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June 29, 2023 Cellphone addiction, McLuhan, and more! Cadell Last interviews us on CMT [Philosophy Portal Mirror]
Cadell Last interviewed Dave McKerracher and Ann Snelgrove on the course they are co-instructing called Digital Literacy and Critical Media Theory. Chances are that, even though it was shared on the TU community tab, you didn't see it, so it is being mirrored here! Make sure to subscribe to Philosophy Portal HERE: https://www.youtube.com/@UCCtCqYQFPhnU1OnHPveEnYw

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Dave’s first book, Waypoint, is available for free at Theory Underground in blog and audio formats. https://theory-underground.com/waypoint/ ^There you can also purchase the text for significantly cheaper than it is on Amazon.

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2 hr 27 min
June 13, 2023 The Cultural Revolution and The Left | Tony of 1Dime
Tony from the video essay channel 1Dime surprises us all with an impromptu lecture on the complexities and historical importance of The Cultural Revolution in Mao's China! Subscribe to @1Dimee here: / @1dimee

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Dave’s first book, Waypoint, is available for free at Theory Underground in blog and audio formats. https://theory-underground.com/waypoint/ ^There you can also purchase the text for significantly cheaper than it is on Amazon.

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2 hr
June 09, 2023 Healing vs. Therapism, Class, Religion, and Heidegger with Samuel Loncar
Samuel Loncar is a Christian atheist who analyzes religion and philosophy as collective and individual forms of psychotherapy. We talk Heidegger, therapism vs. healing, and then we got into some surprising class analysis!

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Dave’s first book, Waypoint, is available for free at Theory Underground in blog and audio formats. https://theory-underground.com/waypoint/ ^There you can also purchase the text for significantly cheaper than it is on Amazon.

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1 hr 20 min
May 31, 2023 Both sides are wrong about Heidegger’s Nazism
There’s an ancient debate over the relevance of Heidegger’s politics, or supposed lack thereof. Hundreds of thousands of hours of video commentary and academic conferences have been spent over the question of whether his “pure ontology” is or is not in fact inherently reactionary. At this point we now know the answer. The more important question is why the fuck we’re going to keep reading him anyway. Enroll for the course: https://theory-underground.com/courses/B&T/ We will do Division One from June 3rd to July 22nd, and Division Two from August 19th until the end of October.

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Dave’s first book, Waypoint, is available for free at Theory Underground in blog and audio formats. https://theory-underground.com/waypoint/ ^There you can also purchase the text for significantly cheaper than it is on Amazon.

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1 hr 15 min
May 26, 2023 Annsplaining Digital Literacy - Ann’s debut solo stream
This is Ann's debut solo stream, clipped from the 2-day marathon stream last month! Ann is the co-instructor for a special course on Digital Literacy and Critical Media Theory coming up in June. If it sounds like something you want to be a part of, sign up here: https://theory-underground.com/courses/cmt/

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Dave’s first book, Waypoint, is available for free at Theory Underground in blog and audio formats. https://theory-underground.com/waypoint/ ^There you can also purchase the text for significantly cheaper than it is on Amazon.

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53 min
May 25, 2023 Heidegger on the 3 major discoveries of phenomenology, and his radical critique of Husserl

A lecture in preparation for tackling Being and Time. Two years prior to writing Being and Time, Heidegger lays out the field of phenomenology: It's major figures, discoveries, defense, and critique.

Before he was pressured to write his Being and Time prematurely, Heidegger was thinking through his imminent critique of phenomenology in a lecture series called History of the Concept of Time. This is the most lucid introduction to his magnum opus Being and Time. David McKerracher gives a lecture on the Introduction and Chapter 1 of History of the Concept of Time. Do the reading ahead of time if you want to get the most out of this, but if you don't, no worries! Nick Castellucci will be there to interview Dave, to try to force clarifications with busy multitasking workers and gamers in mind. If you get a lot out of this, or want access to the Q&A at the end, then enroll in Being and Time course today: https://theory-underground.com/courses/B&T/ We will do Division One from June 3rd to July 22nd, and Division Two from August 19th until the end of October.

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If you want to better understand yourself and the world by asking the hardest questions, wrestling with the most complex problems, and reading the greatest thinkers in the history of philosophy and theory, then welcome. Theory Underground is for and by working class intellectuals, renegade PMCs, and adults who don’t belong or see a future in anything on offer.

