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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 229 - Theory of the Gooner: Baudrillard vs...

PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy ·

2025/10/31

Have a look at our exclusive content https://www.patreon.com/plasticpillsThe Pill Pod reads Daniel Kolitz' anthropology of the gooners in Harper's Magazine https://harpers.org/archive/2025/11/the-goon-squad-daniel-kolitz-porn-masturbation-loneliness/ and we find it's all connected manOther sources cited included Lacan Seminar X, Freud Beyond the Pleasure Principle, and Baudrillard Transparency of Evil

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Pill Pod 228 - Lacan: Traversing the Fantasy $♢a

PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy ·

2025/10/30

Full Ad-free Lacan series: https://www.patreon.com/plasticpillsWe conclude our Lacan series with what Fink says is the desired end of Lacanian psychoanalysis. And, the ends of psychoanalysis coincide with some valuable insights for Lacan's theorizing beyond psychoanalysis. Works cited are Fink's Lacanian Subject (ch. 5; https://amzn.to/4qz1Fgx) and A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis (ch. 10; https://amzn.to/4hAIKh5).

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47:41

Freud on Film: An Interview with Richard Ledes

PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy ·

2025/10/09

Richard Ledes, director of the films Adieu Lacan and V13, explains his process, namely, adapting French plays about psychoanalysis into English-language films. He connects the seduction of nascent fascism in 1913 Vienna to the present moment a century later.Find V13 on AppleTV, Prime VideoFind Ledes' catalogue at https://www.richardledes.com/Always more content at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills

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Pill Pod 225 - Lacan on the Pervert

PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy ·

2025/10/06

The Pill Pod looks at the structure of the perverts in Episode 5 of our series on Lacan. Find the other episodes at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpillsSources:Jacques Lacan - Seminar X, "The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious", EcritsBruce Fink - Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis

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Pill Pod 224 - ChatGPT Psychosis: A Lacanian...

PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy ·

2025/09/19

The Pill Pod looks at the chatbot psychosis phenomenon and compares it to Lacan's clinical structure of psychosis.This is Episode 4 of our series on Lacan. Find the other episodes Ad-Free at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpillsSources:Jacques Lacan - Seminar IIIBruce Fink - Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis"People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies" Rolling Stone:

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Pill Pod 221 - Capitalist Realism

PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy ·

2025/09/12

1Dime joins Erik and Victor to discuss Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism. We cover the popularity of the book, the term, and then wonder whether left-populist electoral campaigns perform the same cathartic function as anti-capitalist TV shows.See more from 1Dime: https://www.youtube.com/@1DimeeAll our public episodes are ad-free: https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills

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Pill Pod 220 - Lacan: The Other of Language (preview)

PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy ·

2025/08/15

We wanted to review some Lacan because everybody's still desiring, and Bruce Fink's Lacanian Subject (1995) is quite often touted as the best unofficial intro, and we can see why.Get this and all our eps at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpillsThis is the book: https://amzn.to/4oubPxQ

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Pill Pod 219 - Peter Thiel's Deranged Apocalypticism

PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy ·

2025/08/11

In a recent interview with the New York Times Peter Thiel, one of the world's most powerful men, gave ample evidence that he should be institutionalized before he hurts anyone else.Link to the full interview https://youtu.be/vV7YgnPUxcU?si=qSLrUmKeEblb4jYSFind all our episodes ad-free at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills

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Pill Pod 217 - Gaza vs. The United States of...

PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy ·

2025/08/01

Pill pod discuss the public media representations of Epstein and Gaza before a seamless transition into a discussion of Giorgio Agamben's concepts of 1) Sovereignty 2) Bare Life and 3) States of Exception.The FULL OMNIBUS edition of homo sacer is here, but the sections are also available separately.

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Pill Pod 215 - The New Woke Right ft. 1Dime

PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy ·

2025/07/16

Pills is away, so 1Dime Tony came present a thesis he's working at. Tony rejoins the pill pod to excavate the terms "woke right" and the semiotics of "woke" more broadly. We don't always agree, but we attempt to deduce which conservative faction is accusing which other of wokeness, although it is sometimes tough going figuring what they mean by the term.

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Pill Pod 211 - Derrida: White Mythology (preview)

PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy ·

2025/06/25

According to Derrida, metaphysicians have spent 2000 years conceptually boxing-in metaphor because they don't want to admit their dependence on figurative language. This has allowed them to trick themselves into believing that fiction and non-fiction are fundamentally different; that one can be true and the other cannot. In White Mythology, Derrida discovers the metaphors buried in philosophy from Plato to Hegel, even as they try to hide them.We spent three weeks reading this text, you can find the

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Self-Help via Merleau-Ponty and the Flesh of the...

PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy ·

2025/06/18

We go deeper into Maurice Merleau-Ponty's insights in The Visible and The Invisible, e.g. The Flesh of the World, the Chiasm, and the Intertwining and what these mean for a meditative experience on the daily. Get the full episode and tons of others at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills

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Pill Pod 212 - The Mass Desire for Fascism

PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy ·

2025/06/16

This week we looked into OG critic of fascism Wilhelm Reich, who wrote The Mass Psychology of Fascism right after the Nazis were elected in 1933. Reich was among the first "neomarxists", and believed that Marxists need to understand psychoanalysis to understand Fascism.Link to textFind our full episodes on philosophy and theory at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills

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Phenomenology via Buddhist Philosophy (preview)

PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy ·

2025/06/13

We compare Maurice Merleau-Ponty's insights in an unfinished work he wrote before his death to the meditations of Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna 18 centuries prior.This episode and all the rest can be found at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills

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Pill Pod 210 - New York Times LIES about "Fascism...

PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy ·

2025/05/31

The New York Times has claimed that three "fascism experts" are fleeing Trump and "going abroad". In truth, these are not (all) fascism experts, and they did not flee, in fact they have been in Canada for almost a year because they got jobs at the University of Toronto. We looked into their research, which is the same tired, lib, horseshoe theory bullshit that Nazism and Communism are the same thing. Find this and our other episodes for free, ad-free, at www.patreon.com/plasticpills

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Pill Pod 208 - Prime Minister Mark Carney: Vibes Banker

PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy ·

2025/05/16

We catch you up on Canadian politics by introducing you to our new Prime Minister via his book VALUE(S): Building A Better World For All (https://amzn.to/4dj1oYJ). Bono called it ‘A radical book that speaks out accessibly' (lol)

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PP206 - Trump Declares War on Education

PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy ·

2025/05/08

Yea we missed a lot of news, but we wanted to cover the Trump regime's war on higher education. As a group with a lot of university affiliations, we hate universities too, but here we try to diagnose the reasons for the recent clashes.Get all of the content at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills

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Pill Pod 205 - PlasticPills Discovers Buddhism

PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy ·

2025/04/29

After a long hiatus, Pills returns to the main show with some new musings over The Last Samurai, Buddhism and the phenomenology of religion. The Kyoto School and Nagarjuna were mentioned in the episode, but we didn't get into much depth this time round. Find everything we make at the feed at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills

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True vs. False Prophets | Plastic Pills on Religion III

PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy ·

2025/04/22

This is Part 3.What makes a prophet a prophet? As we are on the civilization decline hill, we are going to experience a higher volume of prophets than usual.Don't miss an episode https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills

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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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