Theory & Philosophy

Chandra Mohanty's "Feminism Without Borders"

In this episode, I present Mohanty's "Feminism Without Borders." In it she makes the case for an intersectional feminism that neither homogenizes nor erases the real lived, material experiences of thirld world women and women of color.

Herbert Marcuse's "An Essay on Liberation"

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In this episode, I present Marcuse's radical idea of a new sensibility, a utopian ideal to combat late Capitalism.

Friedrich Nietzsche's "On Truth & Lying in a Non-Moral Sense"

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In this episode, I present Nietzsche's ideas from his brilliant essay "On Truth and Lying." Here he argues that as long as we are immersed in language, we will be unable to get to the core of truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche's "The Birth of Tragedy" (Part 2/2)

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In this episode, I finish my presentation of "The Birth of Tragedy" to expound upon Nietzsche's commentary on his contemporary German situation and the implications of tragedy for the future.

Friedrich Nietzsche's "The Birth of Tragedy" (Part 1/2)

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In this episode, I take a stab at Nietzsche (in)famous inaugural text, "The Birth of Tragedy." It is here that he tries to trace the history of tragedy (and art more generally) to the Ancient Greeks. Specifically, as the product of the tension between the gods Apollo and Dionysus.

Michel Foucault's "Madness & Civilization" (Part 2/2)

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In this episode, I continue Madness & Civilization to present the ways that the asylum operates to 'correct' those people considered mad.

Michel Foucault's "Madness & Civilization" (Part 1/2)

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In this episode, I take a stab at one of Foucault's first texts, "Madness & Civilization." In it he tries to disturb everything we know about madness and its treatment--the positivist assumptions about its coming into realization; the treatments believed to be therapeutic; and the influences behind the construction of asylums.

François Laruelle's "Introduction to Generic Sciences" (Part 2/2)

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In this episode, I'm joined by Jeremy Smith once again to continue our excavation of Laruelle's work. In this part, we continue our exploration of "Introduction to Generic Sciences," focusing specifically on the role of the generic in relation to the One, the subject-without-subject, and Truth-without-truth.
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Translation: https://lookaside.fbsbx.com/file/introduction%20to%20generic%20sciences.pdf?token=AWzNaBladlJSginp_DRaHMjzbX3ln26GJom5k0jvOWPjeCQh1OFV7sE6LDMW6f_kj48CZ01odt0m31l8rPxIDYQVEHN7DG0PPJvfsp5RtViCR_6osjSRmo5cnwUeXmuvglfO3MFAzQMBkgKw9R1dOUSKGF77W57suO7SVQeVb8hNmKgXB4zyTTgkQIxWVbO2iLg
 
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François Laruelle's "Introduction to Generic Sciences" (Part 1/2)

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In this episode, I'm joined by Jeremy Smith once again to continue our excavation of Laruelle's work. In this part, we take on his "Introduction to Generic Sciences," an enigmatic, yet captivating, text that attends to the potential of non-philosophy (and many of his other concepts) to radically potentiate the sciences against their appropriation by the "principal of sufficiency."
Contact for Jeremy: jsmit747@uwo.ca
Translation: https://lookaside.fbsbx.com/file/introduction%20to%20generic%20sciences.pdf?token=AWzNaBladlJSginp_DRaHMjzbX3ln26GJom5k0jvOWPjeCQh1OFV7sE6LDMW6f_kj48CZ01odt0m31l8rPxIDYQVEHN7DG0PPJvfsp5RtViCR_6osjSRmo5cnwUeXmuvglfO3MFAzQMBkgKw9R1dOUSKGF77W57suO7SVQeVb8hNmKgXB4zyTTgkQIxWVbO2iLg
 
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Jean Baudrillard's "The Evil Demon of Images"

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In this episode, I take on "The Evil Demon of Images," a text whose title contributes to what I believe to be a common misunderstanding about Baudrillard's work--the antithetical relationship assumed of simulation and reality.