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Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiDavid Guignion: The History of Conspiracy Theories, Making Philosophy Accessible to the Public, Activism, & More | #43Conspiracy 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...
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Theory & PhilosophyDavid 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."
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2021-07-2435 minTheory & PhilosophyDavid 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."
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2021-07-1738 minTheory & PhilosophyDavid 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."
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2021-07-1046 minTheory & Philosophy"Power in Modernity:" A Conversation with Dr. Isaac Ariail ReedPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy
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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
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2020-08-291h 38Theory & PhilosophySaadat Hasan Manto & India/Pakistan PartitionIn 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
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2020-08-221h 09Theory & PhilosophyPanopticon | Michel Foucault | KeywordIn this episode, I present Michel Foucault's theory of the Panopticon.
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2020-08-1914 minTheory & PhilosophyImmanuel Kant's "Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals"Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy
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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.
2020-08-151h 00Theory & PhilosophyTranscendental Idealism | Immanuel Kant | KeywordIn this episode, I present Immanuel Kant's idea of Transcendental Idealism.
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2020-08-1318 minTheory & PhilosophyGayatri Spivak's "Can the Subaltern Speak"Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy
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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.
2020-08-0849 minTheory & PhilosophyBody Without Organs | Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari | KeywordPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy
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In this keyword episode, I present Deleuze and Guattari's "Body Without Organs," a term as slippery as the thing it describes.
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2020-08-0425 minTheory & PhilosophyGilles 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.
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and here's a link to her thesis: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/4741/
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2020-08-011h 06Theory & PhilosophyGilles 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...
2020-07-2550 minTheory & PhilosophyGilles 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...
2020-07-1849 minTheory & PhilosophySimulacrum | Keyword | Jean BaudrillardPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy
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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.
2020-07-1531 minTheory & PhilosophySara Ahmed's "The Cultural Politics of Emotion" (Part 2/2)Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy
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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)
2020-07-1157 minTheory & PhilosophySara Ahmed's "The Cultural Politics of Emotion" (Part 1/2)Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy
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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)
2020-07-0448 minTheory & PhilosophyIntroduction to Theory & PhilosophyPatreon: 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!
2020-06-2701 minTheory & PhilosophyWalter 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
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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.
2020-06-2731 minTheory & PhilosophyHerbert Marcuse's "Repressive Tolerance"Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy Intro song: Danosongs-Sky Seeds - Trance Mix
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In this episode, I present Marcuse's concern about tolerance in its maintaining the present oppressive structures of our world.
2020-06-2020 minTheory & PhilosophyMao 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.
2020-06-1314 minTheory & PhilosophyByung-Chul Han's "Topology of Violence"Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy
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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.
2020-06-061h 00Theory & PhilosophyKarl Marx and Friedrich Engles' "The Communist Manifesto"Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy
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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.
2020-05-3049 minTheory & PhilosophyMark 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.
2020-05-2359 minTheory & PhilosophyRené 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.
2020-05-1644 minTheory & PhilosophyKelly 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).
2020-05-0932 minTheory & PhilosophyKelly 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...
2020-05-0256 minTheory & PhilosophyTheodor 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)
2020-04-2550 minTheory & PhilosophyTheodor 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)
2020-04-1846 minTheory & PhilosophyRoland Barthes' "The Death of the Author"Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy
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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.
2020-04-1115 minTheory & PhilosophyMichel Foucault's "The Birth of the Clinic" (Part 2/2)Podbean: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy
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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)
2020-04-0457 minTheory & PhilosophyMichel Foucault's "The Birth of the Clinic" (Part 1/2)Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy
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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)
2020-03-2854 minTheory & PhilosophyJudith 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.
2020-03-2159 minTheory & PhilosophyJudith 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.
2020-03-1451 minTheory & PhilosophyGilles 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.
2020-03-0751 minTheory & PhilosophyGilles 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.
2020-02-291h 01Theory & PhilosophyGilles 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.
2020-02-2229 minTheory & PhilosophyG.W.F. Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit" (Part 4/4)Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy
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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).
2020-02-1552 minTheory & PhilosophyG.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).
2020-02-081h 07Theory & PhilosophyG.W.F. Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit" (Part 2/4)Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy
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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).
2020-02-011h 12Theory & PhilosophyG.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.
