Joe and Taylor are back to talk about the future: the inchoate science of the mind; presently-untheorized forms of social organization; transcendental computation. The discussion begins with Laruelle and the belligerence of philosophy.By Joe Weissman and Taylor Adkins

Joe and Taylor are back for more than two hours of Theory Talk. In the first session: writing and philosophy; the citational nexus between Deleuze, Guattari, Laruelle and Badiou. In the second session, some meditations on the ancient world with Homer and Socrates.By Joe Weissman and Taylor Adkins

Come along on a voyage to where no philosopher has gone before! (Okay, maybe they've gone there.) A brief analysis of the Greek word "nomos" introduces a critical discussion of Star Trek, specifically TOS and TNG, which is the material we are most familiar with. Spatiality and strategy; aesthetics and social transformation; becoming-child, utopian …

Laruelle's nonstandard philosophy. Suspension in Laruelle and Kierkegaard; superposition and aufhebung; philosophy, religion and tyranny; the ethics of decision; inclusivity and futural thought-amplitudes.By Joe Weissman and Taylor Adkins

Dr. David John Roden, philosopher and author of Posthuman Life. Come explore the edges of the human with us! Speculative and critical posthumanisms; the transhuman problematic; ethics and filters; hyperplastics and dark phenomena.By Joe Weissman and Taylor Adkins

Joe and Taylor are back to talk philosophy (of) cybernetics: Turing and Chomsky; general intelligence and stratification; the infinity of the dictionary (and of other regimes of signification); teleology and transformation; language and world-modeling.By Joe Weissman and Taylor Adkins

Joe and Taylor converse about dreams: language and the unconscious; stratification and associative lines; deep time and disconnection; industrial civilization and dreaming-machines; the social function of dreaming.Recommended Reading: The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula le GuinThe Book of Chang-TzuFragments, HeraclitusDaybreak, Nietzsche…

Join Joe and Taylor for a conversation about language with Guattari and Chomsky. Wiener and Simondon; transcendental utopianism; antiproduction; pragmatics and diagrams; the political economy of language.Recommended Reading:Recursivity and Contingency (Yuk Hui)"Introduction: Rhizome" from A Thousand Plateaus (Deleuze and Guattari)The Machinic Uncon…

Join Taylor and Joe as they explore the vital individuations of the living form. Zarathustra’s sympathy for unfortunate exceptions and transitional forms; zoological creativity and imagination; natural languages and organic programs; society and animality: the imprinting of an ecology on the individual and the transcoding of living forms between sp…

Joe and Taylor talk about Taylor and Rocco Gangle's forthcoming translation of "Non-standard Philosophy" by François Laruelle: superpositions; speculative supercolliders; amplitudes of thought; fluctuations of the soul; practical utopia.Support Theory Talk on Patreon today: go ahead, take a second right now and subscribe -- https://patreon.com/theo…

Taylor shares some thoughts about his new translation of Simondon's doctoral thesis ("Individuation in the Light of the Notions of Form and Information".) The individuation of thinking; the aesthetics of subjectivity; the dialectic of society and technology; the political ramifications of artificial intelligence.Support Theory Talk on Patreon: http…

Listen all the way to the second half for a discussion about Laruelle and Levinas with Matt Rosen! But first, Joe and Taylor begin exploring the philosophy of mathematics with Serres and Bachelard: the uncanny power of deduction; grounding formal systems; measurement schemes; the geometry of black holes. Recommended Reading"Synthetic Philosophy of …

Joe and Taylor are back to talk philosophy! Laruelle and Simondon; structuralism and relativity; identities and individuations; languages and ideas. In the second part, a pre-hiatus discussion of Anti-Oedipus.Support Theory Talk on Patreon: https://patreon.com/theorytalkFollow @theory_talk on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theory_talk…

Join Joe and Taylor as they study the Phaedrus together. Madness and love; philosophy and psychoanalysis; trees and forests; writing well.Recommended Reading:"Phaedrus" by Plato"The Postcard: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond" by Jacques DerridaBy Joe Weissman and Taylor Adkins

In this episode, Joe and Taylor dig into psychoanalysis and Freud's "Beyond the Pleasure Principle". A lot of ground is covered: the death drive; repetition; automatism; the performative and speculative merits of psychoanalysis. What is the value that analysis adds to our lives? (Phaedrus looms here in the background as well, and the status of para…

On the occasion of Joe's new essay on Sophocles and the Theban Plays, come along with us as we explore the ancient drama, with the help of Freud, Nietzsche, Socrates, Derrida, Deleuze and Laruelle. Recommended Reading:"Oedipus, Narcissus, Odysseus: Notes Towards a Theory of Temporal Structure in Homer and Sophocles" (https://fractalontology.wordpre…

