Dr. Ashley Frawley joins Dave and Nance at Theory Underground to talk about her work. You can follow her on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/@AshleyAFrawley This conversation with @AshleyAFrawley is from one of the Epic Marathon Streams at Theory Underground in 2024 - you can see the whole thing here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlc…

From the first time Slavoj Žižek visited Theory Underground, to commemorate our 1 year anniversary! Now being released as a stand-alone video and podcast episode. In the previous visit to TU we introduced Slavoj to the ideas of Nick Land, who he then wrote an article about. In this interview, we talk about the philosophical concept of The Event, Sl…

We're going to Europe next week! We met with some of the participants and organizers for varios stops along the way, including Nina Power, Cadell Last, Carl Hayden Smith, and Lukasz. The official final version of the EU Tour gets revealed, we talk about it, and you can look at the stops and even RSVP using this link here: http://theoryunderground.c…

THIS ONE IS AN AMAZING VIDEO SO PLEASE WATCH ON YT: https://youtu.be/d-FhCfjTPDk Ivan Illich is the most important thinker of institutions, technology, tools, and the human condition who got overhyped while simultaneously misunderstood and then eclipsed by Foucault and Habermas on the one side, and Freire, hooks, and Giroux on the other. We're call…

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Douglas (Doug) Lain of Sublation Media was here before there was an online theory scene to speak of, much less one that was considered "Left." Dave and Nance bring him on to talk about the Left, what he means by this term, his time in the scene, and his vision for a way forward. This includes a critical defense of anti-establishment (or "populist")…

What is the difference between "class" politics and "universal" politics? Why does it matter? What goals ought we to have when thinking about the future? We get into all these questions and more on a special episode with Dr. Christine Louis-Dit-Sully. Dr. Christine Louis-Dit-Sully is the author of Transcending Racial Divisions: Will You Stand By Me…

As the headliner of an Epic Marathon Livestream at Theory Underground, we got to talk to Anna Greenspan about her work. I'm still mind blown by the possibilities her work opens. ABOUT / CREDITS / LINKS Become a monthly TU Tier Subscriber to access to the TU HUB, which includes past, ongoing, and upcoming courses, special events, office hours, clubs…

Coming to a city near you? Or are you coming to visit us in OUR spot, from afar!? A digital oasis for niche consumer BS, or an actual center for lectures, research, art, and publishing!? Come find out what's all about. This is part 1. Also, from the brainstorm for this description, Nance was like: "Busking at the end of history | What is really goi…

Sahil is back to lecture on the rest of Chapter 1 of Volume 1 of Das Kapital, the section on fetishization, followed by a speed run of chapter 2!!! You won't want to miss this one. A very special episode - let's goooo ABOUT / CREDITS / LINKS Become a monthly TU Tier Subscriber to access to the TU HUB, which includes past, ongoing, and upcoming cour…

Justin Murphy joins us to talk about the inspiration he has taken from Land and, ultimately, the direction he has taken it: Catholic Accelerationism! ABOUT / CREDITS / LINKS Become a monthly TU Tier Subscriber to access to the TU HUB, which includes past, ongoing, and upcoming courses, special events, office hours, clubs, and critical feedback that…

Amazing conversation with the author of Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus: A Critical Introduction and Guide: https://a.co/d/gol2ajX Brent Adkins is Professor of Philosophy at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia, USA. His primary interests are 19th and 20th Century European philosophy, Modern Philosophy, and politics. https://roanoke.academ…

Arguably the most important work by Marx for thinking timenergy theory. ABOUT / CREDITS / LINKS Become a monthly TU Tier Subscriber to access to the TU HUB, which includes past, ongoing, and upcoming courses, special events, office hours, clubs, and critical feedback that will help you evolve your comprehension capacities and critical faculties, vi…

Meet Terence Blake, IRL student of Deleuze, as well as Lyotard, Foucault, and many others. He we talk learning French, what it was like to study under Deleuze, and also we get into Theory Underground courses and activities a bit. Hope you enjoy! ABOUT / CREDITS / LINKS Become a monthly TU Tier Subscriber to access to the TU HUB, which includes past…

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Jela Krečič on the myth of the happy ending, The Handmaid's Tale, and Hollywood's fear of telling stories! ABOUT / CREDITS / LINKS Become a monthly TU Tier Subscriber to access to the TU HUB, which includes past, ongoing, and upcoming courses, special events, office hours, clubs, and critical feedback that will help you evolve your comprehension ca…

Daniel Garner of O.G. Rose visits at TU epic marathon stream to talk capital vs. timenergy, reading books, and literally everything. ABOUT / CREDITS / LINKS Become a monthly TU Tier Subscriber to access to the TU HUB, which includes past, ongoing, and upcoming courses, special events, office hours, clubs, and critical feedback that will help you ev…

