PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

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 philosophy, our interpretations, and finally, the DANGER of his thought. Check out www.patreon.com/plasticpills to support the Pill Pod and dose up on this and future episodes.

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 deployed in the organization of more equitable societies.   Check out www.patreon.com/plasticpills to support the Pill Pod and dose up on this and future episodes.

Dive into the intriguing world of process metaphysics, where traditional views of substance collide with the dynamic interactions of existence. The discussion highlights influential thinkers like Deleuze and Bergson, revealing how temporality shapes our understanding of reality. Music is explored as a metaphor for consciousness, emphasizing interconnectedness and memory. Philosophical concepts dance around the essence of existence, challenging Cartesian ideas while reflecting on everyday experiences and spirituality. It's a rich tapestry of thought inviting deeper reflection.

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 conservative boomers and very-high-IQ 20-year-olds. From Quillette we read "The Challenge of Marxism" (https://quillette.com/2020/08/16/the-challenge-of-marxism/), which is at least as erroneous as it is popular.   Check out www.patreon.com/plasticpills to support the Pill Pod and dose up on this and future episodes.

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