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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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In this episode, Nathaniel, John, and Nate talk through the first half of Derrida's "Plato's Pharmacy."
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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
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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.
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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 differences between Heidegger and Derrida, the dynamics of contemporary theory, among other things.
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Sampled conversations from previously recorded episodes on Heidegger that did not make the cut (but are still potentially worth your time).
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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 as philosophy for Heidegger
the ambiguity and fundamentality of the “Being” vs. “being” dualism
how the opposition functions in Heidegger
41:00-end
H’s emphasis on the verb (as a constitutive linguistic-ontological element)
H’s weird example of “blossoming”
the simultaneity of difference and identity -
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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 philosophical question is not inherently reductive or restricting
why representational thinking is “too advanced” for Heidegger
40:00-end
the anti- or post-Hegelian project
why is Nate bringing up Hegel again?
Karen Barad’s orientation
negotiating intellectual subject positions
the violence of subjectivity -
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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
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H’s etymological linking of “thinking” and “thanking”
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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
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the functions/effects of education
fear of death
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The Heidegger Files: What is Called Thinking? By Martin Heidegger Lecture XWith: 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, epistemological or ontological?; (22:00-29:30) Cosmological Eternal Return; What’s up with eternity?; Eternity of being/will/presence; how does the will will itself? (30:00-40:20) Nathaniel resurfaces; Eternal will, willing itself; it’s okay Nathaniel, we already figured it out; (40:30-47:50) Misreadings of the Eternal Return; how to not engage/think; contingency of essence and destiny (48:00-end)
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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 transformation via overman
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more on sublation in Hegel
transition of last man to overman
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Nate trying to learn the game, “Go”
John’s golf game
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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
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the “superman” or “overman”
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The therapeutics of reading philosophy4:00-9:00
Heidegger’s pace and style preliminary reflections on H’s notion of authenticity essences of being and thinking9:00-23:00
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 here39:00-49:00
what disposition is Heidegger attempting to cultivate? ways of inhabiting language, texts, life Heidegger’s anthropocentrism49:00-end
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The Heidegger FilesFocus: What is Called Thinking? By Martin Heidegger Lectures I, II, IIIWith: Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, & Nathaniel StreetOpening 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 Authenticity; Tuna Production (11:10–27:15)Pluralizing disclosures; the luxury of authenticity (27:20–32:30)The intimacy of reading and thinking – questions: answers and responses; Socrates’ orientation to questions and responses, the dialectic; what is called thinking – "was heißt" vs "was ist"); “one track thinking” – it’s not laziness, it’s the essence of technology; Heidegger+ now with 10% more Performativity (affirmative reading required) (27:25–53:05)Posthumanism + Nostalgia = ??; Confrontation and Affirmation; Rerouting ruts; Challenging the forms that slumber within (53:10-1:03:35)Woodworking and Nathaniel’s secret Heideggerianism (seriously, he’s hand-making hammers now); Authenticity vs Difference; Nate’s construction-worker mask; the role of telos in involvement; John’s macro-agoraphobia (1:03:40–1:13:10)Thinking as the becoming-molecular of the molar (or the deconstruction of the model); the therapeutic value of the molar (thinking as the becoming-molar of the molecular?); Vertigo; thinking is only thinking in relation – should philosophy incorporate the biography of thinking?; Illustration vs Reflection (serial connection vs general/particular) (1:13:15-end)
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