Podcast Episodes
Back to Search22 | The Meaning of Disability (with Dr. Joel Michael Reynolds)
Season 1 Episode 22
In this episode we are joined by Joel Michael Reynolds for a wide-ranging discussion about disability theory. We dig into the relationship between di…
4 years, 7 months ago
21 | What is Critical Theory Doing? w/ Dr. Prof. Robin Celikates
Season 1 Episode 21
In this episode we are joined by Professor Robin Celikates to discuss the big “method” question in critical theory: What is it doing, and why? Since …
4 years, 8 months ago
20 | David Walker and the Politics of Judgment
Season 1 Episode 20
For this episode we discuss David Walker’s 1830 radical anti-slavery tract An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World and Melvin Rogers’s 2015 ar…
4 years, 8 months ago
19 | Machiavelli: Cunning, Fortune, and Republican Virtue
Season 1 Episode 19
In this episode we talk through the work of one of the most infamous figures in the history of political thought, Niccolò Machiavelli. Looking both a…
4 years, 9 months ago
18 | Spinoza: Necessity, Ethics, Joy
Season 1 Episode 18
In this episode we finally get around to talking about Spinoza. It turns out normativity is kind of complicated when you think everything is strictly…
4 years, 9 months ago
17 Teaser | What is Dialectics? Part III: What's the Deal with Marx, Anyway?
Season 1 Episode 17
In this Patron exclusive episode, we move to the third part of our mini-series “What is Dialectics?” and take on the works of Karl Marx. The WLOP cre…
4 years, 10 months ago
16 | Erik Olin Wright: Utopia and Social Science
Season 1 Episode 16
In this episode, we discuss Erik Olin Wright’s 2010 book Envisioning Real Utopias. We excavate the relationship between social scientific investigati…
4 years, 10 months ago
15 | What is Dialectics? Part II: We Need to Talk about Hegel
Season 1 Episode 15
In this episode, we continue our series on dialectics by completely losing our minds talking about Hegel. We break through Kant’s critical prohibitio…
4 years, 11 months ago
14 | Thomas Hobbes Hates Your Book Club
Season 1 Episode 14
In this episode, we go back to the seventeenth century to talk about Thomas Hobbes’ hugely influential political philosophy. Focusing mostly on De Ci…
4 years, 11 months ago
13 | What is Dialectics? Part I. The Crew Gets Kant-Pilled
Season 1 Episode 13
In this episode, we start our series on dialectics with a conversation about Kant. If you’ve ever wondered what the hell this term means, then the WL…
5 years ago