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Course Start Here Ongoing TU Foundations Seminars

David McKerracher Seminar at Theory Underground

32 lectures · Show lectures

1. Parasociality does not exist. David McKerracher
2. Protestants Roast Dave after "Agnostic Catholicism" David McKerracher
3. Agnostic Catholicism David McKerracher
4. regenerationality and the pro-civ David McKerracher
5. Three Crises of Stewardship: Visions, Value, and Energytime David McKerracher
6. After 10 Years, Thousands of Dollars, and Hundreds of Hours David McKerracher
7. Renewal and the Fourth Frontier David McKerracher
8. What Is the Post-Left? David McKerracher
9. Coming Off This Like David McKerracher
10. SAARUTU — Summer 2026 Overview David McKerracher
11. Trouble Making Eye Contact? David McKerracher
12. SAARUTU Announcement David McKerracher
13. Why That Era Had to End — Recap and A-Side David McKerracher
14. Why That Era Had to End — B-Side David McKerracher
15. An Exercise in Transparency David McKerracher
16. Three Live Podcast — Spokane, April 2026 David McKerracher
17. The Plan: Introduction to Sociology and Critical Social Theory David McKerracher
18. What Is Capital? An Overview David McKerracher
19. Intro to Lacan and the Comfort Crisis Ann McKerracher
20. Liberal Arts vs. the Neoliberal University: Scholē, Schooling, and Timenergy David McKerracher
21. Critical Media Theory — Introduction: Toward a New Theory of Subjectivity? Ann McKerracher
22. Critical Doxology & Timenergy — Lecture 2: Henry Ford vs. Martin Heidegger David McKerracher
23. Post-Duopoly: A (De)Radicalization Starter Pack for Organizers David McKerracher
24. Critical Doxology & Timenergy — Lecture 4: Human Life and Doxa, in Defence of "Normies" David McKerracher
25. Stewardship & Home Economics — Stewardship and Critique David McKerracher
26. Theory Underground Turns Three David McKerracher
27. McKerracher Seminar — October: Institutional Capture vs. Genuine Thinking David McKerracher
28. TU R3TREAT — Exo-Talks, Night 3 David McKerracher
29. McKerracher Seminar — Session 1: Ideas Matter, Against Crude Materialism David McKerracher
30. McKerracher Seminar — August: Virtue Clashes and Field Injunctions David McKerracher
31. McKerracher Seminar — July: Practical Organizing 101 David McKerracher
32. McKerracher Seminar — Agoraphobia, and Letting the Record Reflect David McKerracher
Course Start Here Politics & Power

History and Theory of The Deep State

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1. History & Theory of the Deep State — Part 1: The CIA and the National Security State Matthew Stanley
2. History & Theory of the Deep State — Part 2: The Early Years Matthew Stanley
3. History & Theory of the Deep State — Part 3: The CIA under Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon Matthew Stanley
4. History & Theory of the Deep State — Part 4: Carter and Reagan Matthew Stanley
Course Start Here Intro Courses

Intro to Critical Social Theory

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1. SOC 101 — Lecture 1: Welcome to Sociology David McKerracher
2. SOC 101 — Lecture 2: Immanent Critique and the Professional Middle Class David McKerracher
3. SOC 101 — Lecture 3: The Rise of the Industrial Proletariat David McKerracher
4. SOC 101 — Lecture 5: Alienated Timenergy and the Circuit of Capital David McKerracher
5. SOC 101 — Lecture 6: Kinds of Energy, and the Real Privilege David McKerracher
6. SOC 101 — Lecture 7: Estranged Labor David McKerracher
7. SOC 101 — Lecture 10: TMI, E-Participation, and the Post-Class Fractured Mass David McKerracher
8. SOC 101 — Lecture 11: Are We Enlightened Yet? David McKerracher
9. SOC 101 — Lecture 13: Three Capitalist Archetypes David McKerracher
10. SOC 101 — Lecture 14: Scientific Aspirations and Ressentiment David McKerracher
11. SOC 101 — Lecture 15: What's Good, Natural, Normal — and Who Decides? David McKerracher
12. SOC 101 - Lecture 16 - Where We've Been and Where We're Going - 10/17/24 David McKerracher
13. SOC 101 — Lecture 17: Who Are We to Know? David McKerracher
14. SOC 101 — Lecture 18: The Medium Is the Environment David McKerracher
15. SOC 101 — Lecture 19: The Medium, Part 2 David McKerracher
16. SOC 101 - L20 - Institutions - Habitus/Field - PCFM - Timenergy - Ressentiment - Totalization - 11/7 David McKerracher
17. SOC 101 — Lecture 21: Socioanalysis David McKerracher
18. SOC 101 - Lecture 22 - Socioanalysis vs Psychoanalysis - 11/14/24 David McKerracher
19. SOC 101 — Lecture 23: Socioanalysis and Social Engineering, Part 1 David McKerracher
20. Mode of Production vs. PMC (Guest Lecture) David McKerracher
21. The History and Role of the PMC (Guest Lecture) David McKerracher
Course Start Here Marxism & Class

