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| Žižek's Scatology | 19 Aug 2024 | 00:58:47 | |
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 shit a gift that keeps on giving? What does all of this have to do with Japanese hamburgers & Marx? We’re talking the political and libidinal economy of shit from the Scatalogical Rites of Nations & the Interpretation of Dreams to Uncut Gems, Cool Runnings, & Laporte’s History of Shit. SUPPORT OUR WORK ON PATREON FOR MORE EPISODES AND INTERVIEWS! Up next we have two interviews with Adrian Johnston, & we’ll see you in Paris. Aufhebung(hole)! | |||
| Why We Shouldn't Try to Find Ourselves w/ Todd McGowan | 12 Aug 2024 | 00:43:46 | |
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 beginnings and the impossibility of endings, Lacan's debt to Jean Paul Sartre, identitarian politics, and Slavoj Žižek. SUPPORT OUR PROJECT ON PATREON! Up next we have a new SHORT SESSION on Žižek's recent Substack which you can find here! Enjoy! | |||
| In New York w/ Slavoj Žižek | 01 May 2024 | 00:55:09 | |
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! | |||
| PREVIEW - Coup d'wha? | 12 Jan 2021 | 00:03:10 | |
A Coup d’etat? Unambiguously, NO. Terrorism? Let's think about why that term would be advantageous for the state to use. Insurrection? The right deed for the wrong reason. Patrons: “We love you. You’re very special” To gain access to the full episode and our Discord, join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon | |||
| Politics of the Problem w/ Agon Hamza | 05 Jan 2021 | 01:08:27 | |
On the podcast this week we interview Agon Hamza, the author and editor of a number of books, including “Reading Marx'', co-written with Frank Ruda and Slavoj Žižek, and “Repeating Žižek”, in which he contributed “A Plea for Žižekian Politics”. We discuss the situation in Kosova, the EU—eurocentrism, and the remainder of the Balkans—the “problem” of Politics, the “borromean knot” of Žižek’s political theory, theory vs. practice, communism, and alienation. https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon Hamza and Ruda’s Interview with Albin Kurti: https://crisiscritique.org/2020/2020kurti.pdf @Agonhamza @zizekand | |||
| UNLOCKED: Hegel in a Wired Brain - PART TWO | 24 Dec 2020 | 00:58:24 | |
In this episode we take a second pass at Žižek’s new book “Hegel in a Wired Brain”, and further discuss the concept of the wired brain and its limitations. Other topics include poetry, Winston-Churchill-Heidegger, the status of Spirit and subject, the signification/meaning distinction, and how singularity can’t take a joke. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/hegel-in-a-wired-brain-9781350124417/ | |||
| PREVIEW - Mad World: The Failed Catastrophe | 23 Dec 2020 | 00:03:22 | |
This week, we take a dive into Žižek's new book: Pandemic! 2: Chronicles of a Time Lost. Thanks for joining us this year, everybody! See you in 2021— To hear the full episode and many others, join our patreon @ https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon | |||
| PREVIEW - Philosophy or Psychoanalysis? Yes, Please! | 08 Dec 2020 | 00:03:41 | |
The boys are back with a discussion on a 2019 interview with Alenka Zupančič in Crisis and Critique. This piece brings us back to thinking through the importance of psychoanalysis for philosophy, and also opens the door to talking about the ontology of sexuality from the Lacano-Hegelian perspective. | |||
| PREVIEW - The Superego and the Act | 03 Nov 2020 | 00:04:31 | |
In this Patreon exclusive episode & So On discusses the superego and the act. How does Zizek understand authentic action within the context of the symbolic order, capitalism, and the superego injunction to enjoy? How does an act break the symbolic co-ordinance and bring about an Event in subjectivity? Jake, Peter, and Will take a stab at it. For access to this exclusive episode and others, go to: https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon | |||
| Event | 22 Oct 2020 | 00:57:33 | |
This week, we take on Žižek’s concept of the Event and ask: what happens when something happens? Join our Patreon for more exclusive content! | |||
| PREVIEW - Western Buddhism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism - PART TWO | 08 Oct 2020 | 00:04:10 | |
