Theory Underground is a lecture course and publishing platform for working class autodidacts and intellectual malcontents of various and diverse stripes. Most of what happens at TU is in relatively small and focused lecture-driven courses, however, there are a lot of public-facing dialogues with colleagues, fellow travelers, co-instructors, and ultimately whatever I want to do. Hi, I’m David McKerracher, and the reason this podcast exists is because I want the stuff I’m putting out there to be more widely accessible for people who don’t wanna pay for YT premium. I assume an audience of workers with earbuds, even t...
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Theory Underground is a lecture course and publishing platform for working class autodidacts and intellectual malcontents of various and diverse stripes. Most of what happens at TU is in relatively small and focused lecture-driven courses, however, there are a lot of public-facing dialogues with colleagues, fellow travelers, co-instructors, and ultimately whatever I want to do. Hi, I’m David McKerracher, and the reason this podcast exists is because I want the stuff I’m putting out there to be more widely accessible for people who don’t wanna pay for YT premium. I assume an audience of workers with earbuds, even t...
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Recent Episodes of Theory Underground
Todd McGowan on Hegel's Theory of Death in Phenomenology of Spirit vs. Nick Land's Fanged Noumena
Enroll for Mikey's seminar here https://theoryunderground.com/product/freemikey Enroll for Mikey's Intro to Zizek starting in September: https://theoryunderground.com/product/zizek-1/
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Join live sessions and unlock past courses and forums on the TU Discord by becoming a member via the monthly subscription! It’s the hands-down best way to get the most out of the content if you are excited to learn the field and become a thinker in the milieu: https://theoryunderground.com/products/tu-subscription-tiers Pledge support to the production of the free content on YouTube and P...Episode 71 • 9 September 2024 • 1h, 19m and 5s
Christine Louis Dit Sully on Anti-Immigration Protests in the U.K. and Race
Dave and Nance are joined by Dr. Christine Louis Dit-Sully to talk about the Anti-Immigration Protests in the U.K. and Race.
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Join live sessions and unlock past courses and forums on the TU Discord by becoming a member via the monthly subscription! It’s the hands-down best way to get the most out of the content if you are excited to learn the field and become a thinker in the milieu: https://theoryunderground.com/products/tu-subscription-tiers Pledge support to the production of the free content on YouTube and Podcast https...Episode 72 • 9 September 2024 • 1h, 4m and 29s
Lecture for TOTAL beginners: Marx, timenergy, alienation, and the mode of production vs. PMC RRR
This is the 1,000 foot view of everything going on at Theory Underground for absolute newbies (college students in their first year!). If you want more, or to go deeper, consider getting involved. You can access all of McKerracher's behind the scenes Sociology 101 lectures as well as the critical theory and critique of political economy deep dives he is doing for the research seminar subscribers at Theory Underground here: https://theoryunderground.com/product/tu-subscription-tiers You can order Timenergy by David McKerracher as a book or audiobook on Audible here: https://a.co/d/cgO4FNr
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Episode 75 • 5 September 2024 • 1h, 13m and 13s
Is this a theory of COSMIC drive!? Todd McGowan on Schelling's Theory of DRIVE!
Enroll for Mikey's seminar here https://theoryunderground.com/product/freemikey Enroll for Mikey's Intro to Zizek starting in September: https://theoryunderground.com/product/zizek-1/
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Join live sessions and unlock past courses and forums on the TU Discord by becoming a member via the monthly subscription! It’s the hands-down best way to get the most out of the content if you are excited to learn the field and become a thinker in the milieu: https://theoryunderground.com/products/tu-subscription-tiers Pledge support to the production of the free content on YouTube and P...Episode 72 • 4 September 2024 • 1h, 4m and 55s
THE PLAN: Introduction to Sociology and Critical Social Theory with David McKerracher
This is the FIRST in the series called Deep Dives with Dave (DDD Season 1 Episode 1) These are a PART of the ongoing research seminar Dave does with Ann, which is called the Snelgrove-McKerracher Synthesis Seminar... By signing up for that seminar as a subscriber, you become a member at TU and unlock access to all their past lectures AND the ongoing research seminar, which meets 2 to 4 times per month, usually on Sundays at 12 PM Eastern. https://theoryunderground.com/products/tu-subscription-tiers All TU Monthly Subscribers also get a PDF of Underground Theory.
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...Episode 74 • 3 September 2024 • 3h, 9m and 18s
"Humorless cowards run the world." Nina Power on her cancellation
*The quotation in the title is not a direct quote, but is instead a paraphrase of a theme that comes up, put in a more clickable format. If you want a more forensic breakdown of what happened you can listen to Ann and Dave read the article by A Worker At Large here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsGhQjjjsQY
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Join live sessions and unlock past courses and forums on the TU Discord by becoming a member via the monthly subscription! It’s the hands-down best way to get the most...Episode 70 • 2 September 2024 • 1h, 12m and 43s
Žižek on Nick Land, Jordan Peterson, Piers Morgan, Gabriel Rockhill, Sublime Object of Ideology ETC
BRAND NEW INTERVIEW WITH ZIZEK! He came on to promote Mikey's course that starts THIS Saturday, September 7th. You can enroll here: https://theoryunderground.com/product/zizek-1/ If you sign up for Mikey's monthly seminar membership at tiers 2 or higher you will get a promo code that offers a huge discount on his upcoming courses, as well as unlock access to his past courses like Intro to Nick Land and Zizek's For They Know Not What They Do. Subscribe to his seminar here: https://theoryunderground.com/product/freemikey
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Episode 73 • 2 September 2024 • 47m and 17s
Matthew Stanley on the Business of Finding Your Audience Without Selling Out, School-Brain Syndrome, and Dying Without Regrets
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Theory Underground is a research, publishing, and lecture institute. TU exists to develop the concept of timenergy in the context of critical social theory (CST). CST is the umbrella over critical media theory (CMT), critical doxology and timenergy (CDT), critique of libidinal economy (CLE), critique of political economy (CPE), critique of gender and sex (CGS), and critique of psychiatry and therapism (CPT), critique of science and religion (CSR), and many more. To get basically situated in this field you will have to know a handful of important figures from a bunch of areas of t...
Episode 72 • 31 August 2024 • 1h, 4m and 8s
In Defense of M. Night Shyamalan's New Film TRAP - Fatherhood, Split Subjectivity, and Two Worlds
ABOUT
Theory Underground is a research, publishing, and lecture institute. TU exists to develop the concept of timenergy in the context of critical social theory (CST). CST is the umbrella over critical media theory (CMT), critical doxology and timenergy (CDT), critique of libidinal economy (CLE), critique of political economy (CPE), critique of gender and sex (CGS), and critique of psychiatry and therapism (CPT), critique of science and religion (CSR), and many more. To get basically situated in this field you will have to know a handful of important figures from a bunch of areas of t...
Episode 68 • 28 August 2024 • 1h, 17m and 51s
Cutrone on Politics, Religion, and Generations delete end boomers, millenials, and the stages of
Cutrone's course at Theory Underground begins in October. You can sign up for it here: https://theoryunderground.com/courses/marxism-101/ Monthly subscribers at TU (tiers 2 or higher) get half off of this and all other courses - become a subscriber here: https://theoryunderground.com/products/tu-subscription-tiers
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Join live sessions and unlock past courses and forums on the TU Discord by becoming a member via the monthly subscription! It’s the hands-down best way to get the most out of the content if you are excited to learn the field and become a thin...Episode 70 • 27 August 2024 • 1h, 30s
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