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Dave’s first book, Waypoint, is available for free at Theory Underground in blog and audio formats. https://theory-underground.com/waypoint/ ^There you can also purchase the text for significantly cheaper than it is on Amazon.

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2 hr 23 min
May 09, 2023 Heidegger vs. Traditional Philosophy of Science
Before he was pressured to write his Being and Time prematurely, Heidegger was thinking through his imminent critique of phenomenology in a lecture series called History of the Concept of Time. This is the most lucid introduction to his magnum opus Being and Time. David McKerracher gives a lecture on the Introduction and Chapter 1 of History of the Concept of Time. Do the reading ahead of time if you want to get the most out of this, but if you don't, no worries! Nick Castellucci will be there to interview Dave, to try to force clarifications with busy multitasking workers and gamers in mind. If you get a lot out of this, or want access to the Q&A at the end, then enroll in Being and Time course today: https://theory-underground.com/courses/B&T/ We will do Division One from June 3rd to July 22nd, and Division Two from August 19th until the end of October.

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If you want to better understand yourself and the world by asking the hardest questions, wrestling with the most complex problems, and reading the greatest thinkers in the history of philosophy and theory, then welcome. Theory Underground is for and by working class intellectuals, renegade PMCs, and adults who don’t belong or see a future in anything on offer.

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Interested in getting involved? Join the Theory Underground open forum today. Most of the forums are closed until certain readings or courses have been completed, but this is the one that is open! Welcome. https://theory-underground.com/forums/forum/MAIN

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Dave’s first book, Waypoint, is available for free at Theory Underground in blog and audio formats. https://theory-underground.com/waypoint/ ^There you can also purchase the text for significantly cheaper than it is on Amazon.

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1 hr 44 min
May 07, 2023 Young Žižekians talk Alenka Zupančič’s What is Sex? with Cadell Last
Enroll to What is Sex at https://theory-underground.com/courses/what-is-sex/

Watch 3 Reasons to Read What is Sex? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvTYUgowWjE&t=7354s

Welcome to Theory Underground.

If you want to better understand yourself and the world by asking the hardest questions, wrestling with the most complex problems, and reading the greatest thinkers in the history of philosophy and theory, then welcome. Theory Underground is for and by working class intellectuals, renegade PMCs, and adults who don’t belong or see a future in anything on offer.

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Interested in getting involved? Join the Theory Underground open forum today. Most of the forums are closed until certain readings or courses have been completed, but this is the one that is open! Welcome. https://theory-underground.com/forums/forum/MAIN

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Dave’s first book, Waypoint, is available for free at Theory Underground in blog and audio formats. https://theory-underground.com/waypoint/ ^There you can also purchase the text for significantly cheaper than it is on Amazon.

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1 hr 49 min
May 05, 2023 The CONCLUSION of Alenka Zupančič’s What is Sex? - Dave with Cadell Last of Philosophy Portal
Enroll to What is Sex at https://theory-underground.com/courses/what-is-sex/

Watch 3 Reasons to Read What is Sex? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvTYUgowWjE&t=7354s

Welcome to Theory Underground.

If you want to better understand yourself and the world by asking the hardest questions, wrestling with the most complex problems, and reading the greatest thinkers in the history of philosophy and theory, then welcome. Theory Underground is for and by working class intellectuals, renegade PMCs, and adults who don’t belong or see a future in anything on offer.

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Interested in getting involved? Join the Theory Underground open forum today. Most of the forums are closed until certain readings or courses have been completed, but this is the one that is open! Welcome. https://theory-underground.com/forums/forum/MAIN

Help beta trial this at https://theory-underground.com/ Check out the courses, patron tiers and books, as well as events listed at these links: https://theory-underground.com/support https://theory-underground.com/events
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Dave’s first book, Waypoint, is available for free at Theory Underground in blog and audio formats. https://theory-underground.com/waypoint/ ^There you can also purchase the text for significantly cheaper than it is on Amazon.

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3 hr 10 min
April 30, 2023 The Introduction of Alenka Zupančič’s What is Sex? - Dave with Cadell Last of Philosophy Portal
Enroll to What is Sex at https://theory-underground.com/courses/what-is-sex/

Watch 3 Reasons to Read What is Sex? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvTYUgowWjE&t=7354s

Welcome to Theory Underground.

