Reboots and renewals, bodies and images, city and pasture. The Pill Pod takes a crack at analyzing the desire structure of 80s nostalgia in popular media.
2022-06-10 13:27:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Two hours of advertising, desire, Deleuze, and Guattari via the book of one of our past guests: Ian Buchanan, in his book Assemblage Theory and Method: 2022-06-07 23:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Pills, Erik and Victor tackle the boogeyman: Lyotard's Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, with reference to Wittgenstein's language-game methodology.
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2022-06-03 13:01:03 +0000 UTC
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The team reassembles to talk Wittgenstein, champion of "ideas-don't-matter" philosophy, and about why he matters—even if they don't. The primary sources referenced throughout this ep are the ...
2022-05-27 15:28:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry about my voice here, still got a bit of that COVID grog. Anyway I wanted to do something a little non-linear this week, and this is what I came up with. The direct citations are from Aristotl...
2022-05-20 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry, I forgot to post this in advance. Thanks to those of you who made it! It may still be interesting in the watch back.
2022-05-14 02:28:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Matt and Victor interview Nate Hochman on conservative college campuses and America's new right.
2022-05-14 02:27:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Readings are from Thousand Plateaus and Cyclonopedia (2022-05-12 22:40:04 +0000 UTC View Post
We venture into the weeds of ignorance, science, and anthropomorphism, and not even immuno-responses can stop us (sorry, this would have been out earlier but Covid's floored me since Saturday).
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There will be some more Stiegler ruminations, and I think I can float a new project idea.
2022-05-06 16:35:48 +0000 UTC View PostI apologize on behalf of technology, we had an issue with our recording on bad posthumanism, and the fail safe failed. We'll get it to you next Tuesday or Wednesday, please accept my prostrated apo...
2022-05-06 16:34:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) from the Washington Post joins Victor and Matt to discuss America's burgeoning illberal right wing. While often painted as reactionary and unintelligible, America's ne...
2022-05-04 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Come take a load off with some Anti-Oedipus
2022-04-29 23:28:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Erik and Pills do the thing. If you wonder whose name is being referenced throughout, it's the forgotten sociologist, Niklas Luhmann.
You can follow us at @podpill and @plasticpills, but we ...
Pills and Erik talk about transhumanism as opposed to posthumanism, and compare their positions on human technology and technics. Heidegger, McLuhan, Latour and Stiegler are all noteworthy theorist...
2022-04-22 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
This could be miserable.
2022-04-22 03:24:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Erik and Pills cover posthumanism in the context of systems theory and what makes it a viable model as an alternative to humanist explanatory frameworks of how society functions. We reference Nikla...
2022-04-15 21:22:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Phew. This month has been quiet from me, but don't worry, it is only half done. We have some meditating tracks to do, some posthuman podcast episodes coming up, and some new book vlogs, but this wa...
2022-04-14 16:50:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Socialism and Christianity have had a tenuous relationship. Our guest this week, Aaron Anderson, argues that Christianity and socialism not only have shared goals, but that uniting these goals serv...
2022-04-08 21:55:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Pills and Erik longwindedly answer the charge that posthumanism is a performative contradiction, because it's good actually.
If you are interested in posthumanism, this is the book you need <...
2022-04-01 22:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post
This week the pod hosts Matthew Flisfeder (@MattFlisfeder), the Zizek/Hegel/Lacan/Jameson scholar who organized the Peterson vs. Zizek debate. He's working on a book about renewing humanism in oppo...
2022-03-25 15:34:25 +0000 UTC View Post
We are looking at the structure of fantasy through conservatism and the Matrix. Spoilers for the Matrix.
Find Matt's review of Lindsay's hot garbage here: 2022-03-19 02:18:39 +0000 UTC
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I'm attaching this to the post rather than posting it as audio so that you read this first lol. I floated the idea of this on the last stream, and it diverges from the usual content. The goal of it...
2022-03-17 23:29:35 +0000 UTC View Post
In lieu of a basket of hot takes on the Ukraine invasion, we take a look at the TRUE cause behind all the madness: the Eurasian nationalist-pagan occultist-Heideggerian fascist-Orthodox...
2022-03-11 13:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Friday, 4pm EST. Come chat if you're free!
2022-03-11 05:49:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Victor (@victorbruzzone) interviews Professor Blake Wilson from California State University about the Rittenhouse trial, the legitimacy of law, and prison abolition.
Blake is a defense-attorn...
2022-03-04 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
It's finally up... I won't say the dumb hours of editing this took but now you have it. I do hope it resonates a bit!
2022-03-02 13:19:31 +0000 UTC View Post
We are going to look at Logic of Sense and compare the anti-representational logics of Deleuze and Baudrillard with regards to originals, copies, and trickle-down value.
2022-02-26 01:45:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Plato has had it too easy. We take an hour and a bit to divide the philosophers from the sophists.
2022-02-26 01:40:01 +0000 UTC View Post