PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

We read Althusser's "Marxism and Humanism," an Essay from his 1965 collection For Marx in which he declares the two fundamentally incompatible. We didn't make it far into the essay because we were having terminological disputes, but we shall return in finer detail soon.

There's big news on the news, and we thought we would take a poke at interpreting this event—if in fact it is one—and giving it an ideological status.  Catch up on the whole series on ideology ad-free at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills

We have been talking about Althusser once again on the Pod, and in advance of our new dive we are re-releasing an episode about why Althusser might be important.

The federal union of the United States has decided to elect Presinald Trump as its leader from the years 2025-2029, as God wills. Here, three Canadians provide you with unsolicited opinions about the meaning of this event or lack thereof. Find this content ad-free for free at www.patreon.com/plasticpills

Today we take the temperature of all the new futures popping up—the various Acc/s, the radical democracies, the Christofascists, and the Magacomms—and psychoanalyze them as all sharing one trait: they're too optimistic to be believed. Get all the full episodes at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills