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Lecture 34: Derrida's "Force of Law," part 7
This is part 7 of a contextualized reading of Jacques Derrida's 1989 essay, "Force of Law" for an Introduction to Critical Theory course.
#criticaltheory #derrida #forceoflaw
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Lecture 33: Derrida's "Force of Law," part 6
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This is part 6 of a contextualized reading of Jacques Derrida's 1989 essay, "Force of Law" for an Introduction to Critical Theory course. #criticaltheory #derrida #forceoflaw
Lecture 32: Derrida's "Force of Law," part 5
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This is part 5 of a contextualized reading of Jacques Derrida's 1989 essay, "Force of Law" for an Introduction to Critical Theory course. #criticaltheory #derrida #forceoflaw
Lecture 31: Derrida's "Force of Law," Part 4
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This is part 4 of a contextualized reading of Jacques Derrida's 1989 essay, "Force of Law" for an Introduction to Critical Theory course. #criticaltheory #derrida
Lecture 30: Derrida's "Force of Law," Part 3
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This is part 3 of a contextualized reading of Jacques Derrida's 1989 essay, "Force of Law" for an Introduction to Critical Theory course. #criticaltheory #derrida #forceoflaw
Lecture 29: "Force of Law," Part 2
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This is part 2 of a contextualized reading of Jacques Derrida's 1989 essay, "Force of Law" for an Introduction to Critical Theory course. #criticaltheory #derrida #forceoflaw
Lecture 28: Derrida's "Force of Law," Part 1
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This is part 1 of a contextualized reading of Jacques Derrida's 1989 essay, "Force of Law" for an Introduction to Critical Theory course. #criticaltheory #derrida #forceoflaw
Lecture 27: Jack Halberstam's Female Masculinity
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This is a contextualized reading of the introductory chatter to Jack Halberstam's 1998 book, Female Masculinity. It is part of an ongoing Introduction to Critical Theory course. #criticaltheory #femalemasculinity #halberstam
Lecture 26: Judith Butler, "Imitation and Gender Insubordination"
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This is a contextualized reading of Judith Butler's, "Imitation and Gender Insubordination" essay from 1991. It is part of an Introduction to Critical Theory course. #gender #criticaltheory #Butler #Imitation #drag #insubordination #gendertheory
Lecture 25: Michel Foucault's "Security, Territory, Population," lecture from February 8, 1978
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This is a contextualized reading of Michel Foucault's "Security, Territory, Population," lecture from February 8, 1978. This lecture introduces the concept of "governmentally." It is part of an Intro to Critical Theory Course. #criticaltheory #foucault #governmentality
Lecture 24: On Michel Foucault's "Security, Territory, Population," lecture from February 1, 1978
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This is a contextualized reading of Michel Foucault's "Security, Territory, Population," lecture from February 1, 1978. This lecture introduces the concept of "governmentally." It is part of an Intro to Critical Theory Course. #criticaltheory #foucault #governmentality
Lecture 23: Albert Memmi, chapters 2 & 3 from The Colonizer and the Colonized
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This contextualized reading is part of an Intro to Critical Theory course. It covers "The Colonizer Who Refuses" and "The Colonizer Who Accepts" from Albert Memmi's classic, The Colonizer and the Colonized. Because most of my students are in the United States, I try to use examples from here to illustrate the enduring importance of Memmi's thought. #criticaltheory #memmi #colonizer #colonized #...
Lecture 22: Albert Memmi, "Does the Colonial Exist?" from The Colonizer and the Colonized
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This is a contextualized reading of Chapter one from Albert Memmi's famous 1965 book, The Colonizer and the Colonized. Because most of my audience is made of students in the United States, I give attention to current and ongoing conditions here to exemplify the usefulness of Memmi's work. #memmi #colonizer #colonized #criticaltheory #postcolonialism
Lecture 21: Frantz Fanon's "Concerning Violence"
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This is a contextualized reading of Fanon's "Concerning Violence" chapter from his 1961 book, The Wretched of the Earth. It's part of an ongoing Intro to Critical Theory course. Along with covering the chapter I make brief interludes toward contemporary political problems and a very brief discussion of comparative genocide. #criticaltheory #fanon #concerningviolence #wretchedoftheearth
Lecture 20: Herbert Marcuse's "Repressive Tolerance"
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This is a contextualized reading of Herbert Marcuse's 1965 essay, Repressive Tolerance" for an Intro to Critical Theory Course. I frame it in the context of our previous readings and lectures. #criticaltheory #marcuse #frankfurtschool #repressivetolerance #desublimation #instrumentalreason
Lecture 19: A Gloss on Freud to Help with Marcuse
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Lecture 19: A Gloss on Freud to Help with Marcuse
Lecture 18: Hannah Arendt's "The Meaning of Revolution."
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Lecture 18: Hannah Arendt's "The Meaning of Revolution."
Lecture 17: Hannah Arendt's Introduction her book On Revolution
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Lecture 17: Hannah Arendt's Introduction her book On Revolution
Lecture 16: Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno's "The Culture Industry"
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Lecture 16: Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno's "The Culture Industry"
Lecture 15: Walter Benjamin's "Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
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Lecture 15: Walter Benjamin's "Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
Lecture 14: Glen S. Coulthard's "Subjects of Empire"
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Lecture 14: Glen S. Coulthard's "Subjects of Empire"
Lecture 13: Wendy Brown and "Neoliberalism's Frankenstein"
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Lecture 13: Wendy Brown and "Neoliberalism's Frankenstein"
Lecture 12: Reading Levinas's "Reflections on the Philosophy of Hitlerism"
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Lecture 12: Reading Levinas's "Reflections on the Philosophy of Hitlerism"
Lecture 11: Horkheimer's "Traditional & Critical Theory"
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Lecture 11: Horkheimer's "Traditional & Critical Theory"
Lecture 10: Lenin's State and Revolution, part 2
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Lecture 10: Lenin's State and Revolution, part 2
Lecture 9: Lenin's State and Revolution, Chapters 1 & 2
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Lecture 9: Lenin's State and Revolution, Chapters 1 & 2
Lecture 8: Carl Schmitt Political Theology Essay 4
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Lecture 8: Carl Schmitt Political Theology Essay 4
Lecture 7: Carl Schmitt Political Theology Essay 3
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Lecture 7: Carl Schmitt Political Theology Essay 3
Lecture 6: Carl Schmitt's Political Theology, Essay2
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Lecture 6: Carl Schmitt's Political Theology, Essay2
Lecture 5: Carl Schmitt's Political Theology, Essay1 and 2024 Election Ballot Debates
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Lecture 5: Carl Schmitt's Political Theology, Essay1 and 2024 Election Ballot Debates

