Thinking With... A Rhetorical Theory Podcast

0:00-11:00 the Understanding vs Self-Consciousness the shape of knowledge in Hegel progress and teleology 11:00-20:00 the logic of the proposition essentiality vs performativity the “real” as mobile rather than static 20:00-29:00 failure and lack vs multiplicity fear of error; dread 22:05 - a transformer explodes on John’s street the taming function of the Understanding 29:00 - end Hegel’s ethics...

Hegel’s Authoritative Tone (start) Post-Human Idealism (6:00) Inversion of Plato’s Idealism (10:15) ¶56 and the Shame of Learning (20:53) Demand of Metareflection (25:43) Imperiousness of the Text (34:48) Textual Auto-Deconstruction (40:44) Hegel’s Argument about Arguments (47:00) Difficulty of Philosophical Writing (54:13)

0:00-8:16 john’s turning point on reading Hegel Hegel as a thinker of movement dialectical monism 8:16-18:40 paragraph 46 of the preface Bridging Deleuze and Hegel... both thinkers of movement, both critics of representational thinking the problem with mathematical thinking 18:40-30:30 math and philosophy the complex function of the Understanding 30:30-49:00 “team” affirmation and “team” negation...

Why do humans matter? (start) No, seriously, why do humans matter? (8:30) Theological and Anthropological Hegels (16:11) Differentiation on a Flat Ontological Plan (29:24) Monisms and Dualisms (37:15) Living Life on the Flat Plane (43:03) “New forms of fucking life man; that’s what we’re talking about”! (50:10) The Necessity of Lingering (58:08)

Jimmy Butler Works Out Too Hard (Start) Blurring the Production/Consumption Divide (1:10) On Enemies and Indistinction (11:45) On (Meta)Reflection and Decision (22:50) On the Supposed Superiority of the Inside (33:35) Post/Humanism (41:10) The Unavoidability of Invention (55:00) Hey, we read some Hegel! (1:09:50)

0:00-5:00 basketball talk 5:00-14:00 talking around paragraph 21 of the preface totalizing impulse in Hegel maintaining distinctions, identity, branding in scholarship Barad and branding in academia external pressures, publishing industry deconstruction 14:00-23:00 Deleuze and identity Deleuze and Foucault (“anti-dialectical”) vs Hegel Why do certain thinkers (such as Deleuze and Foucault) resist...

0:00-5:30 framework of the podcast NBA references commentary on academic culture 5:30–18:10 politics of grading grading and teaching styles 18:10-24:30 institutional ethics various institutional contexts and their effects on pedagogy 24:30-29:00 paragraph 19 God, divine cognition Hegel’s seriousness; his emphasis on suffering, labor, the tragic dimension of life 29:00-36:00 (lost Nathaniel for a s...

0:00-5:00  our particular investments in the text  affirmation and negation  Hegel and Deleuze  5:00-22:20  abyss or multiplicity? void or response?  self-consciousness as thought through these terms  meta-reflection  subjectivity 22:20-34:30  Hegel and Nietzsche  will to power  active and reactive force  the appeals of their various appr...

The entire episode is engaged in the question of how to read theory, using Hegel as a jumping off point. We discuss philosophy as a matter of "taste" (beginning around minute 5), the "both/and" responses to binaries (around minute 12), as well as the function of critique (what we term "generous reading" vs. "adversarial reading" - around 32). In addition to Hegel, and beginning around 30 minutes i...

0:00-5:00 shooting the shit 5:00 - 13:00 styles of reading, styles of teaching 13:00-20:00 pedagogy, authority, academic types/dispositions 20:30-30:00 we get into Hegel and start with paragraph 13 of the preface forms of knowledge: Hegel’s Understanding vs. Self-Consciousness the condition of possibility for scientific knowledge 30:00-36:00 in the shift between theoretical paradigms, are there hi...

We talk through the impetus and structure of the podcast: this is not an introduction (or advanced) course on Hegel. We are not Hegel experts. We are not even in philosophy departments. The "Hegel Tapes" takes sections of The Phenomenology of Spirit as touchstones and catalysts for thinking through a range of theoretical questions. "Thinking With..." is a pedagogical experiment that serves as an i...