Today we have PART ONE of our interview with 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) is a central figure of the Lacanian-Hegelian Slovenian school we all know and love.
We’re tal...
2023-11-15 13:42:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Alright, Patreons!
We've got a bit of a curveball this week since we weren’t able to record our regular episode as planned. But fear not! We've got something pretty special lined up for you instead.
We stumbled upon this hard-to-find interview with the incredible Alenka Zupancic that we've been diving into while prepp...
2023-11-01 14:05:39 +0000 UTC View Post
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2023-10-18 13:41:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
Thanks to all our new patrons!
2023-10-18 13:37:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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 o...
2023-10-05 11:30:57 +0000 UTC View PostThis 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 Freudian/Zizekian concept of drive? Give a listen! Thanks Jack!
2023-09-21 22:26:52 +0000 UTC View Post
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 som...
2023-09-07 11:34:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Part 2 of our conversation with Russ Sbriglia. 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.
2023-08-16 13:08:33 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
Thank you to all our Patrons!
2023-08-02 15:26:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Recorded lecture at Birkbeck University
18 April 2023 - BUDDHISM, HAPPINESS, AND SACRIFICE
In the last decades, critiques of my reading of Buddhism abound – even those who are otherwise sympathetic to my general approach claim that I miss the point when I target Buddhism. So I'll try to clarify what I see as the ra...
2023-07-24 10:53:16 +0000 UTC View Post
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, Catherine Malabou and Plasticity, nature, biology and neuroscience, cognitiv...
2023-07-20 13:56:19 +0000 UTC View PostHey everybody,
this week we're forgoing the patron episode in preparation for our next interview. But—we'll be getting it out asap. It's an exciting one!
&...
2023-07-05 10:32:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Talk given at the conference "Parallax. The Dependence of Reality on Its Subjective Constitution" on Dec. 1, 2018 at the Munich School of Philosophy, Germany.
2023-06-27 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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!
2023-06-21 06:24:59 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we're talking Mary Shelly, myth & monstrosity, family, Freud and Frankenstein. For this episode, we've read "History and family in Frankenstein” in Zizek's In Defense of Lost Causes. Why are stories so often posed through the motif of the family drama? Does the myth of the family distract from the real historical frame o...
2023-06-07 12:56:20 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! Sorry, no patron episode this week - Will is on the move. We’ll try again next week when he’s settled.
Talk soon!
2023-05-25 13:18:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Lecture from 2016 in Mumbai
2023-05-14 11:09:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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&…
2023-05-10 13:48:38 +0000 UTC View Post
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....
2023-04-25 12:31:26 +0000 UTC View Post
& 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 than...
2023-04-20 13:24:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Alright, this week we’re speaking 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 ...
2023-04-12 12:02:41 +0000 UTC View PostZizek lecture from 2022 in Slovenia. Sorry for the delay, I've moved countries and been busy
- Will
2023-04-10 06:29:30 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2023-03-29 13:00:54 +0000 UTC View Post
"Internationally renowned philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek returns to Seton Hall for a public talk entitled 'Why Do We Enjoy Feeling Ashamed?'"
Recorded November 1st 2022.
2023-03-25 11:33:07 +0000 UTC View Post
*Audio begins 20 seconds in!* Žižek's lecture from The Master/s conference (September 2022), organized by the International Hegelian Association Aufhebung, Goethe-Institut Ljubljana.
"Friedrich the Great defined himself (the king) as “the first servant of State”, and this is how, from the early Enlightenment onwards, a maste...
2023-03-18 07:51:19 +0000 UTC View Post
We continue our conversation with Dr. Flisfeder on his book "Algorithmic Desire, Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media". A little dishing on the Jordan Peterson debate also.
Enjoy!
2023-03-15 15:04:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe final session of Dr. Flisfeder's class on For They Know Not What They Do. This covers the foreword to the Second Edition: "Enjoyment within the Limits of Reason Alone".
Special thanks to Matt and to everyone who participated in the class. Matt has also hinted at a possible follow-up later this year.
ENJOY<...
2023-03-13 15:29:51 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone,
Michael, Jake, Peter, and Will want to thank you all for listening to 3(!) years of the show. We're incredibly grateful for all of your support & we're real excited for the next year of the the podcast. We hope to, as always, fail a little bit better.
Onwards!
Love, the fellas.
2023-03-13 12:14:42 +0000 UTC View Post
'Slavoj Žižek's keynote for the conference "Politics of Nature: Philosophical Perspectives on the Anthropocene" (Oct 20-21, 2022), organized by Thomas Khurana (Center for Post-Kantian Philosophy, 2023-03-12 09:40:03 +0000 UTC View Post
"What if the great catastrophe is not just a threat to be avoided; but something necessary to wake us up?"
We're trying out posting Zizek lectures here since the person who used to do it on podcast platforms has stopped! Hoping to get most of these kinds of lectures (ie. not podcast appearances) out on patreon going forward. For convenienc...
2023-03-09 07:39:38 +0000 UTC View Post