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Pill Pod 171 - Zizek Goes Monarchist
We discuss Zizek's Hegelian defense of a monarchy to solve the problem of democracy.
https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/in-defense-of-hegels-notion-of-…
1 year, 9 months ago
Pill Pod 96 - The Malaise of Modernity (Taylor's Version) *UNLOCKED*
Get the book (it's easy and small:https://amzn.to/3KxgjB3) or listen to the lectures by Charles Taylor starting here: https://youtu.be/j_losVdiARc?si…
1 year, 9 months ago
Pill Pod 170 - The Ethical Dilemma of Killing Nazi Children (Preview)
We continue reading Simone DeBeauvoir's Ethics of Ambiguity, and try to sus out its particular ethical dilemmas.
The full episode and many more are av…
1 year, 9 months ago
PP169 - Is Existentialism Ethical?
We read Simone DeBeauvoir's defense of Existentialism as an ethic that is not hyper-individualistic, nihilistic or absurdist.
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1 year, 9 months ago
PP168 - Ecomarxism (preview)
This is a preview of one of many exclusive episodes available at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills
Here is your homework in the meanwhile: https://…
1 year, 9 months ago
Pill Pod 167 - Schopenhauer: Christianity is the Worst Religion
We look at Schopenhauer's comparison of various religions' metaphysical explanations for suffering, and why conservative celebrities are converting t…
1 year, 10 months ago
Pill Pod 165 - Dissident Right Fight Night: Yarvin vs. Rufo
Deviating from our usual strategies for the leftist future, we look to the strategists of the conservative future, as discussed in this article, wher…
1 year, 11 months ago
Pill Pod 163 - How to Control a Democracy ft. 1Dime
This week we discuss how modern liberal democracies co-opt resistance and adapt to internal opposition as a mechanism of inverted totalitarian contro…
1 year, 11 months ago
Pill Pod 162 - Walter Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (preview)
Erik and Pills read Walter Benjamin's most famous essay (and perhaps the most famous essay of critical theory), The Work of Art in the Age of Mechani…
1 year, 11 months ago
Pill Pod 161 - Andy Warhol and the End of Art
We're still on why everything's ending, this time with another pillar of civilization: art, and modern art in particular. Part of the discussion come…
2 years ago