Episodes
Monday Oct 02, 2023
Pill Pod 140 - Heidegger Nazi Debate No. 125,421
Monday Oct 02, 2023
Monday Oct 02, 2023
The timeloop continues: Another Ukrainian SS soldier in Canada and another wave of books and articles about the dangers of Heidegger following the publication of the third edition of History of Beyng, we reflect on air fryers and moralism after the end of history.
Friday Sep 08, 2023
Affect Theory and Revolutionary Routines - Interview with Carolyn Pedwell
Friday Sep 08, 2023
Friday Sep 08, 2023
Victor interviews Professor Carolyn Pedwell, editor of the Affect Theory Reader (two volumes) and Revolutionary Routines (https://amzn.to/44FykoA). Pedwell argues that minor gestures may be as significant as major happenings, revealing the potential in our ability to remake social or political habits and then to reinhabit everyday life.
Friday Sep 01, 2023
Pill Pod 137 - Groomer Mythology
Friday Sep 01, 2023
Friday Sep 01, 2023
Erik and Pills break down the myths of grooming, childhood, sexuality and the semiotic systems which produced them. The book is Roland Barthes, 195, Mythologies (https://amzn.to/47i5kpd)
The rest of this series on myth is available at www.patreon.com/plasticpills
Tuesday Aug 15, 2023
Pill Pod 135 - Political Mythologies of the Left and Right ft. Diego Ruzzarin
Tuesday Aug 15, 2023
Tuesday Aug 15, 2023
Diego Ruzzarin is back on the Plastic Pills Podcast to talk about mythologies of the Left and Right as analyzed by Roland Barthes in his 1957 book (https://amzn.to/47i5kpd).
Our previous two episodes covering "Mythologies" (introducing the book and analyzing car commercials) are on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills
Wednesday Jul 26, 2023
Pill Pod 132 - Fairy Tale Feminism
Wednesday Jul 26, 2023
Wednesday Jul 26, 2023
With the release of the Barbie movie, the feminine symbol has been deployed this summer. But for thousands of summers previous, the role of the feminine was managed by folk stories and fairy tales. Featuring the literary stylings of Victor Hainagiu (known to us as Lit Vic) we broach the topic of the feminine symbolic through the story of Snow White.
Check out this version of Neil Gaiman's Snow White in the form of a graphic novel: https://comiconlinefree.net/snow-glass-apples/issue-tpb/1
Follow Lit Vic on Twitter at @HoratioVictor
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Friday Jul 14, 2023
Pill Pod 131 - Freedom Isn’t Free
Friday Jul 14, 2023
Friday Jul 14, 2023
Everyone speaking on freedom but nobody's asking what it means. "Freedom-from interference" is a 400-year-old definition that covers a few bases but not much beyond that. We looked to Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology in this book (https://amzn.to/3OdpzwL) to give us something a little better.
Pill Pods #59, #60, #61, #62 are all about Merleau-Ponty in more detail.
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Saturday Jul 08, 2023
Pill Pod 130 - We Have Never Been Modern
Saturday Jul 08, 2023
Saturday Jul 08, 2023
Pills and Erik celebrate Latour Day. Cracking one of our old favs (https://amzn.to/3O2fLVp), to discuss the theory island chain, the scheme of actor network theory, and why reality is more complex than theoretical models.
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Saturday Jun 10, 2023
Pill Pod 126 - Based Rousseau
Saturday Jun 10, 2023
Saturday Jun 10, 2023
One of those guys we rarely think about but who single-handedly pulled the track lever in the history of philosophy, it's Rousseau. We read Discourse on the Origin of Inequality this week and appraised its significance.
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Friday Jun 09, 2023
Pill Pod 124 & 125 - The Light of Reason and the Eye of the Mind (preview)
Friday Jun 09, 2023
Friday Jun 09, 2023
Pill Pods 124 & 125 cover a paper written by Pills, which argues that despite banishing figurative language for the sake of "clarity", Western philosophy has forgotten it was founded on a metaphor equating reason with vision, a metaphor we unknowingly reiterate on the daily.
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Friday May 19, 2023
Pill Pod 123 - ”Western Civilization” According to Francis Bacon
Friday May 19, 2023
Friday May 19, 2023
We revisit Atlantis, the new one, in this Victor Hainagiu (Lit Vic) episode where we peer into the the early modern, colonial, proto-capitalist imagination.
Find the short story here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2434/2434-h/2434-h.htm
Follow Victor @HoratioVictor
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