Always Already Podcast, a critical theory podcast

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Tune in to the Always Already Podcast for indulgent conversations about critical theory (in the broadest read of the term!). Our podcast consists of two episode streams. The first is a discussion of texts spanning critical theory, political theory, social theory, and philosophy. We work through and analyze main ideas, underlying assumptions, connections with other texts and theories, and occasionally delve into the great abyss of free association, ad hoc theory jokes, and makeshift puns. The second stream, entitled Epistemic Unruliness, consists of interviews and discussions with activists, artists, and academics whose “disobedient” work builds upon the themes of that arise in the texts we discuss and in our ongoing podcast conversations.

In the first stream we also entertain the questions of friends and strangers and dole out slapdash advice about everything from massaging a head of Brooklyn kale to sweet talking a nebechy philosopher and dealing with the vagaries of academic life. We also put on our Freud-Klein-Lacan-Irigaray hats as we provide dream analysis to (always already anonymized) listener dreams.

Be a part by sending us text suggestions, interview ideas, advice questions to answer, and dreams to analyze.

The Always Already Podcast is created by B Aultman, Rachel Brown, Emily Crandall, John McMahon, and James Padilioni, Jr.
The text discussion episodes also entertain the questions of friends and strangers as we dole out slapdash advice to audience queries on everything from how to massage a head of Brooklyn kale to how to sweet talk a nebechy philosopher to how to deal with the vagaries of academic life. We also put on our Freud-Klein-Lacan hats as we provide dream analysis to (always already anonymized) listener dreams.

Tune in, and send us text suggestions, interview ideas, advice questions to answer, and dreams to analyze.

The Always Already Podcast is created by B Aultman, Rachel Brown, Emily Crandall, John McMahon, and James Padilioni, Jr.

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  • jockitsch
    gotta change the cover pic
    long time listener first time etc! change the ugly podcast cover pic, cuz it’s a great podcast and deserves better!
  • abolition now!
    Best podcast
    This is the podcast that opened my world to the potential of podcasts. Never really liked them and then heard this one and bam. Always (already) delivers. One must listen to entire back catalog as every episode is great. Thank you Always Already!
  • Pavel Smerdyakov
    Love the show
    Hi I really enjoy your show! I listened to most of the episodes and sometimes find the structure of the show a little disorganized. I am deeply interested in critical theory but sometimes the hosts use too many jargons, which do too much work for them. The sentences are not well formed at times. This show of struggle to grapple with difficult concepts is interesting, but maybe not good for delivery to the audience. I want to support this show through any means I could. Are there ways to help out?
  • oluosa ✰
    🤍
    Black and less sad cause i got y’all thinking w me. means plenty
  • ali2173
    Amazing podcast!!!
    Great topics and texts!!! This is helping me get through grad school- please don’t stop!
  • XsB
    Yes!!
    Thank you!! So good!!
  • thom bjork
    Capitalism is a loser ideology
    Monthly academic dialogue about selected marxist texts. They get their fun in, too. Approachable, even for undergrad degree schlubs like me.
  • Nietzsche-Preacher
    Vulgar Materialist
    I LOVE this podcast. The world is post-truthful, #alternativefact’ed, #FakeNews’ed and finally post-modern. The problem is predicated on the phenomenology of sound and economic expulsions. Upon "appropriating a memory as it flashes up in a moment of danger" one can then decenter the economy and interpellate false conscious secretions of Afro-pessimistic hyper-real phantasms. Life is now neoliberal and death is always-already overdetermined. Walter Benjamin told us that history wasn’t teleological and Trump, neo-fascism and contemporary urgencies explicit such. Secularism fails at performativity and necropolitics because it is vulnerable to the currency imbued in the protestant ethic. To be able to decrypt anything you just read, you NEED to listen to the podcast! Especially with the rise of neo-fascist, noxious virile articulations of machismo refracting through the prism of ostensible class angst, but really just the corrosion of universal subject-hood.
  • The ghost of Hegel
    Great stuff
    A valuable resource for scholars and students to familiarize themselves with difficult texts
  • kierkegaard’s ghost
    fun, thoughtful, informative
    I enjoy the way they balance critical discussions of theory with friendly banter! Definitely worth a listen, even if you haven’t read the specific reading they are talking about it.
  • Old Hegelian
    Good for seasoned and budding philosophers alike
    Fun, smart, well worth the listen--thanks guys
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