Post-Everything - On the Image (Video Exclusive)
This is a pastiche of incoherent ramblings about the IMAGE that will have meant something someday.
2023-07-06 00:05:16 +0000 UTC View Post
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Pill Pod 129 - Canadian Politics Update & Ontological Iceberg Racing (Exclusive)
A Toronto election update followed by a discussion about post-structuralism that barely addresses the article we read (attached), and got into a deeper discussion about forms of writing comparing a "generic academic style" c.f. "poststructuralism." We look forward to your thoughtful comments on this because it is always a difficult question to a...
2023-06-30 19:50:39 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 128 - Dawn of Everything II (Exclusive)
This might be better titled: "Wrong of Everything"... Each of us read different sections of the book and came together to round table our gleanings. We especially focused on the indigenous critique of European society, which was bangin in this case. If you have the patience, this is a pill pod certified recommended book (2023-06-23 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
The Desert of the Real (Video Exclusive)
A journey through the Desert of the Real with Descartes, Barbie and Jean Baudrillard 2023-06-22 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Pill Pod 127 - Dawn of Everything by Davids Graeber & Wengrow
We plumbed the first few chapters of a new history of humanity by an anarchist and an archaeologist: The Dawn of Everything (https://amzn.to/3PcqXRn). Though not without some minor quibbles from us, its an easy, recommended read.
2023-06-16 17:43:45 +0000 UTC View PostJean Baudrillard 101
This is pretty long, but I found this particular interview, "Forget Baudrillard", where he explains his purposes to someone familiar with his work, Sylvere Lotringer. As a result, it serves as a good 101-style intro to his later work! In the briefest possible terms, he wants to push theory to its limit, and I thought this would be a good share b...
2023-06-15 15:55:15 +0000 UTC View PostNEW VIDEO EARLY ACCESS
Barbie got me HYPERREALIN'. Watch ad free this week! This is the most dense editing I think I have done thus far, and it is a little more experimental than usual. Theory-wise, you will probably catch this, but Baudrillard's America was a big influence here, and I'll put up an in-depth explanation (with text references) for yall next week!
Pill Pod 126 - Based Rousseau
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.
2023-06-09 14:07:36 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 125 - Eyes of Reason II (Exclusive)
Part two of Pills' genealogy of the visual metaphors in the guts of philosophy. This one goes through Kant, Nietzsche, and Derrida, each of whom argue metaphoric language is more than a nuisance to reason, but the only reason that anything means anything at all.
2023-06-02 13:40:00 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 124 - The Eyes of Reason I (Exclusive)
Mentioned a few episodes back that I (Pills) wrote a genealogy of the intelligible/visible metaphor that, I argue, has animated Western philosophy since Socrates. I wrote this over 10 years ago in my Master's, but I think it holds up well enough and is at least interesting to think about. We'll be looking to the comments as to whether we keep go...
2023-05-26 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostBaudrillard - Sexuality has Disappeared: Transparency of Evil pt. III (Video Exclusive)
Hey all. So, unlike the usual exclusives, YouTube will not let me upload this video (which would be otherwise a good thing)... I suspect because of the title of Baudrillard's chapter. However, as I'll explain, the title of this chapter does not connote what the term usually connotes, i.e. the now-dated and often offensive term for transgender. A...
2023-05-24 00:17:25 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 123 - "Western Civilization" According to Francis Bacon
Find the short story here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2434/2434-h/2434-h.htm
We revisit Atlantis, the new one, in this Lit Vic episode where we peer into the the early modern, colonial, proto-capitalist imagination.
Pill Pod 122 - Mosh School Mixdown (Exclusive)
First, the sociology of Mosh. Then we read Ranciere reflecting on May '68, his break with Althusser's party Marxism, and what the hell is the university for anymore? https://www...
2023-05-12 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostBaudrillard - Art has Disappeared: Transparency of Evil pt. II (Video Exclusive)
Back on Baudrillard for "Transaesthetics"—chapter 2 of "The Transparency of Evil" (https://amzn.to/3LitJSQ).
2023-05-09 20:27:28 +0000 UTC View PostState of the Art (Live stream)
Talking points are prepped and the beer is cold, next week it's back to Baudrillard and Warhol but I wanted to do something dufferent this week so drop by if you're free.
