Thinking With... A Rhetorical Theory Podcast
Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, and Nathaniel Street
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S5E12 S5 EP 12 - Plant Sex Everywhere
Episode 12 – Plant Sex Everywhere!Gay Science Book 5 continued0:30 – 1:50 – How to Lose Listeners1:55 – 19:45 Nathaniel went on strike: normally likes complexity but sees the allure of dogmatic…
S5E11 S5 EP 11 - The Gravity of Teaching (and its overcoming)
00:30 – 1:55 Gay Science Book 5 (which we hardly mention)2:05 - 30:00 the recurring end-of-semester dilemma; applying a policy vs. making a decision; “fairness” as a way to avoid making a…
S5E10 S5 EP 10 - Endings and Eternal Re-turnings
Gay Science – Book 4 continued00:30-3:30Quitting tobacco and scotch (or not); 3:38-13:45Like the stoics; 308 – advice vs. diagnostics (both are actions); 301 and 306 – no blanket advice, it always…
S5E9 S5 EP 9 - The Tone of Affirmative Thinking
Episode 9 – The tone of affirmative thinkingGay Science Book 400:30-12:40Nietzsche’s affirmative direction; 276; 307; reason is a symptom of a way of life; 278 – how great that we aren’t always…
S8E8 S5 EP 8 - The Smell of Thinking
Episode 8 - The Smell of ThinkingEnd of Book300:30 - 4:00 section 213 cause and effects - cause is added later as an intervention; 4:00 - 18:15Reading the short maxims vs. reading aphorisms;…
S5 EP 7 - Poly and Mono Theism
Book 3 (again)0- 3:15 Bad intros3:20 - 16:00Nietzsche’s materialist comedy; section 124 - the infinite; panic attacks - cognitive models vs. affective experiential; subjectivity; thinking as…
S5 EP 6 - Shadows of God
§108-1250- 3:00 Podcasting and Romance; new intros; 3:00- 22:40Book 3 Gay Science §108— The Death of God; theology of atheism; §109 anthropomorphism and will to power; the need for error life v…
S5E5 S5 EP 5 - Responding to Nietzsche's "Woman"
0:00–14:25The sections on “woman” are not distinct from the rest of the book; §68 “Will and Willingness” §64 “Skeptics” superficiality of existence ; the feminine operation and the body marked by the…
S5E4 S5 EP 4 - The Truth of Social Formation
0:00–22:30What does The Gay Science have to do with rhetoric? ; §57 “To the Realists”, §58 “Only as Creators”, §59 “We Artists” ; our drunken passion for reality and reason ; our ridiculous desire to…
S5E3 S5 EP 3 - A Taste for Thinking
0:00–18:30Intro; Approach for a second read; Nate gratuitously makes it about Hegel; §26 “What is Life?” ; the positivity of becoming; §23 “The Signs of Corruption” and §24 “Different Forms of…
S5E2 S5 EP 2 - Questioning, Evaluating, and Other Injustices
0:00-8:50 – Intro; §2 “Intellectual Conscience” ; My questioning, my certainty, my injustice.8:50-28:30 – The instinct to evaluate; The art of questioning; The mystical allure of authorial intention;…
S5E1 S5 EP 1 - Becoming Bovine
0:00–5:20 – Pedagogical query: “Why can’t white dudes follow simple instructions?” 5:20–18:50 – Intro to the new season; Structure of the book, tone, question of completeness, title: gay, joy,…
S4E10 S4 EP 10 - White Mythology
In this ep, we discuss Derrida's "White Mythology." Some themes and talking points: - metaphor as an organizing principle of philosophy - how to ground or "unground" a philosophical system -…
S4E9 S4 EP 9 - Dr. Brooke Rollins / Decisions and Responsibility in Sports and in Life
In this special episode, Dr. Brooke Rollins, an Associate Professor of English at Lehigh University, joins the Thinking With crew to discuss Derrida's "Nietzsche and the Machine" interview, as well…
S4E8 S4 EP 8 - From Restricted to General Economy
In this ep, we talk through Derrida's essay, "From Restricted to General Economy: A Hegelianism Without Reserve." Much of this episode is dedicated to teasing the orientational differences between…
S4E7 S4 EP 7 - Structure, Sign, and Play
In this episode, we discuss Derrida's essay, "Structure, Sign, and Play." Topics covered include: - the relationship between ethnocentrism and metaphysics - our culpability in metaphysical…
S4E6 S4 EP 6 - Signature Event Context
In this episode, we talk through Derrida's "Signature Event Context," which is primarily a reading and extension of J.L. Austin's How to Do Things with Words. Our conversation covers, among other…
S4E5 S4 EP 5 - Plato's Pharmacy II
First ep of 2023! We took a lil break for the holidays. In this ep, we're talking about Derrida's "Plato's Pharmacy" again, among other things. Good episode -- no effort in the episode description.
S4E4 S4 EP 4 - Plato's Pharmacy - The Limits of the Text
In this episode, Nathaniel, John, and Nate talk through the first half of Derrida's "Plato's Pharmacy."
S4E3 S4 EP 3 - Grammatology: Under Erasure
In this episode, we talk through the first 25 pages of Derrida's Of Grammatology: - the primacy of writing - embeddedness of metaphysics - who needs Saussure anymore? - signifiers, signifieds,…
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