Intro to Marxism with Chris Cutrone at Theory Underground

4 lectures · Show lectures

1. Intro to Marxism — Lecture 1 Chris Cutrone
2. Intro to Marxism — Lecture 2 Chris Cutrone
3. Intro to Marxism — Lecture 3 Chris Cutrone
4. Intro to Marxism — Lecture 4 Chris Cutrone
Course Start Here Intro Courses Politics & Power

Intro to Political Theory

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1. 12 Political Theorists — Lecture 1: Plato Benjamin Studebaker
2. 12 Political Theorists — Lecture 2: Aristotle Benjamin Studebaker
3. 12 Political Theorists — Lecture 3: Aquinas Benjamin Studebaker
4. 12 Political Theorists — Lecture 4: Marsilius Benjamin Studebaker
5. 12 Political Theorists — Lecture 5: Machiavelli Benjamin Studebaker
6. 12 Political Theorists — Lecture 6: Hobbes Benjamin Studebaker
7. 12 Political Theorists — Lecture 6 Discussion: Hobbes Benjamin Studebaker
8. 12 Political Theorists — Lecture 7: Hume Benjamin Studebaker
9. 12 Political Theorists — Lecture 8: Rousseau Benjamin Studebaker
10. 12 Political Theorists — Lecture 9: Constant Benjamin Studebaker
11. 12 Political Theorists — Lecture 10: Tocqueville Benjamin Studebaker
12. 12 Political Theorists — Lecture 11: Marx Benjamin Studebaker
13. 12 Political Theorists — Lecture 12: Weber Benjamin Studebaker
Course Start Here Ongoing Intro Courses

Intro to Theory - 2026

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1. Intro to Theory — Introduction
2. Intro to Theory — Marx
3. Intro to Theory — Nietzsche
4. Intro to Theory — Before Nietzsche: On the Canon
5. Intro to Theory — Edmund Burke
6. Intro to Theory — Derrida
7. Intro to Foucault
8. Intro to Theory — Heidegger's Being and Time
9. Intro to Theory — Heidegger
10. Intro to Theory — Stirner
11. Intro to Theory — Nancy
12. Intro to Virilio | Ft. Joshua Hansen
13. Post-Duopoly
14. Intro to Emile Durkheim
15. Intro to Auguste Comte Chris Cutrone
16. Intro to Baudrillard Christopher Bower
Course Start Here Intro Courses Psychoanalysis

Intro to Žižek

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1. Intro to Žižek — Lecture 1: Beyond Discourse Analysis Michael Downs
2. Intro to Žižek — Lecture 2: Love Your Nation as Yourself Michael Downs
3. Intro to Žižek — Lecture 3: Superego by Default Michael Downs
4. Intro to Žižek — Lecture 4: The Obscene Knot of Ideology Michael Downs
Course Start Here Intro Courses

Introduction to Ivan Illich at Theory Underground with Bryan Weeks

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1. Intro to Ivan Illich — Lecture 4: Tools of Conviviality Bryan Weeks
2. Intro to Ivan Illich — Lecture 1: Deschooling Society Bryan Weeks
3. Lecture 2 of Intro Illich - Shadow Work - at Theory Underground with Bryan Weeks Bryan Weeks
4. Intro to Ivan Illich — Lecture 3: In the Vineyard of the Text Bryan Weeks
Course Start Here Intro Courses

Introduction to Nick Land at Theory Underground

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1. Intro to Nick Land LECTURE 1 - Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Bataille, Deleuze & Guattari etc. Michael Downs
2. Intro to Nick Land — Lecture 1: A Quick and Dirty Introduction to Accelerationism Michael Downs
3. Intro to Nick Land — Discussion: A Quick and Dirty Introduction to Accelerationism Michael Downs
4. Intro to Nick Land — Lecture 2: Cybernetic Capital Michael Downs
5. Intro to Nick Land — Lecture 3: The Dark Enlightenment Michael Downs
6. Intro to Nick Land — Lecture 4: The Occult and the CCRU Michael Downs
7. Intro to Nick Land — Why This Course Michael Downs
8. Intro to Nick Land — Discussion: Land on the Left, and Mark Fisher on Transcendental Miserabilism Michael Downs
9. Nick Land at Theory Underground Michael Downs
Course Start Here Marxism & Class

