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The Pill Pod is hosted by a group of PhDs offering their irreverent (and unsolicited) takes on critical theory, philosophy, culture, and politics.
PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast
PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast
Pill Pod 175 - The Straussian Plot Against America
13 LUG 2024 · Conspiracy theory or actual conspiracy? Today we investigate how a small cabal of philosophers managed to take over America and caused the invasion of Iraq based on the writings of eminent political philosopher Leo Strauss.
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Trump v. United States (preview)
9 LUG 2024 · We hear this is a big deal and the end of American democracy (or whatever), but we don't all know why. Lucky for us, Victor happens to read Supreme Court decisions on his spare time for fun. Has the sky fallen?
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Pill Pod 173 - Biden v. Trump & The Economy of Fear
30 GIU 2024 · We recap the Trump-Biden debate and then discuss the politics and economy of fear. Sources include Armageddon, Strauss, Hegel, and Durkheim.
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Dark Academia (preview)
30 GIU 2024 · Some simulationist material analysis in the economy of signs from Pill Pod episode #172.
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The "Look" of Dark Academia: https://www.pinterest.com/kathrynaesthetics/dark-academia-aesthetic/
Pill Pod 171 - Zizek Goes Monarchist
13 GIU 2024 · We discuss Zizek's Hegelian defense of a monarchy to solve the problem of democracy.
https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/in-defense-of-hegels-notion-of-monarchy/
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Pill Pod 96 - The Malaise of Modernity (Taylor's Version) *UNLOCKED*
10 GIU 2024 · Get the book (it's easy and small:https://amzn.to/3KxgjB3) or listen to the lectures by Charles Taylor starting here: https://youtu.be/j_losVdiARc?si=DCHifoFktqHQDJuw.
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Pill Pod 170 - The Ethical Dilemma of Killing Nazi Children (Preview)
5 GIU 2024 · We continue reading Simone DeBeauvoir's Ethics of Ambiguity, and try to sus out its particular ethical dilemmas.
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PP169 - Is Existentialism Ethical?
5 GIU 2024 · We read Simone DeBeauvoir's defense of Existentialism as an ethic that is not hyper-individualistic, nihilistic or absurdist.
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Here's the homework: https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/de-beauvoir/ambiguity/https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/de-beauvoir/ambiguity/
PP168 - Ecomarxism (preview)
5 GIU 2024 · This is a preview of one of many exclusive episodes available at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills
Here is your homework in the meanwhile: https://monthlyreview.org/2024/01/01/the-dialectics-of-ecology-an-introduction/
Pill Pod 167 - Schopenhauer: Christianity is the Worst Religion
11 MAG 2024 · We look at Schopenhauer's comparison of various religions' metaphysical explanations for suffering, and why conservative celebrities are converting to the dumbest one.
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Schopenhauer on the Sufferings of the World: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10732/10732-h/10732-h.htm#link2H_4_0002
Ayaan Hirsi Ali converts: https://unherd.com/2023/11/why-i-am-now-a-christian/
Russell Brand gets baptized: https://www.christianpost.com/voices/russell-brand-just-got-baptized-but-what-does-it-mean.html
The Pill Pod is hosted by a group of PhDs offering their irreverent (and unsolicited) takes on critical theory, philosophy, culture, and politics.
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