Episodios

  • Pill Pod 211 - Derrida: White Mythology (preview)

    Pill Pod 211 - Derrida: White Mythology (preview)
    Jun 25 2025
    According to Derrida, metaphysicians have spent 2000 years conceptually boxing-in metaphor because they don't want to admit their dependence on figurative language. This has allowed them to trick themselves into believing that fiction and non-fiction are fundamentally different; that one can be true and the other cannot. In White Mythology, Derrida discovers the metaphors buried in philosophy from Plato to Hegel, even as they try to hide them.

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

    Self-Help via Merleau-Ponty and the Flesh of the World (preview)
    Jun 18 2025
    We go deeper into Maurice Merleau-Ponty's insights in The Visible and The Invisible, e.g. The Flesh of the World, the Chiasm, and the Intertwining and what these mean for a meditative experience on the daily.

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    15 m
  • Pill Pod 212 - The Mass Desire for Fascism

    Pill Pod 212 - The Mass Desire for Fascism
    Jun 16 2025
    This week we looked into OG critic of fascism Wilhelm Reich, who wrote The Mass Psychology of Fascism right after the Nazis were elected in 1933. Reich was among the first "neomarxists", and believed that Marxists need to understand psychoanalysis to understand Fascism.

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    1 h y 19 m
  • Phenomenology via Buddhist Philosophy (preview)

    Phenomenology via Buddhist Philosophy (preview)
    Jun 13 2025
    We compare Maurice Merleau-Ponty's insights in an unfinished work he wrote before his death to the meditations of Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna 18 centuries prior.

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

    Pill Pod 210 - New York Times LIES about "Fascism Experts" fleeing Trump
    May 31 2025
    The New York Times has claimed that three "fascism experts" are fleeing Trump and "going abroad". In truth, these are not (all) fascism experts, and they did not flee, in fact they have been in Canada for almost a year because they got jobs at the University of Toronto. We looked into their research, which is the same tired, lib, horseshoe theory bullshit that Nazism and Communism are the same thing.

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    1 h y 12 m
  • Pill Pod 208 - Prime Minister Mark Carney: Vibes Banker

    Pill Pod 208 - Prime Minister Mark Carney: Vibes Banker
    May 16 2025
    We catch you up on Canadian politics by introducing you to our new Prime Minister via his book VALUE(S): Building A Better World For All (https://amzn.to/4dj1oYJ).

    Bono called it ‘A radical book that speaks out accessibly' (lol)
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    1 h y 10 m
  • Pill Pod 206 - Trump Declares War on Education

    Pill Pod 206 - Trump Declares War on Education
    May 8 2025
    Yea we missed a lot of news, but we wanted to cover the Trump regime's war on higher education. As a group with a lot of university affiliations, we hate universities too, but here we try to diagnose the reasons for the recent clashes.

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    1 h y 7 m
  • Pill Pod 205 - PlasticPills Discovers Buddhism

    Pill Pod 205 - PlasticPills Discovers Buddhism
    Apr 29 2025
    After a long hiatus, Pills returns to the main show with some new musings over The Last Samurai, Buddhism and the phenomenology of religion. The Kyoto School and Nagarjuna were mentioned in the episode, but we didn't get into much depth this time round.

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    1 h y 13 m