In this Patreon exclusive episode, Jake, Peter, and Will pull back the veil of Samsara and chat about the limitations of mindfulness, whether meditation is better than a walk, and contemplate translation issues while Peter eats a piece of bread. For access to the full episode and much more exclusive content, join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon | |||
| Western Buddhism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism - PART ONE | 06 Oct 2020 | 00:55:00 | |
This week, we discuss Zizek's approach to Buddhism. From the first Noble Truth, Buddhism describes human existence as an endless cycle of suffering, and posits the path towards enlightenment as the severing of attachment, and the cessation of desire. From a psychoanalytic standpoint, Zizek emphasizes that, in contrast, we enjoy our suffering (as when we fall in love, for example), and that desire cannot be simply done away with. After discussing the finer points of a Lacano-Helgelian critique of Buddhism, the fellas get into Zizek's other major critiques of Western Buddhism; its associations with science and capitalism. Towards this, Zizek writes that Buddhism is perhaps the ideal religion for capitalism and for the CEOs of Silicon Valley, since it's prescription to withdraw from the world, and to see it and one's self as illusory, does little to change the system of oppression itself, and assures the passive acceptance of hegemonic realism. To hear the second part of this discussion and access many more exclusive episodes, join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon | |||
| Mladen Dolar Part 2 - The Ljubljana School | 18 Apr 2024 | 00:56:33 | |
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. Up next we have our interview with Slavoj Žižek from our time with him in New York. | |||
| UNLOCKED: On The Toilet | 29 Sep 2020 | 00:52:17 | |
On this week's episode, we get into Žižek's semiotic triangle of German, French, and English/American toilets. We discuss the metaphysical stance of the German toilet, the revolutionary posture of the French, and the utilitarian and pragmatic sensibility of the English toilet. We also talk about the waterless urinal, the austerity politics of low-flow taps, and many other excremental subjects. Take a seat and have a listen! | |||
| PREVIEW - Hegel in a Wired Brain - PART TWO | 22 Sep 2020 | 00:04:21 | |
In this patreon-exclusive episode, we take a second pass at Žižek’s new book “Hegel in a Wired Brain”, and further discuss the concept of the wired brain and it’s limitations. Other topics include poetry, Winston-Churchill-Heidegger, the status of Spirit and subject, the signification/meaning distinction, and how singularity can’t take a joke. to hear the full episode and other extra content join our patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon | |||
| Hegel In A Wired Brain - PART ONE | 15 Sep 2020 | 00:53:16 | |
This week, we take on Žižek's recent book, "Hegel In A Wired Brain" in what will be become an ongoing series. By way of introduction, we discuss: our animosity towards Elon Musk, Neuralink, the Singularity and the future of cyborg/human relations, and as always, the Matrix and the Simpsons. https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon Twitter: @zizekand https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/hegel-in-a-wired-brain-9781350124417/ | |||
| Avoid Your Symptom | 27 Aug 2020 | 01:00:46 | |
This week, the fellas discuss two recent articles concerning the ongoing pandemic, “The Will Not to Know,” by Slavoj Zizek, and “Social Distancing and its Discontents,” by Matthew Flisfeder. Using the articles as a starting point, we talk: the idea of “protest,” neoliberal ideology, the disruption of the symbolic order, and how the virus compels us to enjoy in different ways. "The Will Not to Know,” by Slavoj Zizek https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/the... “Social Distancing and its Discontents,” by Matthew Flisfeder https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/soc... https://matthewflisfeder.com/ become a patron @ https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon | |||
| PREVIEW - On The Toilet | 22 Aug 2020 | 00:10:42 | |
