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Pill Pod 160 - Walter Benjamin on Leftist Content Creators (Preview)
We read Walter Benjamin's (perhaps) undelivered address to the Anti-Fascist Club: The Author as Producer, and try to test whether or not it holds up.…
2 years ago
Pill Pod 159 - The End of the University
Most everyone agrees that the university has failed its ideal, but few agree as to the reasons for why this happened. Did it get too arcane? Too expe…
2 years ago
Pill Pod 158 - Walter Benjamin & The Idea of History (preview)
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2 years ago
Pill Pod 157 - Progressive v. Reactionary Christianity ft. John Hamer
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Although Conservative Christians are the most attention-seeki…
2 years, 1 month ago
Pill Pod 156 - Christofascism
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What if, instead of letting history end or disappear, we hit …
2 years, 1 month ago
Pill Pod 155 - Jean Baudrillard & The Disappearance of History (preview)
As all things disappear, we have our rountable on Baudrillard's "Illusion of the End." Get the full episode and all episodes ad-free at https://www.p…
2 years, 1 month ago
Pill Pod 154 - Christian Intellectuals at the End of History
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While no one is exactly happy that history has ended, few are…
2 years, 1 month ago
Pill Pod 152 - Fukuyama on The End of History (preview)
Episode 172
Adjusted for inflation, Francis Fukyama received $1,311,814.68 to write The End of History and the Last Man (https://amzn.to/3tPo5Bt); we want to see…
2 years, 2 months ago
Pill Pod 151 - The End of History
Episode 171
We embark on the notion of "the end of history" by trying to figure out if we have an idea of history. This is mostly inspired by our reading of Fuku…
2 years, 2 months ago
Pill Pod 149 - Gothic Horror: Edgar Allen Poe & The Fall of The House of Usher
Episode 170
Inspired by the new Netflix series, we read some Poe short stories and compared them to their TV adaptation. Victor Hainagiu (aka Litvic aka @horatio…
2 years, 4 months ago