We are very pleased to present this discussion on Girard and Laruelle with Joevenn Neo, a philosophy Ph.D. student and translator of "Philosophic Scripts" by Anne-Francois Schmid. In our roundtable on the victim, we begin with an exposition of Girard's theory of mimesis and the victimage mechanism, and then weave our way around to Laruelle and Guat…

Joe and Taylor discuss the Stoics and the Cynics, and in particular the role of "cynicism" in modern thought; justice and the law; the interface between Hellenism and Judaism.Recommended Reading"The Image of Law: Deleuze, Bergson, Spinoza" by Alexandre Lefebvre"The Pre-Platonic Philosophers" by Friedrich Nietzsche…

Joe and Taylor conduct a philosophical thought experiment into the essence of the world, inspired by the thought and literature of new realism (see readings below.) In our second conversation (36:40), we return once again to Ionia and the Odyssey.Recommended Reading“The World Goes On”, László Krasnahorkai“The World Does Not Exist”, Markus Gabriel…

Joe and Taylor return to Difference and Repetition for an hour of discussion about the image of thought. Then, return to Ionia in an excerpt from our conversation about Homer's Odyssey -- available in full to our patrons. (Thank you!)Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/theorytalkFollow @theory_talk on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theory_talkR…

In this episode, Taylor interviews James Winchester, author of several books, including "Nietzsche's Aesthetic Turn". (Dr. Winchester was also our undergrad philosophy teacher!)Support Theory Talk: https://www.patreon.com/theorytalkFollow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theory_talkBy Joe Weissman and Taylor Adkins

Joe and Taylor check in, then Justin Murphy stops by to talk Deleuze and politics with us. (This is the first part of a longer discussion available in full on Patreon.) Support Theory Talk: https://www.patreon.com/theorytalkRead Fractal Ontology: http://ontology.ioBy Joe Weissman and Taylor Adkins

This episode contains an excerpt from our hour-long discussion on Felix Guattari (a special feature for our patrons.) But before that, Taylor and Joe discuss A Thousand Plateaus and collective writing practices.Support Theory Talk on Patreon: patreon.com/theorytalkFollow Theory Talk on Twitter: twitter.com/theory_talkRead Fractal Ontology: http://o…

Joe and Taylor make some inroads into the philosophy of computer science.In the first session: halting problems; randomness and short programs; the political economy of cognition.In the second session: what does a sign do if it doesn't signify?Support Theory Talk: patreon.com/theorytalkFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/theory_talkRead Joe's short d…

Joe and Taylor discuss the Spinozist roots of Deleuze's philosophy of difference. This is an excerpt from our special two-hour feature on Difference and Repetition.Become a patron at the $5 level to hear the whole thing today!Support Theory Talk: patreon.com/theorytalkFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/theory_talkRead Fractal Ontology: ontology.io…

Taylor and Joe are here to celebrate our fiftieth episode! The discussion begins with monads. In the second half: the philosophy of sport.Support Theory Talk: https://www.patreon.com/theorytalkFollow Theory Talk on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theory_talkBy Joe Weissman and Taylor Adkins

In the first session presented here, the discussion begins with blocks and blockages; Derrida’s appearance in a critical section of Anti-Oedipus; structuralism and the science of life. In the second session, from Badiou to acceleration.Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/theorytalkFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/theory_talk…

Joe and Taylor spent an hour discussing Laruelle in a special feature for our patrons. Here's a sample of that discussion.Support Theory Talk on Patreon at any level to hear the full conversation: patreon.com/theorytalkBy Joe Weissman and Taylor Adkins

Joe and Taylor are back to talk philosophy! In this wintry episode, culture and the unconscious: discontent and double-binds; Rousseau's theory of inequality; minority and segmentarity; what is cultivation? A tiny excursus about Judaism follows the main discussion.By Joe Weissman and Taylor Adkins

Joe and Taylor are back to think about the ancient world: the birth of philosophy from mythology; Nietzsche's portraits of the pre-Socratics; the primal matters of water and fire; Job and Anaximander.Support Theory Talk: patreon.com/theorytalkFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/theory_talkBy Joe Weissman and Taylor Adkins

First, post-apocalypse and the ruins of the cultural unconscious. Next: checking in on the American experiment. Support Theory Talk: https://patreon.com/theorytalkBy Joe Weissman and Taylor Adkins

Joe interviews Andrew Culp, media theorist and author of Dark Deleuze.Support Theory Talk: https://patreon.com/theorytalkBuy Dark Deleuze: https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Deleuze-Forerunners-Ideas-First/dp/1517901332By Joe Weissman and Taylor Adkins

This week: language and capability; climatology; a non-journalism?Theory Talk is a philosophy podcast and critical thinking jam session. Your hosts are Joseph Weissman and Taylor Adkins, independent scholars in the humanities and founders of the theory weblog Fractal Ontology (https://ontology.io).By Joe Weissman and Taylor Adkins

