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| The Universality of Non-Belonging - Todd McGowan | 03 Apr 2026 | 01:01:28 | |
| What is Philosophy? (Chapter 5: Functives and Concepts) - Deleuze and Guattari | 20 Mar 2026 | 00:49:58 | |
This week, we're discussing the 5th chapter from Deleuze and Guattari's What is Philosophy? Enjoy! Photo by Adil Janbyrbayev on Unsplash | |||
| Mary Wild - Psychoanalyzing Horror Cinema | 12 Dec 2025 | 01:09:24 | |
| Gilles Deleuze - Postscript On the Societies Of Control | 21 Nov 2025 | 01:09:48 | |
Join us this week as we read Deleuze's most famous essay (we'd say), Postscript On the Societies Of Control. Enjoy! Photo by Vikram Singh on Unsplash | |||
| Michel Foucault - Of Other Spaces, Heterotopias | 14 Nov 2025 | 01:11:24 | |
We got a good one! This week, we're reading Foucault's essay Of Other Spaces. Enjoy! Photo by Danist Soh on Unsplash | |||
| Étienne Balibar - Human Species As Biopolitical Concept | 31 Oct 2025 | 01:02:52 | |
Join us this week as read Étienne Balibar's lecture Human Species As Biopolitical Concept. Enjoy! | |||
| Simon Critchley - Mysticism 2/2 | 24 Oct 2025 | 01:08:52 | |
Join us this week as we finish reading Simon Critchley's new book Mysticism. Enjoy! Photo by Kenny Eliason on Unsplash | |||
| Simon Critchley - On Mysticism 1/2 | 10 Oct 2025 | 01:07:44 | |
| More Is More - Becca Rothfeld | 02 Oct 2025 | 01:08:42 | |
| Steven L Peck - My Madness | 26 Sep 2025 | 01:07:12 | |
Join us this week as we read Steven L Peck's essay My Madness, about his episode of acute psychosis. Enjoy! | |||
| Alenka Zupančič - Welcome To The Riviera Of The Real | 19 Sep 2025 | 01:08:52 | |
Join us this week as we read Alenka Zupančič's new essay, Welcome To The Riviera Of The Real | |||
| Roxane Gay - The Trouble With Prince Charming | 12 Sep 2025 | 01:01:30 | |
Join us this week as we delve into Roxane Gay's essay The Trouble With Prince Charming. Enjoy! Photo by Lians Jadan on Unsplash | |||
| Jennifer Todd - Georg Lukács, Walter Benjamin, and the Motivation to make Political Art | 13 Mar 2026 | 01:07:40 | |
Join us this week as we take a break from Deleuze and Guattari. Enjoy! | |||
| Yanis Varoufakis - Technofeudalism 2/2 | 05 Sep 2025 | 01:13:00 | |
| Yanis Varoufakis - Technofeudalism | 29 Aug 2025 | 01:08:52 | |
Join us as we read the first half of Yanis Varoufakis' Technofeudalism. Enjoy! Photo by srinivas bandari on Unsplash | |||
| Michel Foucault - History of Sexuality Vol. 1 2/2 | 22 Aug 2025 | 01:10:42 | |
Welcome everybody! This week we're finishing up Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality Volume 1. Enjoy! Photo by Edoardo Cuoghi on Unsplash | |||
| Michel Foucault - History of Sexuality Vol. 1 1/2 | 15 Aug 2025 | 00:59:38 | |
Join us this week as we read the first half of Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality Vol.1 Photo by charlesdeluvio on Unsplash | |||
| Alenka Zupančič - Disavowal | 01 Aug 2025 | 01:04:40 | |
This week we're reading a great new book from Alenka Zupančič, Disavowal. All of her books are great. Enjoy! Photo by Jon Butterworth on Unsplash | |||
| Theodor Adorno - Theses Against Occultism | 25 Jul 2025 | 01:05:58 | |
Join us as we delve into Adorno's essay "Theses Against Occultism". We're talking about crystals! We're talking about the death of God! Exciting stuff. Photo by PAN XIAOZHEN on Unsplash | |||
| Felix Guattari - The Three Ecologies | 18 Jul 2025 | 01:08:14 | |
| Philosophy of Led Zeppelin | 09 May 2025 | 01:13:22 | |
Join us this week for our season finale! We're discussing the philosophy of Led Zeppelin. Specifically, we're focusing on Zepellin IV, Presence, and Physical Graffiti. Enjoy! | |||
| Aleister Crowley - Little Essays Towards Truth II | 25 Apr 2025 | 00:54:06 | |
This week, we're finishing up Aleister Crowley's Little Essays Towards Truth. Enjoy! | |||
| Aleister Crowley - Little Essays Towards Truth I | 18 Apr 2025 | 01:04:40 | |
This week we're reading the first half of Little Essays Towards Truth. We're talking Thelema and the influence of The Tree of Life. Enjoy! | |||
