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PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast
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15 JAN 2025 · Paul Reitter just finished the first translation of Marx's Capital this century. He joins our episode to educate us on why we need a new version, the difficulties of rendering Capital in English, and of course who's mad at him.Â
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4 JAN 2025 · This is the big one and it's hard to believe we haven't done this particular essay before, but it's the linchpin for the critical theory use of the term "ideology."Â
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28 DEC 2024 · This episode is based on an article Althusser wrote in the 60s, Marxism and Humanism, which you can find in "For Marx." He declares that Marxism and Humanism are fundamentally incompatible, which we all agree on because our liberal was at a conference this week.
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21 DEC 2024 · We read Althusser's "Marxism and Humanism," an Essay from his 1965 collection For Marx in which he declares the two fundamentally incompatible. We didn't make it far into the essay because we were having terminological disputes, but we shall return in finer detail soon.
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17 DEC 2024 · There's big news on the news, and we thought we would take a poke at interpreting this event—if in fact it is one—and giving it an ideological status.Â
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14 DEC 2024 · We have been talking about Althusser once again on the Pod, and in advance of our new dive we are re-releasing an episode about why Althusser might be important.Â
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9 NOV 2024 · The federal union of the United States has decided to elect Presinald Trump as its leader from the years 2025-2029, as God wills.
Here, three Canadians provide you with unsolicited opinions about the meaning of this event or lack thereof.
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30 OCT 2024 · Today we take the temperature of all the new futures popping up—the various Acc/s, the radical democracies, the Christofascists, and the Magacomms—and psychoanalyze them as all sharing one trait: they're too optimistic to be believed.
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4 OCT 2024 · In 1933, Bataille linked Durkheim's sociology and psychoanalysis to the rise of fascism over the border. The parallels to the present moment are hard to miss.
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4 OCT 2024 · MAGA Communism may strike you as contradictory and stupid sounding, but it is backed by 200 tweets of theory which include Marx, Lenin, Dugin, and Heidegger.
We plunge the depths of the MAGA Communist tractatus: "MARXISM IS NOT WOKE" to explore its theoretical aspirations.
Source text: https://x.com/InfraHaz/status/1672279505774448640
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