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Hello everybody,

welcome back to Rev Left Radio.

On today's episode we have back on the

show fan favorite Matthew furlong our favorite Canadian onto the show to talk

about Al-Thouser's essay in 1962, Contradiction and Overdetermination.

This will be, I believe, the sixth installment of our ongoing Dialics deep dive series and you know it's worth saying

that these I would say that this is some of our most challenging material that we

put out we really wrestle deeply with like philosophical concepts that are

you know incredibly sophisticated and for people who don't have training in philosophy

it can be a very challenging episode to listen to and almost certainly there are going to be parts of these episodes that go over my head that will go over your head

But it's this and as I always say in front of these dialect and deep dives episodes, it's this engagement with crucially difficult but important material that helps elevate your capacity to to comprehend and to think.

So, you know, when there are a period of time in this conversation might go by, well, you're not

really picking up what's happening and you might think it's all lost time.

They're still being work done on your mind.

You're still forced to wrestle in uncomfortable

ways with concepts or ideas that you find incredibly challenging and that process in

and of itself is an uplifting process that increases your capacity.

So this is an experience also that I had just going

through philosophy school for my basic degree

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