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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

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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

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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

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 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 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

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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 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 50 - Performativity & Performative Utterance (Preview): This is a preview for a 2.5 hour romp through performativity and performative speech acts in analytic and continental philosophy, stopping off at J.L. Austin, Louis Althusser and others on the way to Judith Butler.Get the full ep and hours more education... by PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

10 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 57 - Hyperreal War (preview): We are name dropping that Baudrillard, Virilio and trying to remember what Emmanuel Levinas said, giving a biased review of the new Pills vid, and trying to figure out what's up with all the images.Get the full ep and hours more educational content by su... by PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

10 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

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 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

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

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

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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

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

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 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

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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 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 38 - A.I. Dreams and the Ghosts in Machines: The Pill Pod takes on two definitive philosophers opposed to the fantasies of uploading consciousnesses into machines: John Searle and Hubert Dreyfus. Apologies in advance but we gotta burst your 20-year-old-cousin-who-retweets-Elon-Musk's techno-utopian... by PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

83 min listen

Pill Pod 56 - Structuralism is a Lie (preview): Erik brings a shocking discovery to the Pill Pod, oh yea and what the hell is structuralism anyway? Get the full ep and hours more educational content by supporting our efforts over at www.patreon.com/plasticpills by PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

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Marx & Nietzsche: How to Philosophize with a Hammer and Sickle (ft. CCK Philosophy): Pills and Matt interview he who was once known as Cuck Philosophy, and who is now known as Jonas Čeika, author of How to Philosophize with a Hammer and Sickle. Get the book here: https://amzn.to/3Im0uuy by PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

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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

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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

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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

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Prison Abolition & Criminal Justice ft. Blake Wilson: Victor (@victorbruzzone) interviews Professor Blake Wilson from California State University about the Rittenhouse trial, the legitimacy of law, and prison abolition. Blake is a defense-attorney-turned-philosopher who writes and teaches on criminal justi... by PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

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Pill Pod 55 - ”I Would Prefer Not To”: Evoked by no less than Agamben, Byung-Chul Han, Deleuze, and Zizek's wardrobe, Bartleby is a compelling character. This week we are joined by Lit Vic to bust us into some literary analysis of a prophet of American capitalism: Herman Melville, in his text... by PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

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Pill Pod 135 - Political Mythologies of the Left and Right ft. Diego Ruzzarin

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