What's Right? podcast with Dave and Ann

What's Right? podcast with Dave and Ann

What's wrong and what's right? And why is it that when we start to say something is wrong today, people will often say that it is "right coded"? What IS right, in this political sense, and also in the moral sense? What's the difference? Dave and Ann are a married couple at the core of Theory Underground. They have co-taught courses together, which will sometimes be found here. However, this is primarily their podcast for moral and cultural commentary. David McKerracher and Ann Snelgrove-McKerracher have an ongoing research seminar in critical social theory at Theory Underground. Drawing from sociology, philosophy, critical media theory, and critical doxology and timenergy theory, they lead cohorts of TU subscribers into and through fascinating new ways of thinking about and seeing the world... This series on Substack is making public those seminar sessions in audio and transcript form. To join the ongoing research seminars and unlock all past content become a subscriber (NOT of the ...

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May 28, 2025 53 mins

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Theory Underground exists to cultivate the conditions necessary for a working class intellectual renaissance that goes beyond old political categories or other identitarian niches. At TU, autodidact workers with earbuds and professionals who see no future in existing institutions o...

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Laurie M. Johnson is the author of 8 books and numerous articles. Most of her work has involved a critique of classical liberal theory and the application of political, economic and psychological theory to the problem of political polarization. Her latest book is The Gap in God's Country: A Longer View On Our Culture Wars. 

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Theory Underground exists to cultivate the conditions necessary for a working class intellectual renaissance that goes beyond old political categories or other identitarian niches. At TU, autodidact workers with earbuds and professionals who see no future in existing institutions o...

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If you're serious about doing theory, making art, changing the world, or living well, we invite you to join us. https://theoryunderground.com/subscribe 

 

Theory Underground exists to cultivate the conditions necessary for a working class intellectual renaissance that goes beyond old political categories or other identitarian niches. At TU, autodidact workers with earbuds and professionals who see no future in existing institutions...

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February 12, 2025 53 mins

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Theory Underground exists to cultivate the conditions necessary for a working class intellectual renaissance that goes beyond old political categories or other identitarian niches. At TU, autodidact workers with earbuds and professionals who see no future in existing institutions...

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Radical regenerative solutions VS fake ass fakers being fake. Joel Salatin, Curtis Stone, and Illusion Acres VS Colleen Balinger and the Frankie Family Vlog If you're serious about doing theory, making art, changing the world, or living well, we invite you to join us. https://theoryunderground.com/subscribe Theory Underground exists to cultivate the conditions necessary for a working class intellectual renaissance that goes beyond ...

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Theory Underground exists to create the conditions necessary for rigorous thinking about the problems we face as humans. If you're serious about doing theory, making art, and living well, we invite you to join us. https://theoryunderground.com/subscribe

 

If you subscribe at theoryunderground.com, you'll get access to a package of courses, including:

 

12 Essential Concepts with social theorist David McKerracher

The Fault-Line Theo...

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This is lecture 1 in my series on Totality and Infinity.

One of the most beautiful, challenging, and profound works of philosophy, Totality and Infinity is a fundamental challenge to the history philosophy, history, and political thought. He is especially worth tarrying with if you are interested in Marx, Heidegger, or Derrida, much less influenced by Zizek or Land.

David McKerracher has been studying Levinas for a long time and ...

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The next one is tomorrow!

The schedule:

8 AM Eastern - Ian and Michelle O.G. Rose (Engaging the Medium)

9 AM Eastern - Terence Blake Le Substack de Terence (French Theory Lesser-Knowns)

10 AM Eastern - Walter Benn Michaels (The Problem w Diversity + Against Theory)

11 AM Eastern - Daniel Garner O.G. Rose (Sociology, CST, Tradeoffs)

12 PM Eastern - Ben Burgis (Value and Marx)

1 PM Eastern - TUCON w Nance (Medium Evolution)

2 PM Eas...

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