PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy
Episodes
Pill Pod 33 - Not Another Morality Episode!
16 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The accusations fly again this week: Who's more crypto-normativist? Who has fewer implied premises? Who really has the moral high ground? Whence Nietz...
Matt Interviews a Conservative (ft. Nate Hochman)
08 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In an attempt to foster Rational Discourse™, Matt (@MattPolProf) interviews Nate Hochman (@njhochman) to discuss topics including insanity, Truth, a...
Pill Pod 32 - Accountability Studies (preview)
05 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Marcuse is trending? What year is it? Listen to this episode and our other bonus content on Patreon, at www.patreon.com/plasticpills
Pill Pod 31 - (un)Happiness in Theory
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Doomscrolling, Cthulu, and Mark Fisher. Why's theory more cool when it's unhappy? We try to catheterize depressive tendencies and make happy based. Fo...
The Nazi Conspiracies ft. Sir Richard Evans
19 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Was the Reichstag fire a false flag? Did the Nazis uncover secret alien technology in Antarctica? Was Trump a Fascist? The answers may shock you! T...
Sociology of Religion ft. Galen Watts (preview)
17 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Matt interviews @Galen_Watts on liberal religion, i.e. those who identify as "spiritual but not religious," using the sociological method of Emile Dur...
Pill Pod 30 - OWN the LIBS
12 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The PillPod's bubbling civil war over political theory finally boils over into full-blown conflict. @Plasticpills and @T8Erik face off against @MattPo...
Microdose - Semiotics and Semiology
10 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Pills and Erik kick off a new series on the SIGNificance of semiotics in 20th century. Check out the forthcoming episodes or our previous series on cy...
Kant Get You Out of My Head (preview)
04 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Socialism Yesterday, Socialism Tomorrow ft. Bhaskar Sunkara (Bonus Interview)
03 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our political half is joined by Jacobin Magazine founder Bhaskar Sunkara to talk socialist history, the Nordic Model, and what happens five minutes a...
Pill Pod 28 - Don't Go to Grad School
29 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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-alteri...
The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han (preview)
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Here's a brief introduction to The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han. Listen to this episode and all of our other bonus content on Patreon, at www.pat...
Fascism, Traditionalism, and the War for Eternity (ft. Ben Teitelbaum)
18 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Fascism, folk music, Bannon and Dugin: the Pill Pod's Matt and Victor interview Benjamin Teitelbaum, a scholar of contemporary European radical nation...
Pill Pod 26 - The Debatelord Chronicles (ft. Ben Burgis)
15 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Burgis joins the Pill Pod to discuss the divide between analytic and continental philosophy before analyzing the geneology of debatelordism from R...
Critical Theory of Video Games ft. Alfie Bown (Bonus Interview)
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Matt (@mattpolprof) calls up Alfie Bown (@Leftist_Gamer) to discuss the politics, psychoanalytic interpretation, and emancipatory potential of video g...
Pill Pod 25 - The Kayfabe Coup
08 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Pill Pod (@plasticpills, @victorbruzzone, @mattpolprof, @t8erik) debates the reality, or lack thereof, of a bullheaded Q shaman in the legislature...
Heidegger Helper *UNLOCKED*
28 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Pill Pod is still off this week for mental recuperation, so please enjoy this unlock of one of our locked episodes: our fourfold discussion of Hei...
Nietzsche Overdose *UNLOCKED*
21 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Pill Pod is off this week for mental recuperation, so please enjoy this unlock of one of our episodes from back in the summer: a 5 course, two-hou...
Zizek Microdose - Pill Pod 23
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is the first Pill Pod & Plasticpills co-release on the philosophy, cultural significance, and reception of Slavoj Zizek. Check out the video ...
Pill Pod 22 - Nerd Culture Industry (preview)
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today we discuss the pervasive pastiche and corny conservatism of all our favourite nerd culture products (but not Star Wars 'cause it sucks ass). Fin...
Pill Pod 21 - (Cry)sis, Cr(eye)sis, Cr(ISIS): A Radical Rethinking of the Heuristics, Historiography, and Post-Haptical Ecology of Rupture
28 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Is the sky falling? The Pill Pod (@mattpolprof, @Victorbruzzone, @t8erik, @plasticpills) take down this top shelf topical episode considering CRISES: ...
Pill Pod 20 - Fak News
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for a relaxed topical episode discussing some of our local news, as well as the shifting place of "News" in the new media ecology, including i...
Autopoiesis: Cybernetics & Systems Theory II (preview)
11 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Here is a preview of our second episode in the series on Cybernetics & Systems Theory, the rest of which will be up on the Patreon www.patreon.com...
The Ethics of Pandemics (Bonus Interview)
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Here's a new experiment! Pill Pod's Victor (@victorbruzzone) meets up with Michelle Charette (@michgenevievec) to co-host this interview with Professo...
Pill Pod 19 - Derridalirium (preview)
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We asked our patrons to give us a topic this week, and they were thirsty for this Derrida hottie. Catch the full episode up on our Patreon, https://pa...
Microdose - Cybernetics & Systems Theory
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Pure theory. Join @plasticpills and @t8erik for an introduction to cybernetics and systems theory. Politics has tired us out so we are retreating to t...
Pill Pod 18 - Socialism in Bidenland, Inshallah (ft. Shawn Gude)
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Pill Pod gets schooled by Jacobin associate editor, Shawn Gude on American socialism past and present. We talk intra-left spats, whether theorists...
