{"podcast":{"title":"The Podcast for Social Research","slug":"the-podcast-for-social-research-1078639","podcast_index_feed_id":1078639,"rss_url":"https://thebrooklyninstitute.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://thebrooklyninstitute.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/1/b/0/8/1b08a8952871520588c4a68c3ddbc4f2/5947113344_copy_4.jpg","author":"Brooklyn Institute for Social Research","episode_count":100,"summary":"From Plato to quantum physics, Walter Benjamin to experimental poetry, Frantz Fanon to the history of political radicalism, The Podcast for Social Research is a crucial part of our mission to forge new, organic paths for intellectual work in the twenty-first century: an ongoing, interdisciplinary series featuring members of the Institute, and occasional guests, conversing about a wide variety of intellectual issues, some perennial, some newly pressing. Each episode centers on a different topic and is accompanied by a bibliography of annotations and citations that encourages further curiosity and underscores the conversation's place in a larger web of cultural conversations.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-04T04:20:23.099438+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-podcast-for-social-research-1078639"},"episode":{"title":"Podcast for Social Research, Episode 94.5: B.F. Skinner Plays Himself — a Brief Film Guide","slug":"podcast-for-social-research-episode-94-5-b-f-skinner-plays-himself-a-brief-film-guide","published_at":"2026-04-03T16:04:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-podcast-for-social-research-1078639/podcast-for-social-research-episode-94-5-b-f-skinner-plays-himself-a-brief-film-guide","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-podcast-for-social-research-1078639","url":"https://thebrooklyninstitute.libsyn.com/podcast-for-social-research-episode-945-bf-skinner-plays-himself-a-brief-film-guide","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thebrooklyninstitute/BFSkinner_BISR_040226_Fix.mp3?dest-id=85319","summary":"In this shortcast edition of the Podcast for Social Research, recorded live as part of BISR's Occasional Evenings event series, BISR's Isi Litke and Rebecca Ariel Porte talk with documentarian Ted Kennedy about his film, B.F. Skinner Plays Himself , composed of found footage from a never-released educational film about the famed radical behaviorist. The conversation covers the political contexts for radical behaviorism, its legacies and missed opportunities, and the behaviorist resistance to psychoanalytic perspectives. The three also consider documentary aesthetics, working with found footage, and what studying Skinner as a documentary subject can teach us about the condi tions that produce new behaviors. This episode was produced by Ryan Lentini. Learn more about upcoming courses on our website . Follow Brooklyn Institute for Social Research on Twitter / Facebook / Instagram / Bluesky .","meta_description":"In this shortcast edition of the Podcast for Social Research, recorded live as part of BISR's Occasional Evenings event series, BISR's Isi Litke and Rebec…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2862,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-podcast-for-social-research-1078639/episodes/podcast-for-social-research-episode-94-5-b-f-skinner-plays-himself-a-brief-film-guide/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-podcast-for-social-research-1078639/podcast-for-social-research-episode-94-5-b-f-skinner-plays-himself-a-brief-film-guide.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}