Name: German Idealism by Why Theory
Duration: 1 h 32 min 42 s
Description: In this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss the phenomenon of German Idealism through its four primary figures--Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel. Rather than focusing solely on these figures as thinkers, they delve into the gossip surrounding each of them as well. Focusing on a significant contribution of each, they look to each of them as theorists of the simple and everyday.

Let me get this barfight scenario straight: Kant is absent, Fichte is throwing punches, Schelling is admiring the aesthetic value of the conflict and Hegel is the judge of the fight who calls it only once it's over?

apparently Fichte is much more influential in Japan: twitter.com/B4Btv/status/1320746513446752256

co-incidentally, i just saw the movie two nights ago. its on youtube with english subtitles www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYGGHlgpdlw. why would todd say its a bad movie? oh, also a biographically interesting bit of gossip: hegel wanted to and was buried next to fichte.

Actually, Kant wasnt just fond of a racist joke but pioneered the concept of ‘scientific’ racism significantly ahead of its time. His racism was really quite extreme  

Could the Lacanian correction of Fichte be that ‘things only count insofar as the Other posits them to count’? Or even ‘things only count insofar as i posit the Other to count them’?

Do you think maybe Fichte gets forgotten precisely because he cuts through in so much clearer of a way than Kant or Hegel?

Ryan and Todd devote this episode to unpacking Joan Copjec's groundbreaking first book, Read My Desire. In this first part of a two part series, they focus on the first four chapters of the book, devoting most of the episode to an explication of "The Orthopsychic Subject," which is Copjec's critique of apparatus theory in film studies. In so doing, they work through Copjec's understanding of the gaze.

Read My Desire, Pt. 1: Gaze and Excess

orcas cry

Several layers of a Nord 2 through chorus units. Also used a TC M350's delay and reverb. Added a layer of tube preamp noise for contrast. At the end is a dusty sound from NASA archives called Passing Comet Tempel 1. Find more NASA sounds here: (it's an amazing resource) https://www.nasa.gov/connect/sounds/index.html

nord sketch 4.21.22

Is colonial capitalism making us sick? From the vast outdoors to the depths of our guts, centuries of colonialism have reordered life on the planet. In its wake have come the dubious efficiencies of giant agriculture and the uneven advances of modern medicine. We humans as affected by this reordering as any other earthly creature. And our bodies have responded to this colonial condition, in many cases, with inflammation. The body’s innate short-term response to infection has become, for many, a chronic condition. The world we have inherited is making us sick.

In their new book Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice, Rupa Marya and Raj Patel explore the history of medical inequity and environmental toxicity, our bodies’ responses to debt and night shifts, and the work of deep healing needed if we are all to become healthy again. In this conversation at once theoretical and highly practical, they discuss the 'exposome', how our metaphors of health prevent us from fully healing, and how we can make a world in which the whole web of life can start to heal.

This week’s episode of Novara FM, hosted by Eleanor Penny, surveys historical scars and shows a path to the recognition that the health of one is the health of all.

Novara Audio: Radio for a Different Politics

NovaraFM: Deep Medicine: Caring Against Capitalism

Ryan and Todd provide an introduction to the philosopher of contemporary French thinker Alain Badiou. They begin with his insistence on the importance of mathematics and then move on to his understanding of truth in relation to the event. They also discuss the contrast between Badiou and Hegel.

Badiou

:zoviet*france: - Hidden By The Wall (Windharp, Walltown Crags - Peter W remix)

This track is a reassembly of original field recordings made by :zoviet*france:, and used in their 2021 composition “Hidden by the Wall”. All of the source material was recorded by :zoviet*france:, and then reworked by Peter W.

Slow version is here: https://audius.co/PeterW/zovietfrance-hidden-by-the-wall-peter-w-slow-remix

https://soundcloud.com/zoviet-france/wind-harp-walltown-crags?in=zoviet-france/sets/hidden-by-the-wall-open-remix

https://soundcloud.com/peter-wullen/zoviet_france-wind-harp?si=f24c994a6869404d907148dd8138770d&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

:zoviet*france: - Hidden By The Wailing Wall (Peter W remix)

Performance from the set of 'curse tablets' scores in St Swithun's, Worcester, on 10th December 2022. 
Organ: Lauren Redhead
Electronics: Lauren Redhead and Alistair Zaldua

(quite a lot of hiss on the recording that is from a present noise in the room - sorry!)

Curse Tablet St Swithun's Worcester

We take a deeper dive into the intellectual chicanery, moral corruption, and sociopathic tendencies at the heart of behavioral economics and its most famous “experts.” This is truly one of those cases where all your skepticism, cynicism, and antagonism for this entire field was not only justified, it was probably less intense than they deserved. This field needs more than a reckoning. We should raze the empire and salt the earth.

Stuff we reference
••• They Studied Dishonesty. Was Their Work a Lie? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/09/they-studied-dishonesty-was-their-work-a-lie 

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Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)

288. A Hive of Fraud and Dishonesty

This episode provides an introduction to the preface to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Ryan and Todd explore key issues from the notoriously difficult preface, including Hegel's own claim that one should not write prefaces to philosophical works. They argue that the preface provides the key to jumping in to all of Hegel's philosophy. The episode aims to lead listeners either to read the Phenomenology for themselves or to help them act as if they have read it at parties.

Preface to Hegel's Phenomenology

This episode is the third in a seven part series devoted to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Ryan and Todd discuss the second major section, Self-Consciousness, with a special focus on the master/slave dialectic. They also explore the transition from Consciousness and then the transition to Reason.

Hegel's Self-Consciousness

In this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss the phenomenon of German Idealism through its four primary figures--Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel. Rather than focusing solely on these figures as thinkers, they delve into the gossip surrounding each of them as well. Focusing on a significant contribution of each, they look to each of them as theorists of the simple and everyday.

German Idealism

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