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The Supremacy of the Object: Fatal Strategies VIII (Video Exclusive)
This is a wrap for Fatal Strategies and the question at stake is the rationality of the real and the purposiveness of history. Love 'em or hate 'em, the fatal strategies are unboring to consider.
Pill Pod 112 - The Airborne Masculinity Event (Exclusive)
You decide if we keep going (or change what we cover); this one was from Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Man: Psychoanalysis and Masculinity. We'll appreciate your comments too and maybe insert a couple into a future episode.
Pill Pod 111 - Spectacles of The Integrated Spectacle
How many of the intellectual left were assassinated by the CIA? THE TRUTH WILL SHOCK YOU! Guy Debord's head inflates by the time he gets to his book written about his own book, Comments on the Society of Spectacle https://amzn.to/3lLEsLa, then we argue over whether America or China is more spectacular, in this last...
The Evil Genie of Passion: Fatal Strategies VII (Video Exclusive)
It's a Valentine's day special! Baudrillard's evil genie liberates the object from passivity, and seduction from the age-old concept of LOVE.
Pill Pod 110 - Philosophy of History in The Society of the Spectacle (Exclusive)
Part II of our Society of the Spectacle dive: Debord's philosophy of time and history. We discuss the historiography that leads to the spectacle, and the eventual universalization of time within it.
Surrealist Self-Help (Live)
I wanted to take a week off of the Baudrillard book because the next chapter is weird. This is some Freudo-Nietzsche inspired madness from Andre Breton.
Pill Pod 109 - The Society of the Spectacle I
We've been leading up to it, and here is the first spectacle of 2 on Debord's popular book (https://amzn.to/3HRp0pj). Stay tuned for future spectacles.
The Evil Genie of the Object: Fatal Strategies VI (Video Exclusive)
Baudrillard goes prophet in a big way in this one--the masses as the ultimate revenge of the object.
Pill Pod 108 - Situationist Psychogeography (Exclusive)
Why were the concepts of Unitary Urbanism, Psychogeography, and Derive central to the Situationist International? Could we build better cities? There are a bunch of short readings you can look at for more hopes and dreams, and if you are very radical, you could even go for a walk! Looking forward to your comments on yo...
The Evil Genie of the Social: Fatal Strategies V (Video Exclusive)
Part 1 of Chapter 3 in Fatal Strategies, this is Baudrillard on why "the social" is not and was never the energetic centre of politics. "Seduction" must replace "production."
Pill Pod 107 - The Situationist Theory of Revolution
From 1957 to 1972, the Situationist International published a slew of articles, pamphlets, films and journals trying to bring theoretical Marxist debates into everyday life and change public consciousness. Today we read a few of these articles on topics including art, revolution, and the Los Angeles Watts riots to see ...
Nietzsche's Philosophy of History for Life (Early Access)
Don't worry, the rest of the Baudrillard content is coming! I just took 2 weeks off to put together a video on Nietzsche (all it needs yet is the thumbnail). Some... unsavoury characters are taking over Nietzsche on Youtube so I thought I'd add a dash of nuance. Thank you all!Text source: https://amzn.to/3CPzIK...
Pill Pod 106 - Situationist International (Exclusive)
You picked it we shipped it. We are kicking off a series about the inventors of "the Spectacle"—the panEuropean cross-disciplinary theory/art/media/marxist collective known as the Situationist International.We talk quite a bit about Asger Jorn, so a couple minutes on image search of his paintings might be hel...
End of the Social (LIVE)
Our scheduling for the podcast got screwed up this week so I'm going to try to make sense of the world with livechat :D
The OBSCENE: Fatal Strategies IV (Video Exclusive)
The final "figure of the transpolitical." The figures of the obscene are everywhere, are we at the end of the end?Fatal Strategies Link: https://amzn.to/3usNspr
Baudrillard on the HOSTAGE: Fatal Strategies III (Video Exclusive)
The second "figure of the transpolitical." Here Baudrillard takes on the concept of the social and dialectical history--we are just each other's hostages. Fatal Strategies Link: https://amzn.to/3usNspr
Pill Pod 105 - AI, Transhumanism and Singularity Cults
After our episode claiming that ChatGPT would destroy university education as it currently exists, we had to de-mythologize the dumb philosophy status quo of Silicon Valley and its weird mix of objectivism, stoicism, and effective altruism. References from https://www.kurzweilai.net/the-transhuman-singularity
Baudrillard on the OBESE: Fatal Strategies II (Video Exclusive)
This is the first "figure of the transpolitical." We tend to make a big deal about the form of body we produce ourselves as in the current mediascape, but Baudrillard has a hot take on which body we should consider the form of our age. Fatal Strategies Link: https://amzn.to/3usNspr
Pill Pod 104: AI & the Crisis of the Humanities
Not with a whimper, but with a bang: it's time for another crisis of the Humanities. Students, then teachers, then administrators will realize that AI has nullified our current evaluation methods in academia. In this episode we discuss the implications of OpenAI for essay writing, and how to prevent universities fr...
The New AI and Farewell to the Human (Live)
Come do this if you're free, many of the thoughts are parallel to the current Fatal Strategies Overdose
Baudrillard Overdose: Fatal Strategies I (Video Exclusive)
What yet can theory do? Fatal Strategies Link: https://amzn.to/3usNspr
New Series Suggestions
Hey all! We are looking for some suggestions for a couple episodes dealing at length with a single theme or topic... theory adjacent, of course, and somewhat publicly accessible/interesting. If you have some ideas, throw them below, and please upvote the suggestions you like!
Pill Pod 103 - Feminist Fight Night: Nussbaum vs. Butler (Exclusive)
What was a niche, inter-feminist fight in the 90s proves to be prophetically relevant this week. Pills and Victor narrate Martha Nussbaum coming at Judith Butler and almost split the difference.Link to the article: https://newrepublic.com/article/150687/professor-parody
Upcoming
Some Baudrillard and new age stuff, the context for it is in the last concept vlog
Pill Pod 102 - Decision: Merleau-Ponty v. Derrida (Exclusive)
We started out at medieval peasant Christianity, and unexpectedly ended up at Derrida's Christianity, but went through Merleau-Ponty some more to get at the meaning of "decision." (By the way if you are interested in the philosophy of religion the guy were talking about at the end is John Caputo, and he giv...
Concept Vlog: Signs, Postmodernism & The Consumer Society (Video Exclusive)
Looking at Baudrillard's divergence from Marxism, and why we aren't done with postmodernism yet (because it aint done with you yet).Reading is The Consumer Society by Baudrillard
Midterm Spiritual Warfare (LIVE)
So, dove down a rabbit hole...
Pill Pod - Democracy 101 (Exclusive)
Recap of democracy, and the book I was referencing is Ranciere's Hatred of Democracy, as found here: https://amzn.to/3Tu5amL
PILL POD 100
It's a "party" for our 100th episode! Thanks for everyone who helped us reach this milestone by listening, supporting us on patreon, or whatever else, and special thanks to everyone who submitted voice clips. To find out what everyone's working on mentioned in this episode: Diego: @DiegoRuzzarin https:/...
