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PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy

The Pill Pod is hosted by a group of PhDs offering their irreverent (and unsolicited) takes on critical theory, philosophy, culture, and politics.

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Pill Pod 202 - Paradise has been Lost ft. Victor...

PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy ·

2025/04/15

The contemporary political situation has rendered Paradise Lost more relevant now than any time since it was penned by John Milton's daughters. It is an epic, revolutionary in both style and politics, and for this episode we have an expert, Victor Hainagiu, who is writing his dissertation on it. Check out William Blake's illustrations of the text: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake%27s_illustrations_of_Paradise_LostFind all the episodes ad-free at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills

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61:25

COVID as Religious Event & Cults of Cleansing |...

PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy ·

2025/04/11

The cults of COVID may never go away, but this is why they are to be expected.This is part II of the plasticpills diatribe on religion focusing on metaphor as the original decision making process in a world and specifically the metaphors of religious laws that begin with keeping your hands clean but end with the mass extermination of people.Listen ad free at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills

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77:34

Pill Pod 201 - Only German Idealism can save us

PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy ·

2025/04/05

So, after decrying philosophy last episode, we are back on it hard again in 201. The Pill Pod interviews Christopher Satoor on Schelling and his conception of freedom from "the freedom essay", also known as THE PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE ESSENCE OF HUMAN FREEDOM. Chris also does a bunch of interview and video content on YouTube, at https://www.youtube.com/@UCjybB5M-knVLAvrohRXtklQget all our content at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills

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60:03

America's Religious Death Cult

PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy ·

2025/03/28

Christo-techno-fascism? I'm hunting down the impulse producing the end of the world and how religion functions as a social technology. As it turns out, we're all still religious.All the full episodes are available at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpillsThe videos are available at https://www.youtube.com/plasticpills

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92:11

Pill Pod 200 - Why has America Gone Insane?

PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy ·

2025/02/13

A panel discussion on how a once great simulation become, almost overnight, the most schizophrenic spectacle in the history of human society. Is it mere distraction? Is it a war to control our extended nervous system. Should we be worried? Find our hidden episodes at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills

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81:04

Pill Pod 198 - Three Philosophies of Freedom

PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy ·

2025/02/05

The Pill Pod debates the philosophy of freedom from Merleau Ponty, Sartre, Peirce, and Post-structuralism. Listen ad-free on https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills

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Pill Pod 197 - "Never were we freer than under Nazi...

PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy ·

2025/01/21

This is a preview of an episode on Jean-Paul Sartre and existentialism. Find it at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills. Please join us to support the show and get all our episodes!

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90:16

Finally! New Translation of Marx's CAPITAL is out!...

PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy ·

2025/01/15

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. Watch the interview here (video): https://youtu.be/pG0rQi6JwkUBuy-the-book link: https://amzn.to/3PvOiwcAll public episodes are ad free on patreon at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills

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Pill Pod 192 - Marxism vs. Ideology: Althusser

PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy ·

2025/01/04

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." Check the patreon feed for the pdf if you want to check the source text, and to listen ad-free: https://www.patreon.com/c/plasticpills

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83:21

Pill Pod 191 - Marxism vs. Humanism (ft. Diego Ruzzarin)

PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy ·

2024/12/28

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.Get all the eps upon release with no ads at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills

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77:01

Pill Pod 190 - What is Ideology really?

PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy ·

2024/12/21

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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Pill Pod 195 - Luigi's Mansion

PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy ·

2024/12/17

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. Catch up on the whole series on ideology ad-free at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills

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REWIND - Althusser I (Pill Pod 115)

PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy ·

2024/12/14

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.

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Pill Pod 189 - Theorizing America's Trump Vote

PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy ·

2024/11/09

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.Find this content ad-free for free at www.patreon.com/plasticpills

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11:22

Pill Pod 186 - The Post-Political Singularity...

PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy ·

2024/10/30

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.Get all the full episodes at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills

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Pill Pod 185 - Bataille on Fascist Psychology (preview)

PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy ·

2024/10/04

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.Get the full episode and many more at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills

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Pill Pod 184 - MAGACommunism & Philosophy: HAZ on...

PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy ·

2024/10/04

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/1672279505774448640Find our recent episodes on fascist philosophy ad-free at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills

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Pill Pod 183 - Carl Schmitt on the Friend/Enemy...

PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy ·

2024/09/20

We face the fact that only a Nazi could properly explain American politics.Get all episodes ad-free at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills

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7:32

Bataille & Sacrifice

PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy ·

2024/09/07

Back to business—we talk Aztec myths and Bataille on Sacrifice from The Accursed Share.Get the full episode and all the others at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills

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Pill Pod 181 - Hegelian EGirl Council ft. Jreg

PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy ·

2024/08/31

We don't often have current events to cover, but once in a while the current events are Hegel. The Hegelian E-Girl Council was to be the head of a new cult, which fell into a Twitter flame war about a week after its launch. Our guest's studio was the physical origin site of the Hegelian E-Girl Council which first blasted into the real world in NYC, and then onto theorytwitter for a glorious week before bursting into flames for the internet's schadenfreude.This was, in our consideration, not the

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