In this ep, we discuss Derrida's "White Mythology." Some themes and talking points: - metaphor as an organizing principle of philosophy - how to ground or "unground" a philosophical system - catachresis vs metaphor - Hegel vs Derrida - Heidegger's nostalgia
In this special episode, Dr. Brooke Rollins, an Associate Professor of English at Lehigh University, joins the Thinking With crew to discuss Derrida's "Nietzsche and the Machine" interview, as well as Brooke's research in risk, gambling, analytics (in sports and in life), and rhetorical theory.
In this ep, we talk through Derrida's essay, "From Restricted to General Economy: A Hegelianism Without Reserve." Much of this episode is dedicated to teasing the orientational differences between Hegel and Derrida, as well as the difficulties and affordances, generally, of the post-Hegelian project.
In this episode, we discuss Derrida's essay, "Structure, Sign, and Play." Topics covered include: - the relationship between ethnocentrism and metaphysics - our culpability in metaphysical structures of engagement - Derrida’s version of rigor in critical theory - Derrida’s treatment of Levi Strauss - the limits of deconstruction - the bricoleur vs engineer - the relation between contingency and universality
In this episode, we talk through Derrida's "Signature Event Context," which is primarily a reading and extension of J.L. Austin's How to Do Things with Words. Our conversation covers, among other things, Derrida's notion of iterability, Austin's concepts of performativity and illocutionary force, the Searle vs. Derrida exchange, and the desire for truth and certainty in philosophy.
First ep of 2023! We took a lil break for the holidays. In this ep, we're talking about Derrida's "Plato's Pharmacy" again, among other things. Good episode -- no effort in the episode description.
In this episode, Nathaniel, John, and Nate talk through the first half of Derrida's "Plato's Pharmacy."
In this episode, we talk through the first 25 pages of Derrida's Of Grammatology: - the primacy of writing - embeddedness of metaphysics - who needs Saussure anymore? - signifiers, signifieds, and signifier/signifieds - writing instruction as constitutively theological
We cover a lot of ground in this episode, but not a lot of this ground is tied directly to Derrida. In the beginning of the episode, we talk about the dynamics of appropriation, math, physics, the terminology of becoming, and Heraclitus. Towards the middle and end, we discuss the brevity of history, how Hollywood must save us, and the genius of the Matrix.
Thinking With... is back! This season, we cover a variety of Derrida's texts, including "Différance," Of Grammatology, "Plato's Pharmacy," "Signature Event Context," "From General to Restricted Economy," "Nietzsche and the Machine," and "White Mythology." In this episode, we do a short intro where we discuss the details of this season as well as the new intro music. In the episode, proper, we discuss Derrida's "Différance," the various components of Derrida's central (non)concept, the difference...
Sampled conversations from previously recorded episodes on Heidegger that did not make the cut (but are still potentially worth your time).
0:00-16:00 as thinkers of movement, why don’t Hegel and Heidegger use the term, “becoming”? Heidegger’s celebrating of ancient Greek thought the duality of “Being” and “being” the performative undercurrent of representational thinking 16:00-29:00 H’s fetishizing and essentializing of Greek thinking essence for Heidegger vs. essence for Nietzsche trying to think the problematic of representationalism H’s seeming obsession with origins vs. Nietzsche’s disinterest in origins 29:00-41:00 what counts...
0:00-13:00 thinking as perceiving dwelling in the problematic slogans in philosophy H’s notion that philosophical questions cannot (structurally) have answers 13:00-19:00 thinking the movement of thinking rendering the unthought thinkable Heidegger’s ambitions as a philosopher 19:00-31:00 essence as ambiguity Heidegger’s fetishizing of ambiguity the problem of common speech and language 31:00-40:00 calcification as a way of enabling difference and complexity how posing a definitive answer to a p...
0:00-13:00 teaching deconstructive moves in the classroom meta-reflection Nathaniel’s exploratory essay assignment 13:00-27:00 AF / AM critical discourse Teaching Ta Nehisi Coates an argument in favor of difficult writing 27:00-46:00 Heidegger’s mysticism / nostalgia the ambiguity of H’s notion of authenticity 46:00-end H’s etymological linking of “thinking” and “thanking” human being’s indebtedness to the other
0:00-16:00 Heidegger’s central question diagnosing representational thinking propriety / purity in Heidegger the fascism built into the text 16:00-38:00 Heidegger’s disdain for commonness and traditional thinking differences between Heidegger and Hegel social constructionism difficulties with language and representation 38:00-end the functions/effects of education fear of death provisional thinking
The Heidegger Files: What is Called Thinking? By Martin Heidegger Lecture X With: Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, & Nathaniel Street Time Complicates Being, Eternal Return of the Same, Deliverance from Revenge, Let Will be Will (Start-11:55) Why does the “same” return?; what’s up with the “eternal”?; this is why no one writes about time anymore; linear time, blurred (12:00-21:50) Dasein and the pros and cons of representational thinking; time, history, eternity; perspectivalism, epistemolog...
0:00-13:00 teaching on zoom unpacking theory for students lectures 9 and 10 what makes Heidegger and this text so compelling how Heidegger rehabilitates Nietzsche 13:00-24:00 the “treasure of metaphysics” for Heidegger how Heidegger and Derrida relate to metaphysics the relative inescapability of metaphysical thinking 24:00-43:00 the eternal return overcoming the will’s desire for revenge representational thinking as a way of enacting revenge on difference Hegel’s Aufhebung vs. Nietzsche’s trans...
