Theory & Philosophy

G.W.F. Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit" (Part 3/4)

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In this episode, I present the chapter titled "Spirit." It is here that Hegel turns his gaze to society, paying specific attention to the dynamic interaction between individuals vying for their own livelihood and the community in which these individuals exist. It traverses through three phases denoted by three sub-chapters: "The True Spirit. The Ethical Order" (7:00), "Self-Alienated Spirit. Culture" (22:12), and "Spirit that is Certain of Itself. Morality (55:27).

G.W.F. Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit" (Part 2/4)

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In this episode, we continue our dissection of Phenomenology of Spirit. This episode first looks at the chapter "Self-Consciousness" (2:18) including its sub-chapters, "Independence and Dependence of Self-Consciousness: Lordship and Bondage" (6:55) (This is where he talks about the 'master/slave' dialectic) and "Freedom of Self-Consciousness" (14:05). It then presents the chapter titled "Reason" (24:26) and the sub-chapters "Observing Reason" (27:56), "Actualization of Rational Self-Consciousness through its own Activity" (46:55), and "Individuality which takes Itself to be Real in and for-itself" (60:05). 

G.W.F. Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit" (Part 1/4)

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In the first episode of this four part series, I turn my attention to G.W.F. Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit," a text as necessary to read as it is difficult to read. This episode specifically tackles the chapters: "Preface" (beginning); "Introduction" (34:50); and "Consciousness" comprised of the sub-chapters "Sense-Certainty" (38:45), "Perception" (49:50), and "Understanding" (57:10). In these chapters, he begins by outlining what he hopes his project to accomplish, and then moves into delineating exactly how human consciousness moves through various phases on the way to Absolute Spirit.

Jacques Derrida's "Structure, Sign, and Play"

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In this episode, I turn my attention to Derrida's groundbreaking essay, "Structure, Sign, and Play." It is here that he lays the foundation of what would become deconstruction, the destabilization of the assumed univocality of either term in a binary. He does this by undoing the oft-assumed belief that structures do not move, and that they are fundamentally opposed to "play." 

Walter Benjamin's "The Work of Art in the Age of Its Mechanical Reproducibility"

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In this episode, I turn to Walter Benjamin's seminal text, "The Work of Art in the Age of Its Mechanical Reproducibility." Contrary to what some might think, I try to present the way that Benjamin applauds the 'death' of the aura in the age of mechanical reproducibility and the political ramifications of this moment.

John Durham Peters' "Speaking into the Air"

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In this episode, I turn my attention to an important text in the field of communication and media studies. Here Peters tries to imagine communication as a meeting of souls by presenting a number of thinkers from Socrates to Jesus to Saint Augustine to Locke to Heidegger.
Timestamps: Ch. 1: Beginning Ch. 2: 12:45 Ch. 3: 18:50 Ch. 4: 25:14 Ch. 5: 31:30 Ch.6: 35:50

Audre Lorde's "The Master's Tools will never Dismantle the Master's House"

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In this episode, I present Audre Lorde's "The Master's Tools will never Dismantle the Master's House," a seminal text in the fields of critical face, gender, and feminist studies. Not to mention, ya know, every other field. 

Michel Foucault's "Discipline & Punish" (Part 2/2)

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In this episode, I present the second half of "Discipline & Punish" to expoun upon his key concepts of docile bodies, the panopticon, and the carceral system.
Timestamps: Docile Bodies (Beginning)The Means of Correct Training: 27:50Panopticism: 39:31Complete and Austere Institutions: 52:40Illegalities and Delinquency: 56:50The Carceral: 1:05:10

Michel Foucault's "Discipline & Punish" (Part 1/2)

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In this episode, I present the first half of Foucault's seminal Discipline & Punish. In this half he sketches a firm distinction between a model of juridical punishment that mobilizes torture as a deterrent to criminality and a model predicated on surveillance as a deterrent to criminality. 

Nick Land's "Kant, Capital, and the Prohibition of Incest"

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophyIn this episode I take on Land's first essay from "Fanged Noumena," "Kant, Capital, and the Prohibition of Incest" that presents his characterization of the present stake that racism has in the maintenance of global capitalistic exploitation.