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Episodes (533)

Palantir's "Marxist Critical Theory" CEO // 263

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Today is' Arday // 264

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The Right's Recycled Mythology of Far-Left Terrorism // 261

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Nature's Leftist Conspiracy against Western Civilization: Contemporary Mythology...

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LLMs prove Structuralism was Correct all Along // 258

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Chinese Room LLM // 257 (preview)

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AI Will Fail Because Heidegger // 256

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POPE vs. AI // 255

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Michel Foucault: Technologies of the Self // 254

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Christopher Lasch: The Culture of Narcissism // 253 (preview)

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The Philosophy of Looksmaxxing // 249

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Anthropotechnics // 248 (preview)

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Sloterdijk on Trial for Eugenics // 247

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Marcel Mauss - The Gift // 180 (unlock)

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Durkheim on MANA - The Original "Floating Signifier" // 179

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Why Critical Theory is Never Enjoying Anything // 246 (preview)

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Why Philosophers Fear their own Farts // 245 (preview)

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The Critique of Cynical Reason - Sloterdijk // 244

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Cynicism (the philosophy) // 243 (preview)

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It's Hyperreal Fascism then? // 242

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The Philosophy of Jeffrey Epstein // 240

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Simulation World Order // 239

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Epicureanism MOGS Stoicism // 238

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Stoicism at the End of the World // 236

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Samantha: From Zero to American Hero // 233

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Continental Philosophy vs Analytic Philosophy 2025 // 231

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The Nick Fuentes Signifying Chain // 230

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Theory of the Gooner: Baudrillard vs Lacan // 229

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Jacques Lacan - Fantasy $♢a // 228

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Sigmund Freud in Film: An Interview with Richard Ledes

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Jacques Lacan on the Pervert // 225

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ChatGPT Psychosis: A Lacanian Interpretation // 224

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Capitalist Realism // 221

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Jacques Lacan on the Big Other (preview) // 220

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Peter Thiel's Deranged Apocalypticism // 219

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Giorgio Agamben - Gaza as State of Exception // 217

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The Woke Right ft. 1Dime // 215

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Derrida: White Mythology (preview)

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Self-Help via Merleau-Ponty and the Flesh of the World (preview)

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Pill Pod 212 - The Mass Desire for Fascism

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Phenomenology via Buddhist Philosophy (preview)

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Pill Pod 210 - New York Times LIES about "Fascism Experts" fleeing Trump

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Mark Carney Who? // 208

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Pill Pod 206 - Trump Declares War on Education

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Buddhism is good actually // 205

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True vs. False Prophets | Plastic Pills on Religion III

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Pill Pod 202 - Paradise has been Lost ft. Victor Hainagiu

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Cults of Cleansing | Plastic Pills on Religion II

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German Idealism can save us (ft. Christopher Satoor) // 201

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