PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

Pill Pod 149 - Gothic Horror: Edgar Allen Poe & The Fall of The House of Usher

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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Pill Pod 148 - Badiou: Philosophy & Antiphilosophy

Some oversimplified Badiou plus a look at Wittgenstein's Antiphilosophy (https://amzn.to/47xStiv)

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Pill Pod 147 - Authenticity & Existentialism (preview)

Dr. Phil battles Heidegger and Sartre.

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Pill Pod 146 - Heidegger on the Anaximander Fragment (preview)

Anaximander, Apeiron, Heidegger, Derrida, Logocentrism. It's a mouthful.

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Pill Pod 145 - Metamodernism is just bad

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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There are no Democratic Systems: Pill Pod 144 - Preview

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Pill Pod 143 - Gaza & Frantz Fanon on Violence

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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Pill Pod 142 - Systems Theory Politics in the Shadow of Gaza

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.

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Pill Pod 140 - Heidegger Nazi Debate No. 125,421

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.

Affect Theory and Revolutionary Routines - Interview with Carolyn Pedwell

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.