Theory Talk

Theory Talk is a critical thinking jam session. This week, the untimely; combatting resignation; modes of history (critical, monumental and antiquarian); forgetting and action; the sicknesses of the historical and the a-historical; prehistory and deep time; immediacy and reaction; cultivation and intelligence.

Theory Talk is a critical thinking jam session. In this week's episode, the concatenation of images; passive and active syntheses; the gap between understanding and imagination; expressionism and the emotions; the deconstruction of ethnology; the radiance of the holy.

Theory Talk is a critical thinking jam session. In this episode, Joe and Taylor revisit themes from earlier shows: the function of dreaming; repetition and the death-drive; the paradox of omniscience; the dichotomy of remembering and becoming; Odysseus' modernity; hubris and collective memory.

Theory Talk is a critical thinking jam session. In this episode, Joe and Taylor discuss the logic of the unconscious; presence and absence; the rhythm of memory; symptom enjoyment; trauma and stratification; the paradox of censorship; Freud’s clientele; rumination; and why the President is unhappy.

Theory Talk is a critical thinking jam session. In the first part of this week's episode, Joe and Taylor discuss the mystery of the origin of the state; Gilgamesh and war machines; Cain and the city; inequality in Rousseau. In the second part, metallurgy; tools and weapons; malleability and nomic games; jewelry.

Theory Talk is a critical thinking jam session. This week, Taylor and Joe discuss major and minor languages; group authorship and bardic tradition; Homer, Shakespeare and Anonymous; the difference between stories and plots; Lao-Tzu.

Theory Talk is a critical thinking jam session. In this week's first section, Joe asks a question about the pedagogy of imperialism. In the second section, a discussion of bureaucracy.

Theory Talk is a critical thinking jam session with Joseph Weissman and Taylor Adkins. This week, Joe and Taylor discuss temporal modalities in grammar; meta-communication; rhetoric, persuasion and evidence; alien semantics; alphabetic structuralism.

Theory Talk is an open discussion of contemporary philosophical concerns with Joseph Weissman and Taylor Adkins. This week, Joe and Taylor discuss the new year; calendars; the inorganic life of time; heat death; Ruyer's analysis of utopia; anti-worlds.

Joe and Taylor are back to talk philosophy! The conversation starts off with discussion about Simondon.