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Podcast Profile: Žižek And So On

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160 episodes
2020 to 2026
Median: 46 minutes
Collection: Philosophy

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This podcast explores the work of Slavoj Žižek and the broader Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis, treating Žižek’s writing as a site where German Idealism (especially Hegel), Lacanian psychoanalysis, and Marxian political economy intersect with contemporary culture. Across discussions and guest interviews, it frequently circles around how ideology works not just through beliefs but through fantasy, enjoyment, disavowal, and the internal contradictions of law, authority, and the subject.

A recurring emphasis is on diagnosing “late” or crisis-ridden capitalism through psychoanalytic categories: alienation, the death drive, surplus enjoyment, and the commodity’s promise of excess. The show connects these concepts to concrete social and political problems—platform capitalism, technological change, and shifting forms of social division—while also revisiting debates about whether current conditions are best described as capitalism, techno-feudalism, or something else.

Alongside political economy, this podcast uses popular culture as a serious theoretical object. Film, television, comedy, and music appear as testing grounds for psychoanalytic concepts such as the gaze, the master signifier, sexuation, and the impossibility of the sexual relationship. Discussions of laughter and comedy consider changes in media form (like the laugh track), contemporary “cringe,” and the politics of offense, linking aesthetics to ideology and social control.

The Ljubljana School’s key figures and conceptual toolkit are central: Lacan’s seminars and discourses, Žižek’s approach to retroactivity and historical causality, and Mladen Dolar and Alenka Zupančič’s work on topics like rumors, disavowal, and crisis. There is also sustained interest in Žižek’s engagement with scientific and theological questions—quantum physics, neurotheology, and “death of God” or Christian atheism—used to rethink belief, knowledge, and reality under conditions of information overload and institutional decline.

Overall, listeners can expect high-level theory anchored by contemporary examples, with episodes that move between close reading of texts and wide-ranging cultural and political analysis.

Episodes:

Quantum History w/ Slavoj Žižek 2026-Jan-19 52 minutes

Žižek's Squashed Birds 2025-Nov-24 26 minutes

PREVIEW - Why Television PART 2 w/ Ryan Engley 2025-Nov-03 13 minutes

Television Theory w/ Ryan Engley 2025-Oct-21 51 minutes

Žižek's Concrete Eurocentrism w/ Matthew Flisfeder 2025-Sep-23 70 minutes

Critique of Pure Desire w/ Russell Sbriglia 2025-Aug-26 60 minutes

The Cambridge Introduction to Lacan Part 2 w/ Todd McGowan 2025-Aug-04 56 minutes

The Cambridge Introduction to Lacan w/ Todd McGowan 2025-Jul-21 60 minutes

PREVIEW - Accelerationism 2 w/ Michael Downs 2025-Jul-07 19 minutes

Accelerationism w/ Michael Downs 2025-Jun-24 60 minutes

Against Progress w/ Jack Black 2025-May-26 58 minutes

SHORT SESSIONS PREVIEW - SOME TICKLISH SUBJECTS 2025-May-12 10 minutes

Post-Comedy w/ Alfie Bown 2025-Apr-28 81 minutes

SHORT SESSIONS PREVIEW - SHIT OF HISTORY: NO FICKLE MATTER 2025-Apr-12 16 minutes

Psychocinema w/ Helen Rollins 2025-Mar-25 69 minutes

PREVIEW - Capitalism & the Commodity (PURE EXCESS) 2025-Mar-04 12 minutes

Pure Excess w/ Todd McGowan 2025-Feb-16 80 minutes

PREVIEW - The Parallax of Rumours 2025-Jan-13 10 minutes

Rumors on the Couch 2024-Dec-09 44 minutes

PREVIEW - Hard to Kill w/ Peter Rollins 2024-Nov-25 11 minutes

Death of God w/ Peter Rollins 2024-Nov-18 57 minutes

PREVIEW - SHORT SESSIONS: HAVING YOUR CAKE & EATING TABOO 2024-Nov-04 11 minutes

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Social Division 2024-Oct-28 60 minutes

