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Pill Pod 191 - Marxism vs. Humanism (ft. Diego Ruzzarin)
This episode is based on an article Althusser wrote in the 60s, Marxism and Humanism, which you can find in "For Marx." He declares that Marxism and …
1 year, 3 months ago
Pill Pod 190 - What is Ideology really?
We read Althusser's "Marxism and Humanism," an Essay from his 1965 collection For Marx in which he declares the two fundamentally incompatible. We di…
1 year, 3 months ago
Pill Pod 195 - Luigi's Mansion
There's big news on the news, and we thought we would take a poke at interpreting this event—if in fact it is one—and giving it an ideological status…
1 year, 3 months ago
REWIND - Althusser I (Pill Pod 115)
We have been talking about Althusser once again on the Pod, and in advance of our new dive we are re-releasing an episode about why Althusser might b…
1 year, 3 months ago
Pill Pod 189 - Theorizing America's Trump Vote
The federal union of the United States has decided to elect Presinald Trump as its leader from the years 2025-2029, as God wills.
Here, three Canadian…
1 year, 4 months ago
Pill Pod 186 - The Post-Political Singularity Everywhere (preview)
Today we take the temperature of all the new futures popping up—the various Acc/s, the radical democracies, the Christofascists, and the Magacomms—an…
1 year, 5 months ago
Pill Pod 185 - Bataille on Fascist Psychology (preview)
In 1933, Bataille linked Durkheim's sociology and psychoanalysis to the rise of fascism over the border. The parallels to the present moment are hard…
1 year, 5 months ago
Pill Pod 184 - MAGACommunism & Philosophy: HAZ on Marx, Heidegger and Dugin
MAGA Communism may strike you as contradictory and stupid sounding, but it is backed by 200 tweets of theory which include Marx, Lenin, Dugin, and He…
1 year, 5 months ago
Pill Pod 183 - Carl Schmitt on the Friend/Enemy Distinction (preview)
We face the fact that only a Nazi could properly explain American politics.
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1 year, 6 months ago
Pill Pod 182 - Bataille & Sacrifice (preview)
Back to business—we talk Aztec myths and Bataille on Sacrifice from The Accursed Share.
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1 year, 6 months ago