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Los Altos Institute is a non-profit socialist think tank based on North-Central British Columbia. We oppose intellectual property rights and so, consequently, we make the audio content of our online c... more
FAQs about Los Altos Institute Archive:How many episodes does Los Altos Institute Archive have?The podcast currently has 171 episodes available.
November 09, 2020Trailer Park Boys Course - Episode #05: Fictive Kinship and Miracles bonus trackThis episode of the class focused on Carol Stack's 1970s anthropology of poverty, All Our Kin and its applicability to Sunnyvale Trailer Park. Stack argued that Fuck Community College; Let's Get Drunk and Eat Chicken Fingers was an economically rational position. ...more1h 9minPlay
November 07, 2020Trailer Park Boys Course - Episode #04: Grace and the MagisteriumThis is the class about the finest episode of Trailer Park Boys, the Kiss of Freedom. It also features an extended background in the corpus of Saint Augustine of Hippo and ends with a rambling anecdote about ending up in a virtual reenactment of the show in the instructor's apartment in Surrey....more53minPlay
October 23, 2020Trailer Park Boys Course - Episode #03: Harper's Canada: Gnarly shitty oil for the 1%Like other episodes, there is some hacksaw editing here but it begins with a solid 25-minute lecture on season eight, its distinctive features and how the show reflects and represents Canada post-Stephen Harper. It is followed by a lively discussion that goes to lots of weird places, like Yale, BC....more1h 6minPlay
October 23, 2020Trailer Park Boys Course - Episode #02: Crime and Punishment and the original black and white pilotThis episode covers the original black and white unaired pilot episode made in 1999 in which things are a little different and which appears to be an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment. As with the previous episode, the second half is a little choppy because of participant anonymization requests but, after about fifteen minutes, the second half becomes more coherent as non-anonymized participants join in....more1hPlay
October 22, 2020Trailer Park Boys Course - Episode #01: Introduction to the course and to the HRMStudents are introduced to the course and to the Halifax Regional Municipality's demographics, geography and history. As some students did not wish to be identified or have their voices represented on this recording, there are some slightly choppy edits in this and future episodes....more54minPlay
October 22, 2020Identitarianism: Its Roots, Antecedents and Present - Episode #1.13: Narcissism, common law, property rights and the logic of rapeWe talk about intellectual property rights, narcissistic personality disorder, the Germanic common law and the logic of rape in tying together the conclusions of the course....more58minPlay
October 22, 2020Identitarianism: Its Roots, Antecedents and Present - Episode #1.12: Conversion vs Awareness-raising and other differences between conservative and progressive politics of identityIn this penultimate class, we examine the key difference between progressive and conservative identity politics: whether one believes in ideas of conversion or whether one believes in an unchanging and permanent essence. We also return to the open letter in Harpers' Bazaar, neotraditionalism and other favourite subjects of the course....more1h 26minPlay
September 29, 2020Identitarianism: Its Roots, Antecedents and Present - Episode #1.11: Standpoint Epistemology and the Knowledge of the BloodThis rambling lecture covers many bases concerning disability, neo-traditionalism and postcolonial theory. But its core is about the left's slow embrace that knowledge, itself lives in the blood and is inscribed upon the body....more1h 24minPlay
September 28, 2020Identitarianism: Its Roots, Antecedents and Present - Episode #1.10: Selves of desire, "cancel culture" and the Identity Industrial ComplexRecorded months before the instructor was canceled, this lecture talks about how processes of liberal self-fashioning sit at the foundation of our present cancel culture moment. ...more1h 24minPlay
September 09, 2020Identitarianism: Its Roots, Antecedents and Present - Episode #1.09: Conspiracy Theory and Identity and a Conspiracy Theory About IdentityThis is probably the best of the shows so far. The lecture discusses the history of conspiracy theory and its interactions with Identitarianism and other aspects of authoritarian and neo-fascist movements. It also considers the interactions between technology, religion and theories of the self. The question and answer session is also superior in that students delve into the history of Christian anti-Semitism and Hindu nationalism, bringing important knowledge to the class. The racial ecumenism of the Trump movement is also discussed....more1h 29minPlay
FAQs about Los Altos Institute Archive:How many episodes does Los Altos Institute Archive have?The podcast currently has 171 episodes available.