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➤ Slavoj Žižek • Psychoanalysis • Philosophy • Culture • Lacan • Politics • Literature • Interviews • Discussion • Capitalism • Ideology • Critique • Humor • Academia • Knowledge
The podcast "Žižek And So On" explores the intricate and often provocative work of Slavoj Žižek and the Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis. Through conversations with various scholars and theorists, this podcast delves deeply into Žižek's interpretation of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and contemporary culture. The show frequently touches on critical themes such as ideology, desire, and the intersections of philosophy and psychoanalysis.
Episodes frequently discuss Žižek’s philosophical influences, including Hegel, Lacan, and Althusser, and tackle a wide array of complex ideas like Eurocentrism, dialectical materialism, and dialectical humanism. With guests like Matthew Flisfeder and Russell Sbriglia, the conversations extend to Žižek’s interpretations of human desire, the nature of reality, and political ideology. The podcast often investigates contemporary issues through Žižekian lenses, including topics such as capitalism, accelerationism, eco-criticism, and global socio-political dynamics.
Moreover, the podcast addresses cultural phenomena through a psychoanalytical framework, such as cinema, literature, and even pop culture references, often linking back to Žižek's theoretical stances. Regular discussions of current socio-political events, technological implications, and various philosophical doctrines highlight the relevance of Žižek's work to contemporary global issues.
This podcast emphasizes an academic yet accessible discussion of psychoanalytic theory and its application to understanding modern societal and cultural shifts. By examining Žižek’s contributions and engaging with other notable theorists, the show provides an in-depth analysis of how psychoanalytic concepts can illuminate the complexities and contradictions of both individual psyche and collective human experience. Overall, it offers an engaging exploration of ideology, politics, and cultural critique, reflecting Žižek’s influence across a broad intellectual spectrum.
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Episodes:
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Television Theory w/ Ryan Engley
2025-Oct-21
51 minutes
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Žižek's Concrete Eurocentrism w/ Matthew Flisfeder
2025-Sep-23
70 minutes
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Critique of Pure Desire w/ Russell Sbriglia
2025-Aug-26
60 minutes
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The Cambridge Introduction to Lacan Part 2 w/ Todd McGowan
2025-Aug-04
56 minutes
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The Cambridge Introduction to Lacan w/ Todd McGowan
2025-Jul-21
60 minutes
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PREVIEW - Accelerationism 2 w/ Michael Downs
2025-Jul-07
19 minutes
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Accelerationism w/ Michael Downs
2025-Jun-24
60 minutes
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Against Progress w/ Jack Black
2025-May-26
58 minutes
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SHORT SESSIONS PREVIEW - SOME TICKLISH SUBJECTS
2025-May-12
10 minutes
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Post-Comedy w/ Alfie Bown
2025-Apr-28
81 minutes
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SHORT SESSIONS PREVIEW - SHIT OF HISTORY: NO FICKLE MATTER
2025-Apr-12
16 minutes
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Psychocinema w/ Helen Rollins
2025-Mar-25
69 minutes
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PREVIEW - Capitalism & the Commodity (PURE EXCESS)
2025-Mar-04
12 minutes
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Pure Excess w/ Todd McGowan
2025-Feb-16
80 minutes
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PREVIEW - The Parallax of Rumours
2025-Jan-13
10 minutes
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Rumors on the Couch
2024-Dec-09
44 minutes
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PREVIEW - Hard to Kill w/ Peter Rollins
2024-Nov-25
11 minutes
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Death of God w/ Peter Rollins
2024-Nov-18
57 minutes
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PREVIEW - SHORT SESSIONS: HAVING YOUR CAKE & EATING TABOO
2024-Nov-04
11 minutes
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Social Division
2024-Oct-28
60 minutes
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PREVIEW - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Social Division
2024-Oct-21
12 minutes
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Nature & Ecology
2024-Oct-13
57 minutes
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PREVIEW - Whistleblowers at the End of the World
2024-Oct-07
11 minutes
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Biogenetics
2024-Sep-30
59 minutes
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PREVIEW - SHORT SESSIONS: NEUROTHEOLOGY
2024-Sep-22
11 minutes
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Intellectual Property
2024-Sep-15
46 minutes
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PREVIEW: Adrian Johnston & The Inhuman Selfishness of Capital
2024-Sep-08
10 minutes
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Infinite Greed w/ Adrian Johnston
2024-Sep-01
55 minutes
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Žižek's Scatology
2024-Aug-19
58 minutes
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Why We Shouldn't Try to Find Ourselves w/ Todd McGowan
2024-Aug-12
43 minutes
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Embracing Alienation w/ Todd McGowan
2024-Aug-05
52 minutes
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PREVIEW - Let's Get Alienated!
