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12 Political Theorists — Lecture 10: Tocqueville

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12 Political Theorists — Lecture 11: Marx

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12 Political Theorists — Lecture 12: Weber

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12 Political Theorists — Lecture 1: Plato

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12 Political Theorists — Lecture 2: Aristotle

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12 Political Theorists — Lecture 3: Aquinas

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12 Political Theorists — Lecture 4: Marsilius

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12 Political Theorists — Lecture 5: Machiavelli

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12 Political Theorists — Lecture 6 Discussion: Hobbes

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12 Political Theorists — Lecture 6: Hobbes

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12 Political Theorists — Lecture 7: Hume

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12 Political Theorists — Lecture 8: Rousseau

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12 Political Theorists — Lecture 9: Constant

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A Critique of Worldview Marxism - Key Excerpts and Exegesis from Burnham's The Managerial Revolution

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A Quick Intro to Timenergy Theory and the Post-Class Fractured Mass

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After 10 Years, Thousands of Dollars, and Hundreds of Hours

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Agnostic Catholicism

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An Exercise in Transparency

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Ancient Chinese and Greek Thought, and Timenergy

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Asynchronous Simultaneity and Critical Media Theory - TU Core Concepts Course

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BEING AND TIME chapter 4 and the two main ways of reading Heidegger

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Being and Time — Division I, Chapter 1

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Being and Time — Division I, Chapter 2

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Being and Time — Division I, Chapter 3, Part A

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Being and Time — Division I, Chapter 3, Parts B–C

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Being and Time — Division I, Chapter 5, Part A

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Being and Time — Division I, Chapter 5, Part B

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Being and Time — Division I, Chapter 6, Part A: Anxiety and Care

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Being and Time — Division I, Chapter 6, Part B: Reality and Truth

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Being and Time — Division II, Chapter 1

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Being and Time — Division II, Chapter 2 (Guest Lecture)

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Being and Time — Division II, Chapter 3: Anticipatory Resoluteness and Temporality

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Being and Time — Division II, Chapter 4: Temporality and Everydayness

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Being and Time — Division II, Chapter 5: Historicality

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Being and Time — Division II, Chapter 6: Ordinary Time, and Preparing the Question

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Being and Time — Introduction: A Postscript on Interpretation and Reading

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Being-in-the-World, Part 1

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Being-in-the-World, Part 2

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Being-with: Being-in-the-World, Part 2 (Guest Lecture)

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Churn vs. Canon: Which Voices Have Staying Power?

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Coming Off This Like

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Concluding Critical Media Theory and Critical Doxology & Timenergy, 2024

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Critical Doxology & Timenergy — Discussion: Energy, and Where It Comes From

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Critical Doxology & Timenergy — Lecture 1: Marx, Heidegger, and Adorno vs. 7 Habits

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Critical Doxology & Timenergy — Lecture 2: Henry Ford vs. Martin Heidegger

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Critical Doxology & Timenergy — Lecture 4: Human Life and Doxa, in Defence of "Normies"

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Critical Media Theory and Critical Doxology & Timenergy — Discussion

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Critical Media Theory — Baudrillard vs. Debord

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Critical Media Theory — Introduction: Toward a New Theory of Subjectivity?

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Critical Media Theory — McLuhan, Marx, and Praxis

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Critical Media Theory — Session 2: Solitude and Solicitude

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Critical Media Theory — Session 3: Advertising and Propaganda

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Critical Media Theory — Session 4: Duopoly, the Business of Division

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Critical Media Theory — Session 5: De-Instrumentalizing the Face

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Critical Media Theory — Session 6: Self-Referentiality and Social Media

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Critical Media Theory — Student Presentations

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David Goggins vs. Pierre Bourdieu: The Philosophy of "Stay Hard"

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Emmanuel Levinas, Thinker of the Other (Panel)

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FLOW and ALIENATION: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Young Karl Marx - CDT lecture 3

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For They Know Not What They Do — Chapter 1

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For They Know Not What They Do — Chapter 2

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For They Know Not What They Do — Chapter 3, Part 1

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For They Know Not What They Do — Chapter 3, Part 2

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For They Know Not What They Do — Chapter 4

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For They Know Not What They Do — Chapter 5

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For They Know Not What They Do — Chapter 6

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For They Know Not What They Do — Discussion with Todd McGowan

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For They Know Not What They Do — Introduction

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Gerrymandering Befindlichkeit: The Political Capture of Dispositions

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Heidegger and Levinas: Their Relationship, and Heidegger's Politics

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History & Theory of the Deep State — Part 1: The CIA and the National Security State

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History & Theory of the Deep State — Part 2: The Early Years

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History & Theory of the Deep State — Part 3: The CIA under Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon

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History & Theory of the Deep State — Part 4: Carter and Reagan

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How to Read Totality and Infinity

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Husserl According to Levinas: The Phenomenological Theory of Being

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Intro to Foucault

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Intro to Ivan Illich — Lecture 1: Deschooling Society

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Intro to Ivan Illich — Lecture 3: In the Vineyard of the Text

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Intro to Ivan Illich — Lecture 4: Tools of Conviviality

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Intro to Lacan and the Comfort Crisis

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Intro to Marxism — Lecture 1

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Intro to Marxism — Lecture 2

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Intro to Marxism — Lecture 4

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Intro to Nick Land LECTURE 1 - Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Bataille, Deleuze & Guattari etc.

