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David Guignion
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Urgent Futures with Jesse Damiani
David Guignion: The History of Conspiracy Theories, Making Philosophy Accessible to the Public, Activism, & More | #43
Conspiracy theories are all over the place, but...what are they, exactly? How do they work and what's their history? Who is susceptible to them? What do they tell us about the human condition?These are just a few of the questions that today's guest, David Guignion, examines in his research. He's also the founder of the popular Theory & Philosophy channel and podcast, so he knows a thing or two about making complex ideas accessible to the public.Support the show by checking out: ZBiotics (Decrease impact of hangovers. Code: JESSEDAMIANI for 10% off), MUD\WTR (43...
2025-02-26
2h 24
Theory & Philosophy
David Ricardo's "The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation" (Part 3/3)
In this episode, I continue on the political economy train with the final episode on David Ricardo's "The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation." If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy Twitter: @DavidGuignion IG: @theory_and_philosophy
2021-07-24
35 min
Theory & Philosophy
David Ricardo's "The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation" (Part 2/3)
In this episode, I continue on the political economy train with the second of three episodes on David Ricardo's "The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation." If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy Twitter: @DavidGuignion IG: @theory_and_philosophy
2021-07-17
38 min
Theory & Philosophy
David Ricardo's "The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation" (Part 1/3)
In this episode, I continue on the political economy train with the first of three episodes on David Ricardo's "The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation." If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy Twitter: @DavidGuignion IG: @theory_and_philosophy
2021-07-10
46 min
Theory & Philosophy
"Power in Modernity:" A Conversation with Dr. Isaac Ariail Reed
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I'm joined by Dr. Isaac Ariail Reed, Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, to discuss his most recent book, Power in Modernity: Agency Relations and the Creative Destruction of the King’s Two Bodies. Here are some links to Dr. Reed's work: Power in Modernity: Agency relations and the creative destruction of the King’s two bodies https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo48408506.html Int...
2020-08-29
1h 38
Theory & Philosophy
Saadat Hasan Manto & India/Pakistan Partition
In this episode, I'm joined by Deeplina, doctoral student in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at the University of Western Ontario to discuss the work of Saadat Hasan Manto and its connection with the India/Pakistan Partition. You can find Deeplina and her work here: http://thedialoguemedia.com/analysis/remembering-the-faceless-heroines-of-bangladesh-liberation-war/?fbclid=IwAR3fVkps72GL8l6Mh1bEvdmo45l5rLgrb3DSP6lMGeTL1H29ARJocA-Z9MM https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/2019/01/15/rohingya-womanhood-why-were-so-many-women-sexually-abused-and-assaulted-when-they-were-driven-out-of-rakhine/?fbclid=IwAR2J7oqIQMVhNQqGyPgn5ArnUSa4b7s9OwgQrxs6p9bz6gy0lTfUvBoDGb0 https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3...
2020-08-22
1h 09
Theory & Philosophy
Panopticon | Michel Foucault | Keyword
In this episode, I present Michel Foucault's theory of the Panopticon. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy
2020-08-19
14 min
Theory & Philosophy
Immanuel Kant's "Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals"
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Paypal: paypal.me/theoryphilosophy Insta: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I present "Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals," a necessary read to comprehend the movement that Kant makes from the Critique of Pure Reason to the Critique of Practical Reason.
2020-08-15
1h 00
Theory & Philosophy
Transcendental Idealism | Immanuel Kant | Keyword
In this episode, I present Immanuel Kant's idea of Transcendental Idealism. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy
2020-08-13
18 min
Theory & Philosophy
Gayatri Spivak's "Can the Subaltern Speak"
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy Consider donating here if you can: https://blacklivesmatter.com/ In this episode, I turn my attention to Gayatri Spivak's "Can the Subaltern Speak," a seminal text in the field of post-colonial studies. Spivak argues that between patriarchal and imperial forces, subaltern people--women, specifically--are denied the capacity to speak.
2020-08-08
49 min
Theory & Philosophy
Body Without Organs | Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari | Keyword
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy In this keyword episode, I present Deleuze and Guattari's "Body Without Organs," a term as slippery as the thing it describes. Here are the links for all my Deleuze and Guattari videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWp2B7872lffAbUVVSc12SEr3e2X9gwXw https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWp2B7872lfdcC0tQO_e8Wvdi-zt8V230
2020-08-04
25 min
Theory & Philosophy
Gilles Deleuze’s “Cinema 2: The Time-Image” (Part 3/3)
In this 3 part series, I'm joined by Christina Elle Burke, PhD candidate in Theory & Criticism, once again to demystify this extremely complicated text. Follow Christina on Twitter: @thotandcinema and Instagram: @celloburke and medium: https://medium.com/@christinaelleburke and here's a link to her thesis: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/4741/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy
2020-08-01
1h 06
Theory & Philosophy
Gilles Deleuze's "Cinema 2: The Time-Image" (Part 2/3)
Hi everyone! If any of you listened to my episodes on Deleuze's "Cinema" books, you'd know that I would have had no hope of ever presenting them without the help of my friend, Christina. In the coming weeks she will be getting Facial Feminization Surgery at the Visage clinic in Toronto, Ontario. As some of you may know, the cost for FFS is inordinate and so she has set up a gofudme to try and mitigate the overwhelming cost. If any of you have a little extra money, please consider donating. If would mean a lot to her, and...
