web02.fireside.fm Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:21:51 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Outsider Theory - Episodes Tagged with “Oj Simpson” https://outsidertheory.fireside.fm/tags/oj%20simpson Thu, 13 May 2021 15:00:00 -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 The Non-Dupes Err with Tom Syverson https://outsidertheory.fireside.fm/non-dupes-err fbb39703-7304-4ee6-aff2-908e76ac0ff7 Thu, 13 May 2021 15:00:00 -0400 Geoff Shullenberger full Geoff Shullenberger Tom Syverson, author of the new book Reality Squared, makes the case for why reality TV is an essential form for grasping our bewildering contemporary panorama. 1:34:21 no Tom Syverson (@syvology on Twitter), author of the new book Reality Squared, makes the case for why reality TV is the essential cultural form for grasping our bewildering contemporary panorama. More broadly, we discuss the problem of how to undertake a materialist analysis of culture in the face of an increasingly dematerialized and abstract economic reality, and the related problems confronting materialist politics in the present. Buy Tom's book: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/reality-squared-reality-tv-left-politics Read Tom's recent essay on the limitations of materialist politics: https://www.thebellows.org/culture-politics-and-the-unreal-economy/ Read Tom's other work: https://linktr.ee/tomsyverson reality TV, materialist analysis, Donald Trump, OJ Simpson, The Bachelor, Real Housewives, Marxism, Jacques Lacan, Georg Lukacs, Frederic Jameson, Slavoj Zizek Tom Syverson (@syvology on Twitter), author of the new book Reality Squared, makes the case for why reality TV is the essential cultural form for grasping our bewildering contemporary panorama. More broadly, we discuss the problem of how to undertake a materialist analysis of culture in the face of an increasingly dematerialized and abstract economic reality, and the related problems confronting materialist politics in the present.

Buy Tom's book:

https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/reality-squared-reality-tv-left-politics

Read Tom's recent essay on the limitations of materialist politics:

https://www.thebellows.org/culture-politics-and-the-unreal-economy/

Read Tom's other work:

https://linktr.ee/tomsyverson

]]> Tom Syverson (@syvology on Twitter), author of the new book Reality Squared, makes the case for why reality TV is the essential cultural form for grasping our bewildering contemporary panorama. More broadly, we discuss the problem of how to undertake a materialist analysis of culture in the face of an increasingly dematerialized and abstract economic reality, and the related problems confronting materialist politics in the present.

Buy Tom's book:

https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/reality-squared-reality-tv-left-politics

Read Tom's recent essay on the limitations of materialist politics:

https://www.thebellows.org/culture-politics-and-the-unreal-economy/

Read Tom's other work:

https://linktr.ee/tomsyverson

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