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What IS Sex w/ Alenka Zupančič Pt. I

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 talking the early days of the troika, What IS Sex, the modalities of conspiracy theory, desire, drive, and disavowal.  

Special thank you to o...

Alenka Zupancic - The Subversive Spirit of Comedy

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 prepping for our own upcoming interview.   

We'll be back to our regular programming next week. Thanks a bunch for your understanding and s...

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The Struggle for Freedom

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!

Zizek Interview Pt. 2 : Freedom a Disease Without a Cure

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 our Patreons, next up we’re speaking with Alenka Zupan...

Desire, Drive, & Football w/ Jack Black

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 Freudian/Zizekian concept of drive? Give a listen! Thanks Jack!

Derrida, Différance, and Žižek's Parallax

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!

Moby Dick and Lacan

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. 

Barbenheimer

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!

'BUDDHISM, HAPPINESS, AND SACRIFICE': A MASTERCLASS WITH SLAVOJ ZIZEK - PART 1

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 radical difference between Lacanian position and Buddhism. Buddhism accepts the common view that the purpose of life is happiness (to quote Dalai Lama, ...

Žižek & Quantum Physics w/ Adrian Johnston

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, cognitive science, Badiou, Althusser and Spinoza.

Big thanks to our Patreons for all of your support! Got some cool things coming up 

2023-07-20 13:56:19 +0000 UTC View Post

Patreon Episode

Hey 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!

&...

Žižek - The Parallax of Ontology

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.

Seriality pt. II

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!

Freud and Frankenstein

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 of the novel? Who coined the term capitalist realism? Is the mistake of calling the monster "Frankenstein" like calling a soda "Coke"? Enjoy!<...

This week

Hey everyone! Sorry, no patron episode this week - Will is on the move. We’ll try again next week when he’s settled.

Talk soon! 

Žižek - The Real of the Capitalist Illusion

Lecture from 2016 in Mumbai

Looking Awry

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&…

Chat GPŽ

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.

OR as a Chat Bot might say:

Ladies and gentlemen, get ready for the intellectual ride of your life, because it's time for "Philosophy ...

Interpassivity w/ Robert Pfaller - Part 2

& 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! 

2023-04-20 13:24:02 +0000 UTC View Post

Interpassivity w/ Robert Pfaller - Part 1

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 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 a...

Žižek - ‘The Flight of Minerva in the City of God’

Zizek lecture from 2022 in Slovenia. Sorry for the delay, I've moved countries and been busy 

- Will

The Wound of Spirit

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 Mou...