Theory & Philosophy

By David GuignionSociety & Culture Education Arts Books Philosophy

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May 16, 2020 René Descartes' "Meditations on First Philosophy"
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In this episode, I turn my attention to Descartes' "Meditations on First Philosophy" where he lays out his process of 'doubting' the world to arrive at the only thing left to exist--the thinking mind.
45 min
May 09, 2020 Kelly Oliver's "Witnessing: Beyond Recognition" (Part 2/2)
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In this episode, I continue my presentation of Kelly Oliver's "Witnessing: Beyond Recognition" where she considers race and the oppression of other minority groups in her proposed alternative--witnessing--to recognition.
Timestamps:
Ch. 5: False Witnesses (Beginning)
Ch. 6: History, Transformation, and Vigilance (8:40)
Ch. 7: Seeing Race (16:46)
Ch. 8: Vision and Recognition (20:17)
Ch. 9: Toward a New Vision (24:10)
Conclusion: Witnessing the Power of Love (30:02).
33 min
May 02, 2020 Kelly Oliver's "Witnessing: Beyond Recognition" (Part 1/2)
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In this episode, I begin my presentation of Kelly Oliver's "Witnessing: Beyond Recognition." In this book she tries to conceptualize an anti-oppressive political strategy that is not predicated upon difference, but that is focused on the similarities that bind people. I'm joined by Helene Bigras-Dutrisac to impart her expertise of chapter 4!
Timestamps:
Introduction: Beyond Recognition (Beginning)
Ch. 1: Domination, Multiculturalism, and the Pathology of Recognition (21:15)
Ch.2 : Identity Politics, Deconstruction, and Recognition (28:45)
Ch. 3: Identity as Subordination, Abjection and Exclusion (37:36)
Ch. 4: The Necessity and Impossibility of Seeing (40:14).

57 min
April 25, 2020 Theodor Adorno's "The Culture Industry" (Part 2/2)
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In this episode, I continue and finish my presentation of Theodor Adorno's "The Culture Industry." Some of the key takeaways from this half include Adorno's appropriation of Freud's theories to understand the rise of Fascism; Adorno's critique of Benjamin; and Adorno's faith in theory as a form of praxis.
Timestamps: Ch. 4: Culture & Administration (Beginning) Ch. 5: Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda (14:30) Ch. 6: How to Look at Television (29:30) Ch. 7: Transparencies on Film (36:20) Ch.8: Free Time (42: 09) Ch. 9: Resignation (46:41)
51 min
April 18, 2020 Theodor Adorno's "The Culture Industry" (Part 1/2)
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In this episode, I present the first three chapter of Theodor Adorno's "The Culture Industry." Adorno levels a strong critique against mass culture here, highlighting the effects of alienation under advanced industrial capitalism
Timestamps: Ch. 3: The Culture Industry Reconsidered (Beginning) Ch. 1: On the Fetish Character in Music and the Regression of Listening (11:50) Ch 2: The Schema of Mass Culture (26:41)
47 min
April 11, 2020 Roland Barthes' "The Death of the Author"
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In this episode, I present Roland Barthes' seminal essay, "The Death of the Author." Here he argues that the possibility for interpretation of the text must follow the erasure of the "Author-God" as the bearer of the truth of the text. I try to untangle what I believe to be some misconceptions about Barthes' argument at the end.
16 min
April 04, 2020 Michel Foucault's "The Birth of the Clinic" (Part 2/2)
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In this episode, I conclude my presentation of The Birth of the Clinic where Foucault discusses the full emergence of the clinical gaze with the introduction of death as a positive event and the anatamo-clinical operations of the autopsy.
Timestamps:
Ch. 6: Signs and Cases (Beginning)
Ch. 7: Seeing and Knowing (21:10)
Ch. 8: Open up a Few Corpses (35:40)
Ch. 9: The Visible Invisible (43:43)
Ch. 10: Crisis in Fevers (52:37)
Conclusion (55:00)
58 min
March 28, 2020 Michel Foucault's "The Birth of the Clinic" (Part 1/2)
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In this episode, I begin my presentation of Foucault's The Birth of the Clinic. This episode covers the first half of the book, outlining the broad socio-political motivations behind the emergence of the clinic.
Timestamps: Introduction (Beginning) Chapter 1: Spaces and Classes (15:05) Chapter 2: A Political Consciousness (28:30) Chapter 3: The Free Field (34:50) Chapter 4: The Old Age of the Clinic (38:30) Chapter 5: The Lesson of the Hospitals (46:23)

55 min
March 21, 2020 Judith Butler's "Undoing Gender" (Part 2/2)
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Timestamps: Ch. 5: Is Kinship Always Already Heterosexual (Beginning) Ch. 6: Longing for Recognition (9:00) Ch. 7: Quandries of the Incest Taboo (21:30) Ch. 8: Bodily Confessions (27:14) Ch. 9: The End of Sexual Difference (36:00) Ch. 10: The Question of Social Transformation (47:52) Ch. 11: Can the 'Other' of Philosophy Speak (55:25)
In this episode, I conclude my presentation of Butler's text, paying close attention to her re-evaluation of her theory of performativity, the political potential of drag, and the possibility for social transformation.
1 hr
March 14, 2020 Judith Butler's "Undoing Gender" (Part 1/2)
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In this episode, I turn my attention to Judith Butler's "Undoing Gender." This is a collection of essays, so it is difficult to summarize the book. However, we can comfortably say that it explores what it means for gender to become undone, and the undoing that is done through gender.
51 min

About Theory & Philosophy

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Welcome! My name’s David Guignion and I distill complicated philosophical and theoretical ideas for wide audiences. While ideas are important to help us understand the world, it is even more important to put ideas into action. Some of this channel’s key theoretical and pragmatic influences include, but are not limited to, Marxism, Decolonialization, Feminism, Gender and Queer theory, and Critical Race Theory.