State Of The Theory

This is Episode 75 of the State of the Theory Podcast. Politics. Power. Popular Culture. And other stuff, probably. In this series, we’re like super nerdy philosophical DJs: mashing up Serious Academic Questions with the most topical news and trends in pop culture. Each week, we’ll tackle a new topic and collide it with ‘critical theory’ (we’re pretty loose with our definitions, though, so expect the unexpected). Our aim is to destroy the stuff we know, explore the stuff we don’t and unsettle everything we think we know about the world. We take the obvious, the commonsensical, the certain, and then we rip it all to shreds. We are your theory doctors and we are always on call. Here we do a callback to Episode 37: Mindhunting with Foucault, in which we use the theories of Michel Foucault to analyse the Netflix show "Mindhunters". Now that Netflix has released the second season of the show, we return to these theories to think about what has changed in the second season, and how it finds ways of testing the l