PREVIEW - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Social Division 2024-Oct-21 12 minutes

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Nature & Ecology 2024-Oct-13 57 minutes

PREVIEW - Whistleblowers at the End of the World 2024-Oct-07 11 minutes

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Biogenetics 2024-Sep-30 59 minutes

PREVIEW - SHORT SESSIONS: NEUROTHEOLOGY 2024-Sep-22 11 minutes

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Intellectual Property 2024-Sep-15 46 minutes

PREVIEW: Adrian Johnston & The Inhuman Selfishness of Capital 2024-Sep-08 10 minutes

Infinite Greed w/ Adrian Johnston 2024-Sep-01 55 minutes

Žižek's Scatology 2024-Aug-19 58 minutes

Why We Shouldn't Try to Find Ourselves w/ Todd McGowan 2024-Aug-12 43 minutes

Embracing Alienation w/ Todd McGowan 2024-Aug-05 52 minutes

PREVIEW - Let's Get Alienated! 2024-Jul-29 8 minutes

A Reader's Guide: The Sublime Object of Ideology w/ Rafael Winkler 2024-Jul-22 55 minutes

PREVIEW - Fantasy 2024-Jul-15 9 minutes

SHORT SESSIONS: Carol & the End of the World 2024-Jul-08 33 minutes

PREVIEW - It's Complex, Stupid! w/ Alenka Zupančič 2024-Jul-01 9 minutes

Disavowal w/ Alenka Zupančič PART ONE 2024-Jun-24 59 minutes

PREVIEW - Nightmare on Alenka Street 2024-Jun-17 7 minutes

In New York w/ Slavoj Žižek 2024-May-01 55 minutes

Mladen Dolar Part 2 - The Ljubljana School 2024-Apr-18 56 minutes

Enjoy Your Obscenity w/ Russ Sbriglia 2024-Apr-05 56 minutes

PREVIEW - The Ljubljana School w/ Mladen Dolar - PART TWO 2024-Mar-27 6 minutes

Mladen Dolar - A Voice and Nothing More 2024-Mar-20 59 minutes

PREVIEW - Mladen Dolar - A Voice and Nothing More 2024-Mar-13 2 minutes

UNLOCKED - Immediacy w/ Anna Kornbluh 2024-Mar-06 86 minutes

PREVIEW: Immediacy w/ Anna Kornbluh 2024-Feb-29 8 minutes

Elon Musk Ruined My Sex Life 2024-Feb-21 60 minutes

PREVIEW - Inherent Transgression 2024-Feb-09 4 minutes

UNLOCKED - The Struggle for Freedom 2024-Jan-24 49 minutes

PREVIEW - Rumours & Gossip 2024-Jan-18 6 minutes

Zizek's Jokes 2024-Jan-10 52 minutes

PREVIEW - Podžilla 2023-Dec-13 2 minutes

Conspiracy Theories w/ Alenka Zupančič 2023-Nov-29 50 minutes

What IS Sex w/ Alenka Zupančič 2023-Nov-22 47 minutes

True Lies 2023-Nov-08 38 minutes

UNLOCKED - Derrida & Zizek 2023-Oct-25 50 minutes

PREVIEW - The Struggle for Freedom 2023-Oct-18 6 minutes

Zizek Interview PART 2: Freedom a Disease Without a Cure 2023-Oct-11 40 minutes

Zizek Interview PART 1: Freedom a Disease Without a Cure 2023-Oct-04 56 minutes

UNLOCKED - Desire, Drive, & Football w/ Jack Black 2023-Sep-29 63 minutes

PREVIEW - Desire, Drive, & Football w/ Jack Black 2023-Sep-21 3 minutes

The Mask 2023-Sep-15 50 minutes

