Theory Talk
75 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsTheory Talk is a philosophy podcast and critical thinking jam session, featuring in-depth discussions of contemporary thought and thinkers. The show is produced by Joseph Weissman and Taylor Adkins.
Podcast cover photo: "Trouble Light" (1977) by Joseph Nechvatal.
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Episodes
Ep. 25: "The Dream of Esperanto"
March 25, 2017 04:45 - 1 hour - 139 MBTheory Talk is a philosophy podcast and critical thinking jam session. This episode, Joe and Taylor discuss modalities of subjectification. Includes a preview of the patron-only post-game show!
Ep. 24: Speech and Capital
March 21, 2017 02:13 - 2 hours - 253 MBTheory Talk is a philosophy podcast and critical thinking jam session. In this episode, the power of expression and the archaeology of capitalism: despotism and paranoia; the empire and the desert; censorship and humor; is capitalism interminable? Includes a preview of our patron-only post-game show!
Ep. 23: D+G
March 18, 2017 19:43 - 1 hour - 207 MBTheory Talk is a philosophy podcast and critical thinking jam session. In this episode, Joe and Taylor talk Guattari and Deleuze: the anthropomorphic representation of sex; structuralism and reproduction; writing and metaphor; the scientificity of psychoanalysis.
Ep. 22: Institutional Analysis
March 12, 2017 17:40 - 1 hour - 185 MBTheory Talk is a philosophy podcast and critical thinking jam session. This week, Joe and Taylor discuss institutional analysis: love as the investment of desire into the social field; the transcendental use of the syntheses of the unconscious; peoples and nations; the micropolitics of automation; post-apocalyptic narratology. The episode starts with a cold open. Recorded Mar 11, 2017.
Ep. 21: Universal Structures
March 10, 2017 15:54 - 1 hour - 144 MBTheory Talk is a philosophy podcast and critical thinking jam session. In the main dialogue today, universal structures and power formations. --But first, a quick warm-up chat comparing Deleuze and Derrida.
Ep. 20: Speculation (with Katerina Kolozova)
March 04, 2017 17:02 - 46 minutes - 79.9 MBTheory Talk is a philosophy podcast and critical thinking jam session. In this episode, Joe interviews philosopher Katerina Kolozova on the occasion of her new book "Towards a Radical Metaphysics of Socialism: Marx and Laruelle". The discussion covers: the genesis of the work; the materiality of speculation; metaphysics after philosophy; the detachment of capitalism from reality.
Ep. 19: Reason and Laughter
February 25, 2017 02:46 - 1 hour - 140 MBTheory Talk is a philosophy podcast and critical thinking jam session. This week, affects in the history of philosophy; Nietzsche’s diagnosis of Plato; the clumsiness of philosophers; the pathos of distance; democracy and discrimination; violence and logic.
Ep. 18: Lies
February 22, 2017 03:48 - 1 hour - 155 MBTheory Talk is a philosophy podcast and critical thinking jam session. This week, deception: noble lies; cunning and typology; the power of the false; justice in language.
Ep. 17: Science
February 18, 2017 02:09 - 1 hour - 132 MBTheory Talk is a critical thinking jam session. This week, the war between thoughts; the difference between facts and data; inter-theoretic reduction; science (of) philosophy; a universalism to-come?
Ep. 16: Dreamwork
February 12, 2017 02:43 - 1 hour - 227 MBTheory Talk is a critical thinking jam session. This week, grammar and the law; alien logic and the science of dreams; philosophy as transcendental dreamwork; structuralism and culture; hospitality and strangers.
Ep. 15: The Use and Abuse of History
February 08, 2017 05:54 - 1 hour - 136 MBTheory Talk is a critical thinking jam session. This week, the untimely; combatting resignation; modes of history (critical, monumental and antiquarian); forgetting and action; the sicknesses of the historical and the a-historical; prehistory and deep time; immediacy and reaction; cultivation and intelligence.
