The entire episode is engaged in the question of how to read theory, using Hegel as a jumping off point. We discuss philosophy as a matter of "taste" (beginning around minute 5), the "both/and" responses to binaries (around minute 12), as well as the function of critique (what we term "generous reading" vs. "adversarial reading" - around 32). In addition to Hegel, and beginning around 30 minutes in, we use Karen Barad's work and her reception in the field of rhetoric as a recurring example (that concludes around minute 65). We conclude by looking closely at a passage of Hegel that illustrates some of the dynamics we have been discussing throughout (70-end).
