Channel Title: Theoretical Puppets Channel Description: Every month we release a new video and invite you to share our passion for puppets, social science and philosophy! Have fun! ________ "Philosophy can be a tough nut to crack but this video series harnesses the power of puppetry to make sense of ideas by everyone from Foucault to Freud. It’s kids’ TV meets academia, producing surprisingly engaging 10-minute essays." --- The Guardian "If you're a social theory and philosophy nerd who also loves puppets, have I got a YouTube channel for you—"Theoretical Puppets."" --- Jennifer Sandlin, Boingboing.net "Auf dem YouTube-Kanal Theoretical Puppets kann man sich augenzwinkernde Clips ansehen, in denen Hannah Arendt über Gebürtlichkeit und Rauchen, Michel Foucault über Quarantäne oder Gilles Deleuze über die Grinsekatze aus Alice im Wunderland spricht – als Puppen, versteht sich." --- Philosophie Magazin <video> X is for Xenophon (Michel Foucault) Description: #foucault #xenophon #puppets Michel Foucault from A to Z. Please don't give me that neoliberal stuff about the best way to run a company! In the second volume of his "History of Sexuality," Foucault refers to the Greek writer Xenophon when describing the principles of ancient economy. Unfortunately, it is not always clear here how the proximity to the clichés of today's management literature can be avoided. One way out is perhaps to focus on questions of architecture, i.e. the artificial and natural environment. From Xenophon, we could then move on to Foucault's work on the “politics of habitat”, heterotopias, and similar themes... </video> <video> N is for Nietzsche (Michel Foucault) Description: #foucault #nietzsche #puppet Michel Foucault from A to Z. June 25, 2024 marks the 40th anniversary of Michel Foucault's death. A new book by Foucault is published at almost the same time. It brings together the notes, drafts and lectures he wrote on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche over the course of his career. In this video, Michel (the puppet) explains the significance of Nietzsche for his work – from the idea of genealogy to the question of power and the concept of the Theatrum philosophicum. </video> <video> Félix Guattari, "For Antonio Negri (1933 - 2023)" Description: #negri #guattari #puppet The text is a free adaptation from Toni Negri’s obituary on Félix Guattari, published as „For Félix Guattari”, Trans. Virgilio Rizzo, in Long News in the Short Century 4 (1993): 156-157. </video> <video> Gilles Deleuze on Fascism, Ideology and the Resistance of Life Description: #fascism #deleuze #resistance “Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation? How can people possibly reach the point of shouting: More taxes! Less bread! ?” According to Deleuze and Guattari, this is the fundamental question of political philosophy. At the same time, it is the central problem of any theory of fascism. Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus can be understood as answers to this problem. Both volumes attempt to show that fascism is not just an economic and political phenomenon, but also a phenomenon of desire – a desire that attempts to suicide itself. The masses are not simply “tricked by an ideological lure”. At the same time and above all, fascism subjects their desire to a tremendous „perversion", and it is precisely this “molecular or micropolitical power“ that makes it so dangerous. This is the rather topical insight that Deleuze discusses here at length… </video> <video> Gilles Deleuze, “The Little Match Girl” and the Christmas Crystal of Time Description: #andersen #deleuze #renoir If you want to watch the movie "La Petite Marchande D'allumettes" (1928), you can find it here: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2162n0 Happy Holidays to everyone!! </video> <video> Gilles Deleuze, Coca-Cola and the Strategies of Desire Description: #coke #puppet #felixguattari Jean-Luc Godard claimed his "Masculine–Feminine" (1966) was a film aboiut the "children of Marx and Coca-Cola". Does this also apply to Deleuze and Guattari? Did they actually drink the imperialist soda? And how about Coca-Cola in art, e.g. Warhol, Dalí, Beuys? Gilles is offering some clues... </video> <video> U is for Unconscious (Michel Foucault) Description: #unconscious #foucault #freud Michel Foucault from A to Z. Does Foucault have a theory of the unconscious? At first glance, the answer seems to be “no”, because the author of “The Order of Things” was only interested in the emergence and development of the human science that has caused a sensation, since Freud, under the name “psychoanalysis”. If we take a closer look, however, Foucault does have an original and specific notion of the unconscious. As he explains here, this notion refers to the “positive unconscious of knowledge”, that is, to those discourses that determine, through their structures and rules, what can be thought and said in a particular epoch. </video> <video> Bruno Latour, Gilbert Simondon