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PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy
The Pill Pod is hosted by a group of PhDs offering their irreverent (and unsolicited) takes on critical theory, philosophy, culture, and politics.
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- PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy
The Ethics of Pandemics (Bonus Interview)
Here's a new experiment! Pill Pod's Victor (@victorbruzzone) meets up with Michelle Charette (@michgenevievec) to co-host this interview with Professor…
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Pill Pod 19 - Derridalirium (preview)
We asked our patrons to give us a topic this week, and they were thirsty for this Derrida hottie. Catch the full episode up on our Patreon…
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Microdose - Cybernetics & Systems Theory
Pure theory. Join @plasticpills and @t8erik for an introduction to cybernetics and systems theory. Politics has tired us out so we are retreating to the high…
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Pill Pod 18 - Socialism in Bidenland, Inshallah (ft. Shawn Gude)
The Pill Pod gets schooled by Jacobin associate editor, Shawn Gude on American socialism past and present. We talk intra-left spats, whether theorists have a…
PlasticPills Critical Theory & PhilosophyDeleuze on the Lost Tapes (ft. Charles Stivale)
Today we are #blessed by the presence of OG Deleuze scholar and translator Charles Stivale, who is descending to impart his wisdom on Deleuze and "The Deleuze…
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Pill Pod 17 - LARPING in the Vampire Castle (Preview)
Hey ya'll. Join us for a tour de Mark Fisher, as we read "Exiting the Vampire Castle" as well as Tankies' comments on Matt's article on liberal socialism…
PlasticPills Critical Theory & PhilosophyOverdose - Marxism AND/OR/NOT Liberalism (ft. Igor Shoikhedbrod)
Victor (@victorbruzzone) and Matt (@mattpolprof) grill Igor (@ishoikhedbrod) on his bold new book, Revisiting Marx's Critique of Liberalism, which argues that…
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Pill Pod 16 - Getting Schooled in Frankfurt (Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse, Habermas)
Returning to the Frankfurt School, the Pill Pod (@mattpolprof, @t8erik, @plasticpills) + guest SHALON, figure out a plan for using a few small Neo-Marxist…
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Pill Pod 14 - Are Nietzsche and Heidegger too Dangerous to Read?
The Pill Pod is joined by Professor Ronald Beiner, author of Dangerous Minds: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Return of the Far Right (Link…
PlasticPills Critical Theory & PhilosophyOverdose - Nietzsche (Preview)
Pour a coffee, or something stronger, because this is a special one: a 5 course, two-hour-long discussion of Nietzsche, his significance to 20th century…
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Microdose - John Rawls and Left Liberalism
It's a political philosophy hour with @MattPolProf and @Victorbruzzone, who offer a leftist reading of John Rawls' concept of justice, and how it might be…
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Process Metaphysics in Deleuze, Whitehead, Bergson
Chris is back with Plastic Pills to talk about ontology and metaphysics, contrasting the "major philosophy" of substance metaphysics with the "minor…
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Pill Pod 13 - Worst Marx in the Class
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…
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Pill Pod 12 (Preview) - The Dialectic of Recognition
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…
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Pill Pod 10 - The Last Hegel on the Left
Our colleague BORNA joins @mattpolprof, @t8erik, @plasticpills to attempt the impossible: explain Hegel's politics of the State. Is Hegel the bad Walmart of…
PlasticPills Critical Theory & PhilosophyPill Pod 9 (Preview) - Familiarizing Foucault
@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…
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Pill Pod 8 - What the Fouc is The State?
@Mattpolprof, @plasticpills, @victorbruzzone, @t8erik and guest, Marion, take an open approach to understand two words: State and Power. We pretty much end up…
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Pill Pod 7 - Cancel Couture
The party (@Mattpolprof, @plasticpills, and @victorbruzzone) discusses the fearsome cancel culture, the opposition fantasies of wokists and anti-wokists, and…
PlasticPills Critical Theory & PhilosophyDeleuze & Guattari's Thousand Plateaus ft. Prof Ian Buchanan (2/2)
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…
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Deleuze & Guattari's Thousand Plateaus ft. Prof Ian Buchanan (1/2)
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…
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Deleuze: An Introduction
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…
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Pill Pod 6 - The Amerika Episode
We are joined by our very own European* critic to discuss American civic religion and its textured mythos of religion, rebellion, and race.
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Pill Pod 5 - Revolution Rip Tide
@Mattpolprof, @t8erik and @Plasticpills consider the value of "revolution" as a concept or as a political goal of left-wing politics. Starting with Alain…
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Microdose - Vitalism and the Philosophy of Life
Plasticpills and Christopher Satoor sit down to dialogue about vitalism, including philosophers such as Leibniz, Maine de Biran, Bergson, and Deleuze. What is…
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Pill Pod 4 - Conspiracy Brained
The midwives of the soul discuss conspiracy brain--not individual conspiracies, but the political, psychoanalytic, and semiological dimensions of conspiracy…
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Pill Pod 3 - Quarantine Agamben! Covidical Theory and States of Exception
Join us as we argue about this article, where Agamben (critical theorist) says coronavirus isn't real, and this article, dunking on his take. We then call each…
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Pill Pod 2 - Realism, Antirealism & Coronavirus
Join us for our sophmore episode, from quarantine, in which we discuss Baudrillard, Derrida, and whether or not Covid 19 is real.
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Pill Pod 1 - Why Critical Theory? Reading Bruno Latour
The second first episode of the PlasticPills pod. There may be a reason to podcast on critical theory, and we try to figure out what that is through reading…