Explore every episode of the podcast Just Two Dudes Reading Theory
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| Jaques Lacan - The Paradoxes of Ethis, or, Have You Acted In Conformity With Your Desire? | 02 oct. 2026 | 01:04:48 | |
Join us as we read the last lecture from Lacan's Seminar VII — The Ethics of Psychoanalysis. Enjoy! (Or not! or else...) Photo by Egor Myznik on Unsplash | |||
| Dreaming and Narrative Theory - Richard Walsh | 25 sept. 2026 | 01:03:08 | |
We're talking dreams and narratology. Enjoy! Photo by National Gallery of Art on Unsplash | |||
| Giorgio Agamben - What Is An Apparatus? | 18 sept. 2026 | 00:52:52 | |
Join us as we read a classic! Photo by Homa Appliances on Unsplash | |||
| Sigmund Freud - Compulsive Actions and Religious Exercises | 11 sept. 2026 | 01:05:16 | |
Whoops! We uploaded the wrong file! This is now corrected — enjoy our discussion of Freud's essay, Compulsive Actions and Religious Exercises. Photo by Dmitry Dreyer on Unsplash | |||
| Byung-Chul Han - The Tonality of Thought | 04 sept. 2026 | 00:38:46 | |
Join us as we talk about a lecture by Byung-Chul Han. Photo by Marcela Laskoski on Unsplash | |||
| Ursula Le Guin - Is Gender Necessary? Redux | 31 juil. 2026 | 01:08:02 | |
Join us as we read Ursula Le Guin's essay on sexuality and gender. Enjoy! Photo by Alexander Grey on Unsplash | |||
| Roland Barthes - Musica Practica | 17 juil. 2026 | 00:59:34 | |
We love reading Roland Barthes. To be fair, we don't always understand him, which is part of the fun. Enjoy! Photo by Sudhith Xavier on Unsplash | |||
| László Krasznahorkai - The Last Wolf & Herman | 26 juin 2026 | 01:00:46 | |
Join us as we discuss some work from last year's Nobel laureate in literature, László Krasznahorkai. Enjoy! Photo by Neil Rosenstech on Unsplash | |||
| The Ecstacy Of Communication - Jean Baudrillard | 19 juin 2026 | 00:42:54 | |
Join us as we read Baudrillard's essay, The Ecstasy of Communication. Enjoy! | |||
| What is Philosophy? (C0nclusion) Deleuze and Guattari | 12 juin 2026 | 01:12:16 | |
We're finishing it up! Enjoy, Photo by Aynaz shahtale on Unsplash | |||
| What is Philosophy? (Chapter 7: Percept, Affect, and Concept) | 05 juin 2026 | 01:14:24 | |
We're chugging along! enjoy! :) Photo by Jack Hamilton on Unsplash | |||
| Theodor Adorno — Resignation | 29 mai 2026 | 01:04:22 | |
We're reading Adorno's seminal late essay — enjoy! Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash | |||
| What is Philosophy? (Chapter 6: Prospects and Concepts) Deleuze and Guattari | 22 mai 2026 | 00:51:32 | |
Moving forward! On to Chapter 6. Enjoy! Photo by Shapelined on Unsplash | |||
| The Universality of Non-Belonging - Todd McGowan | 03 avr. 2026 | 01:01:28 | |
| What is Philosophy? (Chapter 5: Functives and Concepts) - Deleuze and Guattari | 20 mars 2026 | 00:49:58 | |
This week, we're discussing the 5th chapter from Deleuze and Guattari's What is Philosophy? Enjoy! Photo by Adil Janbyrbayev on Unsplash | |||
| Jennifer Todd - Georg Lukács, Walter Benjamin, and the Motivation to make Political Art | 13 mars 2026 | 01:07:40 | |
Join us this week as we take a break from Deleuze and Guattari. Enjoy! | |||
| Tyson Yunkaporta - Outside of the Land Looking in: Van Gogh's Seasons through Indigenous Eyes | 06 mars 2026 | 00:41:36 | |
