Thinking With... A Rhetorical Theory Podcast

0:00-13:00 teaching deconstructive moves in the classroom meta-reflection Nathaniel’s exploratory essay assignment 13:00-27:00 AF / AM critical discourse Teaching Ta Nehisi Coates an argument in favor of difficult writing 27:00-46:00 Heidegger’s mysticism / nostalgia the ambiguity of H’s notion of authenticity 46:00-end H’s etymological linking of “thinking” and “thanking” human being’s indebtedne...

0:00-16:00 Heidegger’s central question diagnosing representational thinking propriety / purity in Heidegger the fascism built into the text 16:00-38:00 Heidegger’s disdain for commonness and traditional thinking differences between Heidegger and Hegel social constructionism difficulties with language and representation 38:00-end the functions/effects of education fear of death provisional thinkin...

The Heidegger Files: What is Called Thinking? By Martin Heidegger Lecture X With: Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, & Nathaniel Street Time Complicates Being, Eternal Return of the Same, Deliverance from Revenge, Let Will be Will (Start-11:55) Why does the “same” return?; what’s up with the “eternal”?; this is why no one writes about time anymore; linear time, blurred (12:00-21:50) Dasein and the p...

0:00-13:00 teaching on zoom unpacking theory for students lectures 9 and 10 what makes Heidegger and this text so compelling how Heidegger rehabilitates Nietzsche 13:00-24:00 the “treasure of metaphysics” for Heidegger how Heidegger and Derrida relate to metaphysics the relative inescapability of metaphysical thinking 24:00-43:00 the eternal return overcoming the will’s desire for revenge represen...

0:00-4:00 Nate trying to learn the game, “Go” John’s golf game 4:00-20:00 instinct or “feel” vs analysis / cognition Heidegger’s commitment to authenticity (and to pluralism / becoming) Heidegger’s strange etymological interpretation of “blinking” 20:00-33:00 the importance of Nietzsche for Heidegger’s thinking (and post-structuralist thinking) Heidegger’s attempt to surpass Nietzsche Heidegger’s...

0:00-4:00 The therapeutics of reading philosophy 4:00-9:00 Heidegger’s pace and style preliminary reflections on H’s notion of authenticity essences of being and thinking 9:00-23:00 critique of representational or technological language abbreviations, acronyms, etc. styles and tones of thinking (Heidegger and Nietzsche) 23:00-39:00 overman being “in the zone” how might one channel the overman? som...

The Heidegger Files Focus: What is Called Thinking? By Martin Heidegger Lectures I, II, III With: Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, & Nathaniel Street Opening Gambit: Thinking is not simply a mental event but always emerges in-relation; the irksome problem of essences; antagonistic progressivism (Start–11:00) Heidegger’s Pedagogy, teaching, learning, thinking; example of the wordworker, authenticit...

In the season finale of Deleuzecast, we talk through the appendix of Deleuze’s Logic of Sense: "The Simulacrum and Ancient Philosophy." 0:00-14:00 difference and identity atomism clinamen 14:00-23:00 color and perception color as object or as relation species differences limits of perspectivism 23:00-30:00 eternal return of the same Deleuzian repetition 30:00-45:00 evolution error and mutation / t...

Focus The Logic of Sense “Twenty-Sixth  Series of Language,” “Thirty-Third Series of Alice’s Adventures” and “Thirty-Fourth Series of Primary Order and Secondary Organization” With: “Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, & Nathaniel Street Nathaniel’s excellent sense of “the cool” (Start-1:35) Reflection on Logic of Sense as a whole; Re-Intuiting Representation; John’s Resistances to Psychoanalysis; De...

Focus The Logic of Sense “Twenty-Fourth Series of the Communication of Events” With: Caddie Alford, Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, & Nathaniel Street John Discovers Conditioner (Start–2:20) Deleuze Contra Hegel; Productivity of Distance  (2:25–18:10) Idioms and Defense Mechanisms; Social Media, Narcissism, and Community Production (18:15–23:40) In/Compossibility, Leibniz, and Disjunction/Conjunc...

Focus: Logic of Sense “22nd Series – Porcelain and Volcano” and “23rd Series of the Aion” With: Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, and Nathaniel Street Hard Times with Time (Start – 5:45) Derrida and the Deconstructed Present; Vulgar Time (6:00-11:48) Kant, Time/Space, Faculties; Heidegger and the relationship of change to bodies (12:00-25:40) Deleuze’s book on Kant; Sublime: Limits of Representatio...

