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12 Political Theorists — Lecture 10: Tocqueville

12 Political Theorists — Lecture 11: Marx

12 Political Theorists — Lecture 12: Weber

12 Political Theorists — Lecture 1: Plato

12 Political Theorists — Lecture 2: Aristotle

12 Political Theorists — Lecture 3: Aquinas

12 Political Theorists — Lecture 4: Marsilius

12 Political Theorists — Lecture 5: Machiavelli

12 Political Theorists — Lecture 6 Discussion: Hobbes

12 Political Theorists — Lecture 6: Hobbes

12 Political Theorists — Lecture 7: Hume

12 Political Theorists — Lecture 8: Rousseau

12 Political Theorists — Lecture 9: Constant

A Critique of Worldview Marxism - Key Excerpts and Exegesis from Burnham's The Managerial Revolution

A Quick Intro to Timenergy Theory and the Post-Class Fractured Mass

After 10 Years, Thousands of Dollars, and Hundreds of Hours

An Exercise in Transparency

Ancient Chinese and Greek Thought, and Timenergy

Asynchronous Simultaneity and Critical Media Theory - TU Core Concepts Course

BEING AND TIME chapter 4 and the two main ways of reading Heidegger

Being and Time — Division I, Chapter 1

Being and Time — Division I, Chapter 2

Being and Time — Division I, Chapter 3, Part A

Being and Time — Division I, Chapter 3, Parts B–C

Being and Time — Division I, Chapter 5, Part A

Being and Time — Division I, Chapter 5, Part B

Being and Time — Division I, Chapter 6, Part A: Anxiety and Care

Being and Time — Division I, Chapter 6, Part B: Reality and Truth

Being and Time — Division II, Chapter 1

Being and Time — Division II, Chapter 2 (Guest Lecture)

Being and Time — Division II, Chapter 3: Anticipatory Resoluteness and Temporality

Being and Time — Division II, Chapter 4: Temporality and Everydayness

Being and Time — Division II, Chapter 5: Historicality

Being and Time — Division II, Chapter 6: Ordinary Time, and Preparing the Question

Being and Time — Introduction: A Postscript on Interpretation and Reading

Being-in-the-World, Part 1

Being-in-the-World, Part 2

Being-with: Being-in-the-World, Part 2 (Guest Lecture)

Churn vs. Canon: Which Voices Have Staying Power?

Concluding Critical Media Theory and Critical Doxology & Timenergy, 2024

Critical Doxology & Timenergy — Discussion: Energy, and Where It Comes From

Critical Doxology & Timenergy — Lecture 1: Marx, Heidegger, and Adorno vs. 7 Habits

Critical Doxology & Timenergy — Lecture 2: Henry Ford vs. Martin Heidegger

Critical Doxology & Timenergy — Lecture 4: Human Life and Doxa, in Defence of "Normies"

Critical Media Theory and Critical Doxology & Timenergy — Discussion

Critical Media Theory — Baudrillard vs. Debord

Critical Media Theory — Introduction: Toward a New Theory of Subjectivity?

Critical Media Theory — McLuhan, Marx, and Praxis

Critical Media Theory — Session 2: Solitude and Solicitude

Critical Media Theory — Session 3: Advertising and Propaganda

Critical Media Theory — Session 4: Duopoly, the Business of Division

Critical Media Theory — Session 5: De-Instrumentalizing the Face

Critical Media Theory — Session 6: Self-Referentiality and Social Media

Critical Media Theory — Student Presentations

David Goggins vs. Pierre Bourdieu: The Philosophy of "Stay Hard"

Emmanuel Levinas, Thinker of the Other (Panel)

FLOW and ALIENATION: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Young Karl Marx - CDT lecture 3

For They Know Not What They Do — Chapter 1

For They Know Not What They Do — Chapter 2

For They Know Not What They Do — Chapter 3, Part 1

For They Know Not What They Do — Chapter 3, Part 2

For They Know Not What They Do — Chapter 4

For They Know Not What They Do — Chapter 5

For They Know Not What They Do — Chapter 6

For They Know Not What They Do — Discussion with Todd McGowan

For They Know Not What They Do — Introduction

Gerrymandering Befindlichkeit: The Political Capture of Dispositions

Heidegger and Levinas: Their Relationship, and Heidegger's Politics

History & Theory of the Deep State — Part 1: The CIA and the National Security State

History & Theory of the Deep State — Part 2: The Early Years

History & Theory of the Deep State — Part 3: The CIA under Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon

History & Theory of the Deep State — Part 4: Carter and Reagan

How to Read Totality and Infinity

Husserl According to Levinas: The Phenomenological Theory of Being

Intro to Ivan Illich — Lecture 1: Deschooling Society

Intro to Ivan Illich — Lecture 3: In the Vineyard of the Text

Intro to Ivan Illich — Lecture 4: Tools of Conviviality

Intro to Lacan and the Comfort Crisis

Intro to Marxism — Lecture 1

Intro to Marxism — Lecture 2

Intro to Marxism — Lecture 3

Intro to Marxism — Lecture 4

Intro to Nick Land LECTURE 1 - Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Bataille, Deleuze & Guattari etc.

