PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast
1) Stoicism at the End of the World // 236
The history of Stoicism is long and complicated, and we didn't want to end with AI alpha male YouTube channels, so here is a rundown focused on Greek Stoicism, some comparisons to Buddhism, and whethe...Show More
2) A heated debate over Samantha Fulnecky's Essay Fail // 233
From Zero to hero: Samantha Fulnecky has been honoured by the Oklahoma government and named "an American hero" for her paper submission to her Psych course in which she claimed it is demonic to believ...Show More
3) Analytic vs. Continental Philosophy 2025 // 231
It's the bi-yearly event in the ongoing race war between analytic and continental philosophy. Philosophers of all stripes invited themselves to partake in the latest and stupidest skirmish, and so we ...Show More
4) The Nick Fuentes Signifying Chain // 230
Access exclusive episodes https://www.patreon.com/plasticpillsA Signifying Chain (or symbolic chain, or signifying web) is a structuralist concept developed by Jacques Lacan and others ("The Agency of...Show More
5) Pill Pod 229 - Theory of the Gooner: Baudrillard vs Lacan
Have a look at our exclusive content https://www.patreon.com/plasticpillsThe Pill Pod reads Daniel Kolitz' anthropology of the gooners in Harper's Magazine https://harpers.org/archive/2025/11/the-goon...Show More
6) Pill Pod 228 - Lacan: Traversing the Fantasy $♢a
Full Ad-free Lacan series: https://www.patreon.com/plasticpillsWe conclude our Lacan series with what Fink says is the desired end of Lacanian psychoanalysis. And, the ends of psychoanalysis coincide ...Show More
7) Freud on Film: An Interview with Richard Ledes
Richard Ledes, director of the films Adieu Lacan and V13, explains his process, namely, adapting French plays about psychoanalysis into English-language films. He connects the seduction of nascent fas...Show More
8) Pill Pod 225 - The Lacanian Pervert
The Pill Pod looks at the structure of the perverts in Episode 5 of our series on Lacan. Find the other episodes at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpillsSources:Jacques Lacan - Seminar X, "The Subversi...Show More
9) Pill Pod 224 - ChatGPT Psychosis: A Lacanian Interpretation
The Pill Pod looks at the chatbot psychosis phenomenon and compares it to Lacan's clinical structure of psychosis.This is Episode 4 of our series on Lacan. Find the other episodes Ad-Free at https://w...Show More
10) Pill Pod 221 - Capitalist Realism
1Dime joins Erik and Victor to discuss Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism. We cover the popularity of the book, the term, and then wonder whether left-populist electoral campaigns perform the same catha...Show More