Theory Talk

Theory 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.

Theory 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.

Theory 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.

Theory 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.

Theory 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.

Theory 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.

Theory 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.

Theory 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.

Theory 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.

Joe and Taylor are back to talk philosophy! The conversation starts off with discussion about Simondon.

Joseph 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.

A discussion of Francois Laruelle, featuring Joseph Weissman and Taylor Adkins in conversation

Gilbert Simondon's concept of disparation, discussed by Joseph Weissman and Taylor Adkins

A discussion about Laruelle, philosophy and branding, with Joseph Weissman and Taylor Adkins. The second episode from the "Halting Problems" sessions.

A discussion about politics, Simondon and the future. (Part I of the "Halting Problems" sessions.) Featuring Joseph Weissman and Taylor Adkins.