Žižek & So On Podcast LISTEN: https://www.tinyurl.com/zizekpodcasts This is PART TWO of our interview with Slavoj Žižek for the official book launch with Bloomsbury Publishing of Žižek’s latest book Freedom: A Disease Without A Cure. We’re talking the the wired brain, the Opium wars, freedom and politics, quantum physics and determinism, fate and the role of Subject, concrete and abstract freedoms, the ontology of sex, and why we need an authentic master today. Thanks to Bloomsbury and all o...
Oct 11, 2023•40 min
Žižek & So On Podcast Today we’re speaking with Slavoj Žižek for PART ONE of the official book launch with Bloomsbury Publishing of Žižek’s latest book Freedom: A Disease Without A Cure. For PART TWO join our Patreon, where you can hear it now! On this episode, we’re talking freedom, knowledge as a fetish, global warming, why the struggle for freedom is always the struggle for what freedom means, Jean Paul Sartre, Wittgenstein, Foucault, Kant and Hegel, contingency and necessity, and the str...
Oct 04, 2023•57 min
Unlocked from our patreon: this week, we're joined again by Jack Black, Associate Professor of Culture, Media, and Sport at Sheffield Hallam University. We're talking football, melancholy, and English football anthems. How does football, or 'soccer', serve as an emblematic example of the Freudian/Žižekian concept of drive? Jack explains ! For access to many more interviews and other episodes, check out our PATREON! Thank you to all of our Patrons, we have some VERY SPECIAL guests coming up, so s...
Sep 29, 2023•1 hr 4 min
LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! This week, we're joined again by Jack Black, Associate Professor of Culture, Media, and Sport at Sheffield Hallam University. We're talking football, melancholy, and English football anthems. How does football, or 'soccer', serve as an emblematic example of the Freudian/Žižekian concept of drive? Jack explains! For access to the full episode, and access to many more interviews, check out our PATREON! Thank you to all of our Patrons, we have some VERY SPECIAL gues...
Sep 21, 2023•3 min
Alright, it's our 100th episode and we're talking masks. From Jim Carrey's The Mask to the Kardashians it's an important concept that crops up throughout Žižek's work where he emphasises that the truth is in your mask, the truth is in what you are doing. The intimate stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, are usually a fake... We're running the official book launch with Bloomsbury Publishing for Žižek's new book Freedom: A Disease Without A Cure in early October with an interview, events......
Sep 15, 2023•50 min
LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! Alright, we’re back with another PATREON episode and we’re talking Jacques Derrida , the difference between parallax and différance, How To? with John Wilson, Krzysztof Kieślowski, documentary and fiction cinema, a deconstruction of Smash Mouth’s All Star, and the (w)hole in the picture. Thank you to all of our Patreons, we have some VERY SPECIAL guests coming up, so stick around. Enjoy!...
Sep 07, 2023•7 min
This week the fellas read through Žižek’s Looking Awry. We’re talking anamorphosis, Shakespeare, Zeno’s Paradoxes and the end of the world. Will is in the woods, Peter is at a gathering and Michael’s cat is out of the bag. Thank you to all our fellow Thespians, Ž&… For access to many more episodes, and to support us, check out our Patreon! PODCAST YOUTUBE INSTAGRAM
Aug 22, 2023•51 min
FULL EPISODE HERE This is a PREVIEW for PART TWO of our conversation with professor RUSSELL SBRIGLIA and we're talking Lacanian theory and Moby Dick, the Kantian and Hegelian Sublime, Master Signifier and the Thing, the Whiteness of the Whale, and Orca attacks. We have some big interviews coming up and some SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS . Thank you to all of our PATREONS and everyone who listens and supports us. Enjoy!...
Aug 16, 2023•5 min
Part 1 of our interview with Russell Sbriglia on his book Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask Žižek. We're talking Lacanian psychoanalysis as a way to interpret literature, Žižek's bad taste in novels, toilets, the object from inner space, why Beckett is better than Joyce, and what Tony Soprano's major was. Join our Patreon for extra episodes, and the back catalogue of dozens of extra episodes. Buy Russell's book here !...
Aug 09, 2023•50 min
LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! This week, since everyone else is, we're talking Barbie and Oppenheimer. We talk the role of fantasy in ideology, and the culture war as a distraction from class antagonism. Along the way we chat about Indiana Jones, Paul Verhoeven, and Michael's favourite Australian actors. Thanks for listening! zizekandsoon...
