David Guignion

Theory & Philosophy

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This channel is dedicated to the distribution of ideas so that they be made accessible to anyone. Some key theoretical domains that this channel explores, but that is not limited to, include Feminism, Gender and Queer theory, Post-Structuralism, Structuralism, Psychoanalysis, Marxism, Rhetoric, Epistemology, Ontology, and Phenomenology.

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David Guignion

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Gilles Deleuze’s “Cinema 2: The Time-Image” (Part 3/3) 01.08.2020 1:06:46

In this 3 part series, I'm joined by Christina Elle Burke, PhD candidate in Theory & Criticism, once again to demystify this extremely complicated text. Follow Christina on Twitter: @thotandcinema and Instagram: @celloburke and medium: https://medium.com/@christinaelleburke and here's a link to her thesis: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/4741/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Ins...

Gilles Deleuze's "Cinema 2: The Time-Image" (Part 2/3) 25.07.2020 50:09

Hi everyone! If any of you listened to my episodes on Deleuze's "Cinema" books, you'd know that I would have had no hope of ever presenting them without the help of my friend, Christina. In the coming weeks she will be getting Facial Feminization Surgery at the Visage clinic in Toronto, Ontario. As some of you may know, the cost for FFS is inordinate and so she has set up a gofudme to try and miti...

Gilles Deleuze's "Cinema 2: The Time-Image" (Part 1/3) 18.07.2020 49:52

Simulacrum | Keyword | Jean Baudrillard 15.07.2020 31:01

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Paypal: paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy Sorry about the cut-off at the beginning. Just mentioned where you can find me at instagram and how to support me on patreon. In this first keyword episode, I try and explain Jean Baudrillard's theory of the simulacrum.

Sara Ahmed's "The Cultural Politics of Emotion" (Part 2/2) 11.07.2020 57:09

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Paypal: paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy Donate here if you can: https://blacklivesmatter.com/ In this episode, I conclude my presentation of Sara Ahmed's "The Cultural Politics of Emotion" focusing specifically on her attendance to the work to be done by feminism. Timestamps: Ch. 3: The Affective Politics of Fear (Beginning...

Sara Ahmed's "The Cultural Politics of Emotion" (Part 1/2) 04.07.2020 48:42

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Paypal: paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy Donate here if you can: https://blacklivesmatter.com/ In this episode, I present Sara Ahmed's "The Cultural Politics of Emotion," a very important text that explores the role of 'othering' in constituting national subjects. Timestamps: Introduction: Feel Your Way (Beginning) Ch.1: The...

Introduction to Theory & Philosophy 27.06.2020 1:04

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Paypal: paypal.me/theoryphilosophy ID: @theory_and_philosophy Here I just let everyone know what this podcast is all about!

Walter Benjamin's "Critique of Violence" 27.06.2020 31:29

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy Intro song: Danosongs-Sky Seeds - Trance Mix Consider donating here if...

Herbert Marcuse's "Repressive Tolerance" 20.06.2020 20:41

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy Intro song: Danosongs-Sky Seeds - Trance Mix ...

Mao Zedong's "Dialectical Materialism" 13.06.2020 14:17

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Podbean: https://theoretician.podbean.com/ paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy Intro song:...

Byung-Chul Han's "Topology of Violence" 06.06.2020 1:00:15

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Paypal: paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I present Byung-Chul Han's "The Topology of Violence" where he argues that our present "achievement-society" is burdened by excess positivity that contributes to our present collective and individual existential crises.

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles' "The Communist Manifesto" 30.05.2020 49:20

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Paypal: paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I present the seminal "Communist Manifesto." Here Marx and Engels establish both the necessity of the worker's revolution and how we can avoid being led astray by reactionary and conservative perspectives.

Mark Fisher's "Capitalist Realism" 23.05.2020 59:43

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Paypal: paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I present Mark Fisher's "Capitalist Realism." Here, Fisher argues that we are immersed in a totalizing logic of capitalist explo...

René Descartes' "Meditations on First Philosophy" 16.05.2020 44:35

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy Paypal: paypal.me/theoryphilosophy In this episode, I turn my attention to Descartes' "Meditations on First Philosophy" where he lays out his process of 'doubting' the world to arrive at the only thing left to exi...

Kelly Oliver's "Witnessing: Beyond Recognition" (Part 2/2) 09.05.2020 32:02

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy In this episode, I continue my presentation of Kelly Oliver's "Witnessing: Beyond R...

Kelly Oliver's "Witnessing: Beyond Recognition" (Part 1/2) 02.05.2020 56:35

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy In this episode, I begin my presentation of Kelly Oliver's "Witnessing: Beyond Recognition." In this book she tries to conceptualize an anti-oppressive political strategy that is not...

Theodor Adorno's "The Culture Industry" (Part 2/2) 25.04.2020 50:40

Podbean: https://theoretician.podbean.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy Paypal: paypal.me/theoryphilosophy ...

Theodor Adorno's "The Culture Industry" (Part 1/2) 18.04.2020 46:30

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Podbean: https://theoretician.podbean.com/ Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy Paypal: paypal.me/theoryphilosophy In this episode, I present the firs...

Roland Barthes' "The Death of the Author" 11.04.2020 15:36

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I present Roland Barthes' seminal essay, "The Death of the Author." Here he argues that the possibility for interpretation of the text must follow the erasure of the "Author-God" as the bearer of the truth of the text. I try to untangle what I believe to be some misconceptions about Barthes' ar...

Michel Foucault's "The Birth of the Clinic" (Part 2/2) 04.04.2020 57:15

Podbean: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Instagram: theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I conclude my presentation of The Birth of the Clinic where Foucault discusses the full emergence of the clinical gaze with the introduction of death as a positive event and the anatamo-clinical operations of the autopsy. Timestamps: Ch. 6: Signs and Cases (Beginning) Ch. 7: Seeing and Knowing...

Michel Foucault's "The Birth of the Clinic" (Part 1/2) 28.03.2020 54:26

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I begin my presentation of Foucault's The Birth of the Clinic. This episode covers the first half of the book, outlining the broad socio-political motivations behind the emergence of the clinic. Timestamps: ...

Judith Butler's "Undoing Gender" (Part 2/2) 21.03.2020 59:25

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphil... Podbean: https://theoretician.podbean.com/ Insta: @theory_and_philosophy Timestamps: Ch. 5: Is Kinship Always Already Heterosexual (Beginning) Ch. 6: Longing for Recognition ( 9:00 ) Ch. 7: Quandries of the Incest Taboo ( 2...

Judith Butler's "Undoing Gender" (Part 1/2) 14.03.2020 51:00

CW: Suicide, Transphobia, Homophobia. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I turn my attention to Judith Butler's "Undoing Gender." This is a collection of essays, so it is difficult to summarize the book. However, we can comfortably say that it explores what it means f...

Gilles Deleuze's "Cinema 1: The Movement Image" (Part 3/3) 07.03.2020 51:20

Follow Christina on Twitter and Instagram: @celloburke Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I'm joined by Christina, PhD candidate at the Center for the Study of Theory and Criticism at the University of Western Ontario, to systema...

Gilles Deleuze's "Cinema 1: The Movement Image" (Part 2/3) 29.02.2020 1:01:20