Always Already Podcast, a critical theory podcast

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Tune in to the Always Already Podcast for indulgent conversations about critical theory (in the broadest read of the term!). Our podcast consists of two episode streams. The first is a discussion of texts spanning critical theory, political theory, social theory, and philosophy. We work through and analyze main ideas, underlying assumptions, connections with other texts and theories, and occasionally delve into the great abyss of free association, ad hoc theory jokes, and makeshift puns. The second stream, entitled Epistemic Unruliness, consists of interviews and discussions with activists, artists, and academics whose “disobedient” work builds upon the themes of that arise in the texts we discuss and in our ongoing podcast conversations.

In the first stream we also entertain the questions of friends and strangers and dole out slapdash advice about everything from massaging a head of Brooklyn kale to sweet talking a nebechy philosopher and dealing with the vagaries of academic life. We also put on our Freud-Klein-Lacan-Irigaray hats as we provide dream analysis to (always already anonymized) listener dreams.

Be a part by sending us text suggestions, interview ideas, advice questions to answer, and dreams to analyze.

The Always Already Podcast is created by B Aultman, Rachel Brown, Emily Crandall, John McMahon, and James Padilioni, Jr.
The text discussion episodes also entertain the questions of friends and strangers as we dole out slapdash advice to audience queries on everything from how to massage a head of Brooklyn kale to how to sweet talk a nebechy philosopher to how to deal with the vagaries of academic life. We also put on our Freud-Klein-Lacan hats as we provide dream analysis to (always already anonymized) listener dreams.

Tune in, and send us text suggestions, interview ideas, advice questions to answer, and dreams to analyze.

The Always Already Podcast is created by B Aultman, Rachel Brown, Emily Crandall, John McMahon, and James Padilioni, Jr.