| Tyson Yunkaporta - Outside of the Land Looking in: Van Gogh's Seasons through Indigenous Eyes | 06 Mar 2026 | 00:41:36 | |
Join us this week as we read Tyson Yunkaporta's views on Van Gogh. Enjoy! Photo by RhondaK Native Florida Folk Artist on Unsplash | |||
| Alain Badiou - Handbook of Inaesthetics 2/2 | 11 Apr 2025 | 01:25:58 | |
This week, we're finishing Alain Badious' book Inaesthetics. We go through his viewpoints on dance, theatre, cinema, and, of course, poetry. Noteably missing is a chapter devoted to music...enjoy! | |||
| Alain Badiou - Handbook of Inaesthetics 1/2 | 04 Apr 2025 | 01:15:26 | |
Join us this week as we delve into Alain Badiou's Handbook of Inaesthetics. We'll discuss three primary ways philosophy has thought of art: didactic, romantic, and classical. Enjoy! | |||
| Cute Accelerationism - Amy Ireland and Maya B Kronic | 28 Mar 2025 | 01:06:32 | |
Join us as we discuss all manner of cute culture this world over. Instead of Nietzsche, we're introduced to Freddo. Instead of Heidegger, we get kawaidegger. Enjoy! | |||
| Friedrich Nietzcshe - Anti-Education II | 21 Mar 2025 | 01:08:32 | |
Welcome! This week we finished reading Nietzsche's Anti Education lectures. Enjoy! | |||
| Friedrich Nietzcshe - Anti-Education I | 14 Mar 2025 | 01:17:24 | |
Wow what a ride! This week we're reading some early lectures from the young (28 year old) Nietzsche. He diagnoses many issues in the 19th-century German education system. We also debate the coherence of these early stabs at critique. Enjoy! | |||
| Sigmund Freud - Mourning And Melancholia | 07 Mar 2025 | 01:19:44 | |
This week we're reading Freud's wild essay on mourning and melancholia. Freud's theory is that mourning results from a loss in the world, whereas melancholia results from a loss in the ego. We discuss what that means, as well as some of Freud's more dicey claims. Enjoy! Photo by Dana Bailey on Unsplash | |||
| Herbert Marcuse - The Problem of Violence And The Radical Opposition | 28 Feb 2025 | 01:11:24 | |
This week we're delving into the current political situation in the U.S. We're discussing concepts such as repressive desublimation and class consciousness. Enjoy! Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash | |||
| Emil Cioran - Aphorisms | 21 Feb 2025 | 01:10:56 | |
This week we each chose five of our favorite aphorisms from Romanian philosopher Eil Cioran. Most are only one sentence in length. Enjoy! Photo by Ross Sneddon on Unsplash | |||
| Walter Benjamin - Unpacking My Library | 14 Feb 2025 | 01:07:54 | |
This week we read Walter Benjamin's essay on collecting. We differentiate between collecting proper, and the strange results of commodity fetishism. Enjoy! Photo by Will van Wingerden on Unsplash | |||
| Interpassivity: The Aesthetics of Delegated Enjoyment - Robert Pfaller | 07 Feb 2025 | 01:10:56 | |
This week, we're discussing how many subjects it takes to enjoy a work of art. You have the spectator, sure, but you also have the author and the "main character." We'd also add that there's a more mysterious figure called "the muses" who experience the whole of the work, knowing that you, being tired and existing from a single vantage point, are incapable of seeing the whole. Enjoy! | |||
| What is Philosophy? (Chapter 4: Geophilosophy) - Deleuze and Guattari | 27 Feb 2026 | 01:04:40 | |
We're talking Geophilosophy! Enjoy Photo by Gert Boers on Unsplash | |||
| Louis Althusser - Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses | 01 Feb 2025 | 01:11:20 | |
Join us this week as we tackle Louis Althusser's seminal essay "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses". We discuss the difference between ISAs (Ideological State Apparatuses) and RSAs (Repressive State Apparatuses), interpellation, and Althusser's relevance today. | |||
| Maurice Merleau-Ponty - Phenomenology of Perception, The Body (2/2) | 17 Jan 2025 | 01:09:06 | |
This week, we're finishing up Merleau-Ponty's famous section on The Body. We discuss sexuality, identity, and psychoanalysis, all through the lens of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology | |||
