Theory & Philosophy

By David GuignionSociety & Culture Education Arts Books Philosophy

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Theory & Philosophy episodes

December 28, 2019 Audre Lorde's "The Master's Tools will never Dismantle the Master's House"
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In this episode, I present Audre Lorde's "The Master's Tools will never Dismantle the Master's House," a seminal text in the fields of critical face, gender, and feminist studies. Not to mention, ya know, every other field.
29 min
December 21, 2019 Michel Foucault's "Discipline & Punish" (Part 2/2)
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In this episode, I present the second half of "Discipline & Punish" to expoun upon his key concepts of docile bodies, the panopticon, and the carceral system.
Timestamps:
Docile Bodies (Beginning)
The Means of Correct Training: 27:50
Panopticism: 39:31
Complete and Austere Institutions: 52:40
Illegalities and Delinquency: 56:50
The Carceral: 1:05:10
1 hr 11 min
December 14, 2019 Michel Foucault's "Discipline & Punish" (Part 1/2)
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In this episode, I present the first half of Foucault's seminal Discipline & Punish. In this half he sketches a firm distinction between a model of juridical punishment that mobilizes torture as a deterrent to criminality and a model predicated on surveillance as a deterrent to criminality.
58 min
December 07, 2019 Nick Land's "Kant, Capital, and the Prohibition of Incest"
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In this episode I take on Land's first essay from "Fanged Noumena," "Kant, Capital, and the Prohibition of Incest" that presents his characterization of the present stake that racism has in the maintenance of global capitalistic exploitation.
32 min
November 30, 2019 Sunera Thobani's "Exalted Subjects"
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In this episode, I present Sunera Thobani's book, "Exalted Subjects: The Making of Race and Nation in Canada." It delineates the passage from colonization to domination and how certain subjects--white European descendants--are bestowed with a status of exaltation.
1 hr 6 min
November 23, 2019 Jacques Lacan's "L' étourdit" (Part 3/3)
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In this long episode, Ben and I conclude our dissection of "L' étourdit," paying specific attention to Lacan's use of topology in his illustration of subjectivity constituted by "cuts." We also explore the implications of Lacan's thought as a political tool and how it differs from the work of other theorists--Derrida, Deleuze--who were writing at the same time.
1 hr 35 min
November 16, 2019 Jacques Lacan's "L'étourdit" (Part 2/3)
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In this episode, Ben and I continue our exploration of "L'étourdit." It is in this episode that we really hone onto the text, with Ben presenting the core themes from the first turn (the first half) of the essay.
49 min
November 09, 2019 Jacques Lacan's "L'étourdit" (Part 1/3)
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In this episode, I'm joined by Ben, PhD candidate in Theory & Criticism, to discuss one of Jacques Lacan's most enigmatic texts, "L' étourdit." This first episode contextualizes Lacan's thought and establishes a necessary base from which to explore "L' étourdit."
1 hr 1 min
November 02, 2019 Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" (Part 5/5)
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In this episode, I conclude my presentation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Here we conclude the "Transcendental Dialectic," and point to the interesting uses of a new metaphysics toward the consolidation of a general happiness and perpetual peace.
1 hr
October 26, 2019 Jussi Parikka's "What is Media Archaeology?"
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In this episode, I turn my attention to a seminal text in the fields of new materialism and media studies. Here Parikka argues that Media Archaeology serves the function of revealing forgotten and yet-to-be-realized media that disturb the assumed teleological progression of our gadgets.
48 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.