Theory & Philosophy

In this episode, I present Donna Haraway's "A Cyborg Manifesto" where she argues for a cyborg united politics to combat the structuring tendencies of capitalism and patriarchy.  If you want to support me, you can find links for that below: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy

In this episode, I try to explain Judith Butler's idea of performativity.   If you want to support me, you can find links for that below:   Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy   paypal.me/theoryphilosophy   IG: @theory_and_philosophy

In this episode, I present the second part of "Critique of Judgment," specifically titled, "Critique of Teleological Judgment." It is here that Kant tries to look beyond the world as governed solely by the law of cause and effect to consider the possibility of ends, and the likelihood of a divine author that they necessarily imply.  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Paypal: paypal.me/theoryphilosophy Insta: @theory_and_philosophy

In this episode, I try to explain Baudrillard's theories about war, paying specific attention to his writings on the Vietnam, Gulf, and Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy  Paypal: paypal.me/theoryphilosophy Insta: @theory_and_philosophy

In this episode, I present the first half of "Critique of Judgment" that covers the "Critique of Aesthetic Judgment." Here Kant expounds upon the aesthetic judgments of the beautiful and the sublime, suggesting that our capacity for aesthetic judgment marks a points of contact between the phenomenal and noumenal worlds. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Paypal: paypal.me/theoryphilosophy  Insta: @theory_and_philosophy

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Paypal: paypal.me/theoryphilosophy Insta: @theory_and_philosophy   In this episode, I present Immanuel Kant's 2nd critique, the Critique of Practical Reason, paying attention to his understanding of freedom and its association with the moral law.

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy  paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I'm joined by Dr. Isaac Ariail Reed, Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, to discuss his most recent book, Power in Modernity: Agency Relations and the Creative Destruction of the King’s Two Bodies. Here are some links to Dr. Reed's work: Power in Modernity: Agency relations and the creative destruction of the King’s two bodies https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo48408506.html Interpretation and Social Knowledge: On the use of theory in the human sciences https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo11636599.html “Deep culture in action: resignification, synecdoche, and metanarrative in the moral panic of the Salem Witch Trials” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11186-014-9241-4 Isaac Ariail Reed and Julia Adams, “Culture in Transitions to Modernity: Seven pillars of a new research agenda” https://sociology.yale.edu/sites/default/files/reed_adams_theory_and_society_2011_1.pdf 

In this episode, I'm joined by Deeplina, doctoral student in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at the University of Western Ontario to discuss the work of Saadat Hasan Manto and its connection with the India/Pakistan Partition. You can find Deeplina and her work here: http://thedialoguemedia.com/analysis/remembering-the-faceless-heroines-of-bangladesh-liberation-war/?fbclid=IwAR3fVkps72GL8l6Mh1bEvdmo45l5rLgrb3DSP6lMGeTL1H29ARJocA-Z9MM https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/2019/01/15/rohingya-womanhood-why-were-so-many-women-sexually-abused-and-assaulted-when-they-were-driven-out-of-rakhine/?fbclid=IwAR2J7oqIQMVhNQqGyPgn5ArnUSa4b7s9OwgQrxs6p9bz6gy0lTfUvBoDGb0 https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ffeminisminindia.com%2F2020%2F08%2F05%2Fme-too-movement-rural-india-margins%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2a-tNzVIGGyx9F90--0t7QuA3KiZi8SziCU03ruMKZIDi-Gicffa9bTVk&h=AT3r-45iR2janRYQfYd6lA-6l7gV7ZUPatOlNSo7D6sNscc5C4RvWYWChTqyKjfn9TeIZPucWkkGcAo1Ej_8jA1lB3szEI-J5TB8arGnQzMdP7f5H5vBSH5fpgbjm5FbN6Q https://feminisminindia.com/2020/04/07/covid-19-feminist-killjoys-toxic-productivity-academy/?fbclid=IwAR35yYJmcVxIzghSlFoUwxpe6Mpxy51q4wXuBmqd9TlXTTnw90_xuoiJIcc https://www.facebook.com/deeplina.banerjee https://www.instagram.com/deeplinaaaaaa/?hl=en&fbclid=IwAR1NfxOCTGsEUW5enykFLGPqOD-k_BJu3iWEbA4L_tLv9TUU7n7pUpbIBuA https://twitter.com/DeeplinaBanerj2?fbclid=IwAR07QqWQirwplaT_fFQOtkTHLIegK5OCKzi5MNiRu8FcWrcgZgggdIBJN44 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy

In this episode, I present Michel Foucault's theory of the Panopticon. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Paypal: paypal.me/theoryphilosophy Insta: @theory_and_philosophy    In this episode, I present "Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals," a necessary read to comprehend the movement that Kant makes from the Critique of Pure Reason to the Critique of Practical Reason.