Pill Pod 150 - The Subject/Object Binary Opposition (Exclusive)
Added 2023-12-09 01:58:17 +0000 UTCA mashup episode based on the last 2 video releases, ft. a ranging discussion about objectification, freedom, actor network theory, and many other puzzles.
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I first experienced this podcast via YouTube as audio, which brought forth the image (in the absence of the image of talking heads) of listening in on a private deep-seated discussion with a group of friends (not academics). Perhaps it was lack of competitive yet critical banter that gave me this appreciation. I avoid at all costs even the glimpse of the images of your heads on the Patreon thread lest this virgin initiation into this pink-blue-black world be shattered. Thank you for the freestyle philosophy coming from a deep but dark well!
James Merrigan
2024-03-06 10:38:18 +0000 UTCThe cosmos has distinctions -- and the incarnate will to recognize and name distinctions, but the valuation and assignment of meaningfulness are entirely our doing.
Stephen Nelson Willis
2023-12-29 14:10:53 +0000 UTCAlso 1:02:00 "not exploring other mediums... like the radio show." If that's of interest, should totally go for it. Gecko Therapy < PillPod Therapy Also, a PillPod hotline ala Tim Heidecker Office Hours would be great π. But really, hearing you on that Horseshoe podcast, you were really good with answering on the spot questions in an interesting, enjoyable way. So could do very well with on the spot radio call in questions or ramblings lol, with a lot of interesting, unforeseen results π Also finally, that passage or paraphrase of Erik circa 1:20:00 reaaaaally made a few things click. Nicely said, by whoever said it. And nice FIN at 1:25:00 "it's the super mirror." Sure feels like it.
ageOfBumFires
2023-12-24 14:19:24 +0000 UTCLoved this episode. Many unhinged thoughts on my end, one stuck out for your consideration... 58:00 forced to live in the binary, that's just the way we think... But why is that? There are trinities, of course occupying a less lived position. And why is it so difficult for people to as easily associate with the silence in-between the poles? Just because we have no name for it... or there's some developed, evolutionary, cultural fear or anxiety against it? That it's unassignable? Associated more with some dark abyss than the shining light of security? Why isn't it just as easy to associate with the unassignable? It seems like the probability should be equal, but no one's running around out there campaigning for the mystery of the unassignable in politics. Independent doesn't really reach that Dao lol. P.s. My Lana was Lorde's "Solar Power," which I always found myself playing when I had to do work at community garden. Seemed also a "cheerful nihilism/aloofism" moreso on a barbiside. P.p.s. I do wonder though, and I know it's a silly thought and the answer is likely a bugs bunny themed "noooo" but one must maintain their heroic fantasies of triumph (I swear I'm not a metamodernist πππ₯)... is taking the side of the Object actually the most powerful weapon available to so called slave subjects towards any sort of resolution to the subjective dialectic of master slave? Or are we beyond that as the primary, ordinal problem to be solved? Or is this strategy just unable to communicate or touch that problem? In my very best Jerry Seinfeld voice "what's the deal with taking the side of the object as praxis?"
ageOfBumFires
2023-12-24 14:05:17 +0000 UTCVic touched on trauma, how without it there is no addiction (Rat Park experiment is worth looking up about this). Personally I'd say trauma is another agentic object, and an existentially significant one. Except it's an anti-object, maybe an anti-system(?), voids in orders, but all the voids are one and replicate. It is embedded in all brutality (both cause & effect) and un/healthy cope. My understanding is that popular author & media personality Gabor MatΓ© is a leading figure in trauma psychology
Alex B
2023-12-20 18:00:40 +0000 UTCI want to connect this to phenomenology regarding objects. An object can be seductive but can tend to have varying values of inertia or cost. It would be interesting to draw upon this cost-to-pleasure element.
TheUltimateBird
2023-12-18 18:14:28 +0000 UTCI heard "Venice Bitch" and was instantly a fan.
Khemith
2023-12-18 08:21:51 +0000 UTCI used to play the F1 2000 Microsoft version! It seems like as the game they are, all sports spread their image through other variant game forms. Videogames or gambling for example, a lot of people mostly follow a sport to keep track of all the money bets they made around. They want to be part of a game, and feel the risk of loosing, or the joy of not loosing. But feeling the risk is the key for the game. I'm in the care of a compulsive gambler, I just check that she limits to play solitaire while using her computer. Gambling is a socially acceptable activity that very sneaky but violently awaits in every corner. She is sick, her eyes significantly change when her body perceives the sound and colors of a gambling machine, she starts being something else. I don't have a reason to believe that she had bad parents, except that her dad died when she was little. It's not the individual or the parents to be blamed for an addiction, when the social response it's just to keep avoiding complex problems, while passively accepting any quick response.
Mapita
2023-12-12 20:37:46 +0000 UTCPills' music taste π€ neurotic zoomer girls Also, this might be a little pedantic, but nicotine is actually the hardest substance to quit, and it's not just because of how freely available it is: alcohol and caffeine are at least equally freely available, and yet they're not as difficult to give up. Although Victor is right in that there's always a social context to addiction, and that you never get an addict who doesn't have a whole bunch of other shit going on in their lives. Also, I was going to say that Red Bull is at the heart of the hyperreal simulation of speed, but what if you include in the definition of speed the stimulant effects of the energy drink itself, and its effect on behavior?
anacidcommie
2023-12-10 16:22:35 +0000 UTCCoffee (caffeine) is exactly this chemical warfare at first and then becomes something to keep useful pollinators like bees coming back and eventually selected for by humans.
Jalphabet89
2023-12-09 17:20:42 +0000 UTCThat's funny. My top on YouTube Music wrap was Lana del Ray, David Bowie, Taylor Swift, Fleetwood Mac and The Clash.
Dony Top5
2023-12-09 02:03:29 +0000 UTC
