Theory & Philosophy
David Guignion
Welcome! My name’s David Guignion and I distill complicated philosophical and theoretical ideas for wide audiences. While ideas are important to help us understand the world, it is even more important to put ideas into action. Some of this channel’s key theoretical and pragmatic influences include, but are not limited to, Marxism, Decolonialization, Feminism, Gender and Queer theory, and Critical Race Theory.
This channel’s content is recorded on the in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal, the traditional territory of the Kanien’kehà:ka, comprised of
the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Huron/Wendat, Abenaki, and Anishinaabeg.
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIq2xNjGAof0cCUaKbco6HQ
This channel’s content is recorded on the in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal, the traditional territory of the Kanien’kehà:ka, comprised of
the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Huron/Wendat, Abenaki, and Anishinaabeg.
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIq2xNjGAof0cCUaKbco6HQ
Episodes
Mentioned books
Sep 21, 2019 • 39min
David Golumbia's "The Cultural Logic of Computation"
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This this episode I take up David Golumbia's book, "The Cultural Logic of Computation." Pairing the post-structuralist theoretical tradition with media theory, Golumbia takes aim at the systematic attempts to computationalize humanity.
Sep 21, 2019 • 1h 7min
Jean Baudrillard's "The Illusion of the End"
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This text, a marker of what some call the late Baudrillard, presents some of Baudrillard's concerns for the age of simulation. From nuclear destruction to disease to disappearance, he leaves no theoretical stone unturned.
Sep 21, 2019 • 57min
Rosi Braidotti's "The Posthuman"
This podcast explores post-humanism and focuses on Rosi Braidotti's text 'The Posthuman'. It discusses the concepts of posthumanism and anti-humanism, explores the idea of becoming and its association with animals, delves into the human-animal bond, explores the concept of auto-poetic subjectivation and transness, and critiques the book's claim of the best posthuman world.
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Sep 21, 2019 • 59min
Friedrich Nietzsche "On The Genealogy of Morality"
Dive into Nietzsche's provocative exploration of morality as a social construct rather than an absolute truth. Unpack the dynamics of 'good' and 'bad' shaped by societal influences, including the concept of ressentiment. Examine the tension between individual guilt and societal pressures, urging a departure from nihilism and monotheism. Delve into the critique of asceticism and its impact on personal identity, while advocating for genuine self-expression and autonomy in moral beliefs.
Sep 21, 2019 • 35min
Mary Beard's "Women and Power"
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In this episode, I present Mary Beard's "Women & Power." The strength of Beard's text is her genealogical account of women being silenced throughout our history. I also try to simultaneously justify and challenge some of the liberal feminist notions that are present in this text.
Sep 21, 2019 • 44min
Jean Baudrillard's "The Transparency of Evil"
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In this episode I tackles Baudrillard's enigmatic text, "The Transparency of Evil." I try to contextualize some of his more difficult claims within the broader spectrum of his work in order to construct a clear portrait of his project here.
Sep 21, 2019 • 38min
Michel Foucault's "The History of Sexuality Vol. 2" (Part 3/3)
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In this episode, I finish my dissection of the second volume to the History of Sexuality. In this episode, we get a glimpse of Foucault's excavation of Greek sexual customs and the subsequent emergence of individuality and subjectivity.
Sep 21, 2019 • 49min
Michel Foucault's "The History of Sexuality Vol. 2" (Part 2/3)
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In this episode, I continue my exploration of "The Use of Pleasure," the second volume to "The History of Sexuality" series. In this episode I take aim at the second and third sections, Dietetics and Economics respectively. In these sections we get a glimpse at Foucault's consideration of the Greek regimen around sexuality
Sep 21, 2019 • 50min
Michel Foucault's "The History of Sexuality Vol. 2" (Part 1/3)
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In this part, we move to the second volume of the History of Sexuality. In this books, Foucault extends his temporal scope of sexuality to go as far back as the Greeks. Foucault does this for a number of reasons but may, I believe, be understood primarily as his move to dissuade the argument that asceticism, or the control of sexuality, is a phenomenon rooted in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Sep 21, 2019 • 44min
Bent Flyvbjerg's "Making Social Science Matter"
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In this episode, I take a detour into Flyvbjerg's "Making Social Science Matter," a text written nearly twenty years ago but is as relevant as ever given the current assault on the Social Sciences and Humanities in academia
