Pushback on Peter Rollins
Since the interview with Peter Rollins on 4/3/15 I’ve received a bit of flak. Nothing too mean spirited really. In fact, almost all of it has come to me in the form of what I’d call comradely...
View ArticleZero Squared #18: The Temptation of Nothing
Daniel Coffeen is the guest this week and we discuss a blog post he wrote that ended up on Thought Catalog that was entitled The Temptation of Nothing. Coffeen has a PhD in Rhetoric from UC Berkeley...
View ArticleDavid Letterman, Hegel, and Philip K Dick = Praxis
This is a rough draft for a presentation to be given at the start of a Panel Discussion at the Left Forum at the end of May. The panel is entitled Theory vs Practice, or What is Praxis? and will...
View ArticleZero Squared #28: Imaginary Games
Chris Bateman is a game designer, outsider philosopher and author. His book Imaginary Games was published by Zero Books in 2011. Bateman is also the blogger behind Only a Game and he posts regularly in...
View ArticleParsing the Master’s Design: A close reading of the structure of...
(This paper was originally intended to be read by Frank Smecker for Zero Books’ panel, ‘Theory vs. Praxis, or What is Praxis?, at the 2015 Left Forum.) Less than a week ago, as I was anxiously...
View ArticleZero Squared: A New Year’s Special
This special January 2nd, 2016 episode of Zero Squared explores why Critical Theorists deploy the word “problematic” and what they are REALLY saying when they talk about your fave. Clips in this...
View ArticleZero Squared # 57: Hegel vs. Spinoza
Gregor Moder teaches philosophy at the University of Ljubljana. The original plan for this episode was to discuss his paper about street theater and Althusser but the two of us hit it off so well, so...
View ArticleZero Squared #58: Memory, Spirit, and Christopher Hitchens
Stefany Anne Golberg is a writer for magazines such as The Smart Set, the former Critic-in Residence at Drexel University, a multi-media artist, and a founding member of Flux Factory, an arts...
View ArticleZero Squared #61: Minds, Value, and Irrational Numbers
Andy Marshall and I have read philosophy together for something like four years now, and this week’s episode is a recording of what was to be a discussion of Chapter 15 of Marx’s Capital, Volume 1, but...
View ArticleZero Squared #183: Hegel, Gradualism, and Revolution [Teaser]
Ben Burgis Returns this week as we discuss Hegel’s logic and his critique of gradualism, the question of revolutionary transition, and whether or not Charlie Brown is bald. If you’re a patron of the...
View ArticleSymptomatic Redness: A Regrettable Century Part One [teaser]
On our Patreon feed, you can hear the full interview with the hosts of the A Regrettable Century Podcast. The Regrettable Century podcast subscribes to what's called "revolutionary pessimism." The...
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