2020-07-25
50 min
Theory & Philosophy
Gilles Deleuze's "Cinema 2: The Time-Image" (Part 1/3)
Hi everyone! If any of you listened to my episodes on Deleuze's "Cinema" books, you'd know that I would have had no hope of ever presenting them without the help of my friend, Christina. In the coming weeks she will be getting Facial Feminization Surgery at the Visage clinic in Toronto, Ontario. As some of you may know, the cost for FFS is inordinate and so she has set up a gofudme to try and mitigate the overwhelming cost. If any of you have a little extra money, please consider donating. If would mean a lot to her, and...
2020-07-18
49 min
Theory & Philosophy
Simulacrum | Keyword | Jean Baudrillard
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Paypal: paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy Sorry about the cut-off at the beginning. Just mentioned where you can find me at instagram and how to support me on patreon. In this first keyword episode, I try and explain Jean Baudrillard's theory of the simulacrum.
2020-07-15
31 min
Theory & Philosophy
Sara Ahmed's "The Cultural Politics of Emotion" (Part 2/2)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Paypal: paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy Donate here if you can: https://blacklivesmatter.com/ In this episode, I conclude my presentation of Sara Ahmed's "The Cultural Politics of Emotion" focusing specifically on her attendance to the work to be done by feminism. Timestamps: Ch. 3: The Affective Politics of Fear (Beginning) Ch. 4: The Performativity of Disgust (12:40) Ch.5: Shame Before Others (23:00) Ch. 6: In the Name of Love (28:55) Ch. 7: Queer Feelings (38:40) Ch. 8: Feminist Attachments (49:43) Conclusion: Just Emotions (55:00)
2020-07-11
57 min
Theory & Philosophy
Sara Ahmed's "The Cultural Politics of Emotion" (Part 1/2)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Paypal: paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy Donate here if you can: https://blacklivesmatter.com/ In this episode, I present Sara Ahmed's "The Cultural Politics of Emotion," a very important text that explores the role of 'othering' in constituting national subjects. Timestamps: Introduction: Feel Your Way (Beginning) Ch.1: The contingency of Pain (21:50) Ch. 2: The Organisation of Hate (38:33)
2020-07-04
48 min
Theory & Philosophy
Introduction to Theory & Philosophy
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Paypal: paypal.me/theoryphilosophy ID: @theory_and_philosophy Here I just let everyone know what this podcast is all about!
2020-06-27
01 min
Theory & Philosophy
Walter Benjamin's "Critique of Violence"
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy Intro song: Danosongs-Sky Seeds - Trance Mix Consider donating here if you can: https://blacklivesmatter.com/ In this episode, I present Benjamin's approach to a critique of violence. To do this, he opposes Divine violence to Mythic violence, violence that manifests itself in the form of law as we know it.
2020-06-27
31 min
Theory & Philosophy
Herbert Marcuse's "Repressive Tolerance"
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy Intro song: Danosongs-Sky Seeds - Trance Mix Consider donating here if you can: https://blacklivesmatter.com/ In this episode, I present Marcuse's concern about tolerance in its maintaining the present oppressive structures of our world.
2020-06-20
20 min
Theory & Philosophy
Mao Zedong's "Dialectical Materialism"
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Podbean: https://theoretician.podbean.com/ paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy Intro song: Danosongs-Sky Seeds - Trance Mix In this brief episode, I present Mao's views of dialectical materialism.
2020-06-13
14 min
Theory & Philosophy
Byung-Chul Han's "Topology of Violence"
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Paypal: paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I present Byung-Chul Han's "The Topology of Violence" where he argues that our present "achievement-society" is burdened by excess positivity that contributes to our present collective and individual existential crises.
2020-06-06
1h 00
Theory & Philosophy
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles' "The Communist Manifesto"
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Paypal: paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I present the seminal "Communist Manifesto." Here Marx and Engels establish both the necessity of the worker's revolution and how we can avoid being led astray by reactionary and conservative perspectives.
2020-05-30
49 min
Theory & Philosophy
Mark Fisher's "Capitalist Realism"
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Paypal: paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I present Mark Fisher's "Capitalist Realism." Here, Fisher argues that we are immersed in a totalizing logic of capitalist exploitation that convinces us that it is the only economic, political, and social option.
2020-05-23
59 min
Theory & Philosophy
René Descartes' "Meditations on First Philosophy"
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy Paypal: paypal.me/theoryphilosophy In this episode, I turn my attention to Descartes' "Meditations on First Philosophy" where he lays out his process of 'doubting' the world to arrive at the only thing left to exist--the thinking mind.
