Theory & Philosophy

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy                              paypal.me/theoryphilosophy                                                                                                    IG: @theory_and_philosophy                                                                                                Intro song: Danosongs-Sky Seeds - Trance Mix Consider donating here if you can: https://blacklivesmatter.com/ In this episode, I present Benjamin's approach to a critique of violence. To do this, he opposes Divine violence to Mythic violence, violence that manifests itself in the form of law as we know it.

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy                                       paypal.me/theoryphilosophy                                                                                                      IG: @theory_and_philosophy                                                                                                Intro song: Danosongs-Sky Seeds - Trance Mix                                                                        Consider donating here if you can: https://blacklivesmatter.com/ In this episode, I present Marcuse's concern about tolerance in its maintaining the present oppressive structures of our world.

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy  Podbean: https://theoretician.podbean.com/                                        paypal.me/theoryphilosophy                                                                                                    IG: @theory_and_philosophy                                                                                                Intro song: Danosongs-Sky Seeds - Trance Mix In this brief episode, I present Mao's views of dialectical materialism.

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Paypal: paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I present Byung-Chul Han's "The Topology of Violence" where he argues that our present "achievement-society" is burdened by excess positivity that contributes to our present collective and individual existential crises. 

The podcast explores Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' 'The Communist Manifesto', discussing the history of class struggles, the emergence of the bourgeoisie, the exploitation of the proletariat in capitalism, and the different types of socialism. They analyze the key ideas and goals of the manifesto.

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy                                                    Paypal: paypal.me/theoryphilosophy                                                                                        IG: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I present Mark Fisher's "Capitalist Realism." Here, Fisher argues that we are immersed in a totalizing logic of capitalist exploitation that convinces us that it is the only economic, political, and social option. 

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy                                               Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy                                                    Paypal: paypal.me/theoryphilosophy In this episode, I turn my attention to Descartes' "Meditations on First Philosophy" where he lays out his process of 'doubting' the world to arrive at the only thing left to exist--the thinking mind. 

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy                                                  Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy                                                      paypal.me/theoryphilosophy                                                                                                      In this episode, I continue my presentation of Kelly Oliver's "Witnessing: Beyond Recognition" where she considers race and the oppression of other minority groups in her proposed alternative--witnessing--to recognition.                                                                                                Timestamps: Ch. 5: False Witnesses (Beginning) Ch. 6: History, Transformation, and Vigilance (8:40) Ch. 7: Seeing Race (16:46) Ch. 8: Vision and Recognition (20:17) Ch. 9: Toward a New Vision (24:10) Conclusion: Witnessing the Power of Love (30:02).

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy                                                      Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy                                                    paypal.me/theoryphilosophy In this episode, I begin my presentation of Kelly Oliver's "Witnessing: Beyond Recognition." In this book she tries to conceptualize an anti-oppressive political strategy that is not predicated upon difference, but that is focused on the similarities that bind people. I'm joined by Helene Bigras-Dutrisac to impart her expertise of chapter 4! Timestamps:  Introduction: Beyond Recognition (Beginning) Ch. 1: Domination, Multiculturalism, and the Pathology of Recognition (21:15) Ch.2 : Identity Politics, Deconstruction, and Recognition (28:45) Ch. 3: Identity as Subordination, Abjection and Exclusion (37:36) Ch. 4: The Necessity and Impossibility of Seeing (40:14).   

Podbean: https://theoretician.podbean.com/                                                                      Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy                                                      Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy                                                                                      Paypal: paypal.me/theoryphilosophy                                                        In this episode, I continue and finish my presentation of Theodor Adorno's "The Culture Industry." Some of the key takeaways from this half include Adorno's appropriation of Freud's theories to understand the rise of Fascism; Adorno's critique of Benjamin; and Adorno's faith in theory as a form of praxis. Timestamps: Ch. 4: Culture & Administration (Beginning) Ch. 5: Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda (14:30) Ch. 6: How to Look at Television (29:30) Ch. 7: Transparencies on Film (36:20) Ch.8: Free Time (42: 09) Ch. 9: Resignation (46:41)