Twitter: @zizekand (followed by 4 philosophers)
Site: zizekandsoon.com
81 episodes
2020 to present
Average episode: 35 minutes
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Podcaster's summary: A podcast oriented around the work of Slavoj Žižek
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| 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 rec... |
| 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 Youtube Channel Buy Matt's book here zizekandsoon.com Thanks everybody |
| 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-Feb-16 • 69 minutes Žižek Underground Alright, today we are speaking with Mikey Downs of the Dangerous Maybe blog and Dave McKerracher of Theory Underground about Žižek, Hegel & Lacan. We’re talking the difference between pleasure and enjoyment, Žižek’s lasting contributions to theory, the history of the Subject, and the obscene supplement of the Law with Dirty Harry. Hang out for the end of the episode, it’s better than canned laughter. | Check out Dave’s new institute the Theory Underground which is currently providing courses on the PMC,... |
| 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 50 - Christmas 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 The Shark Who Shagged Me 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 44 Preview - A Podcast Always Arrives at its Destination 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 talks 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-29 • 61 minutes 7 - Eliran Bar El on PANDEMIC!, and the Anti-Anti-Zizek This week on Zizek and So On we spoke with Eliran Bar-El (PhD), researcher at The University of Cambridge for Sociology. We discovered Eliran in reading his article titled “Anti-Anti-Zizek: Public Intellectuals and Global Pandemic” which is his response to the criticism regarding Zizek’s book PAN(D)EMIC!, his most recent work on the COVID-19 crisis. Eliran explains that the style of criticism surrounding Zizek evidences the uniqueness of his public interventions, and with reference to his background in soci... |
| 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... |
| 2020-Mar-18 • 55 minutes 2 - Žižek on Žižek And So On Part II The second half of our conversation with Slavoj Žižek in which he talks to us about love, jokes, examples, and the meaning of life. |
| 2020-Mar-11 • 86 minutes Žižek On Žižek and So On Our conversation with Slavoj Žižek about his work, and the most pressing questions which are occupying him. | | |