Twitter: @zizekand
Site: zizekandsoon.com
121 episodes
2020 to present
Average episode: 33 minutes
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Podcaster's summary: The podcast exploring the work of Slavoj Žižek
| Episodes |
| 2024-Apr-24 • 3 minutes PREVIEW - In New York w/ Slavoj Žižek To access the full episode and support the podcast, join our Patreon! | 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. | | Enjoy! |
| 2024-Apr-18 • 57 minutes Mladen Dolar Part 2 - The Ljubljana School 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. | Thank you to all our Patrons! | Up next we have our interview with Slavoj Žižek from our time with him in New York. | | Listen to the first interview we had with Mladen here! |
| 2024-Apr-05 • 56 minutes Enjoy Your Obscenity w/ Russ Sbriglia 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. To support the podcast and gain access to many more episodes, join our Patre... |
| 2024-Mar-27 • 6 minutes PREVIEW Mladen Dolar Part 2 - The Ljubljana School 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! |
| 2024-Mar-20 • 59 minutes Mladen Dolar - A Voice and Nothing More 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 an... |
| 2024-Mar-13 • 3 minutes PREVIEW - Mladen Dolar - A Voice and Nothing More 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 univers... |
| 2024-Mar-06 • 86 minutes UNLOCKED - Immediacy w/ Anna Kornbluh 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! | |
| 2024-Feb-29 • 9 minutes PREVIEW: Immediacy w/ Anna Kornbluh 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 DOL... |
| 2024-Feb-21 • 60 minutes Elon Musk Ruined My Sex Life 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: | ELON MUSK RUINED MY SEX LIFE | NOTES TOWARDS A ... |
| 2024-Feb-09 • 4 minutes PREVIEW - Inherent Transgression FULL EPISODE HERE | 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! |
| 2024-Jan-24 • 50 minutes UNLOCKED - The Struggle for Freedom 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! | | |
| 2024-Jan-18 • 6 minutes PREVIEW - Rumours & Gossip FULL EPISODE HERE | 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 Othe... |
| 2024-Jan-10 • 52 minutes Zizek's Jokes 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 t... |
| 2023-Dec-13 • 3 minutes PREVIEW - Podžilla 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! |
| 2023-Nov-29 • 50 minutes Conspiracy Theories w/ Alenka Zupančič 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. To support the pod, and to find access to many more episodes, join our PATREON ! Enjoy! |
| 2023-Nov-22 • 47 minutes What IS Sex w/ Alenka Zupančič 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. To listen to the full episode here over to our Patreon. Special thank you to our... |
| 2023-Nov-08 • 39 minutes True Lies 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 |
| 2023-Oct-25 • 50 minutes UNLOCKED - Derrida & Zizek 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! |
| 2023-Oct-18 • 6 minutes PREVIEW - The Struggle for Freedom LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! | This week the fellas discuss Zizek's new book on Freedom. They touch on the freedom of philosophy, the pitfalls of anarchism, Wittgenstein, Sartre, and Canadian Thanksgiving. Enjoy! | This is a preview of this week's episode. For full access, please think about joining our Patreon! | |
| 2023-Oct-11 • 40 minutes Zizek Interview PART 2: Freedom a Disease Without a Cure Žižek & So On Podcast | LISTEN: https://www.tinyurl.com/zizekpodcasts | | This is PART TWO of our interview with Slavoj Žižek for the official book launch with Bloomsbury Publishing of Žižek’s latest book Freedom: A Disease Without A Cure. We’re talking the the wired brain, the Opium wars, freedom and politics, quantum physics and determinism, fate and the role of Subject, concrete and abstract freedoms, the ontology of sex, and why we need an authentic master today. | | | Thanks to Bloomsbury and al... |
| 2023-Oct-04 • 57 minutes Zizek Interview PART 1: Freedom a Disease Without a Cure Žižek & So On Podcast | Today we’re speaking with Slavoj Žižek for PART ONE of the official book launch with Bloomsbury Publishing of Žižek’s latest book Freedom: A Disease Without A Cure. | For PART TWO join our Patreon, where you can hear it now! | On this episode, we’re talking freedom, knowledge as a fetish, global warming, why the struggle for freedom is always the struggle for what freedom means, Jean Paul Sartre, Wittgenstein, Foucault, Kant and Hegel, contingency and necessity, and the strange... |
| 2023-Sep-29 • 64 minutes UNLOCKED - Desire, Drive, & Football w/ Jack Black Unlocked from our patreon: this week, we're joined again by Jack Black, Associate Professor of Culture, Media, and Sport at Sheffield Hallam University. We're talking football, melancholy, and English football anthems. How does football, or 'soccer', serve as an emblematic example of the Freudian/Žižekian concept of drive? Jack explains! | For access to many more interviews and other episodes, check out our PATREON! Thank you to all of our Patrons, we have some VERY SPECIAL guests coming up, so stick around... |
