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Sep 2, 2023 • 1h 35min
Deleuze: Nomad Thought
This podcast delves into Deleuze's interpretation of Nietzsche and the concept of nomad thought. They also discuss capitalism's influence on sports conferences, childhood fascination with apocalyptic themes, encoding madness in books, and the nomadic war machine. They explore the problem of establishing connections and disjunctions and the relationship between money, sports, and professional wrestling.

Aug 27, 2023 • 1h 13min
Deleuze: Nietzsche and Philosophy Pt 2
This podcast episode delves into the concepts of guilt, reactive knowledge, and societal standards through the lens of Deleuze's exploration of Nietzsche's philosophy. The hosts discuss topics such as the parable of the prodigal son, feelings of failure and self-blame, Deleuze's advocacy for stoicism, nihilism and perspectivism, the concept of God, and Nietzsche's concept of the Overman.

Aug 20, 2023 • 1h 50min
Deleuze: Nietzsche and Philosophy Pt 1
A podcast discussing Deleuze's monograph on Nietzsche, exploring topics such as translations and interpretations of Nietzsche's works, the concept of truth and fidelity to situations, Deliz's thought development, persistence of concepts in Nietzsche's work, Deleuze's concept of number, Derrida's deconstruction, telos and radical imminence, concept creation, and the unity of domination and multiplicity.

Aug 6, 2023 • 1h 56min
Claire Colebrook - Who Would You Kill to Save the World
This week Claire Colebrook joined Taylor and Coop for a discussion of her new book, Who Would You Kill to Save the World. Claire is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Philosophy, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Penn State University. Claire is the author of over a dozen books spanning a broad range of disciplines and topics.
We speak about micropolitics, cinematic ontology, and more.
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Jul 29, 2023 • 1h 3min
Paul Virilio's War and Cinema
This week Taylor and Cooper have a look at Paul Virilio's War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception. We spend some time discussing the pseudo-concept of cinematic ontology, the co-development of both film and war machinery, and much more.
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Jul 23, 2023 • 1h 31min
Katherine Everitt - De La Boetie's The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude
This week we're joined by Katherine Everitt, a PhD candidate at the European Graduate School. She is completing her dissertation on Hegel and the dialectics of space and is joining us for a look at The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude by Etienne de la Boétie and Montaigne’s essay “On Friendship”.
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Jul 4, 2023 • 1h 30min
Ben Woodard - Bergson's Creative Evolution
This week Ben Woodard joined us for a discussion on Henri Bergson's Creative Evolution. Topics include, vitalism, evolution, science fiction and more.
Ben Woodard is currently a research fellow at the ICI in Berlin, Germany. From 2017–20 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the IPK (Institute of Philosophy and Sciences of Art) at Leuphana University where he completed a habilitation on the analytic/continental divide in philosophy through the work of F.H. Bradley. Since 2020 Ben has lectured at the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy mostly on the history, philosophy, and politics of the life sciences. In broad terms, his work focuses on the relationship between naturalism and idealism in the long 19th century. Ben also writes on science fiction and horror film and literature.
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Jun 18, 2023 • 1h 28min
Deleuze: Bergsonism
This week Coop and Taylor tackled Gilles Deleuze's monograph on the French philosopher, Henri Bergson.
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Jun 12, 2023 • 1h 31min
Espen Hammer - Philosophy and Temporality from Kant to Critical Theory
This week Coop and Taylor are joined by Espen Hammer, His main interests are in Kant and German Idealism, social and political philosophy, modern European philosophy, phenomenology, Critical Theory, and aesthetics. Some of his works include Adorno's Modernism: Art, Experience, and Catastrophe, Adorno and the Political (Thinking the Political), and of course the topic of today’s discussion: Philosophy and Temporality from Kant to Critical Theory.
Topics of discussion include, acceleration, modernity, temporality, time, investment, and more.
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Jun 4, 2023 • 1h 24min
Deleuze: Kant's Critical Philosophy
This week Coop and Taylor take a crack at Deleuze's Kant's Critical Philosophy. We cover the famous phrase, "time is out of joint", the categorical imperative, the law, and much more.
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