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What The Theory

Philosophy begins in wonder and my goal is to bring some wonder back to what can often be seen as dry, academic and abstract. This channel will address ideas both ancient and modern that have shaped our lives and societies. Why? Because it"s so damn fun to know more today than you did yesterday

society & culture philosophy

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34:51

Sunday Chat with Josey: PR Guru, CEO & Sickle Cell...

What The Theory ·

2022/11/20

Josey wears many hats - She's in PR and Marketing, owns her own agency, round a sickle cell warriors foundation, and somehow finds the time to help me run this podcast!! In the chat we explore what Public Relations means to her, the conflict between bring a " good friend and person" and being a good business leader, how she manages and navigates these worlds as a person with a chronic illness and lastly why she started her foundation. My big takeaway from the chat rhymes with something Immanuel

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22:24

The Spectacle

What The Theory ·

2022/11/07

The spectacle is the next stage of mediation of relations between people. Already commodities mediate our relationships(we are identified by what we consume and what we do to earn the ultimate commodity, money) - but now images become the new basis of relating with products and each other. Recommendations - Century of the self on Youtube; Society of the spectacle by Guy Debord Quote _Just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has

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19:29

The Fetish

What The Theory ·

2022/10/30

Commodity fetishism - The commodity appears to be at first sight to be a trivial thing, but observed again contains both material and immaterial force On one hand it's use value and the other its exchange value, the first being the need or desire it directly meets, the second the signal, the identity marker that reveals something about u Quote - "A commodity is therefore a mysterious thing, simply because in it the social character of men's labour appears to them as an objective character

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13:13

The Invisible Hand

What The Theory ·

2022/10/18

Adam Smith spoke of the market operating as an invisible hand that guides the actions of producers and consumers to find each other and a reliable allocation of resources happening with each actor pursuing their ends In this episode, we examine if that hand is benevolent or an iron hand that both gives and takes away and ultimately what logic that does it serve in the world. As we all know, like gravity, it is the invisible relations between things that have the greatest power. This is part 2 of

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11:43

The "myth" of the Middle Class

What The Theory ·

2022/10/10

In the first on a series of Marxist critiques of modern life, I thought I'd start with something I am a part of.. the Middle class. And in particular, this is an examination of what exactly the middle class is and how Marxist theory sees it as an illusionary category, a managerial elite without awareness of their working-class status.

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11:37

Time as a commodity

What The Theory ·

2022/10/03

The management of time is the mark of modernity. And when we say Time is money, we mean that time is valuable when used for productivity. But as Switchfoot say " Time was never money" and our clocks do not tell us THE time, they give us a version of time. In today's episode we discuss the way our perception of time as a commodity reduces us to being productive and efficient only...Free time being seen as an embarrassment. Perhaps a rethink is needed. And I throw in my own conspiracy theory about

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09:59

On Desire : The void within

What The Theory ·

2022/09/20

This is an introduction to Lacan's idea of the difference between Desire and the object cause of desire. Human beings are desiring beings and we desire things outside of ourselves, which means we long for something outside of us to make us whole. We are...incomplete subjects. Or at least that's how we feel Where does this desire come from and how do we see its effects on our psyche...Check out the video and like, share and subscribe if you found it worthwhile Stay curious, folks

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14:33

Q & A on Polyamory

What The Theory ·

2022/09/11

This is a follow-up on the episode on Polyamory in which I respond to anonymous questions that came in on the topic. The biggest takeaway for me from this is even if you don't understand a lifestyle, it's important to speak to people that do, suspend judgment and later make up your mind. More than anything, what I've learnt from engaging with the literature and people living this way is that we stress communication a lot but seldom do we speak the truth to others and ourselves Check out the for a

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14:23

What's the Fuss with Polyamory?

What The Theory ·

2022/08/28

Polyamory began to capture popular discourse in the 90s, seemingly as an echo of the free love movements of the 1960's, another time when cultural norms were being questioned. Today, polyamory seems to be taking up attention as marriage and monogamy are increasingly being found to not satisfy. Some say we are naturally poly- looking to enjoy sexual relations with as many partners as possible, others say nature or God requires us to commit to one person; Each side utilising the " it's natural" line

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46:33

Sunday Chat with Nelson: On Faith, the world and the...

