We Have Never Been Modern - Bruno Latour Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2023-07-08 | Pills and Erik celebrate Latour Day. Cracking one of our old favs (amzn.to/3O2fLVp), to discuss the theory island chain, the scheme of actor network theory, and why reality is more complex than theoretical models. All our episodes are up at patreon.com/plasticpills
MAGACommunism & Philosophy: HAZ on Marx, Heidegger and Dugin @PlasticPills Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2024-10-04 | "MAGA Communism" may strike you as contradictory and stupid, but it is backed by 200 tweets of theory which include Marx, Lenin, Dugin, and Heidegger. We plunge the depths of the MAGA Communist tractatus: "MARXISM IS NOT WOKE" to explore its theoretical aspirations. Source text: https://x.com/InfraHaz/status/1672279505774448640Find our recent episodes on fascist philosophy ad-free at patreon.com/plasticpills
Hegelian Egirl Council Explained by @JREG @PlasticPills Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2024-08-31 | We don't often have current events to cover, but once in a while the current events are Hegel. The Hegelian E-Girl Council was to be the head of a new cult, which fell into a Twitter flame war about a week after its launch. Our guest's studio was the physical origin site of the Hegelian E-Girl Council which first blasted into the real world in NYC, and then onto theorytwitter for a glorious week before bursting into flames for the internet's schadenfreude.This was, in our consideration, not the abortive event it may seem at first glance, but a sign for the near future of theory. All public episodes are ad-free for free at patreon.com/plasticpillsFind Jreg's channel here: youtube.com/@JREG and his podcast here youtube.com/@HSTPOD
We Solved the World ft. Diego Ruzzarin @DiegoRuzzarin @PlasticPills Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2024-08-13 | What do Adin Ross, China, RFK and the Cult of the Individual have in common? This episode.All episodes are found only at patreon.com/plasticpills
Emile Durkheim: Society as Magic, Society as Religion Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2024-08-06 | Durkheim, one of the founders of sociology, slowly came to the discovery by the end of his career that consciousness, langauge and thought itself were of religious origin. We tried to retrace a few of his steps from The Elementary Forms of Religious Life and try to come up with some examples to illustrate his radical hypothesis. All public episodes can be found ad-free, for free, on our Patreon: patreon.com/plasticpills
The Straussian Plot Against America Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2024-07-13 | Conspiracy theory or actual conspiracy? Today we investigate how a small cabal of philosophers managed to take over America and caused the invasion of Iraq based on the writings of eminent political philosopher Leo Strauss (On the podcast feed it's Pill Pod 175)Listen ad-free, for free, and get the source readings at patreon.com/plasticpills
Biden vs. Trump Debate & The Economy of Fear Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2024-06-30 | We recap the Trump-Biden debate and then discuss the politics and economy of fear. Sources include Armageddon, Strauss, Hegel, and Durkheim. Get all our episodes for free, ad-free, at patreon.com/plasticpills
Zizek Goes Monarchist Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2024-06-13 | We discuss Zizek's Hegelian defense of a monarchy to solve the problem of democracy.thephilosophicalsalon.com/in-defense-of-hegels-notion-of-monarchyGet all our episodes for free, ad-free, at patreon.com/plasticpills
The Malaise of Modernity (Taylors Version) Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2024-06-10 | Get the book (it's easy and small:amzn.to/3KxgjB3) or listen to the lectures by Charles Taylor starting here: youtu.be/j_losVdiARc?si=DCHifoFktqHQDJuw.Find our second episode and all the others at patreon.com/plasticpills
Is Existentialism Ethical? Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2024-06-05 | We read Simone DeBeauvoir's defense of Existentialism as an ethic that is not hyper-individualistic, nihilistic or absurdist.Get all our episodes for free, ad-free, at patreon.com/plasticpillsHere's the homework: marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/de-beauvoir/ambiguity
Schopenhauer: Christianity is the Worst Religion Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2024-05-11 | We look at Schopenhauer's comparison of various religions' metaphysical explanations for suffering, and why conservative celebrities are converting to the dumbest one.Listen to our public episodes ad-free, for free, at patreon.com/plasticpillsSchopenhauer on the Sufferings of the World: gutenberg.org/files/10732/10732-h/10732-h.htm#link2H_4_0002Ayaan Hirsi Ali converts: unherd.com/2023/11/why-i-am-now-a-christianRussell Brand gets baptized: christianpost.com/voices/russell-brand-just-got-baptized-but-what-does-it-mean.html
Dissident Right Fight Night: Yarvin vs. Rufo Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2024-04-25 | Deviating from our usual strategies for the leftist future, we look to the strategists of the conservative future, as discussed in this article (im1776.com/2024/04/11/rufo-vs-yarvin), where Christopher Rufo debates Mencius Moldbug aka Curtis Yarvin. It was pretty anti-climactic so we also veered into some more Moldbuggery found here: graymirror.substack.com/p/heroin-liberals-and-cocaine-conservatives.
