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Pill Pod 122 - Mosh Pit Sociology (Preview)
Episode 152
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3 years, 6 months 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, 6 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, 7 months ago
Baudrillard: Post-Marxist // 117
Episode 149
We are still on the lookout for some worthwhile post-marxisms, we found a dude who is post-everything. Our reading is from "Ironic Strategies" from B…
3 years, 7 months ago
Guattari & Negri: Communists Like Us // 116 (preview)
Episode 148
New week, new book, and we're still on the hunt for a "post-Marxism" that hits. As usual, we were split on which ingredients we look for in the recip…
3 years, 7 months ago
Althusser on Structuralist Marxism // 115
Episode 147
Erik and Pills duo on Althusser, reading "Contradiction and Overdetermination" from the book For Marx. We read this anticipating a couple episodes tr…
3 years, 7 months ago
Pill Pod 114 - POST-MARXISM ft. Diego Ruzzarin (Preview)
Episode 146
n the 80s, Laclau and Mouffe decided they wanted to succeed Marxism with discourse stuff and some identity politics thrown in. We read their apologet…
3 years, 7 months ago
Pill Pod 113 - Slavoj Zizek vs Wokeness
Episode 145
Zizek allegedly wrote an article on the problems of wokeness and we argued about it. Reactionary? Transphobic? Trolling? We don't agree (with each ot…
3 years, 8 months ago
Pill Pod 111 - Spectacles of The Integrated Spectacle
Episode 144
How many of the intellectual left were assassinated by the CIA? THE TRUTH WILL SHOCK YOU! Guy Debord's head inflates by the time he gets to his book …
3 years, 8 months ago
SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE // 109
Episode 143
We've been leading up to it, and here is the first spectacle of 2 on Debord's popular book (https://amzn.to/3HRp0pj). Stay tuned for future spectacle…
3 years, 9 months ago