Bubble Metaphysics

MORE https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills or https://www.youtube.com/@PlasticPills/membershipTopics: bubbles, reality is analogical, gambling psychosis, temporality, conspiracy theory, ataraxiaThis is an experiment with format to do more thematic less namedropic.

all episodes: https://www.patreon/com/plasticpillsfrom Language and Symbolic Power https://link.amazon/B02PDsduF by Pierre BourdieuWe return to Pierre Bourdieu to help us break down the USA midterms, discussing the Oracle Effect and Political Fetishism.

All episodes https://www.patreon.com/plasticpillsWe discuss cannibalism, the communicative value of rioting, and the English news coverage of the French riots.The paper "Can Riots Represent?" can be found here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ajps.12989

Listen to the whole episode on patreon https://www.patreon.com/plasticpillsRené Girard is known mainly as someone Peter Thiel mentions in between deranged analogies, but he also wrote some books on some typically French topics such as desire, the symbolic, and anthropological historiography. This is his take on the scapegoat mechanism from Violence and the Sacred (https://link.amazon/B0aOFZum7).

René Girard is known mainly as someone Peter Thiel mentions in between deranged analogies, but he also wrote some books on some typically French topics such as desire, the symbolic, and anthropological historiography. This is his take on sacrifice from Violence and the Sacred (https://link.amazon/B0aOFZum7).

We ask Cahal Moran what leftists need to get straight on economics, talking through "orthodox" vs. "heterodox" economics, the labour theory of value, Mark Carney, and the AI Bubble. Visit Unlearning Economics on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4V_jMdRbbTrmBVJB6FDzgwCahal's Book: https://link.amazon/B0aL5NcCdAll podcast episodes at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills

Another discourse has hit the timeline. Find all episodes ad-free at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpillsIs health fascism? Is Ozempic Zyklon-B? Should Gabriel Rockhill have to approve every leftist monograph prior to publication? All this and more, in what what was supposed to be the intro to our episode on collective violence

Find all episodes ad-free at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpillsThe business press has pushed the "leftist-outsider-dishevelled-genius" about Palantir's CEO Alex Karp for a decade. This episode we explore Karp's relationship with critical theory and the mythmaking that has produced his significance.  NYT pushes the mythology of Alex Karp https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/17/style/alex-karp-palantir.htmlAdorno and the Palantir Manifesto https://smtsmtpostmodern.substack.com/p/palantir-flunks-out-of-the-frankfurtPalantir Goes to the Frankfurt School https://www.boundary2.org/2020/07/moira-weigel-palantir-goes-to-the-frankfurt-school/

The Pill Pod debates the academic and ethics perspectives' following the terminal end of the Jason Arday plagiarism scandal. 

Ad-free listens (even with no subscription) at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpillsStephen Miller and Marco Rubio are calling The Left strange combinatory insults, such as ugly-terrorists and dark-cancers. We review these old signifying chains and Erik introduces Stuart Hall's explanation from last time this happened, when back in the 60s when they said The Left were all gay muggers planning to rob civilized people on their way home from church.