Post-Everything - On the Image (Video Exclusive)
This is a pastiche of incoherent ramblings about the IMAGE that will have meant something someday.
2023-07-06 00:05:16 +0000 UTC View Post
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Pill Pod 129 - Canadian Politics Update & Ontological Iceberg Racing (Exclusive)
A Toronto election update followed by a discussion about post-structuralism that barely addresses the article we read (attached), and got into a deeper discussion about forms of writing comparing a...
2023-06-30 19:50:39 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 128 - Dawn of Everything II (Exclusive)
This might be better titled: "Wrong of Everything"... Each of us read different sections of the book and came together to round table our gleanings. We especially focused on the indigenous critique...
2023-06-23 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe Desert of the Real (Video Exclusive)
A journey through the Desert of the Real with Descartes, Barbie and Jean Baudrillard 2023-06-22 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Pill Pod 127 - Dawn of Everything by Davids Graeber & Wengrow
We plumbed the first few chapters of a new history of humanity by an anarchist and an archaeologist: The Dawn of Everything (https://am...
2023-06-16 17:43:45 +0000 UTC View PostJean Baudrillard 101
This is pretty long, but I found this particular interview, "Forget Baudrillard", where he explains his purposes to someone familiar with his work, Sylvere Lotringer. As a result, it serves as a go...
2023-06-15 15:55:15 +0000 UTC View PostNEW VIDEO EARLY ACCESS
Barbie got me HYPERREALIN'. Watch ad free this week! This is the most dense editing I think I have done thus far, and it is a little more experimental than usual. Theory-wise, you will probably cat...
2023-06-09 18:35:23 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 126 - Based Rousseau
One of those guys we rarely think about but who single-handedly pulled the track lever in the history of philosophy, it's Rousseau. We read Discourse on the Origin of Inequality this week and appra...
2023-06-09 14:07:36 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 125 - Eyes of Reason II (Exclusive)
Part two of Pills' genealogy of the visual metaphors in the guts of philosophy. This one goes through Kant, Nietzsche, and Derrida, each of whom argue metaphoric language is more than a nuisance to...
2023-06-02 13:40:00 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 124 - The Eyes of Reason I (Exclusive)
Mentioned a few episodes back that I (Pills) wrote a genealogy of the intelligible/visible metaphor that, I argue, has animated Western philosophy since Socrates. I wrote this over 10 years ago in ...
2023-05-26 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostBaudrillard - Sexuality has Disappeared: Transparency of Evil pt. III (Video Exclusive)
Hey all. So, unlike the usual exclusives, YouTube will not let me upload this video (which would be otherwise a good thing)... I suspect because of the title of Baudrillard's chapter. However, as I...
2023-05-24 00:17:25 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 123 - "Western Civilization" According to Francis Bacon
Find the short story here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2434/2434-h/2434-h.htm
We revisit At...
Pill Pod 122 - Mosh School Mixdown (Exclusive)
First, the sociology of Mosh. Then we read Ranciere reflecting on May '68, his break with Althusser's party Marxism, and what the hell is the university for anymore? 2023-05-12 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Baudrillard - Art has Disappeared: Transparency of Evil pt. II (Video Exclusive)
Back on Baudrillard for "Transaesthetics"—chapter 2 of "The Transparency of Evil" (https://amzn.to/3LitJSQ).
2023-05-09 20:27:28 +0000 UTC View PostState of the Art (Live stream)
Talking points are prepped and the beer is cold, next week it's back to Baudrillard and Warhol but I wanted to do something dufferent this week so drop by if you're free.
2023-05-05 12:49:17 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 121 - Obscurantism in French Philosophy: Searle on Foucault & Derrida
Today we discuss how to pet your professor's ego to get better marks, and review John Searles sassy attempt to take down Derrida by quoting Foucault gossip. Sources come from Reiterating the Di...
2023-04-28 20:25:20 +0000 UTC View PostBaudrillard - The Transparency of Evil (Video Exclusive)
Back on Baudrillard for "The Transparency of Evil" (https://amzn.to/3LitJSQ).
2023-04-21 15:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 120 - A Patron Response Episode (Exclusive)
We took a little reading break to respond to some of your feedback and run off the cuff for 90 minutes.
2023-04-21 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostWe want to hear from you!
For this week's episode, we'd like to do some audience feedback on the "post-Marxism" episodes or any random questions: we've heard each other's takes: Victor's paper, Pills' video, Diego's "consum...
2023-04-19 16:35:03 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 119 - Stiegler and Posthumanist Post-Marxism (ft. Diego Ruzzarin)
Diego's back is back and so are we to have a look at why Stiegler believes that the class war is over, the techno/grammatological pharmakon is in and proletarianization has been total. We looked at...
2023-04-14 15:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe Ecstasy of Communication - Baudrillard Dosage (Video Exclusive)
A necessary little bow on the Baudrillard... Here is an hour and half on the ecstasy of communication, and a few other things as dressing.
2023-04-13 04:48:25 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 118 - Victor's Paper (Exclusive)
Let's hear it crush!
2023-04-07 02:54:19 +0000 UTC View PostNew Video Release! Postmodernism & Baudrillard vs. The Spectacle (early access)
It's done! This is my long reflection produced by our content on Guy Debord and my dive into Fatal Strategies. I hope it is informative and thank you very, ever so much for putting your dollars in ...
2023-04-05 19:46:42 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 117 - Baudrillard as Post-Marxist
We are still on the lookout for some worthwhile post-marxisms, we found a dude who is post-everything. Our reading is from "Ironic Strategies" from Baudrillard's Fatal Strategies, and it turned out...
2023-03-31 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 116 - Guattari & Negri's Communism (Exclusive)
We speculate on moral panics before getting to the meat of a post-marxist, 80s, political theory text: "Communists Like Us" by Felix Guattari & Toni Negri. Still looking for a post-Marxism that...
2023-03-24 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 115 - MarxismS: Louis Althusser and Structuralist Marxism
Erik and Pills duo on Althusser, reading "Contradiction and Overdetermination" from the book For Marx. We read this anticipating a couple episodes trying to figure out what "post-marxism" ...
2023-03-17 15:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Spectacular Now (Livestream)
Come hang out in the mirrorverse, you know, if you like.
2023-03-17 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostNEW VIDEO RELEASE | Society of the Spectacle
You know what it is, I put Debord's best foot forward... I hope the animations and graphics and examples and feelings hit you somehow too. If his theory is good enough then all we have to wait for ...
2023-03-11 09:41:30 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 114 - POST-MARXISM ft. Diego Ruzzarin (Exclusive)
In the 80s, Laclau and Mouffe decided they wanted to succeed Marxism with discourse stuff and some identity politics thrown in. We read their apologetic for Post-Marxism (attached) and while Post-M...
2023-03-10 21:19:15 +0000 UTC View PostPill Pod 113 - Slavoj Zizek Woke Council
Zizek allegedly wrote an article on the problems of wokeness and we argued about it. Reactionary? Transphobic? Trolling? We don't agree.
The article: 2023-03-03 05:16:40 +0000 UTC
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