Pill Pod 41 - FIGHT NIGHT, Round 1: Baudrillard vs. Foucault (Preview) | PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast Podcast

Pill Pod 10 - The Last Hegel on the Left: Our colleague BORNA joins @mattpolprof, @t8erik, @plasticpills to attempt the impossible: explain Hegel's politics of the State. Is Hegel the bad Walmart of philosophy? Or may his ethics yet have emancipatory potential for left-minded thought? We som... by PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

91 min listen

Pill Pod 44 - Critical Race Hysteria (Preview): This week we depart from the usual solemnities to diagnose the latest object of conservative hysteria: critical race theory. It's being banned from curricula, bounced around conservative media outlets, and kicking off the careers of some new fear-mongeri... by PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

10 min listen

Microdose - Intro to Deleuze: In advance of our chat with Ian Buchanan, who's a "big deal" Deleuze scholar, Chris and PlasticPills sit down to talk about why Deleuze matters, how to navigate his texts, and how to negotiate the central themes of his work, i.e. the rhizome, creativ... by PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

65 min listen

Pill Pod 3 - Quarantine Agamben! Covidical Theory and States of Exception: Join us as we argue about this article, where Agamben (critical theorist) says coronavirus isn't real, and this article, dunking on his take. We then call each other libs after recapping the Sanders campaign. youtube.com/c/plasticpills by PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

79 min listen

Pill Pod 5 - Revolution Rip Tide: @Mattpolprof, @t8erik and @Plasticpills consider the value of "revolution" as a concept or as a political goal of left-wing politics. Starting with Alain Badiou, we discuss guillotines, Marxism, BLM, the sign economy, and the aesthetics of burning We... by PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

71 min listen

Pill Pod 2 - Realism, Antirealism & Coronavirus: Join us for our sophmore episode, from quarantine, in which we discuss Baudrillard, Derrida, and whether or not Covid 19 is real. by PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

75 min listen

Pill Pod 7 - Cancel Couture: The party (@Mattpolprof, @plasticpills, and @victorbruzzone) discusses the fearsome cancel culture, the opposition fantasies of wokists and anti-wokists, and have a first read of the literati's Harper's letter. Check out Patreon to support the Pill ... by PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

73 min listen

Overdose - Deleuze & Guattari's Thousand Plateaus ft. Ian Buchanan (2/2): PlasticPills and Chris sit down with Ian Buchanan, founder and editor-in-chief of the Deleuze and Guattari Studies Journal. In Part 2 we discuss the work of Deleuze and Guattari's notion "deterritorialization" with respect to racism, their concept of... by PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

55 min listen

Pill Pod 8 - What the Fouc is The State?: @Mattpolprof, @plasticpills, @victorbruzzone, @t8erik and guest, Marion, take an open approach to understand two words: State and Power. We pretty much end up just discussing Foucault for an hour and half. Check out www.patreon.com/plasticpills to ... by PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

82 min listen

Microdose - Vitalism and the Philosophy of Life: Plasticpills and Christopher Satoor sit down to dialogue about vitalism, including philosophers such as Leibniz, Maine de Biran, Bergson, and Deleuze. What is it? What is it good for? Will it save the world? https://archive.org/details/TheHistoryAn... by PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

54 min listen

In Defense of Anarchism (preview): We'll be back on Friday with our regularly scheduled program, and here's a clip of this week's exclusive content up at www.patreon.com/plasticpills by PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

3 min listen

Futilitarianism: Neoliberalism and the Production of Uselessness (Bonus Interview): Neil Vallelly (@NeilVallelly) joins Matt (@mattpolprof) for a cheery discussion of neoliberalism and futility, the central themes of Neil's new book, which can be found at https://amzn.to/32LjkLO or https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/futilitarianism. Matt'... by PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

58 min listen

Pill Pod 36 - Identity Shmolitics: Matt tricks the Pill Pod into reading analytic philosophy: "Personal Identity" by Derek Parfit (1971), who challenges intellectualist ideas of selfhood with thought experiments about splitting brains and sending your consciousness to Mars. Are you your s... by PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

89 min listen

Pill Pod 39 - Oculus Grift (preview): The Pill Pod is joined by Meaghan, a real life cognitive scientist and VR researcher, to answer our ignorant questions about brains, behaviour, and perception while we try to deduce whether or not Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology holds up in virtual reality... by PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

6 min listen

Therapy Culture & Happy Signifiers (ft. Ashley Frawley): Professor Ashley Frawley, author of The Semiotics of Happiness, joins us to discuss the cyclical history of some slippery signifiers: "self-esteem," "well-being," and "mental health," the only productive value of which is the generation of corporate cons... by PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