2024-Jul-29
8 minutes
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A Reader's Guide: The Sublime Object of Ideology w/ Rafael Winkler
2024-Jul-22
55 minutes
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PREVIEW - Fantasy
2024-Jul-15
9 minutes
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SHORT SESSIONS: Carol & the End of the World
2024-Jul-08
33 minutes
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PREVIEW - It's Complex, Stupid! w/ Alenka Zupančič
2024-Jul-01
9 minutes
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Disavowal w/ Alenka Zupančič PART ONE
2024-Jun-24
59 minutes
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PREVIEW - Nightmare on Alenka Street
2024-Jun-17
7 minutes
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In New York w/ Slavoj Žižek
2024-May-01
55 minutes
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Mladen Dolar Part 2 - The Ljubljana School
2024-Apr-18
56 minutes
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Enjoy Your Obscenity w/ Russ Sbriglia
2024-Apr-05
56 minutes
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PREVIEW - The Ljubljana School w/ Mladen Dolar - PART TWO
2024-Mar-27
6 minutes
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Mladen Dolar - A Voice and Nothing More
2024-Mar-20
59 minutes
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PREVIEW - Mladen Dolar - A Voice and Nothing More
2024-Mar-13
2 minutes
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UNLOCKED - Immediacy w/ Anna Kornbluh
2024-Mar-06
86 minutes
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PREVIEW: Immediacy w/ Anna Kornbluh
2024-Feb-29
8 minutes
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Elon Musk Ruined My Sex Life
2024-Feb-21
60 minutes
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PREVIEW - Inherent Transgression
2024-Feb-09
4 minutes
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UNLOCKED - The Struggle for Freedom
2024-Jan-24
49 minutes
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PREVIEW - Rumours & Gossip
2024-Jan-18
6 minutes
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Zizek's Jokes
2024-Jan-10
52 minutes
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PREVIEW - Podžilla
2023-Dec-13
2 minutes
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Conspiracy Theories w/ Alenka Zupančič
2023-Nov-29
50 minutes
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What IS Sex w/ Alenka Zupančič
2023-Nov-22
47 minutes
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True Lies
2023-Nov-08
38 minutes
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UNLOCKED - Derrida & Zizek
2023-Oct-25
50 minutes
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PREVIEW - The Struggle for Freedom
2023-Oct-18
6 minutes
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Zizek Interview PART 2: Freedom a Disease Without a Cure
2023-Oct-11
40 minutes
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Zizek Interview PART 1: Freedom a Disease Without a Cure
2023-Oct-04
56 minutes
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UNLOCKED - Desire, Drive, & Football w/ Jack Black
2023-Sep-29
63 minutes
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PREVIEW - Desire, Drive, & Football w/ Jack Black
2023-Sep-21
3 minutes
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The Mask
2023-Sep-15
50 minutes
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PREVIEW - Derrida & Žižek
2023-Sep-07
6 minutes
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Looking Awry
2023-Aug-22
51 minutes
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PREVIEW - Moby Dick & Lacan
2023-Aug-16
5 minutes
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Lacan and Literature w/ Russell Sbriglia
2023-Aug-09
49 minutes
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PREVIEW Barbenheimer
2023-Aug-02
2 minutes
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PREVIEW - Žižek & Quantum Physics w/ Adrian Johnston
2023-Jul-19
6 minutes
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Žižek's Ontology w/ Adrian Johnston
2023-Jul-12
55 minutes
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Seriality Continued w/ Ryan Engley
2023-Jun-28
78 minutes
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PREVIEW - Seriality pt. 2 with Ryan Engley
2023-Jun-21
4 minutes
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Why Seriality w/ Ryan Engley