PREVIEW - Derrida & Žižek 2023-Sep-07 6 minutes

Looking Awry 2023-Aug-22 51 minutes

PREVIEW - Moby Dick & Lacan 2023-Aug-16 5 minutes

Lacan and Literature w/ Russell Sbriglia 2023-Aug-09 49 minutes

PREVIEW Barbenheimer 2023-Aug-02 2 minutes

PREVIEW - Žižek & Quantum Physics w/ Adrian Johnston 2023-Jul-19 6 minutes

Žižek's Ontology w/ Adrian Johnston 2023-Jul-12 55 minutes

Seriality Continued w/ Ryan Engley 2023-Jun-28 78 minutes

PREVIEW - Seriality pt. 2 with Ryan Engley 2023-Jun-21 4 minutes

Why Seriality w/ Ryan Engley 2023-Jun-14 59 minutes

PREVIEW - Freud and Frankenstein 2023-Jun-07 5 minutes

Illusions Without Owners w/ Robert Pfaller 2023-Jun-01 49 minutes

Hegel and the Wound of Spirit 2023-May-17 53 minutes

PREVIEW - Looking Awry 2023-May-10 5 minutes

Zizek & Digital Culture w/ Clint Burnham 2023-May-03 71 minutes

PREVIEW - Chat GPŽ 2023-Apr-25 6 minutes

Zizek & Interpassivity w/ Robert Pfaller 2023-Apr-20 61 minutes

PREVIEW - Interpassivity w/ Robert Pfaller 2023-Apr-12 5 minutes

How is Lacan Hegelian? 2023-Apr-05 51 minutes

PREVIEW - The Wound of Spirit 2023-Mar-29 5 minutes

Žižek Responds! 2023-Mar-22 54 minutes

PREVIEW - Algorithmic Desire w/ Matt Flisfeder - Part 2 2023-Mar-15 4 minutes

Algorithmic Desire w/ Matt Flisfeder - Part I 2023-Mar-08 54 minutes

PREVIEW - Pervert's Guide to Sophie Fiennes: PART TWO 2023-Mar-01 8 minutes

The Pervert's Guide to Sophie Fiennes: Part One 2023-Jan-30 54 minutes

For We Know Not What We Pod 2022-Nov-30 47 minutes

Lacanian Ethics 2022-Sep-23 45 minutes

PREVIEW - Surplus Enjoyment 2022-Sep-09 3 minutes

The Capitalist Gaze 2022-Aug-25 48 minutes

PREVIEW - Content on Form 2022-Aug-08 2 minutes

Ayn Rand 2022-Jul-28 60 minutes

PREVIEW - Did Somebody Say Melancholy? 2022-Jul-14 8 minutes

PREVIEW - A Pascalean Wager 2022-Jun-14 4 minutes

The Möbius Strip 2022-Jun-02 54 minutes

PREVIEW - Last Exit to Communism 2022-May-22 5 minutes

PREVIEW - Politics of Enjoyment 2022-Apr-30 4 minutes

The Gaze 2022-Apr-07 61 minutes

PREVIEW - Hitchcock 2022-Apr-01 4 minutes

Talking Shit 2022-Mar-23 45 minutes

PREVIEW - Did Marx Invent the Symptom? 2022-Mar-14 3 minutes

Return to Freud 2022-Mar-02 49 minutes

PREVIEW - How To Read Lacan 2022-Feb-24 7 minutes

UNLOCKED - They Live 2022-Feb-17 46 minutes

PREVIEW - Hegel & the Beautiful Soul 2022-Feb-10 3 minutes

UNLOCKED: Red Pilled on The Matrix 2022-Feb-02 61 minutes

The Wheels Are Coming Off w/ Matt Christman 2022-Jan-26 52 minutes

PREVIEW - The Matrix Repetitions 2022-Jan-19 7 minutes

PREVIEW - Žižek and Comedy w/ Jack Black - PART TWO 2022-Jan-11 10 minutes

Žižek and Comedy w/ Jack Black - PART ONE 2022-Jan-07 56 minutes

Christian Atheism 2021-Dec-21 62 minutes