| 2023-Sep-21 • 3 minutes PREVIEW - Desire, Drive, & Football w/ Jack Black LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! | This week, we're joined again by Jack Black, Associate Professor of Culture, Media, and Sport at Sheffield Hallam University. We're talking football, melancholy, and English football anthems. How does football, or 'soccer', serve as an emblematic example of the Freudian/Žižekian concept of drive? Jack explains! | For access to the full episode, and access to many more interviews, check out our PATREON! Thank you to all of our Patrons, we have some VERY SPECIAL guests comi... |
| 2023-Sep-15 • 50 minutes The Mask Alright, it's our 100th episode and we're talking masks. From Jim Carrey's The Mask to the Kardashians it's an important concept that crops up throughout Žižek's work where he emphasises that the truth is in your mask, the truth is in what you are doing. The intimate stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, are usually a fake... | | We're running the official book launch with Bloomsbury Publishing for Žižek's new book Freedom: A Disease Without A Cure in early October with an interview, events...and som... |
| 2023-Sep-07 • 7 minutes PREVIEW - Derrida & Žižek LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! | Alright, we’re back with another 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 some VERY SPECIAL guests coming up, so stick around. | Enjoy! |
| 2023-Aug-22 • 51 minutes Looking Awry This week the fellas read through Žižek’s Looking Awry. We’re talking anamorphosis, Shakespeare, Zeno’s Paradoxes and the end of the world. Will is in the woods, Peter is at a gathering and Michael’s cat is out of the bag. Thank you to all our fellow Thespians, Ž&… For access to many more episodes, and to support us, check out our Patreon! PODCAST YOUTUBE INSTAGRAM |
| 2023-Aug-16 • 5 minutes PREVIEW - Moby Dick & Lacan FULL EPISODE HERE | This is a PREVIEW for PART TWO of our conversation with professor RUSSELL SBRIGLIA and we're talking Lacanian theory and Moby Dick, the Kantian and Hegelian Sublime, Master Signifier and the Thing, the Whiteness of the Whale, and Orca attacks. | | We have some big interviews coming up and some | SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS. | Thank you to all of our PATREONS and everyone who listens and supports us. | | Enjoy! | | | |
| 2023-Aug-09 • 50 minutes Lacan and Literature w/ Russell Sbriglia Part 1 of our interview with Russell Sbriglia on his book Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask Žižek. | We're talking Lacanian psychoanalysis as a way to interpret literature, Žižek's bad taste in novels, toilets, the object from inner space, why Beckett is better than Joyce, and what Tony Soprano's major was. | Join our Patreon for extra episodes, and the back catalogue of dozens of extra episodes. | Buy Russell's book here! | |
| 2023-Aug-02 • 3 minutes PREVIEW Barbenheimer LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! | | This week, since everyone else is, we're talking Barbie and Oppenheimer. We talk the role of fantasy in ideology, and the culture war as a distraction from class antagonism. Along the way we chat about Indiana Jones, Paul Verhoeven, and Michael's favourite Australian actors. | | Thanks for listening! | | zizekandsoon | | |
| 2023-Jul-19 • 7 minutes PREVIEW - Žižek & Quantum Physics w/ Adrian Johnston LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! | This is a PREVIEW of PART TWO of our conversation with Adrian Johnston, you can hear the whole thing and support us on our Patreon getting access to all of our Patreon episodes, the Discord and our courses. | The gang is back for the final part of our conversation with Adrian Johnston. It's a big one! | We're talking Žižek's relationship with Kant, Schelling and Hegel, the Roberts (Pippin and Brandom), Quantum Physics, the genesis of subjectivity, materialism, Catherine M... |
| 2023-Jul-12 • 55 minutes Žižek's Ontology w/ Adrian Johnston It’s summer and the fellas are back! Today we're talking with Adrian Johnston, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico. | In this first part of a series we’re talking the philosophical foundations of Žižek’s work, the equivalence between negativity and Death Drive at the core of Žižek’s theory of subjectivity, Transcendental Materialism, and Johnston’s efforts toward changing the reception of Žižek’s work. | Adrian has published and co-edited a number of books... |
| 2023-Jun-28 • 78 minutes Seriality Continued w/ Ryan Engley In this wide-ranging second part of our interview, Ryan talks Seinfeld, Peep Show, Sartre and seriality, Batman, Barbie, and Tom Cruise. This is where the conversation really gets going, folks. Don’t miss it! | Join our Patreon for 2 extra episodes per month, and the back catalogue of dozens of extra episodes. | Subscribers can also sign up for our brand new reading group on Lacan's Seminar XI - The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis. $5/month! You will also get access to our Discord server, a t... |
| 2023-Jun-21 • 4 minutes PREVIEW - Seriality pt. 2 with Ryan Engley LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! | In this wide-ranging second part of our interview, Ryan talks Seinfeld, Peep Show, Sartre and seriality, Batman, Barbie, and Tom Cruise. This is where the conversation really gets going, folks. Don’t miss it! | Join our Patreon for 2 extra episodes per month, and the back catalogue of dozens of extra episodes. Subscribers can also sign up for our brand new reading group on Lacan's Seminar XI - The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis. $5/month! You will also get acc... |
