Theoryish

Content warning: SCUM Manifesto contains discussion of transphobia, violence, murder, misogyny, ableism, domestic abuse, sexual violence and suicide.   In this episode we discuss Valerie Solanas' controversial 1967 text, the SCUM Manifesto. We use this text as a jumping off point to chat about masculinity, transphobia, biological essentialism, and female fury. Mental health links:  https://www.mind.org.uk  https://mhanational.org  Sources  Valerie Solanas (2015) SCUM Manifesto. Verso. – Free Olympia Press version available here.   Physical: 100 (2023) (TV Show) Up Your Ass (2000) (play) written by Valerie Solanas  I, a Man (1967) (film) directed by Andy Warhol  Bike Boy (1967) (film) directed by Andy Warhol  Riot grrrl   Ruth Pearce, Sonja Erikainen & Ben Vincent (2020) TERF Wars: An Introduction, The Sociological Review, 68 (4). 677-698.  Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2017) Let’s Generalize about Men (song)  Book Club from Hell Podcast – Episode #9 The SCUM Manifesto  Audition (1999) (film)   M3GAN (2022) (film)  SNL (2023) M3GAN 2.0 (sketch)  SZA (2022) SOS (album)   Ethel Cain (2022) Preacher’s Daughter (album)   Lorde (2017) Green Light (song)  Feminist sex wars  Spotify Playlist You can listen to our SCUM Manifesto inspired Spotify playlist here. Contact Us  You can get in touch with us via our email: theoryishpodcast@gmail.com  Socials  We are on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok at theoryish_pod and Facebook at theoryishpod  Music  Outro: Lori Beauty, Coma Studios  

The main source for this episode is Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze's 1980 book A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. The chapters we discussed were Chapter 1: Rhizome and Chapter 5: 587 BC-AD 70: On Several Regimes of Signs. We were joined by Veronika Epple, a PhD student at Humboldt University and Junior Curator at C/O Berlin. Join us as we discuss plateaus, French academia, assemblage, rhizomes, and psychoanalysis. Sources & Fan Fiction You can find all the sources and fan fictions discussed in the episode here. Contact Us  You can get in touch with us via our email: theoryishpodcast@gmail.com  Socials  We are on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok at theoryish_pod and Facebook at theoryishpod  Music  Outro: Lori Beauty, Coma Studios  

In this episode we discuss Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's seminal 1990 text, Epistemology of the Closet. This is part one of two in which we discuss the Introduction, Chapter One: Epistemology of the Closet and Chapter Two: Some Binarisms (I): Billy Budd: After the Homosexual. Sources Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1993) Tendencies. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1985) Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire. Michel Foucault (1976) The History of Sexuality: Volume 1. Ned Ward (1709-1710) The Mollies Club. Jennifer Evans & Elissa Mailänder (2021) Cross-dressing, Male Intimacy and the Violence of Transgression in Third Reich Photography. German History, 39 (1): 54-77 McIntosh, M. (1968) The Homosexual Role. Social Problems, 16 (2): 182-192 Weeks, J. (2012) Queer(y)ing the “Modern Homosexual”. Journal of British Studies, 51 (3): 523-539. Queering the Map Center for Reproductive Rights, After Roe Feel: Abortion Laws by State Theoryish (2023) Walter Benjamin: A Short History of Photography Fan Fiction Note: we have not always read the fan fictions all the way through, and so often rely on tags and summaries to find pieces. We will usually state if we have read the fan fictions in the episode, and so please approach these with your own discretion. ladygrange – Reel to Reel Not a fan fiction but the essay Hannah discussed – Kara Hisatake (2011) “Nothing Says I Despise You Like a Blowjob”: Opening Queer Moments for Queer Spaces in Harry Potter Slash Fan Fiction Contact Us You can get in touch with us via our email: theoryishpodcast@gmail.com Socials We are on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok at theoryish_pod and Facebook at theoryishpod Music Outro: Lori Beauty, Coma Studios

For this episode of Theoryish, we looked at Michel Foucault's The Birth of Biopolitics with our first guest of the podcast, James Whitfield. As this is a bit of a longer text, we looked at Chapter 2: 17 January 1979 and Chapter 10: 21 March 1979.  Sources Foucault, M. (1990). The history of sexuality: An introduction, volume I. New York: Vintage. Foucault, M. (2007). Discipline and punish: The birth of the prison: Duke University Press. Foucault, M. (2007). Security, territory, population: lectures at the Collège de France, 1977-78: Springer. Foucault, M. (2008). The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the College de France, 1978-1979. Chapter 2 & 10. Palgrave Macmillan. Foucault, M. (2013). Archaeology of knowledge. Routledge. Rabinow, P. (1984). The Foucault Reader. Pantheon Books, New York Garland, D. (1997). `Governmentality' and the Problem of Crime: Foucault, Criminology, Sociology. Theoretical Criminology, 1(2), 173-214. doi:10.1177/1362480697001002002 Youtube (2013) Debate Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault - On human nature [Subtitled]. Available online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wfNl2L0Gf8&t=363s Rose, N. (1999). Powers of freedom: Reframing political thought. Cambridge University press. Dean, M. (2010). Governmentality: Power and rule in modern society. Sage publications. Fan Fiction Note: we have not always read the fan fictions all the way through, and so often rely on tags and summaries to find pieces. We will usually state if we have read the fan fictions in the episode, and so please approach these with your own discretion. Frustrations in Late Foucault, by VersaceThong: https://archiveofourown.org/works/23900899?view_adult=true All Foucault, No Knickers, by chaosmanor: https://archiveofourown.org/works/13021278 The Great Philosopher Bake Off, by starlightfury: https://archiveofourown.org/works/30140892 Contact Us You can get in touch with us via our email: theoryishpodcast@gmail.com Socials We are on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok at theoryish_pod and Facebook at theoryishpod James Whitfield is on Twitter @James_J_Wh Music Outro: Lori Beauty, Coma Studios