web01.fireside.fm Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:15:14 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Outsider Theory - Episodes Tagged with “Covid” https://outsidertheory.fireside.fm/tags/covid Wed, 10 May 2023 09:00:00 -0400 Outsider Theory is an interview-based podcast exploring the mutations of theories outside of the authorized spaces of intellectual life as well as theories of that ever-alluring figure, the outsider, and related subjects. en-us episodic Theory on the outside, theory of the outside, outside of the theory Geoff Shullenberger Outsider Theory is an interview-based podcast exploring the mutations of theories outside of the authorized spaces of intellectual life as well as theories of that ever-alluring figure, the outsider, and related subjects. no critical theory, conspiracy theory, outsider intellectuals, outsiders, the outside Geoff Shullenberger gshullenb@gmail.com Lockdown Literature with Tim Abrahams https://outsidertheory.fireside.fm/lockdown-literature 938eb10d-b720-4d8e-be5c-3c1be4657641 Wed, 10 May 2023 09:00:00 -0400 Geoff Shullenberger full Geoff Shullenberger Architecture writer and publisher Tim Abrahams joins me to discuss his anthology of lockdown literature, "The Machine Book of Weird." 1:00:52 no Lockdown diaries became a literary fad in 2020, but few if any were memorable. What if the real literature of lockdown was written over a century ago? This is the hypothesis behind "The Machine Book of Weird," an anthology of fiction from the late 19th and early 20th century that explores isolation, domestic confinement, and the uncanniness of home. Publisher Tim Abrahams joins me to discuss this project, plus Freud, Mark Fisher, and more. You can donate to the project's Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mbow/machine-book-of-weird lockdown, literature, fiction, covid, isolation, domesticity, confinement, incarceration Lockdown diaries became a literary fad in 2020, but few if any were memorable. What if the real literature of lockdown was written over a century ago? This is the hypothesis behind "The Machine Book of Weird," an anthology of fiction from the late 19th and early 20th century that explores isolation, domestic confinement, and the uncanniness of home. Publisher Tim Abrahams joins me to discuss this project, plus Freud, Mark Fisher, and more.

You can donate to the project's Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mbow/machine-book-of-weird

]]> Lockdown diaries became a literary fad in 2020, but few if any were memorable. What if the real literature of lockdown was written over a century ago? This is the hypothesis behind "The Machine Book of Weird," an anthology of fiction from the late 19th and early 20th century that explores isolation, domestic confinement, and the uncanniness of home. Publisher Tim Abrahams joins me to discuss this project, plus Freud, Mark Fisher, and more.

You can donate to the project's Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mbow/machine-book-of-weird

]]> Disabling Medicine: Daniel Hadas with Medical Nemesis https://outsidertheory.fireside.fm/disabling-medicine c70585e1-016b-43d3-bfa3-c047dfb64fc6 Fri, 14 Apr 2023 14:00:00 -0400 Geoff Shullenberger full Geoff Shullenberger Guest host Daniel Hadas interviews Medical Nemesis on covid, Illich, industrialized medicine and thought, and more. 1:20:46 no In this special episode, guest host Daniel Hadas interviews Medical Nemesis on covid, Illich, industrialized medicine and thought, and more. https://twitter.com/DanielHadas2 https://twitter.com/Medical_Nemesis https://medicalnemesis.substack.com/ medicine, Ivan Illich, covid, public health, iatrogenesis, vaccines In this special episode, guest host Daniel Hadas interviews Medical Nemesis on covid, Illich, industrialized medicine and thought, and more.

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]]> In this special episode, guest host Daniel Hadas interviews Medical Nemesis on covid, Illich, industrialized medicine and thought, and more.

https://twitter.com/DanielHadas2

https://twitter.com/Medical_Nemesis

https://medicalnemesis.substack.com/

]]> Exiting the Vampires' Campus with Blaise Bayno https://outsidertheory.fireside.fm/exiting-the-vampires-campus a0773f69-6a6c-48d2-b2c2-98c6ef62a390 Mon, 26 Dec 2022 13:00:00 -0500 Geoff Shullenberger full Geoff Shullenberger I discuss academic fecklessness and propaganda with former critical theory PhD student Blaise Bayno. 1:19:54 no Blaise Bayno (@urgurlblaise), former critical theory PhD student and co-organizer of the conference "Society Must Be Inoculated," joins me to discuss how critical theory became uncritical cheerleading for biopolitical authoritarianism, academic labor issues, the history of the UC Santa Cruz History of Consciousness program, and more. critical theory, theory, academia, covid, propaganda, biopolitics Blaise Bayno (@urgurlblaise), former critical theory PhD student and co-organizer of the conference "Society Must Be Inoculated," joins me to discuss how critical theory became uncritical cheerleading for biopolitical authoritarianism, academic labor issues, the history of the UC Santa Cruz History of Consciousness program, and more.

]]> Blaise Bayno (@urgurlblaise), former critical theory PhD student and co-organizer of the conference "Society Must Be Inoculated," joins me to discuss how critical theory became uncritical cheerleading for biopolitical authoritarianism, academic labor issues, the history of the UC Santa Cruz History of Consciousness program, and more.

]]> Joker in the Labyrinth with Mónica Belevan https://outsidertheory.fireside.fm/hyperbaroque 47ebcbfa-a97c-4f46-a662-75d636f28cbc Sun, 21 Feb 2021 16:00:00 -0500 Geoff Shullenberger full Geoff Shullenberger Outsider art historian Mónica Belevan joins Outsider Theory to discuss her various projects tracking the aesthetics of the Covid Era. 1:21:06 no Outsider art historian and hypnotist collector Mónica Belevan joins Outsider Theory to discuss her various attempts to track the structures of feeling of the present. We explore the aesthetics and sensibilities of the Baroque and their relevance for grasping the topoi of the Covid era – in particular, the image of the labyinth, the theme of the madness of the world, and the figure of the clown (embodied lately in Joaquin Phoenix's Joker). Finally, we reflect on the awakening of the sacrificial unconscious by the Dionysian onslaught of the plague and the still unfulfilled need for symbolic resolution. https://covidianaesthetics.substack.com/ https://www.lapsuslima.com/ aesthetics, baroque, covid, labyrinth, clownworld, Joker, Dionysian, sacrifice, scapegoating, Monica Belevan Outsider art historian and hypnotist collector Mónica Belevan joins Outsider Theory to discuss her various attempts to track the structures of feeling of the present. We explore the aesthetics and sensibilities of the Baroque and their relevance for grasping the topoi of the Covid era – in particular, the image of the labyinth, the theme of the madness of the world, and the figure of the clown (embodied lately in Joaquin Phoenix's Joker). Finally, we reflect on the awakening of the sacrificial unconscious by the Dionysian onslaught of the plague and the still unfulfilled need for symbolic resolution.

https://covidianaesthetics.substack.com/

https://www.lapsuslima.com/

]]> Outsider art historian and hypnotist collector Mónica Belevan joins Outsider Theory to discuss her various attempts to track the structures of feeling of the present. We explore the aesthetics and sensibilities of the Baroque and their relevance for grasping the topoi of the Covid era – in particular, the image of the labyinth, the theme of the madness of the world, and the figure of the clown (embodied lately in Joaquin Phoenix's Joker). Finally, we reflect on the awakening of the sacrificial unconscious by the Dionysian onslaught of the plague and the still unfulfilled need for symbolic resolution.

https://covidianaesthetics.substack.com/

https://www.lapsuslima.com/

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