72 min listen

Overdose - Deleuze & Guattari's Thousand Plateaus ft. Ian Buchanan (1/2): PlasticPills and Chris sit down with Ian Buchanan, founder and editor-in-chief of the Deleuze and Guattari Studies Journal. In Part 1 we discuss the work of Deleuze and Guattari, the relationship of their work to that of Foucault, and consider their ... by PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

45 min listen

Pill Pod 4 - Conspiracy Brained: The midwives of the soul discuss conspiracy brain--not individual conspiracies, but the political, psychoanalytic, and semiological dimensions of conspiracy including covid-5G and lizard aliens. Throwin down some Lacan, Deleuze, Baudrillard, but no P... by PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

80 min listen

Pill Pod 12 (Preview) - The Dialectic of Recognition: If you've heard of Kojeve, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Althusser, Lacan, or Zizek, you have heard some version of the dialectic of recognition. No surprise, it originates with Hegel. We have Borna back with us again to guide us through the Phenomenology ... by PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

14 min listen

Pill Pod 1 - Why Critical Theory? Reading Bruno Latour: The second first episode of the PlasticPills pod. There may be a reason to podcast on critical theory, and we try to figure out what that is through reading this article by Bruno Latour: http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/89-CRITICAL-INQU... by PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

94 min listen

Radical Democracy & Protest Politics (ft. David Matijasevich): Professor David Matijasevich, author of Radical Democracy and Its Limits, joins Matt and Victor to discuss the limits of radical democracy and the aesthetic ideal of protest politics, and how they are often the luxury of those who are already cozy in a p... by PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

68 min listen

Cartoons & Comics with J. Andrew World (Bonus Interview): Matt (@mattpolprof) and Victor (@victorbruzzone) are joined by cartoonist J. Andrew World (@rightaboutnow2) to talk Marvel, DC, and artists' intellectual property. World is perhaps best known 'round these parts as the cover artist for Michael Brooks' Aga... by PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

45 min listen

Pill Pod 37 - 'Reading' Adam Curtis (Preview): So we had some different interpretations as to whether Can't Get You Out of My Head is art, history, documentary, art-history, history-documentary or art-documentary. In any case, it's one of the more interesting media artefacts of the year. Listen to ... by PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

8 min listen

Pill Pod 9 (Preview) - Familiarizing Foucault: @Plasticpills, Matt McManus, Erik, and Marion offer a rundown of what we consider the most important concepts of Foucault's thought and doubles as an introduction if you're rusty. Check out www.patreon.com/plasticpills to support the Pill Pod and ... by PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

11 min listen

Pill Pod 6 - The Amerika Episode: We are joined by our very own European* critic to discuss American civic religion and its textured mythos of religion, rebellion, and race. by PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

90 min listen

FIGHT NIGHT: Zizek vs. Deleuze I (preview): Part 1 of our reading of Zizek's attempt to take down Deleuze, whom he calls an ideologist of late capitalism in "Organs Without Bodies."Join up with us on Patreon to get the full dish, and find out who reigns supreme in the final decision next week www.... by PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

14 min listen

Libertarian Lulz ft. Ben Burgis: Today we have a heady one for ya. This is some in-the-weeds political theory, where Ben, Matt, and Victor consider libertarianism via professional sophist, Jason Brennan. Are there good libertarian arguments? Or are they exclusively hasty consequentialis... by PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

79 min listen

Pill Pod 107 - Situationist Revolutionary Theory: From 1957 to 1972, the Situationist International published a slew of articles, pamphlets, films and journals trying to bring theoretical Marxist debates into everyday life and change public consciousness. Today we read a few of these articles on top... by PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

95 min listen

Pill Pod 60 - New Consciousness (preview): Here we go back a few pages to discuss the "prejudices" in philosophy of mind including empiricism, intellectualism, psychologism, and clinical physiology. For 4 bucks you get immediate access to this and 40 more exclusive episodes, and maybe one day we ... by PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

8 min listen

Pill Pod 83 - The Idea of Communism - Alain Badiou: This is our first in the reading series on the Idea of Communism conferences, covering Alain Badiou. Our readings will come from The Idea of Communism I https://amzn.to/3xZJjMw, The Idea of Communism II https://amzn.to/3OkDYVd, and The Idea of Communism... by PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

87 min listen

Pill Pod 41 - FIGHT NIGHT, Round 1: Baudrillard vs. Foucault (Preview): Welcome to Round 1 of our new series, which covers theorists' takedowns of other theorists. This episode features an exciting 1977 bout between the young iconoclast, Jean Baudrillard and the king of the French academy, Michel Foucault, as found in the pr... by PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

9 min listen

Discover this podcast and so much more

Pill Pod 41 - FIGHT NIGHT, Round 1: Baudrillard vs. Foucault (Preview)

Pill Pod 41 - FIGHT NIGHT, Round 1: Baudrillard vs. Foucault (Preview)

Description

Titles in the series (100)

More Episodes from PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

Related podcast episodes