There is no greater divide on the internet than Jacques Lacan vs. Gilles Deleuze, but few could articulate how they differ when it comes to their main difference: Their theories of desire! Todd McGowan joins TU to talk about why he thinks Lacan's theory is better. ABOUT / CREDITS / LINKS Become a monthly TU Tier Subscriber to access to the TU HUB, …

From the first time Slavoj Žižek visited Theory Underground, to help kick off our U.S. Tour in 2023! Now being released as a stand alone video. This is the interview that provoked Slavoj to write an article about Nick Land that was published in Compact Mag. ABOUT / CREDITS / LINKS Become a monthly TU Tier Subscriber to access to the TU HUB, which i…

We've made this one public so you can get a taste of what's going on behind the scenes at Theory Underground. Critical Media Theory (CMT) (on the 2nd Sunday of every month 9:00 AM Pacific / 12:00 PM Eastern) may be the most popular and cutting edge field/subject-matter at TU. It's about what we all have in common: Devices that mediate our sensory e…

Dave and Ann are teaching a course together. In this lecture, Ann lectures on The Liberal Arts vs. The Neoliberal University, and Dave gives a lecture on Scholē vs. Schooling and Timenergy Theory for normies. This is, in a sense, the Snelgrove McKerracher synthesis, for normies! To get involved with the monthly seminar become a subscriber at https:…

Anna Kornbluh on Immediacy Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism (2024). Dave and Mikey meet, and interview, Dr. Kornbluh. Capitalism, media theory, aesthetics, rhetoric, and more! ABOUT / CREDITS / LINKS Welcome to Theory Underground. Theory Underground is a theory lecture course-centered platform and publishing house with an app on the IoS and And…

This is from an epic marathon livestream at Theory Underground in January, 2024. ABOUT / CREDITS / LINKS Welcome to Theory Underground. Theory Underground is a theory lecture course-centered platform and publishing house with an app on the IoS and Android stores. If you want to better understand yourself and the world by asking the hardest question…

Announcement: Dr. Leon Brenner joins Theory Underground to teach The Clinical Structures and The Autistic Subject! Enroll here: https://theory-underground.com/courses/brenner-1/ Theory Underground turned one year old on Dec. 6th, 2023. This video was recorded during the anniversary livestream and is being republished as a stand alone video. ABOUT /…

From a talk Dave gave at the Philosophy Portal conference called Logic for the Global Brain, which took place June 24th and 25th, 2023. You can see all the presentations and full schedule here: https://philosophyportal.online/science-of-logic-conference For an article by Dave on this topic of comparing music scenes to the theory scene, affinity gro…

Introduction to philosophy, from the standpoint of one trying to figure out what the hell Nick Land is doing. This is a crash course (speed run) of some of the most difficult thinkers from the history of philosophy—Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Freud, Bataille, D&G etc—not dumbed down, but made accessible. Taught by Michael Downs. Recorded Oct. 28…

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As a part of its international book tour, Theory Underground joined Andrew McLuhan at The McLuhan Institute for an afternoon of theorizing media, exploring the McLuhan library, and talking about the work they are doing with the Critical Media Theory research cohort at Theory Underground! About the TU Tour Crew: David McKerracher (M.A. in critical t…

Dave and Mikey interview Slavoj Žižek for the Theory Underground book TOUR launch in Boise, Idaho. They asked him questions about drive vs. desire and the ethics of psychoanalysis in relation to addiction and serial killers; Nick Land, Baudrillard, and Compact Mag / Nina Power. We get into the politics of universality, our critique of working class…

Dr. Brian Becker of Singularity As Sublimity visits the channel to talk about intentionality in Brentano, Freud, Husserl, Heidegger, and Lacan. What is it, why does it matter, and how does it impact these different thinkers? What does each of them do differently with the concept? Find out all this and more! If you get a lot out of this, then you mi…

Cadell Last from Philosophy Portal and David McKerracher of Theory Underground, talking about "killing ourselves with texts." This is about death drive, i.e. the unconscious need for excessive self overcoming. Make sure to subscribe to Philosophy Portal: https://www.youtube.com/@PhilosophyPortal And check out the website! This September they are ta…

Cadell Last interviewed Dave McKerracher and Ann Snelgrove on the course they are co-instructing called Digital Literacy and Critical Media Theory. Chances are that, even though it was shared on the TU community tab, you didn't see it, so it is being mirrored here! Make sure to subscribe to Philosophy Portal HERE: https://www.youtube.com/@UCCtCqYQF…

Tony from the video essay channel 1Dime surprises us all with an impromptu lecture on the complexities and historical importance of The Cultural Revolution in Mao's China! Subscribe to @1Dimee here: / @1dimee ABOUT / CREDITS / LINKS If you want to better understand yourself and the world by asking the hardest questions, wrestling with the most comp…

