Thinking With... A Rhetorical Theory Podcast

Thinking With... A Rhetorical Theory Podcast

By Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, and Nathaniel StreetSociety & CulturePhilosophy
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Thinking With... A Rhetorical Theory Podcast episodes

  • S4 EP 2 - An Itinerant Episode

    We cover a lot of ground in this episode, but not a lot of this ground is tied directly to Derrida. In the beginning of the episode, we talk about the dynamics of appropriation, math, physics, the terminology of becoming, and Heraclitus. Towards the middle and end, we discuss the brevity of history, how Hollywood must save us, and the genius of the Matrix. 

    45 min
  • S4 EP 1 - "Différance"

    Thinking With... is back! This season, we cover a variety of Derrida's texts, including "Différance," Of Grammatology, "Plato's Pharmacy," "Signature Event Context," "From General to Restricted Economy," "Nietzsche and the Machine," and "White Mythology." 

    In this episode, we do a short intro where we discuss the details of this season as well as the new intro music. 

    In the episode, proper, we discuss Derrida's "Différance," the various components of Derrida's central (non)concept, the differences between Heidegger and Derrida, the dynamics of contemporary theory, among other things.  

    1 hr 12 min
  • S3 EP 10 - Outtakes
    Sampled conversations from previously recorded episodes on Heidegger that did not make the cut (but are still potentially worth your time).
    44 min
  • S3 EP 9 - What Counts as Philosophy
    0:00-16:00
    as thinkers of movement, why don’t Hegel and Heidegger use the term, “becoming”?
    Heidegger’s celebrating of ancient Greek thought
    the duality of “Being” and “being”
    the performative undercurrent of representational thinking
    16:00-29:00
    H’s fetishizing and essentializing of Greek thinking
    essence for Heidegger vs. essence for Nietzsche
    trying to think the problematic of representationalism
    H’s seeming obsession with origins vs. Nietzsche’s disinterest in origins
    29:00-41:00
    what counts as philosophy for Heidegger
    the ambiguity and fundamentality of the “Being” vs. “being” dualism
    how the opposition functions in Heidegger
    41:00-end
    H’s emphasis on the verb (as a constitutive linguistic-ontological element)
    H’s weird example of “blossoming”
    the simultaneity of difference and identity
    48 min
  • S3 EP 8 - How to NOT Answer Questions
    0:00-13:00
    thinking as perceiving
    dwelling in the problematic
    slogans in philosophy
    H’s notion that philosophical questions cannot (structurally) have answers
    13:00-19:00
    thinking the movement of thinking
    rendering the unthought thinkable
    Heidegger’s ambitions as a philosopher
    19:00-31:00
    essence as ambiguity
    Heidegger’s fetishizing of ambiguity
    the problem of common speech and language
    31:00-40:00
    calcification as a way of enabling difference and complexity
    how posing a definitive answer to a philosophical question is not inherently reductive or restricting
    why representational thinking is “too advanced” for Heidegger
    40:00-end
    the anti- or post-Hegelian project
    why is Nate bringing up Hegel again?
    Karen Barad’s orientation
    negotiating intellectual subject positions
    the violence of subjectivity
    1 hr 5 min
  • S3 EP 7 - Beating the Authenticity Horse Again
    0:00-13:00
    teaching deconstructive moves in the classroom
    meta-reflection
    Nathaniel’s exploratory essay assignment
    13:00-27:00
    AF / AM critical discourse
    Teaching Ta Nehisi Coates
    an argument in favor of difficult writing
    27:00-46:00
    Heidegger’s mysticism / nostalgia
    the ambiguity of H’s notion of authenticity
    46:00-end
    H’s etymological linking of “thinking” and “thanking”
    human being’s indebtedness to the other
    59 min
  • S3 EP 6 - Teaching Constructivism (Provisionally)
    0:00-16:00
    Heidegger’s central question
    diagnosing representational thinking
    propriety / purity in Heidegger
    the fascism built into the text
    16:00-38:00
    Heidegger’s disdain for commonness and traditional thinking
    differences between Heidegger and Hegel
    social constructionism
    difficulties with language and representation
    38:00-end
    the functions/effects of education
    fear of death
    provisional thinking
    1 hr 4 min
  • S3 EP 5 – Heidegger's Eternal Return
    The Heidegger Files: What is Called Thinking? By Martin Heidegger Lecture X
    With: Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, & Nathaniel Street
    Time Complicates Being, Eternal Return of the Same, Deliverance from Revenge, Let Will be Will (Start-11:55)
    Why does the “same” return?; what’s up with the “eternal”?; this is why no one writes about time anymore; linear time, blurred (12:00-21:50)
    Dasein and the pros and cons of representational thinking; time, history, eternity; perspectivalism, epistemological or ontological?; (22:00-29:30)
    Cosmological Eternal Return; What’s up with eternity?; Eternity of being/will/presence; how does the will will itself? (30:00-40:20)
    Nathaniel resurfaces; Eternal will, willing itself; it’s okay Nathaniel, we already figured it out; (40:30-47:50)
    Misreadings of the Eternal Return; how to not engage/think; contingency of essence and destiny (48:00-end)
    1 hr 1 min
  • S3 EP 4 - The Most Profound Thought
    0:00-13:00
    teaching on zoom
    unpacking theory for students
    lectures 9 and 10
    what makes Heidegger and this text so compelling
    how Heidegger rehabilitates Nietzsche
    13:00-24:00
    the “treasure of metaphysics” for Heidegger
    how Heidegger and Derrida relate to metaphysics
    the relative inescapability of metaphysical thinking
    24:00-43:00
    the eternal return
    overcoming the will’s desire for revenge
    representational thinking as a way of enacting revenge on difference
    Hegel’s Aufhebung vs. Nietzsche’s transformation via overman
    43:00-
    more on sublation in Hegel
    transition of last man to overman
    what is involved in the negation of negation of Absolute Spirit
    1 hr 11 min
  • S3 EP 3 - Training the Last Metaphysician
    0:00-4:00
    Nate trying to learn the game, “Go”
    John’s golf game
    4:00-20:00
    instinct or “feel” vs analysis / cognition
    Heidegger’s commitment to authenticity (and to pluralism / becoming)
    Heidegger’s strange etymological interpretation of “blinking”
    20:00-33:00
    the importance of Nietzsche for Heidegger’s thinking (and post-structuralist thinking)
    Heidegger’s attempt to surpass Nietzsche
    Heidegger’s slowness
    33:00-end
    the “superman” or “overman”
    the characteristics of the overman and the last man
    49 min

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“Thinking With..." is a pedagogical experiment that serves as an invitation to think along with the text, with us, and with each other. We are three academics who specialize in Rhetorical Theory: Nate…