Theory Talk

Does all thinking navigate stereotypes? Join Joe and Taylor for a wide-ranging discussion about reading, thinking and writing. Statistics and the intuition; syntax and representation; sense and stoicism; symbols and judgment. Theory Talk is a philosophy podcast and critical thinking jam session. Your hosts are Taylor Adkins (@tadkins613) and Joseph Weissman (@fractalontology). Thanks for thinking with us!

Today's episode was prompted by Emmet Rensin's article "The Blathering Super-ego at the End of History", a critique of managerial liberalism recently published in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Read it here: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-blathering-superego-at-the-end-of-history/ The discussion is somewhat more narrowly focused on the United States at first (Joe and Taylor are still processing a recent loss by the Democrats in a nearby special election.) However the discussion ends up being very broad and begins to circulate around Adorno. They eventually track down a helpful passage and analyze it together a bit ("Baby with the Bathwater" from Minimia Moralia, which thinks through the strange similarities of Marx and Nietzsche on the question of culture and ideology).

Today Joe and Taylor think a bit about situationism: art and the essence of humanity; the construction of the world; modernity and realism; the contingency of capitalism. Theory Talk is our weird and wonderful philosophy podcast! Your hosts are Joseph Weissman and Taylor Adkins, independent scholars in the humanities and founders of the theory weblog Fractal Ontology (ontology.io). Your support makes the show possible. Leave us a tip at patreon.com/theorytalk.

In today's episode, a wide-ranging discussion about music and modes of life. Theory Talk is a philosophy podcast and critical thinking jam session with Taylor Adkins and Joseph Weissman, independent scholars in the humanities and founders of the Fractal Ontology weblog (ontology.io).

Today's episode is about politics, religion, messaging and the left. Theory Talk is hosted by Joseph Weissman and Taylor Adkins, independent scholars in the humanities and founders of the theory weblog Fractal Ontology (http://ontology.io). Recorded Wednesday, May 17, 2017.

Theory Talk is a philosophy podcast and critical theory talk jam session. In this episode: affect and individuation; the complicity between Nietzsche and Spinoza; evolution and technology. Theory Talk is hosted by Joseph Weissman and Taylor Adkins, independent scholars in the humanities and founders of the Fractal Ontology weblog (ontology.io).

Theory Talk is a philosophy podcast and critical thinking jam session. In this episode, a deeper look at automation and society: the sense of simulation; the ethics of artificial intelligence; the politics of the future. Theory Talk is hosted by Joseph Weissman and Taylor Adkins, independent scholars in the humanities and founders of the theory weblog Fractal Ontology (ontology.io). We make the show because we believe thinking and writing and urgently important today. We're so glad you're thinking with us!

Theory Talk is a philosophy podcast and critical thinking jam session. Today's show is in a more Gabfest format, with three twenty-minute segments. First, dreams and revelation; next, wars and drugs; finally, the grandeur of the law. Theory Talk is hosted by Joseph Weissman and Taylor Adkins, independent scholars in the humanities and founders of the theory weblog Fractal Ontology (https://ontology.io). We make the show because we believe thinking and writing and urgently important today. We're so glad you're thinking with us!

Theory Talk is a philosophy podcast and critical thinking jam session. In this episode: dialectics and the impossibility of contradiction; the politics of truth; the nature of the city. Hosted by Joseph Weissman and Taylor Adkins. Recorded Apr. 6, 2017.

Theory Talk is a philosophy podcast and critical thinking jam session. In this episode, revolutionary transformation; the limits of the imagination; the future of the planet. But first, a warmup discussion on utopian axiomatics.

Theory 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!

Theory 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!

Theory 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.

Theory 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.

Theory 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.

Theory 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.

Theory 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.

Theory 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.

Theory 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?

Theory 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.