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Cybersyn Livestream: Chile 1970

Here is the main source on the CIA and US Executive response to Allende: https://www...

Upcoming Video Prescription Livestream

Come hang for a discussion of cybernetics and Chile. Exclusive livestream Friday April 30, at 1pm ET.

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Microdose - Sortition (Exclusive)

Victor boldly lays out his plan to fix electoral democracy using an ancient Athenian political process.

Intro to Upcoming Channel Project

Planning something new! Something big! This is to keep you in the loop of what to look for in the coming months. Also I am sorry about that goofy thumbnail, YouTube seems to prioritize smiles when ...

Pill Pod 37 - Adam Curtis Episode (Exclusive)

We're a little late to this one, but we had some different interpretations as to whether Can't Get You Out of My Head is art, history, documentary, art-history, history-documentary or art-documenta...

Microdose - Anarchism (Exclusive)

In response to your suggestions last month, Pills joins the political theory smash bros to discuss Robert Paul Wolff's "In Defense of Anarchism."

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Concept Vlog - The Gaze (Exclusive)

The Gaze and the scopic regime of metaphysics, ft. Plato, Aristotle,  Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, and Wittgenstein. Please leave your comments below, either here or on the video, I'd like a...

Pill Pod 35 - Amnesty Intellectual (Exclusive)

The Pill Pod discusses the rage of elites: ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM. But that's not all! There's also the techno-material conditions for intellectuals, cocaine in coffee houses, and how the university ...

Semiotics Series: Peircean vs. Saussurean Semiotics (Exclusive)

Erik and Pills (mostly Erik) goes through some examples to explain the more general utility and applicability of C.S. Peirce's triadic semiotic model, as opposed to Saussure's binary semiotic model...

Deleuze on Nietzsche: Video Supplement (Video Exclusive)

Here's an hour and a half of content that didn't make the final cut of the latest release!

New Video Release: Deleuze & Nietzsche (Early Access)

Just gotta say upfront lots of gratitude that there are people out there willing to support this kind of content. That said, here's an early release that you'll be the first to see, ad-free before ...

Microdose: Gramsci (Exclusive)

Join Pills, Matt, and Erik for your chosen topic: A romp through the Formation of the Intellectuals from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci.

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Patron Topic Vote (Pill Pod 34)

Hey! As we've done in the past: we record the next exclusive episode on Monday, but before then, we need a topic! Throw your ideas for the four of us in the comments, and we'll record on the most r...

Pill Pod 32 - Accountability Studies (Exclusive)

Bit of a loose one here for ya'll as our minds fray at the edges. We went in without a plan because Erik needed the night off, and we ended up discussing pop Marcuse takes, holding ourselves accoun...

Concept Vlog - Julia Kristeva's Abject

She lost the vote, but that only impelled me to impress her significance upon you.

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Overdose - The Semiotics of C.S. Peirce

An ignorant Pills, without prior knowledge, interviews Erik on his favourite dude: the prolific C.S. Peirce--scientist, logician, semiotician. 

We try to get clear on the triadic structu...

What you wanna watch next?

What's up? While I work on the bonus content for this month, I'll start thinking about what's next. I have narrowed down the options to what fits in the current trajectory, so here are my ideas and...

NEW VIDEO RELEASE: Watch it here before Friday, ad-free!

The last Patreon vote determined that Burnout Society would be the topic, but in the interest of being less depressing once in a while, I tried to give it a bit of a redemption arc through the psyc...

Sociology of Religion ft. Galen Watts (Exclusive)

Matt interviews @Galen_Watts on liberal religion, i.e. those who identify as "spiritual but not religious," using the sociological method of Emile Durkheim. The distinction between politic...

Pill Pod 29 - Kant Get You Out of My Head (Exclusive)

Before we can get to the other stuff we like in 20th century philosophy, we have to go back to the synthesizer of modern philosophy, the philosopher's philosophy, Immanuel Kant, to lay some groundw...

NEW VIDEO (Lacan) - Early Access

Don't wait till Friday, watch it without ads!

Guys I could not have that other video sit up there and reflect my work forever. I have spoken a few times about redoing it because it's popular...

Pill Pod 28 - Don't Go to Grad School

We get asked this question frequently, and the answer is NO, DON'T GO (or maybe do it). This episode is required listening before making a life-altering decision that you can quite easily change at...

Concept Vlog - Merleau-Ponty's "Flesh of the World"

Still working on my new release, it's going to be a top tier production. 

In the meantime, here's the first content on one of my favourite texts, the tragically unfinished Visible and In...

Pill Pod 27 - The Burnout Society (Exclusive)

You demanded, and we capitulated. Here is our discussion of The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han.

Find the book here: https://amzn...

(Early Access) Fascism, Traditionalism, and the War for Eternity (ft. Ben Teitelbaum)

Fascism, folk music, Bannon and Dugin: the Pill Pod's Matt and Victor interview Benjamin Teitelbaum, a scholar of contemporary European radical nationalism, to discuss his new book, War For Eternit...

Choose your Political Theory Podcast!

Hello Audio subscribers. Victor and Matt, the Pill Pod's political theorists, have proposed a patron-exclusive series on a topic chosen by you! You probably know some of their interests already: th...

Social Media in Systems Theory (Bonus: why FB is to blame for the MAGA dad coup)

Pseudo-events aren't going to get in the way of our release schedule. This is Pills & Erik's final pod in the cybernetics and systems theory series, before we take off into semiotics for a few ...

Baudrillard - Exclusive Video Lecture (2 hrs) on Simulacra and Simulation

Here's my biggest patron offering to date; there have been segments of this up, but here's the whole enchilada. This is Pills at my most academic, and while I am sure of the quality in that respect...

Pill Pod 24 - Children of Hindsight 2020

Here's a veritable New Years egg basket of news, retrospective, your questions, and our look to 2021, the first half of which will include such topics as semiotics, phenomenology, feminism, and spe...

Video Game Crit Theory (Bonus Interview)

Matt (@mattpolprof) calls up Alfie Bown (@Leftist_Gamer) to discuss the politics, psychoanalytic interpretation, and emancipatory potential of video games, for the left-brained.