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

  • Bo Burnham's Inside

    For this special episode, Nate, Nathaniel, and John are joined by Caroline Wigmore, and the group riffs in response to Bo Burnham's recent Netflix comedy special Inside. We discuss different styles of contemporary comedy, the role of self-awareness in critique, the dynamics of cancel culture, branding, and many more concepts that Burnham's provocative special engages. 

    1 hr 32 min
  • S2 EP 5 - Becoming Connotative
    Focus: The Logic of Sense "Twelfth Series of the Paradox" and "Thirteenth Series of the Schizophrenic and the Little Girl"
    With: Caddie Alford, John Muckelbauer, and Nathaniel Street
    0:00-16:00
    the metaphorics of the schizophrenic
    Alice in Wonderland
    Deleuze’s style of reading / diagnostics
    16:00-28:00
    the “meta” move
    the tendency to romanticize becoming (vs being) in philosophy or theory
    the simultaneity of identity and difference
    28:00-46:00
    how to live in the face of deterritorialization
    the terror of becoming
    the conceptual assumptions that are necessary for survival
    the necessity/impossibility of categories
    46:00-end
    the quasi cause / double causality
    how doxa are engendered
    provisionality vs transcendence
    1 hr 2 min
  • S2 EP 4 - It's About Time
    Focus: The Logic of Sense "Tenth Series of the Ideal Game" and "Eleventh Series of Nonsense"
    With: Caddie Alford, John Muckelbauer, and Nathaniel Street
    0:00-15:00
    Deleuze’s concept of time
    kairos and chronos
    the challenge of not thinking linearly
    time vs relationality
    15:00-32:00
    Kant’s concept of time
    chance
    good or common sense
    attending to sense in its complexity
    32:00-50:00
    paradox and doxa
    the paradoxes of thinking
    thinking as irreducible to consciousness
    50:00 - end
    sense as both structure and event
    thinking relationality outside of the categories of identity
    making relations into a new object or foundation of a philosophical system
    57 min
  • S2 EP 3 - The Structure of Chance
    Focus: The Logic of Sense "Seventh Series of Esoteric Words," "Eighth Series of Structure," and "Ninth Series of the Problematic"
    With: Caddie Alford, Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, Brooke Rollins, and Nathaniel Street
    What are the stakes of Deleuze’s project? (Start)
         Structure/Event and Series
         Langue & Parole
         Logic of Serial Invention
    Methodology (10:15)
        Literary Methods
        Barthes’ “Order of the Known”
        Differential Ontology
        Place of “Sense” in all of this
        Displacement on the Flat Plane
        Reflection without eHeight
    What the Hell is Sense? (17:00)
       Seriously, what the fuck is going on?
       Alexius Meinong
    Flattening Out the Plane (31:30)
        Ideational Material
        Problems & Solutions
             E.G. Pandemic
    Early vs Late Deleuze (43:10)
        Methodology for Reading
    Structure of Invention (56:30)
        Chance and the Random
    1 hr 17 min
  • S2 EP 2 - Parataxis and Teaching
    Focus: The Logic of Sense  "Fourth Series of Duality," "Fifth Series of Sense," and "Sixth Series on Serialization"
    With: Caddie Alford, Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, and Nathaniel Street
    0:00-15:00
    - the word "sense"
    - Deleuze on Carroll (vs. Derrida on Austin)
    - selective reading 
    15:00-25:00
    - denotation (against formal logic)
    - subjectivity and non-subjective desire
    25:00-44:00
    - summarizing vs. intervening
    - subjective unity/failure to totalize (refrain)
    - causality vs association
    44:00-55:00
    - parataxis vs. hypotaxis
    - what teaching is
    - imposter syndrome and expertise
    55:00-end
    - Isocrates
    - corporate "thinking outside the box"
    1 hr 5 min
  • S2 EP 1 - Starting into Sense: Plato and the "Field" of Rhetoric
    Focus: Logic of Sense "First Series of Paradoxes of Pure Becoming" and "Second Series of Paradoxes of Surface Events"
    With: Caddie Alford, Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, and Nathaniel Street
    0:00-8:00
    - why we each want to read Deleuze 
    8:00-13:00
    - Deleuze vs Hegel's writing style
    13:00-16:00
    - Deleuze's Body 
    16:00-24:00
    - our reading speeds
    - Caddie's current book project
    - start book with bi-directionality of sense
    24:00-34:00
    - The task of rethinking Plato for our field 
    - Nathaniel's current essay on Plato's Phaedrus
    40:00-60:00
    - Who is "Plato?" 
    - What is the "field" of rhetoric? 
    -demagoguery 
    - self-awareness / against self-awareness 
    60:00-end 
    - Why the stoics are important to Deleuze
    - Hegel (success/error); totality
    1 hr 25 min
  • Intro to Deleuzecast

    In this brief episode, Nathaniel and Nate preview the forthcoming second season of the podcast, in which we dive into Gilles Deleuze's The Logic of Sense. We also discuss the neuroses of the writing process and finish with some NBA talk. When season 2 releases in a week, Nathaniel, Nate, and John will be joined by Dr. Caddie Alford, an assistant professor at VCU. 

    35 min
  • EP 11 - The Language of Theory
    0-6 philosophy as "bad writing"
    7-13 the case of Judith Butler
    14-19 thinking and emotions (scapegoating)
    19-24 developmental writing/from simplicty to complexity
    24-36 the impact of grammar on thinking
    37-42 beyond representing/universals
    43-49 animals
    50-54 writing that is "messy" v "clean"
    54-70 violence
    71-72 and contingency
    72-76 Theory as therapy in this political climate
    1 hr 17 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…