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Marxism vs. Humanism (ft. Diego Ruzzarin) // 191
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, 6 months ago
Ideology: What it is // 190
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, 6 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, 6 months ago
Althusser // 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, 6 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, 7 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, 7 months ago
Bataille on Fascist Psychology (preview) // 185
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, 8 months ago
MAGACommunism does Philosophy // 184
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, 8 months ago
Carl Schmitt on the Friend/Enemy (preview) // 183
We face the fact that only a Nazi could properly explain American politics.
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1 year, 9 months ago
Bataille on Sacrifice // 182 (preview)
Back to business—we talk Aztec myths and Bataille on Sacrifice from The Accursed Share.
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1 year, 9 months ago