Theory Underground

Theory Underground offers courses, books, and forums for blue collar intellectuals, burnout autodidacts, and renegade academics.

Sick and tired of endless influencership, fandoms, and algorithmically-directed scrolling? Looking to reclaim your mind? Looking for others who want to focus on learning the history of philosophy and theorists like Žižek, Arendt, McLuhan, Marx, Heidegger, Levinas, Jaspers, Baudrillard, and more? Then you may have found the place, so long as you don't care about tarnishing your academic reputation by associating with dropouts and deplorables. Theory Underground is for people who have no reputations to lose, bridges left to burn, or priorities besides understanding for its own sake.

This app offers underground* on-demand lecture courses and on-going research cohorts dedicated to the specific subject-matters relevant to the construction of a new critical understanding of ourselves and the world. Ideology critique in this sense challenges our most closely held beliefs, libidinal investments, and master signifiers serving Church, State, or Capital.

The courses span a variety of research topics dedicated to thinking through our current situation using deep readings of essential primary works in the fields of theory and philosophy. The goal is to supply ourselves with, and gain proficiency in, the most powerful and profound concepts relevant to understanding power, critiquing ideology, and freeing ourselves from the slavery of structurally stultified immediacy. What does that mean? The general tendencies are to make us passive consumer girl bosses who don’t think critically or have the time and energy to do so. We’re countering that.

*What does "underground" mean in this context? No state or corporate funding or support. Completely DIY. This app, site, publishing house, and all its courses and books are organized by David McKerracher. Congratulations for even being here! This is the most niche internet rabbit hole that most people only find via word of mouth or because they met us on tour.

Terms of Service: https://theory-underground.com/terms-of-service/