Social mediation and telepathy; mutations in the image of thought; the transcendental city of multitudes. In the lightning round: the results of a non-philosophical experiment.Theory Talk is a weird and wonderful philosophy podcast and critical thinking jam session from Joseph Weissman and Taylor Adkins.Enjoying the show? Support us on Patreon: pat…

In this episode: transcendental aliens; how to be worthy of freedom; are all definitions analytic? --Listen to the end for our new game: the Lightning Round, a mutual interview segment with short answers (less than one minute.)Theory Talk is a weird and wonderful philosophy podcast from Theoretical Media. Your hosts are Joseph Weissman (https://twi…

How do the faculties of thought work? Can thinking become an archipelago -- instead of a battlefield?In today's episode, Joe and Taylor investigate the structure and potential of the image of thought, and offer speculations about the future of philosophy. In the second half: a dream about philosophical territories. Theory Talk is a weird and wonder…

Joe and Taylor are back for another critical thinking jam session. In this episode: the transcendentalism of Kant, Spinoza, Hegel; the transcendental empiricism of Deleuze; mathematical physics and the real; robopsychology and aliens.Theory Talk is a weird and wonderful philosophy podcast from Theoretical Media. Joe and Taylor are independent schol…

Amidst fake news and creeping fascism, Joe and Taylor discuss a return to the humanities. Also: Socrates and Laruelle; Kant's first critique.By Joe Weissman and Taylor Adkins

In this episode, Joe and Taylor think about Spinoza: ethics as a weapon against negativity; the relation between power and desire; ethology and judgments about ways of life; freedom and the differential relation between actions and passions.Theory Talk is a weird and wonderful philosophy podcast from Theoretical Media. Your hosts are Joseph Weissma…

Theory Talk is a philosophy podcast and critical thinking jam session from theoretical media. In today's show Joe and Taylor talk about ecology and culture: Joe offers an analogy between Darwin’s finches and discursive spheres; Taylor probes the critical sense of rationality.By Joe Weissman and Taylor Adkins

Does all thinking navigate stereotypes? Join Joe and Taylor for a wide-ranging discussion about reading, thinking and writing. Statistics and the intuition; syntax and representation; sense and stoicism; symbols and judgment.Theory Talk is a philosophy podcast and critical thinking jam session. Your hosts are Taylor Adkins (@tadkins613) and Joseph …

Today's episode was prompted by Emmet Rensin's article "The Blathering Super-ego at the End of History", a critique of managerial liberalism recently published in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Read it here: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-blathering-superego-at-the-end-of-history/The discussion is somewhat more narrowly focused on the Un…

Today Joe and Taylor think a bit about situationism: art and the essence of humanity; the construction of the world; modernity and realism; the contingency of capitalism.Theory Talk is our weird and wonderful philosophy podcast! Your hosts are Joseph Weissman and Taylor Adkins, independent scholars in the humanities and founders of the theory weblo…

In today's episode, a wide-ranging discussion about music and modes of life.Theory Talk is a philosophy podcast and critical thinking jam session with Taylor Adkins and Joseph Weissman, independent scholars in the humanities and founders of the Fractal Ontology weblog (ontology.io).By Joe Weissman and Taylor Adkins

Today's episode is about politics, religion, messaging and the left. Theory Talk is hosted by Joseph Weissman and Taylor Adkins, independent scholars in the humanities and founders of the theory weblog Fractal Ontology (http://ontology.io). Recorded Wednesday, May 17, 2017.By Joe Weissman and Taylor Adkins

Theory Talk is a philosophy podcast and critical theory talk jam session.In this episode: affect and individuation; the complicity between Nietzsche and Spinoza; evolution and technology.Theory Talk is hosted by Joseph Weissman and Taylor Adkins, independent scholars in the humanities and founders of the Fractal Ontology weblog (ontology.io).…

Theory Talk is a philosophy podcast and critical thinking jam session.In this episode, a deeper look at automation and society: the sense of simulation; the ethics of artificial intelligence; the politics of the future.Theory Talk is hosted by Joseph Weissman and Taylor Adkins, independent scholars in the humanities and founders of the theory weblo…

Theory Talk is a philosophy podcast and critical thinking jam session. Today's show is in a more Gabfest format, with three twenty-minute segments. First, dreams and revelation; next, wars and drugs; finally, the grandeur of the law.Theory Talk is hosted by Joseph Weissman and Taylor Adkins, independent scholars in the humanities and founders of th…

Theory Talk is a philosophy podcast and critical thinking jam session. In this episode: dialectics and the impossibility of contradiction; the politics of truth; the nature of the city. Hosted by Joseph Weissman and Taylor Adkins. Recorded Apr. 6, 2017.By Joe Weissman and Taylor Adkins

Theory Talk is a philosophy podcast and critical thinking jam session. In this episode, revolutionary transformation; the limits of the imagination; the future of the planet. But first, a warmup discussion on utopian axiomatics.By Joe Weissman and Taylor Adkins