and the Modes of Existence Description: #brunolatour #puppet #theoreticalpuppets Is it Georges Simondon or Gilbert Simondon? Eventually, it does not really matter... The "Inquiry into Modes of Existence" was the big philosophical project of the late Latour -- before changing his own mode of existence and becoming a puppet :-) But what is a "mode of existence," actually? a regime of enunciation? or a way of life? Bruno has some clues. </video> <video> Sigmund Freud on "Negation" Description: #sigmundfreud #gillesdeleuze #psychoanalysis Freud's short text on „Negation" has given rise to many interpretations. One of the most famous is that of Jacques Lacan, who, with the help of Jean Hyppolite, discusses the parallels between Freud and Hegel in one of his seminars. Deleuze was never particularly interested in this. For him, negation, non-being, nothingness were productions of a Nietzschean fullness of life. Perhaps that is why he agreed to lie down on Freud's couch for once, pretending to participate in the psychoanalytical game... </video> <video> V is for Visible (Michel Foucault) Description: #foucault #invisible #puppet Michel Foucault from A to Z. The question of "the visible" is one of the core issues in Michel Foucault's work. But what exactly did he say again, about the visible and the invisible – and the visible and the sayable? Michel answers these questions here by returning to "The Birth of the Clinic", his first contribution to the topic. At the same time, he talks about the phenomenon of visibility in the digital world – and runs the risk of becoming invisible himself... </video> <video> #shorts #kant #puppets Description: "We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of [puppets]." Kant, lectures on ethics, p.240 </video> <video> "So it IS his mother..." (Sigmund Freud ,"Negation” ,1925) Description: #shorts #psychoanalysis #puppet Freud's short text on „Negation" has given rise to many interpretations. One of the most famous is that of Jacques Lacan, who, with the help of Jean Hyppolite, discusses the parallels between Freud and Hegel in one of his seminar. Deleuze was never particularly interested in this. For him, negation, non-being, nothingness were productions of a Nietzschean fullness of life. Perhaps that is why he agreed to lie down on Freud's couch for once, pretending to participate in the psychoanalytical game... </video> <video> Gilles Deleuze, Immanuel Kant and the Black Box of Philosophy Description: #deleuze #kant #puppets Bruno Latour has suggested "opening the black box" of science and technology in order to better understand how these institutions actually function. But what does it mean to open the black box of philosophy, when it suddenly appears in front of you? Does it reveal, as Latour suggested, "inscription devices" with which thoughts are written on paper? Or do you simply encounter other philosophers (and/or puppets) who stand for the “dramatization” of thought? Gilles knows the answer. Part of it is to say thank you for the box as a gift and to wish everyone a happy and healthy holiday season! The other part is... see for yourself! </video> <video> Gilles Deleuze, Posthumanism and Foucault on the Beach Description: #foucault #deleuze #posthumanism There certainly is a multiplicity of pathways leading from Deleuze (and Guattari) to posthuman thought. This one explores the one leading from Deleuze's reading of Foucault's "vitalism" and his version of the "death of man" to today's convergence of molecular biology and computer science. Bruno Latour's actor networks and Donna Haraway's cyborgs show up along the way. The conclusion is that our digital societies are literally built on sand... </video> <video> Gilles Deleuze, Franz Kafka and the Gestures of Puppets Description: #kafka #deleuze #puppet 2024 marks the centenary of Kafka's death -- an excellent occasion for talking to Gilles about a striking Kafka puppet anecdote which was told by Kafka's partner Dora Diamant... </video>

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Every month we release a new video and invite you to share our passion for puppets, social science and philosophy! Have fun!


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"Philosophy can be a tough nut to crack but this video series harnesses the power of puppetry to make sense of ideas by everyone from Foucault to Freud. It’s kids’ TV meets academia, producing surprisingly engaging 10-minute essays." --- The Guardian

"If you're a social theory and philosophy nerd who also loves puppets, have I got a YouTube channel for you—"Theoretical Puppets."" --- Jennifer Sandlin, Boingboing.net

"Auf dem YouTube-Kanal Theoretical Puppets kann man sich augenzwinkernde Clips ansehen, in denen Hannah Arendt über Gebürtlichkeit und Rauchen, Michel Foucault über Quarantäne oder Gilles Deleuze über die Grinsekatze aus Alice im Wunderland spricht – als Puppen, versteht sich." --- Philosophie Magazin

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