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Episode 29: Ibn Sina and Materialism

In this episode, our islamogauchist subset discusses Ernst Bloch's gripping work Avicenna and the Aristotelian Left. On Bloch's account, the history of materialism inheri

Episode 28: On meta-meta science

The CTWG Marxist science subcommittee returns! In this episode, we discuss Pietro Daniel Omodeo’s Political Epistemology, which develops the Berlin school of historical e

Episode 27: A History of Marx's Charaktermaske feat. Billie Cashmore

Nora and Imogen are joined by Billie to discuss her forthcoming essay 'Charaktermasken: Value, Relation and Performance in Marx's Critique of Political Economy' in which

Episode 26: MUG Moment (ft. Ben L)

Resident CTWG Infantiles Morrain and Cam meet CTWGs resident Marxist Unity Group member Mac, with backup from NYCDSA MUG member Ben, to get to the bottom of what the heck

Episode 25: Cisification of the Bourgeoisie (ft. Ashley)

Nora, Imogen, and Helen are joined by friend of the pod Ashley to discuss two articles from the new volume of Mediations: Emma Heaney's "On the Cisness of the Bourgeoisie

Episode 24: Schelling’s Clara: Conversations on the Absolute.

For episode 24 and part 2 in our Schelling series, James is joined by Imogen and Nora to discuss one of Schelling's unfinished works: Clara, or On Nature's Connection to

Episode 23: Schelling's Early Philosophy of Nature

In this episode, Anatarah, Bile, and Crane discuss the introduction to Schelling’s 1797 Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature and the introduction to Schelling’s 1799 First Ou

Episode 22: Everybody Female

Imogen, Helen, and Nora kvetch about "The Logic of Gender" from Endnotes 3. Topics include whether capital is a totality (it is), whether Butler reduces gender to the val

Episode 21: A Critical Theory of Christianity? (Ft. Julian Assele)

In this episode, Crane is joined by Julian Assele to discuss Max Horkheimer’s long-running critical engagement with contemporary Neo-Thomism, the history of Catholic thou

Episode 20: Inside the Manesar Labor Movement (ft. Shreya)

Mac and Re are joined by Shreya from the Center for Struggling Trade Unions (CSTU) to discuss the recent workers strikes in various industries of North India. Since March

Episode 19: Peter Damerow and the Ontogeny of Thinking

Anatarah, Mac, and Re return once more to the realm of science studies. This time it is to discuss the indomitable Peter Damerow and the Max Planck history of science’s p

Episode 18: Rupture Theory (Ft. Cam West)

J. E., Cam, and Mac are joined by Cam West of Negation Magazine to discuss his essay "Rupture Theory" and the possibility of politics at a distance from the state. We dis

Episode 17: Who Paid The Riddler of Western Marxism? (Part 2)

By popular demand, J. E. and Crane unite in a two-part episode (of which this is the second part) to, uh... review? critique? lampoon? Gabriel Rockhill's book Who Paid th

Episode 16: Who Paid The Riddler of Western Marxism? (Part 1)

By popular demand, J. E. and Crane unite in a two-part episode to, uh... review? critique? lampoon? Gabriel Rockhill's book Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism. Inter

Episode 15: Wokeness Must be Defended

The description: JE, Cam and Re interrogate Foucault's mid 1970s lectures at the Collège de France, Society Must be Defended. They discuss Foucault's method, his genealog

Episode 14: Theoretical Players' Ball

J. E. and Anatarah discuss Johan Huizinga's classic book Homo Ludens, a foundational work for game studies.

Episode 13: Discoursing the Discorsi

Helen, Esther, and Crane tackle the first book of Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy, reading Machiavelli as a precursor to historical materialism and a radical republican.

Episode 12: A User's Guide to Montaigne and the Function of Skepticism

Crane and Helen talk about Horkheimer's 1938 essay "Montaigne and the Function of Skepticism," which sees Horkheimer both show the skeptical core of both religious dogmat

Episode 11: Situationism and the Critique of Reification

Imogen, Sebastian, and Sam discuss Situationism as a vindication of Hegelian Marxism and a critique of reified life through its various forms of appearance: artistic prod

Episode 10: Working Through the Past with Ernst Bloch

Esther and Sebastian discuss the 1932 fragment Nonsychronism and the Obligation to its Dialectics from Bloch's Heritage of our Times. Our hosts talk about their personal