Blame Theory
Geoff Shullenberger
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Blame the Frankfurt School? (Part 2)
Ashley and Geoff discuss “The Concept of Enlightenment,” the first section of Adorno and Horkheimer’s Dialectic of Enlightenment.This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other…
Blame the Frankfurt School? (Part 1)
Ashley Frawley and Geoff Shullenberger discuss Geoff’s article “The Frankfurt School Myth,” A.J.A. Woods’s book The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy, and Ashley’s own gripes with the School.This is a…
The Epstein Intellectual Complex
Ashley Frawley joins Geoff Shullenberger to discuss her essay, “Jeffrey Epstein’s Necrophilia—and Ours,” and the significance of Epstein’s interests in transhumanism, eugenics, and related…
The Crisis of Liberalism (Part 7): Nick Land’s Paleoliberal Accelerationism
Geoff Shullenberger and Ashley Frawley discuss the career and thought of the philosopher Nick Land, accelerationist, neoreactionary, and advocate of “paleo-liberalism.” Read Geoff’s recent profile of…
The Crisis of Liberalism (Part 6): The Persistence of Eugenics
Ashley Frawley and Geoff Shullenberger discuss the long afterlife of eugenics, from sociobiology and The Bell Curve to today's online right.This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this…
The Crisis of Liberalism (Part 5): The Origins of Eugenics
In conversation with Geoff Shullenberger, Ashley Frawley explains how eugenic thinking and practices emerge out of the crisis of liberalism. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this…
The Crisis of Liberalism (Part 4): The End of Woke?
Geoff Shullenberger and Ashley Frawley discuss Andrew Doyle’s new book The End of Woke, which Ashley reviewed in Compact. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other…
The Crisis of Liberalism (Part 3): The Trans-ing of the Political Subject
Ashley Frawley joins Geoff Shullenberger to discuss her Compact column, "How Society Got a Sex Change," and its relevance to the evolution of liberalism. This is a public episode. If you'd like to…
The Crisis of Liberalism (Part 2)
Geoff Shullenberger and Ashley Frawley continue to explore the crisis of liberalism. They begin by discussing recent reversals around free-speech debates in the United States and the odd fact that…
The Crisis of Liberalism (Part 1)
Liberalism is in crisis. Its parties and institutions are suffering one setback after another across the West, and forces described as “illiberal” are on the rise globally. But when did this crisis…
Blaming Men, Blaming Women (Part 1)
Geoff and Ashley discuss the online war of the sexes prompted by a recent mass shooting, which Ashley wrote about last month. They then explore the deeper roots of the gendered blame game that often…
The Age of Emotion
Ashley Frawley, Compact’s new senior editor as well as a new co-host of Blame Theory, joins Geoff Shullenberger to explore how collective social and political problems have been blamed on individual…
Who Is to Blame for Wokeness?
Sociologist Musa al-Gharbi joins Geoff Shullenberger to discuss his new book We Have Never Been Woke. A great deal of discussion of wokeness attempts to trace it to the influence of certain thinkers…
Blame Marx?
Compact's Sohrab Ahmari joins Geoff Shullenberger to discuss one of the most widely blamed thinkers of all time: Karl Marx. We consider why Republicans, all the way up to Donald Trump, are reviving…
Blame Postmodernists?
Writer David Shields joins Geoff Shullenberger to discuss his new book and documentary How We Got Here. We ask whether postmodernists are to blame for our post-truth predicament and explore Trump's…
Blame Foucault? (Part 3)
David Dudrick, professor of philosophy at Colgate University, joins Geoff to discuss his recent Compact essay "Why Foucault Couldn't Kill Sexuality." They discuss the misunderstandings around…
Blame Foucault? (Part 2)
Compact founding editor Sohrab Ahmari joins Geoff and Nina in this episode to examine Michel Foucault’s later work on biopolitics, governmentality, and economics. Did Foucault predict or even…
Blame Foucault? (Part 1)
This episode examines Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality, vol. 1 and asks to what extent Foucault is to blame for contemporary progressive dogmas about sex, gender, and power.Listen either here…
Blame the Greeks? (Part 1)
Anchored by our own Nina Power and Geoff Shullenberger, Blame Theory takes a seriously playful look at the ideas that have shaped our minds and our world, to ask: How have we ended up here, and whom…
Blame Butler?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit compactmag.substack.comAnchored by our own Nina Power and Geoff Shullenberger, Blame Theory takes a seriously playful look at the ideas…
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