Theory & Philosophy

In this episode, I present Adrienne Rich's "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" where she outlines the necessity to move beyond the assumed naturality of heterosexual couplings that limit women's possibilities at home, at work, and with their own bodies. If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy

In this episode, I outline what Karl Marx means with the term, "Commodity Fetishism." (*Note* At around 15:30 I meant to say Smith and Ricardo, not Marx and Ricardo). If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy

In this episode, I conclude my presentation of A Thousand Plateaus covering ch. 12, "1227: Treatise on Nomadology:--The War Machine" (0:00), and ch. 14, "The Smooth and the Striated" (39:14). Chapters 11 and 13 I did separately, and the conclusion is more of a summary and so I don't expand upon it here. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy

Hey all! Got lots of questions about my favorite books/recommendations so here they are! (*Note*: Fleur Jaeggy is Swiss, not Italian; she just wrote in Italian.) If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy Podbean: https://theoretician.podbean.com/

In this episode, I continue A Thousand Plateaus, looking at ch. 8, "1874: Three Novellas or, 'What Happened" (0:00), ch. 9, "1933" Micropolitics and Segmentarity" (18:00), and ch. 10, "1730: Becoming-Intense, Becoming-Animal,-Becoming-Imperceptible..." (36:15). If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy

In this episode, I present some of the disagreements between the work of Baudrillard and Deleuze/Guattari. If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy

In this episode, I continue presenting A Thousand Plateaus, covering chapter 4: "Nov. 20, 1923: Postulates of Linguistics" (0:00), chapter 5: "587 B.C.-70 A.D.: On Several Regimes of Signs" (25:15), chapter 6: "Nov. 28, 1947: How do you Make Yourself a Body Without Organs?" (43:25), and chapter 7: "Year One: Faciality" (53:18). If you want to support me: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy

In this episode, I present what the "dialectic" is. I present its variations across the history of philosophy from Plato to Marx to supply you with the most holistic presentation that I am capable of presenting at this moment. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy Paypal: paypal.me/theoryphilosophy

In this episode, I begin my presentation of Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus by covering chapter 1, "Introduction: Rhizome" (0:00), chapter 2, "1914: One or Severeal Wolves?" (15:25) and chapter 3, "10,000 B.C.: The Geology of Morals (Who Does the Earth Think it is?)" (24:12). If you want to support me: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy

In this episode, I present an introduction to the differences (and similarities) between Baudrillard and Foucault. I really want to stress that I only gloss over the issue here and may do a follow up in the future. If you want to support me: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy

In this episode, I present Donna Haraway's "A Cyborg Manifesto" where she argues for a cyborg united politics to combat the structuring tendencies of capitalism and patriarchy. If you want to support me, you can find links for that below: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy

In this episode, I try to explain Judith Butler's idea of performativity. If you want to support me, you can find links for that below: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy

In this episode, I present the second part of "Critique of Judgment," specifically titled, "Critique of Teleological Judgment." It is here that Kant tries to look beyond the world as governed solely by the law of cause and effect to consider the possibility of ends, and the likelihood of a divine author that they necessarily imply. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Paypal: paypal.me/theoryphilosophy Insta: @theory_and_philosophy

In this episode, I try to explain Baudrillard's theories about war, paying specific attention to his writings on the Vietnam, Gulf, and Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Paypal: paypal.me/theoryphilosophy Insta: @theory_and_philosophy

In this episode, I present the first half of "Critique of Judgment" that covers the "Critique of Aesthetic Judgment." Here Kant expounds upon the aesthetic judgments of the beautiful and the sublime, suggesting that our capacity for aesthetic judgment marks a points of contact between the phenomenal and noumenal worlds. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Paypal: paypal.me/theoryphilosophy Insta: @theory_and_philosophy

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Paypal: paypal.me/theoryphilosophy Insta: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I present Immanuel Kant's 2nd critique, the Critique of Practical Reason, paying attention to his understanding of freedom and its association with the moral law.