2020-01-251h 07Theory & PhilosophyJacques Derrida's "Structure, Sign, and Play"Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy
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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."
2020-01-1840 minTheory & PhilosophyWalter Benjamin's "The Work of Art in the Age of Its Mechanical Reproducibility"Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy
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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.
2020-01-1135 minTheory & PhilosophyJohn Durham Peters' "Speaking into the Air"Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy
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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
2020-01-0441 minTheory & PhilosophyAudre Lorde's "The Master's Tools will never Dismantle the Master's House"Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy
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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.
2019-12-2828 minTheory & PhilosophyMichel Foucault's "Discipline & Punish" (Part 2/2)Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy
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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
2019-12-211h 10Theory & PhilosophyMichel Foucault's "Discipline & Punish" (Part 1/2)Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy
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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.
2019-12-1457 minTheory & PhilosophyNick 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.
2019-12-0731 minTheory & PhilosophySunera 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.
2019-11-301h 05Theory & PhilosophyJacques 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.
2019-11-231h 34Theory & PhilosophyJacques 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.
2019-11-1648 minTheory & PhilosophyJacques 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."
2019-11-091h 00Theory & PhilosophyImmanuel 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.
2019-11-0259 minTheory & PhilosophyJussi 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.
2019-10-2647 minTheory & PhilosophyImmanuel 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.
2019-10-191h 01Theory & PhilosophyImmanuel 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.
2019-10-1251 minTheory & PhilosophyImmanuel 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.
2019-09-2854 minTheory & PhilosophyImmanuel 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"
2019-09-2753 minTheory & PhilosophyChandra 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.
2019-09-2757 minTheory & PhilosophyHerbert 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.
2019-09-2645 minTheory & PhilosophyFriedrich 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.
2019-09-2523 minTheory & PhilosophyFriedrich 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.
2019-09-2435 minTheory & PhilosophyFriedrich 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.
2019-09-2254 minTheory & PhilosophyMichel 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.
2019-09-2141 minTheory & PhilosophyMichel 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.
2019-09-211h 05Theory & PhilosophyFrançois 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...
2019-09-2154 minTheory & PhilosophyFrançois 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...
2019-09-211h 11Theory & PhilosophyJean 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.
2019-09-2128 minTheory & PhilosophyJudith 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.
2019-09-2147 minTheory & PhilosophyJudith 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.
2019-09-2152 minTheory & PhilosophyJean 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.
2019-09-2136 minTheory & PhilosophyJean 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."
2019-09-2138 minTheory & PhilosophyShulamith 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.
2019-09-211h 19Theory & PhilosophyShulamith 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.
2019-09-211h 03Theory & PhilosophyJean 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.
2019-09-2143 minTheory & PhilosophyPaul 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.
2019-09-2152 minTheory & PhilosophyJean 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.
2019-09-2148 minTheory & PhilosophyJean 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.
2019-09-2152 minTheory & PhilosophyGilles 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.
2019-09-2145 minTheory & PhilosophyGilles 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.
2019-09-2155 minTheory & PhilosophyGilles 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.
2019-09-2147 minTheory & PhilosophyGilles 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.
2019-09-2145 minTheory & PhilosophySigmund Freud's "Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego"
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*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.
2019-09-2156 minTheory & PhilosophyJean 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.
2019-09-2134 minTheory & PhilosophyJean 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.
2019-09-2143 minTheory & PhilosophySara 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.
2019-09-2159 minTheory & PhilosophyHerbert 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.
2019-09-2148 minTheory & PhilosophyHerbert 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.
2019-09-2151 minTheory & PhilosophyDavid 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.
2019-09-2138 minTheory & PhilosophyJean 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.
2019-09-211h 06Theory & PhilosophyRosi 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.
2019-09-2157 minTheory & PhilosophyFriedrich 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
2019-09-2159 minTheory & PhilosophyMary 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.
2019-09-2135 minTheory & PhilosophyJean 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.
2019-09-2143 minTheory & PhilosophyMichel 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.
2019-09-2138 minTheory & PhilosophyMichel 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
2019-09-2148 minTheory & PhilosophyMichel 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.
2019-09-2150 minTheory & PhilosophyBent 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
2019-09-2144 minTheory & PhilosophyIvan 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.
2019-09-211h 10Theory & PhilosophyIvan 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.
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