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Pill Pod 99 - Bernays Sauce (Exclusive)
We read Bernays' "Propaganda" and compare it to later conceptions of ideology.
Pill Pod 98 - Ricky Rorty: Derrida vs. Habermas
This resembles one of our FIGHT NIGHT episodes, except the whole of it is mediated by another philosopher, Richard Rorty. We give a bit of background to philosophical pragmatism before trying to get a read on what philosophy is for according to each of these three authors. Is it for self-help? Can it solve 'real' problems? Or is philosophy just ...
2022-10-24 21:08:31 +0000 UTC View PostNEW VIDEO RELEASE DAY (Video Exclusive)
You keep making this possible. There's a value to countering propaganda even when it seems like a lot. Anyway, I hope all the hours show through here, it took quite a few, and I still think we are on to something. Looking forward to your responses.
2022-10-21 07:02:42 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 97 - Lead Us not into Malaise (Exclusive)
We read the second half of Charles Taylor's Malaise of Modernity, talk self-help, and debate Christian universality. Lecture version of the source is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuGQ5KJjELA
2022-10-15 02:08:28 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 96 - Malaise of Modernity (Taylor's Version)
Get the book (it's easy and small) or listen to the lectures by Charles Taylor starting here.
Join the discussion and let us know what we should expand on next week!
Pill Pod 95 - Materialist Theogany ft. Diego Ruzzarin
This one was a banger, and a really session. We covered some Spinoza, Marx, Benjamin, and Corn among other references. Please enjoy us bumping into things and trying to figure out what a life's all about! Thanks, as always, for keeping us on the air.
2022-10-01 21:47:22 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 94 - Kafka Metamorphosis
Find the whole text here https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5200
Find LitVic on Twitter! @HoratioVictor
Always looking for more suggestions for the lit stuff, someone suggested this several months ago and we bore it out!
Creator Commentary II - Virilio Machine God (Video Exclusive)
MOAR CONTENT. We are reading some Virilio, first Information Bomb and then Open Sky on the end of space.
2022-09-22 20:34:41 +0000 UTC View PostCreator Commentary I - Heidegger Machine God (Video Exclusive)
CONTENT
2022-09-17 04:47:43 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 93 - Nick Land (Exclusive)
Leave it to Nick Land to bring out our philosophical difference! He's quite the online douche canoe these days but this paper is worth a read at any rate.
2022-09-16 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostVIDEO RELEASE DAY: Birth of the Machine God (Early Access)
Stay tuned for Friday, I'm making an exclusive commentary on this thing because it's pretty fast and quite dense. Any questions you want me to answer for that, put them below!
This will be the first in a series based on the Bibliography we made together last month.
Hyper Commodity Fetishism (Live)
This might be a little introductory for this audience, but I am posting it here so no one yells at me
2022-09-02 17:49:35 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 92 - Academic Gatekeeping (Exclusive)
Thoughts and prayers going out to the Dugin family, then we talk about the gates made to keep people out of academia: including money, jargon, conferences and JSTOR.
2022-09-02 04:49:41 +0000 UTC View PostLive stream today
Unplanned, but I watched this conference while editing and it'd be cool to hear what the people think
2022-08-31 20:42:21 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 91 - ADIEU LACAN
Brace yourselves for two and a half hours focused on Lacan's psychoanalytic method. We are joined partway through by Director/Auteur Richard Ledes, who has brought Lacan to the silver screen in a film we're proud to hype up: ADIEU LACAN.
To watch the film, (which is pretty safely the only decent depiction of psychoanalysis we've ever seen)...
2022-08-26 15:24:23 +0000 UTC View PostSurveillance Capitalism?
This concept vlog is a review of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (https://amzn.to/3dLAq1s) which fails to live up to the hype. I sincerely thank you all that I do not have to work construction anymore!
2022-08-21 22:52:30 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 90 - Post-Marxism & Pragmatism (Exclusive)
Recorded in Toronto, and edited in Spain (more on that to come). This week features the never-before-seen duo of Erik and Victor, who talk about Hardt, Negri and Peirce and define both post-Marxism and Peircian pragmatism in a windy episode (I usually plan the eps rather authoritarianly, but some free-association may be what we need, here and th...
2022-08-18 20:55:29 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 89 - Atlantis: The Lost City (Exclusive)
We turn our attention to the ur myth of civilizational collapse... and accidentally find more political philosophy. Ah well.
2022-08-05 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 88 - Episode Zero (Exclusive)
We're tired of the script, and maybe you are too. In this episode we try to figure out what we care about in a world that we didn't design.
2022-07-29 17:52:01 +0000 UTC View PostVideo Lab - Toxic Earth
More of the cosmic horror of where we are and what is to come. Let me know if you want more on these specific stories, but what I am trying to do is generate a mesh of references that work together for future reference--it'll be hit and miss, but hopefully there are a few hits, and a means of escape from talking in circles about what "the left" ...
2022-07-27 21:18:22 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 87 - The Idea of Communism IV ft. Diego Ruzzarin
It's more answers without questions, in part IV of our "Idea of Communism" series. We're getting the hot takes from Diego Ruzzarin on what he thinks the Idea of Communism means for Latin America particularly, what's up with psychoanalysis, and the other stuff he's working on.
2022-07-20 19:40:01 +0000 UTC View PostEnd of the Future and Mycelial Musings (Live)
The mushroom timefold.
2022-07-18 03:55:32 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 86 - Know Your Enemy
So, half of Canada's phone and internet has been down since 6am this morning, I don't know if this upload will go through because it's still dropping every 5 minutes, but if you're reading this, here is the episode.
It's a political theory day, speaking with the Know Your Enemy podcast's Matthew Sitman, a former young conservative. Starti...
Machine War Video Lab
I am once again asking you to rhizome out.
2022-07-06 23:09:15 +0000 UTC View Post*EARLY ACCESS* - Advertising and the Unconscious
Although exporting this was a big pain in the ass, I think it's okay now. Watch it advertisement-free! Stay fungal!
2022-07-05 19:33:24 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 85 - The Idea of Communism III | Jean-Luc Nancy (Exclusive)
Another one! Same conference, but an extended discussion on the sense and meaning of the word "communism." Looking forward to your comments!
2022-07-01 14:01:05 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 84 - The Idea of Communism II (Exclusive)
This week we read the article by Susan Buck-Morss "The Second Time as Farce... Historical Pragmatics and the Untimely Present" from, again, The Idea of Communism I https://amzn.to/3xZJjMw
2022-06-24 23:07:52 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 83 - The Idea of Communism | Alain Badiou
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 2022-06-17 12:53:34 +0000 UTC
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The Deleuze Seminars ft. Professor Daniel W. Smith
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 matters, and previews the exciting Deleuze Seminars project, which is almost finished translating 20 years of Deleuze's lectures into English.