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New Video: 30,000 Subs Q&A | Semio-capitalism, Baudrillard, Postmodernism, Politics and PhD

For those of you who have yet to see this, here's my latest video, a Q&A featuring questions from Patrons and subscribers. I really enjoy doing these as it gives some chance to be a bit more di...

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Q&A Submissions!

Hey all! As I mentioned yesterday, I'm planning on making another Q&A video this week as I really enjoyed the last one.

It's something I'm hoping to do a bit more regularly once we reach ...

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Early Access: Poststructuralism: WTF? Derrida, Deconstruction and Poststructuralist Theory Explained

Hello all! I finished my video on Poststructuralism a little ahead of schedule and so thought I'd share with you!

I'm hoping to be able to do this a little more frequently in the future but i...

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The Many Stages of Recording a Video...

Thought I'd share a few stills from behind the scenes of making my latest episode of What the Theory on Poststructuralism, one of which made it into the edit and two of which, erm, didn't...

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Help me choose my next video topic!

Okay, so I've been trying to decide which topic to cover for my next video and was hoping you might all help me out?

I'm either going to take a look at Poststructuralism (following on from my...

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New Video: Fake News, Alternative Facts and the Spectacular Politics of Donald Trump

It's here! It was a bit of a rush to get this one finished and out today (I'd really wanted to try putting out a video on a Sunday as I'm currently trying to work out when my videos perform best) b...

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New Video Coming Very Soon!

Currently editing down my latest video which sees us return to Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle for a final time (for the foreseeable future at least) to chat about a certain American presid...

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Been dipping back into this one all week...

I've been dipping back into Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle all this week as I work on my next video which will likely bring that mini-series to a close.

I'm hoping to make it accessibl...

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New Video: Should We Abolish Copyright? From Intellectual Property to a Creative Commons

New video out now! A pretty sweeping one this taking in art, aesthetics, philosophy, politics and economics. There's a whole bunch of ideas stuffed in here which I hope will, at the very least, get...

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New Video Next Week

Just a quick heads-up to say, although I'm due to have a video out today or tomorrow, it's actually not going to be up until next week. I essentially got a little carried away and so it's a bit of ...

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New Office Getting There...

As some of you know, I recently moved house and have been trying to make my new office look vaguely aesthetically appealing given that it's where I shoot most of my videos.

I know no one's tu...

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20,000 Subs!

So, my latest video blew up (relatively for me at least!) which meant that I reached 20,000 subs a little sooner than I thought. Yay!

If you'd have asked me what video was likely to break all...

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New Video: Neoliberalism: WTF?

Hello! Here it is, the next episode of What the Theory? It's a little bit longer than usual (making up for my month off I guess!?) but it was a big topic to cover. Debating doing a follow-up or two...

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New What The Theory out shortly...

Currently editing down the next episode of What The Theory. It’s a slightly longer one (making up for time away, haha!) but it really necessitated it to cover neoliberalism in a way that felt wor...

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Back to work!

Okay, conference/holiday/moving house season is over and, today, I've been to Ikea to buy a couple of new bits to decorate this room to make for a slightly more attractive background for my videos....

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Free ebook on the Frankfurt School

Hey all! Not a sponsored post or anything at all but I just spotted that Verso Books (a fave publisher of mine) currently have a sale on including a no-strings-attached free copy of Grand Abyss Hot...

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Reading List: Literary and Cultural Theory, The Basics

As promised, here's a short reading list for those of you who are perhaps wanted to read more about literary and cultural theory. So this is a kind of a 101 list primarily focusing on literary theo...

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New Video: Millennial Socialism and Centrist Dads: Political discourse after neoliberalism

I thought I'd posted this already but had managed to set it so that only I could see it (another one for the "Tom can't work the internet" chronicles...). Nevertheless, here's my latest video on Mi...

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Reading List Poll

Hiya all, I'm thinking of periodically creating some reading lists around certain topics to go here on my Patreon page and thought I'd take some suggestions. Particularly, I'm gonna be taking a mon...

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New Video: Structuralism: WTF?

Hey all! Some of you will have seen that my new video went live today. I really hope you like it. Although I'd already done a video on Semiotics, I was really keen to do a video on Structuralism in...

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Structuring this video on structuralism

Currently hard at work writing the script for Structuralism: WTF? I think it’s gonna be a good ‘in but it’s requiring quite a bit of reading!

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New Video: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller | How To Read It

Hey all! Sorry for the deviation from the usual schedule but I've just released my latest episode of How To Read It which gives a brief introduction to Joseph Heller's Catch-22.

I would have...

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Editing...

Currently pulling together my latest video. A new episode of How To Read It on Catch-22. Far more animation than usual and my computer is taking a bit of a beating, hence it not being out yesterday...

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10 Whole Patrons! Thanks!

Hey all! Just wanted to say thanks for being my first ten Patrons! When I first started this, I wasn't expecting anyone at all to sign up so I really appreciate your support!  Always happy to ...

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Masculinity, Gender and Sexuality in Black Mirror: Striking Vipers

A return to the Video Essay form this week with an in-depth look at how Black Mirror: Striking Vipers engages with masculinity, gender and sexuality. Those of you who have watched my most recent ep...

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Foucault: WTF?

Here you go! The latest episode of What the Theory? in which we take a look at the work of Michel Foucault! I have mixed feelings about how this one turned out (as I always do, haha!) but really lo...

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Foucault: WTF? Out Tomorrow!

Hey all!

Was hoping to have Foucault: WTF? out today but it's going to be tomorrow I'm afraid. Could probably have got it out this evening but, if I try and rush the last bits, there'll defin...

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Thoughts on the Q+A?

Hey all! I would love to hear any thoughts you had on the Q+A video I put out this week!

It might be that you had some follow up questions.

Or that you had feedback on the format itself...

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Q+A Video Early Access

Hey all,

So I've not made this an official perk of being a Patron because I'm not always great at having my videos together much before they go out.

But I completed my Q+A video a coupl...

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Last call for Q+A questions!

Hey lovely people who've signed up for my Patreon! As I've mentioned, I'm putting together a Q+A video to go out next week and will very likely be filming it tomorrow. So, if you've got anything yo...

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