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Intro to Nick Land — Discussion: A Quick and Dirty Introduction to Accelerationism

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Intro to Nick Land — Discussion: Land on the Left, and Mark Fisher on Transcendental Miserabilism

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Intro to Nick Land — Lecture 1: A Quick and Dirty Introduction to Accelerationism

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Intro to Nick Land — Lecture 2: Cybernetic Capital

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Intro to Nick Land — Lecture 3: The Dark Enlightenment

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Intro to Nick Land — Lecture 4: The Occult and the CCRU

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Intro to Nick Land — Why This Course

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Intro to Theory — Before Nietzsche: On the Canon

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Intro to Theory — Derrida

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Intro to Theory — Edmund Burke

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Intro to Theory — Heidegger

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Intro to Theory — Heidegger's Being and Time

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Intro to Theory — Introduction

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Intro to Theory — Marx

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Intro to Theory — Nancy

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Intro to Theory — Nietzsche

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Intro to Theory — Stirner

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Intro to Virilio | Ft. Joshua Hansen

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Intro to Žižek — Lecture 1: Beyond Discourse Analysis

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Intro to Žižek — Lecture 2: Love Your Nation as Yourself

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Intro to Žižek — Lecture 3: Superego by Default

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Intro to Žižek — Lecture 4: The Obscene Knot of Ideology

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Lecture 2 of Intro Illich - Shadow Work - at Theory Underground with Bryan Weeks

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Levinas on Heidegger's Being and Time (Ethics and Infinity)

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Liberal Arts vs. the Neoliberal University: Scholē, Schooling, and Timenergy

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Marx's Conceptions of Class and the Rise of the PMC

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McKerracher Seminar — Agoraphobia, and Letting the Record Reflect

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McKerracher Seminar — August: Virtue Clashes and Field Injunctions

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McKerracher Seminar — July: Practical Organizing 101

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McKerracher Seminar — October: Institutional Capture vs. Genuine Thinking

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McKerracher Seminar — Session 1: Ideas Matter, Against Crude Materialism

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Mode of Production vs. PMC (Guest Lecture)

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Nature, Nurture, and Natality

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Nick Land at Theory Underground

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Nietzsche - Lecture 7 of The Philosophy of Nature with Nina Power

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PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Adolph Reed Jr. on the Color Line and Du Bois

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PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Angela Nagle vs. the New Priesthood

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PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Interview with Catherine Liu

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PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Introduction: Why PMC Critique Matters

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PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Reading: Barbara Ehrenreich, Fear of Falling

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PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Reading: Burnham, The Managerial Revolution

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PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Reading: Catherine Liu, Virtue Hoarders

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PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Reading: Du Bois, The Talented Tenth

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PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Reading: Ehrenreich on the New Left

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PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Reading: The Professional-Managerial Class (1976)

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PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Reading: Thomas Frank, Listen, Liberal

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PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Week 1: How Progressives Invented the PMC

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PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Week 2: Ehrenreich vs. Burnham on Class

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PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Week 3 in Review: Dirtbags and PMCs

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PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Week 3: Discursive Taylorism and the New Left

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PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Week 4: Left vs. Post-Left, Nagle and Liu

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PMC analysis is about a mode, mindset, and ideology rather than an identity-based dismissal or slur

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Post-Duopoly

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Post-Duopoly: A (De)Radicalization Starter Pack for Organizers

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Renewal and the Fourth Frontier

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René Descartes' Discourse On Method (full reading + context and great conversation)

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Reprojection: Projection Plus Retroversion

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Retroversion: Schooled Brains vs. Real Learning

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SAARUTU Announcement

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SAARUTU — Summer 2026 Overview

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SOC 101 - L20 - Institutions - Habitus/Field - PCFM - Timenergy - Ressentiment - Totalization - 11/7

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SOC 101 - Lecture 16 - Where We've Been and Where We're Going - 10/17/24

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SOC 101 - Lecture 22 - Socioanalysis vs Psychoanalysis - 11/14/24

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SOC 101 — Lecture 10: TMI, E-Participation, and the Post-Class Fractured Mass

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SOC 101 — Lecture 11: Are We Enlightened Yet?

