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BEING AND TIME lectures by David McKerracher at Theory Underground

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1. René Descartes' Discourse On Method (full reading + context and great conversation) David McKerracher
2. Being and Time — Introduction: A Postscript on Interpretation and Reading David McKerracher
3. Being and Time — Division II, Chapter 6: Ordinary Time, and Preparing the Question David McKerracher
4. Being and Time — Division II, Chapter 5: Historicality David McKerracher
5. BEING AND TIME chapter 4 and the two main ways of reading Heidegger David McKerracher
6. Being-in-the-World, Part 1 David McKerracher
7. Being and Time — Division II, Chapter 4: Temporality and Everydayness David McKerracher
8. Being and Time — Division II, Chapter 3: Anticipatory Resoluteness and Temporality David McKerracher
9. Being and Time — Division II, Chapter 2 (Guest Lecture) David McKerracher
10. Being and Time — Division II, Chapter 1 David McKerracher
11. Being and Time — Division I, Chapter 6, Part B: Reality and Truth David McKerracher
12. Being and Time — Division I, Chapter 6, Part A: Anxiety and Care David McKerracher
13. Being and Time — Division I, Chapter 5, Part B David McKerracher
14. Being and Time — Division I, Chapter 5, Part A David McKerracher
15. Being and Time — Division I, Chapter 3, Parts B–C David McKerracher
16. Being and Time — Division I, Chapter 3, Part A David McKerracher
17. Being and Time — Division I, Chapter 2 David McKerracher
18. Being and Time — Division I, Chapter 1 David McKerracher
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CRITICAL MEDIA THEORY lectures Dave and Ann

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1. David Goggins vs. Pierre Bourdieu: The Philosophy of "Stay Hard" Ann McKerracher
2. The Plurality of Big Others vs. the Concrete Other Ann McKerracher
3. Critical Media Theory — Introduction: Toward a New Theory of Subjectivity? Ann McKerracher
4. Critical Media Theory — Session 6: Self-Referentiality and Social Media Ann McKerracher
5. Intro to Lacan and the Comfort Crisis Ann McKerracher
6. The Profile Age: Profilicity, the General Peer, and Luhmann Ann McKerracher
7. The Social Unconscious: The Superego vs. the Big Other Ann McKerracher
8. Critical Media Theory — Baudrillard vs. Debord Ann McKerracher
9. Critical Media Theory and Critical Doxology & Timenergy — Discussion Ann McKerracher
10. Critical Media Theory — Student Presentations Ann McKerracher
11. Critical Media Theory — Session 5: De-Instrumentalizing the Face Ann McKerracher
12. Critical Media Theory — Session 4: Duopoly, the Business of Division Ann McKerracher
13. Critical Media Theory — Session 3: Advertising and Propaganda Ann McKerracher
14. Critical Media Theory — Session 2: Solitude and Solicitude Ann McKerracher
15. Critical Media Theory — McLuhan, Marx, and Praxis Ann McKerracher
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Critical Doxology and Timenergy Seminar Lectures

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1. Concluding Critical Media Theory and Critical Doxology & Timenergy, 2024 David McKerracher
2. FLOW and ALIENATION: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Young Karl Marx - CDT lecture 3 David McKerracher
3. The Lacomfort Unconscious: Natality, Nature, and Violence David McKerracher
4. Ancient Chinese and Greek Thought, and Timenergy David McKerracher
5. Critical Doxology & Timenergy — Discussion: Energy, and Where It Comes From David McKerracher
6. Critical Doxology & Timenergy — Lecture 1: Marx, Heidegger, and Adorno vs. 7 Habits David McKerracher
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David McKerracher Seminar at Theory Underground

