Thinking With... A Rhetorical Theory Podcast

The therapeutics of reading philosophy

Heidegger’s pace and style

preliminary reflections on H’s notion of authenticity

essences of being and thinking

critique of representational or technological language

abbreviations, acronyms, etc.

styles and tones of thinking (Heidegger and Nietzsche)

overman

being “in the zone”

how might one channel the overman?

some necessary basketball talk in here

what disposition is Heidegger attempting to cultivate?

ways of inhabiting language, texts, life

Heidegger’s anthropocentrism

Nietzsche’s critique of Christianity

the ontological conditions (and ethical implications) of Heideggerrian thought

being grounded in groundlessness

The Heidegger Files

Focus: What is Called Thinking? By Martin Heidegger Lectures I, II, III

With: Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, & Nathaniel Street

Opening Gambit: Thinking is not simply a mental event but always emerges in-relation; the irksome problem of essences; antagonistic progressivism (Start–11:00)

Heidegger’s Pedagogy, teaching, learning, thinking; example of the wordworker, authenticity and pluralism; involvement vs confrontation; Externality and Simulacrum vs Internality and Authenticity; Tuna Production (11:10–27:15)

Pluralizing disclosures; the luxury of authenticity (27:20–32:30)

The intimacy of reading and thinking – questions: answers and responses; Socrates’ orientation to questions and responses, the dialectic; what is called thinking – "was heißt" vs "was ist"); “one track thinking” – it’s not laziness, it’s the essence of technology; Heidegger+ now with 10% more Performativity (affirmative reading required) (27:25–53:05)

Posthumanism + Nostalgia = ??; Confrontation and Affirmation; Rerouting ruts; Challenging the forms that slumber within (53:10-1:03:35)

Woodworking and Nathaniel’s secret Heideggerianism (seriously, he’s hand-making hammers now); Authenticity vs Difference; Nate’s construction-worker mask; the role of telos in involvement; John’s macro-agoraphobia (1:03:40–1:13:10)

Thinking as the becoming-molecular of the molar (or the deconstruction of the model); the therapeutic value of the molar (thinking as the becoming-molar of the molecular?); Vertigo; thinking is only thinking in relation – should philosophy incorporate the biography of thinking?; Illustration vs Reflection (serial connection vs general/particular) (1:13:15-end)

In the season finale of Deleuzecast, we talk through the appendix of Deleuze’s Logic of Sense: "The Simulacrum and Ancient Philosophy."

0:00-14:00

difference and identity

atomism

clinamen

14:00-23:00

color and perception

color as object or as relation

species differences

limits of perspectivism

23:00-30:00

eternal return of the same

Deleuzian repetition

30:00-45:00

evolution

error and mutation / the Deleuzian complication to this logic of error and development

sexual reproduction / diversity

the conjunctive “nature” of nature

the orchid and the wasp

differential pedagogy

45:00-1:00:00

reversal of platonism

absolute difference and absolute sameness

back to the eternal return

the molar and molecular

theology as a tendency or form of thinking

1:00:00-end

the issue of “fragmented” ontologies and certain theories of difference

advocating difference over identity, or fragmentation over unity, or the molecular over the molar

the posthuman subject

the nietzschean version of posthumanism

the overman

how the prescriptive, or policy-writing, dulls theory

the need to have deliverables in scholarship / theory application

Focus The Logic of Sense “Twenty-Sixth  Series of Language,” “Thirty-Third Series of Alice’s Adventures” and “Thirty-Fourth Series of Primary Order and Secondary Organization”

With: “Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, & Nathaniel Street

Nathaniel’s excellent sense of “the cool” (Start-1:35)

Reflection on Logic of Sense as a whole; Re-Intuiting Representation; John’s Resistances to Psychoanalysis; Deleuze’s Engagement with Psychoanalysis; (1:40-17:00)

Hegel and Concrete Universality; Structuralism and Psychoanalysis; Psychic-Policing; Lacan’s Domineering Tone; Super-Zizek saves Hegel and Lacan; Voluptuous Vitriol for Derrida; Derrida doesn’t save Nietzsche; Allen Iverson is the Answer (17:10-30:15)

Humor, Satire, Irony; Irony and Community; Satire and Stephen Colbert (30:25-39:50)

Life is Like a Sit-Com; Topological Free Radicals; Community again; Hey we should watch Bo Burnham (40:00-48:20)

Re-Intuiting Representation; Being/Becoming; Representation≠Capture; Representations are Productions; Potential and Constraint; (48:25-End)