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Recent Episodes
  • Interview: Dr. Vincent Lloyd on Black Dignity and the Struggle Against Domination — Epistemic Unruliness 38
    Jan 9, 2023 –
  • Interview: Breea Willingham on Incarceration, Higher Ed, and Abolition – Epistemic Unruliness 37
    Sep 16, 2021 –
  • Ep. 72 – Miguel de Beistegui, The Government of Desire
    Aug 9, 2021 –
  • Ep. 71 – Jedidiah Purdy, After Nature
    Jul 1, 2021 –
  • Ep. 70 – Audra Simpson, Mohawk Interruptus
    May 11, 2021 –
  • Interview: Jane Gordon and Drucilla Cornell on Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg — Epistemic Unruliness 36
    Apr 15, 2021 –
  • Interview: Eric Bayruns García on Race and Epistemic Injustice — Epistemic Unruliness 35
    Mar 29, 2021 –
  • Ep. 69 – Dorfman and Mattleart on Disney and Imperialism
    Jan 25, 2021 –
  • Ep. 68 – W.E.B. Du Bois, Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil
    Jan 15, 2021 –
  • Interview: Jessica Blatt on Race and the Making of American Political Science — Epistemic Unruliness 34
    Sep 28, 2020 –
  • Interview: Mutual Aid and Black Queer Futurities, with Empty Your Venmo Fund — Epistemic Unruliness 33
    Sep 14, 2020 –
  • Interview: Joanna Steinhardt and Tehseen Noorani on the Psychedelic Revival — Epistemic Unruliness 32
    Aug 24, 2020 –
  • Interview: Joel Schlosser on Herodotus in the Anthropocene – Epistemic Unruliness 31
    Aug 11, 2020 –
  • Ep. 67 – Joel Olson, The Abolition of White Democracy
    Aug 4, 2020 –
  • Interview: Zakiyyah Iman Jackson on Becoming Human — Epistemic Unruliness 30
    Jul 2, 2020 –
  • Interview: Michael Sawyer on the Political Philosophy of Malcolm X – Epistemic Unruliness 29
    Jun 1, 2020 –
  • Interview: Frank B. Wilderson III on Afropessimism – Epistemic Unruliness 28
    May 11, 2020 –
  • Ep. 66 – Juliet Hooker, Race and the Politics of Solidarity
    Apr 28, 2020 –
  • Interview: Practicing Critical Care Through COVID-19 and Beyond – Epistemic Unruliness 27
    Mar 16, 2020 –
  • Ep. 65 – Race, Capitalism, and Intersectionality
    Feb 20, 2020 –
  • Ep. 64 – Robin James, The Sonic Episteme: Acoustic Resonance, Neoliberalism, and Biopolitics
    Jan 15, 2020 –
  • Ep. 63 – Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch
    Aug 13, 2019 –
  • Interview: Jason Ortiz on #RickyRenuncia and Puerto Rican Sovereignty Movements – Epistemic Unruliness 26
    Aug 2, 2019 –
  • Caribbean Carnival Complex – Epistemic Unruliness 25
    Jul 30, 2019 –
  • Awks AF: The Democratic Presidential Debates – AAP After Dark 4
    Jun 28, 2019 –
  • Ep. 62 – Rosa Luxemburg, The Accumulation of Capital Part III
    Jun 19, 2019 –
  • Ep. 61 – Rosa Luxemburg, The Accumulation of Capital Part II
    Feb 25, 2019 –
  • Interview: J.T. Roane on Plotting the Black Commons – Epistemic Unruliness 24
    Jan 17, 2019 –
  • Ep. 60 – Eugene Thacker, In the Dust of This Planet: Horror of Philosophy
    Dec 27, 2018 –
  • James Padilioni on the Wild Mind Collective: Visionary Scholarship Beyond Recognition with the Ancestors
    Dec 10, 2018 –
  • Ep. 59 – Rosa Luxemburg, The Accumulation of Capital Part I
    Dec 4, 2018 –
  • Ep. 58 – Mariana Ortega on Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the Self
    Nov 5, 2018 –
  • Interview: James Chamberlain on Undoing Work, Rethinking Community – Epistemic Unruliness 23
    Jul 9, 2018 –
  • Ep. 57 – Sylvia Wynter, “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom”
    Jun 28, 2018 –
  • Ep. 56 – Donna Haraway, When Species Meet
    May 23, 2018 –
  • Ep. 55 – Kylie Jarrett: Feminism, Labour, and Digital Media
    Apr 25, 2018 –
  • Interview: Kyla Schuller on Race Science and the Biopolitics of Feeling – Epistemic Unruliness 22
    Mar 19, 2018 –
  • Ep. 54 – Alexis Pauline Gumbs, M Archive
    Feb 6, 2018 –
  • Ep. 53 – Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society
    Dec 27, 2017 –
  • Ep. 52 – Geraldine Heng, The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages
    Nov 21, 2017 –
  • Ep. 51 – Anna L. Tsing on Capitalism, Mushrooms, and the End of the World
    Oct 12, 2017 –
  • Teaching the Political Theory Canon – AAP Pedagogy Hour
    Aug 29, 2017 –
  • Interview: Charles Mills on Racial Liberalism
    Aug 1, 2017 –
  • Ep. 50 – Karen Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway
    Jul 24, 2017 –
  • Interview: Kai M. Green on Transracialism – Epistemic Unruliness 21
    Jul 5, 2017 –
  • Psychoanalysis, Liberalism, and Trump – AAP After Dark 3
    Jun 26, 2017 –
  • Ep. 49 – Eric L. Santner on Sovereignty, Flesh, and Biopolitics
    Jun 13, 2017 –
  • Interview: Mark Padoongpatt on neoliberalism and the (under)commons – Epistemic Unruliness 20
    May 15, 2017 –
  • Ep. 48 – Calvin Warren and Frank Wilderson III on Antiblackness, Nihilism, and Politics
    May 5, 2017 –
  • Ep. 47 – Jürgen Habermas on Secularism and Democracy; Review of Get Out
    Mar 6, 2017 –
Recent Reviews
  • jockitsch
    gotta change the cover pic
    long time listener first time etc! change the ugly podcast cover pic, cuz it’s a great podcast and deserves better!
  • abolition now!
    Best podcast
    This is the podcast that opened my world to the potential of podcasts. Never really liked them and then heard this one and bam. Always (already) delivers. One must listen to entire back catalog as every episode is great. Thank you Always Already!
  • Pavel Smerdyakov
    Love the show
    Hi I really enjoy your show! I listened to most of the episodes and sometimes find the structure of the show a little disorganized. I am deeply interested in critical theory but sometimes the hosts use too many jargons, which do too much work for them. The sentences are not well formed at times. This show of struggle to grapple with difficult concepts is interesting, but maybe not good for delivery to the audience. I want to support this show through any means I could. Are there ways to help out?
  • oluosa ✰
    🤍
    Black and less sad cause i got y’all thinking w me. means plenty
  • ali2173
    Amazing podcast!!!
    Great topics and texts!!! This is helping me get through grad school- please don’t stop!
  • XsB
    Yes!!
    Thank you!! So good!!
  • thom bjork
    Capitalism is a loser ideology
    Monthly academic dialogue about selected marxist texts. They get their fun in, too. Approachable, even for undergrad degree schlubs like me.
  • Nietzsche-Preacher
    Vulgar Materialist
    I LOVE this podcast. The world is post-truthful, #alternativefact’ed, #FakeNews’ed and finally post-modern. The problem is predicated on the phenomenology of sound and economic expulsions. Upon "appropriating a memory as it flashes up in a moment of danger" one can then decenter the economy and interpellate false conscious secretions of Afro-pessimistic hyper-real phantasms. Life is now neoliberal and death is always-already overdetermined. Walter Benjamin told us that history wasn’t teleological and Trump, neo-fascism and contemporary urgencies explicit such. Secularism fails at performativity and necropolitics because it is vulnerable to the currency imbued in the protestant ethic. To be able to decrypt anything you just read, you NEED to listen to the podcast! Especially with the rise of neo-fascist, noxious virile articulations of machismo refracting through the prism of ostensible class angst, but really just the corrosion of universal subject-hood.
  • The ghost of Hegel
    Great stuff
    A valuable resource for scholars and students to familiarize themselves with difficult texts
  • kierkegaard’s ghost
    fun, thoughtful, informative
    I enjoy the way they balance critical discussions of theory with friendly banter! Definitely worth a listen, even if you haven’t read the specific reading they are talking about it.
  • Old Hegelian
    Good for seasoned and budding philosophers alike
    Fun, smart, well worth the listen--thanks guys
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