If you want to better understand yourself and the world by asking the hardest questions, wrestling with the most complex problems, and reading the greatest thinkers in the history of philosophy and theory, then welcome. Theory Underground is for and by working class intellectuals, renegade PMCs, and adults who don’t belong or see a future in anything on offer.

Buy us some food or coffee:
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Interested in getting involved? Join the Theory Underground open forum today. Most of the forums are closed until certain readings or courses have been completed, but this is the one that is open! Welcome. https://theory-underground.com/forums/forum/MAIN

Help beta trial this at https://theory-underground.com/ Check out the courses, patron tiers and books, as well as events listed at these links: https://theory-underground.com/support https://theory-underground.com/events
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Dave’s first book, Waypoint, is available for free at Theory Underground in blog and audio formats. https://theory-underground.com/waypoint/ ^There you can also purchase the text for significantly cheaper than it is on Amazon.

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2 hr 43 min

About Theory Underground

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Tier 1 and higher get access to the courses and seminars going monthly throughout 2026:

Intro to Theory, The Philosophy of Stewardship, and The Philosophy of Religion with David McKerracher.

Tier 2 and higher get access to a monthly writers or speaking workshop.

Tier 3 includes the book or thesis writer's cohort. All members get access to the monthly Post Duopoly (de)Radicalization Starter Pack reading group, which is a collaboration between TU and 1Dime. https://theoryunderground.com/subscribe

David McKerracher is an organizer, theorist, husband and father (not in that order), and the founder of Theory Underground. McKerracher is the author of Timenergy: Why You Have No Time or Energy (Foreword by Slavoj Žižek), as well as the chief editor of Underground Theory (Volumes one and two are available now, with volume three in the works).

Office hours: The first Monday of every month at 10 a.m. Pacific Time, or if you wait around after lectures/seminars.

Theory Underground (TU) is dedicated to making challenging philosophical and theoretical work accessible for a non-college audience. TU emphasizes audio-based learning for real-world application of big ideas, operating both online and through an international tour that has hosted events in over 20 U.S. cities, 9 countries throughout Europe, as well as cities in Canada and Mexico.

Mission: To provide accessible, rigorous, and wide-ranging educational material for three types of people:

- dropout workers with earbuds getting into big ideas during daily routines

- burnt-out postgrads seeking to supplement their journey

- parents who take a deliberate role in their children's education through keeping alive their sense of wonder.

Vision: A world that is timenergy-rich, meaning that parents and teachers have large, energy-infused, and reliably repeatable blocks of time throughout their day, week, and month. Such a world would construct and cultivate a culture of active leisure for the sake of discovering and stewarding one’s own talent and the talents of future generations.

Lectures: Ongoing and archived sessions on key thinkers and topics, including:

📚Intro courses: Intro to Theory (monthly throughout 2026), Intro to Marx, Intro to Heidegger, Political Theory, Intro to The Idea of the University, Intro to Žižek, Intro to Lacan, Intro to Land, Intro to Illich, The Philosophy of Nature, Intro to the PMC, Intro to Critical Social Theory, and The Philosophy of Religion (2026).

📚Advanced courses: Martin Heidegger's Being and Time, Emmanuel Levinas' Totality and Infinity, and Slavoj Žižek's For They Know Not What They Do, The Autistic Subject and the Clinical Structures of Psychoanalysis.

📚Seminars: Critical Media Theory (2 years), Critical Doxology & Timenergy (1 year), The Philosophy of Stewardship and Home Economics (monthly throughout 2026).

Publishing: Underground Theory Volumes 1 and 2, Timenergy: Why You Have No Time or Energy, as well as serial releases of chapters, original thoughts, and upcoming books.

Community: Conferences, retreats, and international tour. TU’s hybrid and experimental grassroots (self-funded) tour events have occurred in prestigious private universities as well as people's garages and backyards, on campus quads or downtown in busy urban areas, as well as deep in the wilderness. TU is virtually everywhere and always on tour, but physically it is based on a small regenerative farm in North Idaho.

Renowned professors at Theory Underground have included Slavoj Žižek, Benjamin Studebaker, Nina Power, John D. Caputo, Peter Rollins, Chris Cutrone, Iain Thomson, Alenka Zupančič, Leon Brenner; Todd McGowan, as well as lesser-known but nonetheless amazing lecturers such as Tony Chamas, Bryan Weeks, Michael Downs, and Elton L.K. of the Working Class Intelligentsia and the Democratic Socialists of America education podcast called CLASS.

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