Focus: Logic of Sense "Twentieth Series on the Moral Problem in Stoic Philosophy" and "Twenty-First Series of the Event" With: Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, and Nathaniel Street hair / beard care pedagogical approaches to intro classes / infusing theory in the classroom interpretive lenses Deleuze’s ethics “not to be unworthy of what happens to us” “getting in the zone” affirmation of becoming

Focus: The Logic of Sense – "Seventeenth Series of the Static Logical Genesis," Eighteenth Series of the Three Images of Philosophers," and "Nineteenth Series of Humor" With: Caddie Alford, Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, and Nathaniel Street Teaching the Enthymeme (Start-4:30) Taste, Enthymemes, and Disrupting Subjectivity (4:30-5:30) Enthymeme and the Syllogism (5:30-7:50) Socratic Irony, Mania...

Focus: Not Deleuze With: Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, and Nathaniel Street Superfans; Calcifying/Undoing Mimetic Rhythms; Nietzche’s Mustache Oil; Impossibility of Non-Individuation (Start-16:45) Podcast Pedagogy; Instructional Tidiness; Heuristics of Learning; Narcissism and the Undoing of the Ego, Borges and Epochs of Reading One’s Own Writing (17:00-33:00) Course Design, Lecture/Seminar; Pa...

Focus: Logic of Sense "Sixteenth Series of the Static Ontological Genesis"  With: Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, and Nathaniel Street - on being lost when reading Deleuze - an attempt at an intro to Leibniz - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - immanence / transcendence  - 3 images of philosophy: heights / depths / surfaces - Nathaniel's version of Plato's Phaedrus - analogies of philosophies...

For this special episode, Nate, Nathaniel, and John are joined by Caroline Wigmore, and the group riffs in response to Bo Burnham's recent Netflix comedy special Inside. We discuss different styles of contemporary comedy, the role of self-awareness in critique, the dynamics of cancel culture, branding, and many more concepts that Burnham's provocative special engages. 

Focus: Logic of Sense "Fourteenth Series of Double Causality" and "Fifteenth Series of Singularities" With: Caddie Alford, John Muckelbauer, and Nathaniel Street

Focus: The Logic of Sense "Twelfth Series of the Paradox" and "Thirteenth Series of the Schizophrenic and the Little Girl" With: Caddie Alford, John Muckelbauer, and Nathaniel Street 0:00-16:00 the metaphorics of the schizophrenic Alice in Wonderland Deleuze’s style of reading / diagnostics 16:00-28:00 the “meta” move the tendency to romanticize becoming (vs being) in philosophy or theory the simu...

Focus: The Logic of Sense "Tenth Series of the Ideal Game" and "Eleventh Series of Nonsense" With: Caddie Alford, John Muckelbauer, and Nathaniel Street 0:00-15:00 Deleuze’s concept of time kairos and chronos the challenge of not thinking linearly time vs relationality 15:00-32:00 Kant’s concept of time chance good or common sense attending to sense in its complexity 32:00-50:00 paradox and doxa t...

Focus: The Logic of Sense "Seventh Series of Esoteric Words," "Eighth Series of Structure," and "Ninth Series of the Problematic" With: Caddie Alford, Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, Brooke Rollins, and Nathaniel Street What are the stakes of Deleuze’s project? (Start)      Structure/Event and Series      Langue & Parole      Logic of Serial Invention Methodology (10:15)     Literary Methods     ...

Focus: The Logic of Sense  "Fourth Series of Duality," "Fifth Series of Sense," and "Sixth Series on Serialization" With: Caddie Alford, Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, and Nathaniel Street 0:00-15:00 - the word "sense" - Deleuze on Carroll (vs. Derrida on Austin) - selective reading  15:00-25:00 - denotation (against formal logic) - subjectivity and non-subjective desire 25:00-44:00 - summarizin...

Focus: Logic of Sense "First Series of Paradoxes of Pure Becoming" and "Second Series of Paradoxes of Surface Events" With: Caddie Alford, Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, and Nathaniel Street 0:00-8:00 - why we each want to read Deleuze  8:00-13:00 - Deleuze vs Hegel's writing style 13:00-16:00 - Deleuze's Body  16:00-24:00 - our reading speeds - Caddie's current book project - start book with bi...

In this brief episode, Nathaniel and Nate preview the forthcoming second season of the podcast, in which we dive into Gilles Deleuze's The Logic of Sense. We also discuss the neuroses of the writing process and finish with some NBA talk. When season 2 releases in a week, Nathaniel, Nate, and John will be joined by Dr. Caddie Alford, an assistant professor at VCU. 

EP 12 - The Essence of Genius 

0-6 philosophy as "bad writing" 7-13 the case of Judith Butler 14-19 thinking and emotions (scapegoating) 19-24 developmental writing/from simplicty to complexity 24-36 the impact of grammar on thinking 37-42 beyond representing/universals 43-49 animals 50-54 writing that is "messy" v "clean" 54-70 violence 71-72 and contingency 72-76 Theory as therapy in this political climate