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Ep. 299: Philosophy in Shakespeare’s “Timon of Athens” (Part Two for Supporters)

August 19, 2022 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Continuing from part one, instead of Jonathan, now actor Sarah Manton (from our performance) joins us, plus Seth is back. We start out by re-litigating what Timon's problem is at the beginning of the play, which sets up his fall. Then we move to explicitly considering the Cynic school the historical figure of Diogenes. Is Timon really a Cynic? For a nice, concise  Continue Reading …

Ep. 293: Donna Haraway on Feminist Science (Part One)

May 9, 2022 by Mark Linsenmayer 1 Comment

Subscribe to get Part 2 of this episode. Listen to a preview. Hear this part ad-free. On "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective" (1988), "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century" (1985), "A Game of Cat’s Cradle: Science Studies, Feminist Theory, Cultural Studies"  Continue Reading …

Ep. 263: Lise Van Boxel’s “Warspeak” on Strategies for Valuing (Part One)

February 15, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer 1 Comment

Subscribe to get Part 2 of this episode. Listen to a preview. Lise was one of the hosts of PEL network podcast Combat & Classics and a St. John's Santa Fe tutor. She passed away last year, but not before finishing her life's work, Warspeak, which evolved over many years out of her dissertation on Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals. Dylan and Seth are joined by guests  Continue Reading …

Ep. 263: Lise Van Boxel’s “Warspeak” on Strategies for Valuing (Part Two for Supporters)

February 15, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Continuing from part one on Warspeak: Nietzsche's Victory Over Nihilism with guests Jeff Black and Michael Grenke. We get more into how Lise describes the relationship of the feminine principle of Becoming with the masculine principle of Being. This should be "agnoistic" (creative tension!) and involves seduction, just like Nietzsche's writing style seduces readers into  Continue Reading …

Ep. 263: Lise Van Boxel’s “Warspeak” on Strategies for Valuing (Part One for Supporters)

February 15, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Lise was one of the hosts of PEL network podcast Combat & Classics and a St. John's Santa Fe tutor. She passed away last year, but not before finishing her life's work, Warspeak, which evolved over many years out of her dissertation on Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals. Dylan and Seth are joined by guests Michael Grenke and Jeff Black (both teach at St. John's in  Continue Reading …

Pretty Much Pop #33: The Heroine’s Journey w/ Vi Burlew

February 27, 2020 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Pretty Much Pop taps in to what today's youth are talking about... or at least what they're writing their term papers on. Our guest Vi Burlew has arisen, a shining figure clad in mail, carrying aloft a shimmering broadsword (...and presumably a trapper keeper; the kids today still use those, right? Damn, we are old.) to bring your hosts Mark, Erica, and Brian this topic about  Continue Reading …

Ep. 235: Judith Butler’s “Gender Trouble” (Part Three)

February 17, 2020 by Mark Linsenmayer 5 Comments

Concluding on Gender Trouble (1990). It's a different day, and we've trimmed down to just Mark, Wes, and Seth to cover the latter portions of our assigned reading, especially part I, section v: "Identity, Set, and the Metaphysics of Substance," and part III, section iv: "Subversive Bodily Acts: Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions." We also added two articles  Continue Reading …

Ep. 235: Judith Butler’s “Gender Trouble” (Part Two)

February 10, 2020 by Mark Linsenmayer 9 Comments

More Gender Trouble (1990) with Jennifer Hansen. We get into the metaphysics of substance (are gender and sex attributes that a person has, or is there a better way to describe the situation?), performatives, and what Butler sees as the available mechanisms for changing gender norms. We compare the different views of femininity within male-defined conceptual space according  Continue Reading …

Ep. 235: Judith Butler’s “Gender Trouble” (Citizen Edition)

February 4, 2020 by Mark Linsenmayer 4 Comments

On Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990). Is gender socially constructed, and if so, how? Butler describes gender not as an essential quality of a person, but as "performed," as habits of acting in certain ways in accordance with customs. But it's not that we can simply recognize that customs could have been different and so throw out gender  Continue Reading …

Ep. 235: Judith Butler’s “Gender Trouble” (Part One)

February 3, 2020 by Mark Linsenmayer 19 Comments

On Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990). Is gender socially constructed, and if so, how? Butler describes gender not as an essential quality of a person, but as "performed," as habits of acting in certain ways in accordance with customs. But it's not that we can simply recognize that customs could have been different and so throw out gender  Continue Reading …

Ep. 234: Beauvoir on Romance in “The Second Sex” (Part Two)