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  • @BetsyWillie-t8f
    @BetsyWillie-t8f 13 днів тому

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  • @shreyam514
    @shreyam514 16 днів тому

    An interesting lecture so far; just wanted to point out that the audio starts getting distorted a little around 19:42 . Can you look into this please? Thank you.

  • @baehongkim952
    @baehongkim952 22 дні тому

    Thank you for this good lecture!! :)

  • @doodoo4981
    @doodoo4981 Місяць тому

    Great videos. Is there any way of accessing your notes?

  • @nina1996ization
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    Thank you for this lecture

  • @rishijanakiraman4122
    @rishijanakiraman4122 2 місяці тому

    hi! i found this channel a few weeks ago and it's taught me so much about critical theory -- could you do a lecture specifically on the cold war if you haven't already? it's so interesting how the US' cultural hegemony has played into an almost socially constructed "red scare," both in the early 20th century and w/the second red scare and mccarthyism. thanks so much!

  • @Beverley-pc7vh
    @Beverley-pc7vh 3 місяці тому

    Thank you for this engaging lecture that delves deep into the context and themes, I'm definitely going to watch the rest of the series.

  • @ashfakurrahman8586
    @ashfakurrahman8586 4 місяці тому

    Thanks professor

  • @batsysgonebats664
    @batsysgonebats664 4 місяці тому

    thank you so much for this

  • @JessicaLorensTube
    @JessicaLorensTube 4 місяці тому

    Thanks for this. Super helpful lecture…this helps me synthesize my argument and I plan to apply this concept and theory for my literature assignment.

    • @JessicaLorensTube
      @JessicaLorensTube 4 місяці тому

      I also appreciate you saying that this is no post-colonial world. 👏

  • @mathiaswarnes6350
    @mathiaswarnes6350 4 місяці тому

    I’m enjoying this course! Would you mind checking if it’s in order in the playlist? It’s out of order from here.

    • @Ccctheory
      @Ccctheory 4 місяці тому

      It's in order here, Thanks!: ccctheory.org/homer-odyssey-lectures

  • @webmasterultra3487
    @webmasterultra3487 5 місяців тому

    Leftism is deadly and the most hypocritical cult of all time.