Samuel Loncar is a Christian atheist who analyzes religion and philosophy as collective and individual forms of psychotherapy. We talk Heidegger, therapism vs. healing, and then we got into some surprising class analysis! ABOUT / CREDITS / LINKS If you want to better understand yourself and the world by asking the hardest questions, wrestling with …

There’s an ancient debate over the relevance of Heidegger’s politics, or supposed lack thereof. Hundreds of thousands of hours of video commentary and academic conferences have been spent over the question of whether his “pure ontology” is or is not in fact inherently reactionary. At this point we now know the answer. The more important question is…

This is Ann's debut solo stream, clipped from the 2-day marathon stream last month! Ann is the co-instructor for a special course on Digital Literacy and Critical Media Theory coming up in June. If it sounds like something you want to be a part of, sign up here: https://theory-underground.com/courses/cmt/ ABOUT / CREDITS / LINKS If you want to bett…

A lecture in preparation for tackling Being and Time. Two years prior to writing Being and Time, Heidegger lays out the field of phenomenology: It's major figures, discoveries, defense, and critique. Before he was pressured to write his Being and Time prematurely, Heidegger was thinking through his imminent critique of phenomenology in a lecture se…

Before he was pressured to write his Being and Time prematurely, Heidegger was thinking through his imminent critique of phenomenology in a lecture series called History of the Concept of Time. This is the most lucid introduction to his magnum opus Being and Time. David McKerracher gives a lecture on the Introduction and Chapter 1 of History of the…

Enroll to What is Sex at https://theory-underground.com/courses/what-is-sex/ Watch 3 Reasons to Read What is Sex? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvTYUgowWjE&t=7354s Welcome to Theory Underground. If you want to better understand yourself and the world by asking the hardest questions, wrestling with the most complex problems, and reading the greate…

Enroll to What is Sex at https://theory-underground.com/courses/what-is-sex/ Watch 3 Reasons to Read What is Sex? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvTYUgowWjE&t=7354s Welcome to Theory Underground. If you want to better understand yourself and the world by asking the hardest questions, wrestling with the most complex problems, and reading the greate…

Enroll to What is Sex at https://theory-underground.com/courses/what-is-sex/ Watch 3 Reasons to Read What is Sex? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvTYUgowWjE&t=7354s Welcome to Theory Underground. If you want to better understand yourself and the world by asking the hardest questions, wrestling with the most complex problems, and reading the greate…

Todd joins Dave for the 2-day Marathon stream to make a tribute to Mikey, a working class intellectual hero. Read The Dangerous Maybe here: https://thedangerousmaybe.medium.com/ If you get something from it, then consider becoming a patron to The Dangerous Maybe here: https://patreon.com/TheDangerousMaybe Mikey teaches Dave Lacan 101 playlist: http…

We each share three reasons we're reading Being and Time. Sign up for this course today at https://theory-underground.com/courses/btdiv1/ Welcome to Theory Underground. If you want to better understand yourself and the world by asking the hardest questions, wrestling with the most complex problems, and reading the greatest thinkers in the history o…

Theory Underground is preparing to launch a new course: Digital Literacy and CMT (Critical Media Theory), which begins this May and takes place every 2nd Sunday of the month for six months. Where media theory, philosophy of technology, and critical theory meet practical tools, social science, group work, and reflections in a way that is structured …

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Mikey is back to teach Dave the basics of Žižek’s theory of ideology. If you have been learning Lacan 101 and now Žižek through Mikey and Dave’s conversations, you might want to dive into the deep end. Check out the course on Žižek’s For They Know Not What They Do, which starts on February 25th: https://theory-underground.com/courses/ftknwtd/ ABOUT…

Mikey is back to teach Dave the basics of Žižek’s theory of ideology. If you have been learning Lacan 101 and now Žižek through Mikey and Dave’s conversations, you might want to dive into the deep end. Check out the course on Žižek’s For They Know Not What They Do, which starts on February 25th: https://theory-underground.com/courses/ftknwtd/ ABOUT…

Dave is joining forces with Cadell Last of Philosophy Portal to do short course and deep dive into Alenka Zupančič's What is Sex. This is about the three reasons this text matters. Alenka Zupančič is a fellow traveler of Slavoj Žižek and is one of contemporary theory's most cutting edge thinkers. SIGN UP for the course here: https://theory-undergro…

ABOUT / CREDITS / LINKS Welcome to the Theory Underground. Theory Underground aims to make challenging philosophical and theoretical work accessible, not by summarizing, but by aiding those who seek to engage in this work as a way of life. SUPPORT this work at https://theory-underground.com/support Do you have questions, comments, or something to s…

Blue Collar Anti-PC "Inherent transgression" Jouissance in the workplace Mikey is back to teach Dave the basics of Žižek’s theory of ideology. If you have been learning Lacan 101 and now Žižek through Mikey and Dave’s conversations, you might want to dive into the deep end. Check out the course on Žižek’s For They Know Not What They Do, which start…