{"podcast":{"title":"PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy","slug":"plasticpills-critical-theory-philosophy-708721","podcast_index_feed_id":708721,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6076787/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/plasticpills-philosophy-critical-theory-podcast--6076787","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/d3f777d3eb6bf96d64d2e49381387213.jpg","author":"Plasticpills","episode_count":258,"summary":"The Pill Pod is hosted by a group of PhDs offering their irreverent (and unsolicited) takes on critical theory, philosophy, culture, and politics.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-03T02:21:04.155973+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/plasticpills-critical-theory-philosophy-708721"},"episode":{"title":"Durkheim on MANA - The Original \"Floating Signifier\" // 179","slug":"durkheim-on-mana-the-original-floating-signifier-179","published_at":"2026-04-06T14:25:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/plasticpills-critical-theory-philosophy-708721/durkheim-on-mana-the-original-floating-signifier-179","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/plasticpills-critical-theory-philosophy-708721","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/durkheim-on-mana-the-original-floating-signifier-179--71005206","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71005206/pp179_mana_v2.mp3","summary":"Find All Episodes ad-free at https://www.patreon.com/c/plasticpills. We read Durkheim's Elementary forms of Religious Life (https://amzn.to/4c1ubkB) and try to get a hold on a primordial concept, what for Claude Levi-Strauss exemplifies the floating signifier: it's MANA (originally recorded 08/24).","meta_description":"Find All Episodes ad-free at https://www.patreon.com/c/plasticpills. We read Durkheim's Elementary forms of Religious Life (https://amzn.to/4c1ubkB) and t…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3239,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/plasticpills-critical-theory-philosophy-708721/episodes/durkheim-on-mana-the-original-floating-signifier-179/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/plasticpills-critical-theory-philosophy-708721/durkheim-on-mana-the-original-floating-signifier-179.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}