Join us this week as we read Tyson Yunkaporta's views on Van Gogh. Enjoy! Photo by RhondaK Native Florida Folk Artist on Unsplash | |||
| What is Philosophy? (Chapter 4: Geophilosophy) - Deleuze and Guattari | 27 févr. 2026 | 01:04:40 | |
We're talking Geophilosophy! Enjoy Photo by Gert Boers on Unsplash | |||
| What is Philosophy? (Chapter 3: Conceptual Personae) - Deleuze and Guattari | 20 févr. 2026 | 01:03:20 | |
We're continuing our read of Deleuze and Guattari's last book, What Is Philosophy? Enjoy! | |||
| What is Philosophy? (Chapter 2: The Plane of Immanence?) - Deleuze and Guattari | 13 févr. 2026 | 01:12:54 | |
We're continuing on with Deleuze and Guattari's last book, What is Philosophy? This week we're reading Chapter 2: The Plane of Immanence | |||
| What is Philosophy? (Chapter 1: What is a Concept?) - Deleuze and Guattari | 06 févr. 2026 | 01:09:20 | |
Welcome! Join us as we learn from Deleuze and Guattari what a concept is. Enjoy! Photo by Milad Fakurian on Unsplash | |||
| What is Philosophy? (Introduction) - Deleuze and Guattari | 23 janv. 2026 | 01:12:48 | |
| Giorgio Agamben - What Is Fear? | 16 janv. 2026 | 01:19:26 | |
| Mary Wild - Psychoanalyzing Horror Cinema | 12 déc. 2025 | 01:09:24 | |
| Gilles Deleuze - Postscript On the Societies Of Control | 21 nov. 2025 | 01:09:48 | |
Join us this week as we read Deleuze's most famous essay (we'd say), Postscript On the Societies Of Control. Enjoy! Photo by Vikram Singh on Unsplash | |||
| Michel Foucault - Of Other Spaces, Heterotopias | 14 nov. 2025 | 01:11:24 | |
We got a good one! This week, we're reading Foucault's essay Of Other Spaces. Enjoy! Photo by Danist Soh on Unsplash | |||
| Étienne Balibar - Human Species As Biopolitical Concept | 31 oct. 2025 | 01:02:52 | |
Join us this week as read Étienne Balibar's lecture Human Species As Biopolitical Concept. Enjoy! | |||
| Simon Critchley - Mysticism 2/2 | 24 oct. 2025 | 01:08:52 | |
Join us this week as we finish reading Simon Critchley's new book Mysticism. Enjoy! Photo by Kenny Eliason on Unsplash | |||
| Simon Critchley - On Mysticism 1/2 | 10 oct. 2025 | 01:07:44 | |
| More Is More - Becca Rothfeld | 02 oct. 2025 | 01:08:42 | |
| Steven L Peck - My Madness | 26 sept. 2025 | 01:07:12 | |
Join us this week as we read Steven L Peck's essay My Madness, about his episode of acute psychosis. Enjoy! | |||
| Alenka Zupančič - Welcome To The Riviera Of The Real | 19 sept. 2025 | 01:08:52 | |
Join us this week as we read Alenka Zupančič's new essay, Welcome To The Riviera Of The Real | |||
| Roxane Gay - The Trouble With Prince Charming | 12 sept. 2025 | 01:01:30 | |
Join us this week as we delve into Roxane Gay's essay The Trouble With Prince Charming. Enjoy! Photo by Lians Jadan on Unsplash | |||
| Yanis Varoufakis - Technofeudalism 2/2 | 05 sept. 2025 | 01:13:00 | |
| Yanis Varoufakis - Technofeudalism | 29 août 2025 | 01:08:52 | |
Join us as we read the first half of Yanis Varoufakis' Technofeudalism. Enjoy! Photo by srinivas bandari on Unsplash | |||
| Michel Foucault - History of Sexuality Vol. 1 2/2 | 22 août 2025 | 01:10:42 | |
Welcome everybody! This week we're finishing up Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality Volume 1. Enjoy! Photo by Edoardo Cuoghi on Unsplash | |||
| Michel Foucault - History of Sexuality Vol. 1 1/2 | 15 août 2025 | 00:59:38 | |
