Just want to kick off this description with some thanks for being one of the few people willing to pay for content on the internet. Doesn't look like this'll ever be the kind of podcast that allows us to quit our day jobs, but because you're here it's enough for some trips to the grocery store an...
2022-02-18 13:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
3pm EST. I am thinking about back-to-basics with the livestreams, because the level at which we usually talk is not very beginner friendly to those without any background context. I don't know yet, we'll see how this one goes...
2022-02-11 16:32:19 +0000 UTC View Post
4PM EST FEB 11!
Joe Rogan hosted JBP to discuss fracking, Abraham, and Nietzsche, and we are here for those hot and not-so-hot takes on our first in-person, video podcast episode. Before we bid adieu to the University of Toronto's melodramatic guru, we cover the hits of his la...
This one goes out to all you heady Marxists out there. Matt interviews Greg Albo and Steve Maher from the Socialist Register (https://socialistregister.com/index.php/srv), a 60-year-old Marxist periodical. There m...
2022-02-08 19:38:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Thinking I'll do this tomorrow at 3pm EST.
2022-02-04 04:48:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Neil Vallelly (@NeilVallelly) joins Matt (@mattpolprof) for a cheery discussion of neoliberalism and futility, the central themes of Neil's new book, which can be found at https://amzn.to/32LjkLO or 2022-02-01 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank God it's Monday, because it's a new Concept Vlog featuring... God. Oh and some ideas about the upcoming vid. Cheers!
2022-02-01 02:28:07 +0000 UTC View Post
It's another literature corner episode, featuring The Purloined Letter and the interpretive stylings of the illustrious Lit Vic (find more of his utterances on Twitter @HoratioVictor). We discuss Edgar Allen Poe's short story as well as Lacan's psychoanalytic interpretation of it found i...
2022-01-28 17:54:32 +0000 UTC View Post
This one is exclusively for you all. Thanks for selecting the topic and voting! Looking forward to seeing your comments on the first 15 mins or so. And remember: Plato was an idiot.
2022-01-21 14:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostHey all. Been a minute since we did one of these but it is time to choose what you want us to talk about for the next exclusive episode! Comment below on your idea for an episode--which may be a thinker, a lecture, an article, a more general topic that we might know something about (e.g. academia...
2022-01-17 21:07:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Is capitalism over? Whether or not it is, Friday is a good day to coin some new academic terms. We discuss making up words to advance your career and then a new term drop: techno-feudalism.
Find the full interview with Zizek and Varoufakis here: 2022-01-15 00:26:16 +0000 UTC
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Movie episode! This is more than a film, it's now a cultural event, and content is content and we are serious about that content. Please time your molly accordingly. Cheers all!
2022-01-08 03:39:12 +0000 UTC View Post
The resurrection took longer than expected as the Pill Pod got COVID, but we're back with a sprawling 100 minutes of sex, drugs, and democracy: Chile elected a socialist (again); France failed to become a communist state in '68; and we ask whether an authoritarian turn the only way to prevent cli...
2022-01-07 05:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy 2021! With a few hours to go, this'll be the last upload of the year, on the division between aesthetic and anaesthetic experience, or making sense and nonsense. Bit of a bookend here on the phenomenology arc, looking towards whatever comes next.
2022-01-01 00:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Kids be getting Tourette's from TikToK? This episode is certified 100% Matt-Free with Pills, Victor, and Erik first taking on mass sociogenic illnesses from the phenomenological perspective, with a dash of psychoanalysis for good measure.
2021-12-11 00:04:49 +0000 UTC View Post
We're back to an explainey video, because there are a lot of implications to this series of events, and it gives some more context to the theoryverse. There are a lotta possible subtitles to this is well, with respect to the importance of theory or lack thereof, but my thought is that it se...
2021-12-05 21:11:32 +0000 UTC View Post
I said there was a surprise, I didn't want to spoil this until after it was done... Pills and Matt interview he who was once known as Cuck Philosophy, and who is now known as Jonas Čeika, author of How to Philosophize with a Hammer and Sickle. Get the book here: 2021-12-04 13:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Whew. Long one today. We answer some of your questions and responses, before defining "the body schema" and finishing up with some of the vast implications of MMP's phenomenology. Check out the reading (attached) to read what we read! Thanks for enabling us to do this week to week :D
2021-11-26 13:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Phenomenology is sometimes viewed apolitically, today we try to get a handle on Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological Marxism. See the attachments for the primary sources!
2021-11-19 13:36:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Part II of the Phenomenology of Perception concept vlog; here's the book link again https://amzn.to/3n2yXpK
2021-11-17 13:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Here we go back a few pages from the intro, to discuss the "prejudices" in philosophy of mind, or, the 3.5 positions that Merleau-Ponty contrasts with his own concept of the "habitual body." These prejudices are: empiricism, intellectualism, psychologism, and clinical physiology.
Now ...
2021-11-12 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally, it's the Phenomenology of Perception. Featuring: the habitual body.
This is only Part 1 (Part 2 will be on coherence and indeterminacy).
Here's the book link https://amzn.to/3n2yXpK (tho it's 6...
2021-11-10 03:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
No politics, no metaphysics, no grand narratives, this week, and for the following weeks, the Pill Pod is going back to the things themselves. That's right—we are talking phenomenology. Our touchstone text will be Phenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, but we do not expect to sta...
2021-11-05 12:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This'll be about my current thought-arc about imperialist optics, and then Artin will come by so we can discuss our intentions behind the collaboration, so we'll have to see where that goes.
2021-11-05 00:19:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Well this one has been pretty close to the chest but it's finally finished--went way out of the box for it.
2021-11-03 12:14:35 +0000 UTC View Post
We are kicking off a new series next week (psst... it's phenomenology), but while we finish up our reading prep , we thought we'd do a non-legacy-medium episode on Netflix's The Chair, and use the opportunity to complain about humanities departments (and tenure).
2021-10-29 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The Pill Pod gets academic as our new edited volume is out, edited by Matt and featuring contributions Victor, Erik and our episode guest Ben (@benburgis) of Give Them an Argument. We argue that the antagonism between socialism and liberalism has largely been fabricated by internet creatures who ...
2021-10-22 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Going to have a go at another chapter of trying to figure out what happened to time and space.
2021-10-15 14:06:01 +0000 UTC View Post
It's Friday, and we prepped another episode, then did this instead. We are name dropping that Baudrillard, Virilio and trying to remember what Emmanuel Levinas said, giving a biased review of the new Pills vid, and trying to figure out what's up with all the images.
2021-10-15 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post