Episode 20, a Patreon exclusive, is all about toilets. We discuss Žižek’s three examples of toilets (the German, French, and Anglo thrones) that form an ideological tripartite, each demonstrating different ways of dealing with the excrement of the Real. We also talk the austerity politics of waterless urinals and low-flow taps, “green” toilet paper, and how ideology permeates what we consider the most elemental and excremental. Take a seat, and have a listen join our patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon twitter: @zizekand | |||
| The Subject Supposed to Object? w/ Russell Sbriglia | 22 Aug 2020 | 01:01:36 | |
This week, we return to topics we discussed previously with Dr. Russell Sbriglia, Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Literature Studies at Seton Hall University. We get Russell's take on Graham Harman's recent essay written in response to his book “Subject Lessons”, and get into the weeds on the debate between Object Oriented Ontology, and the Ljubljana school. "Subject Lessons: Hegel, Lacan, and the Future of Materialism" Edited by Russell Sbriglia and Slavoj Zizek: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/cont... "The Battle of Objects and Subjects: Concerning Sbriglia and Žižek’s Subject Lessons Anthology" by Graham Harman: https://www.degruyter.com/view/journa... Join our patreon for extra episodes: https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon twitter: @zizekand | |||
| UNLOCKED: Cinema: The Third Pill | 13 Aug 2020 | 00:59:01 | |
This episode, we take another stab at our failed attempt to talk about Žižek and film. Earlier in the week we spoke to Dr. Matthew Flisfeder, the author of the 2012 book The Symbolic, the Sublime, and Slavoj Žižek's Theory of Film— but we did not record the conversation. So, in our second attempt to tackle this crucial topic in Žižek's work, we talk about Matthew's book, as well as "The Pervert's Guide to Cinema", the choice between reality and illusion, the third pill, Hitchcock's MacGuffin, the parallax object, and wonder why film? Music at the close ("Stromboli") is by Matteo Ciambella https://matteociambella.bandcamp.com/ Dr. Matthew Flisfeder: @MattFlisfeder on twitter, https://matthewflisfeder.com/ https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon : @zizekand : https://www.facebook.com/Zizek-and-So-On-126096985581365 | |||
| PREVIEW - Cinema: The Third Pill | 11 Aug 2020 | 00:10:31 | |
An excerpt from our most recent patreon-exclusive content. This episode, we take another stab at our failed attempt to talk about Žižek and film. Earlier in the week we spoke to Dr. Matthew Flisfeder, the author of The Symbolic, the Sublime, and Slavoj Žižek's Theory of Film— but we forgot to record the conversation... So, in our second attempt to tackle this crucial topic in Žižek's work, we talk about Matthew's book, as well as "The Pervert's Guide to Cinema", the choice between reality and illusion, the third pill, Hitchcock's MacGuffin, the parallax object, and wonder why film? Join our patreon @ https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon | |||
| PREVIEW - The Bean Can of Ideology | 05 Aug 2020 | 00:02:43 | |
In this Patreon exclusive episode, we discuss our evolving thoughts on the covid crisis, then turn to a post-op on the Ben Burgis interview. We wonder how formal logic could be given a Hegelian twist, via Todd McGowan's book, "Emancipation After Hegel". | |||
| Enjoy Your Obscenity w/ Russ Sbriglia | 05 Apr 2024 | 00:56:20 | |
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.
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| Ben Burgis, Infinite Guest | 03 Aug 2020 | 01:03:40 | |
This week, we speak to Ben Burgis, professor at Georgia State Perimeter College and author (and co-author) of recent Zero Books publications "Give Them an Argument" and "Myth and Mayhem". Our discussion ranges from the Žižek v. Jordan Peterson debate, to the state of the Left (after its recent social democratic failures), the difference between formal and dialectical logic, and many other topics. patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon | |||
| PREVIEW - Eurocentrism and it’s Discontents | 30 Jul 2020 | 00:08:11 | |
On this patreon-exclusive episode we discuss Žižek's eurocentrism. For Žižek, Eurocentrism isn't to be understood as a nationalist idea, but instead as an opening for truly universal political and philosophical horizons. In this excerpt from our Patreon exclusive episode, the fellas discuss Eurocentrism and multiculturalism; and how a return to 'authentic tradition' is an effect of, rather than a challenge to, the capitalist economic system.
