podcast Archives - New Discourses

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Herbert Marcuse’s “New Sensibility”

So that you can better understand the moment we find ourselves in, James Lindsay has been reading "An Essay on Liberation" for the New Discourses Podcast in full, with his explanation and commentary. This is the second part of that series, reading through part two of Marcuse's infamous essay, "A New Sensibility."

OnlySubs: Aufheben der Martin Luther King

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OnlySubs: Aufheben der Martin Luther King

In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I spend a few minutes talking about the aufheben of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., by the voracious culture-eaters on the Dialectical Left.

Critical Race Praxis and the Weakness of Liberals

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Critical Race Praxis and the Weakness of Liberals

In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay breaks down the distinction and intrinsic relationship between Critical Theory and Critical Praxis and thus why almost the entire discussion of what to do about this problem coming from liberal quarters misses the point and remains ineffective.

OnlySubs: Critical Pedagogy Doesn't Understand Education

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OnlySubs: Critical Pedagogy Doesn’t Understand Education

Critical Pedagogy is the name for the Critical Theory of education, meaning both applying Critical Theory to education and applying it in education, as in teaching students to adopt Critical Theory methodologies and ways of thinking.

The Woke Manipulation of Democracy

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The Woke Manipulation of Democracy

In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay walks you through more pieces of the Woke, neo-Marxist, and Marxist literature to make the case that when the Woke are calling for "democracy," they mean something that demands a very radical agenda along with it.

OnlySubs: Critical Theory Is Applied Psychopathology

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OnlySubs: Critical Theory Is Applied Psychopathology

Drawing from various examples in the neo-Marxist and Critical Pedagogy literature, in this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I make the case that Wokeness is applied psychopathology.

OnlySubs: Wound Collecting: A Manipulative Woke Tactic

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OnlySubs: Wound Collecting: A Manipulative Woke Tactic

Wound collecting is a profoundly manipulative behavior strongly connected to malignant ideologies and psychopathologies, and it needs to be understood as such, especially in our present moment when it has so much traction and manipulates so much social currency.

Free OnlySubs: Why Critical Race Theory Is Un-American

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Free OnlySubs: Why Critical Race Theory Is Un-American

In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I go through the first paragraph of Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic's Critical Race Theory: An Introduction line by line.

A Biological Foundation for Socialism?

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A Biological Foundation for Socialism?

In this first part of the series, James Lindsay reads through the introduction to the essay and its first of four parts, "A Biological Foundation for Socialism?"

The Woke Slope Is Always Slippery

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OnlySubs: The Woke Slope Is Always Slippery

In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I go through the reasons why I think critical, deconstructive, and dialectical slopes are always slippery slopes.

OnlySubs: Breaking the Woke Strategy

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OnlySubs: Breaking the Woke Strategy

In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I take you through the top-down, bottom-up, inside-outside strategy of Woke institutional takeover and give a status report on where I think we are with challenging each of these facets.

The Virus of Critical Social Justice

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The Virus of Critical Social Justice

It is not normally appropriate to liken one's ideological opponents to something like a virus, but what should we do when the people who hold that ideology liken themselves to viruses like HIV, Ebola, and SARS?

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Why You Can Be Transgender But Not Transracial

In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay goes through all of the heavy Theoretical detail to explain why it is, from within Theory, that you can be transgender but not transracial.

OnlySubs: Be a Rebel: Enjoy Life

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OnlySubs: Be a Rebel: Enjoy Life

Join me to hear how the Woke and their intellectual predecessors literally have the goal of making people miserable with what is actually a pretty amazing life and the value, if we want to break away from Wokeness, of rebelling against the whole program by the simple, plain act of enjoying what we have in life as it is.

OnlySubs: Burning Through Trust

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OnlySubs: Burning Through Trust

In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I explore this idea and try to encourage everyone to think through just how easily virtually all of your goodwill can be lost if you treat it irresponsibly.

A Summary of Neo-Marxism

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A Summary of Neo-Marxism

In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, join James Lindsay as he reads through and adds nuance and detail to the relevant "neo-Marxism" entry in his Critical Social Justice Encyclopedia so that you can better understand where Wokeness comes from and how it thinks and operates.

OnlySubs: What We Can Learn from Basecamp

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OnlySubs: What We Can Learn from Basecamp

In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I dive into the story around how Basecamp changed one simple policy and effectively ridded itself of the Woke menace.

Hegel, Wokeness, and the Dialectical Faith of Leftism

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Hegel, Wokeness, and the Dialectical Faith of Leftism

In this episode, Lindsay takes considerable time explaining Hegel's view of dialectical thought and then reveals in many examples, reaching up to the present day, how consistently the dialectic appears as the functional underpinning of Leftism ever since, at the latest, the 1830s.

The Trap of Negative Rapport

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OnlySubs: The Trap of Negative Rapport

In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I explore the ideas of positive and negative rapport and discuss the way that Wokeness and Critical Theory seek to undermine the crucial norm that limits access to sharing negative rapport with others.

OnlySubs: Entitlement and the Performative Elite

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OnlySubs: Entitlement and the Performative Elite

In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I take aim at some of the cultural phenomena that arise within the bourgeoisie.

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