The Pill Pod is hosted by a group of PhDs offering their irreverent (and unsolicited) takes on critical theory, philosophy, culture, and politics.
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This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: newbooksnetwork.com Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/ ...
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exploring the simulated enigma brendenslabyrinth.substack.com
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A series of podcasts on the Caribbean critical theory tradition, from Suzanne Césaire through the creolist movement.
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Podcasted conversation on critical and literary theory, drawing on a range of theorists from Europe, the United States, Caribbean, and Latin America. Our title is drawn from Audre Lorde's essay "Poetry Is Not a Luxury," where she writes that poetry fashions a language where words do not yet exist. How does theory make words and world new, attuned, and embedded within inventive and inventing lived-experience, tradition, and cultural production?
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What are the crucial conflicts of our time? What hopes and wishes for a better future are expressed within these conflicts? The podcast Critical Theory in Context combines analysis of the present with perspectives on societal transformation. We host conversations with theorists and activists about social crises and the possibilities of their emancipatory overcoming.
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Tune in to the Always Already Podcast for indulgent conversations about critical theory (in the broadest read of the term!). Our podcast consists of two episode streams. The first is a discussion of texts spanning critical theory, political theory, social theory, and philosophy. We work through and analyze main ideas, underlying assumptions, connections with other texts and theories, and occasionally delve into the great abyss of free association, ad hoc theory jokes, and makeshift puns. The ...
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Instead of seeing criticism as an indication of not liking something, Professor Julian Wamble invites listeners of Critical Magic Theory to explore the things about the characters, plot points, and the Wizarding World of Harry Potter broadly that have always given them pause or made them smile without knowing why. It is in this navigation of the positive and the negative aspects of a world that we find true magic.
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I'll talk about everything from politics to entertainment and philosophy. I'm also a part-time entertainment writer and working-class from the UP of Michigan, so that might come up occasionally. Oh, and I make weird experimental music and sometimes host a college radio show.
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Writers, anime fans, communists, and childhood friends Mo Black and Rag talk about anime, weeb culture, and leftism!
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Natalie Cline, member of the Utah State School Board explains how she became a target of the BLM when she denounced Critical Race Theory implementation in the Utah School System. She goes on to explain the evil designs of these tenets and how it is positioned to indoctrinate our children into hating the foundational principles of this country and making them vindictive activists for the cause of the left.
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The big lie is still a big lie.
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Samantha: From Zero to American Hero // 233
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1:35:53From Zero to hero: Samantha Fulnecky has been honoured by the Oklahoma government and named "an American hero" for her paper submission to her Psych course in which she claimed it is demonic to believe in more than one gender. Still, the Pill Pod heats up over whether she deserved the grade she received… More Pill Pod: https://www.patreon.com/plast…
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When they gazed at the moon, medieval people around the globe saw an object that was at once powerful and fragile, distant and intimate—and sometimes all this at once. The moon could convey love, beauty, and gentleness; but it could also be about pain, hatred, and violence. In its circularity the moon was associated with fullness and fertility. Yet…
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Prof Responds: If Not Him, Then Who? Dumbledore & the Pitfalls of Wartime Necessity
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1:08:47In this Prof Responds episode of Critical Magic Theory, Professor Julian Wamble takes a critical look at Albus Dumbledore’s most morally complicated choices in the Harry Potter series. Drawing on listener reflections from the Patreon post-episode chat, Prof examines how Dumbledore’s permanent state of war shaped his treatment of Harry, the Order of…
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theory based analysis of the new Epstein documents and his connection with Trump. Deeper dives on the story: Secular Talk Drop Site News This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit brendenslabyrinth.substack.com/subscribeΑπό τον Brenden
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Chad Augustine Córdova, "Toward a Premodern Posthumanism: Anarchic Ontologies of Earthly Life in Early Modern France" (Northwestern UP, 2025)
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What good is aesthetics in a time of ecological crisis? Toward a Premodern Posthumanism: Anarchic Ontologies of Earthly Life in Early Modern France (Northwestern UP, 2025) shows that philosophical aesthetics contains unheeded potentialities for challenging the ontological subjection of nature to the human subject. Drawing on deconstructive, ecologi…
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Reviewing America's Surveillance State, a 2014 TV mini-series that takes a hard look at the extent of government surveillance in the United States, particularly in the aftermath of 9/11.
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Talking about A Christmas Story 2, the direct to video sequel to the 1983 classic A Christmas Story. It arrived almost thirty years after the original and came from a completely different creative team. My honest thoughts...and a few dishonest ones, just to keep you on your toes.
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Dimwits, Dipsh*ts, Dufuses, and Dullards (E. 48); Hernandez pardon / boat‑strike drug hypocrisy!
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Trump's hypocrisy on drug trafficking is absolutely mind-blowing, Also, I critique the US military (Yes, you read that right! I am doing the unthinkable)).
