Podcast Episodes

The Case for Becoming-Plant: Karen Houle on Plant Ontology and the Image of Thought

How does one 'become-plant'? Karen Houle joins us and guides us through her work on critical vegetal studies. We address how the notion of becoming-p…

5 years, 7 months ago

Techno, Black Metal, Nostalgia, and Communization: A Discussion with Benjamin Noys

We tap Benjamin Noys to engage in a broad discussion of aesthetics and politics related to his writings on techno, black metal, and communization.  S…

5 years, 8 months ago

Guattari Tapes: A Discussion with Taylor Adkins about Guattari's Four Unconsciouses

Taylor Adkins of Theory Talk joins the show to explicate a seminar by Felix Guattari entitled “The Four Unconsciouses”. Taylor recently translated th…

5 years, 8 months ago

Concepts in Focus: Tensors, Black Holes, and the Unconscious in Deleuze and Guattari (pre-episode content)

Ahead of our interview with Taylor Adkins on his translation of Guattari's seminar entitled “Les Quatres Inconscients 13/01/1981”, we outline some of…

5 years, 8 months ago

G. A. Cohen and "The Structure of Proletarian Unfreedom": A Reading With Ben Burgis

Ben Burgis of Zer0 Books is the author of Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left. He joins us to conduct a reading of analytic Marxist G.A. Cohen’…

5 years, 8 months ago

Mark Fisher and Poscapitalist Desire: Reading "Egress: On Mourning, Melancholy, and Mark Fisher" with Matt Colquhoun (Part 1)

Author and photographer Matt Colquhoun joins the podcast to discuss the elegiac biography and personal memoir Egress: On Mourning, Melancholy, and Ma…

5 years, 8 months ago

Foucault's "Politics of Health" and "What Is Enlightenment?"

We delve into Foucault's work on medicalization in the 18th century while also discussing his relation to Enlightenment thought. We furthermore take …

5 years, 9 months ago

Concepts in Focus: Foucault and Docile Bodies

In this bonus episode, Will offers a detailed reading of Foucault's concept of docile bodies from Discipline and Punish. 

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5 years, 10 months ago

Postmodernization in Hardt & Negri's Empire

More than twenty years from its initial publication, we examine Hardt & Negri's Empire.  In this episode we attempt to unpack the authors' notion of …

5 years, 10 months ago

Concepts in Focus: Bataille's Metaphilosophy

In this special episode, Craig discussed the introduction to Georges Bataille's Theory of Religion, which presents a picture of Bataille's metaphilos…

5 years, 10 months ago