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Join us as we read a nice piece from Todd McGowan. Enjoy!Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash

This week, we're discussing the 5th chapter from Deleuze and Guattari's What is Philosophy? Enjoy!Photo by Adil Janbyrbayev on Unsplash

Join us this week as we take a break from Deleuze and Guattari. Enjoy!

Join us this week as we read Tyson Yunkaporta's views on Van Gogh. Enjoy!https://research.monash.edu/en/publications/outside-of-the-land-looking-in-van-goghs-seasons-through-indigeno/Photo by RhondaK Native Florida Folk Artist on Unsplash

We're talking Geophilosophy! EnjoyPhoto by Gert Boers on Unsplash

We're continuing our read of Deleuze and Guattari's last book, What Is Philosophy? Enjoy!

We're continuing on with Deleuze and Guattari's last book, What is Philosophy? This week we're reading Chapter 2: The Plane of Immanence

Welcome! Join us as we learn from Deleuze and Guattari what a concept is. Enjoy!Photo by Milad Fakurian on Unsplash

Welcome everybody! We're delving into Deleuze and Guattari's last collaboration together. Enjoy!Photo by Shawn Day on Unsplash

Join us this week as we read Giorgio Agamben's little essay titled What Is Fear? Enjoy!Photo by Tonik on Unsplash

Join us this week as we read Mary Wild's new book Psychoanalyzing Horror Cinema. Enjoy!Photo by malmanew on Unsplash

Join us this week as we read Deleuze's most famous essay (we'd say), Postscript On the Societies Of Control. Enjoy!Photo by Vikram Singh on Unsplash

We got a good one! This week, we're reading Foucault's essay Of Other Spaces. Enjoy!Photo by Danist Soh on Unsplash

Join us this week as read Étienne Balibar's lecture Human Species As Biopolitical Concept. Enjoy!

Join us this week as we finish reading Simon Critchley's new book Mysticism. Enjoy!Photo by Kenny Eliason on Unsplash

Join us this week as we read the first part of Simon Critchley's new book On Mysticism. Enjoy!Photo by blocks on Unsplash

Join us this week as we read an excerpt from Becca Rothfeld's new book, All Things Are Too Small: Essays In Praise Of Excess. Enjoy!Photo by Sven Huls on Unsplash

Join us this week as we read Steven L Peck's essay My Madness, about his episode of acute psychosis. Enjoy!

Join us this week as we read Alenka Zupančič's new essay, Welcome To The Riviera Of The Real

Join us this week as we delve into Roxane Gay's essay The Trouble With Prince Charming. Enjoy!Photo by Lians Jadan on Unsplash

Join us this week as we finish up Yanis Varoufakis' Technofeudalism. Enjoy!Photo by Traxer on Unsplash

Join us as we read the first half of Yanis Varoufakis' Technofeudalism. Enjoy!Photo by srinivas bandari on Unsplash

Welcome everybody! This week we're finishing up Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality Volume 1. Enjoy!Photo by Edoardo Cuoghi on Unsplash

Join us this week as we read the first half of Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality Vol.1Photo by charlesdeluvio on Unsplash

This week we're reading a great new book from Alenka Zupančič, Disavowal. All of her books are great. Enjoy! Photo by Jon Butterworth on Unsplash

Join us as we delve into Adorno's essay "Theses Against Occultism". We're talking about crystals! We're talking about the death of God! Exciting stuff. Photo by PAN XIAOZHEN on Unsplash

Welcome to our season three opener! This week we're reading Felix Guattari's work The Three Ecologies. Enjoy!Photo by Victor on Unsplash

Join us this week for our season finale! We're discussing the philosophy of Led Zeppelin. Specifically, we're focusing on Zepellin IV, Presence, and Physical Graffiti. Enjoy!

This week, we're finishing up Aleister Crowley's Little Essays Towards Truth. Enjoy!

