What's Left of Philosophy

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• 142 | Hyperpolitics in the Present

  September 21, 2026 · 59 min

  In this episode we discuss the concept of hyperpolitics, as originally conceptualized by Anton Jäger. We contemplate the acute lack of substantive political transformation that has resulted from recent upheavals and movements, and wonder…

• 141 TEASER | Badiou: Political Subjects and Infinite Truths

  September 4, 2026 · 15 min

  In this episode we discuss the work of French philosopher Alain Badiou. Ever since the 1970s, Badiou’s philosophy has been characterized by an untimely systematicity and an ambitious effort to bring together politics, art, science, and…

• 140 | What is Modernity? Part II: Decoloniality

  August 19, 2026 · 59 min

  In this episode, we continue our series on modernity with a discussion of modernity, colonialism, and the future of both. We take up the claim that modernity is a justifying myth for European colonialism and wonder why we are all so…

• 139 TEASER | What is Modernity? Part I: Marshall Berman and the Contradictions of Modern Experience

  July 28, 2026 · 7 min

  In this episode, we begin our new series on modernity with a discussion of Marshall Berman’s 1982 book All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity. Some of the questions we will tackle in this series will address the…

• 138 | Machinic Intelligence and Marxism

  July 14, 2026 · 53 min

  In this episode, we use Marx’s infamous “Fragment on Machines” from the Grundrisse as a starting-point for a wide ranging discussion about the emancipatory and regressive potentials of AI technologies. Marx thought that automated systems…

• 137 | Althusius: Communitarianism Before Hobbes

  June 29, 2026 · 54 min

  In this episode we talk about the political philosophy of early modern jurist Johannes Althusius. For us, he represents a road not taken in political theory, since Hobbes definitively constructed political philosophy around the idea of the…

• 136 TEASER | What’s the Point of Equality? Meditations on Post-Socialist Analytical Philosophy

  June 10, 2026 · 9 min

  In this episode, we talk about the relational paradigm in political philosophy. Made famous by Iris Marion Young, developed later by Elizabeth Anderson, this view of what equality is all about presents a puzzle for the class conscious. It…

• 135 | The Ambiguities of Reconstruction w/ Professor Lucien Ferguson

  May 28, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

  In this episode, we are joined by Assistant Professor of Law Lucien Ferguson  (Chicago-Kent College of Law) to discuss the ambiguities of freedom and labor in the constitutional interpretation of the Reconstruction Amendments that were…