Episodes
Sunday Jan 14, 2024
Pill Pod 152 - Fukuyama on The End of History (preview)
Sunday Jan 14, 2024
Sunday Jan 14, 2024
Adjusted for inflation, Francis Fukyama received $1,311,814.68 to write The End of History and the Last Man (https://amzn.to/3tPo5Bt); we want to see what $1,311,814.68 is worth.
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Sunday Jan 14, 2024
Pill Pod 151 - The End of History
Sunday Jan 14, 2024
Sunday Jan 14, 2024
We embark on the notion of "the end of history" by trying to figure out if we have an idea of history. This is mostly inspired by our reading of Fukuyama's book (https://amzn.to/3tPo5Bt) but the series won't be limited to it.
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Friday Dec 01, 2023
Friday Dec 01, 2023
Inspired by the new Netflix series, we read some Poe short stories and compared them to their TV adaptation. Victor Hainagiu (aka Litvic aka @horatiovictor) came on to help us put gothic horror into historical context.
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Friday Nov 24, 2023
Pill Pod 148 - Badiou: Philosophy & Antiphilosophy
Friday Nov 24, 2023
Friday Nov 24, 2023
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Monday Nov 20, 2023
Pill Pod 147 - Authenticity & Existentialism (preview)
Monday Nov 20, 2023
Monday Nov 20, 2023
Dr. Phil battles Heidegger and Sartre.
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Friday Nov 17, 2023
Pill Pod 146 - Heidegger on the Anaximander Fragment (preview)
Friday Nov 17, 2023
Friday Nov 17, 2023
Anaximander, Apeiron, Heidegger, Derrida, Logocentrism. It's a mouthful.
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Friday Nov 03, 2023
Pill Pod 145 - Metamodernism is just bad
Friday Nov 03, 2023
Friday Nov 03, 2023
Postmodernism has fallen. All hail the new dumbuy cult: METAMODERNISM. We took its FRESH NEW RADICAL academic wing out for a spin, as seen in this book: https://amzn.to/3So0kKH.
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Friday Oct 27, 2023
There are no Democratic Systems: Pill Pod 144 - Preview
Friday Oct 27, 2023
Friday Oct 27, 2023
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Saturday Oct 21, 2023
Pill Pod 143 - Gaza & Frantz Fanon on Violence
Saturday Oct 21, 2023
Saturday Oct 21, 2023
We noticed a few Fanon name drops so this week we decided to read "On Violence" from Wretched of the Earth and see whether it's a useful heuristic for the discourse of violence in Gaza. You can read the chapter here.
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Friday Oct 13, 2023
Pill Pod 142 - Systems Theory Politics in the Shadow of Gaza
Friday Oct 13, 2023
Friday Oct 13, 2023
Despite the shadow of Gaza hanging over our consciences this week, we try to introduce Systems Theory via politics. The book is Political Theory in the Welfare State by Niklas Luhmann (https://amzn.to/48Q6I3g), and we hope to give you a glimpse of what it looks like in practice.
This is the sixth episode on systems theory, some of which are on here and all of which are on patreon at www.patreon.com/plasticpills