PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy

PlasticPills and Chris sit down with Ian Buchanan, founder and editor-in-chief of the Deleuze and Guattari Studies Journal. In Part 1 we discuss the work of Deleuze and Guattari, the relationship of their work to that of Foucault, and consider their extrapolation of Desire and the State. Ian's new book, Assemblage Theory and Method, hits shelves Sept 2020. For our exclusive content, and other dose...

In advance of our chat with Ian Buchanan, who's a "big deal" Deleuze scholar, Chris and PlasticPills sit down to talk about why Deleuze matters, how to navigate his texts, and how to negotiate the central themes of his work, i.e. the rhizome, creativity, and how to be a nomad. For our exclusive content, and other doses, you can join the Pill Pod at www.patreon.com/plasticpills

We are joined by our very own European* critic to discuss American civic religion and its textured mythos of religion, rebellion, and race.    

@Mattpolprof, @t8erik and @Plasticpills consider the value of "revolution" as a concept or as a political goal of left-wing politics. Starting with Alain Badiou, we discuss guillotines, Marxism, BLM, the sign economy, and the aesthetics of burning Wendy's.  

Plasticpills and Christopher Satoor sit down to dialogue about vitalism, including philosophers such as Leibniz, Maine de Biran, Bergson, and Deleuze. What is it? What is it good for? Will it save the world?   https://archive.org/details/TheHistoryAndTheoryOfVitalism  

The midwives of the soul discuss conspiracy brain--not individual conspiracies, but the political, psychoanalytic, and semiological dimensions of conspiracy including covid-5G and lizard aliens. Throwin down some Lacan, Deleuze, Baudrillard, but no Philip K. Dick. Our guest is the resplendent Matt McManus @mattpolprof

Join us as we argue about this article , where Agamben (critical theorist) says coronavirus isn't real, and this article , dunking on his take. We then call each other libs after recapping the Sanders campaign. youtube.com/c/plasticpills  

Join us for our sophmore episode, from quarantine, in which we discuss Baudrillard, Derrida, and whether or not Covid 19 is real.

The second first episode of the PlasticPills pod. There may be a reason to podcast on critical theory, and we try to figure out what that is through reading this article by Bruno Latour: http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/89-CRITICAL-INQUIRY-GB.pdf   @plasticpills youtube.com/c/plasticpills