In today’s episode I discuss the concept of coherence and cohesion through a Stirnerian and Deleuzo-Guattarian lens, with a final analysis of Donna Haraway’s A Cyborg Manifesto, meaning the following: Coherence is the inner logic of the self. Your thoughts, values, feelings, and narratives neatly stitched together in a tidy, explainable little bundle. It’s the story you tell yourself about who you are and why you do what you do. It’s what makes you feel like a “person” rather than a chaotic swarm of impulses and contradictions. Cohesion, on the other hand, is external. It’s the social glue. It’s what binds you to others: a shared language, shared rituals, shared spooks. Cohesion says, you belong here, with these people, in this structure.
PLEASE HAVE A LOOK AT THE LINKS BELOW FOR BOOKS MENTIONED AND ARTICLES/ESSAYS THAT EXPLAIN REFERENCES:
STRUCTURE
0:01 Introduction
2:01 1- Spook of the Week: Coherence and Cohesion
31:17 2- Dissecting the Spook: Philosophy, Psychology and more
43:31 3- Living Ownness: Becoming Imperceptible
56:38 4- Spotlight: Donna Haraway’s A Cyborg Manifesto
1:12:09 5- Announcements
BOOKS AND ARTICLES / ESSAYS:
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The Ego and Its Own by Max Stirner: https://amzn.to/44oYhMI
Ecrits by Jacques Lacan: https://amzn.to/3RMa5AY
Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes: https://amzn.to/3ROgPOP
The Divided Self (1960) by R.D. Laing: https://amzn.to/4jZnwJN
The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche: https://amzn.to/4k5tVU0
Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein: https://amzn.to/3RK0haL
The Theory of Communicative Action by Jürgen Habermas: https://amzn.to/44QjCi3
The Postmodern Condition by Jean-François Lyotard: https://amzn.to/42RMVQd
Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault: https://amzn.to/4mhK5vx
The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault: https://amzn.to/4d0brlr
Gender Trouble by Judith Butler: https://amzn.to/44hr4Tf
Undoing Gender by Judith Butler: https://amzn.to/44o1a06
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari: https://amzn.to/4k7t1q5
A Cyborg Manifesto by Donna Haraway: https://amzn.to/4jGOq9M
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