Jaws 2021-Dec-15 58 minutes

PREVIEW - Neofeudalism or Bust? 2021-Dec-09 4 minutes

Violence 2021-Nov-10 52 minutes

PREVIEW - They Live 2021-Nov-02 4 minutes

Alenka Zupančič & The Ideology of the End 2021-Oct-20 54 minutes

PREVIEW - The Purloined Letter 2021-Oct-12 2 minutes

The Next Episode 2021-Oct-04 59 minutes

PREVIEW - Death Drive 2021-May-13 2 minutes

Das Neighbor 2021-Apr-27 64 minutes

UNLOCKED - War Communism w/ Slavoj Žižek - PART TWO 2021-Apr-19 47 minutes

War Communism w/ Slavoj Žižek - PART ONE 2021-Apr-09 78 minutes

PREVIEW - The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto 2021-Mar-31 3 minutes

For Examples 2021-Mar-16 52 minutes

PREVIEW - Do You Believe In Interpassivity? 2021-Mar-09 3 minutes

PREVIEW - Ideology and Antisemitism 2021-Feb-24 2 minutes

Capitalism and Desire w/ Todd McGowan 2021-Feb-16 62 minutes

PREVIEW - Coup d'wha? 2021-Jan-12 3 minutes

Politics of the Problem w/ Agon Hamza 2021-Jan-05 68 minutes

UNLOCKED: Hegel in a Wired Brain - PART TWO 2020-Dec-24 58 minutes

PREVIEW - Mad World: The Failed Catastrophe 2020-Dec-23 3 minutes

PREVIEW - Philosophy or Psychoanalysis? Yes, Please! 2020-Dec-08 3 minutes

PREVIEW - The Superego and the Act 2020-Nov-03 4 minutes

Event 2020-Oct-22 57 minutes

PREVIEW - Western Buddhism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism - PART TWO 2020-Oct-08 4 minutes

Western Buddhism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism - PART ONE 2020-Oct-06 55 minutes

UNLOCKED: On The Toilet 2020-Sep-29 52 minutes

PREVIEW - Hegel in a Wired Brain - PART TWO 2020-Sep-22 4 minutes

Hegel In A Wired Brain - PART ONE 2020-Sep-15 53 minutes

Avoid Your Symptom 2020-Aug-27 60 minutes

PREVIEW - On The Toilet 2020-Aug-22 10 minutes

The Subject Supposed to Object? w/ Russell Sbriglia 2020-Aug-22 61 minutes

UNLOCKED: Cinema: The Third Pill 2020-Aug-13 59 minutes

PREVIEW - Cinema: The Third Pill 2020-Aug-11 10 minutes

PREVIEW - The Bean Can of Ideology 2020-Aug-05 2 minutes

Ben Burgis, Infinite Guest 2020-Aug-03 63 minutes

PREVIEW - Eurocentrism and it’s Discontents 2020-Jul-30 8 minutes

PREVIEW - Lenin and McCommie 2020-Jul-16 3 minutes

Marx in the Cave: Frank Ruda on Marx, Plato, & So On 2020-Jul-08 93 minutes

PREVIEW - POWER, APPEARANCE, & OBSCENITY 2020-Jun-25 3 minutes

Sbriglia Speaks 2020-Jun-17 95 minutes

Slavoj Žižek on Hegel, Marx, and Utopia 2020-May-12 38 minutes

PREVIEW - Žižek as Sacrificial Intellectual, PANDEMIC!, & Communism 2020-May-03 2 minutes

PREVIEW - Off the Cuff on Postmodern Conservatism 2020-Apr-14 3 minutes

The Sublime Object of Ideology 2020-Apr-09 42 minutes

Žižek, Hegel, & Lacan w/ Todd McGowan 2020-Mar-31 46 minutes