Bald Philosophy

Can a successful collective be non-hierarchical? Jordan Peterson's Lobster Jimmy Dore versus AOC - The controversy only leftists on Twitter are talking about Ben Burgis's shit take: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ7jGan-BAA Wild guesses about what will happen in Biden's first 100 days Checking in with weatherman Paul Beckwith https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr546o7ImhGM57qoY0hHvkA Tut tut, looks like rain. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/support

In this episode Galen and Budd talk about the difficulties in the Israeli/Palestinian relations, starting World War III, answering a list of panel questions about teaching online (honestly), and wondering whether being against child labor is racist and xenophobic. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/support

Galen tells us what happened in Bolivia (sorry Elon), Budd talks about his fantasy of saving Hunter Biden, and Glen Greenwald is independently wealthy and doesn't need to take shit from the Intercept. politics/current events episode --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/support

In this episode, Galen and Budd discuss the left's opposition to Joe Rogan (from the perspective of Glen Greenwald) and the difference between political leftism and cultural leftism. Then we - bravely - dive back into Karl Marx's Capital Vol. 1, to discuss the evolution of forms of value, universal equivalent value, and money form value, and commodity fetishism. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/support

After we catch up with some current events (Breonna Taylor's murderers walking free, Ruth Bader Ginsberg's untimely death - RIP RBG, the first Presidential Debate between Biden and Trump, and whether or not Trump has coronavirus), we dive head first into Karl Marx's Capital Vol. 1, Chapter 1. We discuss the two-fold commodity (use value and exchange value) and the labor embodied in commodities. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/support

This episode is pretty philosophy free. Give us this break while we prepare for our next big endeavor, Karl Marx's Das Kapital. In this episode we make fun of Rand Paul feeling endangered by protesters who are protesting people who were actually harmed, discuss Glen Greenwald's latest episode about the rise in suicide rates (and general death) among young people and poor people. How has life expectancy gone down? sources: Rachel Maddow grills Rand Paul about the Civil Rights Act: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0RnnrdKGlg Full Video of Rand Paul surrounded by protesters asking him to say Breonna Taylor's name: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r73EJmcAsBk&t=668s Glen Greenwald talking about the decline in life expectancy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77zF_b3blpU --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/support

Mauro Caraccioli, Assistant Professor at Virgina Tech, joins us for a discussion of Megan Erickson's Class War: The Privatization of Childhood. The book is part of the Jacobin Series published by Verso books. Can education fix the world? How much responsibility should rest on the shoulders of teachers? Plus we discuss the role of technocrats and businesses in our children's lives, and how they reproduce their values within schools and create future ideological work forces. text: Class War: the Privatization of Childhood Megan Erickson September 2015 https://www.versobooks.com/books/1954-class-war --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/support

Mauro Caraccioli, Assistant Professor at Virgina Tech, joins us for a discussion of Megan Erickson's Class War: The Privatization of Childhood. The book is part of the Jacobin Series published by Verso books. This discussion centers what it means to grow up and educate young people in today's America, with its overlapping layers of racism, income inequality, and systemic injustice, and how that shapes our future. Who will be the managers and who will be the workers? text: Class War: the Privatization of Childhood Megan Erickson September 2015 https://www.versobooks.com/books/1954-class-war --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/support

In this episode we talk about Alex S. Vitale's The End of Policing and augment that with excerpts from Police: A Field Guide by David Correia and Tyler Wall. Continuing our research into policing, Galen and Budd take a look at immigration practices with DHS, ICE, and Border Patrol, and political policing especially as it relates to current protests. Sources used: The End of Policing Alex S. Vitale 2017 https://www.versobooks.com/books/2817-the-end-of-policing POLICE: A Field Guide David Correia and Tyler Wall 2018 https://www.versobooks.com/books/2530-police --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/support