Overdose - The Deleuze Tapes (ft. Charles Stivale)
23 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today we are #blessed by the presence of OG Deleuze scholar and translator Charles Stivale, who is descending to impart his wisdom on Deleuze and "The...
Pill Pod 17 - LARPING in the Vampire Castle (Preview)
19 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hey ya'll. Join us for a tour de Mark Fisher, as we read "Exiting the Vampire Castle" as well as Tankies' comments on Matt's article on liberal soci...
Overdose - Marxism AND/OR/NOT Liberalism (ft. Igor Shoikhedbrod)
19 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Victor (@victorbruzzone) and Matt (@mattpolprof) grill Igor (@ishoikhedbrod) on his bold new book, Revisiting Marx's Critique of Liberalism, which arg...
Pill Pod 16 - Getting Schooled in Frankfurt (Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse, Habermas)
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Returning to the Frankfurt School, the Pill Pod (@mattpolprof, @t8erik, @plasticpills) + guest SHALON, figure out a plan for using a few small Neo-Mar...
Pill Pod 14 - Are Nietzsche and Heidegger too Dangerous to Read?
18 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Pill Pod is joined by Professor Ronald Beiner, author of Dangerous Minds: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Return of the Far Right (Link: https://amz...
Overdose - Nietzsche (Preview)
09 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Pour a coffee, or something stronger, because this is a special one: a 5 course, two-hour-long discussion of Nietzsche, his significance to 20th centu...
Microdose - John Rawls and Left Liberalism
04 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It's a political philosophy hour with @MattPolProf and @Victorbruzzone, who offer a leftist reading of John Rawls' concept of justice, and how it migh...
Microdose - Process Metaphysics in Deleuze, Whitehead, Bergson
27 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Chris is back with Plastic Pills to talk about ontology and metaphysics, contrasting the "major philosophy" of substance metaphysics with the "minor p...
Pill Pod 13 - Worst Marx in the Class
23 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It's Culture War Day as the Pill Pod suits up to read the second worst take on Marxism ever, evidently served up to quell the debilitating anxiety of ...
Pill Pod 12 (Preview) - The Dialectic of Recognition
16 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If you've heard of Kojeve, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Althusser, Lacan, or Zizek, you have heard some version of the dialectic of recognition. No surprise...
Pill Pod 10 - The Last Hegel on the Left
31 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our colleague BORNA joins @mattpolprof, @t8erik, @plasticpills to attempt the impossible: explain Hegel's politics of the State. Is Hegel the bad Walm...
Pill Pod 9 (Preview) - Familiarizing Foucault
24 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
@Plasticpills, Matt McManus, Erik, and Marion offer a rundown of what we consider the most important concepts of Foucault's thought and doubles as an ...
Pill Pod 8 - What the Fouc is The State?
23 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
@Mattpolprof, @plasticpills, @victorbruzzone, @t8erik and guest, Marion, take an open approach to understand two words: State and Power. We pretty muc...
Pill Pod 7 - Cancel Couture
16 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The party (@Mattpolprof, @plasticpills, and @victorbruzzone) discusses the fearsome cancel culture, the opposition fantasies of wokists and anti-wokis...
Overdose - Deleuze & Guattari's Thousand Plateaus ft. Ian Buchanan (2/2)
10 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
PlasticPills and Chris sit down with Ian Buchanan, founder and editor-in-chief of the Deleuze and Guattari Studies Journal. In Part 2 we discuss the w...
Overdose - Deleuze & Guattari's Thousand Plateaus ft. Ian Buchanan (1/2)
08 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
PlasticPills and Chris sit down with Ian Buchanan, founder and editor-in-chief of the Deleuze and Guattari Studies Journal. In Part 1 we discuss the w...
Microdose - Intro to Deleuze
06 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In advance of our chat with Ian Buchanan, who's a "big deal" Deleuze scholar, Chris and PlasticPills sit down to talk about why Deleuze matters, how t...
Pill Pod 6 - The Amerika Episode
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We are joined by our very own European* critic to discuss American civic religion and its textured mythos of religion, rebellion, and race.
Pill Pod 5 - Revolution Rip Tide
19 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
@Mattpolprof, @t8erik and @Plasticpills consider the value of "revolution" as a concept or as a political goal of left-wing politics. Starting with A...
Microdose - Vitalism and the Philosophy of Life
13 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Plasticpills and Christopher Satoor sit down to dialogue about vitalism, including philosophers such as Leibniz, Maine de Biran, Bergson, and Deleuze....
Pill Pod 4 - Conspiracy Brained
11 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The midwives of the soul discuss conspiracy brain--not individual conspiracies, but the political, psychoanalytic, and semiological dimensions of cons...
Pill Pod 3 - Quarantine Agamben! Covidical Theory and States of Exception
15 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join us as we argue about this article, where Agamben (critical theorist) says coronavirus isn't real, and this article, dunking on his take. We then ...
Pill Pod 2 - Realism, Antirealism & Coronavirus
16 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for our sophmore episode, from quarantine, in which we discuss Baudrillard, Derrida, and whether or not Covid 19 is real.
Pill Pod 1 - Why Critical Theory? Reading Bruno Latour
04 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The second first episode of the PlasticPills pod. There may be a reason to podcast on critical theory, and we try to figure out what that is through r...