October 31, 2020
In this episode, I present Adrienne Rich's "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" where she outlines the necessity to move beyond the assumed naturality of heterosexual couplings that limit women's possibilities at home, at work, and with their own bodies.
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October 27, 2020
In this episode, I outline what Karl Marx means with the term, "Commodity Fetishism."
(*Note* At around 15:30 I meant to say Smith and Ricardo, not Marx and Ricardo).
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October 24, 2020
In this episode, I conclude my presentation of A Thousand Plateaus covering ch. 12, "1227: Treatise on Nomadology:--The War Machine" (0:00), and ch. 14, "The Smooth and the Striated" (39:14).
Chapters 11 and 13 I did separately, and the conclusion is more of a summary and so I don't expand upon it here.
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October 20, 2020
Hey all! Got lots of questions about my favorite books/recommendations so here they are!
(*Note*: Fleur Jaeggy is Swiss, not Italian; she just wrote in Italian.)
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October 17, 2020
In this episode, I continue A Thousand Plateaus, looking at ch. 8, "1874: Three Novellas or, 'What Happened" (0:00), ch. 9, "1933" Micropolitics and Segmentarity" (18:00), and ch. 10, "1730: Becoming-Intense, Becoming-Animal,-Becoming-Imperceptible..." (36:15).
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October 14, 2020
In this episode, I present some of the disagreements between the work of Baudrillard and Deleuze/Guattari.
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October 10, 2020
In this episode, I continue presenting A Thousand Plateaus, covering chapter 4: "Nov. 20, 1923: Postulates of Linguistics" (0:00), chapter 5: "587 B.C.-70 A.D.: On Several Regimes of Signs" (25:15), chapter 6: "Nov. 28, 1947: How do you Make Yourself a Body Without Organs?" (43:25), and chapter 7: "Year One: Faciality" (53:18).
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October 7, 2020
In this episode, I present what the "dialectic" is. I present its variations across the history of philosophy from Plato to Marx to supply you with the most holistic presentation that I am capable of presenting at this moment.
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October 3, 2020
In this episode, I begin my presentation of Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus by covering chapter 1, "Introduction: Rhizome" (0:00), chapter 2, "1914: One or Severeal Wolves?" (15:25) and chapter 3, "10,000 B.C.: The Geology of Morals (Who Does the Earth Think it is?)" (24:12).
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October 1, 2020
In this episode, I present an introduction to the differences (and similarities) between Baudrillard and Foucault. I really want to stress that I only gloss over the issue here and may do a follow up in the future.
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September 26, 2020
In this episode, I present Donna Haraway's "A Cyborg Manifesto" where she argues for a cyborg united politics to combat the structuring tendencies of capitalism and patriarchy.
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September 19, 2020
In this episode, I present the second part of "Critique of Judgment," specifically titled, "Critique of Teleological Judgment." It is here that Kant tries to look beyond the world as governed solely by the law of cause and effect to consider the possibility of ends, and the likelihood of a divine author that they necessarily imply.
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September 13, 2020
In this episode, I try to explain Baudrillard's theories about war, paying specific attention to his writings on the Vietnam, Gulf, and Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
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September 12, 2020
In this episode, I present the first half of "Critique of Judgment" that covers the "Critique of Aesthetic Judgment." Here Kant expounds upon the aesthetic judgments of the beautiful and the sublime, suggesting that our capacity for aesthetic judgment marks a points of contact between the phenomenal and noumenal worlds.
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September 5, 2020
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In this episode, I present Immanuel Kant's 2nd critique, the Critique of Practical Reason, paying attention to his understanding of freedom and its association with the moral law.
August 15, 2020
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In this episode, I present "Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals," a necessary read to comprehend the movement that Kant makes from the Critique of Pure Reason to the Critique of Practical Reason.
August 8, 2020
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In this episode, I turn my attention to Gayatri Spivak's "Can the Subaltern Speak," a seminal text in the field of post-colonial studies. Spivak argues that between patriarchal and imperial forces, subaltern people--women, specifically--are denied the capacity to speak.
July 25, 2020
Hi everyone! If any of you listened to my episodes on Deleuze's "Cinema" books, you'd know that I would have had no hope of ever presenting them without the help of my friend, Christina. In the coming weeks she will be getting Facial Feminization Surgery at the Visage clinic in Toronto, Ontario. As some of you may know, the cost for FFS is inordinate and so she has set up a gofudme to try and mitigate the overwhelming cost. If any of you have a little extra money, please consider donating. If would mean a lot to her, and me alike.
In this 3 part series, I'm joined by Christina Elle Burke, PhD candidate in Theory & Criticism, once again to demystify this extremely complicated text.
