Theory Talk

Theory Talk

By Joe Weissman and Taylor AdkinsSociety & Culture
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Theory Talk episodes

  • Ep. 25: "The Dream of Esperanto"
    Theory Talk is a philosophy podcast and critical thinking jam session. This episode, Joe and Taylor discuss modalities of subjectification. Includes a preview of the patron-only post-game show!
    1 hr 16 min
  • Ep. 24: Speech and Capital
    Theory Talk is a philosophy podcast and critical thinking jam session. In this episode, the power of expression and the archaeology of capitalism: despotism and paranoia; the empire and the desert; censorship and humor; is capitalism interminable? Includes a preview of our patron-only post-game show!
    2 hr 19 min
  • Ep. 23: D+G
    Theory Talk is a philosophy podcast and critical thinking jam session. In this episode, Joe and Taylor talk Guattari and Deleuze: the anthropomorphic representation of sex; structuralism and reproduction; writing and metaphor; the scientificity of psychoanalysis.
    1 hr 53 min
  • Ep. 22: Institutional Analysis
    Theory Talk is a philosophy podcast and critical thinking jam session. This week, Joe and Taylor discuss institutional analysis: love as the investment of desire into the social field; the transcendental use of the syntheses of the unconscious; peoples and nations; the micropolitics of automation; post-apocalyptic narratology. The episode starts with a cold open. Recorded Mar 11, 2017.
    1 hr 38 min
  • Ep. 21: Universal Structures
    Theory Talk is a philosophy podcast and critical thinking jam session. In the main dialogue today, universal structures and power formations. --But first, a quick warm-up chat comparing Deleuze and Derrida.
    1 hr 19 min
  • Ep. 20: Speculation (with Katerina Kolozova)
    Theory Talk is a philosophy podcast and critical thinking jam session. In this episode, Joe interviews philosopher Katerina Kolozova on the occasion of her new book "Towards a Radical Metaphysics of Socialism: Marx and Laruelle". The discussion covers: the genesis of the work; the materiality of speculation; metaphysics after philosophy; the detachment of capitalism from reality.
    47 min
  • Ep. 19: Reason and Laughter
    Theory Talk is a philosophy podcast and critical thinking jam session. This week, affects in the history of philosophy; Nietzsche’s diagnosis of Plato; the clumsiness of philosophers; the pathos of distance; democracy and discrimination; violence and logic.
    1 hr 13 min
  • Ep. 18: Lies
    Theory Talk is a philosophy podcast and critical thinking jam session. This week, deception: noble lies; cunning and typology; the power of the false; justice in language.
    1 hr 21 min
  • Ep. 17: Science
    Theory Talk is a critical thinking jam session. This week, the war between thoughts; the difference between facts and data; inter-theoretic reduction; science (of) philosophy; a universalism to-come?
    1 hr 10 min
  • Ep. 16: Dreamwork
    Theory Talk is a critical thinking jam session.
    This week, grammar and the law; alien logic and the science of dreams; philosophy as transcendental dreamwork; structuralism and culture; hospitality and strangers.
    1 hr 58 min

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Theory Talk is a philosophy podcast and critical thinking jam session, featuring in-depth discussions of contemporary thought and thinkers. The show is produced by Joseph Weissman and Taylor Adkins.