A mashup episode based on the last 2 video releases, ft. a ranging discussion about objectification, freedom, actor network theory, and many other puzzles.
2023-12-09 01:58:17 +0000 UTC View Post
I have had this stuck in my system for a while and really wanted to get it out there in less didactic style, because I figured that a video about the annihilation of historical time should feel a little more... accelerated. I think it'll strike a chord with some but really I wanted to do somethin...
2023-12-05 15:14:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Inspired by the new Netflix series, we read some Poe short stories and compared them to their TV adaptation. Victor Hainagiu (aka Litvic aka @horatiovictor) came on to help us put gothic horror into historical context.
2023-12-01 17:56:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Some oversimplified Badiou plus a look at Wittgenstein's Antiphilosophy(https://amzn.to/47xStiv)
2023-11-24 18:57:53 +0000 UTC View Post
I turned our reading series from here into a video (finally). Be sure to watch it without ads this week!
<3 Fatal Strategies
Dr. Phil and Existentialism for Zoomers (find the homework attached)
Dr. Phil: “The authentic self is the you that can be found at your absolute core. It is the part of you that is not defined by your job, or your function, or your role. It is the composite of all your uniqu...
The cited texts are Heidegger's Early Greek Thinking and Derrida's Margins of Philosophy
Here are four English translations of German translations of the Anaximander Fragment:
1. Yung Nietzsche:
"Whence things have their comin... 2023-11-10 15:21:25 +0000 UTC View Post
The Metamodernism Manifesto:
1. Derrida is too boring
2. Deleuze is too weird
3. A girl called me chauvinist once in a gender studies class
4. I miss believing in God but Postmodernism makes me feel bad about it
5. I PROPOSE A RADICAL, FRESH, NEW SYSTEM OF THOUGHT AN...
2023-11-07 22:40:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Postmodernism has fallen. All hail the new dumbuy cult: METAMODERNISM.
We took its FRESH NEW RADICAL academic wing out for a spin, as seen in this book: https://amzn.to/3So0kKH.
We Cover Luhmann's Differentiation of Society and look at the case of a Canadian Politician being booted for supporting a ceasefire.
2023-10-27 13:37:59 +0000 UTC View Post
We noticed a few Fanon name drops so this week we decided to read "On Violence" from Wretched of the Earth and see whether it's a useful heuristic for the discourse of violence in Gaza. You can read the chapter here 2023-10-21 12:01:25 +0000 UTC View Post
I got my painting back, and I hope it is an interesting supplement to some concepts I am trying out in the theory game. Featuring a reading by Byung-Chul Han.
2023-10-18 02:55:43 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the sixth episode on systems theory, and interestingly, the first time Victor has been exposed to it. The book is Political Theory in the Welfare State by Niklas Luhmann (https://amzn.to/48Q6I3g), and we hope to give you a ...
2023-10-14 03:11:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Erik and Pills continue the Systems Theory series from a few years ago with an interview between Niklas Luhmann, Katherine Hayles, Cary Wolfe, and others.
2023-10-07 05:45:23 +0000 UTC View Post
The timeloop continues: Another Ukrainian SS soldier in Canada and another wave of books and articles about the dangers of Heidegger following the publication of the third edition of History of Beyng, we reflect on air fryers and moralism after the end of history.
2023-09-30 00:20:10 +0000 UTC View Post
The endless debate over Heidegger's National Socialism continues with the 2022 edition of Heidegger's History of Beyng and accusations of his editors sanitizing his more deplorable takes, but as usual, Baudrillard cuts through the bullshit and reflects upon who this debate is REALLY for.
2023-09-28 12:53:59 +0000 UTC View Post
More self myths, from life coaches to Hegelians. This is the second part of our myths of the self bouncing around between technological posthumanism and the California self factory.
2023-09-22 23:51:17 +0000 UTC View Post
This is perhaps the most thorough myth of modernity--the self. Are we selves? What about language and semiotics? What about bathroom doors? Do air fryers live up to the hype? All this and more!
2023-09-15 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
More reflections on the subject/object binary, and whether or not it's fatal. Readings from Baudrillard Live: Selected Interviews and "At the End of the World, It’s Hyperobjects All the Way Down," wired.com.
2023-09-13 01:09:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Victor interviews Professor Carolyn Pedwell, editor of the Affect Theory Reader (two volumes) and Revolutionary Routines (https://amzn.to/44FykoA). Pedwell argues that minor gestures may be as significant as major happenings, reveali...
2023-09-07 17:39:30 +0000 UTC View Post
I take ownership of everything we put out, and hope it's good, but this episode is imho one of our top-shelf hits. Erik and Pills break down the myth of grooming, childhood, sexuality and the semiotic systems which produced them.
2023-08-30 00:43:48 +0000 UTC View Post
This week Victor and Pills read the Adventures of the Dialectic by Merleau-Ponty. It was planned hastily because Erik had an emergency, but it was an interesting read to see how little we have progressed in 70 years of leftism :'(
Stay tuned for your regularly scheduled programming as we c...
Back on Baudrillard for "The Theorem of the Accursed Share"—chapter 14 of "The Transparency of Evil" (https://amzn.to/3LitJSQ). Thank you guys for being here🙏🤍
2023-08-19 00:17:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all, we got Diego Ruzzarin back to discuss the political mythologies of the Left and Right as analyzed by Roland Barthes in his 1957 book (https://amzn.to/47i5kpd). If you end up acquiring a copy, you'll find what we talk about...
2023-08-15 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Today we read car commercials (specifically American car commercials) for their mythic content, primarily as a myth of individual mobility and freedom (both spatial and social). As we cover, myth naturalizes its relations outside of the actual world and need not refer to the historical conditions...
2023-08-08 14:07:55 +0000 UTC View Post
What to say about this lol... I turned a winding series of thoughts into a Barthesian/Baudrillardian manifesto for images, which was hella fun. There are hundreds of images packed in here, most of which will make sense if you're up to date on the latest drops, but I'll put together a commentary v...
2023-08-04 23:08:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Last week we looked at fairy stories as more than stories, and before that we decided we've never been modern. Together then, we'd conclude we are as myth-tended as our savage forebears. So today we begin to pick at some threads of modern myths, which are deployed in marketing, politics, sports, ...
2023-08-01 18:27:57 +0000 UTC View Post
With the release of the Barbie movie, the feminine symbol has been deployed this summer. But for thousands of summers previous, the role of the feminine was managed by folk stories and fairy tales. Featuring the literary stylings of Victor Hainagiu (known to us as Lit Vic) we broach the topic of ...
2023-07-26 07:28:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Everyone speaking on freedom but nobody's asking what it means. "Freedom-from interference" is a 400-year-old definition that covers a few bases but not much beyond that. We looked to Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology in this book (h...
2023-07-14 16:00:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Pills and Erik celebrate Latour Day. Cracking one of our old favs (https://amzn.to/3O2fLVp), to discuss the theory island chain, the scheme of actor network theory, and why reality is more complex than theoretical models.
2023-07-07 19:43:56 +0000 UTC View Post