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**Theory & Philosophy**

Welcome! My name’s David Guignion and I distill complicated philosophical and theoretical ideas for wide audiences. While ideas are important to help us understand the world, it is even more important to put ideas into action. Some of this channel’s key theoretical and pragmatic influences include, but are not limited to, Marxism, Decolonialization, Feminism, Gender and Queer theory, and Critical Race Theory.

This channel’s content is recorded on the in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal, the traditional territory of the Kanien’kehà:ka, comprised of
the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Huron/Wendat, Abenaki, and Anishinaabeg.

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Latest Episodes:

Sara Ahmed's "The Cultural Politics of Emotion" (Part 2/2) Jul 11, 2020

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In this episode, I conclude my presentation of Sara Ahmed's "The Cultural Politics of Emotion" focusing specifically on her attendance to the work to be done by feminism.

Timestamps: Ch. 3: The Affective Politics of Fear (Beginning) Ch. 4: The Performativity of Disgust (12:40) Ch.5: Shame Before Others (23:00) Ch. 6: In the Name of Love (28:55) Ch. 7: Queer Feelings (38:40) Ch. 8: Feminist Attachments (49:43) Conclusion: Just Emotions (55:00)

Sara Ahmed's "The Cultural Politics of Emotion" (Part 1/2) Jul 04, 2020

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In this episode, I present Sara Ahmed's "The Cultural Politics of Emotion," a very important text that explores the role of 'othering' in constituting national subjects.

Timestamps: Introduction: Feel Your Way (Beginning) Ch.1: The contingency of Pain (21:50) Ch. 2: The Organisation of Hate (38:33)

Introduction to Theory & Philosophy Jun 27, 2020

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Here I just let everyone know what this podcast is all about!

Walter Benjamin's "Critique of Violence" Jun 27, 2020

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In this episode, I present Benjamin's approach to a critique of violence. To do this, he opposes Divine violence to Mythic violence, violence that manifests itself in the form of law as we know it.

Herbert Marcuse's "Repressive Tolerance" Jun 20, 2020

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In this episode, I present Marcuse's concern about tolerance in its maintaining the present oppressive structures of our world.

Mao Zedong's "Dialectical Materialism" Jun 13, 2020

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In this brief episode, I present Mao's views of dialectical materialism.

Byung-Chul Han's "Topology of Violence" Jun 06, 2020

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In this episode, I present Byung-Chul Han's "The Topology of Violence" where he argues that our present "achievement-society" is burdened by excess positivity that contributes to our present collective and individual existential crises.

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles' "The Communist Manifesto" May 30, 2020

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In this episode, I present the seminal "Communist Manifesto." Here Marx and Engels establish both the necessity of the worker's revolution and how we can avoid being led astray by reactionary and conservative perspectives.

Mark Fisher's "Capitalist Realism" May 23, 2020

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In this episode, I present Mark Fisher's "Capitalist Realism." Here, Fisher argues that we are immersed in a totalizing logic of capitalist exploitation that convinces us that it is the only economic, political, and social option.

René Descartes' "Meditations on First Philosophy" May 16, 2020

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In this episode, I turn my attention to Descartes' "Meditations on First Philosophy" where he lays out his process of 'doubting' the world to arrive at the only thing left to exist--the thinking mind.

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