2023-05-05 12:49:17 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 121 - Obscurantism in French Philosophy: Searle on Foucault & Derrida
Today we discuss how to pet your professor's ego to get better marks, and review John Searles sassy attempt to take down Derrida by quoting Foucault gossip. Sources come from Reiterating the Differences: A Reply to Derrida and Limited Inc. (https://amzn.to/3oIfJc0) 2023-04-28 20:25:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Baudrillard - The Transparency of Evil (Video Exclusive)
Back on Baudrillard for "The Transparency of Evil" (https://amzn.to/3LitJSQ).
2023-04-21 15:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 120 - A Patron Response Episode (Exclusive)
We took a little reading break to respond to some of your feedback and run off the cuff for 90 minutes.
2023-04-21 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostWe want to hear from you!
For this week's episode, we'd like to do some audience feedback on the "post-Marxism" episodes or any random questions: we've heard each other's takes: Victor's paper, Pills' video, Diego's "consumertariat," Baudrillard, Negri, Mouffe, radical democracy, Stiegler and technics etc.... Which of these takes have been convincing, and which will you ...
2023-04-19 16:35:03 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 119 - Stiegler and Posthumanist Post-Marxism (ft. Diego Ruzzarin)
Diego's back is back and so are we to have a look at why Stiegler believes that the class war is over, the techno/grammatological pharmakon is in and proletarianization has been total. We looked at the first half of "A New Critique of Political Economy", which was suggested to us by a patron (thank you). Find Diego's work (mostly esp) on the int...
2023-04-14 15:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe Ecstasy of Communication - Baudrillard Dosage (Video Exclusive)
A necessary little bow on the Baudrillard... Here is an hour and half on the ecstasy of communication, and a few other things as dressing.
2023-04-13 04:48:25 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 118 - Victor's Paper (Exclusive)
Let's hear it crush!
2023-04-07 02:54:19 +0000 UTC View PostNew Video Release! Postmodernism & Baudrillard vs. The Spectacle (early access)
It's done! This is my long reflection produced by our content on Guy Debord and my dive into Fatal Strategies. I hope it is informative and thank you very, ever so much for putting your dollars in so that I can keep making these. Warm thanks.
Watch this without ad interruptions before next week!
Pill Pod 117 - Baudrillard as Post-Marxist
We are still on the lookout for some worthwhile post-marxisms, we found a dude who is post-everything. Our reading is from "Ironic Strategies" from Baudrillard's Fatal Strategies, and it turned out to be a pretty seductive text all around.
2023-03-31 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 116 - Guattari & Negri's Communism (Exclusive)
We speculate on moral panics before getting to the meat of a post-marxist, 80s, political theory text: "Communists Like Us" by Felix Guattari & Toni Negri. Still looking for a post-Marxism that hits...
2023-03-24 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 115 - MarxismS: Louis Althusser and Structuralist Marxism
Erik and Pills duo on Althusser, reading "Contradiction and Overdetermination" from the book For Marx. We read this anticipating a couple episodes trying to figure out what "post-marxism" could mean, and we don't want to strawman, and this is one of my (Pills') favourite bites attempting to delineate what Marxist theory can and cannot a...
2023-03-17 15:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Spectacular Now (Livestream)
Come hang out in the mirrorverse, you know, if you like.
2023-03-17 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostNEW VIDEO RELEASE | Society of the Spectacle
You know what it is, I put Debord's best foot forward... I hope the animations and graphics and examples and feelings hit you somehow too. If his theory is good enough then all we have to wait for is the end of the world... Or we can do the Fatal Strategies... we'll see.
2023-03-11 09:41:30 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 114 - POST-MARXISM ft. Diego Ruzzarin (Exclusive)
In the 80s, Laclau and Mouffe decided they wanted to succeed Marxism with discourse stuff and some identity politics thrown in. We read their apologetic for Post-Marxism (attached) and while Post-Marxism is interesting as a direction, this version of it leaves something to be desired.
2023-03-10 21:19:15 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 113 - Slavoj Zizek Woke Council
Zizek allegedly wrote an article on the problems of wokeness and we argued about it. Reactionary? Transphobic? Trolling? We don't agree.
The article: https://compactmag.com/article/wokeness-is-here-to-stay