  • @W5nmwh50
    @W5nmwh50 5 місяців тому

    When I did my teaching qualifications a few years ago, I quoted many on the left because I knew that that's what my tutors would expect. I instinctively knew however that all this stuff was pretty much all pseudo intellectual nonsense. I decided recently however to investigate leftist thought, which is what drew me to your lecture, and other sources. I have to say that my opinion has not changed. I have however gained a better insight into many of the forces at work to destroy establishments around the world today. Thank you for reinforcing my views and giving me more ammunition to throw at the absurdity of leftist theory and dogma. I would equate this with the cultist doctrines of Scientology and Mormonism on having no rational basis whatsoever. The best I can do is to try to make sure my children and grandchildren are not captured by any ideology with no basis other than blind belief and/or dubious theory.

  • @AlexandriaFuertes
    @AlexandriaFuertes 5 місяців тому

    Great lecture! I really enjoyed listening to this :) It introduced me to a lot of historical context that I was blind to before, and knowing all of this now makes me appreciate Dream even more!

  • @strawberrydiesel2597
    @strawberrydiesel2597 5 місяців тому

    just found your channel and I must say: what a privilege! thank you so much for keeping these lectures available for those of us who want to learn :)

  • @3rd_POV
    @3rd_POV 6 місяців тому

    Thank you for this wonderful lecture - appreciate it

  • @Ceanndra
    @Ceanndra 6 місяців тому

    This saved my grades. Thank you so much.

  • @ryan_of_marshall986
    @ryan_of_marshall986 6 місяців тому

    Self-immolation is not suicide.

  • @BUY_YOUTUB_VIEWS_d125
    @BUY_YOUTUB_VIEWS_d125 6 місяців тому

    You have a special talent for engaging your audience. 🎯 🎉

  • @monsoonxena7489
    @monsoonxena7489 6 місяців тому

    Thank you so much for this. I developed a so much better understanding of this play definitely because of your video.

  • @Katerina-fc7nt
    @Katerina-fc7nt 6 місяців тому

    excellent.

  • @samibabar
    @samibabar 7 місяців тому

    Kindly make timestamps for introductory marks, commentary and discourse on original text.

  • @vetstadiumastroturf5756
    @vetstadiumastroturf5756 7 місяців тому

    Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, died on June 24, 1604 - Midsummer's Day.

  • @kirklandday
    @kirklandday 7 місяців тому

    What's the point of critical theory if not to change the world? What's the point of communism if not to change the world? Isn't that the clear issue with Feuerbach? Your point about Christians causally accepting genocide is relevant given what's going on in Palestine. I think you're not seeing the fuller picture that Marx laid out though, suggesting that there is debate to Marx's recognition of twentieth century communism/socialism states. I ask this geniunely, why do you think it's a 'gross' oversimplification to 'simply' associate critical theory with Marxism/communism? You're a professor, you're not blind, you want the same things we all want, there's a choice here and it cost many others their jobs, many their lives. You grouped together Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Mao, Ho Chi Minh and Che at the end, and characterize them as 'charismatic' leaders, but they were not just charismatic, they were revolutionary and independent. Is critical theory either when separated from the great successes of communism? Is the situation in Palestine "complicated"? I think it's something else, maybe a choice or choice in way of thought. I want to reiterate, you concluded with "It is a gross oversimplification to simply associate critical theory with Marxism, though Marx's thought remains fundamental to understanding the emergence of critical theory". This is contradictory. Are you saying it's an oversimplication to associate critical theory with Marxism despite, as you say immediately after, it's fundamental to the emergence of critical theory? To summarize my questions, "What's the point of critical theory if not to change the world? What's the point of communism if not to change the world? Isn't that the clear issue with Feuerbach?" (Marx makes a compelling case that you explained) "Why do you think it's a 'gross' oversimplification to 'simply' associate critical theory with Marxism/communism?" (Why do you think we have this 'oversimplification'?) "Is critical theory either revolutionary or independent when separated from the great successes of communism? Is the situation in Palestine "complicated"?" (Just to provoke, do you also think it's an oversimplification to call it genocide?)

  • @chitrapn
    @chitrapn 7 місяців тому

    Thank you for this lovely analysis. Are you still happy to email your notes?