2020-05-16
44 min
Theory & Philosophy
Kelly Oliver's "Witnessing: Beyond Recognition" (Part 2/2)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy In this episode, I continue my presentation of Kelly Oliver's "Witnessing: Beyond Recognition" where she considers race and the oppression of other minority groups in her proposed alternative--witnessing--to recognition. Timestamps: Ch. 5: False Witnesses (Beginning) Ch. 6: History, Transformation, and Vigilance (8:40) Ch. 7: Seeing Race (16:46) Ch. 8: Vision and Recognition (20:17) Ch. 9: Toward a New Vision (24:10) Conclusion: Witnessing the Power of Love (30:02).
2020-05-09
32 min
Theory & Philosophy
Kelly Oliver's "Witnessing: Beyond Recognition" (Part 1/2)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy In this episode, I begin my presentation of Kelly Oliver's "Witnessing: Beyond Recognition." In this book she tries to conceptualize an anti-oppressive political strategy that is not predicated upon difference, but that is focused on the similarities that bind people. I'm joined by Helene Bigras-Dutrisac to impart her expertise of chapter 4! Timestamps: Introduction: Beyond Recognition (Beginning) Ch. 1: Domination, Multiculturalism, and the Pathology of Recognition (21:15) Ch.2 : Identity Politics, Deconstruction, and Recognition (28:45) Ch. 3: Identity as Subordination, Abjection and Exclusion (37:36) Ch. 4: The Nece...
2020-05-02
56 min
Theory & Philosophy
Theodor Adorno's "The Culture Industry" (Part 2/2)
Podbean: https://theoretician.podbean.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy Paypal: paypal.me/theoryphilosophy In this episode, I continue and finish my presentation of Theodor Adorno's "The Culture Industry." Some of the key takeaways from this half include Adorno's appropriation of Freud's theories to understand the rise of Fascism; Adorno's critique of Benjamin; and Adorno's faith in theory as a form of praxis. Timestamps: Ch. 4: Culture & Administration (Beginning) Ch. 5: Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda (14:30) Ch. 6: How to Look at Television (29:30) Ch. 7: Transparencies on Film (36:20) Ch.8: Free Time (42: 09) Ch. 9: Resignation (46:41)
2020-04-25
50 min
Theory & Philosophy
Theodor Adorno's "The Culture Industry" (Part 1/2)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Podbean: https://theoretician.podbean.com/ Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy Paypal: paypal.me/theoryphilosophy In this episode, I present the first three chapter of Theodor Adorno's "The Culture Industry." Adorno levels a strong critique against mass culture here, highlighting the effects of alienation under advanced industrial capitalism Timestamps: Ch. 3: The Culture Industry Reconsidered (Beginning) Ch. 1: On the Fetish Character in Music and the Regression of Listening (11:50) Ch 2: The Schema of Mass Culture (26:41)
2020-04-18
46 min
Theory & Philosophy
Roland Barthes' "The Death of the Author"
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I present Roland Barthes' seminal essay, "The Death of the Author." Here he argues that the possibility for interpretation of the text must follow the erasure of the "Author-God" as the bearer of the truth of the text. I try to untangle what I believe to be some misconceptions about Barthes' argument at the end.
2020-04-11
15 min
Theory & Philosophy
Michel Foucault's "The Birth of the Clinic" (Part 2/2)
Podbean: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Instagram: theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I conclude my presentation of The Birth of the Clinic where Foucault discusses the full emergence of the clinical gaze with the introduction of death as a positive event and the anatamo-clinical operations of the autopsy. Timestamps: Ch. 6: Signs and Cases (Beginning) Ch. 7: Seeing and Knowing (21:10) Ch. 8: Open up a Few Corpses (35:40) Ch. 9: The Visible Invisible (43:43) Ch. 10: Crisis in Fevers (52:37) Conclusion (55:00)
2020-04-04
57 min
Theory & Philosophy
Michel Foucault's "The Birth of the Clinic" (Part 1/2)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I begin my presentation of Foucault's The Birth of the Clinic. This episode covers the first half of the book, outlining the broad socio-political motivations behind the emergence of the clinic. Timestamps: Introduction (Beginning) Chapter 1: Spaces and Classes (15:05) Chapter 2: A Political Consciousness (28:30) Chapter 3: The Free Field (34:50) Chapter 4: The Old Age of the Clinic (38:30) Chapter 5: The Lesson of the Hospitals (46:23)
2020-03-28
54 min
Theory & Philosophy
Judith Butler's "Undoing Gender" (Part 2/2)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphil... Podbean: https://theoretician.podbean.com/ Insta: @theory_and_philosophy Timestamps: Ch. 5: Is Kinship Always Already Heterosexual (Beginning) Ch. 6: Longing for Recognition (9:00) Ch. 7: Quandries of the Incest Taboo (21:30) Ch. 8: Bodily Confessions (27:14) Ch. 9: The End of Sexual Difference (36:00) Ch. 10: The Question of Social Transformation (47:52) Ch. 11: Can the 'Other' of Philosophy Speak (55:25) In this episode, I conclude my presentation of Butler's text, paying close attention to her re-evaluation of her theory of performativity, the political potential of drag, and the possibility for social transformation.
