In this conversation, recorded on March 16, 2024, which is a follow-up to my previous podcast, philosopher Gloria Origgi elaborates the ideas in her book, Reputation: What it is and Why it Matters. In Part 1, I played her lecture on that subject from the Night of Philosophy 2019. Here we discuss the ideas and specific cases since that time in which reputation impacts our global lives.

Gloria Origgi is an Italian philosopher and social scientist based in Paris at the Institut Nicod, Ecole Normale Supérieure. In her research work, she tries to understand the impact of social relations and institutions on knowledge processes. She has worked extensively on the evaluation of knowledge and science. She has been a member of two advisory boards at the European Commission in Brussels (Future and Emerging Technologies and Gender) whose aim is to design the new Research Framework Program after Horizon 2020.

She has taught in France, Italy, Brazil, and is regularly invited in many institutions in United States, UK and Germany. In 2005 and 2013 she was Visiting Fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University. She also works on ethics of science, the epistemology of gender and its applications to social cognition. She was an invited Professor in Germany (University of Bielefeld - Center of Excellence for Cognitive Interaction) and in Munich in 2021.

In addition to La réputation, qui dit quoi de qui (Presses Universitaires de France, 2015) and its translation, Reputation: What it is and Why it Matters? (Princeton University Press, 2018); in 2019 she published a Dictionary of Social Passions (PUF) which gathers more than 140 colleagues from French universities and international institutions to understand the role of passions in human motivation. Her last book, La vérité est une question politique (Albin Michel) was published in 2024. Since 2016, she has participated in a new joint EHESS-Columbia University-Dakar University project on the Epistemologies of the South. She is also involved in research on Epistemic Democracy. Her research work has been covered by many newspapers and media such as The Financial Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, BBC, France Culture.

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In 2019, I was invited to participate in the Night of the Philosophy at the New School for Social Research to record and then make art with the various lectures I attended from 7pm-7am. I posted some of these already, but since that night, one lecture I never got to always stuck with me. It’s on Reputation by Gloria Origgi, a philosopher who works in the interdisciplinary fields of social epistemology and experimental philosophy. In these five years since that midnight event, reputation as a philosophical, social, and political subject has only grown in relevance to our lives. Here I play the lecture from 2019. In Part 2, I have a conversation with Gloria where she elaborates on the ideas she introduces and from her book, Reputation: What it is and Why it Matters. We discuss pertinent ways and specific cases of how reputation manifests in our global lives.

Gloria Origgi is an Italian philosopher and social scientist based in Paris at the Institut Nicod, Ecole Normale Supérieure. In her research work, she tries to understand the impact of social relations and institutions on knowledge processes. She has worked extensively on the evaluation of knowledge and science. She has been a member of two advisory boards at the European Commission in Brussels (Future and Emerging Technologies and Gender) whose aim is to design the new Research Framework Program after Horizon 2020.

She has taught in France, Italy, Brazil, and is regularly invited in many institutions in United States, UK and Germany. In 2005 and 2013 she was Visiting Fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University. She also works on ethics of science, the epistemology of gender and its applications to social cognition. She was an invited Professor in Germany (University of Bielefeld - Center of Excellence for Cognitive Interaction) and in Munich in 2021.

In addition to La réputation, qui dit quoi de qui (Presses Universitaires de France, 2015) and its translation, Reputation: What it is and Why it Matters? (Princeton University Press, 2018); in 2019 she published a Dictionary of Social Passions (PUF) which gathers more than 140 colleagues from French universities and international institutions to understand the role of passions in human motivation. Her last book, La vérité est une question politique (Albin Michel) was published in 2024. Since 2016, she has participated in a new joint EHESS-Columbia University-Dakar University project on the Epistemologies of the South. She is also involved in research on Epistemic Democracy. Her research work has been covered by many newspapers and media such as The Financial Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, BBC, France Culture.

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In this conversation, I speak with Brussels-based artist Erwan Mahéo. The conversation took place on May 25, 2023, as we were setting up a project in and around La Sirene de Belle-ile in France.

Erwan Mahéo's art practice moves freely between the categories of sculpture, painting, video, photography, collage, ceramics, and textiles but finds its home in eclectic mixes of genre-fluid forms, ideas, and expressions. In 2023 Bruxelles: La Lettre volèe published a monograph of his work titled Histoires et Gèographies. And in the past decade his work has shifted into comprehensive projects that create spaces where things can happen, inviting artists to create work in deeply entrenched historical and geographic sites.

You can explore his work on Instagram @erwan_maheo

Erwan's work has been presented in various institutions : La Grandeur Inconnue, Domaine de Kerguéhennec (F.1993) ; Laboratorium, Antwerpen Open (1999) ; Nameless Swirls, an Unfolding in Presence, Van Abbemuseum (Nl. 2003) ; Mathématiques, Fri-Art, Fribourg (Ch. 2004) ; Track, Gent (2012) ; Novelty Ltd. Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, La Verrière, Brussels (2017) and in galleries : Unknown Places, Tim Van Laere gallery, Antwerp (2005) ; Dispersion, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels (2008) ; La Grande Image, Galerie Vidal Cuglietta, Brussels (2011), among many others.

He is on the faculty at La Cambre School of Visual Art in Brussels where he heads the Department of Urban Space.

Between 2003 and 2012 he founded and directed an Artist in Residence program called Le Centre du Monde on the island of Belle-ile-en-Mer (F). The collection which grew from this project was given to the FRAC Bretagne in 2014. The book Le Centre du Monde (Description of an invisible sculpture) was published on this occasion. Between 2013 and 2019 he co-founded and co-directed the editorial project Herman Byrd (with Sébastien Reuzé). In 2023 he founded the project La Sirene de Belle-Ile.

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