2023-Jun-14
59 minutes
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PREVIEW - Freud and Frankenstein
2023-Jun-07
5 minutes
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Illusions Without Owners w/ Robert Pfaller
2023-Jun-01
49 minutes
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Hegel and the Wound of Spirit
2023-May-17
53 minutes
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PREVIEW - Looking Awry
2023-May-10
5 minutes
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Zizek & Digital Culture w/ Clint Burnham
2023-May-03
71 minutes
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PREVIEW - Chat GPŽ
2023-Apr-25
6 minutes
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Zizek & Interpassivity w/ Robert Pfaller
2023-Apr-20
61 minutes
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PREVIEW - Interpassivity w/ Robert Pfaller
2023-Apr-12
5 minutes
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How is Lacan Hegelian?
2023-Apr-05
51 minutes
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PREVIEW - The Wound of Spirit
2023-Mar-29
5 minutes
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Žižek Responds!
2023-Mar-22
54 minutes
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PREVIEW - Algorithmic Desire w/ Matt Flisfeder - Part 2
2023-Mar-15
4 minutes
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Algorithmic Desire w/ Matt Flisfeder - Part I
2023-Mar-08
54 minutes
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PREVIEW - Pervert's Guide to Sophie Fiennes: PART TWO
2023-Mar-01
8 minutes
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The Pervert's Guide to Sophie Fiennes: Part One
2023-Jan-30
54 minutes
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For We Know Not What We Pod
2022-Nov-30
47 minutes
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Lacanian Ethics
2022-Sep-23
45 minutes
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PREVIEW - Surplus Enjoyment
2022-Sep-09
3 minutes
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The Capitalist Gaze
2022-Aug-25
48 minutes
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PREVIEW - Content on Form
2022-Aug-08
2 minutes
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Ayn Rand
2022-Jul-28
60 minutes
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PREVIEW - Did Somebody Say Melancholy?
2022-Jul-14
8 minutes
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PREVIEW - A Pascalean Wager
2022-Jun-14
4 minutes
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The Möbius Strip
2022-Jun-02
54 minutes
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PREVIEW - Last Exit to Communism
2022-May-22
5 minutes
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PREVIEW - Politics of Enjoyment
2022-Apr-30
4 minutes
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The Gaze
2022-Apr-07
61 minutes
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PREVIEW - Hitchcock
2022-Apr-01
4 minutes
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Talking Shit
2022-Mar-23
45 minutes
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PREVIEW - Did Marx Invent the Symptom?
2022-Mar-14
3 minutes
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Return to Freud
2022-Mar-02
49 minutes
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PREVIEW - How To Read Lacan
2022-Feb-24
7 minutes
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UNLOCKED - They Live
2022-Feb-17
46 minutes
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PREVIEW - Hegel & the Beautiful Soul
2022-Feb-10
3 minutes
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UNLOCKED: Red Pilled on The Matrix
2022-Feb-02
61 minutes
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The Wheels Are Coming Off w/ Matt Christman
2022-Jan-26
52 minutes
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PREVIEW - The Matrix Repetitions
2022-Jan-19
7 minutes
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PREVIEW - Žižek and Comedy w/ Jack Black - PART TWO
2022-Jan-11
10 minutes
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Žižek and Comedy w/ Jack Black - PART ONE
2022-Jan-07
56 minutes
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Christian Atheism
2021-Dec-21
62 minutes
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Jaws
2021-Dec-15
58 minutes
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PREVIEW - Neofeudalism or Bust?
