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Pill Pod 135 - Political Mythologies of the Left and Right ft. Diego Ruzzarin
Episode 159
Diego Ruzzarin is back on the Plastic Pills Podcast to talk about mythologies of the Left and Right as analyzed by Roland Barthes in his 1957 book (h…
2 years, 10 months ago
Fairy Tale Feminism // 132
Episode 158
With the release of the Barbie movie, the feminine symbol has been deployed this summer. But for thousands of summers previous, the role of the femin…
2 years, 11 months ago
Pill Pod 131 - Freedom Isn’t Free
Episode 157
Everyone speaking on freedom but nobody's asking what it means. "Freedom-from interference" is a 400-year-old definition that covers a few bases but …
2 years, 11 months ago
Latour: We Have Never Been Modern // 130
Episode 156
Pills and Erik celebrate Latour Day. Cracking one of our old favs (https://amzn.to/3O2fLVp), to discuss the theory island chain, the scheme of actor …
2 years, 11 months ago
Rousseau but Based // 126
Episode 155
One of those guys we rarely think about but who single-handedly pulled the track lever in the history of philosophy, it's Rousseau. We read Discourse…
3 years ago
Pill Pod 124 & 125 - The Light of Reason and the Eye of the Mind (preview)
Episode 154
Pill Pods 124 & 125 cover a paper written by Pills, which argues that despite banishing figurative language for the sake of "clarity", Western philos…
3 years ago
Pill Pod 123 - ”Western Civilization” According to Francis Bacon
Episode 153
We revisit Atlantis, the new one, in this Victor Hainagiu (Lit Vic) episode where we peer into the the early modern, colonial, proto-capitalist imagi…
3 years, 1 month ago
Pill Pod 122 - Mosh Pit Sociology (Preview)
Episode 152
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3 years, 1 month ago
Foucault & Derrida vs. Searle: FIGHT NIGHT // 121
Episode 151
Today we discuss how to pet your professor's ego to get better marks, and review John Searles sassy attempt to take down Derrida by quoting Foucault …
3 years, 2 months ago
Bernard Stiegler & Posthumanist Post-Marxism (ft. Diego Ruzzarin) // 119
Episode 150
How many posts can be fit into a title? Diego's back is back and so are we to have a look at why Stiegler believes that the class war is over, the te…
3 years, 2 months ago