PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy

We read Althusser's "Marxism and Humanism," an Essay from his 1965 collection For Marx in which he declares the two fundamentally incompatible. We didn't make it far into the essay because we were having terminological disputes, but we shall return in finer detail soon.

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There's big news on the news, and we thought we would take a poke at interpreting this event—if in fact it is one—and giving it an ideological status. 

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We have been talking about Althusser once again on the Pod, and in advance of our new dive we are re-releasing an episode about why Althusser might be important.

The federal union of the United States has decided to elect Presinald Trump as its leader from the years 2025-2029, as God wills.

Here, three Canadians provide you with unsolicited opinions about the meaning of this event or lack thereof.

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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.

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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.

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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/1672279505774448640

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We face the fact that only a Nazi could properly explain American politics.

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Back to business—we talk Aztec myths and Bataille on Sacrifice from The Accursed Share.

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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 glorious week before bursting into flames for the internet's schadenfreude.This was, in our consideration, not the abortive event it may seem at first glance, but a sign for the near future of theory. 

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