Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWLOP LIVE SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT! | AUGUST 7 | EPIPHANY CENTER FOR THE ARTS, CHICAGO
Hi everyone! We are thrilled to announce that we will be performing live on August 7 at the Epiphany Center for the Arts in Chicago.
This is a one-tim…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Gil is Teaching a Class on Spinoza's Ethics in Chicago
That's right, folks! Next month, Gil is teaching a class on Spinoza's Ethics at Twelve Ten Gallery in Chicago through the Brooklyn Institute for Soci…
11 months ago
115 | Modern Barbarism with Thorstein Veblen
Season 1 Episode 115
In this episode, we talk about Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class. In it, he argues that modern culture is basically continuous with that…
11 months ago
114 | What's Left of Representation?
Season 1 Episode 114
In this episode, we discuss the centrality of ‘representation’ in politics and political theory, guided by Hanna Pitkin’s 1967 treatise The Concept o…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
113 TEASER | Political Marxism
Season 1 Episode 113
In this episode, we discuss “political marxism” as a paradigm shift in Marxist thinking about historical development, the transition from feudalism t…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
112 | Excavating Utopias w/ Dr. William Paris
Season 1 Episode 112
In this episode, we discuss WLOP co-host William Paris’s recently published book Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipat…
1 year ago
111 TEASER | Infantile Disorders: The Coming Insurrection
Season 1 Episode 111
In this episode, we discuss the 2007 text The Coming Insurrection, written by the pseudonymous collective The Invisible Committee. We talk about the …
1 year ago
110 | What is Liberalism? Part VI. Possessive Individualism and the Collapsing Order
Season 1 Episode 110
In this episode, the boys talk about C.B. Macpherson’s insightful text The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism. Macpherson holds that libera…
1 year, 1 month ago
109 | Should We Abolish Prisons? w/ Dr. Tommie Shelby
Season 1 Episode 109
In this episode, we are joined by special guest Tommie Shelby to discuss the arguments presented in his most recent book, The Idea of Prison Abolitio…
1 year, 1 month ago
Will Has Published a Book!
This is a short promo for Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation (Oxford University Press, 2025), written by WLOP’s …
1 year, 2 months ago