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WL - What IS "Democracy" | Daniel Garner and Benjamin Studebaker with the TU Tour Crew
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If you're serious about doing theory, making art, changing the world, or living well, we invite you to join us. https://theoryunderground.com/subscribe
Theory Underground exists to cultivate the conditions necessary for a working class intellectual renaissance that goes beyond old political categories or other identitarian niches. At TU, autodidact workers with earbuds and professionals who see no future in existing institutions or movements are able to challenge their doxa and develop an understanding of the situation we are in. The aim of this work is to change the coordinates of thought, action, and organizing in American culture, so as to make possible large scale structural change for the sake of timenergy for all.
If you subscribe at https://theoryunderground.com/subscribe you'll get access to a package of courses, including:
12 Core Concepts with social theorist David McKerracher
The Fault-Line Theory with philosopher Michael Downs
12 Essential Political Theorists with political theorist Benjamin Studebaker
The Philosophy of Nature with philosopher Nina Power
The way these all get woven together at a deeper and more meta level is through the ongoing research seminars led by David McKerracher, Benjamin Studebaker, and Michael Downs, where they engage with one another’s work by sharing developments from their own perspectives, theory, and research.
If you subscribe at higher levels and support our work, we'll support your development with bespoke teaching. Alone and unaided, we struggle to grasp our situation in its fullness and formulate a meaningful response. By working together and pooling our energies, we can do better. Join us at theoryunderground.com/subscribe
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ABOUT / GET INVOLVED
Looking to accelerate your way into a fresh understanding of our current situation? That’s what Theory Underground is all about. We are a seminar, lecture, and book publishing organism for workers with earbuds and professionals who see no hope in existing institutions. We're here to lay the conditions for doing theory and making art and having a life worth living in the 21st Century. If you don't know what it is already, then good luck! We're sure you'll figure it out if you're worth having around. In the meantime, enjoy this free content, all thanks to our patrons. You can always fund the free content at Patreon, but if you want to get involved at TU, then check out the membership tiers. And don't ask questions or make requests or give us advice, please. Take it or leave it. We guarantee our product meets a quality assurance check that none of your other content is capable of achieving, but you won't be able to tell the difference for a while. What we are rolling out in 2025 is a series of courses and ongoing seminars. Base subscribers at TU get access to the most essential of all that. The three tiers of membership grant certain very special privileges, most of which are not on the menu but you'll find out about. What IS on the menu though, for 2025, is a course on The Philosophy of Nature by Nina Power, 12 Essential Political Theorists with Benjamin Studebaker, The Fault-Line Theory with Michael Downs, and what I, the author of this copy, founder of this org, and main labor force for everything (production, socials, business, research, teaching, I'm a busy guy, guys) am coming out with a special series of Public seminars and Private seminars, as well as special introductory and deep dive courses. Never mind wading through the last two years of content. I'm here to be your tour guide through the most essential problems, concepts, and questions at Theory Underground. We're going to be talking about the method we've been developing between dialectics, phenomenology, and socioanalysis, in dialogue with Marxism, psychoanalysis, and French fried German theory (the fun pomo shit). Anyway, if you want to access all of that you better just subscribe right now: https://theoryunderground.com/subscribe
MUSIC CREDITS Logo sequence music by https://olliebeanz.com/music https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode Mike Chino, Demigods https://youtu.be/M6wruxDngOk
TU owns the rights to use the “What's Left” theme, thanks to its creator, Adam Leher. Thanks!
50 episodes
WL - What IS "Democracy" | Daniel Garner and Benjamin Studebaker with the TU Tour Crew
Why Left? Podcast with Benjamin Studebaker and David McKerracher
Manage episode 477027818 series 3636541
If you're serious about doing theory, making art, changing the world, or living well, we invite you to join us. https://theoryunderground.com/subscribe
Theory Underground exists to cultivate the conditions necessary for a working class intellectual renaissance that goes beyond old political categories or other identitarian niches. At TU, autodidact workers with earbuds and professionals who see no future in existing institutions or movements are able to challenge their doxa and develop an understanding of the situation we are in. The aim of this work is to change the coordinates of thought, action, and organizing in American culture, so as to make possible large scale structural change for the sake of timenergy for all.
If you subscribe at https://theoryunderground.com/subscribe you'll get access to a package of courses, including:
12 Core Concepts with social theorist David McKerracher
The Fault-Line Theory with philosopher Michael Downs
12 Essential Political Theorists with political theorist Benjamin Studebaker
The Philosophy of Nature with philosopher Nina Power
The way these all get woven together at a deeper and more meta level is through the ongoing research seminars led by David McKerracher, Benjamin Studebaker, and Michael Downs, where they engage with one another’s work by sharing developments from their own perspectives, theory, and research.
If you subscribe at higher levels and support our work, we'll support your development with bespoke teaching. Alone and unaided, we struggle to grasp our situation in its fullness and formulate a meaningful response. By working together and pooling our energies, we can do better. Join us at theoryunderground.com/subscribe
—
ABOUT / GET INVOLVED
Looking to accelerate your way into a fresh understanding of our current situation? That’s what Theory Underground is all about. We are a seminar, lecture, and book publishing organism for workers with earbuds and professionals who see no hope in existing institutions. We're here to lay the conditions for doing theory and making art and having a life worth living in the 21st Century. If you don't know what it is already, then good luck! We're sure you'll figure it out if you're worth having around. In the meantime, enjoy this free content, all thanks to our patrons. You can always fund the free content at Patreon, but if you want to get involved at TU, then check out the membership tiers. And don't ask questions or make requests or give us advice, please. Take it or leave it. We guarantee our product meets a quality assurance check that none of your other content is capable of achieving, but you won't be able to tell the difference for a while. What we are rolling out in 2025 is a series of courses and ongoing seminars. Base subscribers at TU get access to the most essential of all that. The three tiers of membership grant certain very special privileges, most of which are not on the menu but you'll find out about. What IS on the menu though, for 2025, is a course on The Philosophy of Nature by Nina Power, 12 Essential Political Theorists with Benjamin Studebaker, The Fault-Line Theory with Michael Downs, and what I, the author of this copy, founder of this org, and main labor force for everything (production, socials, business, research, teaching, I'm a busy guy, guys) am coming out with a special series of Public seminars and Private seminars, as well as special introductory and deep dive courses. Never mind wading through the last two years of content. I'm here to be your tour guide through the most essential problems, concepts, and questions at Theory Underground. We're going to be talking about the method we've been developing between dialectics, phenomenology, and socioanalysis, in dialogue with Marxism, psychoanalysis, and French fried German theory (the fun pomo shit). Anyway, if you want to access all of that you better just subscribe right now: https://theoryunderground.com/subscribe
MUSIC CREDITS Logo sequence music by https://olliebeanz.com/music https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode Mike Chino, Demigods https://youtu.be/M6wruxDngOk
TU owns the rights to use the “What's Left” theme, thanks to its creator, Adam Leher. Thanks!
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1 WL - Lord of the Rings and the danger of nerdmaxxing 1:18:47

