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Pill Pod 36 - Identity Shmolitics
Episode 58
Matt tricks the Pill Pod into reading analytic philosophy: "Personal Identity" by Derek Parfit (1971), who challenges intellectualist ideas of selfho…
4 years, 11 months ago
In Defense of Anarchism (preview)
Episode 57
We'll be back on Friday with our regularly scheduled program, and here's a clip of this week's exclusive content up at www.patreon.com/plasticpills
4 years, 11 months ago
Pill Pod 35 - Amnesty Intellectual (preview)
Episode 56
The Pill Pod discusses the rage of elites: ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM. But that's not all! There's also the techno-material conditions for intellectuals, c…
5 years ago
The Words are Gifts: Indigenous Politics & Wittgenstein ft. Dale Turner
Episode 55
Professor Dale Turner joins Matt and Victor to discuss Wittgenstein, 'ways of life', and their application to indigenous politics and treaty relation…
5 years ago
Pill Pod 34 - The Snyder Nut: Psychoanalysis & Film
Episode 54
Spoiler warnings: That new DC film, Fight Club, Starship Troopers. This is a performative attempt to theorize the relationship between popular cultur…
5 years ago
Microdose - Gramsci (preview)
Episode 53
Join Pills, Matt, and Erik for our Patreon voted topic: A romp through the Formation of the Intellectuals from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsc…
5 years ago
Pill Pod 33 - Not Another Morality Episode!
Episode 52
The accusations fly again this week: Who's more crypto-normativist? Who has fewer implied premises? Who really has the moral high ground? Whence Niet…
5 years ago
Matt Interviews a Conservative (ft. Nate Hochman)
Episode 51
In an attempt to foster Rational Discourse™, Matt (@MattPolProf) interviews Nate Hochman (@njhochman) to discuss topics including insanity, Truth, an…
5 years ago
Pill Pod 32 - Accountability Studies (preview)
Episode 50
Marcuse is trending? What year is it? Listen to this episode and our other bonus content on Patreon, at www.patreon.com/plasticpills
5 years ago
Pill Pod 31 - (un)Happiness in Theory
Episode 49
Doomscrolling, Cthulu, and Mark Fisher. Why's theory more cool when it's unhappy? We try to catheterize depressive tendencies and make happy based. F…
5 years, 1 month ago