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Pill Pod 197 - "Never were we freer than under Nazi Occupation..." (preview)
This is a preview of an episode on Jean-Paul Sartre and existentialism. Find it at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills. Please join us to support th…
1 year, 9 months ago
Finally! New Translation of Marx's CAPITAL is out! Interview w/ Paul Reitter
Paul Reitter just finished the first translation of Marx's Capital this century. He joins our episode to educate us on why we need a new version, the…
1 year, 9 months ago
Althusser: Marxism vs. Ideology // 192
This is the big one and it's hard to believe we haven't done this particular essay before, but it's the linchpin for the critical theory use of the t…
1 year, 10 months ago
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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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…
2 years 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…
2 years 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…
2 years, 1 month ago