In this episode we talk about Alex S. Vitale's The End of Policing and augment that with excerpts from Police: A Field Guide by David Correia and Tyler Wall. Continuing our research into policing, Galen and Budd discuss the War on Drugs, which has devastated communities and lead to the largest growth in Police in America, and gangs. Sources used: The End of Policing Alex S. Vitale 2017 https://www.versobooks.com/books/2817-the-end-of-policing POLICE: A Field Guide David Correia and Tyler Wall 2018 https://www.versobooks.com/books/2530-police --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/support

In this episode we talk about Alex S. Vitale's The End of Policing and augment that with excerpts from Police: A Field Guide by David Correia and Tyler Wall. Continuing our research into policing, Galen and Budd take a look at police interactions with people with mental health issues, homelessness, and sex work. Sources used: "Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop" Officer A. Cab June 6, 2020 https://medium.com/@OfcrACab/confessions-of-a-former-bastard-cop-bb14d17bc759 The End of Policing Alex S. Vitale 2017 https://www.versobooks.com/books/2817-the-end-of-policing POLICE: A Field Guide David Correia and Tyler Wall 2018 https://www.versobooks.com/books/2530-police --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/support

In this episode we talk about Alex S. Vitale's The End of Policing and augment that with excerpts from Police: A Field Guide by David Correia and Tyler Wall. In the wake of current protests, Galen and Budd look back at past reforms and body cams, the troubled history of policing in America, and the school-to-prison pipeline. We also have a chat about the use of prison labor (it's a worse system than we ever thought it was). Sources used: The End of Policing Alex S. Vitale 2017 https://www.versobooks.com/books/2817-the-end-of-policing POLICE: A Field Guide David Correia and Tyler Wall 2018 https://www.versobooks.com/books/2530-police --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/support

In this episode we talk about the national (even international) protests resulting from the murder of George Floyd, which solutions to police brutality work versus which ones don't (based on research of course), and the second half of Zizek's, if not completely groundbreaking, at least speedy release Pandemic! Covid-19 Shakes Up the World.   Source: Slavoj Zizek Pandemic! Covid-19 Shakes Up the World 2020 OR Books   Link to the twitter feed discussion: https://twitter.com/samswey/status/1180655701271732224 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/support

In this episode we talk about the national (even international) protests resulting from the murder of George Floyd, whether police departments should be defunded, and the first half of Zizek's, if not completely groundbreaking, at least speedy release Pandemic! Covid-19 Shakes Up the World. Source: Slavoj Zizek Pandemic! Covid-19 Shakes Up the World 2020 OR Books Article link discussed early in the episode: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/31/the-answer-to-police-violence-is-not-reform-its-defunding-heres-why --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/support

In this episode we introduce the ludicrously prolific thinker Slavoj Zizek. We discuss his talks with Graham Harman as we transition from reading Harman's Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything to diving into Zizek's Pandemic! However, most of this episode we talk about the beginnings of the protests against police brutality in Minneapolis. The following texts were recommended to as primers on race relations, the black experience with policing and the justice system, and the history of oppression of people of color in the United States. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism Robin DiAngelo How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi An African American and Latinx History of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY) by Paul Ortiz (In the episode we mention sharing our drawings via instagram but that seems so tone-deaf in the days since the murder of George Floyd and the ensuing protests. In lieu of support for this podcast please direct any donations to the Minnesota Freedom Fund.) Our next episode discussion source: PANDEMIC! COVID-19 SHAKES THE WORLD by Slavoj Zizek https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/pandemic/ published in 2020 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/support

In this episode we finish up our unit on OOO. First we delve in to Harman's attacks on Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault; next we get brief introductions to OOO compatriots Ian Bogost, Levi R. Bryant, Timothy Morton, Jane Bennett, and Tristan Garcia; and finally we follow up with an overview of OOO. Stay tuned for our next unit on Zizek's Pandemic! If we missed anything, got anything totally wrong, or you want to yell at us, we'd love to hear from you: baldphilosophy@gmail.com. We are BaldPhilosophy on all the socials! Resource Used: Graham Harman Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything Pelican Books 2017 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/support