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July 18, 2020
Hi everyone! If any of you listened to my episodes on Deleuze's "Cinema" books, you'd know that I would have had no hope of ever presenting them without the help of my friend, Christina. In the coming weeks she will be getting Facial Feminization Surgery at the Visage clinic in Toronto, Ontario. As some of you may know, the cost for FFS is inordinate and so she has set up a gofudme to try and mitigate the overwhelming cost. If any of you have a little extra money, please consider donating. If would mean a lot to her, and me alike.
Here is the link: https://www.gofundme.com/f/tina-elle-ffs-recovery-fund?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=p_cf%20share-flow-1&fbclid=IwAR3lsDozsz9F4_r5UwzJqlDxqBkgiCzZ5PDb6y7ABvzRGATm9bLd8_8_V1E
In this 3 part series, I'm joined by Christina Elle Burke, PhD candidate in Theory & Criticism, once again to demystify this extremely complicated text.
Follow Christina on Twitter: @thotandcinema and Instagram: @celloburke
and medium: https://medium.com/@christinaelleburke
and here's a link to her thesis: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/4741/
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July 15, 2020
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Sorry about the cut-off at the beginning. Just mentioned where you can find me at instagram and how to support me on patreon. In this first keyword episode, I try and explain Jean Baudrillard's theory of the simulacrum.
July 11, 2020
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In this episode, I conclude my presentation of Sara Ahmed's "The Cultural Politics of Emotion" focusing specifically on her attendance to the work to be done by feminism.
Timestamps: Ch. 3: The Affective Politics of Fear (Beginning) Ch. 4: The Performativity of Disgust (12:40) Ch.5: Shame Before Others (23:00) Ch. 6: In the Name of Love (28:55) Ch. 7: Queer Feelings (38:40) Ch. 8: Feminist Attachments (49:43) Conclusion: Just Emotions (55:00)
July 4, 2020
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In this episode, I present Sara Ahmed's "The Cultural Politics of Emotion," a very important text that explores the role of 'othering' in constituting national subjects.
Timestamps: Introduction: Feel Your Way (Beginning) Ch.1: The contingency of Pain (21:50) Ch. 2: The Organisation of Hate (38:33)
June 27, 2020
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In this episode, I present Benjamin's approach to a critique of violence. To do this, he opposes Divine violence to Mythic violence, violence that manifests itself in the form of law as we know it.
June 6, 2020
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In this episode, I present Byung-Chul Han's "The Topology of Violence" where he argues that our present "achievement-society" is burdened by excess positivity that contributes to our present collective and individual existential crises.
May 30, 2020
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In this episode, I present the seminal "Communist Manifesto." Here Marx and Engels establish both the necessity of the worker's revolution and how we can avoid being led astray by reactionary and conservative perspectives.
May 23, 2020
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In this episode, I present Mark Fisher's "Capitalist Realism." Here, Fisher argues that we are immersed in a totalizing logic of capitalist exploitation that convinces us that it is the only economic, political, and social option.
May 9, 2020
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In this episode, I continue my presentation of Kelly Oliver's "Witnessing: Beyond Recognition" where she considers race and the oppression of other minority groups in her proposed alternative--witnessing--to recognition.
Timestamps:
Ch. 5: False Witnesses (Beginning)
Ch. 6: History, Transformation, and Vigilance (8:40)
Ch. 7: Seeing Race (16:46)
Ch. 8: Vision and Recognition (20:17)
Ch. 9: Toward a New Vision (24:10)
Conclusion: Witnessing the Power of Love (30:02).
May 2, 2020
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In this episode, I begin my presentation of Kelly Oliver's "Witnessing: Beyond Recognition." In this book she tries to conceptualize an anti-oppressive political strategy that is not predicated upon difference, but that is focused on the similarities that bind people. I'm joined by Helene Bigras-Dutrisac to impart her expertise of chapter 4!
Timestamps:
Introduction: Beyond Recognition (Beginning)
Ch. 1: Domination, Multiculturalism, and the Pathology of Recognition (21:15)
Ch.2 : Identity Politics, Deconstruction, and Recognition (28:45)
Ch. 3: Identity as Subordination, Abjection and Exclusion (37:36)
Ch. 4: The Necessity and Impossibility of Seeing (40:14).
April 25, 2020
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In this episode, I continue and finish my presentation of Theodor Adorno's "The Culture Industry." Some of the key takeaways from this half include Adorno's appropriation of Freud's theories to understand the rise of Fascism; Adorno's critique of Benjamin; and Adorno's faith in theory as a form of praxis.
Timestamps: Ch. 4: Culture & Administration (Beginning) Ch. 5: Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda (14:30) Ch. 6: How to Look at Television (29:30) Ch. 7: Transparencies on Film (36:20) Ch.8: Free Time (42: 09) Ch. 9: Resignation (46:41)
