PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast
The Pill Pod is hosted by a group of PhDs offering their irreverent (and unsolicited) takes on critical theory, philosophy, culture, and politics.
Latest episodes
Apr 2, 2021 • 6min
Pill Pod 35 - Amnesty Intellectual (preview)
The Pill Pod discusses the rage of elites: ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM. But that's not all! There's also the techno-material conditions for intellectuals, cocaine in coffee houses, and how the university itself has become an anti-intellectual institution. Listen to this episode and our other bonus audio/video content on Patreon, at www.patreon.com/plasticpills
Mar 25, 2021 • 1h 15min
The Words are Gifts: Indigenous Politics & Wittgenstein ft. Dale Turner
Professor Dale Turner joins Matt and Victor to discuss Wittgenstein, 'ways of life', and their application to indigenous politics and treaty relationships in settler states. Turner is a political theorist at the University of Toronto and author of This is Not a Peace Pipe: Towards a Critical Indigenous Philosophy https://amzn.to/3fettog
Mar 23, 2021 • 1h 35min
Pill Pod 34 - The Snyder Nut: Psychoanalysis & Film
Spoiler warnings: That new DC film, Fight Club, Starship Troopers. This is a performative attempt to theorize the relationship between popular cultural, moral totems, and a libidinal economy. Follow @PodPill and check out www.patreon.com/plasticpills to dose up on exclusive episodes and video content.
Mar 19, 2021 • 8min
Microdose - Gramsci (preview)
Join Pills, Matt, and Erik for our Patreon voted topic: A romp through the Formation of the Intellectuals from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci. Listen to this episode and our other bonus content on Patreon, at www.patreon.com/plasticpills
Mar 16, 2021 • 1h 23min
Pill Pod 33 - Not Another Morality Episode!
The accusations fly again this week: Who's more crypto-normativist? Who has fewer implied premises? Who really has the moral high ground? Whence Nietzsche? Who even picked this episode topic anyway? Follow @PodPill and check out www.patreon.com/plasticpills to dose up on exclusive episodes and video content.
Mar 8, 2021 • 46min
Matt Interviews a Conservative (ft. Nate Hochman)
In an attempt to foster Rational Discourse™, Matt (@MattPolProf) interviews Nate Hochman (@njhochman) to discuss topics including insanity, Truth, and the common ground of the non-institutional left and right.
Mar 5, 2021 • 11min
Pill Pod 32 - Accountability Studies (preview)
Marcuse is trending? What year is it? Listen to this episode and our other bonus content on Patreon, at www.patreon.com/plasticpills
Feb 26, 2021 • 1h 19min
Pill Pod 31 - (un)Happiness in Theory
Doomscrolling, Cthulu, and Mark Fisher. Why's theory more cool when it's unhappy? We try to catheterize depressive tendencies and make happy based. Follow @PodPill and check out www.patreon.com/plasticpills to dose up on exclusive episodes and video content.
Feb 19, 2021 • 57min
The Nazi Conspiracies ft. Sir Richard Evans
Was the Reichstag fire a false flag? Did the Nazis uncover secret alien technology in Antarctica? Was Trump a Fascist? The answers may shock you! The PillPod welcomes our first knight to the podcast, historian Richard J. Evans, author of the Third Reich Trilogy and the newly released The Hitler Conspiracies, available here: https://amzn.to/3azsMTP
Feb 17, 2021 • 5min
Sociology of Religion ft. Galen Watts (preview)
Matt interviews @Galen_Watts on liberal religion, i.e. those who identify as "spiritual but not religious," using the sociological method of Emile Durkheim. Listen to this episode and all of our other bonus content on Patreon, at www.patreon.com/plasticpills
