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.
2022-06-10 13:27:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Two hours of advertising, desire, Deleuze, and Guattari via the book of one of our past guests: Ian Buchanan, in his book Assemblage Theory and Method: https://amzn.to/3zjn0Ct
2022-06-07 23:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Pills, Erik and Victor tackle the boogeyman: Lyotard's Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, with reference to Wittgenstein's language-game methodology.
Full text available here: https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/...
The team reassembles to talk Wittgenstein, champion of "ideas-don't-matter" philosophy, and about why he matters—even if they don't. The primary sources referenced throughout this ep are the Tractatus (https://amzn.to/3t0wD56) for Mr. Early Wittgenstein, and Philosoph...
2022-05-27 15:28:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry about my voice here, still got a bit of that COVID grog. Anyway I wanted to do something a little non-linear this week, and this is what I came up with. The direct citations are from Aristotle Metaphysics, Ogilvy on Advertising, D&G in What is Philosophy, and Heraclitus fragment 5
2022-05-20 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry, I forgot to post this in advance. Thanks to those of you who made it! It may still be interesting in the watch back.
2022-05-14 02:28:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Matt and Victor interview Nate Hochman on conservative college campuses and America's new right.
2022-05-14 02:27:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Readings are from Thousand Plateaus and Cyclonopedia (2022-05-12 22:40:04 +0000 UTC View Post
We venture into the weeds of ignorance, science, and anthropomorphism, and not even immuno-responses can stop us (sorry, this would have been out earlier but Covid's floored me since Saturday).
We look at posthumanism a la Francesca Ferrando (Philosophical Posthumanism), Donna Haraway (Staying with the Trouble), and James Lovelock & L...
There will be some more Stiegler ruminations, and I think I can float a new project idea.
2022-05-06 16:35:48 +0000 UTC View PostI apologize on behalf of technology, we had an issue with our recording on bad posthumanism, and the fail safe failed. We'll get it to you next Tuesday or Wednesday, please accept my prostrated apologies, and I will stream so that no one suffers content-withdrawal.
2022-05-06 16:34:16 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
2022-05-04 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Come take a load off with some Anti-Oedipus
2022-04-29 23:28:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Erik and Pills do the thing. If you wonder whose name is being referenced throughout, it's the forgotten sociologist, Niklas Luhmann.
You can follow us at @podpill and @plasticpills, but we don't go there much.
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.
2022-04-22 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
This could be miserable.
2022-04-22 03:24:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Erik and Pills cover posthumanism in the context of systems theory and what makes it a viable model as an alternative to humanist explanatory frameworks of how society functions. We reference Niklas Luhmann (https://amzn.to/3ObXyUq) quite a few times as well as Francesca Ferrando's...
2022-04-15 21:22:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Phew. This month has been quiet from me, but don't worry, it is only half done. We have some meditating tracks to do, some posthuman podcast episodes coming up, and some new book vlogs, but this was occupying the bulk of my time and now it is done.
I set myself some parameters for this video, namely, I wanted it to be totally comprehensibl...
2022-04-14 16:50:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Socialism and Christianity have had a tenuous relationship. Our guest this week, Aaron Anderson, argues that Christianity and socialism not only have shared goals, but that uniting these goals serves as a basis for organizing in opposition to the unholy alliance of Christianity and right wing politics.
Aaron is co-founder of the Institute ...
2022-04-08 21:55:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Pills and Erik longwindedly answer the charge that posthumanism is a performative contradiction, because it's good actually.
If you are interested in posthumanism, this is the book you need https://amzn.to/3tYzGeO, which was referenced by Erik a couple times.
2022-04-01 22:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post
This week the pod hosts Matthew Flisfeder (@MattFlisfeder), the Zizek/Hegel/Lacan/Jameson scholar who organized the Peterson vs. Zizek debate. He's working on a book about renewing humanism in opposition to some recent trends in philosophy of the posthuman/anthropocenic variety: new materialisms and object oriented ontology.
The article ...
We are looking at the structure of fantasy through conservatism and the Matrix. Spoilers for the Matrix.
Find Matt's review of Lindsay's hot garbage here: https://jacobinmag.com/2022/03/james-lindsay-race-marxism-book-r...
I'm attaching this to the post rather than posting it as audio so that you read this first lol. I floated the idea of this on the last stream, and it diverges from the usual content. The goal of it is to generate EXPERIENCE rather than EXPLANATION. Don't worry, I know explanation is preferable, but that doesn't mean it's not worth a try.
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In lieu of a basket of hot takes on the Ukraine invasion, we take a look at the TRUE cause behind all the madness: the Eurasian nationalist-pagan occultist-Heideggerian fascist-Orthodox Christian traditionalist-illiberal philosophy of Aleksandr Dugin. It's... um... well have a listen. Book reference is "Fourth Political T...
2022-03-11 13:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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2022-03-11 05:49:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Victor (@victorbruzzone) interviews Professor Blake Wilson from California State University about the Rittenhouse trial, the legitimacy of law, and prison abolition.
Blake is a defense-attorney-turned-philosopher who writes and teaches on criminal justice and the philosophy of law. Visit his website here: 2022-03-04 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
It's finally up... I won't say the dumb hours of editing this took but now you have it. I do hope it resonates a bit!
2022-03-02 13:19:31 +0000 UTC View Post
We are going to look at Logic of Sense and compare the anti-representational logics of Deleuze and Baudrillard with regards to originals, copies, and trickle-down value.
2022-02-26 01:45:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Plato has had it too easy. We take an hour and a bit to divide the philosophers from the sophists.
2022-02-26 01:40:01 +0000 UTC View Post