2020-03-21
59 min
Theory & Philosophy
Judith Butler's "Undoing Gender" (Part 1/2)
CW: Suicide, Transphobia, Homophobia. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I turn my attention to Judith Butler's "Undoing Gender." This is a collection of essays, so it is difficult to summarize the book. However, we can comfortably say that it explores what it means for gender to become undone, and the undoing that is done through gender.
2020-03-14
51 min
Theory & Philosophy
Gilles Deleuze's "Cinema 1: The Movement Image" (Part 3/3)
Follow Christina on Twitter and Instagram: @celloburke Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I'm joined by Christina, PhD candidate at the Center for the Study of Theory and Criticism at the University of Western Ontario, to systematically dissect Gilles Deleuze's "Cinema 1: The Movement Image." This is an enigmatic book, treading the line between philosophy and film theory, and never committing to one nor the other. This episode covers from the "Action-Image" chapter to the end.
2020-03-07
51 min
Theory & Philosophy
Gilles Deleuze's "Cinema 1: The Movement Image" (Part 2/3)
Follow Christina on Twitter and Instagram: @celloburke Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I'm joined by Christina, PhD candidate at the Center for the Study of Theory and Criticism at the University of Western Ontario, to systematically dissect Gilles Deleuze's "Cinema 1: The Movement Image." This is an enigmatic book, treading the line between philosophy and film theory, and never committing to one nor the other. This episode covers the 2nd commentary on Bergson up to the end of the "Affection-Image" chapter.
2020-02-29
1h 01
Theory & Philosophy
Gilles Deleuze's "Cinema 1: The Movement Image" (Part 1/3)
Follow Christina on Twitter and Instagram: @celloburke Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I'm joined by Christina, PhD candidate at the Center for the Study of Theory and Criticism at the University of Western Ontario, to systematically dissect Gilles Deleuze's "Cinema 1: The Movement Image." This is an enigmatic book, treading the line between philosophy and film theory, while never committing to one nor the other. This episode covers the preface up to the 2nd commentary on Bergson.
2020-02-22
29 min
Theory & Philosophy
G.W.F. Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit" (Part 4/4)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I conclude my presentation of "Phenomenology of Spirit" by focusing on the last two chapters: "Religion" (0:00) comprised of the sub-chapters "Natural Religion" (11:25), "Religion in the Form of Art" (20:33), and "Revealed Religion" (39:10); and the chapter "Absolute Knowing" (47:47).
2020-02-15
52 min
Theory & Philosophy
G.W.F. Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit" (Part 3/4)
Become a Patron (and make me happy): https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I present the chapter titled "Spirit." It is here that Hegel turns his gaze to society, paying specific attention to the dynamic interaction between individuals vying for their own livelihood and the community in which these individuals exist. It traverses through three phases denoted by three sub-chapters: "The True Spirit. The Ethical Order" (7:00), "Self-Alienated Spirit. Culture" (22:12), and "Spirit that is Certain of Itself. Morality (55:27).
2020-02-08
1h 07
Theory & Philosophy
G.W.F. Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit" (Part 2/4)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, we continue our dissection of Phenomenology of Spirit. This episode first looks at the chapter "Self-Consciousness" (2:18) including its sub-chapters, "Independence and Dependence of Self-Consciousness: Lordship and Bondage" (6:55) (This is where he talks about the 'master/slave' dialectic) and "Freedom of Self-Consciousness" (14:05). It then presents the chapter titled "Reason" (24:26) and the sub-chapters "Observing Reason" (27:56), "Actualization of Rational Self-Consciousness through its own Activity" (46:55), and "Individuality which takes Itself to be Real in and for-itself" (60:05).
2020-02-01
1h 12
Theory & Philosophy
G.W.F. Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit" (Part 1/4)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In the first episode of this four part series, I turn my attention to G.W.F. Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit," a text as necessary to read as it is difficult to read. This episode specifically tackles the chapters: "Preface" (beginning); "Introduction" (34:50); and "Consciousness" comprised of the sub-chapters "Sense-Certainty" (38:45), "Perception" (49:50), and "Understanding" (57:10). In these chapters, he begins by outlining what he hopes his project to accomplish, and then moves into delineating exactly how human consciousness moves through various phases on the way to Absolute Spirit.
2020-01-25
1h 07
Theory & Philosophy
Jacques Derrida's "Structure, Sign, and Play"
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I turn my attention to Derrida's groundbreaking essay, "Structure, Sign, and Play." It is here that he lays the foundation of what would become deconstruction, the destabilization of the assumed univocality of either term in a binary. He does this by undoing the oft-assumed belief that structures do not move, and that they are fundamentally opposed to "play."
