Schopenhauer - The World as WILL
Part 2 of The World as Will and Representation (the WILL part) https://amzn.to/3UM2SBY.
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Pill Pod 169 - The Ethics of Existentialism (Simone de Beauvoir)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/de-beauvoir/ambiguity<...
2024-05-28 04:15:30 +0000 UTC View PostWorld as Representation & Quantum Information Theory
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Zizek: https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/some-remarks-on-the-ontological-implications-of-quantum-mechanics/
The Message of the Quantum...
Schopenhauer - The World as REPRESENTATION
You know what it is. Part 1 of The World as Will and Representation (https://amzn.to/3UM2SBY)
2024-05-19 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 168 - EcoMarxism (Exclusive)
You asked, we answered! Here is your homework: https://monthlyreview.org/2024/01/01/the-dialectics-of-ecology-an-introduction/
2024-05-18 21:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 167 - Schopenhauer on Why Christianity is the Worst Religion
We look at Schopenhauer's comparison of various religions' metaphysical explanations for suffering, and why conservative celebrities are converting to the dumbest one.
Schopenhauer on the Sufferings of the World: 2024-05-10 18:37:55 +0000 UTC
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Schopenhauer on The Vanity of Existence
Time to read some real philosophy quick a minute. Read along with the text here.
Pill Pod 166 - Eco-Marxism-Leninism-Variety-Hour (Patreon Exclusive)
We bounced a bunch of stuff around, starting with Erik's new interest in Eco-Marxism and Gabriel Rockhill's article claiming that critical theory is mostly a CIA psyop....
2024-05-06 17:26:43 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 165 - Right Fight Night: Yarvin vs. Rufo
Deviating from our usual strategies for the leftist future, we look to the strategists of the conservative future, as discussed in this article, where Christopher Rufo debates Mencius Moldbug aka Curtis Yarvin. ...
2024-04-23 05:33:24 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 164 - Self-Help is/not Philosophy (Patreon Exclusive)
We read a kinda boring article that spun off into a rather more interesting discussion about what philosophy actually is and who it is for. The article can be found here, but we're going to need...
2024-04-16 02:03:05 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 163 - Controlled Opposition ft. 1Dime
This week we discuss how modern liberal democracies co-opt resistance and adapt to internal opposition as a mechanism of inverted totalitarian control. Our guest is Tony from 1Dime, who made a video on what he calls "contained opposition", find it here: 2024-04-08 20:17:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Pill Pod 162 - Walter Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Age of Technological Reproduction (Patron Exclusive)
We were surprised we hadn't done an episode on this yet, but Erik and Pills take on probably the most referenced critical theory text, Benjamin's Work of Art essay, a version of which you will find attached, or get it 2024-04-01 17:14:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Pill Pod 161 - The End of Art
We're still on why everything's ending, this time with another pillar of civilization: art, and modern art in particular. Part of the discussion comes from Frederic Jameson's Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, the cover of which features a (particularly ugly) Warhol print (
Andy Warhol Killed Art (The Copyright Cut)
So the original version of this got clapped by the copyright holders of the buried Mona Lisa Curse documentary. This is 92% the same as the video you have already seen, but with indisputable "transformativity" applied to the affected clips.
2024-03-21 19:39:27 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 160 - Walter Benjamin on Leftist Content (exclusive)
We read Walter Benjamin's (perhaps) undelivered address to the Anti-Fascist Club: The Author as Producer, and try to test whether or not it holds up. Please see the attachment to follow along.
2024-03-18 04:53:12 +0000 UTC View PostCalifornia Weltgeist V - Cult California (Part 1)
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Pill Pod 159 - The End of the University
As Toronto descends into the chaos of labour action, the Pill Pod ascends to the old ideal of the university to evaluate its catastrophic death at the hands of private sector vampires. The reading we looked at can be found 2024-03-10 03:53:25 +0000 UTC View Post
California Weltgeist IV - Silicon Valley Cowboy (Exclusive)
Part IV of my obsession with California as the Mirror of Disappearance. Sources are The Code (https://amzn.to/49T3Y4G) by Margaret O'Mara and Pure War (https://amzn.to/3...
2024-02-29 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostNew Plasticpills Feature Video (Early Access)
I think you'll see, I have been working on this one for a while. Not yet sure when it will go public but watch it here ad-free! Thanks for supporting my work, more to come!
2024-02-28 04:21:39 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 158 - Walter Benjamin On the Philosophy of History (Exclusive)
In closing up our end of history series, we are back making our bed where it is buttered with some OG critical theory. We read Walter Benjamin's prevenient opposition to the end of history. It is a highly recommended read, and short, so see the attachment or find the weblink 2024-02-25 01:25:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Pill Pod 157 - Mirror Christianity ft. John Hamer
At your guys' suggestion, we invited on John Hamer from Centre Place Toronto to represent the leftist side of the Christian Flock. We asked about his view of the church in history and in politics, and read 2024-02-18 03:31:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Pill Pod 156 - Christofascism
What if, instead of letting history end or disappear, we hit the rewind button and let the Church have another shot? We navigate through some stars in the Christofascist constellation and read Why Liberalism Failed(https://amzn...
2024-02-11 00:30:40 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 155 - Baudrillard's End of History (Exclusive)
At the end of all things, we have our rountable on Baudrillard's "Illusion of the End", to a mixed response.
2024-02-03 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostCalifornia Weltgeist III - The Metaphysics of Ends (Exclusive)
Here we go on the second composition; it's about ENDS—real, imagined and simulated. Sources include Baudrillard Live (Mike Gane ed.), Mason and Dixon (Pynchon), and City of Quartz (Mike Davis).
2024-01-29 21:27:05 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 154 - Christian Intellectuals at the End of History
While no one is happy that history has ended, few are quite as whiny about it as Christian conservatives. We delved through a treasure trove of the Christian intellectual right—"The Imaginative Conservative"—to find out what they think history is for, and how to respond to it's having ended.<...
2024-01-27 21:18:51 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 153 - End of History III: Fukuyama Reckoning (Exclusive)
Our last episode on Francis Fukuyama's End of History and the Last Man (https://amzn.to/3tPo5Bt), where he goes balls to the wall and explains everything that has ever happened... and blinks.
2024-01-20 22:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostCalifornia Weltgeist II - Origin of a Dream (Exclusive)
This is a ride, it was fascinating for me to put together, so I hope it is worth your time. Sources are Rush to Gold: The French and the California Gold Rush 1848-1854 (2013) by Malcolm J. Rohrbough, White Noise (1985) by DeLillo, Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968) and ...
2024-01-14 21:26:27 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 152 - End of History II: Triumphal Liberalism (Exclusive)
Adjusted for inflation, Francis Fukuyama received $1,311,814.68 to write The End of History and the Last Man (https://amzn.to/3tPo5Bt); we want to see what $1,311,814.68 is worth.
2024-01-13 20:51:16 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 151 - The End of History I: The Idea of History
We embark on the notion of the end of history by trying to figure out if we have an idea of history. This is mostly inspired by our reading of Fukyama's book (https://amzn.to/3tPo5Bt) but the series won't be limited to it.
2024-01-06 21:25:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe California Weltgeist
Although we may have lost faith in ideas, let's see what happens when we use them anyway!
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