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1. Critical Doxology & Timenergy — Lecture 2: Henry Ford vs. Martin Heidegger David McKerracher
2. What Is Capital? An Overview David McKerracher
3. The Plan: Introduction to Sociology and Critical Social Theory David McKerracher
4. After 10 Years, Thousands of Dollars, and Hundreds of Hours David McKerracher
5. Three Crises of Stewardship: Visions, Value, and Energytime David McKerracher
6. regenerationality and the pro-civ David McKerracher
7. Agnostic Catholicism David McKerracher
8. McKerracher Seminar — Session 1: Ideas Matter, Against Crude Materialism David McKerracher
9. McKerracher Seminar — Agoraphobia, and Letting the Record Reflect David McKerracher
10. McKerracher Seminar — August: Virtue Clashes and Field Injunctions David McKerracher
11. McKerracher Seminar — October: Institutional Capture vs. Genuine Thinking David McKerracher
12. Theory Underground Turns Three David McKerracher
13. McKerracher Seminar — July: Practical Organizing 101 David McKerracher
14. TU R3TREAT — Exo-Talks, Night 3 David McKerracher
15. Stewardship & Home Economics — Stewardship and Critique David McKerracher
16. Critical Doxology & Timenergy — Lecture 4: Human Life and Doxa, in Defence of "Normies" David McKerracher
17. Post-Duopoly: A (De)Radicalization Starter Pack for Organizers David McKerracher
18. Liberal Arts vs. the Neoliberal University: Scholē, Schooling, and Timenergy David McKerracher
19. Three Live Podcast — Spokane, April 2026 David McKerracher
20. An Exercise in Transparency David McKerracher
21. Why That Era Had to End — Recap and A-Side David McKerracher
22. Why That Era Had to End — B-Side David McKerracher
23. SAARUTU Announcement David McKerracher
24. Trouble Making Eye Contact? David McKerracher
25. SAARUTU — Summer 2026 Overview David McKerracher
26. Coming Off This Like David McKerracher
27. What Is the Post-Left? David McKerracher
28. Renewal and the Fourth Frontier David McKerracher
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History and Theory of The Deep State

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1. History & Theory of the Deep State — Part 1: The CIA and the National Security State Matthew Stanley
2. History & Theory of the Deep State — Part 2: The Early Years Matthew Stanley
3. History & Theory of the Deep State — Part 3: The CIA under Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon Matthew Stanley
4. History & Theory of the Deep State — Part 4: Carter and Reagan Matthew Stanley
Course Intro Courses

Intro to Critical Social Theory

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1. SOC 101 - Lecture 22 - Socioanalysis vs Psychoanalysis - 11/14/24 David McKerracher
2. SOC 101 - L20 - Institutions - Habitus/Field - PCFM - Timenergy - Ressentiment - Totalization - 11/7 David McKerracher
3. SOC 101 - Lecture 16 - Where We've Been and Where We're Going - 10/17/24 David McKerracher
4. SOC 101 — Lecture 23: Socioanalysis and Social Engineering, Part 1 David McKerracher
5. SOC 101 — Lecture 21: Socioanalysis David McKerracher
6. SOC 101 — Lecture 19: The Medium, Part 2 David McKerracher
7. SOC 101 — Lecture 18: The Medium Is the Environment David McKerracher
8. SOC 101 — Lecture 17: Who Are We to Know? David McKerracher
9. SOC 101 — Lecture 15: What's Good, Natural, Normal — and Who Decides? David McKerracher
10. SOC 101 — Lecture 13: Three Capitalist Archetypes David McKerracher
11. SOC 101 — Lecture 14: Scientific Aspirations and Ressentiment David McKerracher
12. SOC 101 — Lecture 11: Are We Enlightened Yet? David McKerracher
13. SOC 101 — Lecture 10: TMI, E-Participation, and the Post-Class Fractured Mass David McKerracher
14. SOC 101 — Lecture 7: Estranged Labor David McKerracher
15. SOC 101 — Lecture 6: Kinds of Energy, and the Real Privilege David McKerracher
16. Mode of Production vs. PMC (Guest Lecture) David McKerracher
17. The History and Role of the PMC (Guest Lecture) David McKerracher
18. SOC 101 — Lecture 5: Alienated Timenergy and the Circuit of Capital David McKerracher
19. SOC 101 — Lecture 3: The Rise of the Industrial Proletariat David McKerracher
20. SOC 101 — Lecture 2: Immanent Critique and the Professional Middle Class David McKerracher
21. SOC 101 — Lecture 1: Welcome to Sociology David McKerracher
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Intro to Lacan (Seminar XI with Todd McGowan)

