Episodes
Friday Jun 17, 2022
Pill Pod 83 - The Idea of Communism - Alain Badiou
Friday Jun 17, 2022
Friday Jun 17, 2022
This is our first in the reading series on the Idea of Communism conferences, covering Alain Badiou.
Our readings will come from The Idea of Communism I https://amzn.to/3xZJjMw, The Idea of Communism II https://amzn.to/3OkDYVd, and The Idea of Communism III https://amzn.to/3b8e3lb
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Tuesday Jun 14, 2022
The Deleuze Seminars ft. Professor Daniel W. Smith
Tuesday Jun 14, 2022
Tuesday Jun 14, 2022
Pills is graced by the presence of the eminent Deleuze scholar, editor, and translator, Daniel W. Smith. Dan explains how he came to Deleuzian philosophy, why it's important, and previews the exciting Deleuze Seminars project, which is almost finished translating 20 years of Deleuze's lectures into English.
The Deleuze Seminars project can be explored here: https://deleuze.cla.purdue.edu/
Si vous pouvez comprendre le français, il y en a plus a la Bibliotheque Nationale de France https://gallica.bnf.fr/html///und/enregistrements-sonores/gilles-deleuze-cours-donnes-luniversite-paris-8-vincennes-saint-denis-1979-0?mode=desktop
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Friday Jun 10, 2022
Pill Pod 82 - 1980s Nostalgia
Friday Jun 10, 2022
Friday Jun 10, 2022
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.
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Tuesday Jun 07, 2022
Pill Pod 81 - The Postmodern Condition *Preview*
Tuesday Jun 07, 2022
Tuesday Jun 07, 2022
Pills, Erik and Victor tackle the boogeyman: Lyotard's Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, with reference to Wittgenstein's language-game methodology. Is postmodernism when there are too many gay characters on TV? Or is it the legitimacy crisis of state knowledge precipitated by finance capital, the computerisation of information, and the subsumption of politics by public relations?
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Friday May 27, 2022
Pill Pod 80 - Wittgenstein
Friday May 27, 2022
Friday May 27, 2022
The team reassembles to talk Wittgenstein, champion of "ideas-don't-matter" philosophy, and about why he matters—even if ideas 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.to/3wVfUkC) for Mr. Late Wittgenstein.
Friday May 13, 2022
Kumbaya Posthumanism *Preview*
Friday May 13, 2022
Friday May 13, 2022
We venture into the weeds of ignorance, science, and anthropomorphism, and not even immuno-responses can stop us.
We look at posthumanism a la Francesca Ferrando (Philosophical Posthumanism), Donna Haraway (Staying with the Trouble), and James Lovelock & Lynn Margulis (The Gaia Hypothesis).
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Friday May 13, 2022
Talking to America’s New Right (Interview)
Friday May 13, 2022
Friday May 13, 2022
Matt and Victor interview Nate Hochman on conservative college campuses and America's new right.
Wednesday May 04, 2022
America’s New Right Problem ft. WaPo’s Greg Sargent
Wednesday May 04, 2022
Wednesday May 04, 2022
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.
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Friday Apr 29, 2022
Pill Pod 78 - The Posthumanism Manifesto
Friday Apr 29, 2022
Friday Apr 29, 2022
Erik and Pills do the thing, because everything needs to be manifestoed eventually and I needed a title. If you wonder whose name is being referenced throughout, it's the forgotten sociologist, Niklas Luhmann.
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Friday Apr 22, 2022
Pill Pod 77 -Trans/Post-Human Technics (Preview)
Friday Apr 22, 2022
Friday Apr 22, 2022
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.
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