Theory & Philosophy

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 s...

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I conclude my presentation of "Phenomenology of Spirit" by focusing on the last two chapters: "Religion" (0:00) comprised of the sub-chapters "Natural Religion" (11:25), "Religion in the Form of Art" (20:33), and "Revealed Religion" (39:10); and the chapter "Absolute Knowing" (47:47).

Become a Patron (and make me happy): https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy   Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy                                                                               In this episode, I present the chapter titled "Spirit." It is here that Hegel turns his gaze to society, paying specific attention to the dynamic interaction between individuals vying for their own livelih...

Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, we continue our dissection of Phenomenology of Spirit. This episode first looks at the chapter "Self-Consciousness" (2:18) including its sub-chapters, "Independence and Dependence of Self-Consciousness: Lordship and Bondage" (6:55) (This is where he talks about the 'master/slave' dialectic) and...

Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In the first episode of this four part series, I turn my attention to G.W.F. Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit," a text as necessary to read as it is difficult to read. This episode specifically tackles the chapters: "Preface" (beginning); "Introduction" (34:50); and "Consciousness" comprised of the sub-chapters "Sense-Certainty" (38:45), "Perce...

Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I turn my attention to Derrida's groundbreaking essay, "Structure, Sign, and Play." It is here that he lays the foundation of what would become deconstruction, the destabilization of the assumed univocality of either term in a binary. He does this by undoing the oft-assumed belief that structur...

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Instagram: theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I turn to Walter Benjamin's seminal text, "The Work of Art in the Age of Its Mechanical Reproducibility." Contrary to what some might think, I try to present the way that Benjamin applauds the 'death' of the aura in the age of mechanical reproducibility and the political ramifications of this mom...

Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Follow me on instagram: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I turn my attention to an important text in the field of communication and media studies. Here Peters tries to imagine communication as a meeting of souls by presenting a number of thinkers from Socrates to Jesus to Saint Augustine to Locke to Heidegger. Timestamps: Ch. 1: Beginnin...

Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Follow me on instagram: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I present Audre Lorde's "The Master's Tools will never Dismantle the Master's House," a seminal text in the fields of critical face, gender, and feminist studies. Not to mention, ya know, every other field. 

Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Follow me on instagram: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I present the second half of "Discipline & Punish" to expoun upon his key concepts of docile bodies, the panopticon, and the carceral system. Timestamps: Docile Bodies (Beginning) The Means of Correct Training: 27:50 Panopticism: 39:31 Complete and Austere Institutions: 52:40 Illeg...

Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Follow me on instagram: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I present the first half of Foucault's seminal Discipline & Punish. In this half he sketches a firm distinction between a model of juridical punishment that mobilizes torture as a deterrent to criminality and a model predicated on surveillance as a deterrent to criminality. 

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode I take on Land's first essay from "Fanged Noumena," "Kant, Capital, and the Prohibition of Incest" that presents his characterization of the present stake that racism has in the maintenance of global capitalistic exploitation.

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I present Sunera Thobani's book, "Exalted Subjects: The Making of Race and Nation in Canada." It delineates the passage from colonization to domination and how certain subjects--white European descendants--are bestowed with a status of exaltation.

Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this long episode, Ben and I conclude our dissection of "L' étourdit," paying specific attention to Lacan's use of topology in his illustration of subjectivity constituted by "cuts." We also explore the implications of Lacan's thought as a political tool and how it differs from the work of other theorists--Derrida, Deleuze--who were writing...

Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, Ben and I continue our exploration of "L'étourdit." It is in this episode that we really hone onto the text, with Ben presenting the core themes from the first turn (the first half) of the essay. 

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy                                                   Podbean: https://theoretician.podbean.com/ In this episode, I'm joined by Ben, PhD candidate in Theory & Criticism, to discuss one of Jacques Lacan's most enigmatic texts, "L' étourdit." This first episode contextualizes Lacan's thought and establishes a necessary base from which to explore "L' é...

Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I conclude my presentation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Here we conclude the "Transcendental Dialectic," and point to the interesting uses of a new metaphysics toward the consolidation of a general happiness and perpetual peace. 

Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I turn my attention to a seminal text in the fields of new materialism and media studies. Here Parikka argues that Media Archaeology serves the function of revealing forgotten and yet-to-be-realized media that disturb the assumed teleological progression of our gadgets.

Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy   In this episode, I continue my presentation of Critique of Pure Reason, specifically presenting the first two chapter of the "Transcendental Dialectic." Here he takes aim at the cosmological ideas and how traditional dialectics only direct us toward a mirage, not truth. Kant proposes transcendental idealism as a solution to the problem presen...

Patron: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I continue my exploration of "Critique of Pure Reason," specifically presenting the 2nd and 3rd chapters of the "Transcendental Doctrine of the Power Judgment" and the appendix to it.

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I continue my exploration of "Critique of Pure Reason" to propel on my discussion of the Transcendental Logic so as to include how the Power of Judgment operates alongside the transcendental logic.

Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy   In this episode, I begin my presentation of Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason." Here, I take on the introduction, his section on "Transcendental Aesthetics," and his section on "Transcendental Logic"

In this episode, I present Mohanty's "Feminism Without Borders." In it she makes the case for an intersectional feminism that neither homogenizes nor erases the real lived, material experiences of thirld world women and women of color.

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I present Marcuse's radical idea of a new sensibility, a utopian ideal to combat late Capitalism.

Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I present Nietzsche's ideas from his brilliant essay "On Truth and Lying." Here he argues that as long as we are immersed in language, we will be unable to get to the core of truth.