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Pill Pod 82 - 1980s Nostalgia
Reboots and renewals, bodies and images, city and pasture. The Pill Pod takes a crack at analyzing the desire structure of 80s nostalgia in popular media.
Concept Vlog: Deleuze & Guattari on Desire & Assemblage
Two hours of advertising, desire, Deleuze, and Guattari via the book of one of our past guests: Ian Buchanan, in his book Assemblage Theory and Method: https://amzn.to/3zjn0Ct
Coming Up Soon (Live)
More looks at advertising and desire.
Pill Pod 81 - The Postmodern Condition (Exclusive)
Pills, Erik and Victor tackle the boogeyman: Lyotard's Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, with reference to Wittgenstein's language-game methodology.Full text available here: https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/lyotard.htm
Pill Pod 80 - Wittgenstein
The team reassembles to talk Wittgenstein, champion of "ideas-don't-matter" philosophy, and about why he matters—even if they don't. The primary sources referenced throughout this ep are the Tractatus (https://amzn.to/3t0wD56) for Mr. Early Wittgenstein, and Philosophical Investigations (https://amzn....
The Advertising Image - Reflection
Sorry about my voice here, still got a bit of that COVID grog. Anyway I wanted to do something a little non-linear this week, and this is what I came up with. The direct citations are from Aristotle Metaphysics, Ogilvy on Advertising, D&G in What is Philosophy, and Heraclitus fragment 5
Livestream
Sorry, I forgot to post this in advance. Thanks to those of you who made it! It may still be interesting in the watch back.
Talking to America's New Right (Interview)
Matt and Victor interview Nate Hochman on conservative college campuses and America's new right.
NEW Concept Vlog - Theory Fiction: Cyclonopedia (Exclusive)
Readings are from Thousand Plateaus and Cyclonopedia (https://amzn.to/39dFAkq). This is for anyone who's bored with the current state of aesthetics:D
Pill Pod 79 - Kumbaya Posthumanism (Exclusive)
We venture into the weeds of ignorance, science, and anthropomorphism, and not even immuno-responses can stop us (sorry, this would have been out earlier but Covid's floored me since Saturday).We look at posthumanism a la Francesca Ferrando (Philosophical Posthumanism), Donna Haraway (Staying with the Trouble), and...
Dead Aesthetics (Upcoming Livestream)
There will be some more Stiegler ruminations, and I think I can float a new project idea.
Where the Hell is my Friday Episode?
I apologize on behalf of technology, we had an issue with our recording on bad posthumanism, and the fail safe failed. We'll get it to you next Tuesday or Wednesday, please accept my prostrated apologies, and I will stream so that no one suffers content-withdrawal.
America's New Right Problem ft. WaPo's Greg Sargent
Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) from the Washington Post joins Victor and Matt to discuss America's burgeoning illberal right wing. While often painted as reactionary and unintelligible, America's new right may have more coherent principles and goals than first meet the eye.
Concept Vlog - The Joan of Arc Effect. Deleuze and Guattari's Theory of History (Exclusive)
Come take a load off with some Anti-Oedipus
Pill Pod 78 - Posthumanism Manifesto
Erik and Pills do the thing. If you wonder whose name is being referenced throughout, it's the forgotten sociologist, Niklas Luhmann.You can follow us at @podpill and @plasticpills, but we don't go there much.
Pill Pod 77 - Trans/Post-Human Technics (Exclusive)
Pills and Erik talk about transhumanism as opposed to posthumanism, and compare their positions on human technology and technics. Heidegger, McLuhan, Latour and Stiegler are all noteworthy theorists of technological posthumanism, the foundation of which we try to lay out here.
Symbolic Misery (upcoming livestream)
This could be miserable.
Pill Pod 76 - Posthumanism is Good Actually Vol. 1
Erik and Pills cover posthumanism in the context of systems theory and what makes it a viable model as an alternative to humanist explanatory frameworks of how society functions. We reference Niklas Luhmann (https://amzn.to/3ObXyUq) quite a few times as well as Francesca Ferrando's "Philosophical Posthumanism&#...
NEW VIDEO RELEASE
Phew. This month has been quiet from me, but don't worry, it is only half done. We have some meditating tracks to do, some posthuman podcast episodes coming up, and some new book vlogs, but this was occupying the bulk of my time and now it is done.I set myself some parameters for this video, namely, I wanted it to ...
Christian Socialism
Socialism and Christianity have had a tenuous relationship. Our guest this week, Aaron Anderson, argues that Christianity and socialism not only have shared goals, but that uniting these goals serves as a basis for organizing in opposition to the unholy alliance of Christianity and right wing politics.Aaron is co-found...
Pill Pod 75 - Prepostposthumanism (Exclusive)
Pills and Erik longwindedly answer the charge that posthumanism is a performative contradiction, because it's good actually.If you are interested in posthumanism, this is the book you need https://amzn.to/3tYzGeO, which was referenced by Erik a couple times.
Pill Pod 74 - Postposthumanism
This week the pod hosts Matthew Flisfeder (@MattFlisfeder), the Zizek/Hegel/Lacan/Jameson scholar who organized the Peterson vs. Zizek debate. He's working on a book about renewing humanism in opposition to some recent trends in philosophy of the posthuman/anthropocenic variety: new materialisms and object oriented...
Pill Pod 73 - Matrix Brostalgia (Exclusive)
We are looking at the structure of fantasy through conservatism and the Matrix. Spoilers for the Matrix.Find Matt's review of Lindsay's hot garbage here: https://jacobinmag.com/2022/03/james-lindsay-race-marxism-book-review-crt-liberalism
New Experiment! Guided Meditation I
I'm attaching this to the post rather than posting it as audio so that you read this first lol. I floated the idea of this on the last stream, and it diverges from the usual content. The goal of it is to generate EXPERIENCE rather than EXPLANATION. Don't worry, I know explanation is preferable, but that doesn&#...
Pill Pod 72 - Dugin: Russia's State Philosopher
In lieu of a basket of hot takes on the Ukraine invasion, we take a look at the TRUE cause behind all the madness: the Eurasian nationalist-pagan occultist-Heideggerian fascist-Orthodox Christian traditionalist-illiberal philosophy of Aleksandr Dugin. It's... um... well have a listen. Book reference is "Fourth ...
Upcoming Livestream
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Prison Abolition & Criminal Justice ft. Blake Wilson
Victor (@victorbruzzone) interviews Professor Blake Wilson from California State University about the Rittenhouse trial, the legitimacy of law, and prison abolition.Blake is a defense-attorney-turned-philosopher who writes and teaches on criminal justice and the philosophy of law. Visit his website here: https://www.mb...
NEW VIDEO RELEASE (Early Access)
It's finally up... I won't say the dumb hours of editing this took but now you have it. I do hope it resonates a bit!
Deleuze vs. Baudrillard: Simulacra Showdown (Video Exclusive)
We are going to look at Logic of Sense and compare the anti-representational logics of Deleuze and Baudrillard with regards to originals, copies, and trickle-down value.
Pill Pod 71 - Platonic Moronic (Exclusive)
Plato has had it too easy. We take an hour and a bit to divide the philosophers from the sophists.