How to Control a Democracy ft. @1Dimee Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2024-04-10 | This week we discuss how modern liberal democracies co-opt resistance and adapt to internal opposition as a mechanism of inverted totalitarian control. Our guest is Tony from 1Dime, who made a video on what he calls "contained opposition", find it here: youtu.be/7uPevWDAYFI.Listen to our public episodes ad-free, for free, at patreon.com/plasticpillsFind the 1Dime podcast on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/0yQRX2YMFFsCMekReE9toW?si=798a164d02884310
Andy Warhol & The End of Art Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2024-03-27 | We're still on why everything's ending, this time with another pillar of civilization: art, and modern art in particular. Part of the discussion comes from Frederic Jameson's Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, the cover of which features a (particularly ugly) Warhol print (amzn.to/3PD4M6m). The other two books referenced are The Diary of Andy Warhol and The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, written by the man himself.Check out the Plasticpills YouTube channel to see the new video about why Warhol is to blame for killing art: youtube.com/c/plasticpills Listen to our public episodes ad-free, for free, at patreon.com/plasticpills
The End of the University Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2024-03-25 | Most everyone agrees that the university has failed its ideal, but few agree as to the reasons for why this happened. Did it get too arcane? Too expensive? Too woke? Maybe there's a bit of everything, but these explanations forget the most material cause: the private-sector vampires sucking it dry. We read a case study that you can find here: canadiandimension.com/articles/view/private-pretensions-the-battle-for-canadas-universities-david-nobleDon't miss an episode! find the full feed ad-free at patreon.com/plasicpills
Progressive v. Reactionary Christianity ft. John Hamer @centre-place Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2024-02-23 | Listen to our public episodes ad-free, for free, at patreon.com/plasticpillsAlthough Conservative Christians are the most attention-seeking of the Flock, our patrons reminded us that there are progressive Christians out there. For the sake of fair and balanced reporting, we invited John Hamer from Centre Place Toronto to represent the leftist side of the Christian Flock. We asked about his view of the church in history and in politics, and read this Christofascist article together. Find more of John's work on Youtube @centre-place.
Christofascism Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2024-02-20 | Listen to our public episodes ad-free, for free, at patreon.com/plasticpillsWhat if, instead of letting history end or disappear, we hit the rewind button and let the Church have another shot? We navigate through some stars in the Christofascist constellation and read Why Liberalism Failed (amzn.to/3waNh6l) to see what the world might look like if the Catholic intellectuals had their way.
Christian Intellectuals at the End of History Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2024-01-30 | While no one is happy that history has ended, few are quite as whiny about it as Christian conservatives. We delved through a treasure trove of the Christian intellectual right—"The Imaginative Conservative"—to find out what they think history is for, and how to respond to it's having ended.
The End of History Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2024-01-14 | This is the first episode in a series on the End of History. Check us out at patreon.com/plasticpills to see our new content.
Review: Dawn of Everything by Davids Graeber & Wengrow Pt. 1/2 Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2023-12-15 | We plumbed the first few chapters of a new history of humanity by an anarchist and an archaeologist: The Dawn of Everything (amzn.to/3PcqXRn). Though not without some minor quibbles from us, its an easy, recommended read.
