Alright, you've been asking for it, and here it is... Adrian Johnston is back talking about his new book INFINITE GREED: THE INHUMAN SELFISHNESS OF CAPITAL . If you want more episodes and to support our project head to PATREON! Adrian says, “The capitalist socioeconomic system in its entirety thus resembles a person who shoves his own head up his own ass precisely in order to eat his own shit, or a snake that swallows its own tail specifically so as to consume its own feces.” That’s right, we’re...
Sep 01, 2024•56 min
Alright, we’re back…plumbing the depths of psychoanalytic marxism! This week we discuss Slavoj Žižek’s Scatology through Adrian Johnston’s most recent book Infinite Greed: The Inhuman Selfishness of Capital. Jacques Lacan points out that we are born between urine and faeces, and that man is the only animal for whom waste disposal is a problem. What is the relationship between money and waste? Freud points out this strange coincidence of the highest form (gold) and the lowest (shit), so why is sh...
Aug 19, 2024•59 min
Alright, Todd McGowan is back again on the podcast to talk more about his most recent book Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn't Try to Find Ourselves . TO HEAR OUR FIRST CONVERSATION WITH TODD ABOUT HIS NEW BOOK YOU CAN LISTEN HERE! You can also listen to our episode on Alienation as a concept in Żižek's work here! Are there good and bad forms of alienation? We're talking the politics of non-belonging, alienation in cinema, the defence of lost causes, Friends and the failure of beginning...
Aug 12, 2024•44 min
Alright this week Todd McGowan is back on the podcast to talk about his most recent book Embracing Alienation Why We Shouldn't Try to Find Ourselves. SUPPORT OUR PROJECT ON PATREON! You can also listen to our episode on Alienation as a concept in Żižek's work here! The subject is divided from itself even in the form in which it is completely at home...so in this first episode we're talking the status of alienation in our current context of serial crisis and what Anna Kornbluh describes as cultur...
Aug 05, 2024•52 min
Alright, we’re back…LET'S GET ALIENATED! This is a PATREON PREVIEW of this weeks episode where we discuss Todd McGowan's latest book Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn’t Try to Find Ourselves. TO LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE SUPPORT OUR PROJECT ON PATREON! We’re talking the Politics of Alienation, Separation, What’s in a Name, Failing with Style, Toy Story, & so on… Up next is our two part interview with Todd...so stick around! More info on Todd's book here! See you in Paris. Enjoy!...
Jul 29, 2024•9 min
Exciting news! For the first time Bloomsbury has published a book length overview and guide to Slavoj Žižek's 1989 text The Sublime Object of Ideology and we're talking with it's author Rafael Winkler about his reading of Slavoj Žižek's famous text. Rafael is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He’s the author of Žižek’s The Sublime Object of Ideology: A Reader’s Guide (London: Bloomsbury, 2024), Philosophy of Finitude: Heidegger, Lev...
Jul 22, 2024•55 min
Alright, this week on our PATREON we’re talking Fantasy & reading from Slavoj Žižek’s Plague of Fantasies. It’s coffin pillows, being there at your own conception, roguish reporters, and the most famous blanket in cinema. HEAD TO OUR PATREON TO LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE! PATREON.COM/ZIZEKANDSOON Next week we have Rafael Winkler on to discuss the new Bloomsbury Reader’s Guide to Žižek’s Sublime Object of Ideology. Enjoy being dead, and we’ll see you in Paris....
Jul 15, 2024•9 min
Alright, we’re trying something different, a brand new monthly – or thereabouts – PATREON series on the podcast called SHORT SESSIONS …This week we're talking disaster films and the 2024 Netflix American adult animated apocalyptic comedy drama Carol & The End of the World . Is it subversive to NOT enjoy the end of the world? Through the usual suspects like Alenka Zupančič and Slavoj Žižek we discuss the ongoing Serial Crisis, Whistleblowers, the Biden v Trump debate, Bartleby Politics, Disav...
Jul 08, 2024•34 min
LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! Welcome back...is it the Same Shit on a Different Day or Different Shit on the Same Day? This is PART TWO of our interview with ALENKA ZUPANČIČ on the undeadness of crisis, adaptation, Boredom, Bartleby Politics, the Right Words at the Right Time, Masters, Żiżek’s Frankfurt Book Fair Speech, Whistleblowers & Julian Assange, and if we can still Handle the Truth! LISTEN TO PART ONE HERE! Big thanks to all our PATREONS for their support, up next we have some rea...
