optic returns to the subject of automation. In today’s episode, Jason and Juan Pablo uncover dominant political discourses surrounding the fall of U.S. manufacturing la...
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Holiday Special 2019 from 2019-12-21T00:00
Happy Holidays Pan-Optic listeners! Welcome to our second "Reflections" episode and first ever Holiday Special. The purpose of today’s episode is to conduct a “pulse-check” of the podcast. We refle...
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#6 - Should We Be Strategic? A Debate. from 2019-12-03T23:27:38
Today’s episode is part three of a three-part series on strategic communication. But unlike part two, today’s episode is through and through philosophy. We come full circle with Habermas who argues...
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#5 - What is Strategic Communication? from 2019-11-13T23:27:22
This is the second episode of a three-part series focusing on strategic communication. In today’s episode, we wrap up our conversation on the Socratic Method as a kind of strategic action in disgui...
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#4 - The Socratic Method, Truth, and Strategy from 2019-10-24T01:11:12
This is the first in a three-part series focusing on strategic communication: what is it, how does it work, what are its strengths and limitations, is it morally defensible, and is it even avoidabl...
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Joker, Scorsese, & Kluge: Should Cinema Serve the Body Politic? from 2019-10-13T19:46:41
Reflections #1. This is the first in a series of more reactionary, topical conversations that Juan Pablo and Jason are doing as part of the development of the Pan-Optic podcast. Today, we discuss p...
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#3 - Artificial Intelligence and the End of Reason from 2019-09-26T02:17:38
In this episode, we briefly trace the history of automation, consider some of the more salient consequences of modern technology, and review philosopher Bernard Stiegler's dystopic critique of mode...
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#2 - Beyond Good and Evil: Trump, Musk, and Power from 2019-09-03T11:42:30
In this episode, we discuss Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, focusing on how one might operationalize Nietzschean master morality in the modern world. We compare the leadership styles of Donald Tr...
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#1 - The Hawthorne Fable from 2019-08-07T02:54:06
In this episode, we discuss the so-called "Hawthorne Studies," a series of studies in 1920s Chicago to examine possible relationships between environmental conditions (e.g., lighting) and labor pro...
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