  • @Theraiderofarcs
    @Theraiderofarcs 7 місяців тому

    When Marcuse is talking about "necessity" is he meaning it in a way of what is necessary to attain freedom outside of our current society (economics, cultural etc)? or Is it what things are necessary to do, within our society's system, to attain freedom? Meaning bourgeois society has created (constructed) necessities (ie we need to work to survive, we must strive for better technology to have a better society, i must do man things to be a man etc) and we are "told" completing those goals, or at least completing actions inside those freedom pipelines, will set us "free". And he is opposed to this because our rational thought is diminished to the extent of those pipelines and not to rationalize if those pipelines actually make us free. Example, does doing man things actually make me a man, or does it just continue the struggle? And if I somehow accomplish those tasks of manliness do they then transform me into a more rational individual with more freedoms than prior?

    • @Ccctheory
      @Ccctheory 7 місяців тому

      In Marcuse's thought, the concept of necessity is bigger than the particular issue here, so I'll point to page 60, since that's what I covered. He is not talking about "freedom outside of current society." He is not talking about Freedom as "liberation." Instead, in this section, he is giving an account of bourgeois rationalism, which promotes 'Freedom' as something ideal. But the "unhappy consciousness" (Hegel) promotes a Freedom that implicitly considers necessary limits (i.e., the "cripple" who conceptualizes Freedom while simultaneously maintaining an awareness of his/her/their condition). The problem is that Enlightenment rationality (Kant) already implied a kind of rational subjectivity that is disembodied and simultaneously "self-sufficient." Idealism (I know this sound contradictory) realized in a sense that subjectivity was bound to phenomena and "experience." Certainly not "experience" in the empiricist / English sense, but nevertheless bound to embodiment. Feuerbach and Marx would push this more toward material history for sure. But in contrast to abstract liberalism, which says, "you can do anything if you try because that's what Freedom is," the binding of "necessity to freedom" in Hegelianism resists what Lauren Berlant more recently called "cruel optimism" in liberalism. The fact of the matter is that the senior high school student who has never played football cannot simply become the next star NFL quarterback, no matter how hard he/she/they try. No matter how much they want it; they don't get it. But the myth of bourgeois rationality persists in the ideology that the individual, rational subject is somehow "free" from necessity. As Marx & Engels say, "NO!" that freedom is the illusion of the bourgeois / capitalist / owner who claims to "own" the work (and profit) that in material reality is produced by a whole symphony of human laborers, and not only that for the present time but for the collectively developed cooperation that led us to the very technological conditions framing our contemporary moment. Regarding the gendered framing of manliness in your second question, you might want to consider Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Romantic philosophy, particularly his treatise on education, "Emile." Rousseau is clear, following to a certain extent Hobbes and Locke, that you can either "make a man" or you can "make a citizen." The citizen is an automaton but not a "man." Hegel and the counter-Enlightenment German Idealists promote something similar, but they want to account for pietist-Christianity as opposed to Enlightenment secularism; therefore, in Hegel, the State is an apparatus that "civilizes" according to "Christian civilization" in the same way liberals like John Stuart Mill see "liberal society" as built within a prior "cultivation" pf the so-called "savage." Liberalism doesn't "respect" just any voice. It respects the Christian-civilized voices it recognizes, which is why late 19th-century (genocidal) policies claimed to "kill the Indian but save the man." In the gendered eurochristian context for Kant, Hegel, Marx, and Mill: men have more "natural" capacity for reason over women. Yet simultaneously, a rational citizen is not a "man." He is a citizen, an automaton. "Civilization" is a collective experience of rationality at the level of the species, not the individual. It's not about YOU. Every time you bring it back to your individual experience you're simply reverting to a quasi-bourgeois delusion that you individually exist outside of others. Indeed, phenomenology gives us philosophers a different way of conceiving the first-person 'I'. But I don't read your questions as operating from that situation. Hope that helps.

    • @Theraiderofarcs
      @Theraiderofarcs 7 місяців тому

      Thank you for taking the time to write this out. I don’t have any outlets for discussion and in my opinion that is the only way to understand. Regarding your text, it was helpful. I think knowing my initial understandings were off track will let me re-read that section with your notes in mind. I’m a IT professional so I’ve never really engaged with this content (philosophy, sociology, etc) all that much. I have not looked over your Patreon just yet but do you have any “open hours” for people to ask you questions in a more strict format? I’m sure I’ll have more questions and I want to make sure I’m asking in a format you are comfortable responding. I’ll be doing my best to keep diving over these books for the coming months and using your lectures as supplemental. Thanks.

