Podcast
The Daily Dialectic
Hosted by Ted Metrakas · EN
The Daily Dialectic is a philosophy podcast about history, politics, art, and culture, with a focus on revolution.
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Episode 39: Talking NBA, philosophy, politics, other stuff
Jul 1, 202200:50:23Tap to summarizeIn this episode I start off talking about how basketball has changed from the early 80s to today, and then branch off into a lot of other stuff
Transcribe →Episode 37: Elon Buys Twitter, and French Election
Apr 25, 202200:31:51Tap to summarizeIn this episode of the Daily Dialectic, I talk about the Boston Celtics, Elon Musk buying Twitter, and the significance of the recent French presidential election.
Transcribe →Episode 36: Discussing the Fake “New Dissident Right”
Apr 22, 202200:24:11Tap to summarizeIn this episode I talk about a new article in Vanity Fair which promotes the idea of a “dissident populist new right.” I talk about why this movement is not dissident, new, or populist…
Transcribe →Episode 35: Licorice Pizza movie review…
Apr 7, 202200:50:55Tap to summarizeIn this episode I talk about the new movie from Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza…and other things…
Transcribe →Episode 34: Dialectics of The Slap and War and other stuff
Mar 31, 202200:33:44Tap to summarizeIn this episode I discuss Will Smith slapping Chris rock, the ongoing war in Europe, and some other stuff.
Transcribe →Episode 33: 2021 Year in Review
Dec 21, 202101:03:13Tap to summarizeI am back, talking about the year that is about to end. I talk about lots of things like Covid World, Ghislaine Maxwell, Spider-Man, Biden, Trump, VICE propaganda, love, Elvis, hopelessness, the Great Resignation, MasterClass, Amazon, strikes, and more.
Transcribe →Episode 32: Anti-Revisionism with Mike Watt
Oct 4, 202101:16:12Tap to summarizeI interviewed Mike Watt (the bass player of The Minutemen, among many other things) about history, revisionism, 70s culture, 90s culture; his career in music; the influence of Walt Whitman and James Joyce, and a lot more.
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Episode 31: The Dialectics of the Void with artist Tai Lee
Sep 22, 202101:26:10Tap to summarizeIn this episode, I am joined for a third time by artist Tai Lee. We talk about a wide range of topics: how revolutionary artists should use the void creatively; how bourgeois artists use nothingness to serve the status quo, rather than subvert it; how artists should use surfaces, rather than depths; the fake radicalism of liberal feminism; the dialectical homofascism of baseball; and more.
Transcribe →Episode 30: The Fake Populism of AOC and more
Sep 16, 202100:44:58Tap to summarizeIn this episode, I cover a range of topics: the dialectics of black iced coffee; Mexican Independence Day; the ideological function of AOC's fake “populism”; and a bit about Australia and China.
Transcribe →Episode 29: On the Post-9/11 World
Sep 9, 202100:52:50Tap to summarizeIn this episode, I start off by answering some listener questions about random topics, like the cultural and economic politics of fast food, why The Matrix movies suck, 90s nostalgia, and why car society is bad. Then I move onto a longer discussion about the significance of the 20th anniversary of 9/11, how the world changed, its impact on culture, and how it’s happening again with Covid World.
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