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1. Seminar XI — Session 4: The Field of the Other, and Back to the Transference Todd McGowan
2. Seminar XI — Session 3: The Transference and the Drive Todd McGowan
3. Seminar XI — Session 2: Of the Gaze as objet petit a Todd McGowan
4. Seminar XI — Session 1: The Unconscious and Repetition Todd McGowan
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Intro to Marxism with Chris Cutrone at Theory Underground

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1. Intro to Marxism — Lecture 1 Chris Cutrone
2. Intro to Marxism — Lecture 2 Chris Cutrone
3. Intro to Marxism — Lecture 3 Chris Cutrone
4. Intro to Marxism — Lecture 4 Chris Cutrone
Course Intro Courses

Intro to Political Theory

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1. 12 Political Theorists — Lecture 12: Weber Benjamin Studebaker
2. 12 Political Theorists — Lecture 11: Marx Benjamin Studebaker
3. 12 Political Theorists — Lecture 10: Tocqueville Benjamin Studebaker
4. 12 Political Theorists — Lecture 9: Constant Benjamin Studebaker
5. 12 Political Theorists — Lecture 8: Rousseau Benjamin Studebaker
6. 12 Political Theorists — Lecture 7: Hume Benjamin Studebaker
7. 12 Political Theorists — Lecture 6 Discussion: Hobbes Benjamin Studebaker
8. 12 Political Theorists — Lecture 6: Hobbes Benjamin Studebaker
9. 12 Political Theorists — Lecture 5: Machiavelli Benjamin Studebaker
10. 12 Political Theorists — Lecture 4: Marsilius Benjamin Studebaker
11. 12 Political Theorists — Lecture 3: Aquinas Benjamin Studebaker
12. 12 Political Theorists — Lecture 2: Aristotle Benjamin Studebaker
13. 12 Political Theorists — Lecture 1: Plato Benjamin Studebaker
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Intro to Theory - 2026

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1. Intro to Foucault
2. Intro to Virilio | Ft. Joshua Hansen
3. Post-Duopoly
4. Intro to Theory — Introduction
5. Intro to Theory — Marx
6. Intro to Theory — Nietzsche
7. Intro to Theory — Before Nietzsche: On the Canon
8. Intro to Theory — Edmund Burke
9. Intro to Theory — Derrida
10. Intro to Theory — Heidegger's Being and Time
11. Intro to Theory — Heidegger
12. Intro to Theory — Stirner
13. Intro to Theory — Nancy
Course Intro Courses

Intro to Žižek

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1. Intro to Žižek — Lecture 3: Superego by Default Michael Downs
2. Intro to Žižek — Lecture 1: Beyond Discourse Analysis Michael Downs
3. Intro to Žižek — Lecture 2: Love Your Nation as Yourself Michael Downs
4. Intro to Žižek — Lecture 4: The Obscene Knot of Ideology Michael Downs
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Introduction to Ivan Illich at Theory Underground with Bryan Weeks

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1. Intro to Ivan Illich — Lecture 4: Tools of Conviviality Bryan Weeks
2. Lecture 2 of Intro Illich - Shadow Work - at Theory Underground with Bryan Weeks Bryan Weeks
3. Intro to Ivan Illich — Lecture 1: Deschooling Society Bryan Weeks
4. Intro to Ivan Illich — Lecture 3: In the Vineyard of the Text Bryan Weeks
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Introduction to Nick Land at Theory Underground

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1. Intro to Nick Land LECTURE 1 - Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Bataille, Deleuze & Guattari etc. Michael Downs
2. Nick Land at Theory Underground Michael Downs
3. Intro to Nick Land — Discussion: A Quick and Dirty Introduction to Accelerationism Michael Downs
4. Intro to Nick Land — Lecture 1: A Quick and Dirty Introduction to Accelerationism Michael Downs
5. Intro to Nick Land — Discussion: Land on the Left, and Mark Fisher on Transcendental Miserabilism Michael Downs
6. Intro to Nick Land — Why This Course Michael Downs
7. Intro to Nick Land — Lecture 4: The Occult and the CCRU Michael Downs
8. Intro to Nick Land — Lecture 3: The Dark Enlightenment Michael Downs
9. Intro to Nick Land — Lecture 2: Cybernetic Capital Michael Downs
Course Marxism & Class

