PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

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 originates with Hegel. We have Borna back with us again to guide us through the Phenomenology of Spirit and beyond.   Check out www.patreon.com/plasticpills to support the Pill Pod and dose up on this and future episodes.   Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: https://amzn.to/2Fw7Qjq Kojeve's Lecture on Hegel: https://amzn.to/2Cw84Wv

Our colleague BORNA joins @mattpolprof, @t8erik, @plasticpills to attempt the impossible: explain Hegel's politics of the State. Is Hegel the bad Walmart of philosophy? Or may his ethics yet have emancipatory potential for left-minded thought? We sometimes offer definitive answers and even evidence in accordance with the historical development of our freedom. Check out www.patreon.com/plasticpills to support the Pill Pod and dose up on exclusive and future episodes.

@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 introduction if you're rusty.    Check out www.patreon.com/plasticpills to support the Pill Pod and dose up on this and future episodes.

Guest Marion joins @Mattpolprof, @plasticpills, @victorbruzzone, @t8erik to discuss state and power through the lens of Foucault. They explore interpretations of Hegel's philosophy, power as a dispersed phenomenon, controversial thesis on cancel culture, power in social reality, power relations in language, necropolitics and its relation to the state, regulation of sexuality, and reflections on state power.

The party (@Mattpolprof, @plasticpills, and @victorbruzzone) discusses the fearsome cancel culture, the opposition fantasies of wokists and anti-wokists, and have a first read of the literati's Harper's letter.  Check out Patreon to support the Pill Pod and dose up on all future episodes

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 Deleuze and Guattari's notion "deterritorialization" with respect to racism, their concept of 'The Refrain' from Thousand Plateaus, and Ian stokes some philosophy drama between Deleuze, Alain Badiou, and Slavoj Zizek. Oh yea and we talk about Disney's Cars and storm troopers in Disneyland. Ian's new book, Assemblage Theory and Method, hits shelves Sept 2020. For our exclusive content, and other doses, join PlasticPills on Patreon www.patreon.com/plasticpills

PlasticPills and Chris chat with Ian Buchanan, an expert on Deleuze and founder of the Deleuze and Guattari Studies Journal. They discuss the relationship between Deleuze and Guattari's work and that of Foucault, the concept of Desire and the State, potential misinterpretations of 'A Thousand Plateaus,' and the significance of desire in understanding history and oppression.

Ian Buchanan, a leading Deleuze scholar, discusses the significance and complexity of Deleuze's philosophy, exploring his concept of minor philosophy, identity as resistance, and the connection between bird sounds and human creativity. The podcast also touches on being an artist, the plasticity of society, and de-territorializing education.

We are joined by our very own European* critic to discuss American civic religion and its textured mythos of religion, rebellion, and race.

@Mattpolprof, @t8erik and @Plasticpills consider the value of "revolution" as a concept or as a political goal of left-wing politics. Starting with Alain Badiou, we discuss guillotines, Marxism, BLM, the sign economy, and the aesthetics of burning Wendy's.