PBS Idea Channel - 2017-08-16
Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/donateidea Finale, Pt 1 of 3 The Idea Channel farewell office hours will be on September 8th from 6 to 8pm at Caveat in NYC. RSVPs (required) will open on August 18th around 2pm ET. It is an all ages event; there will be alcohol present. Is Mario A Surrealist Masterpiece comment responses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHCUwFfbhw4 Tweet of the week: https://twitter.com/slinkmcloish/status/897717530650959874 — SOCIAL MEDIA — Find Mike at http://www.twitter.com/mikerugnetta http://www.instagram.com/mikerugnetta http://www.youtube.com/rheumatictangle Find Mike’s Podcast Reasonably Sound at http://www.twitter.com/reasonablysnd http://www.instagram.com/reasonablysnd http://www.soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound and anywhere you listen to podcasts Find IC at http://www.twitter.com/pbsideachannel http://www.reddit.com/r/pbsideachannel http://www.facebook.com/pbsideachannel #pbsideachannel on freenode -- SOURCES -- http://footnotes.pbsideachannel.com/book-a-thousand-plateaus-by-gilles-deleuze-and-felix-guattari/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Written and hosted by Mike Rugnetta Made by Kornhaber Brown (http://www.kornhaberbrown.com)
I started watching Idea Channel and I wish I got on board a little earlier. Time to go back and watch all the old stuff and not really participate in the community...
Sadly same.
Ive been around since early and have hardly participated. We both have our regrets. He isnt disappearing from online though, dont know what yet but hes kinda hinted at other things he has in mind after his vacation. Edit: Just want to be clear that it isnt going to be on this channel.
It took me five years to say this... Thank you. Thank you for making these great videos.
I'm about to start my senior year of university, and over the course of my time as a student, I've become increasingly aware of the elitism of ideas especially within academic circles. It certainly does not apply to every student or professor, but I've found that there are people who only want to consider ideas that come from a certain kind of source. If you happen to be as queer as I am, it's imperative to remain calm and clear as crystal in order to avoid some people's intellectual dismissal. I guess my point is that one of the things I love about Idea Channel is that anybody can comment and have their perspective valued even if they do not fit into the classic vision of a thinker. I can bring my queerness explicitly to my comment or leave it out, but I never need to hide it. I've felt continuously accepted as a viewer and as a commentator. In every episode, Idea Channel has embodied the decentralizing of the 'idea market' which I value so much. Thank you for being my favorite thing on the entire internet (that's not an exaggeration) for the past few years since I found this channel.
What do I think? "Just do it!" "Don't let your dreams be dreams", etc.
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BUT WHAT IS MORE UNEXPECTED THAN A POTATO, MIKE?!?!?!? :P
NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!
I still remember fondly the chapter of Sideways Stories from Wayside School where one of the kids was going to get a tattoo, and he ended up getting a tattoo of a potato.
And all the other kids had things to say about how he should've gotten this or that other tattoo, it would've been better or cooler, but he was just like "But I wanted a tattoo of a potato."
Now that is a kid to emulate ^_^ knows what he wants and doesn't let peer pressure decide for him, or social criticism make him doubt his own sense of style.
I would've said no potatoes.
Asparagus. Nobody expects asparagus.
Doughboy Devito That guy doing a wheelie on a camel for me.
We're never going to have the "Is skateboarding actually a kind of ballet?" episode.
I love the philosophy of A Thousand Plateaus! Everything is connected. Every idea is connected. No subject is an island. Science is processed through math, expressed through language/communication, impactful on and impacted by history, and its usage and pursuit is governed by philosophy.
Next episode: What are Channels, and who gets to have them?
In the ashes of the Idea Channel;
We think, we become the new idea.
"Don't have just ideas, just have ideas." What a beautiful idea to work from.
Mike, your work has definitely been inspiring, and sparked many conversations about ideas. In my own life I find the phrase "Here's an Idea" creeping into my everyday speech, often preceding an absurd but curious thought.
I was wondering if your philosophy of "nomadic thought" has anything to do with the onslaught of Zhaifs and references accompanying you in upper right corner of the screen. What thought goes into those?
