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The Universality of Non-Belonging - Todd McGowan03 Apr 202601:01:28

Join us as we read a nice piece from Todd McGowan. Enjoy!

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What is Philosophy? (Chapter 5: Functives and Concepts) - Deleuze and Guattari20 Mar 202600:49:58

This week, we're discussing the 5th chapter from Deleuze and Guattari's What is Philosophy? Enjoy!

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Mary Wild - Psychoanalyzing Horror Cinema12 Dec 202501:09:24

Join us this week as we read Mary Wild's new book Psychoanalyzing Horror Cinema. Enjoy!

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Gilles Deleuze - Postscript On the Societies Of Control21 Nov 202501:09:48

Join us this week as we read Deleuze's most famous essay (we'd say), Postscript On the Societies Of Control. Enjoy!

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Michel Foucault - Of Other Spaces, Heterotopias14 Nov 202501:11:24

We got a good one! This week, we're reading Foucault's essay Of Other Spaces. Enjoy!

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Étienne Balibar - Human Species As Biopolitical Concept31 Oct 202501:02:52

Join us this week as read Étienne Balibar's lecture Human Species As Biopolitical Concept. Enjoy!

Simon Critchley - Mysticism 2/224 Oct 202501:08:52

Join us this week as we finish reading Simon Critchley's new book Mysticism. Enjoy!

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Simon Critchley - On Mysticism 1/210 Oct 202501:07:44

Join us this week as we read the first part of Simon Critchley's new book On Mysticism. Enjoy!

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More Is More - Becca Rothfeld02 Oct 202501:08:42

Join us this week as we read an excerpt from Becca Rothfeld's new book, All Things Are Too Small: Essays In Praise Of Excess. Enjoy!

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Steven L Peck - My Madness26 Sep 202501:07:12

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 Real19 Sep 202501:08:52

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 Charming12 Sep 202501:01:30

Join us this week as we delve into Roxane Gay's essay The Trouble With Prince Charming. Enjoy!

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Jennifer Todd - Georg Lukács, Walter Benjamin, and the Motivation to make Political Art13 Mar 202601:07:40

Join us this week as we take a break from Deleuze and Guattari. Enjoy!

Yanis Varoufakis - Technofeudalism 2/205 Sep 202501:13:00

Join us this week as we finish up Yanis Varoufakis' Technofeudalism. Enjoy!

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Yanis Varoufakis - Technofeudalism29 Aug 202501:08:52

Join us as we read the first half of Yanis Varoufakis' Technofeudalism. Enjoy!

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Michel Foucault - History of Sexuality Vol. 1 2/222 Aug 202501:10:42

Welcome everybody! This week we're finishing up Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality Volume 1. Enjoy!

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Michel Foucault - History of Sexuality Vol. 1 1/215 Aug 202500:59:38

Join us this week as we read the first half of Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality Vol.1

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Alenka Zupančič - Disavowal01 Aug 202501:04:40

This week we're reading a great new book from Alenka Zupančič, Disavowal. All of her books are great. Enjoy!

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Theodor Adorno - Theses Against Occultism25 Jul 202501:05:58

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.

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Felix Guattari - The Three Ecologies18 Jul 202501:08:14

Welcome to our season three opener! This week we're reading Felix Guattari's work The Three Ecologies. Enjoy!

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Philosophy of Led Zeppelin09 May 202501:13:22

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 II25 Apr 202500:54:06

This week, we're finishing up Aleister Crowley's Little Essays Towards Truth. Enjoy!

Aleister Crowley - Little Essays Towards Truth I18 Apr 202501:04:40

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 Eyes06 Mar 202600:41:36
Alain Badiou - Handbook of Inaesthetics 2/211 Apr 202501:25:58

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 1/204 Apr 202501:15:26

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 Kronic28 Mar 202501:06:32

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 II21 Mar 202501:08:32

Welcome! This week we finished reading Nietzsche's Anti Education lectures. Enjoy!

Friedrich Nietzcshe - Anti-Education I14 Mar 202501:17:24

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 Melancholia07 Mar 202501:19:44

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!

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Herbert Marcuse - The Problem of Violence And The Radical Opposition28 Feb 202501:11:24

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!

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Emil Cioran - Aphorisms21 Feb 202501:10:56

This week we each chose five of our favorite aphorisms from Romanian philosopher Eil Cioran. Most are only one sentence in length. Enjoy!

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Walter Benjamin - Unpacking My Library14 Feb 202501:07:54

This week we read Walter Benjamin's essay on collecting. We differentiate between collecting proper, and the strange results of commodity fetishism. Enjoy!

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Interpassivity: The Aesthetics of Delegated Enjoyment - Robert Pfaller07 Feb 202501:10:56

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 Guattari27 Feb 202601:04:40

We're talking Geophilosophy! Enjoy

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Louis Althusser - Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses01 Feb 202501:11:20

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 202501:09:06

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 202501:19:06

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 Religion13 Dec 202401:30:10

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 Sun29 Nov 202401:23:34

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 Fascist22 Nov 202401:13:04

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: Temporality08 Nov 202401:13:14

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 Woman25 Oct 202401:16:30

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 Censorship18 Oct 202401:15:32

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 One04 Oct 202401:12:36

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 Guattari20 Feb 202601:03:20

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 Hut27 Sep 202401:11:02

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!

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Jean-Paul Sartre - Being and Nothingness II: Part One20 Sep 202401:17:38

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!

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Maurice Merleau-Ponty - Phenomenology of Perception, Preface13 Sep 202401:03:12

Maurice Merleau-Ponty gives a fantastic introduction to phenomenology in the preface to his Phenomenology of Perception. Honestly, we had a great time this week and really look forward to reading his whole work.

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Jean-Paul Sartre - Being and Nothingness 1: The Introduction06 Sep 202401:03:50

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!

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