2021-Dec-09
4 minutes
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Violence
2021-Nov-10
52 minutes
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PREVIEW - They Live
2021-Nov-02
4 minutes
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Alenka Zupančič & The Ideology of the End
2021-Oct-20
54 minutes
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PREVIEW - The Purloined Letter
2021-Oct-12
2 minutes
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The Next Episode
2021-Oct-04
59 minutes
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PREVIEW - Death Drive
2021-May-13
2 minutes
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Das Neighbor
2021-Apr-27
64 minutes
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UNLOCKED - War Communism w/ Slavoj Žižek - PART TWO
2021-Apr-19
47 minutes
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War Communism w/ Slavoj Žižek - PART ONE
2021-Apr-09
78 minutes
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PREVIEW - The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto
2021-Mar-31
3 minutes
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For Examples
2021-Mar-16
52 minutes
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PREVIEW - Do You Believe In Interpassivity?
2021-Mar-09
3 minutes
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PREVIEW - Ideology and Antisemitism
2021-Feb-24
2 minutes
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Capitalism and Desire w/ Todd McGowan
2021-Feb-16
62 minutes
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PREVIEW - Coup d'wha?
2021-Jan-12
3 minutes
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Politics of the Problem w/ Agon Hamza
2021-Jan-05
68 minutes
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UNLOCKED: Hegel in a Wired Brain - PART TWO
2020-Dec-24
58 minutes
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PREVIEW - Mad World: The Failed Catastrophe
2020-Dec-23
3 minutes
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PREVIEW - Philosophy or Psychoanalysis? Yes, Please!
2020-Dec-08
3 minutes
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PREVIEW - The Superego and the Act
2020-Nov-03
4 minutes
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Event
2020-Oct-22
57 minutes
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PREVIEW - Western Buddhism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism - PART TWO
2020-Oct-08
4 minutes
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Western Buddhism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism - PART ONE
2020-Oct-06
55 minutes
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UNLOCKED: On The Toilet
2020-Sep-29
52 minutes
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PREVIEW - Hegel in a Wired Brain - PART TWO
2020-Sep-22
4 minutes
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Hegel In A Wired Brain - PART ONE
2020-Sep-15
53 minutes
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Avoid Your Symptom
2020-Aug-27
60 minutes
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PREVIEW - On The Toilet
2020-Aug-22
10 minutes
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The Subject Supposed to Object? w/ Russell Sbriglia
2020-Aug-22
61 minutes
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UNLOCKED: Cinema: The Third Pill
2020-Aug-13
59 minutes
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PREVIEW - Cinema: The Third Pill
2020-Aug-11
10 minutes
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PREVIEW - The Bean Can of Ideology
2020-Aug-05
2 minutes
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Ben Burgis, Infinite Guest
2020-Aug-03
63 minutes
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PREVIEW - Eurocentrism and it’s Discontents
2020-Jul-30
8 minutes
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PREVIEW - Lenin and McCommie
2020-Jul-16
3 minutes
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Marx in the Cave: Frank Ruda on Marx, Plato, & So On
2020-Jul-08
93 minutes
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PREVIEW - POWER, APPEARANCE, & OBSCENITY
2020-Jun-25
3 minutes
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Sbriglia Speaks
2020-Jun-17
95 minutes
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Slavoj Žižek on Hegel, Marx, and Utopia
2020-May-12
38 minutes
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PREVIEW - Žižek as Sacrificial Intellectual, PANDEMIC!, & Communism
2020-May-03
2 minutes
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PREVIEW - Off the Cuff on Postmodern Conservatism
2020-Apr-14
3 minutes
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The Sublime Object of Ideology
2020-Apr-09
42 minutes
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Žižek, Hegel, & Lacan w/ Todd McGowan
2020-Mar-31
46 minutes
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