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I'm joined by Dr. Isaac Ariail Reed, Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, to discuss his most recent book, Power in Modernity: Agency Relations and the Creative Destruction of the King’s Two Bodies. Here are some links to Dr. Reed's work: Power in Modernity: Agency relations and the creative destruction of the King’s two bodies https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo48408506.html Interpretation and Social Knowledge: On the use of theory in the human sciences https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo11636599.html “Deep culture in action: resignification, synecdoche, and metanarrative in the moral panic of the Salem Witch Trials” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11186-014-9241-4 Isaac Ariail Reed and Julia Adams, “Culture in Transitions to Modernity: Seven pillars of a new research agenda” https://sociology.yale.edu/sites/default/files/reed_adams_theory_and_society_2011_1.pdf

In this episode, I'm joined by Deeplina, doctoral student in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at the University of Western Ontario to discuss the work of Saadat Hasan Manto and its connection with the India/Pakistan Partition. You can find Deeplina and her work here: http://thedialoguemedia.com/analysis/remembering-the-faceless-heroines-of-bangladesh-liberation-war/?fbclid=IwAR3fVkps72GL8l6Mh1bEvdmo45l5rLgrb3DSP6lMGeTL1H29ARJocA-Z9MM https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/2019/01/15/rohingya-womanhood-why-were-so-many-women-sexually-abused-and-assaulted-when-they-were-driven-out-of-rakhine/?fbclid=IwAR2J7oqIQMVhNQqGyPgn5ArnUSa4b7s9OwgQrxs6p9bz6gy0lTfUvBoDGb0 https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ffeminisminindia.com%2F2020%2F08%2F05%2Fme-too-movement-rural-india-margins%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2a-tNzVIGGyx9F90--0t7QuA3KiZi8SziCU03ruMKZIDi-Gicffa9bTVk&h=AT3r-45iR2janRYQfYd6lA-6l7gV7ZUPatOlNSo7D6sNscc5C4RvWYWChTqyKjfn9TeIZPucWkkGcAo1Ej_8jA1lB3szEI-J5TB8arGnQzMdP7f5H5vBSH5fpgbjm5FbN6Q https://feminisminindia.com/2020/04/07/covid-19-feminist-killjoys-toxic-productivity-academy/?fbclid=IwAR35yYJmcVxIzghSlFoUwxpe6Mpxy51q4wXuBmqd9TlXTTnw90_xuoiJIcc https://www.facebook.com/deeplina.banerjee https://www.instagram.com/deeplinaaaaaa/?hl=en&fbclid=IwAR1NfxOCTGsEUW5enykFLGPqOD-k_BJu3iWEbA4L_tLv9TUU7n7pUpbIBuA https://twitter.com/DeeplinaBanerj2?fbclid=IwAR07QqWQirwplaT_fFQOtkTHLIegK5OCKzi5MNiRu8FcWrcgZgggdIBJN44 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy

In this episode, I present Michel Foucault's theory of the Panopticon. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Paypal: paypal.me/theoryphilosophy Insta: @theory_and_philosophy In this episode, I present "Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals," a necessary read to comprehend the movement that Kant makes from the Critique of Pure Reason to the Critique of Practical Reason.

In this episode, I present Immanuel Kant's idea of Transcendental Idealism. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy Consider donating here if you can: https://blacklivesmatter.com/ In this episode, I turn my attention to Gayatri Spivak's "Can the Subaltern Speak," a seminal text in the field of post-colonial studies. Spivak argues that between patriarchal and imperial forces, subaltern people--women, specifically--are denied the capacity to speak.

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy In this keyword episode, I present Deleuze and Guattari's "Body Without Organs," a term as slippery as the thing it describes. Here are the links for all my Deleuze and Guattari videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWp2B7872lffAbUVVSc12SEr3e2X9gwXw https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWp2B7872lfdcC0tQO_e8Wvdi-zt8V230

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 Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy

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 mitigate the overwhelming cost. If any of you have a little extra money, please consider donating. If would mean a lot to her, and me alike. Here is the link: https://www.gofundme.com/f/tina-elle-ffs-recovery-fund?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=p_cf%20share-flow-1&fbclid=IwAR3lsDozsz9F4_r5UwzJqlDxqBkgiCzZ5PDb6y7ABvzRGATm9bLd8_8_V1E 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 Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy

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 mitigate the overwhelming cost. If any of you have a little extra money, please consider donating. If would mean a lot to her, and me alike. Here is the link: https://www.gofundme.com/f/tina-elle-ffs-recovery-fund?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=p_cf%20share-flow-1&fbclid=IwAR3lsDozsz9F4_r5UwzJqlDxqBkgiCzZ5PDb6y7ABvzRGATm9bLd8_8_V1E 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 Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy

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.

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) Ch. 4: The Performativity of Disgust (12:40) Ch.5: Shame Before Others (23:00) Ch. 6: In the Name of Love (28:55) Ch. 7: Queer Feelings (38:40) Ch. 8: Feminist Attachments (49:43) Conclusion: Just Emotions (55:00)

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 contingency of Pain (21:50) Ch. 2: The Organisation of Hate (38:33)

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!