    • @Ccctheory
      @Ccctheory 7 місяців тому

      @@Theraiderofarcs No problem. Thanks for engaging at all. There are times for paid booking on the www.ccctheory.org website but my daily life is pretty booked up these days so I don't have open office hours for the general public. Fridays after 11am Mountain Time are generally best for booking.

  • @Theraiderofarcs
    @Theraiderofarcs 7 місяців тому

    This is perfect. I just purchased "Critical Theory" and "Critical Theory and Philosophy" as well as "Critical Theory - Key Concepts by Dino Felluga" I've been relying on ChatGPT to hopefully have a way to break down certain terms. I will add your lectures to my readings as I go.

  • @mathiaswarnes6350
    @mathiaswarnes6350 7 місяців тому

    I’m loving this course! Thanks for posting it.

  • @urbrandnewstepdad
    @urbrandnewstepdad 7 місяців тому

    you suck

  • @phoebebeacham9816
    @phoebebeacham9816 7 місяців тому

    Just watched Judi Dench as Titania from 60s … Brilliant.

    • @SIERRATREES
      @SIERRATREES 3 місяці тому

      Me too... It was really great ..

  • @willjulian9205
    @willjulian9205 8 місяців тому

    Elegant and incisive as always. Particularly appreciated the forays into the present, and the background of his Catholicism in shaping his views of absolute sovereignty. Thank you!!!

  • @zainarafique1508
    @zainarafique1508 8 місяців тому

    I've been watching your videos Sir, thank you for the lectures!! Very helpful and insightful

  • @antoniodissenha1810
    @antoniodissenha1810 8 місяців тому

    Amazing lecture, Professor. Thank you for the amazing insights. 😊

  • @willjulian9205
    @willjulian9205 8 місяців тому

    Exquisite series!

  • @cassiopeia347
    @cassiopeia347 8 місяців тому

    I didn't even realize when an hour had passed! Thank you for video 😊

  • @thiagonunes4294
    @thiagonunes4294 9 місяців тому

    Appreciate it

  • @cassiopeia347
    @cassiopeia347 10 місяців тому

    I just discovered your channel and I'm obsessed. Thank you so much for your videos! 💕

  • @rosemaher7647
    @rosemaher7647 10 місяців тому

    Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful work. I am in a production of A Midsummer Nights Dream in Wollongong, Australia, playing Helena. We open this week. And I’m filling up on the language of the text via your academic inquiry. Thank you 😊

  • @lyudmilakrenida2806
    @lyudmilakrenida2806 11 місяців тому

    Thank you for this lecture! Is there any chance to have the notes?

  • @vinayaklohani9632
    @vinayaklohani9632 11 місяців тому

    Btilliant. From India.

  • @vinayaklohani9632
    @vinayaklohani9632 Рік тому

    Brilliant. From India.

  • @vinayaklohani9632
    @vinayaklohani9632 Рік тому

    Brilliant. From India.

  • @husamwaleed4876
    @husamwaleed4876 Рік тому

    Thank you Sir

  • @anishadas3846
    @anishadas3846 Рік тому

    Thanks sir

  • @okaytoletgo
    @okaytoletgo Рік тому

    Oh, you are Dr. Roger Green. Well then, thank you Dr. Roger Green. Your humility is so sweet, so beckoning; and wow, your family live in Geneva along with John Calvin's chair.

  • @okaytoletgo
    @okaytoletgo Рік тому

    Thank you for the humble voice and all the content.

  • @sonnyobrien
    @sonnyobrien Рік тому

    Mysticism or the mysteries or esotericism is an oral tradition: its not the case that something had to be written for someone to be persecuted. “But whoever heard of someone being persecuted for having heretical experiences” What do you mean by heretical experiences? Not at all a familiar phrase. Do you mean a ‘divine’ or transcendental or religious belief that encounter? If so, this statement is completely incorrect. A simple glazing of history would show it. @1:18:05

  • @mangalsinghlodhi9111
    @mangalsinghlodhi9111 Рік тому

    👍

  • @sonnyobrien
    @sonnyobrien Рік тому

    Just even the idea that drug scheduling did not exist before the 1970s is a mind blowing historical fact: I can see why you were laughing. What prompted your decision to pursue this field of research?

  • @gracefields1382
    @gracefields1382 Рік тому

    Great! Thanks for the critical analysis