The Pill Pod is hosted by a group of PhDs offering their irreverent (and unsolicited) takes on critical theory, philosophy, culture, and politics.
Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 180 | Founded | 4 years ago |
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Number of Listeners | Categories | PhilosophySociety & CultureNewsPolitics |
This week we discuss how modern liberal democracies co-opt resistance and adapt to internal opposition as a mechanism of inverted totalitarian control. Our guest is Tony from 1Dime, who made a video on what he calls "contained opposition", find it he... more
Erik and Pills read Walter Benjamin's most famous essay (and perhaps the most famous essay of critical theory), The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. more
We're still on why everything's ending, this time with another pillar of civilization: art, and modern art in particular. Part of the discussion comes from Frederic Jameson's Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, the cover of which ... more
We read Walter Benjamin's (perhaps) undelivered address to the Anti-Fascist Club: The Author as Producer, and try to test whether or not it holds up. more
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How could anyone familiar enough with the ideas of Walter Benjamin suggest a film, celluloid, versus a photographic image when referring to him? Seriously. It makes me wonder if one of the two of you understand Benjamin on a primary level.
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Neoliberal postmodernism or whatever corrosively dissolute soup of culture and capitalism that we inhabit today isā¦ trying to the mind of a middle aged autistic fellow such as myself. Decades of blue collar employment (infrastructure) means my daily intake of humanity is saturated with the softcore fascism of the Trump rightā¦ this podcast is a salve for my aching brain parts- a reminder that there are still people doing real thinking outside the trampoline act of partisan political theater. This... more
Appreciate everything Plastic Pills creates, though Victor tends to slow down the convos a bit š“ especially when it came to missing a lot of the points around the Situationist International
But Kant was never so naive. Iām guessing you guys know better, but recently you made it sound like Kant thought we could just āchooseā every thought that passed through our minds. Of course, Kant never said any such thing (has anyone?!?). And Iām sure yāall know that he wrote and lectured extensively on āpractical anthropology.ā He was well aware of the passions; the goal is just not to be a slave to them. (If there is a āfact of reasonā itās buried down deep beneath a confounded and passionate... more
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