Aug 02, 2023•3 min
LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! This is a PREVIEW of PART TWO of our conversation with Adrian Johnston, you can hear the whole thing and support us on our Patreon getting access to all of our Patreon episodes, the Discord and our courses. The gang is back for the final part of our conversation with Adrian Johnston. It's a big one! We're talking Žižek's relationship with Kant, Schelling and Hegel, the Roberts (Pippin and Brandom), Quantum Physics, the genesis of subjectivity, materialism, Cather...
Jul 19, 2023•7 min
It’s summer and the fellas are back! Today we're talking with Adrian Johnston, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico. In this first part of a series we’re talking the philosophical foundations of Žižek’s work, the equivalence between negativity and Death Drive at the core of Žižek’s theory of subjectivity, Transcendental Materialism, and Johnston’s efforts toward changing the reception of Žižek’s work. Adrian has published and co-edited a number ...
Jul 12, 2023•55 min
In this wide-ranging second part of our interview, Ryan talks Seinfeld, Peep Show, Sartre and seriality, Batman, Barbie, and Tom Cruise. This is where the conversation really gets going, folks. Don’t miss it! Join our Patreon for 2 extra episodes per month, and the back catalogue of dozens of extra episodes. Subscribers can also sign up for our brand new reading group on Lacan's Seminar XI - The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis . $5/month! You will also get access to our Discord ser...
Jun 28, 2023•1 hr 18 min
LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! In this wide-ranging second part of our interview, Ryan talks Seinfeld, Peep Show, Sartre and seriality, Batman, Barbie, and Tom Cruise. This is where the conversation really gets going, folks. Don’t miss it! Join our Patreon for 2 extra episodes per month, and the back catalogue of dozens of extra episodes. Subscribers can also sign up for our brand new reading group on Lacan's Seminar XI - The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis . $5/month! You will als...
Jun 21, 2023•4 min
This week, the fellas speak to Media Professor Ryan Engley of 'Why Theory'. We talk Freud, Lacan, the correct spelling of Todd McGowan, and how Seinfeld reveals the existential concept of seriality. Enjoy! To support the podcast and find access to many more episodes, join our PATREON YOUTUBE OUR WEBSITE...
Jun 14, 2023•1 hr
LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! Join our Patreon for 2 extra episodes per month, and the back catalogue of dozens of extra episodes. Subscribers can also sign up for our brand new reading group on Lacan's Seminar XI - The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis . $5/month! You will also get access to our Discord server, a thriving community of Zizekians. This week we're talking Mary Shelly, myth & monstrosity, family, Freud and Frankenstein. For this episode, we've read "History and fam...
Jun 07, 2023•5 min
UNLOCKED - Ž & So On is back with part two of our conversation with Austrian philosopher, and lovely guy Robert Pfaller. We’re talking les non-duped errant, interpassivity and soccer, delegated enjoyment, cuckholds and drinking games. Will is breathing mould in Paris, Peter’s drinking coffee without cream and Michael gets bitten by a spider. Big thanks to our Patreons for all your support. We have some cool interviews and episodes lined up, stick around! If you missed PART ONE listen here: Ž...
Jun 01, 2023•50 min
UNLOCKED: Today we're talking Žižek's chapter in his book Absolute Recoil called "The Violence of the Beginning". The reading begins with the notion that there is "nothing prior to the loss" of the sense of lost origins. Žižek then sets into play the idea of the self-alienation of spirit in the realm of translation to show the original brokenness of God Himself. We also question who the real James Bond is, hystericize Eliot's Prufrock, and discuss Emmanuel Carrere's novel The Moustache, all the ...
May 17, 2023•54 min
LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! This week the fellas read through Žižek’s Looking Awry. We’re talking anamorphosis, Shakespeare, Zeno’s Paradoxes and the end of the world. Will is in the woods, Peter is at a gathering and Michael’s cat is out of the bag. Thank you to all our fellow Thespians, Ž&… PODCAST YOUTUBE INSTAGRAM...
May 10, 2023•6 min
This week, the fellas speak to Clint Burnham, professor at Simon Frasier University, and author of "Does the Internet Have an Unconscious? Slavoj Žižek and Digital Culture". We get into Žižek & the internet, perversion and technology, and viral psychoanalysis. Clint Burnham is the author of The Jamesonian Unconscious: The Aesthetics of Marxist Theory (1995), Fredric Jameson and The Wolf of Wall Street (2016), Does the Internet Have an Unconscious?: Slavoj Žižek and Digital Culture (2018), La...