Join us this week as we read the first half of Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality Vol.1 Photo by charlesdeluvio on Unsplash | |||
| Alenka Zupančič - Disavowal | 01 août 2025 | 01:04:40 | |
This week we're reading a great new book from Alenka Zupančič, Disavowal. All of her books are great. Enjoy! Photo by Jon Butterworth on Unsplash | |||
| Theodor Adorno - Theses Against Occultism | 25 juil. 2025 | 01:05:58 | |
Join us as we delve into Adorno's essay "Theses Against Occultism". We're talking about crystals! We're talking about the death of God! Exciting stuff. Photo by PAN XIAOZHEN on Unsplash | |||
| Felix Guattari - The Three Ecologies | 18 juil. 2025 | 01:08:14 | |
| Philosophy of Led Zeppelin | 09 mai 2025 | 01:13:22 | |
Join us this week for our season finale! We're discussing the philosophy of Led Zeppelin. Specifically, we're focusing on Zepellin IV, Presence, and Physical Graffiti. Enjoy! | |||
| Aleister Crowley - Little Essays Towards Truth II | 25 avr. 2025 | 00:54:06 | |
This week, we're finishing up Aleister Crowley's Little Essays Towards Truth. Enjoy! | |||
| Aleister Crowley - Little Essays Towards Truth I | 18 avr. 2025 | 01:04:40 | |
This week we're reading the first half of Little Essays Towards Truth. We're talking Thelema and the influence of The Tree of Life. Enjoy! | |||
| Alain Badiou - Handbook of Inaesthetics 2/2 | 11 avr. 2025 | 01:25:58 | |
This week, we're finishing Alain Badious' book Inaesthetics. We go through his viewpoints on dance, theatre, cinema, and, of course, poetry. Noteably missing is a chapter devoted to music...enjoy! | |||
| Alain Badiou - Handbook of Inaesthetics 1/2 | 04 avr. 2025 | 01:15:26 | |
Join us this week as we delve into Alain Badiou's Handbook of Inaesthetics. We'll discuss three primary ways philosophy has thought of art: didactic, romantic, and classical. Enjoy! | |||
| Cute Accelerationism - Amy Ireland and Maya B Kronic | 28 mars 2025 | 01:06:32 | |
Join us as we discuss all manner of cute culture this world over. Instead of Nietzsche, we're introduced to Freddo. Instead of Heidegger, we get kawaidegger. Enjoy! | |||
| Friedrich Nietzcshe - Anti-Education II | 21 mars 2025 | 01:08:32 | |
Welcome! This week we finished reading Nietzsche's Anti Education lectures. Enjoy! | |||
| Friedrich Nietzcshe - Anti-Education I | 14 mars 2025 | 01:17:24 | |
Wow what a ride! This week we're reading some early lectures from the young (28 year old) Nietzsche. He diagnoses many issues in the 19th-century German education system. We also debate the coherence of these early stabs at critique. Enjoy! | |||
| Sigmund Freud - Mourning And Melancholia | 07 mars 2025 | 01:19:44 | |
This week we're reading Freud's wild essay on mourning and melancholia. Freud's theory is that mourning results from a loss in the world, whereas melancholia results from a loss in the ego. We discuss what that means, as well as some of Freud's more dicey claims. Enjoy! Photo by Dana Bailey on Unsplash | |||
| Herbert Marcuse - The Problem of Violence And The Radical Opposition | 28 févr. 2025 | 01:11:24 | |
This week we're delving into the current political situation in the U.S. We're discussing concepts such as repressive desublimation and class consciousness. Enjoy! Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash | |||