PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy

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Topics: bubbles, reality is analogical, gambling psychosis, temporality, conspiracy theory, ataraxia

This is an experiment with format to do more thematic less namedropic.

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from Language and Symbolic Power https://link.amazon/B02PDsduF by Pierre Bourdieu

We return to Pierre Bourdieu to help us break down the USA midterms, discussing the Oracle Effect and Political Fetishism.

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We discuss cannibalism, the communicative value of rioting, and the English news coverage of the French riots.

The paper "Can Riots Represent?" can be found here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ajps.12989

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René Girard is known mainly as someone Peter Thiel mentions in between deranged analogies, but he also wrote some books on some typically French topics such as desire, the symbolic, and anthropological historiography. This is his take on the scapegoat mechanism from Violence and the Sacred (https://link.amazon/B0aOFZum7).

René Girard is known mainly as someone Peter Thiel mentions in between deranged analogies, but he also wrote some books on some typically French topics such as desire, the symbolic, and anthropological historiography. This is his take on sacrifice from Violence and the Sacred (https://link.amazon/B0aOFZum7).