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In this episode, I tackle Jacques Derrida's "Cogito and History of Madness" which is Derrida's critique of Michel Foucault's use of René Descartes.
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In this episode, I prepare for what will follow for the next two weeks: an elaboration on the conflict between Derrida and Foucault on the topic of mad-identified people.
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In this episode, I present Sherene Razack's "The Body as Placeless: Memorializing Colonial Power," a very important text exploring the ongoing colonization of Indigenous bodies in Canada.
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In this episode, I present Slavoj Žižek's "First as Tragedy, Then as Farce." I'm hard on Žižek here, but in any case this text serves as a good introduction to his philosophy.
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Something a little different this week (don't worry, this won't be a trend). I just thought I would upload a talk I gave that relates to my dissertation work. Specifically, I argue here about the limitations of Nancy L. Rosenblum and Russell Muirhead notion of "conspiracism" in their book, A Lot of People are Saying.
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In this episode, I take a little detour through my own research to present Jack Z. Bratich's idea of "conspiracy panics."
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In this episode, I present Michel Foucault's brilliant but complicated essay, "What is an Author?"
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In this episode, I present Hannah Arendt's notion of the "social."
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In this episode, I cover Gilles Deleuze's short essay, "Postscript on the Societies if Control." I'm pretty hard on Deleuze here, and am therefore very open to alternative views about what Deleuze is doing here!
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In this episode, I explain what Jürgen Habermas means by the "public sphere."
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In this episode, I continue my two-part presentation of "Of Grammatology," Jacques Derrida's inaugural text to place him among the ranks of Foucault, Bourdieu, Lefebvre, Deleuze and others.
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In this episode, I explain Ideology according to Louis Althusser.
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In this episode, I begin my two-part presentation of "Of Grammatology," Jacques Derrida's inaugural text to place him among the ranks of Foucault, Bourdieu, Lefebvre, Deleuze and others.
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In this episode, I present what Michel Foucault means by biopolitics and biopower.
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I present Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "On the Origin of Language" as a preliminary reading for Jacques Derrida's "Of Grammatology" premiering next week!
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In this episode, I try to explain provide an introduction to Deconstruction.
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In this episode, I present Gloria Anzaldúa's "Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza," a seminal text not only for Chicana and Latina feminism, but for all of us.
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In this episode, I provide an introduction to Friedrich Nietzsche's term, Ressentiment.
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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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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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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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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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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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In this episode, I present some of the disagreements between the work of Baudrillard and Deleuze/Guattari.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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In this episode, I'm joined by Dr. Isaac Ariail Reed, Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, to discuss his most recent book, Power in Modernity: Agency Relations and the Creative Destruction of the King’s Two Bodies.
Here are some links to Dr. Reed's work: Power in Modernity:
Agency relations and the creative destruction of the King’s two bodies
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo48408506.html
Interpretation and Social Knowledge: On the use of theory in the human sciences
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo11636599.html
“Deep culture in action: resignification, synecdoche, and metanarrative in the moral panic of the Salem Witch Trials”
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11186-014-9241-4
Isaac Ariail Reed and Julia Adams, “Culture in Transitions to Modernity: Seven pillars of a new research agenda”
https://sociology.yale.edu/sites/default/files/reed_adams_theory_and_society_2011_1.pdf
In this episode, I'm joined by Deeplina, doctoral student in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at the University of Western Ontario to discuss the work of Saadat Hasan Manto and its connection with the India/Pakistan Partition.
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In this episode, I present Michel Foucault's theory of the Panopticon.
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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.
In this episode, I present Immanuel Kant's idea of Transcendental Idealism.
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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.
