Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Slavoj Žižek • Psychoanalysis • Philosophy • Lacanian theory • Cultural critique • Political theory • Literature • Film analysis • Contemporary issues • Interviews with theorists • Substack essays
This podcast, titled "Žižek And So On," explores the work of philosopher Slavoj Žižek and the Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis. The show engages deeply with philosophical themes, focusing on Žižek's contributions to psychoanalysis, dialectical thought, and cultural critique. Each episode delves into complex theoretical discussions often anchored in Žižek’s thinking and extends to the broader philosophical landscape, including figures such as Lacan, Hegel, and other thinkers associated with psychoanalysis and critical theory.
Recurring themes in this podcast include the exploration of ideology, desire, and alienation, with discussions often touching on how these concepts manifest in contemporary society. The podcast frequently features guest conversations with theorists and academics who contribute to or critique Žižek's work, offering diverse perspectives on psychoanalytical and philosophical subjects.
Specific topics such as Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory, Žižek’s view on capitalism and ecology, and the critique of cultural and social phenomena are common across episodes. The podcast also addresses the intersections of philosophy with film, literature, and psychoanalysis, highlighting the influence of these narratives in understanding societal structures and individual psyche. Additionally, there are discussions around political themes, including modern capitalism, societal division, and technology's role in shaping public consciousness.
Overall, "Žižek And So On" presents a series of intellectually engaging episodes designed for listeners interested in contemporary philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the critical examination of cultural dynamics informed by Žižek’s work and those within his philosophical circle.
Episodes:
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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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