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James Wakefield - The Political Theology of Dune

Jan 28, 2023

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Governing According to Utilitarian Ethics

00:57

The Violence of the State

01:20

What Is the Real Foreclosed to Thought?

01:18

I'd Like to Write Something About the Children of Leviathan

01:30

Introduction

2min

What's Your Philosophy Origin Story?

5min

The Connection Between June and Totalitarianism

2min

Is It Foreclosure or Disavow?

2min

The Boss May Not Always Be Right but He's Always the Bosses

5min

The Golden Path

2min

The State and Religious Language

5min

The Golden Path

2min

The Golden Path of the Primal Father

3min

10.

The Golden Path

2min

11.

I Like What You Said Coop About the Oppression

2min

12.

The Golden Path - God Improve June

2min

13.

Orientalism - I'm Not Lido but Duncan Idaho

3min

14.

Azerut and Lido's Breeding Program

2min

15.

Is Lido the Second in His 3500 Year Reign?

2min

16.

Utilitarianism and Utopianism in General

2min

17.

The First Long Term Planner in Human History

2min

18.

Is There a Better Metaphor for Lito Than Stalin?

2min

19.

Messiah Is a New Game Plus

4min

20.

The Method of Imminence by Gente Le

4min

21.

What Is the Real Foreclosed to Thought?

2min

22.

The Importance of the Point of View

6min

23.

Is There a Secret Philosophy for Us?

3min

24.

The Malthusian Impetus

2min

25.

Environmental Ethics

4min

26.

The Impetus of the Problematics of the Imperium

2min

27.

Is There a God Like Standpoint?

2min

28.

The Genetics of Arrakis

2min

29.

The Quizot's at a Rat. Gotcha

2min

30.

Are You Just an Animal?

3min

31.

What's the Connection Between the Catachon and the Fremen?

2min

32.

Duncan Idaho's Perspective in the June Series

2min

33.

The Dogmatic Image of Thought

2min

34.

I'd Like to Write Something About the Children of Leviathan

3min

35.

The Golden Path - A History of Philosophy, Part II

4min

James Wakefield joined Coop and Taylor to discuss his chapter in the recently released Dune and Philosophy: Minds, Monads, and Muad'Dib, titled The God Emperor and the Tyrant The Political Theology of Frank Herbert’s Dune Saga. https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/457489-wakefield-james https://cardiff.academia.edu/JamesWakefield https://www.amazon.com/Dune-Philosophy-MuadDib-Blackwell-Culture/dp/1119841399 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

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