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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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The Pill Pod is hosted by a group of PhDs offering their irreverent (and unsolicited) takes on critical theory, philosophy, culture, and politics.

    Pill Pod 165 - Dissident Right Fight Night: Yarvin vs. Rufo

    Pill Pod 165 - Dissident Right Fight Night: Yarvin vs. Rufo

    Deviating from our usual strategies for the leftist future, we look to the strategists of the conservative future, as discussed in this article, where Christopher Rufo debates Mencius Moldbug aka Curtis Yarvin. It was pretty anti-climactic so we also veered into some more Moldbuggery found here.

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    • 1 hr 24 min
    Pill Pod 163 - How to Control a Democracy ft. 1Dime

    Pill Pod 163 - How to Control a Democracy ft. 1Dime

    This week we discuss how modern liberal democracies co-opt resistance and adapt to internal opposition as a mechanism of inverted totalitarian control. Our guest is Tony from 1Dime, who made a video on what he calls "contained opposition", find it here: https://youtu.be/7uPevWDAYFI.

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    • 1 hr 28 min
    Pill Pod 162 - Walter Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (preview)

    Pill Pod 162 - Walter Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (preview)

    Erik and Pills read Walter Benjamin's most famous essay (and perhaps the most famous essay of critical theory), The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. 

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    • 14 min
    Pill Pod 161 - Andy Warhol and the End of Art

    Pill Pod 161 - Andy Warhol and the End of Art

    We're still on why everything's ending, this time with another pillar of civilization: art, and modern art in particular. Part of the discussion comes from Frederic Jameson's Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, the cover of which features a (particularly ugly) Warhol print (https://amzn.to/3PD4M6m).  The other two books referenced are The Diary of Andy Warhol and The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, written by the man himself.

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    • 1 hr 16 min
    Pill Pod 160 - Walter Benjamin on Leftist Content Creators (Preview)

    Pill Pod 160 - Walter Benjamin on Leftist Content Creators (Preview)

    We read Walter Benjamin's (perhaps) undelivered address to the Anti-Fascist Club: The Author as Producer, and try to test whether or not it holds up. 

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    • 8 min
    Pill Pod 159 - The End of the University

    Pill Pod 159 - The End of the University

    Most everyone agrees that the university has failed its ideal, but few agree as to the reasons for why this happened. Did it get too arcane? Too expensive? Too woke? Maybe there's a bit of everything, but these explanations forget the most material cause: the private-sector vampires sucking it dry. We read a case study that you can find here

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    • 1 hr 12 min

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