2020-01-18
40 min
Theory & Philosophy
Walter Benjamin's "The Work of Art in the Age of Its Mechanical Reproducibility"
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Instagram: theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I turn to Walter Benjamin's seminal text, "The Work of Art in the Age of Its Mechanical Reproducibility." Contrary to what some might think, I try to present the way that Benjamin applauds the 'death' of the aura in the age of mechanical reproducibility and the political ramifications of this moment.
2020-01-11
35 min
Theory & Philosophy
John Durham Peters' "Speaking into the Air"
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Follow me on instagram: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I turn my attention to an important text in the field of communication and media studies. Here Peters tries to imagine communication as a meeting of souls by presenting a number of thinkers from Socrates to Jesus to Saint Augustine to Locke to Heidegger. Timestamps: Ch. 1: Beginning Ch. 2: 12:45 Ch. 3: 18:50 Ch. 4: 25:14 Ch. 5: 31:30 Ch.6: 35:50
2020-01-04
41 min
Theory & Philosophy
Audre Lorde's "The Master's Tools will never Dismantle the Master's House"
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Follow me on instagram: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I present Audre Lorde's "The Master's Tools will never Dismantle the Master's House," a seminal text in the fields of critical face, gender, and feminist studies. Not to mention, ya know, every other field.
2019-12-28
28 min
Theory & Philosophy
Michel Foucault's "Discipline & Punish" (Part 2/2)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Follow me on instagram: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I present the second half of "Discipline & Punish" to expoun upon his key concepts of docile bodies, the panopticon, and the carceral system. Timestamps: Docile Bodies (Beginning) The Means of Correct Training: 27:50 Panopticism: 39:31 Complete and Austere Institutions: 52:40 Illegalities and Delinquency: 56:50 The Carceral: 1:05:10
2019-12-21
1h 10
Theory & Philosophy
Michel Foucault's "Discipline & Punish" (Part 1/2)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Follow me on instagram: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I present the first half of Foucault's seminal Discipline & Punish. In this half he sketches a firm distinction between a model of juridical punishment that mobilizes torture as a deterrent to criminality and a model predicated on surveillance as a deterrent to criminality.
2019-12-14
57 min
Theory & Philosophy
Nick Land's "Kant, Capital, and the Prohibition of Incest"
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode I take on Land's first essay from "Fanged Noumena," "Kant, Capital, and the Prohibition of Incest" that presents his characterization of the present stake that racism has in the maintenance of global capitalistic exploitation.
2019-12-07
31 min
Theory & Philosophy
Sunera Thobani's "Exalted Subjects"
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I present Sunera Thobani's book, "Exalted Subjects: The Making of Race and Nation in Canada." It delineates the passage from colonization to domination and how certain subjects--white European descendants--are bestowed with a status of exaltation.
2019-11-30
1h 05
Theory & Philosophy
Jacques Lacan's "L' étourdit" (Part 3/3)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this long episode, Ben and I conclude our dissection of "L' étourdit," paying specific attention to Lacan's use of topology in his illustration of subjectivity constituted by "cuts." We also explore the implications of Lacan's thought as a political tool and how it differs from the work of other theorists--Derrida, Deleuze--who were writing at the same time.
2019-11-23
1h 34
Theory & Philosophy
Jacques Lacan's "L'étourdit" (Part 2/3)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, Ben and I continue our exploration of "L'étourdit." It is in this episode that we really hone onto the text, with Ben presenting the core themes from the first turn (the first half) of the essay.
2019-11-16
48 min
Theory & Philosophy
Jacques Lacan's "L'étourdit" (Part 1/3)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Podbean: https://theoretician.podbean.com/ In this episode, I'm joined by Ben, PhD candidate in Theory & Criticism, to discuss one of Jacques Lacan's most enigmatic texts, "L' étourdit." This first episode contextualizes Lacan's thought and establishes a necessary base from which to explore "L' étourdit."
2019-11-09
1h 00
Theory & Philosophy
Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" (Part 5/5)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I conclude my presentation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Here we conclude the "Transcendental Dialectic," and point to the interesting uses of a new metaphysics toward the consolidation of a general happiness and perpetual peace.
2019-11-02
59 min
Theory & Philosophy
Jussi Parikka's "What is Media Archaeology?"
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I turn my attention to a seminal text in the fields of new materialism and media studies. Here Parikka argues that Media Archaeology serves the function of revealing forgotten and yet-to-be-realized media that disturb the assumed teleological progression of our gadgets.
2019-10-26
47 min
Theory & Philosophy
Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" (Part 4/5)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I continue my presentation of Critique of Pure Reason, specifically presenting the first two chapter of the "Transcendental Dialectic." Here he takes aim at the cosmological ideas and how traditional dialectics only direct us toward a mirage, not truth. Kant proposes transcendental idealism as a solution to the problem presented by dialectics.
2019-10-19
1h 01
Theory & Philosophy
Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" (Part 3/5)
Patron: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I continue my exploration of "Critique of Pure Reason," specifically presenting the 2nd and 3rd chapters of the "Transcendental Doctrine of the Power Judgment" and the appendix to it.
