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TU Foundations

1 course · 12 lectures

The core sequence — the concepts and orientation the whole project is built on.

With David McKerracher

12
TU's 12 Core Concepts

David McKerracher · 12 lectures

Seminars

0 courses · 0 lectures

David's long-form seminars — sustained, in-depth working-through of a thinker or theme.

No courses on this category yet.

Intro Courses

3 courses · 38 lectures

Ground-floor entries — the shortest path into a thinker or a field.

With Benjamin Studebaker, David McKerracher, Michael Downs

4
Intro to Žižek

Michael Downs · 4 lectures

13
Intro to Political Theory

Benjamin Studebaker · 13 lectures

21
Intro to Critical Social Theory

David McKerracher · 21 lectures

Continental Philosophy

0 courses · 0 lectures

Close readings in the continental tradition — Heidegger, Levinas, and the canon.

No courses on this category yet.

Politics & Power

1 course · 13 lectures

Theories of the state, sovereignty, and who really rules.

With Benjamin Studebaker

13
Intro to Political Theory

Benjamin Studebaker · 13 lectures

Psychoanalysis

1 course · 4 lectures

Freud through Lacan and Žižek — desire, the clinic, and the unconscious of capital.

With Michael Downs

4
Intro to Žižek

Michael Downs · 4 lectures

Marxism & Class

1 course · 22 lectures

Class, ideology, and the PMC — the Marxist tradition and its present.

With David McKerracher

22
PMC Consciousness & Ideology

David McKerracher · 22 lectures