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Checkpoint 300, the highly securitized border facility between occupied Bethlehem and Jerusalem, is a central feature of Israeli control of Palestinian land and life. An apparatus of turnstiles, overcrowded corridors, and invasive inspections, the checkpoint regulates the movement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, granting access to some wh…
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The Orb’s Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld, released in 1991, is one of the albums that showed the world what ambient house could be when it drifted away from the dance floor and into its own headspace.
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Today, we’re rewinding to the very first episode of Elena of Avalor — “First Day of Rule.”
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TRIO programs have faced repeated threats of federal cuts, including proposals by the Trump administration to reduce or eliminate funding for several college access initiatives. For students in rural or low income communities, these programs are often the only structured path toward college readiness. The possibility of losing them raised alarms am…
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Matt Houlbrook, "Songs of Seven Dials: An Intimate History of 1920s and 1930s London" (Manchester UP, 2025)
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How has central London changed in the last 100 years? In Songs of Seven Dials An Intimate History of 1920s and 1930s London (Manchester UP, 2025), Matt Houlbrook, a Professor of Cultural History at the University of Birmingham, tells the story of a part of London that was the site for major contests over urban development, race, and the future of t…
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The last few years have seen a resurgence of interest in academic research in Marxism and related fields, and many researchers have been stepping up to the plate to offer rigorous analysis and critical reanimations of Marxist theory. One particularly exciting place where this is included is the Palgrave series Marx, Engels and Marxisms, which has b…
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If a first date didn’t go well, should you give a second one a chance?
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Jean-Thomas Tremblay, "Breathing Aesthetics" (Duke UP, 2022)
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1:03:40In Breathing Aesthetics (Duke University Press (2022), Jean-Thomas Tremblay argues that difficult breathing indexes the uneven distribution of risk in a contemporary era marked by the increasing contamination, weaponization, and monetization of air. Tremblay shows how biopolitical and necropolitical forces tied to the continuation of extractive cap…
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Benjamin Balthaser, "Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left" (Verso Books, 2025)
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1:16:59Since October 7, 2023, the world has witnessed a massive American Jewish uprising in support of Palestinian liberation. Through sit-ins in Congress or Grand Central Terminal, through petitions and marches, thousands of Jews have made it known the Israeli state is not acting in their name. This resistance did not come out of nowhere. Citizens of the…
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Henri Lefebvre is a writer who has had many competing claims for ownership, from sociology to philosophy to urban geography, different scholars have attempted to grasp the nature of his thought. These competing attempts have been encouraged by Lefebvre’s rejection of systematicity in his thought and his eclectic, discursive writing style. In his bo…
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Nicholas Gamso, "Art After Liberalism" (Columbia UP, 2022)
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1:23:31Art After Liberalism (Columbia UP, 2022) is an account of creative practice at a moment of converging political and social rifts – a moment that could be described as a crisis of liberalism. The apparent failures of liberal thinking are a starting point for an inquiry into emergent ways of living, acting, and making art in the company of others. Wh…
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Analytic vs. Continental Philosophy 2025 // 231
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1:36:06It's the bi-yearly event in the ongoing race war between analytic and continental philosophy. Philosophers of all stripes invited themselves to partake in the latest and stupidest skirmish, and so we have undertaken a reading of the match that lit the powder keg: How Continental Philosophers "Argue": On the Unseriousness of the Discipline (https://…
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The seed for “Hellraiser” was planted during a jam session between Ozzy Osbourne, Zakk Wylde, and Lemmy Kilmister.
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Jake Monaghan, "Just Policing" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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1:01:21Policing is a source of perennial conflict and philosophical disagreement. Current political developments in the United States have only increased the urgency of this topic. Today we welcome philosopher Jake Monaghan to discuss his book, Just Policing (Oxford UP, 2023), which applies interdisciplinary insights to examine the morality of policing. T…
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Trump is using violence to justify bashing immigrants AGAIN. Also, I am going to get into the history of Ronald Reagan, and then Gerald Ford's biggest scandal and how it's impact is still being felt today, even if seldom acknowledged by the press, or even most anti-authoritarian activists. Image: Trump and wife Ivana met with President Ronald Reaga…
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Today I am talking about wolves once more. Not the ones in the woods, but the ones who walk around looking like everyone else. The ones who smile, might speak softly, and say gentle things while hiding their darker thoughts and instincts behind their warmer mask. And no, I am not just talking about people like Ted Bundy this time. I am also talking…
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Talking about Fulfillingness’ First Finale, released in July 1974 on Motown’s Tamla label.
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Who gets involved in politics? In Capital, Privilege and Political Participation (Liverpool UP, 2025) Joe Greenwood-Hau a Lecturer in the John Smith Centre at the University of Glasgow, examines the dynamics of who participates, who is excluded and the reasons why. Drawing on a broad approach to political participation, the analysis connects levels…
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