Outsider Theory Podcast
1) Lockdown Literature with Tim Abrahams
Lockdown diaries became a literary fad in 2020, but few if any were memorable. What if the real literature of lockdown was written over a century ago? This is the hypothesis behind "The Machine Book o...Show More
2) Disabling Medicine: Daniel Hadas with Medical Nemesis
In this special episode, guest host Daniel Hadas interviews Medical Nemesis on covid, Illich, industrialized medicine and thought, and more. https://twitter.com/DanielHadas2 https://twitter.com/Med...Show More
3) The Psychopolitics of Masturbation with Matthew Crawford
Matthew Crawford joins me to discuss his essay, "Was the Sexual Revolution a Government Psy-Op?," the politics of masturbation, Wilhelm Reich, the Frankfurt School, masculinity, the therapeutic state,...Show More
4) The Automation of Midwittery with Brian Chau
Brian Chau returns to Outsider Theory to discuss ChatGPT's woke catechism. https://cactus.substack.com/
5) Exiting the Vampires' Campus with Blaise Bayno
Blaise Bayno (@urgurlblaise), former critical theory PhD student and co-organizer of the conference "Society Must Be Inoculated," joins me to discuss how critical theory became uncritical cheerleading...Show More
6) Universal Basic MKUltra with Psyop Cinema
Thomas and Brett from Psyop Cinema join me to discuss Hollywood and cultural engineering. Psyop Cinema: https://www.spreaker.com/show/psyop-cinema My Psyop Cinema episodes on Roland Emmerich: ht...Show More
7) The Rule of Midwits with Brian Chau
Brian Chau (Cactus Chu on Substack, @psychosort on Twitter) joins me to discuss institutions and why midwits rule them, decentralization, sorting mechanisms, right-wing aesthetics, Curtis Yarvin, Will...Show More
8) RIP Reality with Jon Askonas
Jon Askonas joins me to discuss his ongoing series of essays in The New Atlantis, "Reality: A Post-Mortem." Read the series here: https://www.thenewatlantis.com/collections/reality-a-post-mortem
9) The Great Debasement with Alice Gribbin
Essayist and poet Alice Gribbin joins me to discuss her recent essay in Tablet, "The Great Debasement," on the ideological transformation of museums and other cultural institutions into propaganda org...Show More
10) Right Critical Theory with Jacob Siegel
Tablet senior writer Jacob Siegel joins me to discuss the rightward trajectory of certain insights of Frankfurt School-derived critical theory, especially in light of the history of the journal Telos ...Show More