Welcome! My name's David Guignion and I produce content on theory and philosophy to help us fight against the many oppressive forces in our world.
I am currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in Occidental College's Critical Theory and Social Justice department, and I hold a PhD from Western University's Media Studies department.
This channel is dedicated to the distribution of idea so that they be made accessible to anyone. Some key theoretical domains that this channel explores, but that is not limited to, include Feminism, Gender and Queer theory, Post-Structuralism, Structuralism, Psychoanalysis, Marxism, Rhetoric, Epistemology, Ontology, and Phenomenology.
This channel's content is recorded on the in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal, the traditional territory of the Kanien’kehà:ka, comprised of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Huron/Wendat, Abenaki, and Anishinaabeg.
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While understanding that you want to help teh palestinian people I am not sure I get your call for giving money to UNRWA. (dunno the other associations) Do you realize one of the main root cause to why the population of Gaza has pursued voting for killing jews as a goal in life are the books thought by UNRWA schools ? Do you really think that Hamas violent policies are the solution to the palestinian problem ?
What's Gilles' political philosophy on returning kidnapped hostages?
Our prefrontal cortices, thought to be responsible for impulse control and abstract thinking, are still developing until age 25. Even afterwards, there are huge differences in intelligence (plus wealth, privilege, and other factors) between people that make a perfect balance of power impossible. Sex is a bestial act that can't be reconciled to moral systems. It might even be the exclusive right of those between the age of puberty and 25, who are too naive to realize they're perpetuating this useless species. The real horror that motivates legal systems is self-awareness. (Transgression is the only framework for our consciousness to acquiesce to animal urges. I.e., "It's wrong--that's what makes it hot!") Since the Enlightenment, governments have struggled to decontextualize sin, and still make legal positivism believable. Also, if you think you're equals, you're probably the one being exploited.
What a load of horseshit.
I will use my own title because the real title can be offensive. Not even 1min in and reality is already being modified for a fake sense of virtue.
again, very naive and verging on antisemitism to think that palestinians are the only oppresed people in the world. the day you care about people other than palestinians i will take these videos seriously
if you are so engaged then you should also denounce the ongoing genocide in Sudan, in Myanmar, and so on.
So you admit it's a genocide.
@@TheoryPhilosophyso you admit that you care inordinately about this one (it’s on your tv, that is)
@@TheoryPhilosophy I have never said it is not. So you admit you dont care about genocides elsewhere. Bandwagonner.
Many wrong things, including the facts that we form our opinions upon. Sorry but I'm not with you this time. If a lot of intellectuals have remained silent, is because there is an unbelievable social push to take the palestinian side at the moment, and extreme isolation is expected as punishment for those with more nuanced views. In this terror, people who know prefer to remain silent.
What does this even mean
@@TheoryPhilosophy it means that we will be able to have a decent conversation on this only a year from now
@@TheoryPhilosophy you can read this if you like: katho-nrw.de/fileadmin/media/foschung_transfer/forschungsinstitute/CARS/CARS_WorkingPaper_2022_006_Elbe.pdf It's in German though. what @fumoblitzkrie says is also valid about me and my feelings in this regard. The current race of perpetrator victim repentance is making me -and many other refugees- feel unsafe in Europe and North America. We are not the ones you would see on the street paroling for Hamas though as we are tutored by them and carry big traumas, I'm afraid for my life to have a voice against Hamas in the public. I've seen people murdered by them. I hope you could sense some of this danger. The danger that I would face if I express myself. Read through the comments on your video. everyone is just hard on clapping for you. without no reflection or dialogue. There are even pro Hamas comments. Don't you see the danger?!
@@TheoryPhilosophy Did you remove my comment? if yes, may I ask why?
Free Palestine!
came here for ethica, stayed for more philosophy and now this… your channel is full of charming surprises 👏
David, I would like to thank you for talking about this topic, thank you a million times❤️❤️ Palestine needs our support
It isn't an unequal power distribution. It is just he result of power, and the only way to solve this problem is the abolishment of power as opposed to an equitable distribution of power.