Jul 01, 2024•9 min
Alright, the End is Near and this week we're talking with Alenka Zupančič about her latest book Disavowal with Polity Press that came out this week. In this first installment we're talking serial crisis, the Fire Within the Fire, knowledge, belief, deception, and the indispensability of concrete analysis. HEAD TO OUR PATREON TO HEAR THE SECOND PART OF OUR INTERVIEW! See you in Paris. Enjoy!...
Jun 24, 2024•59 min
Support the podcast on PATREON and LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! Alright, the podcast is back for a new season. Don’t wake up! This episode we’re talking Alenka Zupanċič’s latest book Disavowal . Father, can't you see that I'm burning? What is disavowal and why does it function differently today? We’re talking knowing, fear, nightmares, and deception. Catastrophe, serial crisis, immediacy, alienation, and the apocalypse. Next week we’re talking to Alenka, let us know if you have any questions...
Jun 17, 2024•7 min
This week we're joined by Slavoj Zizek! We discuss his new book, Christian Atheism , Judith Butler, the mafia, and where to find a good diner in New York. To support the podcast and gain access to many more episodes, join our Patreon Enjoy!
May 01, 2024•55 min
This week, the second half of our conversation with Mladen Dolar . We talk about the early days of the Ljubljana school, the structuralist revolution, the choice to read Hegel through Lacan, and the Frankfurt school. Mladen was there for it all. Thank you to all our Patrons! Up next we have our interview with Slavoj Žižek from our time with him in New York. Listen to the first interview we had with Mladen here!...
Apr 18, 2024•57 min
This week we're joined by Russ Sbriglia to discuss Zizek's upcoming events in the tristate area. Slavoj will be at Seaton Hall University in New Jersey on Monday April 8th! Zizek will also be in New York City, at NYU and the New School (sign up online for those events!) After technical updates we discuss Russ' recent essay, "Enjoy Your Trump". We talk politics of enjoyment, the upcoming election, and yes he's back again, Trump. To support the podcast and gain access to many more episodes, join o...
Apr 05, 2024•56 min
This week, the second half of our conversation with Mladen Dolar. We talk about the early days of the Ljubljana school, the structuralist revolution, the choice to read Hegel through Lacan, and the Frankfurt school. Mladen was there for it all. For access our full conversation and to support the show, join our Patreon ! Thank you to all our Patrons! More to come soon. Make sure you book your spot in the upcoming Zizek events in New York in early April! Enjoy!...
Mar 27, 2024•6 min
This week, we present the third episode in our series of interviews with the Troika — after Slavoj Žižek , and Alenka Zupančič . We’re speaking with Mladen Dolar, Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy, at the University of Ljubljana. Dolar is the co-founder of what has become known as ‘the Ljubljana School’. His principal areas of research are psychoanalysis, modern French philosophy, German Idealism, and art theory. He has lectured extensively at universities in t...
Mar 20, 2024•59 min
FULL EPISODE HERE This week, we present the third episode in our series of interviews with the Troika — after Slavoj Žižek, and Alenka Zupančič . We’re speaking with Mladen Dolar, Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy, at the University of Ljubljana. Dolar is the co-founder of what has become known as ‘the Ljubljana School’. His principal areas of research are psychoanalysis, modern French philosophy, German Idealism, and art theory. He has lectured extensively a...
Mar 13, 2024•3 min
This week, the fellas are back with Anna Kornbluh. When we spoke with Alenka Zupančič recently, she told us we should interview Anna about her new book Immediacy Or, The style of Too Late Capitalism. So we did! We’re talking mediation, the negative, Van Gogh immersive experiences, Sartre, Žižek’s early work on film, and the end of futurity. Enjoy!
Mar 06, 2024•1 hr 26 min
This week, the fellas are back with Anna Kornbluh. When we spoke with Alenka Zupančič recently, she told us we should interview Anna about her new book Immediacy, or The style of Too Late Capitalism . So we did! We’re talking mediation, the negative, Van Gogh immersive experiences, Sartre, Žižek’s early work on film, and the end of futurity. This is a PATREON preview of our 90 minute interview, for the full episode and to SUPPORT the podcast LISTEN HERE! Our next interview is with MLADEN DOLAR.....
