Theory & Philosophy

In this episode, I present Gloria Anzaldúa's "Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza," a seminal text not only for Chicana and Latina feminism, but for all of us. If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy

In this episode, I provide an introduction to Friedrich Nietzsche's term, Ressentiment. If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy

In this episode, I present Adrienne Rich's "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" where she outlines the necessity to move beyond the assumed naturality of heterosexual couplings that limit women's possibilities at home, at work, and with their own bodies. If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryp...

In this episode, I outline what Karl Marx means with the term, "Commodity Fetishism." (*Note* At around 15:30 I meant to say Smith and Ricardo, not Marx and Ricardo). If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy

In this episode, I conclude my presentation of A Thousand Plateaus covering ch. 12, "1227: Treatise on Nomadology:--The War Machine" (0:00), and ch. 14, "The Smooth and the Striated" (39:14).  Chapters 11 and 13 I did separately, and the conclusion is more of a summary and so I don't expand upon it here.  Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_...

Hey all! Got lots of questions about my favorite books/recommendations so here they are! (*Note*: Fleur Jaeggy is Swiss, not Italian; she just wrote in Italian.) If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy Podbean: https://theoretician.podbean.com/

In this episode, I continue A Thousand Plateaus, looking at ch. 8, "1874: Three Novellas or, 'What Happened" (0:00), ch. 9, "1933" Micropolitics and Segmentarity" (18:00), and ch. 10, "1730: Becoming-Intense, Becoming-Animal,-Becoming-Imperceptible..." (36:15).  If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilos...

In this episode, I present some of the disagreements between the work of Baudrillard and Deleuze/Guattari. If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy

In this episode, I continue presenting A Thousand Plateaus, covering chapter 4: "Nov. 20, 1923: Postulates of Linguistics" (0:00), chapter 5: "587 B.C.-70 A.D.: On Several Regimes of Signs" (25:15), chapter 6: "Nov. 28, 1947: How do you Make Yourself a Body Without Organs?" (43:25), and chapter 7: "Year One: Faciality" (53:18).  If you want to support me:  Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/theorya...

In this episode, I present what the "dialectic" is. I present its variations across the history of philosophy from Plato to Marx to supply you with the most holistic presentation that I am capable of presenting at this moment. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy Paypal: paypal.me/theoryphilosophy

In this episode, I begin my presentation of Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus by covering chapter 1, "Introduction: Rhizome" (0:00), chapter 2, "1914: One or Severeal Wolves?" (15:25) and chapter 3, "10,000 B.C.: The Geology of Morals (Who Does the Earth Think it is?)" (24:12). If you want to support me:  Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphi...

In this episode, I present an introduction to the differences (and similarities) between Baudrillard and Foucault. I really want to stress that I only gloss over the issue here and may do a follow up in the future. If you want to support me: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy

In this episode, I present Donna Haraway's "A Cyborg Manifesto" where she argues for a cyborg united politics to combat the structuring tendencies of capitalism and patriarchy.  If you want to support me, you can find links for that below: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy

In this episode, I try to explain Judith Butler's idea of performativity.   If you want to support me, you can find links for that below:   Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy   paypal.me/theoryphilosophy   IG: @theory_and_philosophy

In this episode, I present the second part of "Critique of Judgment," specifically titled, "Critique of Teleological Judgment." It is here that Kant tries to look beyond the world as governed solely by the law of cause and effect to consider the possibility of ends, and the likelihood of a divine author that they necessarily imply.  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Paypal: payp...

In this episode, I try to explain Baudrillard's theories about war, paying specific attention to his writings on the Vietnam, Gulf, and Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy  Paypal: paypal.me/theoryphilosophy Insta: @theory_and_philosophy

In this episode, I present the first half of "Critique of Judgment" that covers the "Critique of Aesthetic Judgment." Here Kant expounds upon the aesthetic judgments of the beautiful and the sublime, suggesting that our capacity for aesthetic judgment marks a points of contact between the phenomenal and noumenal worlds. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Paypal: paypal.me/theoryp...

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Paypal: paypal.me/theoryphilosophy Insta: @theory_and_philosophy   In this episode, I present Immanuel Kant's 2nd critique, the Critique of Practical Reason, paying attention to his understanding of freedom and its association with the moral law.

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy  paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I'm joined by Dr. Isaac Ariail Reed, Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, to discuss his most recent book, Power in Modernity: Agency Relations and the Creative Destruction of the King’s Two Bodies. Here are some links to Dr. Reed's work: Power in Modernity:...

In this episode, I'm joined by Deeplina, doctoral student in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at the University of Western Ontario to discuss the work of Saadat Hasan Manto and its connection with the India/Pakistan Partition. You can find Deeplina and her work here: http://thedialoguemedia.com/analysis/remembering-the-faceless-heroines-of-bangladesh-liberation-war/?fbclid=IwAR3fVkps72GL8l6M...

In this episode, I present Michel Foucault's theory of the Panopticon. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Paypal: paypal.me/theoryphilosophy Insta: @theory_and_philosophy    In this episode, I present "Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals," a necessary read to comprehend the movement that Kant makes from the Critique of Pure Reason to the Critique of Practical Reason. 

In this episode, I present Immanuel Kant's idea of Transcendental Idealism. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy  paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy

Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy Consider donating here if you can:  https://blacklivesmatter.com/ In this episode, I turn my attention to Gayatri Spivak's "Can the Subaltern Speak," a seminal text in the field of post-colonial studies. Spivak argues that between patriarchal and imperial forces, subaltern people--women, spe...

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy   Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy   In this keyword episode, I present Deleuze and Guattari's "Body Without Organs," a term as slippery as the thing it describes.   Here are the links for all my Deleuze and Guattari videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWp2B7872lffAbUVVSc12SEr3e2X9gwXw   https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWp2B78...