Hello again. I am so happy that you are continuing to educate me and others on the horrors of not only today, but the past, and the likely future. I have made a small donation and encourage others with any spare income to do so as well. Thank you again.
thank you a million
Dear, this is a good start to educate yourself and try to educate those around you. However, you should consider, still, how Eurocentric and bound by colonial epistemology your approach is. This is very clear in the sources you use in all the recent Palestine-related videos (even if you use Edward Said, but that's one source only), it is also clear every time you struggle to say 'Palestine' (and just say 'the palestinians', 'the palestinian territories'..etc), and it is also clear because of the MERE FACT that you THINK it is needed to mention the 7th of Oct. attack, let alone state clearly your political stance on it... only when you're more decolonised (not fully decolonised) you will see that things like these would've come out differently in this (or the other Palestine-related) video(s).
And the meningite? Any meningite? Personal meningite, not just what we do to help the World? Any suggested tipo? Almost in the Loonies again...tks
Hi...my Google Pay is not working..please I would tô help modestly....do you have PayPal? Please..tks
Every grain of Palestinian sand will be free.
The point of philosophy is not just to examine the world but to change it! :)
Sartre too was une petite souris when it came to the question of Palestine, read the long article by the late Edward Said in Le Monde about his meeting with Sartre in Paris
DUDE!! Missed you
Also interesting to note the Heideggerean vibes in the first ‘Stones’ essay
It shouldn’t be forgotten that the IDF has used Deleuze’s theories as a way to justify their attack on Palestine. Eyal Weizman has a great article about this, and there are accounts of IDF soldiers who talk about Deleuze’s theories as the driving theory of their colonial warfare. If this isn’t proof that Deleuze should not be the theorist we turn to for revolution or emancipation, then I don’t know what is.
IMO I don't think this is some sort of proof that Deleuze should not be the theorist for revolution/emancipation, instead I think it goes to show that like any other thing humans have created, Deleuzes theory is a tool which can be used for a variety of means (Paul Virilio writes about this in his text on accidents, all technologies create a positive quality and negative, which he sees in things like trains--allowing people to move across the world quickly, but also inventing the train accident--or like nuclear power creating relatively clean energy for life and also weapons which destroy people and environments). I see all philosophy as another technology/tool that can create the possibility for emancipation or subjugation. Thinking about Nietzsche and fascism, and maybe also how Mark Fisher and Nick Land both came from the CCRU. I think it's a little premature and puritanical to throw away Deleuze, or anyone for that matter, because they have been co-opted and therefore sullied, or proven impure. On the contrary I think it's far more productive to see all technologies as impure/perverse, and the point of using them (and living in general) is to find healthy ways to function. I think this is the point of all of Hayao Miyazaki's movies lol (especially castle in the sky). Sorry maybe I'm ranting. I do appreciate your comment and I think it's important to critically look at how philosophies are co-opted to oppress and reduce people's autonomy. Would love to see a video on this, how various philosophies for emancipation have been used to oppress people, and maybe if there are any oppressive philosophies that have been re-wired for emancipation (if that's even possible?).
@@c4ever it’s not a matter of co-option, it’s a matter of there being something inherent in Deleuze’s philosophy that makes him able to be used by colonisers. If your philosophy of emancipation can be used by fascists, capitalists, colonisers and the like, then it isn’t a philosophy of emancipation/revolution.
This is an underbaked take - you could easily find liberals againt Marxism because of its use in Stalinism, etc. Is that not proof we should abandon Marx? How a text is reiterated in one context does not define all of its possibilities.
@@benkoch6673 comparing the use of Marx in Stalinism to the use of Deleuze in Zionism is incredibly misleading. I encourage you to actually read up on it, because it’s not a misconstrued take on Deleuze either, whereas the use of Marx in Stalinism was only for objectively revolutionary things, and any point of criticism of Stalinism comes from a deviation of Marx.