PMC Consciousness & Ideology

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1. PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Introduction: Why PMC Critique Matters David McKerracher
2. PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Week 3 in Review: Dirtbags and PMCs David McKerracher
3. PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Reading: Thomas Frank, Listen, Liberal David McKerracher
4. PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Reading: Barbara Ehrenreich, Fear of Falling David McKerracher
5. PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Week 1: How Progressives Invented the PMC David McKerracher
6. PMC analysis is about a mode, mindset, and ideology rather than an identity-based dismissal or slur David McKerracher
7. PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Reading: The Professional-Managerial Class (1976) David McKerracher
8. A Critique of Worldview Marxism - Key Excerpts and Exegesis from Burnham's The Managerial Revolution David McKerracher
9. PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Week 2: Ehrenreich vs. Burnham on Class David McKerracher
10. PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Reading: Burnham, The Managerial Revolution David McKerracher
11. PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Reading: Ehrenreich on the New Left David McKerracher
12. PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Reading: Du Bois, The Talented Tenth David McKerracher
13. PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Adolph Reed Jr. on the Color Line and Du Bois David McKerracher
14. PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Week 3: Discursive Taylorism and the New Left David McKerracher
15. PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Interview with Catherine Liu David McKerracher
16. PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Angela Nagle vs. the New Priesthood David McKerracher
17. PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Week 4: Left vs. Post-Left, Nagle and Liu David McKerracher
18. PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Reading: Catherine Liu, Virtue Hoarders David McKerracher
19. What the Left Misunderstands About Workers: Blue Collar vs. PMC Enjoyment David McKerracher
20. The U.S. Political Traffic Jam and the PMC David McKerracher
21. Marx's Conceptions of Class and the Rise of the PMC David McKerracher
Course Start Here TU Foundations

TU's 12 Core Concepts

14 lectures · Show lectures

1. The Three Crises: Activism, the Academy, and the Attention Economy David McKerracher
2. The Virtuous Circle vs. the Vicious Cycle (Part 2) David McKerracher
3. Retroversion: Schooled Brains vs. Real Learning David McKerracher
4. Asynchronous Simultaneity and Critical Media Theory - TU Core Concepts Course David McKerracher
5. Being-in-the-World, Part 2 David McKerracher
6. Being-with: Being-in-the-World, Part 2 (Guest Lecture) David McKerracher
7. Being-in-the-World, Part 1 David McKerracher
8. Nature, Nurture, and Natality David McKerracher
9. Gerrymandering Befindlichkeit: The Political Capture of Dispositions David McKerracher
10. Reprojection: Projection Plus Retroversion David McKerracher
11. A Quick Intro to Timenergy Theory and the Post-Class Fractured Mass David McKerracher
12. Scholē vs. Schooling, and New Reading David McKerracher
13. Churn vs. Canon: Which Voices Have Staying Power? David McKerracher
14. Post-Duopoly
Course Start Here Intro Courses Continental Philosophy

The Philosophy of Nature with Nina Power

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1. The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 1: Phusis Nina Power
2. The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 2: Lucretius, Atoms and Void Nina Power
3. The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 3: Menent and Harrington Nina Power
4. The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 4: Spinoza Nina Power
5. The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 5: Kant Nina Power
6. The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 5 Discussion: Kant Nina Power
7. The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 6: Hegel Nina Power
8. WR - ANNOUNCING: Part II of Nina Power's Philosophy of Nature Nina Power
9. The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 6 Discussion: Hegel Nina Power
10. Nietzsche - Lecture 7 of The Philosophy of Nature with Nina Power Nina Power
11. The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 8: Darwin Nina Power
12. The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 9: Marx and Schmidt Nina Power
13. The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 10: Feminism Nina Power
14. The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 11: Psychoanalysis and Nature Nina Power
15. The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 12: AI, Technology, and Nature Nina Power
Course Start Here Ongoing TU Foundations Seminars

The Philosophy of Stewardship and Home Economics

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1. Stewardship & Home Economics — Stewardship and Critique David McKerracher
2. Stewardship & Home Economics — Lecture 1: True Ownership David McKerracher
3. Stewardship & Home Economics — Practicum, Part 1 David McKerracher
4. Stewardship & Home Economics — Guest Lecture: Scott Yenor David McKerracher
5. Stewardship & Home Economics — Xenophon's Oeconomicus, Books 8–9 David McKerracher
6. Stewardship & Home Economics — Family, Reactionary Feminism, and Self-Help David McKerracher
7. Stewardship & Home Economics — Exploitation vs. Nurture: Berry to Salatin David McKerracher
8. Stewardship & Home Economics — Masanobu Fukuoka's The One-Straw Revolution David McKerracher
9. Stewardship & Home Economics — Practicum, Part 2: Cultivation and Construction David McKerracher
10. Three Cheers for Wendell Berry David McKerracher
11. What would you become, if you could reclaim your mornings? David McKerracher