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| PREVIEW - Lenin and McCommie | 16 Jul 2020 | 00:03:20 | |
Patreon-exclusive content @ https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon On this episode, we talk about Žižek's intro to Lenin 2017, as well as his 2009 book First as Tragedy, Then as Farce. Our discussion focuses on the idea of communism, especially as it relates to Žižek's Lenin, as well as the included and the excluded, resistance and working through, socialism/communism, the universal and the particular, and some fucked up dreams. | |||
| Marx in the Cave: Frank Ruda on Marx, Plato, & So On | 08 Jul 2020 | 01:33:32 | |
Check out our patreon page for extra content: https://www.patreon.com/join/zizekandsoon On this episode, we talk to German philosopher Frank Ruda, senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Dundee in Scotland. Dr. Ruda is the author of a number of books, including Hegel’s Rabble, The Dash, and, the focus of today’s episode, Reading Marx—co-written with Slavoj Žižek, and Agon Hamza. We discuss Frank’s essay in the book “Marx in the Cave”—a short circuit between Plato’s myth of the cave, and Marx’s analysis of political economy. We touch on a range of topics, including the concept of an “experimental” reading of Marx, the links between emancipation and myth, Plato’s cave allegory as a depiction of the worker under capitalism, as well as the role of appearance and abstraction in understanding capitalism, the dynamics between the worker and time and freedom, the worker (un)animal, and the subject supposed to revolutionize. | |||
| PREVIEW - POWER, APPEARANCE, & OBSCENITY | 25 Jun 2020 | 00:03:02 | |
On this patreon-exclusive episode, we talk about Žižek's June 22nd article "POWER, APPEARANCE, AND OBSCENITY". We touch on the topics of populism, political correctness, covid, the current protests, and object oriented ontology. To hear the full episode and to hear more content, check out our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon Here's the link to the article: https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/power-appearance-and-obscenity-five-reflections/ | |||
| Sbriglia Speaks | 17 Jun 2020 | 01:35:09 | |
This week, we speak to Dr. Russell Sbriglia, Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Literature Studies at Seton Hall University. Our conversation orients around his new collection, “Subject Lessons”, edited with Slavoj Žižek. We talk Žižek, Hegel, subjectivity, and the “Ljubljana School’s” critique of New Materialism and Object Oriented Ontology.
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| Slavoj Žižek on Hegel, Marx, and Utopia | 12 May 2020 | 00:38:22 | |
This week’s episode of Žižek and So On, includes an interview with Slavoj himself, conducted on February 1st of this year. In the interview Žižek parses out what he calls the “post-modern deadlock.” This theoretical and political impasse, specific to the epoch of post modernism, is the product of a tension between what he identifies as the broad realist approach and the transcendental. In exploring this deadlock, Žižek speaks about the limits of Marx’s historical materialism, Judith Butler’s gender theory, and Lacanian psychoanalysis, each as separate examples of transhistorical ontology. Beyond this impasse, and in response to the current global situation, Žižek proposes historicizing historicism, in the practice of Hegel, so that we might see the emergence of an immanent, yet entirely new version of utopia, and that in the event of the catastrophic, there is something at work which is both potentially emancipatory, and universal.
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| PREVIEW - Žižek as Sacrificial Intellectual, PANDEMIC!, & Communism | 03 May 2020 | 00:02:56 | |
A preview of the upcoming episode, a patreon exclusive, where Peter and Jacob discuss their interview with Eliran Bar-El; Žižek’s newest book PAN(DEM)IC; Communism and his role as the “sacrificial intellectual”.
