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Course Continental Philosophy

BEING AND TIME lectures by David McKerracher at Theory Underground

18 lectures · Show lectures

1. Being and Time — Division I, Chapter 1 David McKerracher
2. Being and Time — Division I, Chapter 2 David McKerracher
3. Being and Time — Division I, Chapter 3, Part A David McKerracher
4. Being and Time — Division I, Chapter 3, Parts B–C David McKerracher
5. BEING AND TIME chapter 4 and the two main ways of reading Heidegger David McKerracher
6. Being and Time — Division I, Chapter 5, Part B David McKerracher
7. Being and Time — Division I, Chapter 5, Part A David McKerracher
8. Being and Time — Division I, Chapter 6, Part A: Anxiety and Care David McKerracher
9. Being and Time — Division I, Chapter 6, Part B: Reality and Truth David McKerracher
10. Being and Time — Division II, Chapter 1 David McKerracher
11. Being and Time — Division II, Chapter 2 (Guest Lecture) David McKerracher
12. Being and Time — Division II, Chapter 3: Anticipatory Resoluteness and Temporality David McKerracher
13. Being and Time — Division II, Chapter 4: Temporality and Everydayness David McKerracher
14. Being and Time — Division II, Chapter 5: Historicality David McKerracher
15. Being and Time — Division II, Chapter 6: Ordinary Time, and Preparing the Question David McKerracher
16. Being and Time — Introduction: A Postscript on Interpretation and Reading David McKerracher
17. René Descartes' Discourse On Method (full reading + context and great conversation) David McKerracher
18. Being-in-the-World, Part 1 David McKerracher
Course TU Foundations Seminars

CRITICAL MEDIA THEORY lectures Dave and Ann

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1. Critical Media Theory — McLuhan, Marx, and Praxis Ann McKerracher
2. Critical Media Theory — Session 2: Solitude and Solicitude Ann McKerracher
3. Critical Media Theory — Session 3: Advertising and Propaganda Ann McKerracher
4. Critical Media Theory — Session 4: Duopoly, the Business of Division Ann McKerracher
5. Critical Media Theory — Session 5: De-Instrumentalizing the Face Ann McKerracher
6. Critical Media Theory — Session 6: Self-Referentiality and Social Media Ann McKerracher
7. Critical Media Theory — Student Presentations Ann McKerracher
8. Critical Media Theory — Introduction: Toward a New Theory of Subjectivity? Ann McKerracher
9. Critical Media Theory and Critical Doxology & Timenergy — Discussion Ann McKerracher
10. Critical Media Theory — Baudrillard vs. Debord Ann McKerracher
11. The Plurality of Big Others vs. the Concrete Other Ann McKerracher
12. Intro to Lacan and the Comfort Crisis Ann McKerracher
13. The Social Unconscious: The Superego vs. the Big Other Ann McKerracher
14. David Goggins vs. Pierre Bourdieu: The Philosophy of "Stay Hard" Ann McKerracher
15. The Profile Age: Profilicity, the General Peer, and Luhmann Ann McKerracher
Course TU Foundations Seminars

Critical Doxology and Timenergy Seminar Lectures

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1. Critical Doxology & Timenergy — Lecture 1: Marx, Heidegger, and Adorno vs. 7 Habits David McKerracher
2. Concluding Critical Media Theory and Critical Doxology & Timenergy, 2024 David McKerracher
3. FLOW and ALIENATION: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Young Karl Marx - CDT lecture 3 David McKerracher
4. The Lacomfort Unconscious: Natality, Nature, and Violence David McKerracher
5. Ancient Chinese and Greek Thought, and Timenergy David McKerracher
6. Critical Doxology & Timenergy — Discussion: Energy, and Where It Comes From David McKerracher
Course TU Foundations Seminars

David McKerracher Seminar at Theory Underground

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1. Agnostic Catholicism David McKerracher
2. regenerationality and the pro-civ David McKerracher
3. Three Crises of Stewardship: Visions, Value, and Energytime David McKerracher
4. After 10 Years, Thousands of Dollars, and Hundreds of Hours David McKerracher
5. Renewal and the Fourth Frontier David McKerracher
6. What Is the Post-Left? David McKerracher
7. Coming Off This Like David McKerracher
8. SAARUTU — Summer 2026 Overview David McKerracher
9. Trouble Making Eye Contact? David McKerracher
10. SAARUTU Announcement David McKerracher
11. Why That Era Had to End — Recap and A-Side David McKerracher
12. Why That Era Had to End — B-Side David McKerracher
13. An Exercise in Transparency David McKerracher
14. Three Live Podcast — Spokane, April 2026 David McKerracher
15. The Plan: Introduction to Sociology and Critical Social Theory David McKerracher
16. What Is Capital? An Overview David McKerracher
17. Intro to Lacan and the Comfort Crisis Ann McKerracher
18. Liberal Arts vs. the Neoliberal University: Scholē, Schooling, and Timenergy David McKerracher
19. Critical Media Theory — Introduction: Toward a New Theory of Subjectivity? Ann McKerracher
20. Critical Doxology & Timenergy — Lecture 2: Henry Ford vs. Martin Heidegger David McKerracher
21. Post-Duopoly: A (De)Radicalization Starter Pack for Organizers David McKerracher
22. Critical Doxology & Timenergy — Lecture 4: Human Life and Doxa, in Defence of "Normies" David McKerracher
23. Stewardship & Home Economics — Stewardship and Critique David McKerracher
24. Theory Underground Turns Three David McKerracher
25. McKerracher Seminar — October: Institutional Capture vs. Genuine Thinking David McKerracher
26. TU R3TREAT — Exo-Talks, Night 3 David McKerracher
27. McKerracher Seminar — Session 1: Ideas Matter, Against Crude Materialism David McKerracher
28. McKerracher Seminar — August: Virtue Clashes and Field Injunctions David McKerracher
29. McKerracher Seminar — July: Practical Organizing 101 David McKerracher
30. McKerracher Seminar — Agoraphobia, and Letting the Record Reflect David McKerracher
Course 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 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 Psychoanalysis