1 WL/WR "No Kings" Protest and Israel-Iran/WW3? 2:16:59

1 WL - Pt. 2 Expertise Crisis and The Autodidact Problem 1:25:19

1 WL - Pt. 1 Expertise Crisis and The Autodidact Problem - Douglas Murray and Dave Smith on JRE 1:06:43

1 God, Esoteric and Apophatic - WL and WR crossover episode 53:22

1 Why Left - Cutrone on the PCFM vs Revolutionary Subject and The Dictatorship of the Proletariat 1:55:50

1 WL - Ft. Doug Lain | The Proletariat vs PCFM (Potato Class Fractured Mass) Post-Platypus Panel 1:34:55

1 Why Left - Groking a Dugin/Haz converdiction with Benjamin Studebaker on BRICS 3:23:48

1 WL - How to NOT write like A.I. | Ft. Daniel Garner 1:10:09

1 WL - Monasteries and Churches as Bildungmech? | Adolescence & Structural Stultification of Timenergy 1:30:00

1 WL - New Left "Radicalism" - Weather Underground THEN and Bill Ayers NOW | TU AGORA special event 3:30:48

1 WL - What IS "Democracy" | Daniel Garner and Benjamin Studebaker with the TU Tour Crew 1:22:15

1 Tragic Sociology VS Left QANONism - Garner, McKerracher, Studebaker & Nance - In The AGORA 2:09:18

1 WL - Texting war plans with the boys + What Obama and Trump Agree On 2:30:55

1 WL - Nobody cares about China, Ukraine/Zelenskyy/Trump + TU Tour and Studio Update 1:41:00


1 WL - Was Obama the worst U.S. President? - Message to Democrats pt. 3 2:37:25


1 Nov. EMSTU - Digital Warlords, Subjectivity, and Cybernetic Populism with Haz Al-Din 1:37:08

1 Comment Section Review: WU/WR review Why Left's "Musk's "Sieg Heil" & Dog Whistles in the PCFM" 4:15:14

1 Why Left? Musk's "Sieg Heil" & Dog Whistles in the PCFM | Why Us? Naming is Negating 2:57:40

1 Why Left? Trump's 2nd First Month - A Message To Democrats pt. 2 2:33:39

1 Why Left? AGAINST the Overton Window / Mainstreaming / Radical Flank theory + Why Us? 4:05:45

1 Why Left? Trump Greenland Cutrone | What's Right? HOMESTEAD | Mikey Seminar on Therapism & Superego 3:53:54

1 Why Left - The Infamous Vivek Ramaswamy 1:53:03


1 Bob Dylan's death drive - Plato and Lacan vs. Deleuze - Benjamin Studebaker and Michael Downs 2:28:27

1 Why Left? Ep. 13 pt. 3 (Marxist?) Monasteries 1:49:17

1 Why Left? Ep. 13 pt. 2. Symptomatic Luige Mangione 1:08:42

1 Why Left Ep. 13 pt. 1 - Lily Phillips 1:15:15

1 Why Left? e12 - Message To A Young Theorist: What's Your Hurry? 9:39:48

1 Why Left? e12 - Message To A Young Theorist - Three Principles of Study As A Way of Life 8:14:35

1 Why Left? e11b - Escaping wage labor and the university 8:08:14

1 Why Left? e11 - Luigi Mangione and the Hope Industry 8:14:35

1 Why Left? Ep.10 - How racism was used to fragment anti-globalization 8:14:35

1 Why Left? David Pakman & Sam Seder lost TONS of subscribers because they're OUT OF TOUCH?! 2:09:14

1 Why Left? How the Left STOLE Christmas (And the philosophy of LOVE) 1:37:15

1 Why Left? Ep. 8 Pt.2 - Matt Goodwin and Mass Immigration 1:10:24

1 Why Left? Ep.8 Pt. 1 Dugin x Zizek and The Triangle of Essentialism 1:14:22


1 Why Left? Episode 7 - Slavoj Žižek said Biden was ”the most Leftist president since FDR” and More 1:26:53

1 Racist Democrats. Racist Republicans. - Why Left? Episode 6 1:03:44

1 Why Left? A Message to Democrats In Our Lives Part. 2: Bonus Episode with Guests: Nina Power, Michael Downs, Ann, Nance, Swol, Daniel Garner of O.G. R... 2:13:27
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