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SOC 101 — Lecture 13: Three Capitalist Archetypes

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SOC 101 — Lecture 14: Scientific Aspirations and Ressentiment

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SOC 101 — Lecture 15: What's Good, Natural, Normal — and Who Decides?

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SOC 101 — Lecture 17: Who Are We to Know?

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SOC 101 — Lecture 18: The Medium Is the Environment

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SOC 101 — Lecture 19: The Medium, Part 2

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SOC 101 — Lecture 1: Welcome to Sociology

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SOC 101 — Lecture 21: Socioanalysis

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SOC 101 — Lecture 23: Socioanalysis and Social Engineering, Part 1

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SOC 101 — Lecture 2: Immanent Critique and the Professional Middle Class

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SOC 101 — Lecture 3: The Rise of the Industrial Proletariat

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SOC 101 — Lecture 5: Alienated Timenergy and the Circuit of Capital

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SOC 101 — Lecture 6: Kinds of Energy, and the Real Privilege

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SOC 101 — Lecture 7: Estranged Labor

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Scholē vs. Schooling, and New Reading

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Seminar XI — Session 1: The Unconscious and Repetition

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Seminar XI — Session 2: Of the Gaze as objet petit a

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Seminar XI — Session 3: The Transference and the Drive

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Seminar XI — Session 4: The Field of the Other, and Back to the Transference

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Stewardship & Home Economics — Exploitation vs. Nurture: Berry to Salatin

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Stewardship & Home Economics — Family, Reactionary Feminism, and Self-Help

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Stewardship & Home Economics — Guest Lecture: Scott Yenor

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Stewardship & Home Economics — Lecture 1: True Ownership

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Stewardship & Home Economics — Masanobu Fukuoka's The One-Straw Revolution

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Stewardship & Home Economics — Practicum, Part 1

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Stewardship & Home Economics — Practicum, Part 2: Cultivation and Construction

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Stewardship & Home Economics — Stewardship and Critique

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Stewardship & Home Economics — Xenophon's Oeconomicus, Books 8–9

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TU R3TREAT — Exo-Talks, Night 3

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Terrying with the Text — Section I, Parts C–D

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Terrying with the Text — Section II, Parts A–B

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Terrying with the Text — Section II, Parts C–D

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The Clinical Structures of Psychoanalysis — Lecture 1

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The Clinical Structures of Psychoanalysis — Lecture 2

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The Clinical Structures of Psychoanalysis — Lecture 3

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The Clinical Structures of Psychoanalysis — Lecture 5

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The Clinical Structures of Psychoanalysis — Post-Course Discussion

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The History and Role of the PMC (Guest Lecture)

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The Idea of the University — Final Session

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The Idea of the University — Week 1.5

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The Idea of the University — Week 1: Lecture and Discussion

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The Idea of the University — Week 3

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The Idea of the University — Week 4

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The Lacomfort Unconscious: Natality, Nature, and Violence

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The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 10: Feminism

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The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 11: Psychoanalysis and Nature

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The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 12: AI, Technology, and Nature

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The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 1: Phusis

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The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 4: Spinoza

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The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 5 Discussion: Kant

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The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 5: Kant

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The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 6 Discussion: Hegel

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The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 6: Hegel

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The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 8: Darwin

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The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 9: Marx and Schmidt

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The Plan: Introduction to Sociology and Critical Social Theory

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The Plurality of Big Others vs. the Concrete Other

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The Profile Age: Profilicity, the General Peer, and Luhmann

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The Social Unconscious: The Superego vs. the Big Other

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The Three Crises: Activism, the Academy, and the Attention Economy

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The U.S. Political Traffic Jam and the PMC

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The Virtuous Circle vs. the Vicious Cycle (Part 2)

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Theory Underground Turns Three

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Three Crises of Stewardship: Visions, Value, and Energytime

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Totality and Infinity — Course Introduction: Levinas vs. Hegel, Marx, Heidegger, Butler, and Critchley

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Totality and Infinity — Discussion after Session 3

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Totality and Infinity — Discussion: Interpretation, Method, and the Breach of Totality

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Totality and Infinity — Notes: Section I, Part A

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Totality and Infinity — Session 1: Part I, Sections A–B

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Totality and Infinity — Session 5: Part II, to Completion

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Totality and Infinity — The Preface

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Totality and Infinity — Week 2 Discussion

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Trouble Making Eye Contact?

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WR - ANNOUNCING: Part II of Nina Power's Philosophy of Nature

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What Is Capital? An Overview

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What Is the Post-Left?

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What the Left Misunderstands About Workers: Blue Collar vs. PMC Enjoyment

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regenerationality and the pro-civ

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