| 2023-Jun-14 • 60 minutes Why Seriality w/ Ryan Engley This week, the fellas speak to Media Professor Ryan Engley of 'Why Theory'. We talk Freud, Lacan, the correct spelling of Todd McGowan, and how Seinfeld reveals the existential concept of seriality. | | Enjoy! | | To support the podcast and find access to many more episodes, join our PATREON | | YOUTUBE | OUR WEBSITE |
| 2023-Jun-07 • 5 minutes PREVIEW - Freud and Frankenstein LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! | Join our Patreon for 2 extra episodes per month, and the back catalogue of dozens of extra episodes. Subscribers can also sign up for our brand new reading group on Lacan's Seminar XI - The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis. $5/month! You will also get access to our Discord server, a thriving community of Zizekians. | This week we're talking Mary Shelly, myth & monstrosity, family, Freud and Frankenstein. For this episode, we've read "History and family ... |
| 2023-Jun-01 • 50 minutes Illusions Without Owners w/ Robert Pfaller UNLOCKED - Ž & So On is back with part two of our conversation with Austrian philosopher, and lovely guy Robert Pfaller. We’re talking les non-duped errant, interpassivity and soccer, delegated enjoyment, cuckholds and drinking games. Will is breathing mould in Paris, Peter’s drinking coffee without cream and Michael gets bitten by a spider. Big thanks to our Patreons for all your support. We have some cool interviews and episodes lined up, stick around! | | If you missed PART ONE listen here: | | Ž&... |
| 2023-May-17 • 54 minutes Hegel and the Wound of Spirit UNLOCKED: Today we're talking Žižek's chapter in his book Absolute Recoil called "The Violence of the Beginning". The reading begins with the notion that there is "nothing prior to the loss" of the sense of lost origins. Žižek then sets into play the idea of the self-alienation of spirit in the realm of translation to show the original brokenness of God Himself. We also question who the real James Bond is, hystericize Eliot's Prufrock, and discuss Emmanuel Carrere's novel The Moustache, all the while won... |
| 2023-May-10 • 6 minutes PREVIEW - Looking Awry LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! | | This week the fellas read through Žižek’s Looking Awry. We’re talking anamorphosis, Shakespeare, Zeno’s Paradoxes and the end of the world. Will is in the woods, Peter is at a gathering and Michael’s cat is out of the bag. | | Thank you to all our fellow Thespians, | Ž&… | | PODCAST | YOUTUBE | INSTAGRAM | |
| 2023-May-03 • 72 minutes Zizek & Digital Culture w/ Clint Burnham This week, the fellas speak to Clint Burnham, professor at Simon Frasier University, and author of "Does the Internet Have an Unconscious? Slavoj Žižek and Digital Culture". We get into Žižek & the internet, perversion and technology, and viral psychoanalysis. Clint Burnham is the author of The Jamesonian Unconscious: The Aesthetics of Marxist Theory (1995), Fredric Jameson and The Wolf of Wall Street (2016), Does the Internet Have an Unconscious?: Slavoj Žižek and Digital Culture (2018), Lacan and the Envi... |
| 2023-Apr-25 • 8 minutes PREVIEW - Chat GPŽ To hear the rest of our discussion head to our PATREON. In which the fellas dish on the recent developments in AI technology, the Žižek-Herzog (bad) "infinite conversation", coffee without cream, the interpassivity of artificially generated emails, learn what a billabong is from the resident Australian, that Will doesn't know how to use a mic, and get Peter's version Virtual Insanity by Jamiroquai. WEBSITE INSTAGRAM TWITTER YO... |
| 2023-Apr-20 • 61 minutes Zizek & Interpassivity w/ Robert Pfaller This week, the fellas chat with Austrian philosopher Robert Pfaller, Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Theory at the University of Art and Design in Linz, and a founding member of a Vienna based psychoanalysis research group. We’re talking Illusions without Owners, Interpassivity, delegated enjoyment, What Life is Worth Living For and of course the sexual practices of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Will is in Paris, Peter is enjoying live music interpassively and Michael is subject to a... |
| 2023-Apr-12 • 6 minutes PREVIEW - Interpassivity w/ Robert Pfaller Alright, this week we’re speaking with the Austrian philosopher Robert Pfaller, Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Theory at the University of Art and Design in Linz and a founding member of a Vienna based psychoanalysis research group. We’re talking Illusions without Owners, Interpassivity, delegated enjoyment, What Life is Worth Living For and of course the sexual practices of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Will is in Paris, Peter is enjoying live music interpassively and Michael is su... |
| 2023-Apr-05 • 52 minutes How is Lacan Hegelian? This week, &... talks Hegel's influence on Lacan. Working off Zizek's Most Sublime Hysteric, the fellas find themselves in Germany, a dance club in Argentina, and experience a perfect day with Lou Reed and Pavaratti | | To support the podcast, join us on our PATREON | zizekandsoon.com | Youtube Channel | @zizekandsoon |
| 2023-Mar-29 • 6 minutes PREVIEW - The Wound of Spirit This is a preview of a full episode available on our patreon. | Today we're talking Žižek's chapter in his book Absolute Recoil called "The Violence of the Beginning". | The reading begins with the notion that there is "nothing prior to the loss" of the sense of lost origins. Žižek then sets into play the idea of the self-alienation of spirit in the realm of translation to show the original brokenness of God Himself. We also question who the real James Bond is, hystericize Eliot's Prufro... |