May 03, 2023•1 hr 11 min
To hear the rest of our discussion head to our PATREON. In which the fellas dish on the recent developments in AI technology, the Žižek-Herzog (bad) "infinite conversation", coffee without cream, the interpassivity of artificially generated emails, learn what a billabong is from the resident Australian, that Will doesn't know how to use a mic, and get Peter's version Virtual Insanity by Jamiroquai. WEBSITE INSTAGRAM TWITTER YOUTUBE Articles: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ai-post-h...
Apr 25, 2023•7 min
This week, the fellas chat with Austrian philosopher Robert Pfaller, Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Theory at the University of Art and Design in Linz, and a founding member of a Vienna based psychoanalysis research group. We’re talking Illusions without Owners, Interpassivity, delegated enjoyment, What Life is Worth Living For and of course the sexual practices of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Will is in Paris, Peter is enjoying live music interpassively and Michael is ...
Apr 20, 2023•1 hr 1 min
Alright, this week we’re speaking with the Austrian philosopher Robert Pfaller , Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Theory at the University of Art and Design in Linz and a founding member of a Vienna based psychoanalysis research group. We’re talking Illusions without Owners, Interpassivity, delegated enjoyment, What Life is Worth Living For and of course the sexual practices of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Will is in Paris, Peter is enjoying live music interpassively and ...
Apr 12, 2023•6 min
This week, &... talks Hegel's influence on Lacan. Working off Zizek's Most Sublime Hysteric , the fellas find themselves in Germany, a dance club in Argentina, and experience a perfect day with Lou Reed and Pavaratti To support the podcast, join us on our PATREON zizekandsoon.com Youtube Channel @zizekandsoon...
Apr 05, 2023•51 min
This is a preview of a full episode available on our patreon . Today we're talking Žižek's chapter in his book Absolute Recoil called "The Violence of the Beginning". The reading begins with the notion that there is "nothing prior to the loss" of the sense of lost origins. Žižek then sets into play the idea of the self-alienation of spirit in the realm of translation to show the original brokenness of God Himself. We also question who the real James Bond is, hystericize Eliot's Prufrock, and dis...
Mar 29, 2023•6 min
Alright, the gang is back and this week we're talking the newly published book "Žižek Responds!" where we focus on Todd McGowan's entry in the collection: "Slavoj Žižek Is Not Violent Enough". Is the violence of the death drive and its self-sabotage the first emancipation that subsequently establishes the pattern for all later political acts of emancipation? Can Will grow a moustache? Does Žižek play classical piano? Stick around to the end to hear the fellas talk about their recent meeting with...
Mar 22, 2023•55 min
We continue our conversation with Dr. Flisfeder on his book "Algorithmic Desire, Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media". Matt also gives us the behind the scenes scoop on the 'Debate of the Century' with Jordan Peterson. Enjoy! TO SUPPORT US AND LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE https://matthewflisfeder.com/ Buy the book here zizekandsoon.com Youtube Channel...
Mar 15, 2023•4 min
This is part one of our interview with Dr. Matthew Flisfeder, associate professor at the University of Winnipeg, and writer of books on Žižek and film theory, postmodernism and Blade Runner, and most recently, "Algorithmic Desire, Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media". Dr. Flisfeder taught a four month course on Žižek's book "For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor" with us which you can access through our Patreon and Discord here: FTKNWTD COURSE Big thanks t...
Mar 08, 2023•54 min
This is a preview of part two of our conversation with acclaimed director Sophie Fiennes about her Pervert's Guide series. We discuss the Pervert's guide films, William Shatner, space and the abyss of freedom, as well as the recent Rockhill hit piece on Slavoj. Special thank you to Sophie Fiennes for giving us so much of her time and to everyone who has supported us over the last three years. Share the episode if you can as it really helps both the podcast and getting the final Pervert’s Guide o...
Mar 01, 2023•9 min
Alright, we're back! Today we're talking with acclaimed director Sophie Fiennes about her Pervert's Guide series. We discuss film, ideology, AI, politics, Slavoj's close encounters and the early stages of the third instalment of her series: The Pervert's Guide to Utopia. Special thank you to Sophie Fiennes for giving us so much of her time and to everyone who has supported us over the last three years. Share the episode if you can and keep an eye out for part two coming soon! Check out the FTKNW...
Jan 30, 2023•55 min
