Theory & Philosophy

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In this episode, I turn my attention to Baudrillard's "The Agony of Power." This one clarifies Baudrillard's position on power, locating it within the domain of hegemony as opposed to domination. The former presents a much more pernicious mode of oppression for Baudrillard because of its transparency and its illusion of democratic egalitarianism.

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In this episode, I turn my attention to Sara Ahmed's "Queer Phenomenology." This book can be regarded as Ahmed's attempt to perform a queering of phenomenology while simultaneously sketching what a queer phenomenology might look like. To do this, she traverses through the phenomenological tradition to craft her own version of phenomenology and then apply them to the domains of race and sexuality.

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In this episode, I finish my exploration of "One-Dimensional Man" by tracing Marcuse's take on the role of philosophy in late Capitalist society.

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In this episode, I turn my attention to the Frankfurt school giant, Herbert Marcuse and his "One-Dimensional Man." Marrying Marxism with Freudian psychoanalysis, Marcuse constructs an eloquent challenge to the tenets of late capitalism as relevant today as it was in the mid-twentieth century.

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This this episode I take up David Golumbia's book, "The Cultural Logic of Computation." Pairing the post-structuralist theoretical tradition with media theory, Golumbia takes aim at the systematic attempts to computationalize humanity.

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This text, a marker of what some call the late Baudrillard, presents some of Baudrillard's concerns for the age of simulation. From nuclear destruction to disease to disappearance, he leaves no theoretical stone unturned.

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In this episode, I turn my focus of posthumanism and Braidotti's seminal text, "The Posthuman." Braidotti's brand of posthumanism is a Deleuzian one, seeing the potential of becoming and deterritorialization to oppose the oppressive logic of commodification and identity in late capitalism.

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In this episode, I try to present a coherent thread through Nietzsche "On the Genealogy of Morality." While it may easily be argued that Nietzsche dissuades any methodical reading of his work, I try to contextualize his arguments within the broader theme of the book and bring his ideas into the 21st century

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In this episode, I present Mary Beard's "Women & Power." The strength of Beard's text is her genealogical account of women being silenced throughout our history. I also try to simultaneously justify and challenge some of the liberal feminist notions that are present in this text.

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In this episode I tackles Baudrillard's enigmatic text, "The Transparency of Evil." I try to contextualize some of his more difficult claims within the broader spectrum of his work in order to construct a clear portrait of his project here.