@@benkoch6673 and can I add that it definitely wouldn’t concern Deleuze that his philosophy can be used by zionists, in fact he probably would celebrate the fact the fact that these zionists are purely productive and aren’t constrained to a limit
I agree that a ceasefire is necessary, now. However, your viewpoint is slanted. You characterize the Zionists as terrorists. Was not Israel established in 1917 by the British Balfour Declaration and the UN recognition of 1949? What about the international community’s approval of the State of Israel? Therefore, the state of Israel has the right to protect and defend their people. Likewise, why did Palestinians hate and terrorize the Jews, particularly through the disgusting technique of the “suicide bomber” or the car bomb or the missile? Exactly who is initiating the violence and who is retaliating? Given the facts of several wars by coalitions of Arabs against Israel, and the ever increasing migration of Arabs into Palestine, hence the term “Palestinian,” it appears that the Arabs hate and terrorize the Jews. It has been the Palestinians who have repeatedly rejected a two-state solution. You are denying that the Palestinians and the entire Arab world are deeply prejudiced against Israel. Recall that Saddam Hussein gave the family of each suicide bomber $100,000! You fail to acknowledge the very long list of terrorizing events against Israel. The Palestinians have established themselves as terrorists, full of hate. I am appalled at your topsyturvy notions of historical reality.
Clown. Irgun and Lehi are just two recognized terrorist groups operating before WWII whose mandate was to expel Palestinians from their land or murder them. Are you worried that the Palestinians will treat Israel the way Israel treats the Palestinians or something, clown?
Deleuze was wrong. .Just like many other philosophical geniuses before him, he totally missed the point on the conflict and looked at it from his own European-Liberal guilt. I would write more about the many errors him and you, Mr. Guignion, made in this video, but I see it is a repeating motive in most of your video essays so I won't bother. I will say this: The Palestinian connection to the land isn't a romantic "grander" of endurance, but a religious calling that separates the world to Dar-El-Islam (The land the Islam took over, which belongs to them forever) and Dar-El-Harb (The land Islam has not yet conquered, which mean they have to fight for it until they do). So no, it's not just a romantic struggle for freedom. It’s a religious demand, that Arafat and other Palestinian leaders used in order to gain power (I suppose you heard about the civil war in Lebanon in the 70's, that had nothing to do with Israel until they invaded in 82 - but if you can blame the Jews for something, why not, right?). Thousands of Palestinians ran over to other counties over the years. Some, granted, by design. Israel is far from a perfect state, or a helpless victim. Zionism was a revolution, and in a revolution, there are innocent victims. In fact, most Palestinians live today in Jorden and not in Gaza/West-bank. Does it means they do not deserve a country of their own? No. I support the creation of a Palestinian State next to a Jewish state. As an Israeli, I despise my own fascist government that bought all of us into this horrible place. I want peace and political power for both collectives. I want two states. It is, and always was, the only way to peace. Many groups around the world, and in Israel itself, are making it harder to get to this peace scenario. One less-powerful group are you, the liberal left in North America. I hope we'll be able to solve this crisis eventually, and all of us here - Palestinians and Israelis alike - will be able to rise above our hatred and live in peace. However, when we will, of that I'm sure, it will not be with the help of those who demonize us as murderers, land-thieves and colonialists. No, we will get peace not because of you, but in-spite of you.
quite on the point. Unfortunately the gap of lack of prominent thinkers in North America opened up too much space for the post colonial and existential perspective to become the predominant narrative , which in its own light, in accord to history of the North America is quite valid. However calling the Palestinians "Indians" and rejecting the religious connotations of the issue or the way the global left is reducing it to a class war - with the exception of anti-deutche left movement in Germany- is a signifier of lack of knowledge about anything Middle East. (I am from the Middle East) It's quite saddening to see that the critical thinking has been replaced with an acceptance of violence. As a Person of Color, This is saddening to me to see that my skin color is used for victimisation and rhetoric. My skin color is irrelevant. I am also not an Indian. Yasser Arafat was from a rich Family with strong Nazi ties. his uncle Amin al-Hosseini was a Nazi. In Hamas charter there's a quote from Muhammad the prophet: “I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) saying: ‘You (i.e. Muslims) will fight against the Jews and you will gain victory over them. The stones will (betray them) saying: ‘O ‘Abdullah (i.e. slave of Allah)! There is a Jew hiding behind me; so kill him.’ Suicide bombing in the modern history started with the symbol "Hossein Fahmideh", invented by Khomeini and I have been indoctrinated about it at the age of 9. Khomeini was Anti Colonial. The goal was to kill the "Koffar" e.g. The non believers.