| 2023-Mar-22 • 55 minutes Žižek Responds! Alright, the gang is back and this week we're talking the newly published book "Žižek Responds!" where we focus on Todd McGowan's entry in the collection: "Slavoj Žižek Is Not Violent Enough". 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? Can Will grow a moustache? Does Žižek play classical piano? Stick around to the end to hear the fellas talk about their recent meet... |
| 2023-Mar-15 • 4 minutes PREVIEW - Algorithmic Desire w/ Matt Flisfeder - Part 2 We continue our conversation with Dr. Flisfeder on his book "Algorithmic Desire, Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media". Matt also gives us the behind the scenes scoop on the 'Debate of the Century' with Jordan Peterson. | Enjoy! | | TO SUPPORT US AND LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE | https://matthewflisfeder.com/ | Buy the book here | zizekandsoon.com | Youtube Channel | |
| 2023-Mar-08 • 55 minutes Algorithmic Desire w/ Matt Flisfeder - Part I This is part one of our interview with Dr. Matthew Flisfeder, associate professor at the University of Winnipeg, and writer of books on Žižek and film theory, postmodernism and Blade Runner, and most recently, "Algorithmic Desire, Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media". | Dr. Flisfeder taught a four month course on Žižek's book "For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor" with us which you can access through our Patreon and Discord here: FTKNWTD COURSE | Big thanks to ... |
| 2023-Mar-01 • 9 minutes PREVIEW - Pervert's Guide to Sophie Fiennes: PART TWO This is a preview of part two of our conversation with acclaimed director Sophie Fiennes about her Pervert's Guide series. We discuss the Pervert's guide films, William Shatner, space and the abyss of freedom, as well as the recent Rockhill hit piece on Slavoj. Special thank you to Sophie Fiennes for giving us so much of her time and to everyone who has supported us over the last three years. Share the episode if you can as it really helps both the podcast and getting the final Pervert’s Guide out into... |
| 2023-Jan-30 • 55 minutes The Pervert's Guide to Sophie Fiennes: Part One Alright, we're back! Today we're talking with acclaimed director Sophie Fiennes about her Pervert's Guide series. We discuss film, ideology, AI, politics, Slavoj's close encounters and the early stages of the third instalment of her series: The Pervert's Guide to Utopia. Special thank you to Sophie Fiennes for giving us so much of her time and to everyone who has supported us over the last three years. Share the episode if you can and keep an eye out for part two coming soon! Check out the FTKNWTD cours... |
| 2022-Nov-30 • 50 minutes For We Know Not What We Pod Though we've been busy working through the ongoing reading group with Matthew Flisfeder on Žižek's For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor we managed to get together to do an episode on enjoyment and prohibition as it is developed in FTKNWTD. Peter talks schoolyard pornography, Michael lost his job and Jake is back, what more can I say? Thanks to Lorelai Gilmore. Žižek & So On Podcast Presents For They Know Not What They Do: A Reading Group with Matthew Flisfeder The audio recordi... |
| 2022-Sep-23 • 46 minutes Lacanian Ethics Today we're discussing Zizek's 2005 book "Interrogating the Real", and his afterword on Lacanian ethics. | What does not giving way relative to one's own desire mean? How does Lacan's maxim on desire contrast with Buddhism, and its conception of desire? | Join us on our Discord by subscribing to the Patreon! | We've got ongoing book and film-clubs, and our upcoming reading series with Matt Flisfeder on Žižek's "For They Know Not What They Do", beginning in October. | https://www.patreon.com/zize... |
| 2022-Sep-09 • 3 minutes PREVIEW - Surplus Enjoyment This is a clip from the full episode, available on our patreon. Today we're talking about Žižek's new book "Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed", as well as an essay by him on the same topic. We touch on political correctness, surplus value, and the obscene drive of football. Enjoy! Listen to the full episode here. Also, subscribe to join our message board on Discord, our book and film-clubs, and our upcoming reading series with Matt Flisfeder on Žižek's "For They Know Not What They Do", begin... |
| 2022-Aug-25 • 48 minutes The Capitalist Gaze This week we discuss friend of the podcast Todd McGowan's 2013 essay, The Capitalist Gaze. | As Todd explains it, "Although the structure of capitalism is not homologous with the structure of the visual field, thinking about capitalism in terms of the gaze follows from the apparent neutrality that both structures share". | Peter has lost a finger, Michael is sick and Will cannot remember The Usual Suspects. | Take a break, have a Kit-Kat and find the essay here: | https://muse.jhu.edu/art... |
| 2022-Aug-08 • 3 minutes PREVIEW - Content on Form On this week's patron ep, we talk the relation between form and content. Zizek suggests that, "the very gap between content and form is to be reflected back into the content itself, as an indication that the content is not all, that something was repressed/excluded from it". For Zizek, both form and content are incomplete; form itself becomes part of its content. For access to the full episode (and many more), join our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon |
| 2022-Jul-28 • 60 minutes Ayn Rand This week, the fellas talk through Žižek's 2002 essay, 'The Actuality of Ayn Rand'. For Žižek, Rand's over-orthodoxy to the capitalist ideal (unintentionally) undermines the ruling ideological edifice. Will has a haircut, Peter has a t-shirt, and Michael's roof is leaking. Subscribe to our Patreon for more content! https://www.patreon.com/zizekan... |
| 2022-Jul-14 • 8 minutes PREVIEW - Did Somebody Say Melancholy? The fellas are back, working through Zizek's writing on the Freudian concept of melancholy in his 2001 work, 'Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?'. The conversation orients around the melancholic as an expression of postmodern ideology, the function of objet petit a as a lost object, and where melancholy as a political orientation finds its limits. This patron ep is a bit short, but cut us some slack, Peter is baking in the sun on some farm. Enjoy! | Žižek & So On Podcast | New episodes every week — Join ... |
| 2022-Jun-14 • 5 minutes PREVIEW - A Pascalean Wager To hear the whole episode, subscribe to our patreon: patreon.com/zizekandsoon Just when we thought we were done with covid, it pulled us back in. Peter's got no mic. We're talking Pascal's Wager, freedom, Sartre's "No Exit", Hell (is other people), and scientific determinism. Thanks to all our patrons for your support! Today's reading is from Sublation Mag |
| 2022-Jun-02 • 55 minutes The Möbius Strip This week the fellas talk Žižek's use of the Möbius strip. Žižek writes that "the Möbius strip stands for the basic dynamics of the order of being, for what was traditionally called the dialectical 'coincidence of opposites'". While working through the concept, &SoOn talks art, Top Gun, and Midnight In Paris. For access to more episodes and our discord, join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zizekan... |
| 2022-May-22 • 6 minutes PREVIEW - Last Exit to Communism Yes, folks, Jake's in the house and Will is in the Hamptons (???). Michael thinks it's winter, and Peter's super(calafragalisticexpialadoshus). More importantly—we're talking Zizek & Communism, the contemporary political deadlock, and why we need a third (red) pill. Enjoy! We read from Zizek's recent article "Last Exit to Communism" from https://www.philosophy-world-democracy.org/articles-1/last-exit-to-communism He... to zizekandsoon.com or patreon.com/zizekandsoon for the Žižek & So On Podcast New episo... |
| 2022-Apr-30 • 4 minutes PREVIEW - Politics of Enjoyment Our new Patreon episode: | A long-overdue topic, for an overdue episode (sorry about that). We're talking jouissance, the contemporary political scene, and the coming winter in Australia. Enjoy! | The reading for this week is Jodi Dean's essay, "Why Žižek for Political Theory?". | Head to zizekandsoon.com or patreon.com/zizekandsoon to access the episode! | |
| 2022-Apr-07 • 62 minutes The Gaze This week, the fellas talk the Lacanian notion of 'the Gaze' as discussed in Todd McGowan's 'Looking for the Gaze: Lacanian Film Theory and Its Vicissitudes'. Join our Patreon for more episodes! https://www.patreon.com/zizeka... |
| 2022-Apr-01 • 5 minutes PREVIEW - Hitchcock All the way back in our first episode we said we needed to do an episode on Zizek and Hitchcock. And here it is! This week we read "The Hitchcockian Blot" essay in Looking Awry. Along with this text, we talk about Rear Window, Psycho, and The Birds &... Enjoy! | For the full episode (and many more), visit our patreon. |
| 2022-Mar-23 • 46 minutes Talking Shit This week, the fellas are talking shit: subjectivity, the secrets of the Egyptians, and the Anal Object. | | Join our Patreon for more episodes! | https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon | | Website: | https://www.zizekandsoon.com/ |
| 2022-Mar-14 • 3 minutes PREVIEW - Did Marx Invent the Symptom? Join our Patreon for the full episode! We dive into the first part of The Sublime Object of Ideology (again) and discuss Marx, Freud, the Symptom, and the Commodity Form. Enjoy! Instagram Youtube Website |
| 2022-Mar-02 • 50 minutes Return to Freud We're talking Freud's essay "Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through". How does remembering come to be replaced by repetition in analysis? Why did Tony Soprano fix Dr. Melfi's car? And how does Nietzsche's concept of eternal return compare with Freud's notions of repetition and working through? | Sign up to our Patreon for extra episodes, and to join our Discord: | https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon | Youtube | https://www.zizekandsoon.com/ |
| 2022-Feb-24 • 8 minutes PREVIEW - How To Read Lacan All work and no play makes Jake a dull boy and now he’s back to talk Žižek’s book "How to Read Lacan" and the empty gesture. | Join our Patreon for the full episode: | https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon | |
| 2022-Feb-17 • 47 minutes They Live Unlocked from our Patreon We're live with They Live—our episode on Žižek's famous interpretation of John Carpenter's wonderful 1988 film. We touch on Ž's points concerning "the glasses" of the critique of ideology versus the conventional notion of ideology—the rose colored glasses. We also think about the film as a Žižekian example, and push an interpretation of the film's alien beings as the "figure of" ideology. For more episodes and access to our Discord, join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zizekan... |