2019-10-12
51 min
Theory & Philosophy
Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" (Part 2/5)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I continue my exploration of "Critique of Pure Reason" to propel on my discussion of the Transcendental Logic so as to include how the Power of Judgment operates alongside the transcendental logic.
2019-09-28
54 min
Theory & Philosophy
Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" (Part 1/5)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I begin my presentation of Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason." Here, I take on the introduction, his section on "Transcendental Aesthetics," and his section on "Transcendental Logic"
2019-09-27
53 min
Theory & Philosophy
Chandra Mohanty's "Feminism Without Borders"
In this episode, I present Mohanty's "Feminism Without Borders." In it she makes the case for an intersectional feminism that neither homogenizes nor erases the real lived, material experiences of thirld world women and women of color.
2019-09-27
57 min
Theory & Philosophy
Herbert Marcuse's "An Essay on Liberation"
Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I present Marcuse's radical idea of a new sensibility, a utopian ideal to combat late Capitalism.
2019-09-26
45 min
Theory & Philosophy
Friedrich Nietzsche's "On Truth & Lying in a Non-Moral Sense"
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I present Nietzsche's ideas from his brilliant essay "On Truth and Lying." Here he argues that as long as we are immersed in language, we will be unable to get to the core of truth.
2019-09-25
23 min
Theory & Philosophy
Friedrich Nietzsche's "The Birth of Tragedy" (Part 2/2)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I finish my presentation of "The Birth of Tragedy" to expound upon Nietzsche's commentary on his contemporary German situation and the implications of tragedy for the future.
2019-09-24
35 min
Theory & Philosophy
Friedrich Nietzsche's "The Birth of Tragedy" (Part 1/2)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I take a stab at Nietzsche (in)famous inaugural text, "The Birth of Tragedy." It is here that he tries to trace the history of tragedy (and art more generally) to the Ancient Greeks. Specifically, as the product of the tension between the gods Apollo and Dionysus.
2019-09-22
54 min
Theory & Philosophy
Michel Foucault's "Madness & Civilization" (Part 2/2)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I continue Madness & Civilization to present the ways that the asylum operates to 'correct' those people considered mad.
2019-09-21
41 min
Theory & Philosophy
Michel Foucault's "Madness & Civilization" (Part 1/2)
https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I take a stab at one of Foucault's first texts, "Madness & Civilization." In it he tries to disturb everything we know about madness and its treatment--the positivist assumptions about its coming into realization; the treatments believed to be therapeutic; and the influences behind the construction of asylums.
2019-09-21
1h 05
Theory & Philosophy
François Laruelle's "Introduction to Generic Sciences" (Part 2/2)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I'm joined by Jeremy Smith once again to continue our excavation of Laruelle's work. In this part, we continue our exploration of "Introduction to Generic Sciences," focusing specifically on the role of the generic in relation to the One, the subject-without-subject, and Truth-without-truth. Contact for Jeremy: jsmit747@uwo.ca Translation: https://lookaside.fbsbx.com/file/introduction%20to%20generic%20sciences.pdf?token=AWzNaBladlJSginp_DRaHMjzbX3ln26GJom5k0jvOWPjeCQh1OFV7sE6LDMW6f_kj48CZ01odt0m31l8rPxIDYQVEHN7DG0PPJvfsp5RtViCR_6osjSRmo5cnwUeXmuvglfO3MFAzQMBkgKw9R1dOU...
2019-09-21
54 min
Theory & Philosophy
François Laruelle's "Introduction to Generic Sciences" (Part 1/2)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I'm joined by Jeremy Smith once again to continue our excavation of Laruelle's work. In this part, we take on his "Introduction to Generic Sciences," an enigmatic, yet captivating, text that attends to the potential of non-philosophy (and many of his other concepts) to radically potentiate the sciences against their appropriation by the "principal of sufficiency." Contact for Jeremy: jsmit747@uwo.ca Translation: https://lookaside.fbsbx.com/file/introduction%20to%20generic%20sciences.pdf?token=AWzNaBladlJSginp_DRaHMjzbX3ln26GJom5k0jvOWPjeCQh1OFV7sE6LDMW6f_kj...
2019-09-21
1h 11
Theory & Philosophy
Jean Baudrillard's "The Evil Demon of Images"
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I take on "The Evil Demon of Images," a text whose title contributes to what I believe to be a common misunderstanding about Baudrillard's work--the antithetical relationship assumed of simulation and reality.
2019-09-21
28 min
Theory & Philosophy
Judith Butler's "Gender Trouble" (Part 2/2)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I finish up Butler's "Gender Trouble." It is this episode that I dissect Butler's elusive notion of "performativity" and the potential it houses to challenge the oppressive regimen of sex.
2019-09-21
47 min
Theory & Philosophy
Judith Butler's "Gender Trouble" (Part 1/2)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Note: *I discuss performativity at beginning and end of next episode!* In this episode, I take on Butler's "Gender Trouble," a seminal text in the fields of feminism and post-structuralism. Butler argues that some strands of feminist thought mistakenly attribute a transcendental significance to the idea of 'woman' that fails to account for the modes of discourse/power that construct that identity.
