PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

Oct 30 2024 202 ep. 56 mins 1.2k
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The Pill Pod is hosted by a group of PhDs offering their irreverent (and unsolicited) takes on critical theory, philosophy, culture, and politics.

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Pill Pod 186 - The Post-Political Singularity Everywhere (preview)

Oct 30 2024 11 mins  
Today we take the temperature of all the new futures popping up—the various Acc/s, the radical democracies, the Christofascists, and the Magacomms—and psychoanalyze them as all sharing one trait: they're too optimistic to be believed.Get all the full episodes at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills

Pill Pod 185 - Bataille on Fascist Psychology (preview)

Oct 04 2024 10 mins  
In 1933, Bataille linked Durkheim's sociology and psychoanalysis to the rise of fascism over the border. The parallels to the present moment are hard to miss.Get the full episode and many more at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills

Pill Pod 184 - MAGACommunism & Philosophy: HAZ on Marx, Heidegger and Dugin

Oct 04 2024 92 mins  
MAGA Communism may strike you as contradictory and stupid sounding, but it is backed by 200 tweets of theory which include Marx, Lenin, Dugin, and Heidegger. We plunge the depths of the MAGA Communist tractatus: "MARXISM IS NOT WOKE" to explore its theoretical aspirations.Source text: https://x.com/InfraHaz/status/1672279505774448640Find our recent episodes on fascist philosophy ad

Pill Pod 183 - Carl Schmitt on the Friend/Enemy Distinction (preview)

Sep 20 2024 11 mins  
We face the fact that only a Nazi could properly explain American politics.Get all episodes ad-free at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills

Pill Pod 182 - Bataille & Sacrifice (preview)

Sep 06 2024 7 mins  
Back to business—we talk Aztec myths and Bataille on Sacrifice from The Accursed Share.Get the full episode and all the others at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills

Pill Pod 181 - Hegelian EGirl Council ft. Jreg

Aug 30 2024 77 mins  
We don't often have current events to cover, but once in a while the current events are Hegel. The Hegelian E-Girl Council was to be the head of a new cult, which fell into a Twitter flame war about a week after its launch. Our guest's studio was the physical origin site of the Hegelian E-Girl Council which first blasted into the real world in NYC, and then onto theorytwitter for a

Pill Pod 180 - The Gift by Marcel Mauss (preview)

Aug 29 2024 16 mins  
We move from Durkheim to Marcel Mauss and his book The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies. Referenced by Bataille, Levi-Strauss, Derrida and Baudrillard—this is a mandatory reading.The full episode and many more are available at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills

Pill Pod 179 - The Mana Principle (Preview)

Aug 26 2024 10 mins  
After a brief recap of the Deleuzo-Guattarian Australian breakdancer we read chapters 6 and 7 of Durkheim's Elementary forms of Religious Life and try to get a hold on the primordial concept of concepts: MANA.The full episode and many more are available at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills

Pill Pod 178 - We Solved the World with Diego Ruzzarin

Aug 13 2024 105 mins  
What do Adin Ross, China, RFK and the Cult of the Individual have in common? This episode... that's it.All episodes are found only at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpillsBe sure to check out the plasticpills YouTube channel for new CONTENT CONTENT CONTENT this week. https://www.youtube.com/c/plasticpills

Pill Pod 177 - Society as Magic, Society as Religion: Emile Durkheim

Aug 06 2024 79 mins  
Durkheim, one of the founders of sociology, slowly came to the discovery by the end of his career that consciousness, langauge and thought itself were of religious origin. We tried to retrace a few of his steps from The Elementary Forms of Religious Life and try to come up with some examples to illustrate his radical hypothesis. All public episodes can be found ad-free, for free, o