Intro to Lacan (Seminar XI with Todd McGowan)

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1. Seminar XI — Session 1: The Unconscious and Repetition Todd McGowan
2. Seminar XI — Session 2: Of the Gaze as objet petit a Todd McGowan
3. Seminar XI — Session 3: The Transference and the Drive Todd McGowan
4. Seminar XI — Session 4: The Field of the Other, and Back to the Transference Todd McGowan
Course Marxism & Class

Intro to Marxism with Chris Cutrone at Theory Underground

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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 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 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
Course 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 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 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 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 Continental Philosophy

TOTALITY AND INFINITY - Emmanuel Levinas

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1. Emmanuel Levinas, Thinker of the Other (Panel) David McKerracher
2. Heidegger and Levinas: Their Relationship, and Heidegger's Politics David McKerracher
3. Husserl According to Levinas: The Phenomenological Theory of Being David McKerracher
4. How to Read Totality and Infinity David McKerracher
5. Levinas on Heidegger's Being and Time (Ethics and Infinity) David McKerracher
6. Totality and Infinity — The Preface David McKerracher
7. Totality and Infinity — Session 1: Part I, Sections A–B David McKerracher
8. Totality and Infinity — Discussion: Interpretation, Method, and the Breach of Totality David McKerracher
9. Totality and Infinity — Notes: Section I, Part A David McKerracher
10. Totality and Infinity — Notes: Section I, Part B, with Terrying with the Text David McKerracher
11. Totality and Infinity — Session 2: Part I, Sections C–D David McKerracher
12. Totality and Infinity — Notes: Section I, Parts C–D David McKerracher
13. Terrying with the Text — Section I, Parts C–D David McKerracher
14. Totality and Infinity — Session 3: Part II, Sections A–B David McKerracher
15. Totality and Infinity — Discussion after Session 3 David McKerracher
16. Totality and Infinity — Session 4: Part II, Sections C–D David McKerracher
17. Totality and Infinity — Notes: Section II, Parts A–B David McKerracher
18. Terrying with the Text — Section II, Parts A–B David McKerracher
19. Totality and Infinity — Session 5: Part II, to Completion David McKerracher
20. Totality and Infinity — Notes: Section II, Parts C–E David McKerracher
21. Terrying with the Text — Section II, Parts C–D David McKerracher
22. Totality and Infinity — Week 2 Discussion David McKerracher
23. Totality and Infinity — Course Introduction: Levinas vs. Hegel, Marx, Heidegger, Butler, and Critchley David McKerracher
Course TU Foundations

TU's 12 Core Concepts

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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 Psychoanalysis

The Clinical Structures of Psychoanalysis and Autism - Dr. Leon Brenner

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1. The Clinical Structures of Psychoanalysis — Lecture 1 Leon Brenner
2. The Clinical Structures of Psychoanalysis — Lecture 2 Leon Brenner
3. The Clinical Structures of Psychoanalysis — Lecture 3 Leon Brenner
4. The Clinical Structures of Psychoanalysis — Lecture 4 Leon Brenner
5. The Clinical Structures of Psychoanalysis — Lecture 5 Leon Brenner
6. The Clinical Structures of Psychoanalysis — Post-Course Discussion Leon Brenner
Course TU Foundations

The Idea of the University Lectures and Discussions

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1. The Idea of the University — Week 1: Lecture and Discussion David McKerracher
2. The Idea of the University — Week 1.5 David McKerracher
3. The Idea of the University — Week 2 David McKerracher
4. The Idea of the University — Week 3 David McKerracher
5. The Idea of the University — Week 4 David McKerracher
6. The Idea of the University — Final Session David McKerracher
Course 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 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
Course Continental Philosophy

Zizek's For They Know Not What They Do

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1. For They Know Not What They Do — Introduction Michael Downs
2. For They Know Not What They Do — Chapter 1 Michael Downs
3. For They Know Not What They Do — Chapter 2 Michael Downs
4. For They Know Not What They Do — Chapter 3, Part 1 Michael Downs
5. For They Know Not What They Do — Chapter 3, Part 2 Michael Downs
6. For They Know Not What They Do — Chapter 4 Michael Downs
7. For They Know Not What They Do — Chapter 5 Michael Downs
8. For They Know Not What They Do — Chapter 6 Michael Downs
9. For They Know Not What They Do — Discussion with Todd McGowan Michael Downs