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy Intro song: Danosongs-Sky Seeds - Trance Mix Consider donating here if you can: https://blacklivesmatter.com/ In this episode, I present Benjamin's approach to a critique of violence. To do this, he opposes Divine violence to Mythic violence, violence that manifests itself in the form of law as we know it.

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy Intro song: Danosongs-Sky Seeds - Trance Mix Consider donating here if you can: https://blacklivesmatter.com/ In this episode, I present Marcuse's concern about tolerance in its maintaining the present oppressive structures of our world.

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Podbean: https://theoretician.podbean.com/ paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy Intro song: Danosongs-Sky Seeds - Trance Mix In this brief episode, I present Mao's views of dialectical materialism.

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.

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.

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 exploitation that convinces us that it is the only economic, political, and social option.

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 exist--the thinking mind.

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 Recognition" where she considers race and the oppression of other minority groups in her proposed alternative--witnessing--to recognition. Timestamps: Ch. 5: False Witnesses (Beginning) Ch. 6: History, Transformation, and Vigilance (8:40) Ch. 7: Seeing Race (16:46) Ch. 8: Vision and Recognition (20:17) Ch. 9: Toward a New Vision (24:10) Conclusion: Witnessing the Power of Love (30:02).

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 predicated upon difference, but that is focused on the similarities that bind people. I'm joined by Helene Bigras-Dutrisac to impart her expertise of chapter 4! Timestamps: Introduction: Beyond Recognition (Beginning) Ch. 1: Domination, Multiculturalism, and the Pathology of Recognition (21:15) Ch.2 : Identity Politics, Deconstruction, and Recognition (28:45) Ch. 3: Identity as Subordination, Abjection and Exclusion (37:36) Ch. 4: The Necessity and Impossibility of Seeing (40:14).

Podbean: https://theoretician.podbean.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy Instagram: @theory_and_philosophy Paypal: paypal.me/theoryphilosophy In this episode, I continue and finish my presentation of Theodor Adorno's "The Culture Industry." Some of the key takeaways from this half include Adorno's appropriation of Freud's theories to understand the rise of Fascism; Adorno's critique of Benjamin; and Adorno's faith in theory as a form of praxis. Timestamps: Ch. 4: Culture & Administration (Beginning) Ch. 5: Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda (14:30) Ch. 6: How to Look at Television (29:30) Ch. 7: Transparencies on Film (36:20) Ch.8: Free Time (42: 09) Ch. 9: Resignation (46:41)

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 first three chapter of Theodor Adorno's "The Culture Industry." Adorno levels a strong critique against mass culture here, highlighting the effects of alienation under advanced industrial capitalism Timestamps: Ch. 3: The Culture Industry Reconsidered (Beginning) Ch. 1: On the Fetish Character in Music and the Regression of Listening (11:50) Ch 2: The Schema of Mass Culture (26:41)

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' argument at the end.

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 (21:10) Ch. 8: Open up a Few Corpses (35:40) Ch. 9: The Visible Invisible (43:43) Ch. 10: Crisis in Fevers (52:37) Conclusion (55:00)

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: Introduction (Beginning) Chapter 1: Spaces and Classes (15:05) Chapter 2: A Political Consciousness (28:30) Chapter 3: The Free Field (34:50) Chapter 4: The Old Age of the Clinic (38:30) Chapter 5: The Lesson of the Hospitals (46:23)

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 (21:30) Ch. 8: Bodily Confessions (27:14) Ch. 9: The End of Sexual Difference (36:00) Ch. 10: The Question of Social Transformation (47:52) Ch. 11: Can the 'Other' of Philosophy Speak (55:25) In this episode, I conclude my presentation of Butler's text, paying close attention to her re-evaluation of her theory of performativity, the political potential of drag, and the possibility for social transformation.

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 for gender to become undone, and the undoing that is done through gender.

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 systematically dissect Gilles Deleuze's "Cinema 1: The Movement Image." This is an enigmatic book, treading the line between philosophy and film theory, and never committing to one nor the other. This episode covers from the "Action-Image" chapter to the end.

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 systematically dissect Gilles Deleuze's "Cinema 1: The Movement Image." This is an enigmatic book, treading the line between philosophy and film theory, and never committing to one nor the other. This episode covers the 2nd commentary on Bergson up to the end of the "Affection-Image" chapter.

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 systematically dissect Gilles Deleuze's "Cinema 1: The Movement Image." This is an enigmatic book, treading the line between philosophy and film theory, while never committing to one nor the other. This episode covers the preface up to the 2nd commentary on Bergson.

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).