Pill Pods Nietzsche Overdose *UNLOCKED*Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast2024-10-11 | Pill Pods Nietzsche Overdose *UNLOCKED*MAGACommunism & Philosophy: HAZ on Marx, Heidegger and Dugin @PlasticPillsPill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast2024-10-04 | "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.
Find our recent episodes on fascist philosophy ad-free at patreon.com/plasticpillsHegelian Egirl Council Explained by @JREG @PlasticPillsPill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast2024-08-31 | 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 episodes are found only at patreon.com/plasticpillsEmile Durkheim: Society as Magic, Society as ReligionPill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast2024-08-06 | 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/plasticpillsThe Straussian Plot Against AmericaPill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast2024-07-13 | 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/plasticpillsBiden vs. Trump Debate & The Economy of FearPill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast2024-06-30 | We recap the Trump-Biden debate and then discuss the politics and economy of fear. Sources include Armageddon, Strauss, Hegel, and Durkheim.
Find our second episode and all the others at patreon.com/plasticpillsIs Existentialism Ethical?Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast2024-06-05 | We read Simone DeBeauvoir's defense of Existentialism as an ethic that is not hyper-individualistic, nihilistic or absurdist.
Find the 1Dime podcast on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/0yQRX2YMFFsCMekReE9toW?si=798a164d02884310Andy Warhol & The End of ArtPill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast2024-03-27 | 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.
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Although 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.ChristofascismPill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast2024-02-20 | Listen to our public episodes ad-free, for free, at patreon.com/plasticpills
What 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 HistoryPill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast2024-01-30 | 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 HistoryPill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast2024-01-14 | 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. 1/2Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast2023-12-15 | 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. PhilosophyPill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast2023-12-13 | Some oversimplified Badiou plus a look at his book Wittgenstein's Antiphilosophy (amzn.to/47xStiv)Edgar Allen Poe & The Fall of the House of UsherPill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast2023-12-08 | 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.
We took its FRESH NEW RADICAL academic wing out for a spin, as seen in this book: amzn.to/3So0kKH.The Martin Heidegger Nazi DebatePill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast2023-10-31 | 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 MythologyPill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast2023-10-26 | Erik and Pills break down the myth of grooming, childhood, sexuality and the semiotic systems which produced them.Gaza & Frantz Fanon on ViolencePill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast2023-10-24 | 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.
Our previous two episodes covering "Mythologies" are on Patreon at patreon.com/plasticpillsFairy Tale FeminismPill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast2023-07-30 | 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.
Everyone 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/plasticpillsWe Have Never Been Modern - Bruno LatourPill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast2023-07-08 | 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.
Don't miss an episode! patreon.com/plasticpillsWestern Civilization According to Francis BaconPill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast2023-05-19 | 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.
Get all our eps at patreon.com/plasticpillsBernard Stiegler & Posthumanist Post-Marxism (ft. Diego Ruzzarin)Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast2023-04-14 | 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).
@DiegoRuzzarin @PlasticPills Find Victor on Twitter @victorbruzzone and you can't find Erik anywhere, sry.Baudrillard as Post-MarxistPill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast2023-03-31 | 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/plasticpillsLouis Althusser & Structuralist MarxismPill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast2023-03-17 | 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/plasticpillsSlavoj Zizek vs. WokenessPill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast2023-03-03 | 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 rest of our episodes are available at www.patreon.com/plasticpillsPill Pod 111 - Spectacles of The Integrated SpectaclePill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast2023-02-18 | 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.
Get all the eps at patreon.com/plasticpillsThe Situationist International Theory of RevolutionPill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast2023-01-20 | 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.html
Don't miss any episodes and support our podcast: patreon.com/plasticpillsBURNOUT SOCIETY by Byung-Chul Han *UNLOCK*Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast2022-12-23 | 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).
As always, get more of this every week by joining us at patreon.com/plasticpillsAI, Transhumanism & Silicon Valley Singularity CultsPill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast2022-12-17 | 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.
All episodes and exclusive videos at patreon.com/plasticpillsAI & the New Crisis of Humanities EducationPill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast2022-12-09 | 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/plasticpillsPill Pod 100Pill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast2022-11-06 | 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.
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Erik: No fixed addressPill Pod 98 - Ricky Rorty: Derrida vs. HabermasPill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast2022-10-25 | 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/plasticpillsMaterialist Theogany ft. Diego RuzzarinPill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast2022-10-04 | 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 KafkaPill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast2022-09-26 | 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 LitVic on Twitter! @HoratioVictorADIEU LACAN | Plastic Pills PodcastPill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast2022-08-26 | 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.
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@plasticpills @victorbruzzone @podpill @ledesrThe Idea of Communism IV ft. Diego RuzzarinPill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast2022-07-20 | 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/plasticpillsKnow Your Enemy ft. Matt SitmanPill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast2022-07-12 | 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 @victorbruzzone
Join up with us on Patreon to get all of the upcoming episodes at patreon.com/plasticpillsThe Deleuze Seminars ft. Professor Daniel W. SmithPill Pod Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast2022-06-14 | 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/
Si 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=desktop
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