Focus The Logic of Sense “Twenty-Fourth Series of the Communication of Events”

With: Caddie Alford, Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, & Nathaniel Street

John Discovers Conditioner (Start–2:20)

Deleuze Contra Hegel; Productivity of Distance  (2:25–18:10)

Idioms and Defense Mechanisms; Social Media, Narcissism, and Community Production (18:15–23:40)

In/Compossibility, Leibniz, and Disjunction/Conjunction (23:45–35:20)

Infinitives; Expressions – “To Butterfly”; the Place and Function of Logic (35:30–45:25)

Do we “do” affirmation?; First Philosophy: Ontology or Ethics? (43:35–51:16)

Hegel and the Unity of Opposites; The Eternal Return… of the same or difference?; Logic at the Level of the Event; The Town within the Town; Im/Material Expressionism (51:28–!:07:55)

Limits of Human Consciousness; Overcoming the Human; The (Meta)Consciousness-Zone; Make More Towns (1:08:05–End)

Focus: Logic of Sense “22nd Series – Porcelain and Volcano” and “23rd Series of the Aion”

With: Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, and Nathaniel Street

Hard Times with Time (Start – 5:45)

Derrida and the Deconstructed Present; Vulgar Time (6:00-11:48)

Kant, Time/Space, Faculties; Heidegger and the relationship of change to bodies (12:00-25:40)

Deleuze’s book on Kant; Sublime: Limits of Representation, “'God', for example” (25:50-33:30)

(Failed) Representation: What’s the point of language?; Freedom, choice, and self-transformation; Events and Spacing (33:40-43:05)

"Crossing the Rubicon," for example; Language – Container or Modulator?; (43:15-51:40)

Emergence of Language; Wait, is language a thing? Do we have it? Do we speak it?; Molar, Molecular, the Trope (51:50-1:07:08)

Burping and Talking; The Logic of Sense and the Sense of Logic; (1:07:15-end)

Focus: Logic of Sense "Twentieth Series on the Moral Problem in Stoic Philosophy" and "Twenty-First Series of the Event"

With: Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, and Nathaniel Street

hair / beard care

pedagogical approaches to intro classes / infusing theory in the classroom

interpretive lenses

Deleuze’s ethics “not to be unworthy of what happens to us”

“getting in the zone”

affirmation of becoming

Focus: The Logic of Sense – "Seventeenth Series of the Static Logical Genesis," Eighteenth Series of the Three Images of Philosophers," and "Nineteenth Series of Humor"

With: Caddie Alford, Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, and Nathaniel Street

Teaching the Enthymeme (Start-4:30) Taste, Enthymemes, and Disrupting Subjectivity (4:30-5:30) Enthymeme and the Syllogism (5:30-7:50) Socratic Irony, Mania, Pedagogy of the Dialogue  (8:00-15:45) Romantic Irony; Humor; Individual and Personal; (15:50-37:35) Masters of Ironic Comedy; Vagabond Humorists; Feminism and Bodies (37:40 - 45:00) Heights, Depths, and Surfaces; Ticks (45:05-49:50) Fogged Up Window Panes; Two Ways of Unravelling String; Ticks, again (50:00-57:10) More Ticks; Diogenes; Lines, Planes, and thickness; a Platonism of Surfaces?; Groundlessness of the Surface (57:15-1:09:25) Problems, True and False (1:09:30-1:22:00)

Focus: Not Deleuze

With: Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, and Nathaniel Street

Superfans; Calcifying/Undoing Mimetic Rhythms; Nietzche’s Mustache Oil; Impossibility of Non-Individuation (Start-16:45)

Podcast Pedagogy; Instructional Tidiness; Heuristics of Learning; Narcissism and the Undoing of the Ego, Borges and Epochs of Reading One’s Own Writing (17:00-33:00)

Course Design, Lecture/Seminar; Pacing Course Reading; Degrees of Structure; Teaching Derrida, Performativity, Phaedrus and other Theory Stuff; Jeffrey Nealon gets Plugged (33:00-44:30)

No Deleuze (44:30-End)

Focus: Logic of Sense "Sixteenth Series of the Static Ontological Genesis" 

With: Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, and Nathaniel Street

- on being lost when reading Deleuze - an attempt at an intro to Leibniz - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - immanence / transcendence  - 3 images of philosophy: heights / depths / surfaces - Nathaniel's version of Plato's Phaedrus - analogies of philosophies to music  - calcification of styles (and why bones aren't your enemy)  - diagnosis itself is not transcendent (nor is critique)