This week we're reading the first half of Little Essays Towards Truth. We're talking Thelema and the influence of The Tree of Life. Enjoy!

This week, we're finishing Alain Badious' book Inaesthetics. We go through his viewpoints on dance, theatre, cinema, and, of course, poetry. Noteably missing is a chapter devoted to music...enjoy!

Join us this week as we delve into Alain Badiou's Handbook of Inaesthetics. We'll discuss three primary ways philosophy has thought of art: didactic, romantic, and classical. Enjoy!

Join us as we discuss all manner of cute culture this world over. Instead of Nietzsche, we're introduced to Freddo. Instead of Heidegger, we get kawaidegger. Enjoy!

Welcome! This week we finished reading Nietzsche's Anti Education lectures. Enjoy!

Wow what a ride! This week we're reading some early lectures from the young (28 year old) Nietzsche. He diagnoses many issues in the 19th-century German education system. We also debate the coherence of these early stabs at critique. Enjoy!

This week we're reading Freud's wild essay on mourning and melancholia. Freud's theory is that mourning results from a loss in the world, whereas melancholia results from a loss in the ego. We discuss what that means, as well as some of Freud's more dicey claims. Enjoy!Photo by Dana Bailey on Unsplash

This week we're delving into the current political situation in the U.S. We're discussing concepts such as repressive desublimation and class consciousness. Enjoy!Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash

This week we each chose five of our favorite aphorisms from Romanian philosopher Eil Cioran. Most are only one sentence in length. Enjoy! Photo by Ross Sneddon on Unsplash

This week we read Walter Benjamin's essay on collecting. We differentiate between collecting proper, and the strange results of commodity fetishism. Enjoy!Photo by Will van Wingerden on Unsplash

This week, we're discussing how many subjects it takes to enjoy a work of art. You have the spectator, sure, but you also have the author and the "main character." We'd also add that there's a more mysterious figure called "the muses" who experience the whole of the work, knowing that you, being tired and existing from a single vantage point, are incapable of seeing the whole. Enjoy!

Join us this week as we tackle Louis Althusser's seminal essay "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses". We discuss the difference between ISAs (Ideological State Apparatuses) and RSAs (Repressive State Apparatuses), interpellation, and Althusser's relevance today.

This week, we're finishing up Merleau-Ponty's famous section on The Body. We discuss sexuality, identity, and psychoanalysis, all through the lens of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology

This week, we're discussing the first half of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's famous section on the Body from his Phenomenology of Perception. This is a wide-ranging text that outlines how the body fits into the phenomenology of the world. Enjoy!

Join us this week as we take a hard right turn on our subject matter with a chapter from Walter Terence Stace's Mysticism and Philosophy. Our main goal throughout the episode is to interrogate the term mysticism to come to an agreement on the concept's delineations. Enjoy!

This week we're delving into two short works by George Bataille— "Rotten Sun" and "The Sacred Conspiracy". We also discuss Max Weber's concept of Disenchantment and possible avenues to reenchant the world.

It's a timely episode! We're talking about this week's election results through Guattari's eyes. Enjoy!

We're talking time! You know, past, present, future...etc...Overall, we admit that discussing the phenomenology of time is complicated, thorny, and even (at times) ungraspable. That said, we hope listeners will come away with a solid understanding of Sartre's key ideas. Enjoy!

We love reading Guattari! This week, we examine two short essays: Becoming Woman and I Have Even Met Happy Drag Queens. We talk about Guattari's seminal concept of Becoming a Woman and trans liberation. Enjoy!

What is resistance? Well, it has something to do with the ego....whatever stops analysis! Yeah, that's it! Okay, then what's censorship? It's a blockage on the thingy! But the other thing? Yes? Don't worry! Hopefully, by the end of this episode, you will have a firm grasp on Lacan's eminently playful (and tragic) distinction.

This week we continue our reading of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception. We're talking about optical illusions and the place of phenomenological discourse. Enjoy!