Badiou: Antiphilosophy vs. Philosophy Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2023-12-13 | Some oversimplified Badiou plus a look at his book Wittgenstein's Antiphilosophy (amzn.to/47xStiv)
Edgar Allen Poe & The Fall of the House of Usher Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2023-12-08 | Inspired by the new Netflix series, we read some Poe short stories and compared them to their TV adaptation. Victor Hainagiu (aka Litvic aka @horatiovictor) came on to help us put gothic horror into historical context.Half our episodes are here, but if you want the other half check us out on patreon.com/plasticpills
Metamodernism is just bad Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2023-11-06 | Postmodernism has fallen. All hail the new dumbuy cult: METAMODERNISM. We took its FRESH NEW RADICAL academic wing out for a spin, as seen in this book: amzn.to/3So0kKH.
The Martin Heidegger Nazi Debate Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2023-10-31 | The timeloop continues: Another Ukrainian SS soldier in Canada and another wave of books and articles about the dangers of Heidegger following the publication of the third edition of History of Beyng, we reflect on air fryers and moralism after the end of history.
Groomer Mythology Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2023-10-26 | Erik and Pills break down the myth of grooming, childhood, sexuality and the semiotic systems which produced them.
Gaza & Frantz Fanon on Violence Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2023-10-24 | We noticed a few Fanon name drops so this week we decided to read "On Violence" from Wretched of the Earth and see whether it's a useful heuristic for the discourse of violence in Gaza.Never miss an episode, visit us at www.patreon.com/plasticpills
Political Mythologies of the Left and Right ft. @DiegoRuzzarin (English) Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2023-08-15 | Diego Ruzzarin is back on the @PlasticPills Podcast to talk about mythologies of the Left and Right as analyzed by Roland Barthes in his 1957 book (amzn.to/47i5kpd).Our previous two episodes covering "Mythologies" are on Patreon at patreon.com/plasticpills
Fairy Tale Feminism Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2023-07-30 | With the release of the Barbie movie, the feminine symbol has been deployed this summer. But for thousands of summers previous, the role of the feminine was managed by folk stories and fairy tales. Featuring the literary stylings of Victor Hainagiu (known to us as Lit Vic) we broach the topic of the feminine symbolic through the story of Snow White.Check out this version of Neil Gaiman's Snow White in the form of a graphic novel: comiconlinefree.net/snow-glass-apples/issue-tpb/1Follow Lit Vic on Twitter at @HoratioVictorThere are many more episodes and tons of bonus content for our patrons at patreon.com/plasticpills
Freedom Isnt Free Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2023-07-14 | Phenomenology & Marxism: youtu.be/0QjMpy7lecsCIA vs. Radical Theory: youtu.be/3wPnQgjSZ54Everyone speaking on freedom but nobody's asking what it means. "Freedom-from interference" is a 400-year-old definition that covers a few bases but not much beyond that. We looked to Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology in this book (amzn.to/3OdpzwL) to give us something a little better.Pill Pods #59, #60, #61, #62 are all about Merleau-Ponty in more detail.Find all the episodes at patreon.com/plasticpills
Rousseau: The First Leftist Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2023-06-09 | For Pill Pod # 126 we read Discourse on the Origin of Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and talk about ordering adjectives.Don't miss an episode! patreon.com/plasticpills
Western Civilization According to Francis Bacon Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2023-05-19 | We revisit Atlantis, the new one, in this Victor Hainagiu (Lit Vic) episode where we peer into the the early modern, colonial, proto-capitalist imagination.Find the short story here: gutenberg.org/files/2434/2434-h/2434-h.htmFollow Victor @HoratioVictorGet all our eps at patreon.com/plasticpills
Bernard Stiegler & Posthumanist Post-Marxism (ft. Diego Ruzzarin) Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2023-04-14 | How many posts can you be fit into a title? Diego's back is back and so are we to have a look at why Stiegler believes that the class war is over, the techno/grammatological pharmakon is in and proletarianization has been total. We looked at the first half of "A New Critique of Political Economy", which was suggested to us by a patron (thank you). Find Diego's work (mostly esp) on the internet (he's easy to find).The even-numbered episodes and video lectures are at patreon.com/plasticpills@DiegoRuzzarin @PlasticPills Find Victor on Twitter @victorbruzzone and you can't find Erik anywhere, sry.