Intro to Nick Land — Discussion: A Quick and Dirty Introduction to Accelerationism

Intro to Nick Land — Discussion: Land on the Left, and Mark Fisher on Transcendental Miserabilism

Intro to Nick Land — Lecture 1: A Quick and Dirty Introduction to Accelerationism

Intro to Nick Land — Lecture 2: Cybernetic Capital

Intro to Nick Land — Lecture 3: The Dark Enlightenment

Intro to Nick Land — Lecture 4: The Occult and the CCRU

Intro to Nick Land — Why This Course

Intro to Theory — Before Nietzsche: On the Canon

Intro to Theory — Derrida

Intro to Theory — Edmund Burke

Intro to Theory — Heidegger

Intro to Theory — Heidegger's Being and Time

Intro to Theory — Introduction

Intro to Theory — Nancy

Intro to Theory — Nietzsche

Intro to Theory — Stirner

Intro to Virilio | Ft. Joshua Hansen

Intro to Žižek — Lecture 1: Beyond Discourse Analysis

Intro to Žižek — Lecture 2: Love Your Nation as Yourself

Intro to Žižek — Lecture 3: Superego by Default

Intro to Žižek — Lecture 4: The Obscene Knot of Ideology

Lecture 2 of Intro Illich - Shadow Work - at Theory Underground with Bryan Weeks

Levinas on Heidegger's Being and Time (Ethics and Infinity)

Liberal Arts vs. the Neoliberal University: Scholē, Schooling, and Timenergy

Marx's Conceptions of Class and the Rise of the PMC

McKerracher Seminar — Agoraphobia, and Letting the Record Reflect

McKerracher Seminar — August: Virtue Clashes and Field Injunctions

McKerracher Seminar — July: Practical Organizing 101

McKerracher Seminar — October: Institutional Capture vs. Genuine Thinking

McKerracher Seminar — Session 1: Ideas Matter, Against Crude Materialism

Mode of Production vs. PMC (Guest Lecture)

Nature, Nurture, and Natality

Nick Land at Theory Underground

Nietzsche - Lecture 7 of The Philosophy of Nature with Nina Power

PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Adolph Reed Jr. on the Color Line and Du Bois

PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Angela Nagle vs. the New Priesthood

PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Interview with Catherine Liu

PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Introduction: Why PMC Critique Matters

PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Reading: Barbara Ehrenreich, Fear of Falling

PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Reading: Burnham, The Managerial Revolution

PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Reading: Catherine Liu, Virtue Hoarders

PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Reading: Du Bois, The Talented Tenth

PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Reading: Ehrenreich on the New Left

PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Reading: The Professional-Managerial Class (1976)

PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Reading: Thomas Frank, Listen, Liberal

PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Week 1: How Progressives Invented the PMC

PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Week 2: Ehrenreich vs. Burnham on Class

PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Week 3 in Review: Dirtbags and PMCs

PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Week 3: Discursive Taylorism and the New Left

PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Week 4: Left vs. Post-Left, Nagle and Liu

PMC analysis is about a mode, mindset, and ideology rather than an identity-based dismissal or slur

Post-Duopoly: A (De)Radicalization Starter Pack for Organizers

Renewal and the Fourth Frontier

René Descartes' Discourse On Method (full reading + context and great conversation)

Reprojection: Projection Plus Retroversion

Retroversion: Schooled Brains vs. Real Learning

SAARUTU — Summer 2026 Overview

SOC 101 - L20 - Institutions - Habitus/Field - PCFM - Timenergy - Ressentiment - Totalization - 11/7

SOC 101 - Lecture 16 - Where We've Been and Where We're Going - 10/17/24

SOC 101 - Lecture 22 - Socioanalysis vs Psychoanalysis - 11/14/24

SOC 101 — Lecture 10: TMI, E-Participation, and the Post-Class Fractured Mass

SOC 101 — Lecture 11: Are We Enlightened Yet?

SOC 101 — Lecture 13: Three Capitalist Archetypes

SOC 101 — Lecture 14: Scientific Aspirations and Ressentiment

SOC 101 — Lecture 15: What's Good, Natural, Normal — and Who Decides?

SOC 101 — Lecture 17: Who Are We to Know?