January 27, 2020 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Concluding Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex (1949): "The Woman in Love" and "Myths" with guest Jennifer Hansen. We continue on the ailments of women under patriarchy as well as the existential problems that we're all subject to. Are we doomed to isolation, or does existentialism allow for intimacy, and what does this look like? Is marriage as life-long commitment in "bad  Continue Reading …

Ep. 234: Beauvoir on Romance in “The Second Sex” (Part One)

January 20, 2020 by Mark Linsenmayer 1 Comment

On Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex (1949): "The Woman in Love" and "Myths" with guest Jennifer Hansen. Our ep. 232 laid out Beauvoir's picture of the Othered Woman, deprived of agency and hence pretty f'ed up. Now we consider the consequences of this situation for romantic love. In "The Woman in Love" (vol. 2, part III, ch. 12), we get a psychological picture of the  Continue Reading …

Ep. 234: Beauvoir on Romance in “The Second Sex” (Citizen Edition)

January 20, 2020 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

On Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex (1949): "The Woman in Love" and "Myths" with guest Jennifer Hansen. We explore the maladies of love, try a little to figure how B's picture relates to modern romance and what her positive prescription for good love is, and use the recent film A Marriage Story as a case study. Our ep. 232 laid out Beauvoir's picture of the Othered Woman,  Continue Reading …

Ep. 232: Simone de Beauvoir’s “The Second Sex” (Part Two)

December 29, 2019 by Mark Linsenmayer 4 Comments

Continuing Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex (1949) with guest Jennifer Hansen. We explore the Hegelian foundations of the text: How does one become a Subject and how do women traditionally get shut out of this process? What do they do to compensate for or react to being so mutilated? We get into the "Lived Experience" sections of the text where Beauvoir details how this  Continue Reading …

Ep. 232: Simone de Beauvoir’s “The Second Sex” (Part One)

December 23, 2019 by Mark Linsenmayer 2 Comments

On Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex (1949): the intro, conclusion, “Woman’s Situation and Character” and parts of “Lived Experience," with guest Jennifer Hansen. According to Beauvoir, Woman (the "kept" woman of history that was still common in her time and not unheard of now) is conceived of by society (and hence by herself) as "Other." Men created society, own all the  Continue Reading …

Ep. 232: Simone de Beauvoir’s “The Second Sex” (Citizen Edition)

December 21, 2019 by Mark Linsenmayer 1 Comment

On Simone De Beauvoir’s The Second Sex (1949): the intro, conclusion, “Woman’s Situation and Character,” and parts of “Lived Experience," with guest Jennifer Hansen. According to Beauvoir, Woman (the "kept" woman of history that was still common in her time and not unheard of now) is conceived of by society (and hence by herself) as "Other." Men created society, own all the  Continue Reading …

Ep. 202: Julia Kristeva on Disgust, Fear, and the Self (Part Two)

November 12, 2018 by Mark Linsenmayer 1 Comment

Continuing on Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, ch. 1 and 2. We try to get clearer on Kristeva's talk of "object," the relationship between language and abjection, how Kristeva is advancing on Freud, how to be a mom that allows a kid to separate in a healthy way, and how abjection plays into religion and writing. Listen to part one first, or get the unbroken,  Continue Reading …

Ep. 202: Julia Kristeva on Disgust, Fear and the Self (Part One)

November 5, 2018 by Mark Linsenmayer 5 Comments

On Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (1980), chapters 1 and 2. What is horror? Kristeva's book is about a process she calls "abjection," where we violently reject things like corpses, bodily wastes and other fluids, and the Lovecraftian unnameable that lurks at the edge of our awareness, hideously inhuman and indifferent to our suffering. The book is also all about  Continue Reading …

Ep. 202: Julia Kristeva on Disgust, Fear and the Self (Citizen Edition)

November 5, 2018 by Mark Linsenmayer 6 Comments

On Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (1980), chapters 1 and 2. What is horror? Kristeva's book is about a process she calls "abjection," where we violently reject things like corpses, bodily wastes and other fluids, and the Lovecraftian unnameable that lurks at the edge of our awareness, hideously inhuman and indifferent to our suffering. The book is also all about  Continue Reading …

Ep. 188: Discussing “Lysistrata” and Politics with Lucy and Emily (Part Two)

April 30, 2018 by Mark Linsenmayer 2 Comments

Concluding our discussion of Aristophanes's play with Lucy Lawless and Emily Perkins. We focus on trying to connect its lessons to the here and now: Is Lysistrata's victory properly described as the ascension of some kind of "feminine spirit" over warlike values, and how does that actually relate to women's struggles now to attain positions of power? Is sex helpful to the  Continue Reading …

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