Cheers, good luck, and thanks for everything.
What I'm gonna miss most are the GIFs (not GIFs). I've never seen a channel with a so perfect selection. Whoever selects them deserves a medal.
I'm going to cry when this is over.
Why is Idea Channel ending?! I'm out of the loop.
Basically, he said that Idea Channel was made in 2012 to solve "2012 problems", so to speak. 2017 is a different landscape and he wants do find something else, I guess. (I'm not wording this all that well, so don't quote me on any of this) They put out a video a month ago (entitled 'Idea Channel is Ending') announcing/explaining what's going on.
He also got married lol
Will they delete the channel or its videos?
Mau Nope. Don't know why you might think that, but no. That would be silly.
what? he's quitting? i just got used to it ! dramaqueen! (i'm 41yo german)
"Who knows where thoughts come from? They just appear." ~Lucas
Why am I crying I just want more idea channel but I want to see where mike will go😢😢😢
I'm going to miss this so much
I'm gonna miss this channel :(
I like the idea of having ideas and then deciding whether they're right.. it's like every essay I've ever written
"Be the Idea Channel you wish to see in the world."
-Mike, 2017
I added this video to my playlist: "Ideas". I made this playlist after the Idea Channel video "Hell is Quoting Other People". It's mostly been just Idea Channel and Extra Credits videos, but it's fun to look back on from time to time to see what ideas are worth keeping for my future self.
It's a very long playlist.
Brock McKelvey It might be worth adding PhilosophyTube and Folding Ideas to that!
It's such a good idea for a finale!
I find that one of the most interesting parts of the parallels is where they break down!
The only thought that came to my mind, as the episode ended was "I love you guys, really. You've really brought joy into my life for the past 3 or 4 years !"
(and I also thought about the familiarity I have now with Deleuze, or Bourdieu, or even other french authors that I didn't knew well even though I'm french, so thanks for that, been reading them, wonderful addition to my view of our world)
I fear being wrong. I lose my repuatation of being a good idea person once I'm wrong. Once I'm wrong, people move on to the next thinker. And high achievers, especially in school, are known for fearing being wrong, and I feel like it is because of these expectations. Let's build communities where we don't attach ideas to the names that gave them. Where we don't pass the judgement on the idea onto the person. Where we don't take offense when we are wrong.
This comment deserves more likes.
I'm going to be in New York that week! Also, I kind of wish this was more what VidCon panels were like, the structured thought of how to run a channel. Not just how to get more view but how to have and execute a mission for a community.
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I will be there too. Would love to have this conversation.
It make me sad that I missed all of this. 8 months later and I'm finding out this show is over
I knew it! I effin knew you were deleuzian! Somehow, these five years seem worth now :)
I forgot about this channel because youtube decided I wasn't watching enough, one of your videos popped up in a conversation with a friend and I find out the channel is done. Sad day.
So, if one uses an idea before it has been cemented in their thought, they have a better chance of improving that idea.
More so if that idea is shared in a space where it can be constructively criticized.
This episode was very meta.
Nice video!
I would simply like to add that the idea of Nomadism proposed by Deleuze and Guattari is a re-formulation of what Borges (40 years earlier) proposes in the already known by this channel "Pierre Menard, author of Don Quixote ": to read productively, to remove the texts of the stagnant place that they have in the culture and make them own in search of something new.
I leave only two quotations of Borges short story:
"Menard (perhaps unwittingly) has enriched by a new technique the arrested and rudimentary art of reading: the technique of deliberate anachronism and erroneous attributions.This technique of infinite application urges us to traverse the Odyssey as if it were later than the Aeneid and the Book Le jardin du Centaure by Madame Henri Bachelier as if it were Madame Henri Bachelier.This technique adds adventure to the most calm books.
And, better, and this seems to be drawn from A Thousand Plateaus:
"Thinking, analyzing, inventing (...) are not anomalous acts, they are the normal breathing of intelligence. Glorifying the occasional fulfillment of this function, treasuring old and strange thoughts, remembering with incredulous stupor that the doctor universalis thought, is confessing our languor or our barbarism. Every man must be capable of all ideas and understand that in the future it will be."
