PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

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Pill Pod 13 - Worst Marx in the Class Aug 23, 2020

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It's Culture War Day as the Pill Pod suits up to read the second worst take on Marxism ever, evidently served up to quell the debilitating anxiety of both conservative boomers and very-high-IQ 20-year-olds. From Quillette we read "The Challenge of Marxism" (https://quillette.com/2020/08/16/the-challenge-of-marxism/), which is at least as erroneous as it is popular. Check out www.patreon.com/plasticpills to support the Pill Pod and dose up on this and future episodes.

Pill Pod 12 (Preview) - The Dialectic of Recognition Aug 16, 2020

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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 of Spirit and beyond. Check out www.patreon.com/plasticpills to support the Pill Pod and dose up on this and future episodes. Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: https://amzn.to/2Fw7Qjq Kojeve's Lecture on Hegel: https://amzn.to/2Cw84Wv

Pill Pod 10 - The Last Hegel on the Left Jul 31, 2020

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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 sometimes offer definitive answers and even evidence in accordance with the historical development of our freedom. Check out www.patreon.com/plasticpills to support the Pill Pod and dose up on exclusive and future episodes.

Pill Pod 9 (Preview) - Familiarizing Foucault Jul 24, 2020

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@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 dose up on this and future episodes.

Pill Pod 8 - What the Fouc is The State? Jul 23, 2020

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@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 support the Pill Pod and dose up on all future episodes.

Pill Pod 7 - Cancel Couture Jul 16, 2020

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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 Pod and dose up on all future episodes

Deleuze & Guattari's Thousand Plateaus ft. Prof Ian Buchanan (2/2) Jul 10, 2020

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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 'The Refrain' from Thousand Plateaus, and Ian stokes some philosophy drama between Deleuze, Alain Badiou, and Slavoj Zizek. Oh yea and we talk about Disney's Cars and storm troopers in Disneyland. Ian's new book, Assemblage Theory and Method, hits shelves Sept 2020. For our exclusive content, and other doses, join PlasticPills on Patreon www.patreon.com/plasticpills

Deleuze & Guattari's Thousand Plateaus ft. Prof Ian Buchanan (1/2) Jul 08, 2020

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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 extrapolation of Desire and the State. Ian's new book, Assemblage Theory and Method, hits shelves Sept 2020. For our exclusive content, and other doses, join PlasticPills on Patreon www.patreon.com/plasticpills

Deleuze: An Introduction Jul 06, 2020

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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, creativity, and how to be a nomad. For our exclusive content, and other doses, you can join the Pill Pod at www.patreon.com/plasticpills

Pill Pod 6 - The Amerika Episode Jul 01, 2020

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We are joined by our very own European* critic to discuss American civic religion and its textured mythos of religion, rebellion, and race.