Theory & Philosophy

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In this episode, I take a stab at one of Foucault's first texts, "Madness & Civilization." In it he tries to disturb everything we know about madness and its treatment--the positivist assumptions about its coming into realization; the treatments believed to be therapeutic; and the influences behind the construction of asylums.

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In this episode, I'm joined by Jeremy Smith once again to continue our excavation of Laruelle's work. In this part, we continue our exploration of "Introduction to Generic Sciences," focusing specifically on the role of the generic in relation to the One, the subject-without-subject, and Truth-without-truth.

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Translation: https://lookaside.fbsbx.com/file/introduction%20to%20generic%20sciences.pdf?token=AWzNaBladlJSginp_DRaHMjzbX3ln26GJom5k0jvOWPjeCQh1OFV7sE6LDMW6f_kj48CZ01odt0m31l8rPxIDYQVEHN7DG0PPJvfsp5RtViCR_6osjSRmo5cnwUeXmuvglfO3MFAzQMBkgKw9R1dOUSKGF77W57suO7SVQeVb8hNmKgXB4zyTTgkQIxWVbO2iLg

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In this episode, I'm joined by Jeremy Smith once again to continue our excavation of Laruelle's work. In this part, we take on his "Introduction to Generic Sciences," an enigmatic, yet captivating, text that attends to the potential of non-philosophy (and many of his other concepts) to radically potentiate the sciences against their appropriation by the "principal of sufficiency."

Contact for Jeremy: [email protected]

Translation: https://lookaside.fbsbx.com/file/introduction%20to%20generic%20sciences.pdf?token=AWzNaBladlJSginp_DRaHMjzbX3ln26GJom5k0jvOWPjeCQh1OFV7sE6LDMW6f_kj48CZ01odt0m31l8rPxIDYQVEHN7DG0PPJvfsp5RtViCR_6osjSRmo5cnwUeXmuvglfO3MFAzQMBkgKw9R1dOUSKGF77W57suO7SVQeVb8hNmKgXB4zyTTgkQIxWVbO2iLg

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In this episode, I take on "The Evil Demon of Images," a text whose title contributes to what I believe to be a common misunderstanding about Baudrillard's work--the antithetical relationship assumed of simulation and reality.

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In this episode, I finish up Butler's "Gender Trouble." It is this episode that I dissect Butler's elusive notion of "performativity" and the potential it houses to challenge the oppressive regimen of sex.

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Note: *I discuss performativity at beginning and end of next episode!* In this episode, I take on Butler's "Gender Trouble," a seminal text in the fields of feminism and post-structuralism. Butler argues that some strands of feminist thought mistakenly attribute a transcendental significance to the idea of 'woman' that fails to account for the modes of discourse/power that construct that identity.

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In this episode I explore what might be the last Baudrillard text I do. It is here that Baudrillard considers what is at stake with the advent of integral reality, the apotheosis of the oppressive simulacrum.

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In this text, we get a peak of Baudrillard's disdain for the West's global project of expansion, consuming otherness and thereby eradicating it under the pretense "scientific rationality," "truth," and "white superiority."

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In this episode, Andrew and I dive into the second half of Firestone's text to drive towards the destination she imagines a post-sex-dialectic world might look like.

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In this episode, I'm joined by Andrew Woods, PhD candidate in Theory and Criticism, to discuss Shulamith's brave text that dives head first into the history of sexism in the United States and what can be done to overcome it.