You’ve both written a lot of words that fail to justify the slaughter of children
To continue I must add that the self hatred of Delueze or the KZreadr here is not gonna wash the Sins of the Arab Imperialism ever since the 6th Century. The annihilation of the Bani-quraiza Tribe. The mass murder and suppression of people in Iran, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Qatar, Egypt, etc... Even the plaestinabs themselves are contaminated by the Arab imperialism. They are not ethnically Arabs!
@@Rednines what’s happening in Gaza is terrible. The innocent lives lost will not and cannot be justified. Hamas and the Israeli government are allies even though they’re fighting each other. Both of them thrive from the war- but that doesn’t mean that you can blame the Zionist movement for the crimes of this Jewish-supremacist government , just like you can’t blame all Palestinians for the crimes of Hamas
Not all Palestinian resistance come from muslim, there are christians as well. Reducing it to a religious war rather than a struggle for national independence is a propaganda for the Zionist regime.
You're being such an awful lib. Attitude like yours will not free Palestine, Hamas will. But thank you for supporting Palestine.
David may be an awful lib but he isn't being one now.
He is doing what he can, maybe you'd like to share what exactly you expect him to do?
We are all Palestinians. We say that aspirationally, because we are inspired by their courage.
I'm not Palestinian
No I'm not
So are you guys just more pro-genocide in principle?
So are you guys just pro-genocide in general....?
If we are all Palestinians then what’s the issue. We’re united by our disinterest in Arafat’s imperfections. Fantastic. No doubt this is the point of abstruse French philosophy of the 1960s.
Deleuze on Palestine is like Sartre on Staline.
Also Sartre: “To shoot down a European is to kill two birds with one stone, doing away with oppressor and oppressed at the same time”. Eventhough I'm a fan of Sartre -I've read many Sartre in my teenage days and that was a nice feeling- However I don't know why people cannot see that even as a famous thinker, one can have problematic perspectives. Sartre can be wrong! philosophy is not a religion and philosopher is not a prophet! have you forgot to kill your gods? ;)
Where does he fall short?
Free Palestine ✊
Hey David ! Great work ! Do you think you could a critique analysis of Arendt's book On Revolution ?
I am just curious what's your take on the book
So glad you're back!
As always, a great video.
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Zionism is Fascism
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Dude why are you here? Clearly you don't agree with what goes on on this channel. Why bother?
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Fantastic work.
FCK HMS
Youre a DMBS
Fantastic video, thanks! 🇵🇸
Interesting thoughts here, and a great explanation, I should pick up this book! I would like to apply this to Zupancic/Zizek who say: "Man is a Woman who believes in herself", but with a desubjectifying twist. I think the criticisms are weak because the goal of Guattari here is not to perscript a single privileged person, but to talk about a societal shift. Of course a single person desubjectifying themself would be vain and unhelpful, but the scale of sociology, it is important to recognize the subjectifying elements and how they can be overturned.
one of the best & clearest explanations ❤
I just need you to know that this presentation style is ideal lecture format for my learning style. In the age of AI and short attention spans, your pacing between topics and storytelling narrative are what I want to call the IDEAL teaching mechanism. This is glorious and I want to thank you personally. - Joel
Everything i look up your page pops up lol slay
If power was destined to be divided among the different social bodies then there is no panopticon. The principle of the panopticon is the centralisation of power. Power has to be in the center and by way of gaze this power is exercised upon those in the peripheries
Some really good anologies are made in this video highlighting the double standards of the west regarding hijab however colonialism and other important aspects are not mentioned
here because my daughter was talking to me about this work in her university studies.
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A lot of nonsense in this video, but the ideas of Agamben and Foucault remain interesting and potentially insightful.