SOC 101 — Lecture 18: The Medium Is the Environment

SOC 101 — Lecture 19: The Medium, Part 2

SOC 101 — Lecture 1: Welcome to Sociology

SOC 101 — Lecture 21: Socioanalysis

SOC 101 — Lecture 23: Socioanalysis and Social Engineering, Part 1

SOC 101 — Lecture 2: Immanent Critique and the Professional Middle Class

SOC 101 — Lecture 3: The Rise of the Industrial Proletariat

SOC 101 — Lecture 5: Alienated Timenergy and the Circuit of Capital

SOC 101 — Lecture 6: Kinds of Energy, and the Real Privilege

SOC 101 — Lecture 7: Estranged Labor

Scholē vs. Schooling, and New Reading

Seminar XI — Session 1: The Unconscious and Repetition

Seminar XI — Session 2: Of the Gaze as objet petit a

Seminar XI — Session 3: The Transference and the Drive

Seminar XI — Session 4: The Field of the Other, and Back to the Transference

Stewardship & Home Economics — Exploitation vs. Nurture: Berry to Salatin

Stewardship & Home Economics — Family, Reactionary Feminism, and Self-Help

Stewardship & Home Economics — Guest Lecture: Scott Yenor

Stewardship & Home Economics — Lecture 1: True Ownership

Stewardship & Home Economics — Masanobu Fukuoka's The One-Straw Revolution

Stewardship & Home Economics — Practicum, Part 1

Stewardship & Home Economics — Practicum, Part 2: Cultivation and Construction

Stewardship & Home Economics — Stewardship and Critique

Stewardship & Home Economics — Xenophon's Oeconomicus, Books 8–9

TU R3TREAT — Exo-Talks, Night 3

Terrying with the Text — Section I, Parts C–D

Terrying with the Text — Section II, Parts A–B

Terrying with the Text — Section II, Parts C–D

The Clinical Structures of Psychoanalysis — Lecture 1

The Clinical Structures of Psychoanalysis — Lecture 2

The Clinical Structures of Psychoanalysis — Lecture 3

The Clinical Structures of Psychoanalysis — Lecture 4

The Clinical Structures of Psychoanalysis — Lecture 5

The Clinical Structures of Psychoanalysis — Post-Course Discussion

The History and Role of the PMC (Guest Lecture)

The Idea of the University — Final Session

The Idea of the University — Week 1.5

The Idea of the University — Week 1: Lecture and Discussion

The Idea of the University — Week 2

The Idea of the University — Week 3

The Idea of the University — Week 4

The Lacomfort Unconscious: Natality, Nature, and Violence

The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 10: Feminism

The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 11: Psychoanalysis and Nature

The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 12: AI, Technology, and Nature

The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 1: Phusis

The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 2: Lucretius, Atoms and Void

The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 3: Menent and Harrington

The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 4: Spinoza

The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 5 Discussion: Kant

The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 5: Kant

The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 6 Discussion: Hegel

The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 6: Hegel

The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 8: Darwin

The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 9: Marx and Schmidt

The Plan: Introduction to Sociology and Critical Social Theory

The Plurality of Big Others vs. the Concrete Other

The Profile Age: Profilicity, the General Peer, and Luhmann

The Social Unconscious: The Superego vs. the Big Other

The Three Crises: Activism, the Academy, and the Attention Economy

The U.S. Political Traffic Jam and the PMC

The Virtuous Circle vs. the Vicious Cycle (Part 2)

Theory Underground 2023 Tour Update from Chicago

Theory Underground Turns Three

Three Crises of Stewardship: Visions, Value, and Energytime

Three Live Podcast — Spokane, April 2026

Totality and Infinity — Course Introduction: Levinas vs. Hegel, Marx, Heidegger, Butler, and Critchley

Totality and Infinity — Discussion after Session 3

Totality and Infinity — Discussion: Interpretation, Method, and the Breach of Totality

Totality and Infinity — Notes: Section I, Part A

Totality and Infinity — Notes: Section I, Part B, with Terrying with the Text

Totality and Infinity — Notes: Section I, Parts C–D

Totality and Infinity — Notes: Section II, Parts A–B

Totality and Infinity — Notes: Section II, Parts C–E

Totality and Infinity — Session 1: Part I, Sections A–B

Totality and Infinity — Session 2: Part I, Sections C–D

Totality and Infinity — Session 3: Part II, Sections A–B

Totality and Infinity — Session 4: Part II, Sections C–D

Totality and Infinity — Session 5: Part II, to Completion

Totality and Infinity — The Preface

Totality and Infinity — Week 2 Discussion

Trouble Making Eye Contact?

WR - ANNOUNCING: Part II of Nina Power's Philosophy of Nature

What Is Capital? An Overview

What the Left Misunderstands About Workers: Blue Collar vs. PMC Enjoyment

Why That Era Had to End — B-Side

Why That Era Had to End — Recap and A-Side

regenerationality and the pro-civ