Ep. 14: Imagination
February 05, 2017 04:56 - 53 minutes - 97.6 MBTheory Talk is a critical thinking jam session. In this week's episode, the concatenation of images; passive and active syntheses; the gap between understanding and imagination; expressionism and the emotions; the deconstruction of ethnology; the radiance of the holy.
Ep. 13: Memory
February 01, 2017 15:08 - 1 hour - 117 MBTheory Talk is a critical thinking jam session. In this episode, Joe and Taylor revisit themes from earlier shows: the function of dreaming; repetition and the death-drive; the paradox of omniscience; the dichotomy of remembering and becoming; Odysseus' modernity; hubris and collective memory.
Ep. 12: Psychoanalysis
January 29, 2017 02:40 - 1 hour - 128 MBTheory Talk is a critical thinking jam session. In this episode, Joe and Taylor discuss the logic of the unconscious; presence and absence; the rhythm of memory; symptom enjoyment; trauma and stratification; the paradox of censorship; Freud’s clientele; rumination; and why the President is unhappy.
Ep. 11: Tools and Weapons
January 26, 2017 03:15 - 45 minutes - 86.2 MBTheory Talk is a critical thinking jam session. In the first part of this week's episode, Joe and Taylor discuss the mystery of the origin of the state; Gilgamesh and war machines; Cain and the city; inequality in Rousseau. In the second part, metallurgy; tools and weapons; malleability and nomic games; jewelry.
Ep. 10: Literature and the Anonymous
January 18, 2017 02:39 - 1 hour - 114 MBTheory Talk is a critical thinking jam session. This week, Taylor and Joe discuss major and minor languages; group authorship and bardic tradition; Homer, Shakespeare and Anonymous; the difference between stories and plots; Lao-Tzu.
Ep. 9: Vision and Empire
January 15, 2017 04:37 - 1 hour - 151 MBTheory Talk is a critical thinking jam session. In this week's first section, Joe asks a question about the pedagogy of imperialism. In the second section, a discussion of bureaucracy.
Ep. 8: Time/Language
January 12, 2017 03:04 - 1 hour - 123 MBTheory Talk is a critical thinking jam session with Joseph Weissman and Taylor Adkins. This week, Joe and Taylor discuss temporal modalities in grammar; meta-communication; rhetoric, persuasion and evidence; alien semantics; alphabetic structuralism.
Ep. 7: Utopia
January 02, 2017 23:38 - 49 minutes - 93.9 MBTheory Talk is an open discussion of contemporary philosophical concerns with Joseph Weissman and Taylor Adkins. This week, Joe and Taylor discuss the new year; calendars; the inorganic life of time; heat death; Ruyer's analysis of utopia; anti-worlds.
Ep. 6: Physics and Ethics
December 29, 2016 02:24 - 37 minutes - 70.4 MBJoe and Taylor are back to talk philosophy! The conversation starts off with discussion about Simondon.
Ep. 5: Origin Story
December 29, 2016 01:41 - 33 minutes - 64.8 MBJoseph Weissman and Taylor Adkins are once again in discussion. Tune in this week on Theory Talk for reflections on Nietzsche; translation; and Joe and Taylor sharing some memories from when they met as undergraduate students.
Ep. 4: Laruelle and Mood
December 24, 2016 02:35 - 45 minutes - 85.3 MBA discussion of Francois Laruelle, featuring Joseph Weissman and Taylor Adkins in conversation
Ep. 3: Simondon and Disparation
December 24, 2016 02:26 - 38 minutes - 73.8 MBGilbert Simondon's concept of disparation, discussed by Joseph Weissman and Taylor Adkins
Ep. 2: Halting Problems, Pt II
December 18, 2016 16:47 - 1 hour - 216 MBA discussion about Laruelle, philosophy and branding, with Joseph Weissman and Taylor Adkins. The second episode from the "Halting Problems" sessions.
Ep. 1: Halting Problems, Pt. I
December 18, 2016 15:54 - 59 minutes - 81.4 MBA discussion about politics, Simondon and the future. (Part I of the "Halting Problems" sessions.) Featuring Joseph Weissman and Taylor Adkins.