What The Theory ·

2022/08/23

Today's Sunday Chat is with Nelson Muhire, team lead for @The Collective UG , a movement that seeks to give young people a way to use their creativity, skills and energy to edify people and spread the love of God. Nelson and I, were part of a band , HOP , which eventually led to the creation of C19 Studios, @CtrlAD and now the collective. The discussion focuses on how Nelson chose to follow his passion for music and ministry , instead of the "safer" pathway he was on to becoming a civil engineer

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10:51

Power in Society pt2: Societies of control vs...

What The Theory ·

2022/08/14

Your grades from the school machine, determine what job you get in the corporation, your actions are interpreted in performance reviews which determine your access to credit or social admittance. In these societies of control,you are granted freedom to act, but your actions are surveilled and you are granted or denied access basing on if you act " right " To quote Deleuze "Enclosures are molds, distinct castings, but controls are a modulation, like a self-deforming cast that will continually change

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12:36

Societies of Sovereignty vs Societies of Discipline

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2022/08/08

This is a high-level summary of Michel Foucault's work " Discipline and punish". In it, I look at how power has been organized in societies which had sovereign rulers, vs those with more dispersed institutional centres of power. How do Kings get their subjects to do things vs say Parliaments? How are schools, prisons and factories all avenues for how power is exercised? Foucault's ideas have us questioning how ideology is administered, and how we are normalised, assessed and granted access to things

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17:23

Culture of narcissism

What The Theory ·

2022/08/01

We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves. Christopher Lasch. The Culture of Narcissism: This book is an examination of the way culture, empowered by technologies, is making us more narcissistic, looking to the world to fit our own self-narrative rather than the other way around. While I don't agree wholesale, I think this is a great book to use to reflect upon the changes in how we view ourselves since the advent of modernity

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19:52

A casual dive into Sarte: Existentialism is a humanism.

What The Theory ·

2022/07/29

The Title Says it all.

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54:01

Sunday chats: Raymond Mujuni

What The Theory ·

2022/07/29

Raymond is a journalist, writer, thinker, saxophonist and most importantly, a husband and a father We discuss how he came to his current position in life, his favourite philosophy and whether or not democracy actually works

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17:16

Existentialism part 3: The religious solution?

What The Theory ·

2022/07/29

If seeking pleasure is unsatisfactory, and the ethical life is simply tradition, well what are we to do? There is a third way...the leap of faith. In this episode, we discuss Kiekagaard's religious solution, what it means to be a knight of faith as opposed to a mere sheep of the flock of the church, something he found to be a true loss of oneself, a mockery of the radical call to be a Christian.

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21:05

Existentialism part 2 : The three ways we try to...

What The Theory ·

2022/07/29

" The most common form of despair is not being who you are." Kiekagaard How do we become our selves? Well it appears there are 3 modes of existence that as use to reconcile our potential with our necessity: The Aesthetic, Ethical and Religious modes of life are the responses Kierkegaard uses to frame how we respond to the responsibility of living. Today we explore the aesthetic ( a life filled with the pursuit of what is interesting ) , and the ethical ( a life filled with observing our duties to

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15:32

Existentialism Part 1: The dizziness of freedom

What The Theory ·

2022/07/29

This is the first in our discussion on Existentialism. It's a wide-ranging affair and I knew of no better place to start than with Soren Kierkegaard and his take on how anxiety and angst are markers on helping us become a self Becoming a self is no mere task as so many, he claims, do everything in their power to escape themselves. Enjoy.

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17:50

Nihilism Part 2

What The Theory ·

2022/07/29

In this second part to the exploration of Nihilism, we delve into the "loss of Truth" as the essence of Nihilism and the difference between passive and active nihilism The question we ask ourselves is if the things that previously gave us meaning turn out to be man-made constructs, where do we go from here?

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30:02

Sunday Chats : One on one with Ernest Bazanye

What The Theory ·

2022/07/29

They say you shouldn't meet the people you admire. Well, I'm not one to listen to what they say. Ernest is the first proper celebrity I got to meet and know well, beyond his writing. And I wasn't disappointed..In this episode of Sunday Chats-we talk about his school life, what made him decide to become a writer, and what it's like being iconic-which both of us carry the burden of being !! ;-)

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