2019-09-21
52 min
Theory & Philosophy
Jean Baudrillard's "The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact"
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode I explore what might be the last Baudrillard text I do. It is here that Baudrillard considers what is at stake with the advent of integral reality, the apotheosis of the oppressive simulacrum.
2019-09-21
36 min
Theory & Philosophy
Jean Baudrillard's "Carnival & Cannibal/Ventriloquous Evil"
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this text, we get a peak of Baudrillard's disdain for the West's global project of expansion, consuming otherness and thereby eradicating it under the pretense "scientific rationality," "truth," and "white superiority."
2019-09-21
38 min
Theory & Philosophy
Shulamith Firestone's "The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution" (Part 2/2)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, Andrew and I dive into the second half of Firestone's text to drive towards the destination she imagines a post-sex-dialectic world might look like.
2019-09-21
1h 19
Theory & Philosophy
Shulamith FIrestone's "The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution" (Part 1/2)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I'm joined by Andrew Woods, PhD candidate in Theory and Criticism, to discuss Shulamith's brave text that dives head first into the history of sexism in the United States and what can be done to overcome it.
2019-09-21
1h 03
Theory & Philosophy
Jean Baudrillard's "The Spirit of Terrorism"
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this one, we turn to Baudrillard's infamous "The Spirit of Terrorism." This text gained him some notoriety because of his repudiation of Western global power and seeming exaltation of terrorism.
2019-09-21
43 min
Theory & Philosophy
Paul Virilio's "Open Sky"
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I turn to Virilio's open sky, a key text to understanding some of his central concepts and concerns. I'm rather hard on Virilio in this one, and I look forward to anyone disagreeing with me for that reason.
2019-09-21
52 min
Theory & Philosophy
Jean Baudrillard's "Impossible Exchange" (Part 2/2)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I continue my presentation of this text paying close attention to Baudrillard's consideration of destiny, artificial intelligence and radical theory.
2019-09-21
48 min
Theory & Philosophy
Jean Baudrillard's "Impossible Exchange" (Part 1/2)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I tackle Baudrillard's "Impossible Exchange." This text is necessary to understand some of his developed concerns regarding death, cloning and immortality, each of which has undergone a radical overhaul in the contemporary world.
2019-09-21
52 min
Theory & Philosophy
Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari's "Anti Oedipus" (Chapter 4/4)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this final episode we are presented with schizoanalysis as a radical alternative to psychoanalysis. They are that schizoanalysis meets the ontological parameters of existence--being comprised of machines--and compels one to think not of themselves in terms of an overarching oedipal narrative, but rather to consider themselves as a machine among other machines.
2019-09-21
45 min
Theory & Philosophy
Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari's "Anti Oedipus" (Chapter 3/4)
In this episode, I take a stab at the 3rd (of 4) chapters from Anti-Oedipus. It is in this chapter that they present a historical overview of Oedipus' retroactive intervention in every epistemic paradigm. To this intervention, they charge that Oedipus is but a stranger in those fields, unable to actually present a meaningful solution to the apparent 'problems' found in those fields.
2019-09-21
55 min
Theory & Philosophy
Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari's "Anti-Oedipus" (Chapter 2/4)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I dive into the second (of four) chapters of Anti-Oedipus. It is here that they level their strongest critique of Oedipus and Freudian psychoanalysis while proposing an alternative way by which to understand the world: through syntheses.
2019-09-21
47 min
Theory & Philosophy
Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari's "Anti-Oedipus" (Chapter 1/4)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I begin my dissection of Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus, an enigmatic book to say the least. In this chapter we're presented with their conception of desiring-machines that opposes the totalizing framework of the Oedipal complex.
2019-09-21
45 min
Theory & Philosophy
Sigmund Freud's "Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego"
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy *NOTE* I don't think I did justice to Freud's discussion of neurosis towards the end. I'll have to save that for another episode. In this episode, I turn to Freud's work and his consideration of groups and the ego. In this book, Freud takes aim at the historical understanding of groups as a regressive phenomenon that, he argues, fails to recognize the role of the libido (love) in group formations.
2019-09-21
56 min
Theory & Philosophy
Jean Baudrillard's "Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared"
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, we ask the haunting title's question. What does it mean to disappear? Is disappearance a recourse to nihilism or to some new possibility? I try to answer these questions by contextualizing this book within Baudrillard's overarching projects.
2019-09-21
34 min
Theory & Philosophy
Jean Baudrillard's "The Agony of Power"
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I turn my attention to Baudrillard's "The Agony of Power." This one clarifies Baudrillard's position on power, locating it within the domain of hegemony as opposed to domination. The former presents a much more pernicious mode of oppression for Baudrillard because of its transparency and its illusion of democratic egalitarianism.