Baudrillard as Post-Marxist Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2023-03-31 | We are still on the lookout for some worthwhile post-marxisms, we found a dude who is post-everything. Our reading is from "Ironic Strategies" from Baudrillard's Fatal Strategies (amzn.to/3ZqeDhS), and it turned out to be a pretty seductive text all around.All episodes and exclusive video: patreon.com/plasticpills
Louis Althusser & Structuralist Marxism Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2023-03-17 | Erik and Pills duo on Althusser, reading "Contradiction and Overdetermination" from the book For Marx. We read this anticipating a couple episodes trying to figure out what "post-marxism" could mean, and we don't want to strawman, and this is one of our favourite bites attempting to delineate what Marxist theory can and cannot aspire to.Get all the exclusive eps at patreon.com/plasticpills
Slavoj Zizek vs. Wokeness Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2023-03-03 | Zizek allegedly wrote an article on the problems of wokeness and we argued about it. Reactionary? Transphobic? Trolling? We don't agree (with each other).The article: compactmag.com/article/wokeness-is-here-to-stayThe rest of our episodes are available at www.patreon.com/plasticpills
Pill Pod 111 - Spectacles of The Integrated Spectacle Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2023-02-18 | How many of the intellectual left were assassinated by the CIA? THE TRUTH WILL SHOCK YOU! Guy Debord's head inflates by the time he gets to his book written about his own book, Comments on the Society of Spectacle amzn.to/3lLEsLa then we argue over whether America or China is more spectacular, in this last episode of our series on the Situationist International.If you like this kind of content there's more at patreon.com/plasticpills
THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2023-02-03 | We cover The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord, the most popular output of the Situationist International (amzn.to/3HRp0pj). Stay tuned for future spectaclesGet all the eps at patreon.com/plasticpills
The Situationist International Theory of Revolution Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2023-01-20 | 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 topics including art, revolution, and the Los Angeles Watts riots to see what of their imagination might be recovered. Links to Articles:"The Revolution of Modern Art and the Modern Art of Revolution" https://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/si/modernart.html"The Decline and Fall of the Spectacle-Commodity Economy"https://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/si/decline.htmlDon't miss any episodes and support our podcast: patreon.com/plasticpills
BURNOUT SOCIETY by Byung-Chul Han *UNLOCK* Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2022-12-23 | FROM THE VAULT! It's been a while since we released an exclusive episode, but I thought this that this episode is as pertinent as it ever was, so enjoy this release from two years ago, and Merry Christmas.It's a discussion of The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han (whom we had then recently discovered, by the sound of it).Find the book here: amzn.to/3sW85ILAs always, get more of this every week by joining us at patreon.com/plasticpills
AI, Transhumanism & Silicon Valley Singularity Cults Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2022-12-17 | After our episode claiming that ChatGPT would destroy university education as it currently exists, we had to de-mythologize the dumb philosophy status quo of Silicon Valley and its weird mix of objectivism, stoicism, and effective altruism. References from kurzweilai.net/the-transhuman-singularityAll episodes and exclusive videos at patreon.com/plasticpills
AI & the New Crisis of Humanities Education Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2022-12-09 | Not with a whimper, but with a bang: it's time for another crisis of the Humanities. Students, then teachers, then administrators will realize that AI has nullified our current evaluation methods in academia. In this episode we discuss the implications of OpenAI for essay writing, and how to prevent universities from devolving into AIs reading AIs.All episodes can be found at patreon.com/plasticpills
Pill Pod 100 Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2022-11-06 | It's a "party" for our 100th episode! Thanks for everyone who helped us reach this milestone by listening, guesting, supporting us on patreon, or whatever else, and special thanks to everyone who submitted voice clips.To find out what everyone's working on mentioned in this episode:Diego: @DiegoRuzzarin diegoruzzarin.com/Chris: @aufgehendeRest epochemagazine.org/56/the-influence-of-plato-on-schellings-living-cosmos-the-timaeus-the-freedom-essay-and-ages-of-the-worldMatt: @MattPolProf areomagazine.com/2022/04/11/is-postmodernism-neo-marxistVictor: @victorbruzzonePills: @plasticpills youtube.com/c/plasticpills Erik: No fixed address
Pill Pod 98 - Ricky Rorty: Derrida vs. Habermas Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2022-10-25 | This resembles one of our FIGHT NIGHT episodes, except the whole of it is mediated by another philosopher, Richard Rorty. We give a bit of background to philosophical pragmatism before trying to get a read on what philosophy is for according to each of these three authors. Is it for self-help? Can it solve 'real' problems? Or is philosophy just cope?Find the public link on our patreon page patreon.com/plasticpills
Materialist Theogany ft. Diego Ruzzarin Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2022-10-04 | We covered this from every perspective we could get to, featuring some Spinoza, Marx, Benjamin, and corntology, among other references with @DiegoRuzzarin. Please enjoy us bumping into things and trying to figure out what a life's all about.