Thank you for these years of such beautiful content. We will miss you.
yo never said what was on the bookshelf. in the last video you said it was in the description but it wasn't.
It got added a day late, but its there now! Also here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/26304157-mike-rugnetta?shelf=books-on-the-idea-channel-set
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25636085-architecture
This was missing from the list. :) Happily hunted it down, though.
I was wondering, are there any channels you recommend to "replace" Idea Channel?
It's strange yet satisfying to think about ideas in this way. I know I have ideas and I know I evaluate them but I don't know how frequently, actively or to what end they are influenced by other thinkers but I know they happen. That all said I know this show has definitely changed the way I think. I wonder if that's the case with others in this community. I imagine so but still think it would be cool to hear from others and also if it changed how Mike thinks and works with ideas as well.
These last videos make me simultaneously excited and sad. Thank you for all your work and for inspiring us to have ideas.
I don't know if I'm ready for this to end.
Thank you for doing Idea Channel for so many years. I only discovered it a couple of months ago, and I have watched nearly every video already. A couple weeks after I subscribed, I was sad to see the video about Idea Channel ending.
Never clicked on a video so quick in my life
As much as I love the sentiment of "these videos have given you the framework to go and have ideas for ever and ever as long as the channel exists", in practice, it falls a little flat to me. You talked about how the dialogue and conversation is as much a part of the channel as the ideas themselves, except that conversation is limited. The conversation is limited to the comment response videos, which draw from the comments available quickly enough after the video was posted. But the comments continue, and will continue. I guess what i'm trying to say is: can a dialogue/conversation just be person B responding to person A, without person A responding back? Is leaving a detailed and insightful comment on an old idea channel video (whose official comment response has come and gone) akin to shouting into the void? #NoticeMeSenpai LOL.
As you might be able to guess, I have had this thought many times while going through old idea channel videos, and would love your thoughts on the question.
inspiring... going to miss this channel. Though, on and up!!!!
Oh, man! This was so good!
Meta :-). Top quality video-in-video clips - best you've done I think.
4:42 Where is that from? It looks hilarious :D
When Idea Channel goes, I'm going to struggle without regularly hearing Mike say "Content" in his pirate voice.
1:18 "All subjects of mental activity, all things that you think with or about, are ideas."
I think, therefore idea.
Fits perfectly with the picture of Descartes. I'm kinda surprised it wasn't a speech bubble.
Everyone can make complex ideas, but not everyone does. Some don't take the opportunity. Thank you for providing such an opportunity for those who may not have had one otherwise.
I am so sad to see this channel reach its end. I think this has been one of the very best things on the internet. You've provided deep and meaningful but still light hearted insight for so many topics from the grand to the very mundane. Never above a cheap laugh, and yet a source of wisdom anyway.
Thanks so much for all the thought and effort over the years. A genuine force for good in a maddening world.
Here's an idea, film the last finale part from the very first set.
That would involve breaking into someone's home! Our very first set was the corner of a room in an office building that has since been turned into condos. Will you post our bail? :)
Anyone else feel like the gifs and animations person was just going ham in this episode?
Yeah at 2:41, he lists religion and the TARDIS shows up 😂
Step Back History - 2017-08-16
Here's an idea idea
davyinatoga - 2017-08-16
What's the most impactful word in Public Broadcast Service Idea Channel's name?
EDIT: All of them, or none of them?
Step Back History - 2017-08-17
A farewell funnelcake
Fresh Pot - 2017-08-25
Here's an idea what if Idea Channel never actually existed and it is in fact a fantasy created in the minds of several pop culture nerds who are so neck deep in it that they have mentally constructed a YouTube show about over analyzing pop culture, and therefore Mike himself is actually an alter analytical personality that millions of users on YouTube have made up.
Step Back History - 2017-08-25
The problem is that I met him once,... HOW DEEP DOES THIS GO?!?!?
weatheranddarkness - 2017-09-17
It's Mikes all the way down