2019-09-21
43 min
Theory & Philosophy
Sara Ahmed's "Queer Phenomenology"
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I turn my attention to Sara Ahmed's "Queer Phenomenology." This book can be regarded as Ahmed's attempt to perform a queering of phenomenology while simultaneously sketching what a queer phenomenology might look like. To do this, she traverses through the phenomenological tradition to craft her own version of phenomenology and then apply them to the domains of race and sexuality.
2019-09-21
59 min
Theory & Philosophy
Herbert Marcuse's "One-Dimensional Man" (Part 2/2)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I finish my exploration of "One-Dimensional Man" by tracing Marcuse's take on the role of philosophy in late Capitalist society.
2019-09-21
48 min
Theory & Philosophy
Herbert Marcuse's "One-Dimensional Man" (Part 1/2)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I turn my attention to the Frankfurt school giant, Herbert Marcuse and his "One-Dimensional Man." Marrying Marxism with Freudian psychoanalysis, Marcuse constructs an eloquent challenge to the tenets of late capitalism as relevant today as it was in the mid-twentieth century.
2019-09-21
51 min
Theory & Philosophy
David Golumbia's "The Cultural Logic of Computation"
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy This this episode I take up David Golumbia's book, "The Cultural Logic of Computation." Pairing the post-structuralist theoretical tradition with media theory, Golumbia takes aim at the systematic attempts to computationalize humanity.
2019-09-21
38 min
Theory & Philosophy
Jean Baudrillard's "The Illusion of the End"
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy This text, a marker of what some call the late Baudrillard, presents some of Baudrillard's concerns for the age of simulation. From nuclear destruction to disease to disappearance, he leaves no theoretical stone unturned.
2019-09-21
1h 06
Theory & Philosophy
Rosi Braidotti's "The Posthuman"
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I turn my focus of posthumanism and Braidotti's seminal text, "The Posthuman." Braidotti's brand of posthumanism is a Deleuzian one, seeing the potential of becoming and deterritorialization to oppose the oppressive logic of commodification and identity in late capitalism.
2019-09-21
57 min
Theory & Philosophy
Friedrich Nietzsche "On The Genealogy of Morality"
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I try to present a coherent thread through Nietzsche "On the Genealogy of Morality." While it may easily be argued that Nietzsche dissuades any methodical reading of his work, I try to contextualize his arguments within the broader theme of the book and bring his ideas into the 21st century
2019-09-21
59 min
Theory & Philosophy
Mary Beard's "Women and Power"
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I present Mary Beard's "Women & Power." The strength of Beard's text is her genealogical account of women being silenced throughout our history. I also try to simultaneously justify and challenge some of the liberal feminist notions that are present in this text.
2019-09-21
35 min
Theory & Philosophy
Jean Baudrillard's "The Transparency of Evil"
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode I tackles Baudrillard's enigmatic text, "The Transparency of Evil." I try to contextualize some of his more difficult claims within the broader spectrum of his work in order to construct a clear portrait of his project here.
2019-09-21
43 min
Theory & Philosophy
Michel Foucault's "The History of Sexuality Vol. 2" (Part 3/3)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I finish my dissection of the second volume to the History of Sexuality. In this episode, we get a glimpse of Foucault's excavation of Greek sexual customs and the subsequent emergence of individuality and subjectivity.
2019-09-21
38 min
Theory & Philosophy
Michel Foucault's "The History of Sexuality Vol. 2" (Part 2/3)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I continue my exploration of "The Use of Pleasure," the second volume to "The History of Sexuality" series. In this episode I take aim at the second and third sections, Dietetics and Economics respectively. In these sections we get a glimpse at Foucault's consideration of the Greek regimen around sexuality
2019-09-21
48 min
Theory & Philosophy
Michel Foucault's "The History of Sexuality Vol. 2" (Part 1/3)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this part, we move to the second volume of the History of Sexuality. In this books, Foucault extends his temporal scope of sexuality to go as far back as the Greeks. Foucault does this for a number of reasons but may, I believe, be understood primarily as his move to dissuade the argument that asceticism, or the control of sexuality, is a phenomenon rooted in the 17th and 18th centuries.
2019-09-21
50 min
Theory & Philosophy
Bent Flyvbjerg's "Making Social Science Matter"
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I take a detour into Flyvbjerg's "Making Social Science Matter," a text written nearly twenty years ago but is as relevant as ever given the current assault on the Social Sciences and Humanities in academia
2019-09-21
44 min
Theory & Philosophy
Ivan Illich's "Deschooling Society" (Part 2/2)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, Andrew and I continue our exploration of Illich's "Deschooling Society," setting our focus on the idea of an Epimethean Accelerationism.
2019-09-21
1h 10
Theory & Philosophy
Ivan Illich's "Deschooling Society" (Part 1/2)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I'm joined by PhD student, Andrew Woods, once again to discuss Ivan Illich's "Deschooling Society." We draw some fundamental distinctions between Illich's approach and those espoused by contemporary conservative thinkers in the effort to dismantle schools.
2019-09-21
1h 10