Theory & Philosophy

Theodor Adorno's "The Culture Industry" (Part 1/2)

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In this episode, I present the first three chapter of Theodor Adorno's "The Culture Industry." Adorno levels a strong critique against mass culture here, highlighting the effects of alienation under advanced industrial capitalism
Timestamps: Ch. 3: The Culture Industry Reconsidered (Beginning) Ch. 1: On the Fetish Character in Music and the Regression of Listening (11:50) Ch 2: The Schema of Mass Culture (26:41)

Roland Barthes' "The Death of the Author"

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In this episode, I present Roland Barthes' seminal essay, "The Death of the Author." Here he argues that the possibility for interpretation of the text must follow the erasure of the "Author-God" as the bearer of the truth of the text. I try to untangle what I believe to be some misconceptions about Barthes' argument at the end.

Michel Foucault's "The Birth of the Clinic" (Part 2/2)

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In this episode, I conclude my presentation of The Birth of the Clinic where Foucault discusses the full emergence of the clinical gaze with the introduction of death as a positive event and the anatamo-clinical operations of the autopsy. 
Timestamps:
Ch. 6: Signs and Cases (Beginning)
Ch. 7: Seeing and Knowing (21:10)
Ch. 8: Open up a Few Corpses (35:40)
Ch. 9: The Visible Invisible (43:43)
Ch. 10: Crisis in Fevers (52:37)
Conclusion (55:00)

Michel Foucault's "The Birth of the Clinic" (Part 1/2)

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In this episode, I begin my presentation of Foucault's The Birth of the Clinic. This episode covers the first half of the book, outlining the broad socio-political motivations behind the emergence of the clinic. 
Timestamps:                                                                                                            Introduction (Beginning)                                                                                                        Chapter 1: Spaces and Classes (15:05)                                                                          Chapter 2: A Political Consciousness (28:30)                                                                  Chapter 3: The Free Field (34:50)                                                                                  Chapter 4: The Old Age of the Clinic (38:30)                                                                    Chapter 5: The Lesson of the Hospitals (46:23)
 

Judith Butler's "Undoing Gender" (Part 2/2)

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Timestamps: Ch. 5: Is Kinship Always Already Heterosexual (Beginning) Ch. 6: Longing for Recognition (9:00) Ch. 7: Quandries of the Incest Taboo (21:30) Ch. 8: Bodily Confessions (27:14) Ch. 9: The End of Sexual Difference (36:00) Ch. 10: The Question of Social Transformation (47:52) Ch. 11: Can the 'Other' of Philosophy Speak (55:25)                                                                 
In this episode, I conclude my presentation of Butler's text, paying close attention to her re-evaluation of her theory of performativity, the political potential of drag, and the possibility for social transformation.

Judith Butler's "Undoing Gender" (Part 1/2)

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In this episode, I turn my attention to Judith Butler's "Undoing Gender." This is a collection of essays, so it is difficult to summarize the book. However, we can comfortably say that it explores what it means for gender to become undone, and the undoing that is done through gender.

Gilles Deleuze's "Cinema 1: The Movement Image" (Part 3/3)

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In this episode, I'm joined by Christina, PhD candidate at the Center for the Study of Theory and Criticism at the University of Western Ontario, to systematically dissect Gilles Deleuze's "Cinema 1: The Movement Image." This is an enigmatic book, treading the line between philosophy and film theory, and never committing to one nor the other. This episode covers from the "Action-Image" chapter to the end.

Gilles Deleuze's "Cinema 1: The Movement Image" (Part 2/3)

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In this episode, I'm joined by Christina, PhD candidate at the Center for the Study of Theory and Criticism at the University of Western Ontario, to systematically dissect Gilles Deleuze's "Cinema 1: The Movement Image." This is an enigmatic book, treading the line between philosophy and film theory, and never committing to one nor the other. This episode covers the 2nd commentary on Bergson up to the end of the "Affection-Image" chapter.

Gilles Deleuze's "Cinema 1: The Movement Image" (Part 1/3)

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In this episode, I'm joined by Christina, PhD candidate at the Center for the Study of Theory and Criticism at the University of Western Ontario, to systematically dissect Gilles Deleuze's "Cinema 1: The Movement Image." This is an enigmatic book, treading the line between philosophy and film theory, while never committing to one nor the other. This episode covers the preface up to the 2nd commentary on Bergson.

G.W.F. Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit" (Part 4/4)

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In this episode, I conclude my presentation of "Phenomenology of Spirit" by focusing on the last two chapters: "Religion" (0:00) comprised of the sub-chapters "Natural Religion" (11:25), "Religion in the Form of Art" (20:33), and "Revealed Religion" (39:10); and the chapter "Absolute Knowing" (47:47).