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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.Copyright Plasticpills Arte Ciencia Política Ciencias Sociales Filosofía Historia y Crítica Literaria Política y Gobierno
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  • Sloterdijk on Trial for Eugenics // 247
    Apr 16 2026
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    This week we read Sloterdijk's 1999 "Rules for the Human Zoo" (https://web.stanford.edu/~mvr2j/docs/Elmauer.pdf) which was the source of immediate controversy and accusations of fascism and eugenics. We see what the hype was about.
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    1 h y 20 m
  • Marcel Mauss - The Gift // 180 (unlock)
    Apr 10 2026
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    We read the eminent The Gift (https://amzn.to/3NAenx3) by Marcel Mauss which is important to later theorists including Georges Bataille, Jean Baudrillard, and Jacques Derrida.
    (originally recorded 08/24)
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    59 m
  • Emile Durkheim on Mana - The Original Floating Signifier // 179 (unlock)
    Apr 6 2026
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    We read Durkheim's Elementary forms of Religious Life (https://amzn.to/4c1ubkB) and try to get a hold on a primordial concept, what for Claude Levi-Strauss exemplifies the floating signifier: it's MANA (originally recorded 08/24).
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    54 m
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