| 2022-Feb-10 • 3 minutes PREVIEW - The Beautiful Soul On this week's Patreon episode, the fellas talk the concept of the Beautiful Soul in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, it's political position, and place in Zizek's work. Sartre, Anne Frank, and Neil Young come up too For access to the full ep and our Discord community, join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zizekan... Mike won't shut up about our new website: https://www.zizekandsoon.com/ |
| 2022-Feb-02 • 61 minutes Red Pilled on The Matrix Unlocked from our patreon: | Welcome to the desert of the Real. We're talking the Matrix, and the much discussed new installment, The Matrix Resurrections. | For more episodes and access to our Discord, join our pateron. | We read this article for this episode. | as well as this. |
| 2022-Jan-26 • 53 minutes The Wheels Are Coming Off w/ Matt Christman This week, Matt Christman (of Chapo Trap House) joins us to talk hinge points, the experience of history, and the impasse of electoral politics. Thanks Matt! | Join our Patreon for more episodes and access to our Discord: | https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon | Micheal wants you to check out our new website: | https://www.zizekandsoon.com/ |
| 2022-Jan-19 • 7 minutes PREVIEW - The Matrix Repetitions Subscribe to our patreon for the full episode: https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon ... | Welcome to the desert of the Real. We're talking the Matrix, and the much discussed new installment, The Matrix Resurrections. &nbs... | We read this article for today's episode: https://www.lacan.com/zizek-matrix.htm | as well as this: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-muddle-not-a-movie-slavoj-i-ek-reviews-mat... |
| 2022-Jan-11 • 11 minutes PREVIEW - Žižek and Comedy w/ Jack Black pt. 2 Listen to the full episode on our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon | We're back with Jack Black. More on Lacanian theory and comedy, with examples ranging from the Black Eyed Peas to Philomena Cunk. We begin with discussing celebrity and false comedy, and later engage (again) with covid and conspiracy theory. We also get the dish on Jack's favourite premier league team, interpassivity and sports, and decide, once and for all, that the Matrix surpasses Blade Runner as the paradigmatic film for Ž... |
| 2022-Jan-07 • 57 minutes Žižek and Comedy w/ Jack Black pt. 1 This week, the fellas are joined by Jack Black, Senior Lecturer at Centre for Culture, Media and Society, Sheffield Hallam University. Oriented around Jack's new book, 'Race, Racism and Political Correctness in Comedy' (Routledge), we talk 'true' and 'false' comedy, the concrete universal, the Office, and racist jokes. Thanks Jack! Get the book: https://www.routledge.com/Race-Racism-and-Political-Correctness-in-Comedy-A-Psyc... Twitter: https://twitter.com/jackstblack |
| 2021-Dec-21 • 65 minutes Christian Atheism We're talking Jesus Christ, Žižek's Christian Atheism, and Christmas. How do Christ and God figure in Žižek's work? Is God Dead? Also, the Big (m)Other. From the pod to you, merry Christmas—especially to the atheists. Thanks to all our listeners. https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon Re... this week: "The Deposed God" from Disparities |
| 2021-Dec-15 • 57 minutes Jaws This week, reading through Rex Butler's 'Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory,' the fellas talk the Master Signifier and Jaws, and somehow devolve into a Lacanian interpretation of Austin Powers. | Join our Patreon for more eps! | https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon | The Book: | https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/slavoj-%C5%BEi%C5%BEek-live-theory-9780826469953/... | |
| 2021-Dec-09 • 4 minutes PREVIEW - Neofeudalism or Bust? For our patreon subscribers: https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon | After a harrowing month, we reassemble to reassess the assemblage of today's capitalism. But first, have you seen the new Beatles doc? | In a recent article, Zizek has used the term "neofeudalism" to describe new dynamics of capitalism. We go back to the source for this terminology—an article by Jodi Dean—and discuss whether the term is more useful in diagnosing features of political economy than (a critique of) capitalism. Then we move on ... |
| 2021-Nov-10 • 52 minutes Violence This week, the gang discusses Zizek’s 2008 work Violence: wherein a girl gets a dragon tattoo, Pete gets mystical, and it rains again in Australia. For access to our patron episodes and to join our Discord server: | https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon |
| 2021-Nov-02 • 4 minutes Preview - They Live We're live with They Live—our episode on Žižek's famous interpretation of John Carpenter's wonderful 1988 film. We touch on Ž's points concerning "the glasses" of the critique of ideology versus the conventional notion of ideology—the rose colored glasses. We also think about the film as a Žižekian example, and push an interpretation of the film's alien beings as the "figure of" ideology. | To hear the full episode, subscribe to our Patreon: | https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon |
| 2021-Oct-20 • 54 minutes 45 - The Ideology of the End For this week's episode the gang discuss Alenka Zupančič’s recent work on freedom-as-a-possibility, repetition, and The End. Jake gets a haircut, Will touches Marx’s chair, it rains in Australia and Pete has a lousy connection. | To subscribe to this and other patron episodes, and to join our powerful Discord server: click here |
| 2021-Oct-12 • 3 minutes PREVIEW - The Purloined Letter For the return to the patron episodes the fellas discuss Žižek’s writing on Lacan’s notion of “the letter always arriving at its destination”. For Žižek, the letter’s destination becomes a descriptive model triad of the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real, and how the three concepts interact. In this episode, & So On explore’s the subject’s interpellation and misrecognition, contemplates Moby Dick, and questions the actuality of the dental dam. | To subscribe to this and other patron episodes: | https... |
| 2021-Oct-04 • 59 minutes 43 - The Next Episode The fellas are back—and are accompanied by a new member. We dive into two recent articles from the Philosophical Salon. The first is by Fabio Vighi, who charges Žižek with capitulating too easily to new forms of social domination with his acceptance of lockdowns. Vighi argues that we now live “in a neo-feudal inferno where our Lords enslave us in order to protect us, and protect us in order to enslave us.” In his response, Žižek charges Vighi with missing the crucial lesson that the “brutal reality of the p... |
| 2021-May-13 • 3 minutes 42 Preview - Death Drive The lads compare notes on Freudian-Lacanian-Zizekian concept of the death drive. | For access to the full episode and many more: | https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lydBPm2KRaU&ab_channel=carrieunderwoodVEVO... |
| 2021-Apr-27 • 64 minutes 41 - Das Neighbor This week, we talk Žižek’s concept of the Neighbor. In contrast with Levinas’ ethics of the Other, Žižek understands the neighbour to be the site of a kind of inhuman monstrosity. We ask: who are we to speak, who are you to listen? | Žižek’s text: | https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo16265666.html... | For more episodes, join our Patreon: | https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon | | |
| 2021-Apr-19 • 47 minutes 40 - Slavoj Žižek Interview &... (Pt. 2) UNLOCKED patreon episode: Žižek on the politics of psychoanalysis—with reference to Gabriel Tupinambá's new book "The Desire of Psychoanalysis", the limits of Lacan, the crazy philosophy of the Ljubljana school, women and Hegel, and his upcoming works: ecology and Marx (and Hegel), and living and dying in a topsy-turvy world etc. Then some final remarks on television shows and Rammstein. | Join us on patreon for extra episodes and a happening discord server: https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon |
| 2021-Apr-09 • 78 minutes 39 - Slavoj Žižek Interview & ... (Pt. 1) Part 1 of our interview with Slavoj Žižek. Covid & philosophy; why we need "war communism" &... | Join us on patreon to hear more episodes, and the upcoming second part— | https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon |
| 2021-Mar-31 • 4 minutes 37 Preview - The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto Patreon Preview - Better late than never, we take on Zizek's 2019 book "The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto''. We discuss how the Manifesto falls short in diagnosing the antagonisms of capitalism in its current iteration, yet also retains its ability to open up a relevant critique of capitalism. The limitations of the text identified by Zizek are problematized by contemporary features of capitalism he insists are crucial for understanding our predicament today—namely, the problem of (the privatization ... |
| 2021-Mar-16 • 53 minutes 36 - For Examples The andSoOn crew lays the groundwork for understanding how and why Žižek uses examples. With reference to Robert Pfaller’s chapter in “Interpassivity” on Žižek, and relying on Matthew Flisfeder’s idea that materialism and idealism coincide in Žižek’s examples, the hosts discuss the exampling that supports Žižek's idiosyncratic style of intervention and analysis; and, how “the example” is ultimately what makes Žižek “enjoyable”. | This week kicks-off a series of future episodes that will unpack and treat spe... |
| 2021-Mar-09 • 3 minutes 35 Preview - Do You Believe In Interpassivity? We are back this week with a Patreon exclusive episode on the concept of Interpassivity. We locate the origin of the term somewhere in-between the thought of Žižek’s and Robert Pfaller. Referring to texts of each, we define interpassivity within the scope of Althussier’s influence in the 90s, as the immanent response/critique to the prevailing ideology of “interactivity”. We discuss a few infamous examples of interpassivity from Žižek’s texts like “canned laughter” and “TiVo”, and consider how interpa... |
| 2021-Feb-24 • 3 minutes 34 Preview - Ideology and Antisemitism Essential to Zizek's thinking on ideology is his denunciation of antisemitism. In this episode, &SoOn discusses how Lacan's 'pathologically jealous husband' is a key to understanding the true evil of antisemitism. | For access to the full episode and our discord, join our Patreon: | https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon |
| 2021-Feb-16 • 63 minutes 35 - Todd McGowan on Capitalism and Desire In our conversation with Todd McGowan we discuss his 2016 book Capitalism and Desire. Todd brings us through what he argues is the essential role of desire in capitalism—not as something which is repressed by the system, as many have argued, but rather how capitalism perpetuates itself through the very structure of desire. Without coming to terms with this, he says, any attempt to formulate a new system, or find the exit from capitalism, plays into the terms capitalism lays out in the form of “the promise.”... |
| 2021-Jan-26 • 71 minutes 33 - The Parallax View Today we discuss the parallax, one of the fundamental concepts of Žižek’s project. Parallax is “the apparent displacement of an object” wherein the observed difference is not simply relativized, but rather inscribed as a gap into the relation between subject and object. We find examples of the parallax view in the Coen brothers’ film Burn After Reading, and Coppola’s The Conversation; and consider Kant’s designation of phenomena and noumena as setting the framework through which to consider the parallax shi... |
| 2021-Jan-12 • 3 minutes 32 Preview - Coup d'wha? 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 |
| 2021-Jan-05 • 68 minutes 31 - Politics of the Problem w/ Agon Hamza 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 R... |
| 2020-Dec-24 • 58 minutes UNLOCKED: 24 - Hegel in a Wired Brain (Part 2) 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/... |
| 2020-Dec-23 • 3 minutes 30 Preview - Mad World: The Failed Catastrophe 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 |
| 2020-Dec-08 • 4 minutes 29 Preview - Philosophy or Psychoanalysis? Yes, Please! Season 2 soft-launch: 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. | | article: https://crisiscritique.org/april2019/zupancic.pdf... | |
| 2020-Nov-03 • 5 minutes 28 Preview - The Superego and the Act 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 | | https://zizek.uk/the-superego-and-the-act/... |
| 2020-Oct-22 • 58 minutes 27 - Event 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: | https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon |
| 2020-Oct-08 • 4 minutes 26 Preview - Western Buddhism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Part 2) 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 |
| 2020-Oct-06 • 55 minutes 25 - Western Buddhism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Part 1) 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, t... |
| 2020-Sep-29 • 52 minutes UNLOCKED: 20 - On The Toilet 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! |
| 2020-Sep-22 • 4 minutes 24 Preview - Hegel in a Wired Brain (Part 2) 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 |
| 2020-Sep-15 • 53 minutes 23 - Hegel In A Wired Brain (Part 1) 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/... | |
| 2020-Sep-11 • 11 minutes 22 Preview - The Real, 9/11 Patron Preview: our 9/11 episode where we talk the WTC, the passion of the real, the interior of capital, and conspiracy theories. Also featured: drones, the Iraq War, and Building 7. | For the full episode: | https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon |
| 2020-Aug-27 • 61 minutes 21 - Avoid Your Symptom 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 Disc... |
| 2020-Aug-22 • 11 minutes 20 Preview - On The Toilet 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/... |
| 2020-Aug-22 • 62 minutes 19 - The Subject Supposed to Object? w/ Russell Sbriglia 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.... |
| 2020-Aug-13 • 59 minutes UNLOCKED: 18 - Cinema: The Third Pill 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 o... |
| 2020-Aug-11 • 11 minutes 18 Preview - Cinema: The Third Pill 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 ... |
| 2020-Aug-05 • 3 minutes 17 Preview - The Bean Can of Ideology 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". | https://www.patreon.com/zizekandsoon |
| 2020-Aug-03 • 64 minutes 16 - Ben Burgis, Infinite Guest 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 |
| 2020-Jul-30 • 8 minutes 15 Preview - Eurocentrism and it’s Discontents 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. Join our Patreon for full access to this and other episodes. htt... |
| 2020-Jul-16 • 3 minutes 14 Preview - Lenin and McCommie Patron-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. |
| 2020-Jul-08 • 94 minutes 12 - Marx in the Cave: Frank Ruda on Marx, Plato, and so on 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 Ma... |
| 2020-Jun-25 • 3 minutes 11 Preview - POWER, APPEARANCE, AND OBSCENITY 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-reflection... |
| 2020-Jun-17 • 95 minutes 10 - Sbriglia Speaks 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. |
| 2020-May-12 • 38 minutes 9 - Slavoj Žižek on Hegel, Marx, and Utopia 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, ... |
| 2020-May-03 • 3 minutes 8 Preview - Žižek as Sacrificial Intellectual, PANDEMIC!, and Communism 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”. |
| 2020-Apr-14 • 4 minutes 5 Preview - Off the Cuff on Postmodern Conservatism 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. | | |
| 2020-Apr-09 • 42 minutes 4 - The Sublime Object of Ideology 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. |
| 2020-Mar-31 • 47 minutes 3 - Todd McGowan talks Žižek, Hegel, Lacan &... 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 pod... |