This is the comeback post: because I’m coming back to blogging..again. I thought I’d do a critical-theory themed post for this latest comeback, since I’ve been spending way too much time looking up good videos about it on YouTube lately.

First up, we’ve got a real treat. Some actual clips from the great Debate on Human Nature between Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault.

Unfortunately, these small excerpts are all that my cursory search for the full debate yielded. Still, they really are gems, to see two such great thinkers go at it with words and wits.

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Next up, I’ve found this interesting little introduction to the main concepts surrounding another 20th century intellectual prizefighter: Pierre Bourdieu. This video is a little goofy (it was put together by a grad student for a class presentation) but it nonetheless does an excellent job of crash-coursing through his central ideas.

Intro to Bourdieu

Moving on, let’s have a look at one radically awesome profesora, a woman we should all admire: Donna Haraway.

The Invention of the Kennel

Last but not least, check out this lecture on cultural criticism given by none other than bell hooks a few years back. Awesome

bell hooks

Anyways, that’s all I’ve got for now, stay tuned fore more updates soon. o_O