49 episodes
Outsider Theory Geoff Shullenberger
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4.7 • 58 Ratings
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Outsider Theory is an interview-based podcast exploring the mutations of theories outside of the authorized spaces of intellectual life as well as theories of that ever-alluring figure, the outsider, and related subjects.
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Lockdown Literature with Tim Abrahams
Lockdown diaries became a literary fad in 2020, but few if any were memorable. What if the real literature of lockdown was written over a century ago? This is the hypothesis behind "The Machine Book of Weird," an anthology of fiction from the late 19th and early 20th century that explores isolation, domestic confinement, and the uncanniness of home. Publisher Tim Abrahams joins me to discuss this project, plus Freud, Mark Fisher, and more.
You can donate to the project's Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mbow/machine-book-of-weird -
Disabling Medicine: Daniel Hadas with Medical Nemesis
In this special episode, guest host Daniel Hadas interviews Medical Nemesis on covid, Illich, industrialized medicine and thought, and more.
https://twitter.com/DanielHadas2
https://twitter.com/Medical_Nemesis
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The Psychopolitics of Masturbation with Matthew Crawford
Matthew Crawford joins me to discuss his essay, "Was the Sexual Revolution a Government Psy-Op?," the politics of masturbation, Wilhelm Reich, the Frankfurt School, masculinity, the therapeutic state, and more.
https://unherd.com/2022/12/the-politics-of-masturbation/
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The Automation of Midwittery with Brian Chau
Brian Chau returns to Outsider Theory to discuss ChatGPT's woke catechism.
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Exiting the Vampires' Campus with Blaise Bayno
Blaise Bayno (@urgurlblaise), former critical theory PhD student and co-organizer of the conference "Society Must Be Inoculated," joins me to discuss how critical theory became uncritical cheerleading for biopolitical authoritarianism, academic labor issues, the history of the UC Santa Cruz History of Consciousness program, and more.
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Universal Basic MKUltra with Psyop Cinema
Thomas and Brett from Psyop Cinema join me to discuss Hollywood and cultural engineering.
Psyop Cinema: https://www.spreaker.com/show/psyop-cinema
My Psyop Cinema episodes on Roland Emmerich:
https://www.spreaker.com/user/15144188/shullenberger-interview
https://www.spreaker.com/user/15144188/geoff-shullenberger-2
Customer Reviews
Great guests, insightful conversations
but I think this podcast would really benefit from some in real time and post-production editing. Love it, either way.
Exceptional
If there is some glimmer of hope for the internet or for the cybernetic society that we find ourselves intractably enmeshed in, that hope lies in the type of para-academic content that podcasts like Outsider Theory provide. Shullenberger and his guests offer concise, erudite, and illuminating conversations that implore the listener to consider what is truly at stake in contemporary society.
The De-Mystification Process
Do you like Continental Philosophy? Are you or have you ever been an academic outcast? Do you resent the professors you had as an undergrad who ‘had it easy’ when they went to grad school in the ‘60s and ‘70s when tuition was cheap and jobs were aplenty? Do you recoil at contemporary forms of fundamentalism marching beneath banners of ‘progress,’ ‘equity,’ ‘free the child sex slaves before they’re cooked and eaten,’ and the like? Are the prevalence in the society of nihilism and ressentiment issues you wake up in the morning involuntarily worrying about? If you answered ‘YES!’ to any of these questions, then this Outsider Theory podcast may be the non-pharmaceutical key to your shackles of anxiety, hopelessness, and despair that you’ve been groping around on the sidewalk in the dark on your hands and knees searching for! Kudos Mr. Shullenberger. Kudos.