In this episode we try to understand OOO's debt to Husserl and Heidegger, the 4-fold tension of objects, and a comparison of metaphor and knowledge. Plus, Budd is about to start a Twitter war and Galen still loves his dog. If we missed anything, got anything totally wrong, or you want to yell at us, we'd love to hear from you: baldphilosophy@gmail.com Resource Used: Graham Harman Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything Pelican Books 2017 Figure 1 - The Tension of Objects: https://www.instagram.com/p/CAJUkv2hBFb/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet Figure 2 - Knowledge: https://www.instagram.com/p/CAJUwIkhvcm/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/support

In this episode we talk about Michael Moore's Planet of the Humans (directed by Jeff Gibbs). We discuss the state of film and income inequality, the success of the environmental and green movements, the validity of the complaints against the documentary, and how to move beyond the depressing state of the film to a more optimistic outlook. watch the film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk11vI-7czE --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/support

Wondering how Object-Oriented Ontology understands and contributes to society and politics? So were we. Now here we are talking about Covid-19, Bruno LaTour's Actor Network Theory (ANT), the American Civil War, and the Dutch East India Company. Learn how symbioses are responsible for the birth, maturity, decadence, and death of an object and wonder if American Capitalism is next on the list of dead objects. If we missed anything, got anything totally wrong, or you want to yell at us, we'd love to hear from you: baldphilosophy@gmail.com Resource Used: Graham Harman Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything Pelican Books 2017 Sneak Peak at Galen's painting: https://www.instagram.com/p/B_TUrALBnRe/?igshid=15fkoz8vowejp --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/support

This week we take a deeper dive into Graham Harman's OOO text concerning Real Objects, Sensual Objects, Real Qualities, and Sensual Qualities.... it sounds much sexier then it is. We also discuss the current political climate. Spoiler Alert: even Budd is depressed. If we missed anything, got anything totally wrong, or you want to yell at us, we'd love to hear from you: baldphilosophy@gmail.com Resource Used: Graham Harman Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything Pelican Books 2017 OH WAIT!!! Here check out these cool graphics that we reference from the text: https://www.instagram.com/p/B_TSrqyh8tM/?igshid=1ax97r36kz2ad --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/support

Galen got a puppy, which seems to negate the fact that he bought a proper microphone. Anyway, Galen and Budd discuss chapter 2 of Graham Harman's Object Oriented Ontology: a New Theory of Everything. We discuss Harmon's objections to literalism in more detail, get confused by Kant, and learn the origin story of OOO. If we missed anything, got anything totally wrong, or you want to yell at us, we'd love to hear from you: baldphilosophy@gmail.com Resource Used: Graham Harman Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything Pelican Books 2017 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/support

In this episode Budd and Galen take a closer read from Graham Harman's first chapter to the text Object Oriented Ontology: a New Theory of Everything. We discuss the why science and string theory cannot explain everything, the problems with overmining, undermining, and duomining, and the definition of 'object' for OOO. If we missed anything, got anything totally wrong, or you want to yell at us, we'd love to hear from you: baldphilosophy@gmail.com Resource Used: Graham Harman Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything Pelican Books 2017 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/support

In this episode Budd and Galen take a closer read from Graham Harman's introduction to the text Object Oriented Ontology: a New Theory of Everything. We discuss the state of post-truth America, the seven basic principles of OOO, and it's detractors. We also talk about OOO and Slavoj Zizek, Bjork, and Benedict Cumberbatch. If we missed anything, got anything totally wrong, or you want to yell at us, we'd love to hear from you: baldphilosophy@gmail.com Resource Used: Graham Harman Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything Pelican Books 2017 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/support

Meet Budd and Galen, two friends who started a philosophy book club. They are both bald. In preparation for their close reading of Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything by Graham Harman, Budd and Galen discuss a video lecture Harman presented in to an art school in 2014. Watch the video (link below) and see if you agree with the Bald Philosophers. If we missed anything, got anything totally wrong, or you want to yell at us, we'd love to hear from you: baldphilosophy@gmail.com Graham Harman: Objects and the Arts Institute of Contemporary Arts, London March 14, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ0GR9bf00g --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baldphilosophy/support