Peter Rollins - The Archive

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Capitalism and Desire | The Psychic Constitution of Private Space Sep 27, 2020

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The is an except from part two of a ten part reading group I ran on the book Capitalism and Desire by Todd McGowan. In this clip I outline the main themes from the second chapter of the text. You can find the whole course on my Patreon.

Capitalism and Desire | The Subject of Desire and the Subject of Capitalism Sep 19, 2020

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The is an except from part one of a ten part reading group I ran on the book Capitalism and Desire by Todd McGowan. In this clip I outline the main themes from the first chapter of the text. You can find the whole course on my Patreon.

Concluding Q&A Sep 19, 2020

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Concluding Q&A by Peter Rollins

Absurdo Confido | VI Jul 26, 2020

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Absurdo Confido | VI by Peter Rollins

Non-Membership | Part V Jul 19, 2020

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In this penultimate seminar in my six part series on Pyrotheology, we look at the idea of a community that helps people affirm their individuality. A community that enables us to think for ourselves, take responsibility for our actions, and find freedom from the tyranny of utopia.

The Happy Reaper | Part IV Jul 14, 2020

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In my forth seminar from the six part Pyrotheology course, we delve into the meaning of Lack as a positive force. Here we touch on the idea of a community held together by a shared loss and how the sacred returns to us in a virtual form after its loss as a fantasmic, fictional object. Get full seminars, book studies and courses by joining up at https://pyrotheology.com

The Absurd Cross | Part III Jul 06, 2020

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In this third seminar from my six part Pyrotheology course, I turn to the theological dimension of the loss of the Sacred Object as described in the previous seminars. Here we turn to the relationship between the Pleasure Principle and the Reality Principle, the Object of Desire and the Object Cause of Desire and the difference between Loss and Lack. Get full seminars, book studies and courses by joining up at https://pyrotheology.com

Secret of the Lack | Part II Jun 28, 2020

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This is the second of six seminars introducing the theory and technology of Pyrotheology. In this talk, I explore the move from a sense that we are lacking some secret that would make us whole, to the the experience of lack as the secret itself. Get full seminars, book studies and courses by joining up at https://pyrotheology.com

The Magic Trick | Part I Jun 21, 2020

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This is the first of six seminars introducing the theory and technology of Pyrotheology. In this talk, I use the structure of a traditional magic trick to outline the trajectory of pyrotheology. Get full seminars, book studies and courses by joining up at https://pyrotheology.com

You Don't Hate Mondays, You Hate... | On Class Conflict and Displacement Jun 03, 2020

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In this talk I outline what Marx means by Class Conflict and explore why he believed that this was the central antagonism within Capitalism. Note: In the Q&A I said that I thought that the term 'Cultural Capitalism' was used by Angela Nagle on the podcast What's Left, but that's not correct.