Metamorphosis by Kafka Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2022-09-26 | We are joined by LitVic for a special literature episode looking at the puzzling tale of a guy who gets turned into a bug.Find the whole text here gutenberg.org/ebooks/5200Find LitVic on Twitter! @HoratioVictor
ADIEU LACAN | Plastic Pills Podcast Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2022-08-26 | Brace yourselves for two and a half hours focused on Lacan's psychoanalytic method. We are joined partway through by Director/Auteur Richard Ledes, who has brought Lacan to the silver screen in a film we're proud to hype up: ADIEU LACAN.To watch the film, (which is pretty safely the only decent depiction of psychoanalysis we've ever seen) you can find it on Amazon and Apple in English, or go to richardledes.com/films to watch it in other langauges.If you enjoy our content, help us keeping making it by sharing, algo-boosting, rating or joining our Patreon to get the other half of the episodes patreon.com/plasticpills@plasticpills @victorbruzzone @podpill @ledesr
The Idea of Communism IV ft. Diego Ruzzarin Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2022-07-20 | It's more answers without questions, in part IV of our "Idea of Communism" series (find part 1 here: youtu.be/I8fzgP_8xrw). We're getting the hot takes from @DiegoRuzzarin on what he thinks the Idea of Communism means for Latin America particularly, what's up with psychoanalysis, and the other stuff he's working on.Find our content mill over at patreon.com/plasticpills
Know Your Enemy ft. Matt Sitman Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2022-07-12 | Today's a political theory day, speaking with the Know Your Enemy podcast's Matthew Sitman, a former young conservative. Starting with some Roe v. Wade, we then dive deep into the intellectual right's endless fascination with Straussian philosophy (that's Leo Strauss), its underlying esotericism, and its connection to the American right's current political projects.There's a lot of namedropping (both of individuals and institutions) in this episode, so if there are outstanding questions you can tweet them at @matthewsitman, @mattpolprof, and @victorbruzzoneMore of our videos and episodes at patreon.com/plasticpills
The Idea of Communism I - Alain Badiou Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2022-06-17 | 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 amzn.to/3xZJjMw, The Idea of Communism II amzn.to/3OkDYVd, and The Idea of Communism III amzn.to/3b8e3lbJoin up with us on Patreon to get all of the upcoming episodes at patreon.com/plasticpills
The Deleuze Seminars ft. Professor Daniel W. Smith Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast 2022-06-14 | Pills is graced by the presence of the eminent Deleuze scholar, editor, and translator, Daniel W. Smith. Dan explains how he came to Deleuzian philosophy, why it matters, and previews the exciting Deleuze Seminars project, which is almost finished translating 20 years of Deleuze's lectures into English. The Deleuze Seminars Project can be found at: https://deleuze.cla.purdue.edu/Spotify Mirror: open.spotify.com/episode/0hIXVJXfZpYKdQZl3YtOM7?si=aUvZrJWuQP6vdbwxRM64DASi vous pouvez comprendre le français, il y en a plus a la Bibliotheque Nationale de France https://gallica.bnf.fr/html///und/enregistrements-sonores/gilles-deleuze-cours-donnes-luniversite-paris-8-vincennes-saint-denis-1979-0?mode=desktopThis interview was too good to keep private, but if you want to see more, including more exclusive Deleuze videos, you can support us at patreon.com/plasticpills