Feb 29, 2024•9 min
This week, the fellas scroll through Zizek's new substack. Tying together three articles, we move from 'tech talk' (Elon Musk, Apple Vision, the profound suffering of microchimpanzees), to a Zizekian theory of sexuality, and finally to the fine art of smoking (and other surplus enjoyments). To stay up to date and access many more episodes, join our Patreon (we'll be speaking to Anna Kornbluh and Mladen Dolar very soon!) Zizek's Substack articles: ELON MUSK RUINED MY SEX LIFE NOTES TOWARDS A HEGE...
Feb 21, 2024•1 hr
FULL EPISODE HERE This is an excerpt from this week's Patreon episode. We're talking the inherent transgression of the law. Michael buys tickets for the big apple, Peter is freezing in a field, and Will reviews Stalker and the Third Man. Enjoy! Please consider supporting us on Patreon for access to extra episodes and the ongoing production of the show!...
Feb 09, 2024•4 min
Move your Buridan's Ass! This is an UNLOCKED PATREON episode demanded by the listeners wherein the fellas discuss Žižek's new book on Freedom. They touch on the freedom of philosophy, the philosophy of freedom, the pitfalls of Anarchism, Wittgenstein, Sartre, and Canadian Thanksgiving. Support the podcast on our PATREON for all of our Patreon episodes, interviews, reading groups and so on. Enjoy!...
Jan 24, 2024•50 min
FULL EPISODE HERE This week the gang are talking Mladen Dolar’s “On Rumours, Gossip and Related Matters” from Objective Fictions as we prepare for the big interview! Mladen Dolar is a Slovenian philosopher, psychoanalyst, cultural theorist, and film critic. He is one third of the Troika with Alenka Zupančič and Slavoj Žižek and the co-founder, together with Slavoj Žižek of the Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis Rumours brought down old mate Socrates and there’s one going round that the big O...
Jan 18, 2024•6 min
It's 2024 and we’re back! We're talking what happens when you mean one thing but say amother. What role do jokes have throughout Žižek's work? This week we’re taking a look at Žižek’s Jokes via Todd McGowan, Jamil Khader, and Broderick Chow. In pod news, the final jewel of our Ljubljana crown…we’re talking to Mladen Dolar! Keep an eye out for upcoming episodes on his work as we prep for the interview. Thank you to everyone for being with us over the last four years, support us on Patreon to keep...
Jan 10, 2024•52 min
LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! That's right, we're talking Godzilla Minus One this week. Also, the fall, the good, Schindler's List, Lacan and his (Hegelian) concept of empty speech , and what's new in the movies. Thanks everyone!Enjoy! This is a preview of this week's episode. For full access, please think about joining our Patreon !
Dec 13, 2023•3 min
This week, the second half of our conversation with Alenka Zupančič; focusing on the different modalities of conspiracy theory, desire, drive, and her forthcoming work on disavowal. Special thank you to our Patreons and all listeners who have reached out over the last four years asking if we could speak with Alenka. To support the pod, and to find access to many more episodes, join our PATREON ! Enjoy!
Nov 29, 2023•50 min
This week, we're speaking to Alenka Zupančič, author of many texts, including What IS Sex, and Let Them Rot: Antigone’s Parallax. Zupančič. As a member of the "troika" (along with Mladen Dolar and Slavoj Zizek) Alenka is a central figure of the Lacanian-Hegelian Slovenian school we all know and love. We’re talking the early days of the troika, What IS Sex, the modalities of conspiracy theory, desire, drive, and disavowal. To listen to the full episode here over to our Patreon. Special thank you ...
Nov 22, 2023•47 min
This week, the fellas are back discussing Alenka Zupančič's Problemi essay, 'Lying on the Couch'. How does the psychoanalytic framework allow us to make sense of culture and lying, what is the asymmetry of a truth and a lie, and what did we think of the new Beatles song? Mike is hot (again), Will has moved (again), and Peter kind of liked Killers of the Flower Moon. Enjoy! For access to many more episodes, check out our PATREON! Thank you to all of our Patrons! See you again soon...
Nov 08, 2023•39 min
Alright, we’re back with another UNLOCKED 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 our interview with Alenka Zupančič coming up soon! Enjoy!...
Oct 25, 2023•50 min
LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! This week the fellas discuss Zizek's new book on Freedom. They touch on the freedom of philosophy, the pitfalls of anarchism, Wittgenstein, Sartre, and Canadian Thanksgiving. Enjoy! This is a preview of this week's episode. For full access, please think about joining our Patreon !
Oct 18, 2023•6 min