| Maurice Merleau-Ponty - Phenomenology of Perception, The Body (1/2) | 03 Jan 2025 | 01:19:06 | |
This week, we're discussing the first half of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's famous section on the Body from his Phenomenology of Perception. This is a wide-ranging text that outlines how the body fits into the phenomenology of the world. Enjoy! | |||
| Walter Terence Stace - Mysticism, Ethics, and Religion | 13 Dec 2024 | 01:30:10 | |
Join us this week as we take a hard right turn on our subject matter with a chapter from Walter Terence Stace's Mysticism and Philosophy. Our main goal throughout the episode is to interrogate the term mysticism to come to an agreement on the concept's delineations. Enjoy! | |||
| George Bataille — Rotten Sun | 29 Nov 2024 | 01:23:34 | |
This week we're delving into two short works by George Bataille— "Rotten Sun" and "The Sacred Conspiracy". We also discuss Max Weber's concept of Disenchantment and possible avenues to reenchant the world. | |||
| Felix Guattari — Everybody Wants to be a Fascist | 22 Nov 2024 | 01:13:04 | |
It's a timely episode! We're talking about this week's election results through Guattari's eyes. Enjoy! | |||
| Jean-Paul Sartre - Being and Nothingness III: Temporality | 08 Nov 2024 | 01:13:14 | |
We're talking time! You know, past, present, future...etc... Overall, we admit that discussing the phenomenology of time is complicated, thorny, and even (at times) ungraspable. That said, we hope listeners will come away with a solid understanding of Sartre's key ideas. Enjoy! | |||
| Felix Guattari — Becoming Woman | 25 Oct 2024 | 01:16:30 | |
We love reading Guattari! This week, we examine two short essays: Becoming Woman and I Have Even Met Happy Drag Queens. We talk about Guattari's seminal concept of Becoming a Woman and trans liberation. Enjoy! | |||
| Jacques Lacan - Resistance is not Censorship | 18 Oct 2024 | 01:15:32 | |
What is resistance? Well, it has something to do with the ego....whatever stops analysis! Yeah, that's it! Okay, then what's censorship? It's a blockage on the thingy! But the other thing? Yes? Don't worry! Hopefully, by the end of this episode, you will have a firm grasp on Lacan's eminently playful (and tragic) distinction. | |||
| Maurice Merleau-Ponty - Phenomenology of Perception, Part One | 04 Oct 2024 | 01:12:36 | |
This week we continue our reading of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception. We're talking about optical illusions and the place of phenomenological discourse. Enjoy! | |||
| What is Philosophy? (Chapter 3: Conceptual Personae) - Deleuze and Guattari | 20 Feb 2026 | 01:03:20 | |
We're continuing our read of Deleuze and Guattari's last book, What Is Philosophy? Enjoy! | |||
| Gaston Bachelard - Poetics of Space: The House. From Cellar to Garret. The Significance of the Hut | 27 Sep 2024 | 01:11:02 | |
It's fall! And to kick-start fall we're looking at the coziest philosopher there is: Gaston Bachelard. We discuss topoanalysis, huts, and the oneiric house. Enjoy! Photo by Lena Polishko on Unsplash | |||
| Jean-Paul Sartre - Being and Nothingness II: Part One | 20 Sep 2024 | 01:17:38 | |
Ever met a waiter who just seems oh-so-too happy being a waiter? Have you ever been on a date where you're just not sure if you're into the other person but don't want to show that you're not into the other person? This week we're discussing Bad Faith, one of Sartre's most famous concepts. We're also talking about anguish and addiction. Enjoy! | |||
| Maurice Merleau-Ponty - Phenomenology of Perception, Preface | 13 Sep 2024 | 01:03:12 | |
| Jean-Paul Sartre - Being and Nothingness 1: The Introduction | 06 Sep 2024 | 01:03:50 | |
Whew! Buckle up because we're about to embark on a real adventure. This week we're beginning Sartre's masterpiece Being and Nothingness. We'll be interspersing our reading with other phenomenologists as we go (so we don't burn out). This week we're discussing the pre-reflective cogito, the in-itself, and the for-itself. Enjoy! | |||