0:00-4:00 Nate trying to learn the game, “Go” John’s golf game 4:00-20:00 instinct or “feel” vs analysis / cognition Heidegger’s commitment to authenticity (and to pluralism / becoming) Heidegger’s strange etymological interpretation of “blinking” 20:00-33:00 the importance of Nietzsche for Heidegger’s thinking (and post-structuralist thinking) Heidegger’s attempt to surpass Nietzsche Heidegger’s slowness 33:00-end the “superman” or “overman” the characteristics of the overman and the last man...
0:00-4:00 The therapeutics of reading philosophy 4:00-9:00 Heidegger’s pace and style preliminary reflections on H’s notion of authenticity essences of being and thinking 9:00-23:00 critique of representational or technological language abbreviations, acronyms, etc. styles and tones of thinking (Heidegger and Nietzsche) 23:00-39:00 overman being “in the zone” how might one channel the overman? some necessary basketball talk in here 39:00-49:00 what disposition is Heidegger attempting to cultivat...
The Heidegger Files Focus: What is Called Thinking? By Martin Heidegger Lectures I, II, III With: Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, & Nathaniel Street Opening Gambit: Thinking is not simply a mental event but always emerges in-relation; the irksome problem of essences; antagonistic progressivism (Start–11:00) Heidegger’s Pedagogy, teaching, learning, thinking; example of the wordworker, authenticity and pluralism; involvement vs confrontation; Externality and Simulacrum vs Internality and Aut...
In the season finale of Deleuzecast, we talk through the appendix of Deleuze’s Logic of Sense: "The Simulacrum and Ancient Philosophy." 0:00-14:00 difference and identity atomism clinamen 14:00-23:00 color and perception color as object or as relation species differences limits of perspectivism 23:00-30:00 eternal return of the same Deleuzian repetition 30:00-45:00 evolution error and mutation / the Deleuzian complication to this logic of error and development sexual reproduction / diversity the...
Focus The Logic of Sense “Twenty-Sixth Series of Language,” “Thirty-Third Series of Alice’s Adventures” and “Thirty-Fourth Series of Primary Order and Secondary Organization” With: “Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, & Nathaniel Street Nathaniel’s excellent sense of “the cool” (Start-1:35) Reflection on Logic of Sense as a whole; Re-Intuiting Representation; John’s Resistances to Psychoanalysis; Deleuze’s Engagement with Psychoanalysis; (1:40-17:00) Hegel and Concrete Universality; Structurali...
Focus The Logic of Sense “Twenty-Fourth Series of the Communication of Events” With: Caddie Alford, Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, & Nathaniel Street John Discovers Conditioner (Start–2:20) Deleuze Contra Hegel; Productivity of Distance (2:25–18:10) Idioms and Defense Mechanisms; Social Media, Narcissism, and Community Production (18:15–23:40) In/Compossibility, Leibniz, and Disjunction/Conjunction (23:45–35:20) Infinitives; Expressions – “To Butterfly”; the Place and Function of Logic (35...
Focus: Logic of Sense “22nd Series – Porcelain and Volcano” and “23rd Series of the Aion” With: Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, and Nathaniel Street Hard Times with Time (Start – 5:45) Derrida and the Deconstructed Present; Vulgar Time (6:00-11:48) Kant, Time/Space, Faculties; Heidegger and the relationship of change to bodies (12:00-25:40) Deleuze’s book on Kant; Sublime: Limits of Representation, “'God', for example” (25:50-33:30) (Failed) Representation: What’s the point of language?; Freedo...
Focus: Logic of Sense "Twentieth Series on the Moral Problem in Stoic Philosophy" and "Twenty-First Series of the Event" With: Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, and Nathaniel Street hair / beard care pedagogical approaches to intro classes / infusing theory in the classroom interpretive lenses Deleuze’s ethics “not to be unworthy of what happens to us” “getting in the zone” affirmation of becoming
Focus: The Logic of Sense – "Seventeenth Series of the Static Logical Genesis," Eighteenth Series of the Three Images of Philosophers," and "Nineteenth Series of Humor" With: Caddie Alford, Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, and Nathaniel Street Teaching the Enthymeme (Start-4:30) Taste, Enthymemes, and Disrupting Subjectivity (4:30-5:30) Enthymeme and the Syllogism (5:30-7:50) Socratic Irony, Mania, Pedagogy of the Dialogue (8:00-15:45) Romantic Irony; Humor; Individual and Personal; (15:50-37:35...
Focus: Not Deleuze With: Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, and Nathaniel Street Superfans; Calcifying/Undoing Mimetic Rhythms; Nietzche’s Mustache Oil; Impossibility of Non-Individuation (Start-16:45) Podcast Pedagogy; Instructional Tidiness; Heuristics of Learning; Narcissism and the Undoing of the Ego, Borges and Epochs of Reading One’s Own Writing (17:00-33:00) Course Design, Lecture/Seminar; Pacing Course Reading; Degrees of Structure; Teaching Derrida, Performativity, Phaedrus and other Theo...
Focus: Logic of Sense "Sixteenth Series of the Static Ontological Genesis" With: Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, and Nathaniel Street - on being lost when reading Deleuze - an attempt at an intro to Leibniz - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - immanence / transcendence - 3 images of philosophy: heights / depths / surfaces - Nathaniel's version of Plato's Phaedrus - analogies of philosophies to music - calcification of styles (and why bones aren't your enemy) - diagnosis itself is not transce...
For this special episode, Nate, Nathaniel, and John are joined by Caroline Wigmore, and the group riffs in response to Bo Burnham's recent Netflix comedy special Inside. We discuss different styles of contemporary comedy, the role of self-awareness in critique, the dynamics of cancel culture, branding, and many more concepts that Burnham's provocative special engages.
Focus: Logic of Sense "Fourteenth Series of Double Causality" and "Fifteenth Series of Singularities" With: Caddie Alford, John Muckelbauer, and Nathaniel Street
