Episode 4: Is Everything Art?

Dr. Ferguson began this conversation with a working suspicion that fine art is categorically distinct from other kinds of making — and left having argued himself out of it. What unfolds between him and Theo is less a debate than a philosophy seminar: from piston manufacturing to Wonder Pets to the Spider-Verse, the two trace the edges of a definition that keeps giving way. By the end, Ferguson has conceded, with some unease, that if the boundary between art and everything else is socially negotiated, it may not be a boundary at all.