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| PREVIEW - Off the Cuff on Postmodern Conservatism | 14 Apr 2020 | 00:03:39 | |
https://www.patreon.com/join/zizekandsoon A preview for our first exclusive patreon content where we talk off the cuff on postmodernism, and upcoming guest Matt McManus' proposal for a thinking of postmodern...conservatism. The episode is our thinking-through topics relating to contemporary politics, postmodern philosophy (is it conservative?), Žižek's universalism, the pretensions of Neil deGrasse Tyson, and much more—in preparation for our conversation with Matt later this week. | |||
| The Sublime Object of Ideology | 09 Apr 2020 | 00:42:15 | |
This week on Žižek and So On, the hosts talk the 1989 English publication of The Sublime Object of Ideology. Access to this complicated and great work is gained by way of the book’s title, as it denotes a synthesis of Marx, Lacan, and Hegel that allows Žižek to perform a nuanced analysis of ideology. Our reading of the book discovers in this new form of analysis, a connection between Žižek’s understanding of ideology and the ontological project at hand in his later work. | |||
| PREVIEW - The Ljubljana School w/ Mladen Dolar - PART TWO | 27 Mar 2024 | 00:06:24 | |
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! | |||
| Žižek, Hegel, & Lacan w/ Todd McGowan | 31 Mar 2020 | 00:46:57 | |
This week, on Zizek and So on, we interview Todd McGowan, professor of English at the University of Vermont. Todd’s thought centralizes on the likes of Hegel, Lacan, Freud and Marx, and he is the author of several books, most notably, “Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets”, and last year's “Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution.” His newest book “Universality and Identity Politics” is set to come out this July. Todd also co-hosts a terrific podcast with Ryan Engley called "Why Theory?" And we encourage you guys to seek it out. Todd spoke with us this week about the unity of Hegel and Lacan that is present in both his work and Zizek’s, about post-structuralism, the concept of contradiction, and the problem of the subject. | |||
| Mladen Dolar - A Voice and Nothing More | 20 Mar 2024 | 00:59:15 | |
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 the US and across Europe, and he is the author of over a hundred papers in scholarly journals and volume collections. Apart from ten books in Slovene, his book publications include most notably A Voice and Nothing More and Opera’s Second Death. We’re talking the voice, May 68, the early days in Ljubljana, Lacan, rumours and gossip, what’s in a name, and the decline of paternal authority. For access to many more episodes, join our PATREON! Thanks Mladen! | |||
| PREVIEW - Mladen Dolar - A Voice and Nothing More | 13 Mar 2024 | 00:02:52 | |
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 at universities in the US and across Europe, and he is the author of over a hundred papers in scholarly journals and volume collections. Apart from ten books in Slovene, his book publications include most notably A Voice and Nothing More and Opera’s Second Death.
We’re talking the voice, may 68, the early days in Ljubljana, Lacan, rumours and gossip, what’s in a name, and the decline of paternal authority.
Please consider supporting us on Patreon for access to extra episodes and the ongoing production of the show!
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| UNLOCKED - Immediacy w/ Anna Kornbluh | 06 Mar 2024 | 01:26:11 | |
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! | |||
| PREVIEW: Immediacy w/ Anna Kornbluh | 29 Feb 2024 | 00:08:53 | |
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... Enjoy! | |||
| Elon Musk Ruined My Sex Life | 21 Feb 2024 | 01:00:18 | |
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: NOTES TOWARDS A HEGELIAN SYSTEM OF SEXUALITY SMOKING CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE FINE ARTS | |||
| PREVIEW - Inherent Transgression | 09 Feb 2024 | 00:04:18 | |
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! | |||
| Embracing Alienation w/ Todd McGowan | 05 Aug 2024 | 00:52:24 | |
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 cultural immediacy. What does a politics of alienation have to say about ‘the day after’ or how would it look in the day after? What is the significance of place and community? Why 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? We also get into Žižek's ontology & fate, determinism, and the forced choice of alienation. Part two will be out next week... Enjoy! | |||
| UNLOCKED - The Struggle for Freedom | 24 Jan 2024 | 00:49:33 | |
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! | |||
| PREVIEW - Rumours & Gossip | 18 Jan 2024 | 00:06:16 | |
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 Other doesn’t exist. In the beginning there was – not the Word, logos, as in the Bible, not the act, as with Faust – in the beginning, there was a rumour. Will combats 5G with a Feng Shui mirror, Michael covers his windows in aluminium foil, and Peter defends himself against the metric system. Enjoy! | |||
| Zizek's Jokes | 10 Jan 2024 | 00:52:24 | |
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 the Žižek & So On Podcast going! Read along: Broderick Chow , Alenka Zupancic, Zizek's Jokes -Enjoy! | |||
| PREVIEW - Podžilla | 13 Dec 2023 | 00:02:52 | |
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! | |||
| Conspiracy Theories w/ Alenka Zupančič | 29 Nov 2023 | 00:50:17 | |
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.
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| What IS Sex w/ Alenka Zupančič | 22 Nov 2023 | 00:47:18 | |
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.
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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.
Enjoy!
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| True Lies | 08 Nov 2023 | 00:38:42 | |
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 | |||
| UNLOCKED - Derrida & Zizek | 25 Oct 2023 | 00:50:04 | |
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! | |||