PMC Consciousness & Ideology

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1. A Critique of Worldview Marxism - Key Excerpts and Exegesis from Burnham's The Managerial Revolution David McKerracher
2. PMC analysis is about a mode, mindset, and ideology rather than an identity-based dismissal or slur David McKerracher
3. Marx's Conceptions of Class and the Rise of the PMC David McKerracher
4. The U.S. Political Traffic Jam and the PMC David McKerracher
5. Theory Underground 2023 Tour Update from Chicago David McKerracher
6. What the Left Misunderstands About Workers: Blue Collar vs. PMC Enjoyment David McKerracher
7. PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Interview with Catherine Liu David McKerracher
8. PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Week 4: Left vs. Post-Left, Nagle and Liu David McKerracher
9. PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Angela Nagle vs. the New Priesthood David McKerracher
10. PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Reading: Catherine Liu, Virtue Hoarders David McKerracher
11. PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Week 3: Discursive Taylorism and the New Left David McKerracher
12. PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Adolph Reed Jr. on the Color Line and Du Bois David McKerracher
13. PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Reading: Du Bois, The Talented Tenth David McKerracher
14. PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Reading: Ehrenreich on the New Left David McKerracher
15. PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Reading: Burnham, The Managerial Revolution David McKerracher
16. PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Week 2: Ehrenreich vs. Burnham on Class David McKerracher
17. PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Reading: The Professional-Managerial Class (1976) David McKerracher
18. PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Week 1: How Progressives Invented the PMC David McKerracher
19. PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Reading: Barbara Ehrenreich, Fear of Falling David McKerracher
20. PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Reading: Thomas Frank, Listen, Liberal David McKerracher
21. PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Week 3 in Review: Dirtbags and PMCs David McKerracher
22. PMC Consciousness & Ideology — Introduction: Why PMC Critique Matters David McKerracher
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TOTALITY AND INFINITY - Emmanuel Levinas

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1. Totality and Infinity — Notes: Section I, Parts C–D David McKerracher
2. Totality and Infinity — Session 2: Part I, Sections C–D David McKerracher
3. Totality and Infinity — Notes: Section I, Part A David McKerracher
4. Totality and Infinity — The Preface David McKerracher
5. Husserl According to Levinas: The Phenomenological Theory of Being David McKerracher
6. Emmanuel Levinas, Thinker of the Other (Panel) David McKerracher
7. Totality and Infinity — Discussion after Session 3 David McKerracher
8. Terrying with the Text — Section II, Parts C–D David McKerracher
9. Totality and Infinity — Notes: Section II, Parts C–E David McKerracher
10. Totality and Infinity — Session 5: Part II, to Completion David McKerracher
11. Terrying with the Text — Section II, Parts A–B David McKerracher
12. Totality and Infinity — Notes: Section II, Parts A–B David McKerracher
13. Totality and Infinity — Session 4: Part II, Sections C–D David McKerracher
14. Totality and Infinity — Session 3: Part II, Sections A–B David McKerracher
15. Terrying with the Text — Section I, Parts C–D David McKerracher
16. Totality and Infinity — Week 2 Discussion David McKerracher
17. Totality and Infinity — Notes: Section I, Part B, with Terrying with the Text David McKerracher
18. Totality and Infinity — Discussion: Interpretation, Method, and the Breach of Totality David McKerracher
19. Totality and Infinity — Session 1: Part I, Sections A–B David McKerracher
20. Levinas on Heidegger's Being and Time (Ethics and Infinity) David McKerracher
21. How to Read Totality and Infinity David McKerracher
22. Totality and Infinity — Course Introduction: Levinas vs. Hegel, Marx, Heidegger, Butler, and Critchley David McKerracher
23. Heidegger and Levinas: Their Relationship, and Heidegger's Politics David McKerracher
Course TU Foundations

TU's 12 Core Concepts

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1. Asynchronous Simultaneity and Critical Media Theory - TU Core Concepts Course David McKerracher
2. Retroversion: Schooled Brains vs. Real Learning David McKerracher
3. The Virtuous Circle vs. the Vicious Cycle (Part 2) David McKerracher
4. Churn vs. Canon: Which Voices Have Staying Power? David McKerracher
5. Scholē vs. Schooling, and New Reading David McKerracher
6. A Quick Intro to Timenergy Theory and the Post-Class Fractured Mass David McKerracher
7. Reprojection: Projection Plus Retroversion David McKerracher
8. Gerrymandering Befindlichkeit: The Political Capture of Dispositions David McKerracher
9. Nature, Nurture, and Natality David McKerracher
10. Being-with: Being-in-the-World, Part 2 (Guest Lecture) David McKerracher
11. Being-in-the-World, Part 2 David McKerracher
12. The Three Crises: Activism, the Academy, and the Attention Economy David McKerracher
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The Clinical Structures of Psychoanalysis and Autism - Dr. Leon Brenner

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1. The Clinical Structures of Psychoanalysis — Post-Course Discussion Leon Brenner
2. The Clinical Structures of Psychoanalysis — Lecture 5 Leon Brenner
3. The Clinical Structures of Psychoanalysis — Lecture 4 Leon Brenner
4. The Clinical Structures of Psychoanalysis — Lecture 3 Leon Brenner
5. The Clinical Structures of Psychoanalysis — Lecture 2 Leon Brenner
6. The Clinical Structures of Psychoanalysis — Lecture 1 Leon Brenner
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The Idea of the University Lectures and Discussions

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1. The Idea of the University — Final Session David McKerracher
2. The Idea of the University — Week 4 David McKerracher
3. The Idea of the University — Week 3 David McKerracher
4. The Idea of the University — Week 2 David McKerracher
5. The Idea of the University — Week 1.5 David McKerracher
6. The Idea of the University — Week 1: Lecture and Discussion David McKerracher
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The Philosophy of Nature with Nina Power

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1. WR - ANNOUNCING: Part II of Nina Power's Philosophy of Nature Nina Power
2. Nietzsche - Lecture 7 of The Philosophy of Nature with Nina Power Nina Power
3. The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 1: Phusis Nina Power
4. The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 2: Lucretius, Atoms and Void Nina Power
5. The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 3: Menent and Harrington Nina Power
6. The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 4: Spinoza Nina Power
7. The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 5: Kant Nina Power
8. The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 5 Discussion: Kant Nina Power
9. The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 6: Hegel Nina Power
10. The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 6 Discussion: Hegel Nina Power
11. The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 8: Darwin Nina Power
12. The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 9: Marx and Schmidt Nina Power
13. The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 10: Feminism Nina Power
14. The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 11: Psychoanalysis and Nature Nina Power
15. The Philosophy of Nature — Lecture 12: AI, Technology, and Nature Nina Power
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The Philosophy of Stewardship and Home Economics

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1. Stewardship & Home Economics — Lecture 1: True Ownership David McKerracher
2. Stewardship & Home Economics — Practicum, Part 1 David McKerracher
3. Stewardship & Home Economics — Guest Lecture: Scott Yenor David McKerracher
4. Stewardship & Home Economics — Xenophon's Oeconomicus, Books 8–9 David McKerracher
5. Stewardship & Home Economics — Family, Reactionary Feminism, and Self-Help David McKerracher
6. Stewardship & Home Economics — Exploitation vs. Nurture: Berry to Salatin David McKerracher
7. Stewardship & Home Economics — Masanobu Fukuoka's The One-Straw Revolution David McKerracher
8. Stewardship & Home Economics — Practicum, Part 2: Cultivation and Construction David McKerracher
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Zizek's For They Know Not What They Do

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1. For They Know Not What They Do — Discussion with Todd McGowan Michael Downs
2. For They Know Not What They Do — Chapter 6 Michael Downs
3. For They Know Not What They Do — Chapter 5 Michael Downs
4. For They Know Not What They Do — Chapter 4 Michael Downs
5. For They Know Not What They Do — Chapter 3, Part 2 Michael Downs
6. For They Know Not What They Do — Chapter 3, Part 1 Michael Downs
7. For They Know Not What They Do — Chapter 2 Michael Downs
8. For They Know Not What They Do — Chapter 1 Michael Downs
9. For They Know Not What They Do — Introduction Michael Downs