What's Right? podcast with Dave and Ann
What's wrong and what's right? And why is it that when we start to say something is wrong today, people will often say that it is "right coded"? What IS right, in this political sense, and also in the moral sense? What's the difference? Dave and Ann are a married couple at the core of Theory Underground. They have co-taught courses together, which will sometimes be found here. However, this is primarily their podcast for moral and cultural commentary. David McKerracher and Ann Snelgrove-McKerracher have an ongoing research seminar in critical social theory at Theory Underground. Drawing from sociology, philosophy, critical media theory, and critical doxology and timenergy theory, they lead cohorts of TU subscribers into and through fascinating new ways of thinking about and seeing the world... This series on Substack is making public those seminar sessions in audio and transcript form. To join the ongoing research seminars and unlock all past content become a subscriber (NOT of the ...
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Saturday Jan 11, 2025
Saturday Jan 11, 2025
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The Philosophy of Nature with philosopher Nina Power
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Looking to accelerate your way into a fresh understanding of our current situation? That’s what Theory Underground is all about. We are a seminar, lecture, and book publishing organism for workers with earbuds and professionals who see no hope in existing institutions. We're here to lay the conditions for doing theory and making art and having a life worth living in the 21st Century. If you don't know what it is already, then good luck! We're sure you'll figure it out if you're worth having around. In the meantime, enjoy this free content, all thanks to our patrons. You can always fund the free content at Patreon, but if you want to get involved at TU, then check out the membership tiers. And don't ask questions or make requests or give us advice, please. Take it or leave it. We guarantee our product meets a quality assurance check that none of your other content is capable of achieving, but you won't be able to tell the difference for a while. What we are rolling out in 2025 is a series of courses and ongoing seminars. Base subscribers at TU get access to the most essential of all that. The three tiers of membership grant certain very special privileges, most of which are not on the menu but you'll find out about. What IS on the menu though, for 2025, is a course on The Philosophy of Nature by Nina Power, 12 Essential Political Theorists with Benjamin Studebaker, The Fault-Line Theory with Michael Downs, and what I, the author of this copy, founder of this org, and main labor force for everything (production, socials, business, research, teaching, I'm a busy guy, guys) am coming out with a special series of Public seminars and Private seminars, as well as special introductory and deep dive courses. Never mind wading through the last two years of content. I'm here to be your tour guide through the most essential problems, concepts, and questions at Theory Underground. We're going to be talking about the method we've been developing between dialectics, phenomenology, and socioanalysis, in dialogue with Marxism, psychoanalysis, and French fried German theory (the fun pomo shit). Anyway, if you want to access all of that you better just subscribe right now: https://theoryunderground.com/subscribe
Thursday Dec 26, 2024
Thursday Dec 26, 2024
If you enjoy this episode make sure to subscribe for more. If you want to get involved at Theory Underground with courses and seminars, then consider becoming a subscriber at https://theoryunderground.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theoryunderground.substack.com/subscribe
Saturday Sep 28, 2024
Saturday Sep 28, 2024
This is lecture 1 in my series on Totality and Infinity. One of the most beautiful, challenging, and profound works of philosophy, Totality and Infinity is a fundamental challenge to the history philosophy, history, and political thought. He is especially worth tarrying with if you are interested in Marx, Heidegger, or Derrida, much less influenced by Zizek or Land. David McKerracher has been studying Levinas for a long time and is far from an expert, but he has refined his ability to talk about this challenging work in a way that is more accessible and simultaneously in depth than anything else you will find on the internet. To unlock tons of deep dives with Dave into phenomenology and existentialism, especially with Being and Time and Totality and Infinity, become a subscriber at tier 2 or higher here: https://theoryunderground.com/product/tu-subscription-tiersYou can also watch it on YouTube here: This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theoryunderground.substack.com/subscribe
Tuesday Sep 17, 2024
Tuesday Sep 17, 2024
The next one is tomorrow! The schedule:8 AM Eastern - Ian and Michelle O.G. Rose (Engaging the Medium)9 AM Eastern - Terence Blake Le Substack de Terence (French Theory Lesser-Knowns)10 AM Eastern - Walter Benn Michaels (The Problem w Diversity + Against Theory)11 AM Eastern - Daniel Garner O.G. Rose (Sociology, CST, Tradeoffs)12 PM Eastern - Ben Burgis (Value and Marx)1 PM Eastern - TUCON w Nance (Medium Evolution)2 PM Eastern - 1Dime AND Eamon AKA Swoletariat (Why What How Leftism and Us)3 PM Eastern - Jreg (What are we doing on here?)4 PM Eastern - Kier Adrian Gray on being a Recovering Anarchist5 PM Eastern - Benjamin Studebaker and Cadell Last (A fun experiment??)6 PM Eastern - Chris Cutrone and Mikey (What IS Marxism? And why Rockhillians are wrong about The Frankfurters/CIA) This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theoryunderground.substack.com/subscribe